Technology in Teaching Elementary Social Studies

Workshop Series

Sponsored by

The Salem State Collaborative

Description: These four workshop sessions will give you the opportunity to help teach your social studies curriculum using Kidspiration, Inspiration, Web Quests and Time Liner. This technological approach will also include instruction of how to use a projection system and a SmartBoard in your classroom. Comments from a recent participant – “This class was “so” helpful and I can use these skills across the curriculum.”

Session 1: The Use of Kidspiration and Inspiration in Teaching Social Studies

Date: Jnauary 18^th and January 25^th

Description: Utilizing this software in social studies is a great way to visualize the concepts that you are teaching by creating webs/graphic organizers. You will also learn how to hyperlink your webs to the internet. This software will also teach students a fun way to organize their thoughts using pictures and words.

Session 2: What is a Web Quest and How Can It Help Me Teach Elementary Social Studies?

Date: February 1^st

Description: A web quest will keep your students yearning to learn. They are a fun, independent and controlled way to use the internet as another tool in your classroom. It is a great way to introduce a topic or use it as another assessment tool.

Session 3: The Use of Tom Snyder’s Time Liner Software in Teaching Social Studies

Date: February 8^th

Description: Time Liner 5.0 is a terrific tool for teaching a period in history or doing biography reports. Find out how to create a slide show in relation to a time line that you have created by using pictures from home or from the internet. Learn how to have the students create their own time line that represents their life or some one else’s. With Time Liner you have the opportunity to keep track of everything you are studying in social studies on a timeline, which will give your students a better idea of when events took place in history.

Location: Summer Street School, 262 Summer Street, Lynnfield MA 01940

Time: 3:30 PM – 6 PM

Presenter: Darren Damiani, Grade 4 Teacher Summer Street School, Lynnfield MA

Cost: $10 per session or $35 for full series for Collaborative Members

$45 per session or $150 for full series for Non-Collaborative Members

PDP’s: 2.5 PDP’s per session/10 PDP’s for full program

Registration Information:

Please register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org (preferred) or email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org. If you have registration questions, please call Jim at 781-771-4860.

Make checks payable to CPMSIE.

DEADLINE to sign up for the MCAS Series course is January 15^th.