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The Students on Site (SOS) curriculum is geared towards use in local third and fourth grade classrooms. It does not aim to replace district social studies curricula, but instead can be used as a supplemental resource for teaching about the histories of Michigan and Ann Arbor. The curriculum supports Michigan’s third and fourth grade state student outcomes and is linked by content to chapters in the fourth grade social studies textbook Michigan, The World Around Us, and Part 3 of the third grade social studies text A History of Ann Arbor.
The SOS curriculum consists of four components:
- Our SOS website offers an online teaching archive of documents, maps, photographs and audio recordings about the history of Ann Arbor, and was created by UM students for use in public K-12 classrooms.
- SOS staffers and UM students teach weekly class lessons over a three to five week period. We come onsite to work directly with your students, teaching them how to examine historical documents through small group discussions and hands-on activities.
- SOS staffers can collaborate on planning individual class projects. We work with teachers to incorporate our website and/or weekly class lessons into a larger class project on local or state history.
- We can help fund guided historical bus tours of Ann Arbor for individual classes, which include stops at local historical sites and buildings in Ann Arbor’s downtown and Lower Town neighborhoods.
We encourage teachers interested in the SOS curriculum, specifically the bus tour and onsite lessons, to contact us toward the beginning of the academic year.
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