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Onsite Professional Learning: Georgia Studies
GPB Education offers customized, no-cost professional learning sessions and workshops at your request and convenience. Live sessions can be held either virtually or onsite at your location.
Are you interested in free professional learning support at your school or district? Request a session or workshop via the link below:
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Introduction to GPB's Georgia Studies Digital Textbook
Grade Level: 8
GPB presents a brief introduction to the Georgia Studies digital textbook, accessible for all platforms and devices. The content in the textbook is presented digitally with interactive capabilities and multimedia enhancements and is aligned to the most recent Georgia Standards of Excellence for 8th grade social studies. Participants will learn how to access and use this creative, cutting-edge platform that will change the way students and teachers experience Georgia history.
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Down-to-Earth Geography Resources for Teaching Georgia Studies
Grade Level: 8
Join GPB Education for an in-depth exploration of our Georgia Studies resources for teaching geography and economics. We'll start a tour of the interactive elements of our digital textbook, take virtual field trips through the physiographic regions and key physical features of our state, explore economic connections through our Fast Forward career series, and finish up with a Georgia Race Through Time using our map and information processing skills. Set your students on track for a year of adventure from coast to mountain learning about the unique lands and inhabitants of their very own home state.
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Keeping Georgia on Our Minds With GPB’s Georgia Studies Collection
Grade Level: 8
GPB’s Georgia Studies Collection is a comprehensive ecosystem of standards-based digital resources that includes an interactive textbook, 36 field trips through Georgia’s geography and history, and an engaging game-based learning experience. Join GPB for an update on the latest primary sources, assessments, printables, videos, and skill-building activities now available in this free virtual exploration of our state.
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Building a Georgia Studies Inquiry Mystery
Grade Level: 8
WHY did prehistoric Native Americans build ceremonial mounds? WHAT led to the Trail of Tears and the associated death of 4,000 Cherokees? WHO besides Boll Weevil and the Dirty Thirties were among the cast of characters that brought about the Great Depression? WHERE have Georgia's rivers most impacted the flow of U.S. history? HOW did a peanut farmer become president of the United States? Investigate the thousands of digital learning resources created, curated, and sponsored by Georgia Public Broadcasting, and engage in hands-on exploration for building an inquiry mystery around fascinating historical questions.
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Take a Georgia Studies Field Trip With GPB’s Virtual Learning Journeys and Lesson Plans
Grade Level: 8
GPB is traveling all over Georgia to bring our state's rich history and culture to teachers and students. Our 36 virtual learning field trips align with the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) for social studies, as well as the content from GPB’s Georgia Studies digital textbook and Georgia Race Through Time game. You can also access the iPad version by downloading the free GPB Education app on iTunes. Each field trip brings locations to life with interviews, 360-degree panoramic photography, interactive elements, videos, user guide, and 5E lesson plans!
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On the Road Again With GPB’s Georgia Studies Virtual Field Trips and Lesson Plans
Grade Level: 8
GPB is on the road again for an exploration of our ever-expanding virtual field trip catalog through Georgia geography, history, and economics. Join us for an overview of our statewide virtual field trips and companion online exhibits. Learn how to get the most out of these immersive experiences and incorporate the 5E activities from our new comprehensive lesson plans!
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Behind the Times and Ahead of the Game: VR and GBL for the Georgia Studies Classroom
Grade Level: 8
Participants will become familiar with the active-learning U.S history resources created by GPB Education while modeling ideas for how virtual reality and game-based learning can pair engaging activities with appropriate assessment challenges and enable students to master knowledge and literacy skills that are relevant to real-world experiences.
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Introducing DBQs to the Georgia Studies Classroom
Grade Level: 8
As inquiry-based approaches to social studies become more prominent, all levels of education are finding the Document-Based Question to be both useful for teaching critical thinking yet challenging as students are expected to learn more difficult skills in earlier grades. In this session, GPB Education will share clear steps enhanced with creative teaching strategies for introducing DBQs into the elementary, middle, or high school classroom.
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Finding Poetry in Primary Sources From Georgia History
Grade Level: 8
Join GPB’s education outreach team for a creative take on social studies education in conjunction with National Poetry Month. We'll explore primary source sets from PBSLearningMedia along with instructional strategies in "found poetry" that will shift how students examine, analyze, and understand documents.
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The Civil Rights Movement in Georgia: Reinterpreting History Through Virtual Learning Experiences
Grade Level: 8
Marching forward from a broken beginning, pressing on through resistance and changing tides, and taking a stand for educational equality - embark on a multi-media journey through the Civil Rights Movement as experienced in our state and nationwide. Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Georgia Department of Education have partnered to produce this comprehensive, visually stunning digital experience for elementary through high school students as they delve into a virtual reality of the Civil Rights Movement.
Step into scenes, photos, and works of art from this pivotal period, and explore the associated figures and events that shaped history. Join the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, hear the stories and testimonials of participants in the protests, review the critical Supreme Court decisions and laws that galvanized the movement, and feel the spirit of this impactful time through video footage and songs of freedom.
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Slavery & Freedom in Antebellum Savannah: Reinterpreting History Through Virtual Learning Experiences
Grade Level: 8
Building on a reputation as a trusted source for educational content, GPB Education has created a virtual learning journey to explore the complexities of slavery and freedom in antebellum Savannah through the lens of the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters. Educators, parents, and students can learn about the connections between the institution of slavery and the global economy and discover what one city can teach us about society and culture before the Civil War. Key concepts are presented through interactive elements like primary source letters and images, navigable maps, videos, and a virtual walking tour. Session participants will be able to explore virtual content using Oculus Go headsets or their own devices. Presenters will model instructional strategies to elicit creative responses to the experience. Following this session, participants will better understand how to implement their own virtual reality explorations in the home and/or classroom.
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Escape the Virtual Field Trip Adventures With GPB Education’s Immersive VR Learning Journeys: Regions of Georgia
Grade Level: 8
Welcome to Georgia!
We hope you enjoy your visit.
We hope you learn about our unique and remarkable state.
We hope you manage to escape...Providing nearly 40 experiential virtual field trips to historical and cultural sites statewide, Georgia Public Broadcasting invites educators to a participatory interactive adventure and tool-building workshop modeled around the Regions of Georgia virtual field trip from our comprehensive Georgia Studies collection. This collection is free and open to all educators and consists of the Our State and Our Nation digital course with teacher view, the statewide virtual field trips, the Georgia Stories video series, and the Georgia Race Through Time formative assessment game.
Join GPB in an immersive group effort to escape from the state of Georgia by hunting standards-based contextual clues within the text, embedded images, VR videos, and digital walking tours. Participants will also preview how to build their own escape activities with PBS LearningMedia's free and open Lesson Builder tool paired with Flippity Virtual Breakout.
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Escape the Virtual Field Trip Adventures With GPB Education’s Immersive VR Learning Journeys: Andersonville Prison Camp
Grade Level: 8
Welcome to the Andersonville Prison Camp.
We hope you enjoy your visit.
We hope you learn something about the POW experience.
We hope you manage to escape.Providing nearly 40 experiential virtual field trips to historical and cultural sites throughout our state, Georgia Public Broadcasting invites educators to a participatory interactive adventure and tool-building workshop modeled around the latest virtual field trip from our comprehensive Georgia Studies collection: the American POW experience. This collection is free and open to all educators and consists of the Our State and Our Nation digital textbook with teacher edition, the statewide virtual field trips, the Georgia Stories video series, and the Georgia Race Through Time formative assessment game.
Join GPB's Education Outreach team in an immersive group effort to escape the American POW virtual field trip by hunting standards-based contextual clues within the embedded images, VR videos, and walking tours. Participants will also preview how to build their own escape activities with PBS LearningMedia's free and open Lesson Builder tool paired with Flippity Virtual Breakout.