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Modification & Values

Monica Schmidt

Educ 513 - online

S1 - 2009

NCSS Standard: Time, Continuity, and

Change.

I want my students to understand that:

• Concept: Modification• Content Specific: From the colonial era to the 19th century through

slides of Greenwich Village architecture. How our neighborhood has become the historic place it is today?

• Global Statement: “As man interacts with his physical an social environment, both he and the environment are changed” (Taba, 1971).

NCSS Standard: People, Places and Environments.

• I want my students to understand that: • Concept: Values• Content Specific: Personal identity is shaped by one's culture, by groups, and by

institutional influences.• Global Statement: “Those objects, behaviors, ideas, or institutions or an individual

considers important and desires, constitute values” (Taba, 1971)

Emerging Questions

• Why is the past important to us today?

• What connections are there between the past, present, and future?

• How does our community change?

• How are historic, cultural or world regions defined by physical and human characteristics?

• How do people interact with the historical, cultural or world regional environment?

• How do people interact with their home, school, community and

regional environments?

Reference

• Taba, H., Durkin, M.C., Fraenkel, J.R., McNaughton, A.H. (1971). A Teacher’s handbook to elementary social studies: An inductive approach. Philippines: Addison-Wesley.