Social+Studies+Instruction+Wiki

=**Use of Blogs and Wikis for Social Studies in RTMSD**=

//How are some ways that we are using blogs and/wikis in the classroom.//


 * Mrs. Grace-Green: On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Day of Service, my 2nd grade students responded to the question, what dream do you have for the world? They all responded with their hopes for national and global situations.

As a small group project, a group of four could create a journal of events experienced by a fictional person in history- e.g. a slave on the Middle Passage. The group could list events, feelings,... experienced, and then put the list together in class (or on line) as a finished journal entry. Then, they can revise it that night- Maureen V.

=**Interesting Websites**=


 * US History This is social studies study guide that a teach made for his class.
 * K12 Wiki Social Studies This teacher posted this Wiki as an online colaborative project for the children to develpo a code of ethics.

=**Ideas**=

__**Worst Dictator Wiki?**__ What do you think Mr. Homan?