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I may be a math teacher, but social studies has my heart! I split my student teaching experience between 6th-grade math and 7th-grade history (or maybe it was 8th-grade history). I remember one lesson I made for the history class, the requirement was for the lesson to be interdisciplinary, so I added in some math. The lesson involved calculating the time it would take to move a group of people from one area of North Carolina to another (we were learning about some of the battles of the Civil War). Some students calculated based on how fast a horse could travel, others by foot. Then we calculated the time it would take to travel the same distance by car with our current roads. I thought this was important because "time" is so different in the past compared to now. Most students could not believe how long it took to get from point A to point B before cars. This brought about a lot of discussion about "why" someone would travel so far when it was so difficult, so we were able to discuss what motivates people, which helped students see the history through a more personal lense, rather than a removed one.
I would love to recreate this assignment and have the students use Google Earth and Google Maps to research and present their findings on movement in history! I think it would help them engage and visualize even better. I also see the potential for a future math lesson!
Question? If you read my last blog, you will see that I have a pretty intense lesson planned for my Produsage assignment. Instead, what do you guys think of me creating a math lesson based on movement in history and having students use Google Earth and Google Maps? Would that be too "simple" for the Produsage assignment?
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