Teacher Hub: 11/3/17 Week 6: Civics

Week 6: Civics

Remember: no classes Friday and Saturday,

November 10 & 11, as the NYPL is closed!

TEACHING RESOURCES

There are some great resources for teaching civics from USCIS:
They have their own YouTube Channel: USCIS YouTube Channel

You Tube Flashcards of the 100 Questions:

About the U.S.A. is an American Studies reader that examines the customs, government, and history of the United States of America. View it here: About the USA

Immigrants are invited to share “what you think makes a person a part of this country” by recording a short video or uploading an image and providing voice narration. Larry Ferlazzo shares it on his blog here: Define American

Need a list of resources you can check out? Look at these resources from TeachersFirst:

Elections

Veterans' Day

List of Books by level

A Little Bit of Everything

RESOURCE SHARE -Thanks to Lianne Smith!

Here's the information for something that can be really useful for students. There's a part of YouTube called: Youglish.com

Basically, you enter a word or a phrase and it will search through all the YouTube videos where it's used. YouTube meant it to be a pronunciation tool. However, I find it MUCH more useful as a way for students to hear how people use the word. Students can easily discover the contexts and situations for the words/phrases they learn in class. You can click on the forward button to quickly scan through the videos. It also includes captions (see below)!

Today I introduced the words wiggle & jiggle (my key wasn't working properly!) to my students, so if they wanted more context for those words, they could do a Youglish search to understand how people use the word. You can also do idioms or phrasal verbs. In my screenshot example, I did a search on "made it up." Some searches bring up hundreds of results and some bring up only a handful.

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

Joan Benham shares some work by her students when they were studying comparisons: