Description
The College of Education and Malcolm Price Laboratory School at the
University of Northern Iowa produced the Democracy in the Classroom:
Developing Character and Citizenship series of three DVDs (Elementary,
Middle, and High School) and Resource Guide to help educators create a
school environment in which students learn about democracy by building
character and citizenship. The key elements of this process are the
Tenets of Democracy. They include:
Tolerance,
Critical Thinking and Decision-Making,
Thinking Together and Making Meaning,
Power Sharing and Empowerment,
Individual Responsibility and Civil Involvement with Others. |
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DVD & Resource Guide Information: |
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2004-2005
Elementary Level DVD*. (195 min.) $100.00 ISBN: 1-933134-33-X
Middle Level DVD*. (148 min) $100.00 ISBN: 1-933134-39-9
High School DVD*. (142 min) $100.00 ISBN: 1-933134-40-2
Complete Set (3 DVDs*) $240.00
20% Discount ISBN: 1-933134-41-0*All DVDs include
access to downloadable Resource Guide.
All prices subject to change. |
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| The DVDs
contain video of natural classroom lessons at a variety of grade levels
PreK-12 integrating the Tenets of Democracy into various content area
activities. DVDs are packaged with a booklet of video transcripts,
detailed lesson plans, and student assessment tools. The downloadable Resource Guide
offers background information about the Tenets of Democracy featured in
the video examples, detailed lesson plans, complete video transcripts, and democratic classroom and citizenship resources. By using these
resources, educators are be able to see how other teachers
create democratic classrooms, learn from these examples, and then improve learning
environments for their own students. |
Elementary Level DVD Structure
Some narrative interpretation is provided for viewers to
help build understanding about the Tenets of Democracy. Analysis videos
are free of narration, to provide viewers or trainers the opportunity to
provide their own interpretations.
Words That Tear Apart and Words That Put Back Together
(Pre-Kindergarten)
We Are All Alike, We Are All Different (First and Second Grade)
Follow Up Lesson to Civil Rights Unit (Third Grade)
- Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Graphing (Third Grade)
Habitats (Third Grade)
Constructing Lego Models of Paragraphs (Fifth Grade)
- Thinking Together and Making Meaning
Conflict Resolution (First and Second Grade)
Survivor Game (Second Grade Physical Education)
Harry Potter Research Project (Fourth and Fifth Grade)
- Power Sharing and Empowerment
Electing the President - Hyperstudio (Second and Third Grade)
Creating a Classroom Belief Statement (Fourth Grade)
Improvising a Rondo (Fifth Grade Music)
- Individual Responsibility and Civil Involvement with Others
Giving 'Em the Business (First and Second Grade)
Using Technology for Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, and
Word Identification (Fourth Grade)
Getting Your Work Done (Fourth Grade)
- Analysis Videos (without interpretations)
Classroom Web Site (Pre-Kindergarten)
"Pig Out" on Thinking (Kindergarten)
I Love Spiders (First Grade)
Tolerance Group Statues (Fourth Grade)
Shakespeare (Fifth Grade)
Middle School Level DVD Structure
Jasper Woodbury: Rescue at Boone's Mountain (Sixth Grade)
Learning to Play the Panpipes (Grades Five-Eight)
The Role
of Personality in History (Eighth Grade Russian)
- Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Water
Quality in the Greenhills Stream (Seventh Grade Science)
Baking for
Ames (Eighth Grade Mathematics)
Introduction to Service Learning
(Eighth Grade Guidance)
- Thinking Together and Making Meaning
Measuring
Lung Capacity (Seventh Grade Science)
Sportsfolio (Grades Seven & Eight Physical Education)
Literature
Circle and the Making of Quilt Squares (Eighth Grade Language
Arts)
- Power Sharing and Empowerment
Producing a Daily News Broadcast (Sixth Grade Language Arts)
Chataqua-Who Are the Heroes? (Seventh Grade Language Arts)
Teenage
Social Etiquette (Eighth Grade Family & Consumer Science)
- Individual Responsibility and Civil Involvement with Others
Opera on the 'Net (Seventh Grade Vocal Music)
Mirror,
Mirror On The Wall (Eighth Grade Physical Science)
A Walk Through History (Eighth Grade Language Arts/Social Studies)
High School Level DVD Structure
Celebrating Diversity in Iowa Schools (Ninth-Twelfth Grade
Sociology)
E-mail Correspondence with a High School
in Epernay, France (Tenth Grade French II)
Using
CEE (Claim, Example, Explanation) & Six Traits to Evaluate Persuasive
Writing (Eleventh-Twelfth Grade Language Arts)
- Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Street
Inspection: An Application of Graph Theory (Ninth Grade Integrated Mathematics I)
Modeling Quadratic Data (Ninth Grade Algebra)
Are You Nutritionally Correct? (Ninth-Twelfth Grade Family & Consumer
Science)
- Thinking Together and Making Meaning
Graphing
Linear Equations (Ninth Grade Algebra)
Theories of Judging Art: The UNI Department of Art Faculty Show
(Ninth-Twelfth Grade Art)
Thinking Together and
Making Meaning in Music
(Ninth-Twelfth Grade Instrumental Music)
- Power Sharing and Empowerment
Ocean Exhibits (Ninth Grade Earth Science)
Hyperlinking Partnership (Ninth-Twelfth Grade Industrial
Technology/Computer-Aided Drafting and Design)
- Individual Responsibility and Civil Involvement with Others
QX3 Computer Microscope Biology Project (Ninth-Twelfth
Grade Biology)
Environmental Health iMovie Project (Ninth-Twelfth Grade Language
Arts/Health)
Jury Deliberation: The Heart of Justice (Ninth-Twelfth Grade Social
Studies)
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