PDC Committee Meeting
11-15-03

Summer Institute June 7- 22nd Kansas Immigrants: then and now
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Content tied to Standards
Arrive Sunday night
Boundary Breaker - meet and greet
Day 1
Monday 7 30 min. Welcome and introductions
30 min. Video - Voyage of Discovery
30 min. Who are we?
30. min What is a TC?
Pretest
30 m1n. Standards based - overview of standards
30 min. Activity
Lunch 60 min.

30 min. Maps and Location presentation - basic map
30 min. Map making/reading
Activity Total 6

30 min. Regions - Paul Philips
Activity - Place poem (Melanie)

Supper

7:00 Geo Cashing

Day 2
Physical System
Geology and Soils
Geology Lecture
Geology Activity
Break
Weather and Climate Lecture
Weather and climate activity

Lunch

Hyman Systems

Demographics - migrations - culture
Population ref. Censes
Activity culture collage - elements of a chosen/particular culture

Evening Sacred Rack - Judy
Material World - Melanie

Day 3 Human Systems cont.
Economics - politics - movement/conflict

Movement Activity - experience of immigrants - readings

Lunch

Human Environment Interaction

Climographs

Gang of 14

War games

Day 4 Technology

GIS
Remote Sensing
Lost in Orbit

Lunch

BINKO - classroom techniques

Resources

Internet
Grants
Organizations
NCGR
KGI
Library
Lessons

Evening Act
Reading the Landscape - Paul Phillip
City Walk

Day 5
Hays area
Cemetery
Volga Germans
Cathedral of the Plaines
Lacrosse - sod house and barbed wire?
Ghost Towns in Kansas?
Lunch

Nickodemous

Evening
Sternburg Museum

Day 6
Garden City - leave at 7a.m.
Trailer Park
Hispanic
Vietnamese lunch
Community Leader Presentation - ?
Environmental impact of the feedlots etc.

Arrive back in Hays by 6
Homeward bound

Assignment:
Poster - on immigration group
Picture to John by ?
Display at the Fall Conference
Lesson Plan due following week for presentation ( June 21st)


June 21s
Lesson presentations (7)


June 22
Lesson Presentation (3)
Post-test
Picnic Lunch and awards


Notes
Presenters - free housing
Participants required to go through the entire institute
Focus is on new TCs
$50 deposit returned
$330 fee - $220 returned at conclusion of Institute (KGI paying for 2 credit hours attendees paying for 1 credit hour.
Max 10 people
Cross-curricular subject matter - history, math, geography, writing, science(weather/climate)

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