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I'm in my 2nd grade class so if I were to to use one of the 3 approaches I would use "teaching current events in additions to social studies". It can be so effective especially from the news that is going on in today. With the "Black Lives Matter" movement I would be able to use a brainPOP to help the student understand the movement more. As well as using children literature books that touches base on the movement that has happened in the black community. And the strategies I would be using is the "Teaching about the different kinds of controversial issues". Going along with the "BLM" movement, we can be able to move on to the other cases that came along with the movement from Brianna Talyor, and Geroge Floyed.

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Samantha Gonzales                                                            I am currently placed in Pre-k and we are getting ready to teach our students about a very important current event that is coming up... The election! I am going to play some brain pop videos and or kid election videos on youtube for them before we start our lesson. After they watch these we will briefly explain how we have presidents and how they get there (people vote). Our students usually have lots of questions so we usually try to address a few of those. For our activity we will conduct our own election! We are going to have them vote on somethings that they like and make it clear that they can only pick one out of the two and not tell anyone what they voted for. At the end we will say who won and then let students finally tell their friends who they voted for.

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I am teaching Kinder right now and the current event I would use is the presidential election. My mentor and I are coming up with ways to introduce the concept of voting. I would first introduce our civic duty as Americans and how we have the right to vote. Then I would explain voting and how it is used to make a group decision by hearing everyone's voice. Activities would include classroom votes and read Duck for President. I would then explain how the adults in our life and all around the country are deciding on our leaders, which I could compare to our school principal, etc.

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I would use the first strategy, teaching current events in addition to social studies, to talk about the global pandemic COVID-19. I would like to discuss this topic being of its great relevance towards us as individuals and how it has affected school for us. With that being said, I am currently in a first grade placement and I feel as far as the introduction for COVID-19 I would like to hold an open discussion of what the students already may know. The second aspect I would follow up with a book called "What is Social Distancing". Furthermore, I would like to go into detail about the new expectations and rules we have around our class and the school in order to keep and protect our classroom family. -Vanessa Sosa

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I would teach "writing about issues" in a 6th grade classroom. They will pick a current event that is an issue in our society and take 20 minutes to research the topic. They will have enough information to write down two pages.. They will begin by writing down the facts of the issue, and then they will write their personal opinions on the event. This can include what they would do to solve the issue, if it can be solved. -Ashlyn Barrera

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Ayah Ayad- I would use the first strategy: " Daily Discussion of News". This strategy was used in my history class when I was in high school and definitely made a difference in how I viewed politics and news. I was more interested in what it consisted of and wanted to be more active. The way I would introduce it in my 6th grade class is either read a book that is relating to a topic that is going on in society or that has happened and allow students to react and have a discussion on it. Or, as was done in my history class, I would mention something going on in the beginning of the class and speak on it as a class and allow them to have a conversation about it for a while.

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I would use the first strategy, teaching current events in addition to social studies, to talk to a fifth grade class about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death and how it is so changing in the government. I could talk about all she has done especially for women. We could relate this to rights and how much it means to have them. Silvana Montero

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I would use the first strategy for teaching current events, "Daily discussion of news".  I would talk about Black Lives Matter in my classroom. I am currently in a Kindergarten classroom and we are discussing diversity and how everyone is different, everyone learns differently and everyone needs different things to succeed. I can connect Black Lives Matter being that everyone is different whether it is the color of their skin, what language they speak, how they learn etc. It is important to respect and show compassion to everyone. We must build each other up not tear each other down!

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For me, I would choose to supplement current events to reinforce social studies. In my opinion, this is a helpful strategy because it relates real life events to social studies topics therefore making it more interesting and relatable. The more exposure I have to the classroom, the more I realize that half the battle is grabbing students' attention. For example. I started my first day of fieldwork this week and I'm in a 5th grade classroom. I'm incredibly excited about this because I'm curious to see what it's like to interact with older children (I had Kindergarten last semester). Yesterday they started reviewing a map of the U.S. and the concept of N-S-E-W in addition to the oceans that surround the U.S. Some of the quiz questions were "which state is WEST of Colorado? Etc.). I think including a discussion on the California/Oregon/Washington wildfires would be beneficial in introducing topics like climate change and why wildfires occur primarily in the West. And by reviewing states/geographical locations, it allows for the subject matter to stick with them rather than just reviewing a map of the states without any story behind it. - Melissa Flynn

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A current event I would love to talk about in my classroom would be the BLM movement. Talking about this in a 3rd grade class would be good in my opinion. This is because they are old enough to understand right from wrong,  but not yet old enough to be to form crazy opinions about the matter. I would just talk about how treating everyone kindly and equally is the best way to be a good member of our community and that is what BLM is about. The approach I would use would be using current events to supplement or reinforce the regular social studies. - Alize Smith

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One current event that I can think of is the wild fires happening in California. I would use the current event to begin a 2nd grade lesson as the basis for social studies. I can begin with a video of the fires and ask students to share out what they observed. I would ask them to brainstorm answers as to what creates fires. I can follow up by what is needed to create fires and what is needed to put a fire out. I can possibly have a demonstration of these concepts with a candle. One of the ideas students may point out towards putting out a fire is water which I can demonstrate. Students can connect this to what firefighters do as seen in the video. I will then read an article of the forest fires which may discuss how it was created including images as to how it is currently being put out. This may help them also prepare for further thinking of how environmental changes has affects on living organisms such as forest fires...

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I would choose current events that enhance my social studies curriculum. Currently, my third grade CT class is studying famous inventors along with their inventions, and I loved how my MT connected the curriculum to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates with Apple and Microsoft. I would personally talk about app developers and try to bring examples from apps I know my students love. I think this would be an efficient way to connect history with modern day in a way that is a little more meaningful to my students. Some approaches to this lesson would be a  fill-in-the-box Google Slides would be a great way to have students do a mini search to find information about their inventor and paste information/pictures in a clear organizer, a class discussion, or a small group project over an assigned inventor/invention.

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A current event I would like to talk about in the classroom would be the presidential election especially because it will be taking place this year. This can be a great way to get students interested in hearing the news and staying up to date on the election. I could integrate it into social studies by talking about the history of our presidents and how much times have changed over the years and even the process by which a president gets elected. Obama was elected when I was in 5th grade and I had so many questions about the process and what a political party was and my parents answered my questions but my teachers didn't.

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The current event I would choose would be the upcoming 2020 Presidential election. I would choose this because it only happens every four years, so there are limited chances to talk about it as a current event. I would introduce it to my students by incorporating it into a lesson plan about government (social studies teaching approach of using current events to supplement or reinforce the regular social studies) and then talk about the fact that the President is elected every four years, and this year is one of those years. I would include a video about the Presidential election, and we would also talk about why it is important to have your voice be heard by exercising your right to vote.

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The current event that I would teach my students would be about standing and not standing for the pledge of allegiance and how there are different kinds of controversy for many things and topics. I would show my students an article or video on students being penalized for refusing to stand for the pledge. I would also inform my students on West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. In my clinical teaching kinder classroom, the students are currently learning about different national symbols of the United States, and one of the symbols is the American Flag. Recently I read an article that discusses how people are angry that Melania Trump stood in silence during the pledge. The article also discusses past events, such as an 11-year old boy getting arrested and how he refused to stand for the pledge in his classroom. Last week, one of my students did not stand for the pledge and he explained to my mentor teacher that he does not stand for the pledge in a respectful manner. The student is African American and he was going to further explain why he does not stand for the pledge but was silenced by my mentor teacher. This past week my mentor teacher has been making him stand for the pledge even though he has told her many times that he does not do this. I think it's important for students to become aware of their rights in the school and how students do not have to stand for the pledge because of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette in 1943.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              -Mayan Alcantar

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The current event that I would bring up in the classroom is COVID-19. I would choose that topic because that is something that is affecting everyone in America at the moment and I know that it can probably be a little confusing for the students. I am currently student teaching in a Kindergarten classroom and I know that they have set curriculum for social studies already so the approach that I would use is "Using current events to supplement or reinforce the regular social studies". At the beginning of the year, we discussed authority figures so I think it would be a good idea to incorporate the pandemic into that because we have certain rules/laws being implemented by people of authority that everyone must follow. That way, they will be able to grasp the concept of an authority figure and have examples of things that they do in our lives.

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Right now in our social studies class we are talking about how to be respectful and show compassion. I can relate this to the BLM movement because they are fighting for their rights, to be respected and be shown compassion. For kindergarten, I think I would really need to simplify and summarize what is going on around the US to help them understand it. I would teach them that no matter what anyone looks like or where they come from we all need to treat each other with respect and compassion. Although kindergarteners are very young they still understand these simple, yet hard to come by, actions. You rarely see respect or compassion in our lives today, so I want to teach my students the importance of this at a young age and have it stick with them. The common saying fits perfectly here, treat people how you want to be treated.

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My mentor teacher and I have been doing social studies lessons recently about good citizenship and community leaders, so a current event that I could relate that to would be the firefighters that are currently fighting all of the wildfires across the West Coast right now in the US. I am student teaching in a 1st grade class, so I would have to somewhat simplify the lesson by first introducing the students to what a citizen is, what it means to be a good citizen, what a community leader is and give them some examples of community leaders, and then I would be able to transition into the wildfires. I could then show a video or briefly talk about the wildfires that are causing a lot of damage and tragedy, and then talk about how the firefighters that are helping fight and put out those fires are community leaders and helpers and they are also great examples of good citizens. This would be teaching current events in addition to social studies.

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I would use current events to supplement social studies. Since I am clinical teaching in third grade, I will pick a current event that pertains to our lessons right now. The students are learning about communities and how certain places, like hospitals and fire stations, impact the community. The current event I would discuss is about a giant rooftop greenhouse in Canada that can now feed 2% of the city. I would ask the class how this greenhouse affects the citizens. Since NISD combines social studies with science, this article can also tie into science. I found this on goodnewsnetwork.org because I feel like most news we hear is bad news. I know we sometimes have to discuss difficult things in the news with students, but they should also hear good news too.