4th Grade Social Studies - Newsletter



Utah Core Standards - Social Studies Grade 4

Standard 1
Students will understand the relationship between the physical geography in Utah and human life.

 Objective 1
Classify major physical geographic attributes of Utah.

 Identify Utah's latitude, longitude, hemisphere, climate, natural resources, land-forms, and regions using a variety of geographic tools.

Examine the forces at work in creating the physical geography of Utah (e.g. erosion, seismic activity, climate change).

Utah Ed Tech Standard 6
Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests. (4)
ISTE Standard 3
Knowledge Constructor
Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
Reflection:  This is the first newsletter that I have ever done.  I have been following my son's classroom newsletter, and it has been very helpful for tracking his spelling words.  I have tried to incorporate personal information as well as educational information into my newsletter.  I have written it a an introduction for the first week of school and a short lesson to get students engaged in the class.  I have now learned how to use answer garden, so it is incorporated into the bottom of the newsletter to get the students to learn from each other.   I have provided ideas and links to help them research about our state.  I hope to keep the parents and students engaged with my newsletters and can see how it would be an education tool to both of them.  This could be used for the flipped classroom approach.  By having students look up the answers and then post them to Answer Garden.  We could then talk about it in class and review what answers were given in the Garden.  

 By Justin Williams

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