IRON IS KING provides a great new tool for Social Science Teachers!
MAGIC is, first and foremost, a learning tool for the 21st Century. This unique, unprecedented program provides an innovative canvas to showcase students' knowledge, talent and creativity in:
- visual and performing arts
- cognitive thinking and computer technology skills
and, best of all, it is...
- correlated to the Standards of Learning (SOL's) and is already proving popular among both teachers and students as a highly effective way to learn and retain required material
The Dynamics... of MAGIC can help you in Social Sciences:
Quite simply, here's how it works:
MAGIC has written a new song written to reinforce student's knowledge of the Civil War. "Iron is King" is written about the Monitor and Merrimack.
Students follow the lesson plans while listening to the song and are guided to create paintings, computer art and dance pieces for Internet art exhibits and a multimedia concert. These exercises are correlated to Virginia's SOL's based on award-winning lesson plans designed by WHRO public television and radio educators.
What Teachers Receive:
- 1. "Iron is King" song on cassette
- Complete lesson plans correlated to state SOL's and including: specific
objectives and goals, identified pre-requisites, teaching strategies,
key questions, suggested extensions
- Suggested Grade Levels for the Lesson: 3-12
- Subject Areas: English, Computer/Technology, History and Social Science, Art
- Opportunity to apply for MAGIC $500 grants
- Opportunity for continuing education credits
- "Teacher Only" Portal on MAGIC web site, featuring lesson plans cross-referenced by grade level, subject, and appropriate SOL.
History and Social Science SOLs
4.4
The student will describe the social and political life of Virginians
between the Revolutionary War and the end of the Civil War, with emphasison
conflicts between northern and southern states and within Virginia,and
Virginia's role in the Civil War, including major battlesand leaders in
the Confederate army…
5.7
The student will identify causes, key events, and effects of the Civil
War and Reconstruction, with emphasis ono leaders on both sides of the
war…o critical developments in the war…
11.6
The student will analyze the causes and effects of major events of the
Civil War and reconstruction, includingo military advantages of the Union
and the confederacyo roles played by individual leaders.
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