Teaching Geography with the �California Atlas

Presenters: Dr. Thomas Herman, Geographer

Email: therman@sdsu.edu

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Stephanie “Steff” Buttell-Maxin, Teacher Leader

Email: sbuttellmaxin@sandiego.edu

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Today’s Agenda

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1. Take questions about the atlas and/or California geography

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• Review available instructional resources
• Geographer’s Notebook pages
• Atlas Inquiries
• StoryMaps

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• Crowdsource lesson plans/learning activities

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Goals

Expectations

• To get our student atlas into use as a teaching and learning tool in your classrooms.
• To help you develop your students’ develop disciplinary knowledge and skills, information literacy, and a sense of exploration.

WHERE WE STARTED

• Teachers are addressing geography as called for in the History-Social Science Standards and implementing the instructional shifts called for in the H-SS Framework.
• The atlas can be integrated with existing resources to effectively engage students and improve learning outcomes.

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GEOGRAPHY

The study of Earth as the home of people.

Relatable and Relevant

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Knowledge of what’s where. Of how natural and human systems and processes are organized in space.

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Analysis skills to examine relationships and interconnections to understand past events and inform future actions.

Geography in California

• Content standards for fourth grade: a changing state
• Features, places, regions
• Growth and change
• Governance

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• Analysis skills for K-5
• Spatial context of history; map and globe skills; place description and comparison

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• Instructional practice - 4 shifts
• Content (disciplinary)
• Inquiry (pursuing questions of significance)
• Literacy (different types of informational texts)
• Civic engagement (taking informed action)

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Geography in California

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Teaching the Geo in Geography in the Next Generation Science Standards �(Wysession, 2016)

Discussion:

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What questions do you have?

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How have you been able to integrate the use of the atlas with the curriculum and materials you were already using?

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Resources

Geographer’s Notebook pages �(currently 10 avail.)

• Worksheets focused on one map or concept
• Skill-building: multiple literacies; map reading and interpretation; geographic thinking

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TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH THE ATLAS

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Resources

Other Learning Activities & Lesson Plans �(currently 6 avail.)

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Atlas Inquiries �(currently 6 avail.)

• Framing and compelling inquiry question
• Graphic organizer to guide inquiry process
• Hints/clues to aid in gathering information from 3-4 maps

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Our California, by Pam Muñoz Ryan

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Let’s read and explore!

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Take it further!

https://capoetlaureate.org/ourcalifornia

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4b7080fbf0ff453087f71fbfb39f0966

Resources

StoryMaps�(currently 3 avail.)

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TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH THE ATLAS

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Thank you!

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We may reach out to you in the future to request you complete a short survey about your experience using the atlas with your students and to let you know about new resources and professional learning opportunities.

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