Loop Sketch #6

https://www.loc.gov/families/

I read the article on “What Makes You Think That?” Kindergarten Students Analyze Primary Sources from the Library of Congress. Usually at a young age in Kindergarten students do not learn much about social studies in my observations. I like how in this article they showed a picture to promote thinking about it. This is was more a whole group activity. Next they give the students a picture of the statue of liberty and told them to circle what they notice or was wanted to learn more about. In the article it said the students were more engaged in that activity and I think it was because it was more a hands-on activity. In kindergarten they tend to become more engaged in activities that involve them colors or finding ect. I provided a link that talked about kids and families and the liberty of congress for young readers. Children in the kindergarten also like to be read to, so this may also be helpful to help students learn about history. 

Loop Sketch #5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faUYJ9fMiGg

I read read the article that talked about investigating the first thanksgiving feast. A teacher was assigned to teacher her students about the first Thanksgiving feast. For her lesson she focused on mainly ‘‘What did the Pilgrims eat at the First Thanksgiving feast?’’I really like the way she taught her lesson, she had a great engage for the students and she also asked the students many great questions to have the students to critically think. She also give the students the opportunity to research Thanksgiving and to learn on their own about it, which I think is great for the students. Overall I think it was a great lesson for students that was very interactive and allowed students to critical think. I provided a link of a short video on how you can introduce Thanksgiving to your students. You can probably show the video of more of a engaged to start the conversation in your class.  

Loop Sketch #4

I read the article Junior Detectives Teaching, I liked the way it give many examples on how students could dissect a reading. It also has the students asking question to themselves while reading. It allows for students to make a connection when reading an article that way. For example, it talked about the a mystery of the dirty kids, one of the question it said students are probably going to ask themselves is why are the kids dirty? What were they doing so fun to make them dirty? The reason why the kids were dirty has nothing to do with them having fun, they are actually working and kids these days would not be able to understand that. So I like how it show the kids that is not the case, that back then young children had to be put to work. Students will be able to learn that while dissecting the reading in a detective way.