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ERIC Number: EJ1290502
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1056-0300
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Walking the City: Developing Place-Consciousness through Inquiry
Whitlock, Annie McMahon
Social Studies and the Young Learner, v33 n2 p20-24 Nov-Dec 2020
The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework advocates building civic competence in all students6 The C3 Inquiry Arc involves engaging students with compelling and supporting questions, using disciplinary content and skills to have students investigate these questions, evaluate sources they use along the way, and take action with their new knowledge. The C3 Framework is designed for K-12 students, but preschoolers can also engage with inquiry. Inquiry with preschoolers or kindergartners can begin by tapping into the natural curiosity of children, using their statements to construct compelling and supporting questions. The C3 Framework also supports a focus on disciplinary content in human geography for young children. Dimension 2 has a geography focus of Human-Environment Interaction, "Place, Regions, and Culture," in which students in kindergarten through second grade should be able to "identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places." Preschoolers and kindergartners are capable of evaluating sources, participating in dialogue on difficult issues, and engaging in actions that benefit their classmates and school as well as themselves. Children explore their community or school in order to investigate their questions, such as trips to a construction site or school boiler room. Whether children are travelling locally or experiencing places further away, they are able to engage with questions, sources, and action-oriented tasks at a young age. This article describes the experiences of preschoolers who took on the job of communicating their perspective on the city of Flint, MI through an inquiry on special places involving photography and mapmaking.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Michigan (Flint)
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