JANUARY 1, 2023

Social Studies Links

Fun Production Sites

https://padlet.com/  Sticky Notes Website

https://animoto.com/ Make Videos

​https://www.biteslide.com/ Creative Presentations

http://www.wordle.net/   Word Clouds

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Maps and Such

https://www.britannica.com/  Encyclopedia

https://www.nga.gov/index.html National Gallery of Art 

http://www.okhistory.org/  Oklahoma Historical Society

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Studies Weekly

Week one:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Vazquez-de-Coronado 

https://www.nga.gov/Collection/artist-info.1113.html  George Catlin Art

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Week Two: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ara3-hDH6I Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Research Gene Autrey using online Encyclopedias

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Week Three: 

Citizenship is understanding and having respect for rules, laws and government. Our 23rd president of the United States was Benjamin Harrison. He once said, “Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country, and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.” Do you think President Harrison’s idea to fly the flag over every school is a good rule? Explain why or why not.

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Week Four: 

None

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Week Five:

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2012/03/19/147809425/digital-technologies-give-dying-languages-new-life   Ariticle About Native Languages

https://www.nativeenergy.com/alex-little-wind-turbine.html  Alex Little Soldier Wind Turbine Project

https://www.nativeenergy.com/wind-energy.html   Wind Energy Video and Article 

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Lesson 10:

Do a prewriting organizer, then the writing for the activity at the end of the lesson

Have a “Land Run” in the backyard

Make a list of idioms found in the first ‘page’

Have you ever been “sick as a dog,” or thought a test was “a piece of cake”? Phrases like these are known as idioms. We hear idioms often, but we don’t always understand them. An idiom is a saying that means something different from what it says. It is wording that has become popular over time with a certain group of people. That means if you look up the words of an idiom in a dictionary, you still won’t know what it means. For example, we know what being sick is and we know what dogs are. But did you know that being “sick as a dog” means being very ill and sick to your stomach? Some people say we use this idiom because dogs will eat just about anything, and sometimes that makes them sick. Understanding idioms is like getting a joke. You have to know hidden meanings to get it. Idioms are very hard for speakers of other languages to understand, too. They just have to learn idioms one by one. Did you know that giving someone the benefit of the doubt means to choose to believe something good about him or her, rather than something bad? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and believe your next test will be a piece of cake for you. That is, if you don’t get sick as a dog on test day!

Lesson 11:

Vietnam War Background Information for Teachers The history of many wars is complex and often confusing, and the history of the Vietnam War is no exception. The country now known as Vietnam was part of the French Empire by the 1870s. France controlled much of Southeast Asia until 1956, 11 years after Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent nation. France agreed to recognize Vietnam only as a “free state” within its empire, and in 1946, the Indochina War began. Many historians cite the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 as the beginning of the Vietnam War, which is the date we use in the pages of Studies Weekly. That was also the year Vietnam was divided into two countries: North Vietnam and South Vietnam. After the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, historians often claim it was clear that France could not defeat the Vietnamese forces, but they did not withdraw until 1956. That same year the U.S. sent American troops to train South Vietnamese forces. North Vietnam was supported by the Communist nations of China and Russia. In the late 1950s and early 60s, violence in Vietnam escalated and soon hundreds of thousands of American troops were being sent to Vietnam. The war went on until a cease fire agreement was reached in 1973, and American troops began to return home soon after. In 1975—after more than 58,000 U.S. troops were killed, over 300,000 wounded and nearly 800 becoming prisoners of war (POWs)— President Gerald Ford declared that as far as the U.S. was concerned, the Vietnam War was “finished.” Scores of books have been written about the war, and it has been the subject of a number of movies, both fiction and documentary. A web search will give you a list of both to choose from if you want to learn more. PBS has put together a detailed timeline that includes events outside of the war to give perspective on the times. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/timeline/index.html.

Before beginning this article, have students jot down a quick explanation of what “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” means to them. Maybe use a fun website?

There are many groups that will help deliver your letters to a soldier overseas. Soldiers would really like a letter or an email from you! http://www.forgottensoldiers.org/write-a-soldier/

You may also wish to take your students on a virtual field trip to Fort Ticonderoga (since the fort is mentioned in this week’s student edition and has to do with the military). • http://youtu.be/H9KRcvb-4DI

Thomas Jefferson was a well-educated man who knew a lot about many different subjects. How do you think that helped him to become our nation’s third president? (The President of the United States should be intelligent and know a lot of information to help make decisions that affect our country. He believed that all men were created equal. A President should treat others with respect. He was curious and liked to learn new things and maybe that helped him to understand different points of view.)

*Narrative: (Setting: the distant future) Suppose you are in charge of forming the newest U.S. armed force. This unit will protect outer space, the moon, planets and against alien life forms. Tell a story about your force’s training (how and where it happens), special missions, its spacecraft and other equipment and its military bases. Use clues from this issue. Remember to give your new force a name! (*Featured in this week’s magazine.)

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Mommy Info

http://sde.ok.gov/sde/  OK Teacher Resources

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=142xI7TotWlSyBuorRef72iqi7WQCWfKRxZIvaR1fXvo Primary Sources Analysis Tool - Printable

https://www.ok.gov/portal/index.php OK Official Government Website

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