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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.
