San Ramon and San Rafael District Team Contact Information

 

Daniel Allen, James Rossi, Abigail Shapiro; Social Studies - Grades 11 and 12; dallen@srcs.org, jrossi@mvhigh.net, ashapiro@srcs.org

 

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Building of the Bay Bridge, 1935

 

 

6 C's interpretations

 

Content:

• building of Bay Bridge - looking from East Bay to SF
• bridge is incomplete
• man walking on catwalk
• workers working on the bridge
• San Francisco and the piers - the city in the background (not many skyscrapers)
• ferry boat

 

Citation

• date: 5/31/35
• title: Catwalks
• photographer: Guy Derrick

 

Context

• Great Depression
• New Deal - WPA
• changing/expanding role of government

 

Connections

• industrialization - increased technology
• changes in transportation
• personal experience - having been on the bridge

 

Communication

• reliable
• trying to show scale and the grandness of the project

 

Conclusions

• perspective - changing dynamics of transportation, change in skyline
• showing the impact of government on people's lives

 

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Cross Team Sharing - using Calisphere resources

 

• What did you explore or experiment with? 

          We looked at photos from the 1930s.  Then we used the images to create a PowerPoint presentation.

• How did it work?

          It engaged the students, especially because we were able to incorporate local photos.

• What is something cool you found on your own?

 

• What were the challenges you encountered?

          When planning lessons its easy to forget to go back and use Calisphere.  We need to remind ourselves to go back and look at it                         regularly!

• What is something you still want to do?

          Integrate Calisphere into past units.

• What advice do you have for others...

          Don't just use it yourself, share it with your students.  It is a great resource for them, too.

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District Team Sharing - This is our Game Plan!

• Topics we will cover when we share with others

 

HOT Lessons

Calisphere

 

• Who is your intended/desired audience - grade level. school, district

 

Grades 11 and 12

San Rafael High School and Monte Vista High School

San Rafael City Schools and San Ramon Unified School District

 

• Strategies to work together = Collaboration!

 

We use iChat on a daily basis to share info/documents/ideas.  This is an easy way to communicate in which we do not have to physically meet.

 

Provide a short presentation for our departments and possibly for the entire school.

 

• Possible Challenges

 

We have a very limited amount of paper at our school site.

 

• When do you want this to happen?

 

We will share with our department next month at the department meeting.

 

• Action Items for this team