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   • Describe one example of social studies content and/or skills being taught inyour field experience and the instructional strategy/activity utilized to teach that content/skill.
   • Evaluate how successful the teacher was both in teaching the content/skills at hand and in utilizing the instructional strategy/activity. What did the teacher do well? What could have been improved for better student performance?
   • Find a Social Studies CPALM (grade K-6) that could be used in conjunction with the example. Explain how the standard connects to yourfield experience.
   • Describe how you could incorporate the strategy/activity into your social studies instruction in your own classroom to teach another skill or different content OR describe a different strategy/activity you could use to teach the same content as was displayed in yourfield experience.
5. Developing An Inclusive Classroom Environment
   • Describe how the teacher did (or did not) create an inclusive classroom environment and design instruction that considers the diversity of student backgrounds, identities, histories, interests, and ability levels.
   • Describe aspects of the instruction and/or classroom environment that you would like to incorporate into your own teachingand explain why and how OR describe aspects of the instruction and/or classroom environment that you would like to improve uponand explain why and how.
8. General Observations and Questionss
   • After completing allyourfield experience hours, what new observations and/or questions do you have about elementary-level social studies?

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During my field experience I observed a thirdgrade social studies lesson focusing on map skills The teacher utilized a handson activity where students worked in pairs to create their own maps of imagi... View the full answer