Social Studies
Explore what makes history...history
Author Whiting should make your students think about the difference between truth and fact with this Minute. Before you read, ask students why they think we have summer vacation? How did that come about? Chances are many of them will share the farm fallacy. After reading the Minute, ask students how they think history develops? Can “history” be different depending on who is sharing the message? Would city and country kids share the same stories about the time of year they attended school?
STEM
Explore contagious diseases and vaccines
How do diseases get passed from person to person? Are epidemics “caused” or exacerbated by heat? Look at Jonas Salk and the development of the polio vaccine. What is a vaccine? How do they work? What kinds of diseases are NOT preventable through vaccination?
Research Skills
Explore question development and data collection and interpretation
Use this Minute to have a discussion about moving from question to answer. Which states have summer vacation when? Are they all the same? What about other countries? Do kids go to school in the summer in Africa? South America? What about the southern hemisphere? Do kids have our winters (their summers) off? Have your students first develop a good question about summer vacation and then send them looking for the answer. Can they find the answers in both narrative and digital forms? If not, can they produce a narrative from a graph or a graph from a narrative?
Explore what makes history...history
Author Whiting should make your students think about the difference between truth and fact with this Minute. Before you read, ask students why they think we have summer vacation? How did that come about? Chances are many of them will share the farm fallacy. After reading the Minute, ask students how they think history develops? Can “history” be different depending on who is sharing the message? Would city and country kids share the same stories about the time of year they attended school?
STEM
Explore contagious diseases and vaccines
How do diseases get passed from person to person? Are epidemics “caused” or exacerbated by heat? Look at Jonas Salk and the development of the polio vaccine. What is a vaccine? How do they work? What kinds of diseases are NOT preventable through vaccination?
Research Skills
Explore question development and data collection and interpretation
Use this Minute to have a discussion about moving from question to answer. Which states have summer vacation when? Are they all the same? What about other countries? Do kids go to school in the summer in Africa? South America? What about the southern hemisphere? Do kids have our winters (their summers) off? Have your students first develop a good question about summer vacation and then send them looking for the answer. Can they find the answers in both narrative and digital forms? If not, can they produce a narrative from a graph or a graph from a narrative?
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