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)
Training