Classroom Activities
Clay Village – Students will design a village and map of Hearne for their final products.
Digital map making - using technology to design maps on computers will provide students with options if they are unable to hand-draw maps. Maps today can be hand-drawn or created by technology such as Geographic Information System (GIS), Google My Maps, and Open Street maps. My students will be exploring these different map resources.
Family Tree Maps - Students will explore Canva to choose family tree maps for their interviews.
Informative and Formative Assessments – Monitor and observe students’ progress through observations and data collection. This information will provide vital information for identifying learning gaps and identifying strengths and weaknesses.
Interview Question – Students will design 8-10 questions to interview family, staff, and community members to design family tree maps.
Map Art Collection – students will review a video and study a map collection and teacher examples to learn about the different types of maps. Students will make their own cartouche and maps.
Choice Board Organizer - Students will be assigned a choice board for each daily assignment and field trip (see Figure 4). There are 16 selections and they may choose one per day.
Figure Choice Board - Figure 4
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Write 6 facts about the most interesting person or animal you met on the field trip
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Use a magazine or newspaper to make a collage of things from your field trip
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Write a 6-8 sentence paragraph about one of the places you visited |
Use one of the artifacts you collected and describe 4-6 details it about it |
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Write 5-8 questions you want to ask about the museum or Hearne Camp
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Vocabulary Write the definitions to 4-6 new words you learned |
What job would you be interested in learning more about? Why? |
Draw a map heart map about the things you love about the field trip |
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Write a poem with 6-8 stanzas. Why did you choose these lyrics?
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Write a song with a title and beats. Why did you choose these lyrics? |
Create a Podcast and discuss the 6-10 interesting facts you learned about Hearne |
What 4-6 interesting thing you learned about the AS-IS Bee farm? |
Materials
Blank paper
Choice Board organizer
Concept Maps
Coloring crayons, markers, colored pencils
Compass
Digital resources - Canva, Digital Street maps
Hearne and other map collections
Magazines and newspapers
Printed copy of Canva Digital family trees
Teacher made maps and family trees
Students’ Course Schedules Grades 9-12 (Self-Contained)
Period 1 Social Studies (World Geography, World History, U.S. History, U.S. Government, Economics)
Objective: The student will be able to research the history of people, places, and events using digital maps, maps in books, PowerPoint or video.
Pre-Assessment: What do you know about Hearne maps?
Vocabulary review: Cartography, Legends, Compass Rose, Exploration, Indigenous People, Tradition
Post-Assessment - What did you learn about Hearne and maps?
Period 2 English (English 1, 2, 3, 4, Reading)
Objective: The student will be able to increase their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills using interviewing techniques, note-taking, and designing hand drawn or digital maps.
Vocabulary review: Depot, Intimidation, Nazi, Prison Camp, Plantation
Pre-Assessment: What do you know about family tree maps?
Period 3 Science (Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Integrated Physics and Chemistry (IPC) Physics)
Objective: The student will be able to apply mathematical process standards to activities on the field trips.
Vocabulary review: Beekeeper, Ecology, Density, Pollination, Honeycomb, Hexagon, Symmetry
Pre-Assessment: What do you know about bees?
Post-Assessment - What did you learn about the experiments in the beekeeper’s lab?
Period 4 Math (Algebra 1, 2, Geometry, Financial Math, Math Models
Objective: The student will be able to apply mathematical process standards to activities on the field trips.
Pre-Assessment: What do you know about scale, charts and graphs?
Vocabulary review: Charts, Graphs, Orientation, Plotting, Scale
Post-Assessment - What did you learn about Hearne during our field trips that you can apply to math skills?
Period 6 Hearne Eagles SOAR-EX Business Service Center Transition Planning
Transition Planning - Figure 519
Objective: Students will be able to complete a career assessment with Texas Workforce Commission, tour GATX, Texas A&M PATHS, AGGIE Achieve and HOPS
Vocabulary Review: STEM Careers, Transition, Career Assessment
Pre-Assessment: What do you know about transition planning maps?
Week 1 - What is a transition plan for an independent living map?
Week 2 - Career Assessment
Week 3 - Writing resumes
Week 4 - Mock job interviews
Week 5 - Designing personal transition planning map.
Week 6 - Complete portfolio - map designs
Post - Assessment - What did you learn about STEM careers?
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