Social Studies
Cards-Set-1.pdfStone Age
We will be focusing on the progression of events that took place in order. You can print out the cards and have the students put them in order to.
Printing Press Reading.pdfThe Printing Press:
This is a reading for the students to learn about the printing press. You can read it to them. You can go over key definitions that are in the story itself. If you would like, you can make choice cards are use the words of the student to have them learn the key words. You can ask them the definition and then choose the correct word to go with it.
Transcontinental Railroad
First Part
Pull up this website: https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/transcontinental-railroad. It will help express the background the of Transcontinental Railroad. There are some visuals that you can look at with the student. If your student has a visual disability, you can explain what is in the picture. Focus on tools they are holding. What activities they are doing and objects that are in the picture.
Second Part
We will look at a primary source of Mark Twain and the Transcontinental Railroad. Explain that a primary source comes directly from the person that is experiencing the event that is going on.
Open up website page https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-twain/. Read the passage and highlight some of the important experiences that Mark Twain has been able to experience.
Third Part
You can show a video to the students that talks about the transcontinental railroad. Students with visual impairment can listen to the narrative. The web link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvQyBcbHJkg