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Kelly Miller
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Hi! My name is Kelly Miller. I graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a degree in Elementary Education. I taught first grade for two years, but I’m not currently teaching because of injuries sustained in a near-fatal car accident. I am attending graduate school full-time. #1 - Teaching Social
Studies With the Internet www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/ Rubric
points – 50/50 KY Goals
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Multiple
Intelligences – Intrapersonal, Verbal Linguistic I ran across this website by accident. I thought it would be a great research tool for social studies/geography. I could only find one “evidence of success.” Therefore, I presented this website to my J500 class. It aroused a lot of interest. Two J500 classmates later used this website in their classroom and both found it successful. #2 – Recipes www.hubbardscupboard.org/recipes Rubric
points – 30/30 KY Goals
1, 2, 6 Multiple
Intelligences – Bodily Kinesthetic This website has 28 recipes/snacks that can be incorporated into many thematic units. These recipes are great for hands-on culminating projects for young students. This website also includes recommended books and links to other websites about cooking with children. #3 – Foreign Money http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0122.html Rubric
points – 30/30 KY Goals
2, 4, 5, 6 Multiple
Intelligences – Verbal Linguistic, Visual Spatial, Intrapersonal This lesson can be used in math or social studies. Students share samples of foreign currency and how they obtained them. Then they work independently to design their own “School Dollar.” #4 – Stock Market Rubric
points – 30/30 KY Goals
1, 2, 4, 5, 6 Multiple
Intelligences – Interpersonal, Logical Mathematical The Indiana Stock Market Simulation (SMS) is presented by the Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE). The ICEE provides free training, technical and curricular support to teachers. Students work in teams to create and manage a stock portfolio for a ten week period. #5 – Earth Day Bags Rubric
points – 30/30 KY Goals 1, 2 Schools borrow brown paper bags from local grocery stores, decorate them with friendly environmental messages, and return them to the grocery store. This project reminds everyone involved to do their part to save the Earth. It also heightens “save the Earth” awareness in the community. Earth Day is April 22. #6 – Our Class Store www.loudoun.k12.va.us/schools/horizon/grade2/Walters/store.html Rubric points
– 25/30 KY Goals
2, 4 Multiple
Intelligences – Logical Mathematical, Intrapersonal This is a great behavior management plan that teaches money as well as responsibility and needs and wants. Students earn money (fake) for a variety of things such as turning in homework and good behavior. Time is set aside on Friday’s to go shopping. The merchandise in the class store is donated. #7 – Traveling Buddies http://connectedteacher.classroom.com/newsletter/travbuds.asp Rubric
points – 25/30 KY Goals
1, 2, 6 Multiple Intelligences – Interpersonal, Visual Spatial The
“traveling teddy” project is long-standing, but this lesson/website
gives explicit directions on how to make it technologically advanced.
The visiting school communicates via e-mail. #8 – Current Event Jeopardy Rubric
points – 25/30 KY Goals
1, 4, 6 Multiple
Intelligences – Interpersonal, Verbal Linguistic This lesson describes a good way to incorporate current events and Jeopardy in the classroom. The topic could easily be changed to fit other subjects. #9 - Make a Difference Day www.usaweekend.com/diffday/aboutmadd.html Rubric
points – 25/30 KY Goals
2, 4, 6 Multiple
Intelligences – Interpersonal Make a Difference Day is a national day of volunteering on the fourth Saturday in October. Three million people participated in 2002. The website has many group project ideas, many of which could continue all year. #10 – Electronic Postcards From America www.postcardsfrom.com/teach/teach.html Rubric
points – 25/30 KY Goals
1, 2, 4, 5, 6 Multiple
Intelligences – Verbal Linguistic This website and project was created by a retired couple who are former teachers. They travel to one state a week and send you electronic postcards with educational information about that week’s state. |