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The Awards Committee of the Arizona Council for the Social Studies needs your help! Each year, we showcase excellence in social studies teaching and learning in our state through our awards program. It's time to nominate yourself or your colleagues for recognition.
We celebrate our Awards winners at a special luncheon in their honor at our October Annual Conference.
So nominate yourself or a deserving colleague today!!! Please send all nominations to the address below prior to September 1st. Thanks for helping us to highlight the best of Arizona Social Studies teaching and learning.
ACSS Awards Chair
P.O. Box 24839
Tempe, AZ 85285
2007
Wilbur Murra – Honorable Harry Mitchell, U.S. Representative District 5
Isidore Starr – Barbara Hatch, Cactus Shadows High School
Susanne Shafer – Donna Schell, Scottsdale Unified School District
2007 Great Moment Award winners:
Donald H. Preston – South Mountain High School, Phoenix Union High School District
Lesson: “The Columbian Exchange”
Heather Kiser - Mountain Pointe High School, Tempe Unified High School District
Lesson: “In Search of Aphrodite’s Rock: Storytelling from a Geographic Perspective”
2006
Wilbur Murra - Gale Olp Ekiss - Arizona Geographic Alliance
Isidore Starr - Dr. Nancy Haas – Arizona State University at the West Campus
2006 Great Moment Award winners:
Lynn Galvin
Phoenix Preparatory Academy
Lesson: “Faces of the Enemy – Investigating Japanese Internment as a Constitutional Violation.
This is a lesson for middles school students. The lesson helps students understand how fear and racism during WW II created a situation where basic Constitutional rights were ignored. Students will better understand the policy of Japanese-American internment and how it affected individual citizens.
Diane Godfrey
Kyrene Del Pueblo Middle School
Lesson: “GeoScrapbooking: Photographing the 5 Themes of Geography”
This lesson can be used with grades 6 and 7. This lesson uses photography to help teach the Five Themes of Geography while students are on a field assignment. Diane uses this lesson when she takes her students to Red Rock State Park in Sedona. The students record the five themes with their cameras and turn the results into a scrapbook
Barbara Hatch
Cactus Shadows High School
Lesson: “Arizona Heritage Project or Since you asked: Arizona Veterans Share their Memories”
This is a lesson for high school students. The students interview Veterans who share their first-hand accounts of American History. The interviews are documented for the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress.
Anna-Marie Keenan
Madison #1 Middle School
and
Melissa Carrington
Liberty Elementary School
Lesson: “Africa”
This lesson for middle school students incorporates food, songs, history, art and folk tales of various countries in Africa. Guests from the Los Boys of Sudan and the Glendale Bean Museum enrich this unit which connects the new learning of Africa to the Five Themes of Geography.
Kate Mahady
Booth –Fickett Magnet School
Lesson: “Questions of Culture and Human Connections”
This is a great tool for encouraging journaling in the middle school classroom. This lesson includes photographs from around the world. Each photograph has a prompt related to math, language, science and social studies. The students are encouraged to connect these photos to something in their lives.
Dawn Schmidt
Desert Vista High School
Lesson: Indian Ocean Network Unit
This week long high school lesson covers all aspects of the Indian Ocean. The students explore trade and geography and they compare old and new trade networks.
Carol Warren
Social Studies Specialist
Arizona Department of Education
Lesson: “Desert Views-First Impressions: Travelers on the Gila Trail”
Fourth and fifth grade students are introduced to primary source material by reading descriptions written by overland traveler on the Gila Trail. They will come to understand the ways in which travelers viewed aspects of the desert environment
2005
Isidore Starr - Kathy Williams (Dobson High, Ret.)
Wilbur Murra - Michael Ostapuk
Great Moments - John Halverson (Desert Sands MS), Sheila Nice
Susanne Shafer
2004
Isidore Starr - Abby Dupke (Dobson High)
Wilbur Murra - Dr. Tom McGowan
Great Moments -
Susanne Shafer
2003
Isidore Starr - Jeannine Kuropatkin (Rhodes Junior High)
Wilbur Murra - John S. Morton (National Council on Economic
Education)
Great Moments - Carol Warren (Sacaton Elementary)
Susanne Shafer
2002
Isidore Starr -
Wilbur Murra - Eric LaDue
Great Moments - Maryann Watkins (Alhambra HS), Patty Sepp
(Homeschool). Karen
Williams (Brimhall JHS)
Susanne Shafer
2001
Isisdore Starr -
Wilbur Murra - Paul Robinson
Great Moments
Susanne Shafer
2000
Isisdore Starr - Dennis Rees
Great Moments - Charles Ott (Greenfield Country Day School); Jeannine Kuropatkin
(Rhodes JHS), Michael Steiner (Rhodes JHS)
Susanne Shafer
Wilbur Murra
1999
Isidore Starr - Michael Ostapuk (Estrella MS)
Great Moments - Marty Sheppard (Sierra Vista MS); Teruni de
Silva (Madison Heights
ES); Min ii Norton (Solano); Barbara Soto (Humphrey ES)
Susanne Shafer - Dr. Mary Logan Rothschild (ASU)
Wilber Murra - Bob Mings and Malcolm Comeaux (ASU)
1997
Wilbur Murra - Ken Reid (Mountain Pointe)
Isidore Starr - Bob Perry (Chaparral)
Great Moments - Gretchen Bathgate (Rose Lane E. S.); Rob
Christopher (Desert
Mountain H. S.); Gale Ekiss (Powell JHS); Ann Johnston (Humphrey
E. S.); Ken Reid
(Mountain Pointe HS); Peggy Ryan, Jimmi Lou Stack, Penny Bums, and Lisa Salinas
(Mountain Pointe HS); Heather Eppley (Clarendon Elementary School - Osborn
District)
1995
Great Moments - Tim Brown, Lela Borrmann, Michele Dunham,
Donna Johnson
(Chandler)
Diane Freeman, Diane Ball (Pendergast)
Robert W. Koehler (TUSD)
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