May 2023

Timeline game

Trip and Lesson Highlights

• Students

  • Student presentation

• Teachers

  • Great Bend presentation - Women's History & Sufferage movement

  • Mary Eliza Project - Women Voters in 1920 Boston

Using Google Earth to Create LitTrips

• The Role of Literature in the Inquiry Classroom
  Provides sample inquiry strategies, questions, and information for using literature

• Inspiring Inquiry Through Picture Books
  Reasons for using picture books in an inquiry-based classroom

• Picture Books: Perfect for Middle Schoolers
  Three-part series on integrating picture books into a secondary classroom

• Never Too Old: Embracing Picture Books To Teach Older Students
  Picture books and older students: More educators are making this match in their teaching, with significant success

• Google Earth

• Henry "Box" Brown example

• Google LitTrips

• Creating Google Earth Projects

  • Video tutorial

Lesson Plan expectations 

• Kansas City article

• Project Zero

  • Compass Points

• IDMs (Inquiry Design Models)

Library of Congress / TPS Teachers Network Review

• Finding LOC sources

• Consortium Created Materials

• TPS Teacher Network

  • CRP Consortium Interest Group

Worktime / Lesson Plan Conversations

• Primary Sources and Literature in the Hands of Non-Traditional High School Students (2022 lessons)

Lesson Plan criteria:

• learning environment summary

• overarching compelling question

• focus on a complicated topic

• LOC primary source/s

• connection to fiction or nonfiction resource

• student product that addresses the compelling question

Tools You Need

• End of Year Exit Survey

• Mileage Request Form

• Upload your lesson here (Due before your contract ends or end of June)