1. Integrating Social Studies and Science with Learning Stations
Julie Beck and Joe Hart

3. How can I create centers that engage students and integrate Social Studies and Science with other subjects?
Reading across the curriculum
Writing across the curriculum
Daily Geography
Computer Station
Creativity Station

4. Reading
First gather an assortment of nonfiction science and social studies books for your reading station. Your textbooks may be used also.
The next slides contain activities to include at the reading station

5. Create fluency passages from any fiction or nonfiction text
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6. Teach NonFiction Reading Strategies
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Big Fox
Thieves
Leaning Tower
Alpha Boxes

7. The Elements of THIEVES
Visuals and vocabulary
Does the chapter include photographs, drawings, maps, charts, or graphs?
What can I learn from the visuals in a chapter?
How do captions help me better understand the meaning?
Is there a list of key vocabulary terms and definitions?
Are there important words in boldface type throughout the chapter?
Do I know what the boldfaced words mean?
Can I tell the meaning of the boldfaced words from the sentences in which they are embedded?
End-of-chapter questions
What do the questions ask?
What information do they earmark as important?
What information do I learn from the questions?
Let me keep in mind the end-of-chapter questions so that I may annotate my text where pertinent information is located.
Summary
What do I understand and recall about the topics covered in the summary?
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Title
What is the title?
What do I already know about this topic?
What does this topic have to do with the preceding chapter?
Does the title express a point of view?
What do I think I will be reading about?
Headings
What does this heading tell me I will be reading about?
What is the topic of the paragraph beneath it?
How can I turn this heading into a question that is likely to be answered in the text?
Introduction
Is there an opening paragraph, perhaps italicized?
Does the first paragraph introduce the chapter?
What does the introduction tell me I will be reading about?
Do I know anything about this topic already?
Every first sentence in a paragraph
What do I think this chapter is going to be about based on the first sentence in each paragraph?

8. Alpha Boxes A N B O C P D Q E R F S G T H U I V J W K X L Y M Z
Handout graphic organizer to students and have them use it as they read. Students place challenging or interesting words in their own alpha boxes.

9. Picture Notes
Students read a nonfiction book and draw a picture that labels the information they learn from the book.
See example on next slide

10. The Gila Woodpecker pecks hole. It is cool inside.
Desert Giant
Sonoran Desert
Arizona
May live to be 150
No arms until 50 years old.
The Gila Woodpecker pecks hole. It is cool inside.
spines
Later an elf owl comes.
Rains less than 10 inches per year.
Has flowers that bats pollinate.

11. Writing Across the Curriculum
Nonfiction Poetry
News Articles – WWWWW
Acrostics
Plays
Summaries
Brochures
Journal Topics
Book Reports
Term Paper

12. Nonfiction Acrostic Belong in North America – many live in Georgia
Roost during the day in buildings, trees, wood piles
Only give birth to one baby per year
Will live 6 or 7 years
Nocturnal insect eaters - insectivorous
Belong to a colony
Always use echolocation to find prey
They are beneficial to farmers and families (eat bugs)

13. ABC Summary A N B O C P D Q E R F S G T H U I V J W K X L Y M Z

14. Geography
Map Tasks
Websites
Daily Geography Questions

15. Computer
Mapping Our World: world/mapping_our_world/
CNN Student News (link on next slide)
Gizmos
Ranger Rick Magazine: Rick.aspx
National Geographic for Kids:
Geography for Kids: games/united-states-america-map-game.php
Glogster:

19. Creative Station
Art
Drama
Music

20. Design a Postage Stamp
List the important figures from your SS standards
Choose one and design a new postage stamp for your historical figure
Write an explanation

21. Design a Coin List the important figures from your SS standards
Choose one and design a new coin for your historical figure
What will be on the obverse? (see next slide)
What will be on the reverse?
Write an explanation