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Literacy in Middle & High Schools SUNY Potsdam -- Potsdam, NY   resources & lessons created  by pre-service secondary ed students
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 * Follow the links for sample lessons, links to print & digital resources, reviews of Web 2.0 tools for content-area classes, and reviews of scholarship related to writing integration in content-area teaching. All materials were developed by math, social studies, science, and foreign language learning students completing literacy education courses. **

//Social Studies lesson topics & resources //


 * Civil Rights Movement and School Desegregation (including materials related to M. Beals, //Warriors Don't Cry// and J. Baldwin, //The Fire Next Time//)
 * Jim Crow South (including materials related to R. Wright, //Black Boy//)
 * Gold Rush
 * Roman Empire
 * United Nations
 * Battle of Gettysburg
 * United Empire Loyalists
 * Iran-Contra Affair
 * French Revolution
 * WWII & Atomic Bomb
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Kent State
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Roaring Twenties

//<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Mathematics lesson topics & resources //
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Math Anxiety and Women in Math (materials related to P. Noyce, //Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure in Words & Numbers)//
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sine-Cosine/waves
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Pythagorean Theorem
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Factoring
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Greatest Common Factor
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Triangles
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Angles
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Pattern Detection: Hundreds Board
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Quadratic Equation

//<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Science and Interdisciplinary Math-Science //
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Evolution (materials related to D. Heiligman, //Charles & Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith//)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Mind and Memory (materials related to J. Foer, //Moonwalking with Einstein//)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Photosynthesis

for course information & questions, contact Dr. Marta Albert, Literacy Education Dept., SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam NY