ED 738

Geography for
Teachers

Class Four
 Today Topics
• Example of Lesson Planning
– The Six Themes of Geography
– The Tools of Geography
• Example of Lesson Using the Six Themes
• Our Planning Time
 Planning the Lesson
• Choosing the Standard
• Application of the Standard to the Six
Themes
• Cognitive Level Required (Bloom’s)
• Learning Style Selected (Gardner’s)
• Assessment Needed (Bloom’s)
 Choosing the Standard
• Standard 8-1: The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the settlement of South Carolina
and the United States by Native Americans,
Europeans, and Africans.
• 8-1.3 Summarize the history of European
settlement in Carolina from the first attempts to
settle at San Miguel de Gualdape, Charlesfort,
San Felipe, and Albemarle Point to the time
of South Carolina’s establishment as an
economically important British colony, including
the diverse origins of the settlers, the early
government, the importance of the plantation system
and slavery, and the impact of the natural
environment on the development of the colony.
 Application of the Standard to
Geography Themes
• “including the diverse origins of the
settlers”
– Themes: The World In Spatial Terms,
Places And Regions, The
Characteristics, Distribution, and
Complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics
 Cognitive Level Required
• Summarize the history of European
settlement in Carolina…
• See Bloom’s Wheel
• What Level is this Standard?
– Understanding
– Others?
 Learning Style Selected
• Know your students
• Differentiate instruction
• “Testing” for preferences
• See Gardner’s Wheel
 Assessment Goal
• Appropriate assessments require students
to summarize the history of European
settlement in Carolina.
• They should also be able to explain the
diverse origins of the settlers…
• From
http://ed.sc.gov/agency/Standards-and-Le
arning/Academic-Standards/old/cso/social
_studies/documents/Grade8.pdf
Page 5.
 Form of Assessment
• Formal
• Informal
• Formative
• Summative
• Standardized
 For This Lesson
• Standard: 8.1.3
• Topic: The Origins of Settlers of South
Carolina
• Geography Theme: Distribution, and
Complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics
• Learning Style (assumed):
Verbal/Linguistic
• Assessment Goal: Summarize; Explain
• Assessment Type: Informal, Formative
 Where in the World?
• Where did the first
Non-Native
American settlers
come from?
• What was life like
for them in their
former homes?
• How did they wind
up here?
 Remember!
• Who came here?
• Why did they come here?
• Where was their former home?
• What did they expect to find in SC?
• What brought them to SC?
 You’ve Been Hired!
The Veritas Advertising Agency has hired
your team to write a radio advertisement to
tell potential settlers for South Carolina why
they should move here. Your ad should
contain information about the “old country”
and reasons why they should leave to come to
South Carolina. Your assigned country is on
your sheet, Use the internet, the geography
class, material, your classmates, and SC: A
History for resources. When done, you get to
present the ad! You have 45 minutes.
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 Think and Write!
• Take out a sheet of paper.
• Now, summerize the origins of the
European people who settled South
Carolina. List where they came from and
why they came to South Carolina.
• You have five minutes.
 Breakdown of Lesson
• Planning
• Standards
• Instruction
• Assessment
 Our Planning Time

• Sign up Sheet
• Summary Assignment
• Homework
• Next Week