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Resources For Online Education
As September begins in Guam, non-essential businesses are closed, social gatherings are restricted, and students are wrestling with virtual learning at both public and private schools across all grade levels. Guam’s educators face a considerable struggle to provide quality lessons that challenge and engage students over a virtual platform. As part of Guampedia’s continuing mission to support teachers and students, we have curated an abundance of teaching materials and activities that are easily accessible in our Educators Portal. Guampedia’s Educators Portal is an entire section dedicated to providing materials, models, and resources for educators. Teachers and parents can find lesson plans to make our island’s history and CHamoru culture come alive in the classroom, whether it be in person or online. The plans use extensive in-depth information available on Guampedia to incorporate Guam history and culture into different subjects ranging from social studies to physics. All the lesson plans are free to use and contain links to additional online resources to supplement the lessons covered. In addition to a growing list of lesson plans, the Educators Portal offers a variety of resources teachers can incorporate into their own lessons as their students
transition to remote learning. For history and social studies teachers, the Educators Portal provides an easy way to access any entry on Guampedia organized by the seven eras of Guam history. Teachers can also access timelines of Guam’s ancient history in a worldly context, World War II history and the history of the Micronesian region. Science teachers can find helpful content here as well. The “Life on Guam” series, created for teachers in the late 1970s, has been e-published on Guampedia for public use. This series was created to produce class, lab, and field materials in ecology and the social sciences as they are observed on the island of Guam. This series contains 11 booklets that guide students through a variety of topics from the formation of our limestone forests to the ecology of our coral reefs. Additionally, we provide 80 Fish and Wildlife Fact Sheets that describe plants, animals, and sea life in Guam. Each one
names the species or organism in both CHamoru and English. Elementary teachers, too, can find lesson plans in our Educators Portal. There is also a Guam Experience Activity Book “Cultural and Silebråsion Activities for Young Children,” which has been adapted by Guampedia for virtual access. This 34 page book contains CHamoru and Guåhan relevant materials that can be used both in the classroom and at home. Content found in Guampedia was developed with the help of professional curriculum writers, researchers, cultural specialists, and other scholars who provided expertise for putting together information that could be accessed easily by a general audience. This Educators Portal was created for our island’s teachers, librarians, parents, and students looking for culturally and geographically relevant materials for learning about Guam and the Marianas.
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Lesson Plans From Our Teachers
Two years ago a group of Guam educators participated in a threeday workshop held by the University of Hawai`i Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Chaminade University Center for Teaching and Learning, Senator Antonio M. Palomo Guam Museum and Educational Facility, and Guampedia. This workshop was aimed at helping local teachers gain a deeper knowledge of
Micronesia, learn about culturally sustaining teaching strategies, and explore instructional resources specific to Micronesian cultures. The lesson plans created in the workshop reflect the diversity of the participants, ranging from one year to 28 years of teaching experience and covering grade levels from early childhood to adult education. These lessons are
Compassion and Solidarity by: Rosalina San Nicolas
Subjects:
History, Technology, English
Grade-level: High School
Guam Standards: GH.2, GH.2.1 and 9-12.4
Common Core Standards: Women helping maintain each other’s hair. Photo courtesy of James Shaw
ELA-LITERACY. RI.9-10.7
available for use on Guampedia and serve as models for how educators can use the information on Guampedia in a wide range of subjects and grade levels to honor the cultures and people of Micronesia. The two lesson plans we have highlighted below were selected from those produced by the workshop attendees. Click here to view the full list of lesson plans!
Description:
In this lesson, students will begin to explore the concepts of compassion, solidarity, and the value of the interrelatedness of all humanity through their study of historical pieces to include artifacts, sketches, photographs, music or films from a variety of Guam’s historical periods available through links in Guampedia. Students maintain a journal of new learnings throughout the year.
Objectives:
Given opportunity to browse Guampedia media resources, students will select: • a piece that reflects compassionate actions • photographs or images that reflect a lack of compassion • items that reflect solidarity of the heart View the full lesson plan here!
Let’s Talk Story
by: Jamie Lynn K. Fegurgur Subjects:
Social Studies, CHamoru
Grade-level:
Elementary, 5th Grade Master storyteller, Clotilde Gould Photo courtesy of Guam CAHA
Guam Standard: 5.4.8
Guinahan Guampedia In commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the end of WWII in Guam, a new entry listing the names of CHamoru deaths and survivors of this war experience was made available on the Guampedia site. This list was provided by the War in the Pacific National Park Service and the Guam War Survivors Memorial Foundation. The list provided is as it appears on the Asan Bay Overlook Memorial Wall. Click here to explore this new addition to the site!
Procedure:
1. Anticipatory: Guam’s creation story 2. Ask students to draw their favorite part of the story and explain why. 3. Oral Storytelling: Show the online article: “Pacific Storytelling, Confidence, Courage and Connection” 4. Students brainstorm to answer the question, “Who Are You?” • Students will create a visual poster to represent who they are. 5. Research Activity • Students will gather information about how their family migrated to Guam from their family members. 6. Students will create a PowerPoint presentation of their migration story. 7. Evaluation and Assessments: Students will present their PowerPoint • Ask students why oral storytelling was important in the development of the CHamoru culture, and other Pacific Island cultures View the full lesson plan here!
