From the Ohio Hills
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Hist ory From the Ohio Hills I n t e r a c t i v e W e b S i t e T e a c h e r R e s o u r c e s G u i d e History People in Societies Geography Economics Government Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Social Studies Skills and Methods A n I n t e r v e n t i o n R e s o u r c e Aligned with Ohio Social Studies Academic Content Standards Produced for Students in Grades 4-5 by The WOUB Center for Public Media Athens, Ohio Credits & Acknowledgements: Project Manager: Executive Producer: Fred Charles Harner, M.A. Mark Brewer, MPA, Associate Director eTSEO Executive Director WOUB Center for Public Media Project Advisory Team: Project Advisory Team: Alexis Seebaugh Dee Ruhland Grade 4 Social Studies Instructor Grade 4 Instructor Belpre City Schools Marietta City Schools Cheryl Waybright Robin White Grade 4 Social Studies Instructor Grade 4 Social Studies Instructor Belpre City Schools Belpre City Schools eTSEO Project Consultant: Contact Information: Jayne Stehle, M.A. For more information about History from the Elementary Teacher (Retired) Ohio Hills or to request a teacher training Marietta City Schools session, please contact eTSEO 740.593.6572 – [email protected] 528.5 Richland Avenue Athens, OH 45701 or WOUB Center for Public Media 740.593.1771 – [email protected] History from the Ohio Hills 2 Acknowledgements History from the Ohio Hills Table of Contents Acknowledgements..............................................................................................................................................2 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................4 Project Introduction................................................................................................................................................4 Interactive Web Site Overview .................................................................................................................4 Teacher Resources Guide Introduction.......................................................................................6 History ........................................................................................................................................................................................9 Quizzes & Worksheets .....................................................................................................................................19 People in Societies ..........................................................................................................................................25 Quizzes & Worksheets .....................................................................................................................................37 Geography .......................................................................................................................................................................41 Quizzes & Worksheets .....................................................................................................................................52 Economics ........................................................................................................................................................................62 Quizzes & Worksheets .....................................................................................................................................72 Government .................................................................................................................................................................83 Quizzes & Worksheets .....................................................................................................................................88 Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities ................................................................95 Quizzes & Worksheets ................................................................................................................................ 101 Social Studies Skills and Methods ................................................................................ 107 Quizzes & Worksheets ................................................................................................................................ 110 Ohio Academic Content Standards ............................................................................ 120 Activity Content Correlations.................................................................................................. 125 History from the Ohio Hills 3 Table of Contents History from the Ohio Hills Project Introduction History from the Ohio Hills is a multimedia project. Its main component is an interactive web site that supports Ohio’s Grade 4 social studies curriculum. The web site is designed for students to use individually or in small groups. It will be valuable to 4th graders who are learning about Ohio and to 5th graders who are reviewing the 4th grade social studies curriculum in preparation for the 5th grade Ohio Social Studies Academic Achievement Test. The web site may also be appropriate for students in other grades depending upon the goals of the educational experience. This project was created because research utilizing Ohio Department of Education data, including results from the first year Grade 5 Social Studies Academic Achievement test, indicated that 5th grade students lag behind their required social studies performance standards. Ohio’s goal is for 75% of the students in each school building to score at proficient or better than proficient in each academic content area: reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, and science. Only 20% of Ohio school buildings that housed and tested 5th graders met the goal for Social Studies. In comparison, 67% of the schools met the Ohio Goal in Reading. Ohio’s 3rd and 4th graders are not currently given a Social Studies Academic Achievement test. 36% of all of Ohio’s individual Grade 5 students scored as proficient or better than proficient in Social Studies. eTSEO’s eighteen county region of southeastern Ohio proficiency rating was almost identical with 37% of Grade 5 students scoring as proficient or better than proficient in Social Studies. Analysis of the Grade 5 Social Studies Academic Achievement test indicated that 37% of the questions directly addressed 4th Grade Ohio Social Studies content. An additional 19% of the questions addressed Ohio Social Studies content taught between Grades 3 and 5. History from the Ohio Hills targets all of the Ohio Academic Content Social Studies Standards: History, People in Societies, Geography, Economics, Government, Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, and Social Studies Skills and Methods. Interactive Web Site Overview The History from the Ohio Hills Interactive Web Site (http://www.woub.org/hoh) is the heart of the History from the Ohio Hills multimedia project. The site is divided into two main sections: one for students and one for teachers. History from the Ohio Hills for Students: The student section of the History from the Ohio Hills is the interactive web site’s main interface. It is separated into two major sections: the content area and the quiz area. Student Content Area: Students interact with multimedia in the content area. Interactive content is provided in the form of text, images, and video segments produced by the WOUB Center for Public Media. There is also some multimedia content from external web sites. Ohio Educational Technology Agencies and their related Ohio Public Broadcasting Stations developed all of the external content specifically for Ohio students. History from the Ohio Hills 4 Introduction All content is aligned with Ohio Social Studies standards, benchmarks, and indicators. It is divided into these Ohio Social Studies Academic Content Standards: History; People in Societies; Geography; Economics; Government; Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities; and Social Studies Skills and Methods. Each standard is further subdivided into small groups of indicators based upon the divisions listed in Ohio’s Social Studies Standards. For example, History is divided into Chronology, Growth, and Settlement, and Geography is divided into Location, Places and Regions, Human Environmental Interaction, and Movement. Students may move among the selections as they wish or work through the materials in the order they are listed. Student Quiz Area: In the quiz area, students test their knowledge of Ohio Social Studies Academic Content Standards via interactive quizzes. All seven Social Studies content standards are tested and the History from the Ohio Hills interactive web site randomizes the quiz questions for each content standard. Students sitting at side-by-side computers are very unlikely to see the same quiz question at the same time. Each quiz has ten questions and the questions are provided in a variety of styles such as multiple choice, drag and drop, true/false, and hot spots. Immediate feedback is provided to the student indicating if his or her answer was correct or incorrect. A side tab can show/hide a screen which shows the student his or her correct (green checkmark)/incorrect (red x) status for all ten questions at any time during the quiz. At the end of the quiz, the student is given a percent score and provided the opportunity to review each of the quiz questions and all of the correct answers. A student may retake a quiz at any time. Teachers who want a record of their students’ scores