Textbook Reflection History and Geography

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1 Textbook Reflection: History & Geography Amber Brooks School of Education, Liberty University EDUC 322: Teaching Elementary and Middle School Social Studies Professor Daniel Berkenkemper November 27, 2023

2 Textbook Reflection: History & Geography Part A – Textbook Information Read each of the three prompts below and respond by writing one solid paragraph of at least five sentences. Make sure you use your textbook to support your responses. 1. What are some ways that teachers can develop students’ chronological thinking, interpretation, and research skills in history and geography? Explain your viewpoint on this with at least one solid paragraph of five sentences. [Teachers are able to develop a student’s chronological thinking, interpretation, and research skills by developing it with activities that are literature based. There are many stories have a plot that follow a storyline and be broke down into beginning, middle, and end. Picture books are a great way to show chronological order of events and teach why sequence is important when discussing events in history. “When shown relevant pictures, children are able to differentiate objects in time; they will tell you that the horse and wagon appeared before the automobile, tricorn hats predated baseball caps, log cabins dotted the countryside much earlier than high rises” (Maxim, 2017). Children are able to distinguish past and present from a young age because of the use of picture books. Incorporating timelines in activities can also support visual learners with chronological events by having students place historical events on the timeline based on the time in history.] 2. Describe one classroom learning activity that would integrate the 5 Themes of Geography along with history. Explain your viewpoint on this with at least one solid paragraph of five sentences. [Location, place, relationship with places, movement, and regions are the Five Themes of Geography. Incorporating these five themes into activities will need to take place over the span

3 of multiple days. A great way to implement this would be to make a large anchor chart consisting of a map. After each unit on a theme, students can work together to research one concept from the county studied. Each group will create a visual and present it to the rest of the class. This allows students to explore different locations and visualize the five themes of geography.] 3. How do geographic skills explain the interaction of people, places, and events and also support historical understanding? Explain your viewpoint on this with at least one solid paragraph of five sentences. [Students are able to identify with the people, places, events, and cultures of different regions and countries with the help of geographic skills. Tapping into the way different factors such as language and religion played a part in forming our history allows students to analyze and draw reasonable conclusions from data. According to Maxim, “students learn how to describe places on Earth’s surface, explain how those places came to be, and appreciate the delicate bond between humans and their physical environment. They learn geography by asking the same questions professional geographers ask” (p. 304). It is important to encourage the concept that there are many different people in the world, and it should be our goal to keep it healthy. Different activities that promote the importance of geography and ways to make positive changes in the world should be implemented into the classroom.] Part B – Biblical Worldview Select one of your responses to the prompts above and fully explain your response utilizing a biblical perspective. Make sure you include a Bible verse and explain how this verse is relevant to the prompt and supports your biblical perspective. This section should be two solid paragraphs of five sentences each.

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