When do you teach about your state?

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  • August 9, 2011 at 8:48 pm
    2flowerboys
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    OK, so I am a little overwhelmed right now because I have a long list of things I want to teach this yr! And our state is one of them. My sons are about to 9 and the other is 6 ..7 in Nov. I think it is a good time…but where do you teach it and what do you use? Hope that made sense!!

    Do you skim it and dive deeper in the following yrs? I just thought it would be neat to learn not only facts but to maybe do a small lapbook.

    Thanks!

    August 9, 2011 at 9:04 pm
    nerakr
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    I’m not bound by what the ps does, but I intend to cover it in fourth grade like the ps does and then once again in high school. For fourth grade I intend to use books by Sleeping Bear Press as my spine (M is for Magnolia and 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi) along with relevant sections of the free teacher guides that come with them. I’ll also use Goodbye Charles Lindbergh and Holt and the Teddy Bear. I’m not sure yet about what else. Ds is only in second grade.

    The link to Sleeping Bear Press is:

    http://www.gale.cengage.com/DiscoverAmerica/

    HTH,

    Karen

     

    August 9, 2011 at 9:48 pm
    Rachel White
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    I’m gonig to do it in two years; with a 12 and 11 yr. old. I’m going to use Notgrass Ga. HIstory program:

    http://www.notgrass.com/georgia-state-history-curriculum.php

    they also have a TN one, in case anyone is interested. If I find any good Ga. living books (besides GwtW), we’ll use those, too.

    Rachel

    August 9, 2011 at 10:42 pm
    cre8something
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    Not only p.s. but some private schools teach state history in 4th as well. That’s my plan for my 4th grader this year but have not aquired much except a very large text book called the Kentucky Adventure. I plan to use that as kind of like our timeline and supplement with living books. And of course take as many field trips to historic sites that we can fit in.

    August 9, 2011 at 10:45 pm
    Rachel White
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    When I was in gov’t. school in the 80’s, we studied our Ga. history in 8th gr. I don’t know what they do now; but I’m doing it when I want to anyway, not according to their schedule. Thankfully, Ga. doesn’t require that we do it at a certain time-they don’t approve or disapprove our curriculum choices.

    Rachel

    August 9, 2011 at 11:00 pm
    2flowerboys
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    Hey Rachel I am in Ga too! And I checked out Notgrass at the HS conferece, I love how it looked! However, I don’t think I checked out their Ga history. ??

    Thanks Karen for the link..I will look into it!

    And cre8something, visiting historic sites is a wonderful idea!!

    Smile

    August 9, 2011 at 11:14 pm
    sheraz
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    I did it in 4th grade for my oldest and the others tagged along.  We studied our city history, toured city hall, then our county history, toured the County Courthouse and ended with state history and toured the state capitol and the govenor’s mansion.  Then we started studying famous people from our state and visited Truman’s Presidential Library, Thomas Hart Benton’s artist studio and home, church history sites, Laurau Ingalls Wilder’s farm, Mark Twain’s hometown, George Washington Carver’s boyhood home, etc…  I printed out the State’s Curriculum Standard for Social Studies and sort of planned our term around that.  Since I had that I knew what people they wanted us to study, etc.  That made it so much easier for me. =)

    About the time we need to repeat it, I will have one in fourth and one in ninth or tenth grades with others right below each…which will be a good spread for revisiting this time in history.  =)

    August 9, 2011 at 11:31 pm
    Rachel White
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    @2flowerboys-there are so many wonderful sites to visit in Ga., too to make for an excellent year. I’m in N. Ga. amd GAinesville haw a museum specific to ga. history.

    http://negahc.org/

    http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/

    http://www.atlanta.net/visitors/african_american_historic_atlanta.html

    I’m know there are places in S. Ga., too; Civil War museums and Indian History, too all over.

    Festivals in small towns with local, folk music acts are also rich in culture. Dahlonega has the historical Mountain Music and Medicine Show: http://mmmshow.com/

    I love going to these places any year, though not just the one year of specific study of the state.

    Rachel

    August 10, 2011 at 3:18 pm
    2flowerboys
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    Thanks Rachel for all the great info! I guess I need to get myself in gear and do some traveling! 🙂

    Sheraz, take me w/ you next time you visit these wonderful places!! 🙂

    August 10, 2011 at 5:22 pm
    Rachel White
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    Sheraz, I guess you’re in Missouri?

    Rachel

    August 10, 2011 at 5:55 pm
    sheraz
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    We are in Missouri…I am keeping lists of this stuff for our US states study so we can find the cool stuff when we are studying it.  My dh saw the post on Georgia in the last month and thinks we should plan a vacation…Maybe next time they do a workshop (not the current one), we can go.  =)  Think of all the neat things do when we are driving…LOVE to do that, just wish the money would go as far.

    Would love to take you around anytime 2flowerboys. 😉  That is part of the fun – sharing with people who haven’t seen it before.

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