We just started school last week and had a day off for flooding. So hopefully my kids will get to the 5 themes of geography. Here are three links (one, two, three) and above is video on it. Below is the PowerPoint (made in Google Presentation) which I used last year. This year, the kids will (since they are 9th graders and it is their second assignment will have outline notes, but will have to use link number two above and they can read the PowerPoint if they want (ie learn by doing, not by being shown).
- Changing The Face Of Instruction
I am a member of several Facebook teacher sites and am in the midst of adding to one where a teacher said his administration has banned front of the room teaching. A number of the teachers are saying how awful that is. Truth be known I have...
- A Short How To Flip Post
At the end of the month, George Coe and I are co-presenting on flipping the classroom. Below is the PowerPoint we will be using. The hardest thing to do is to cut what you want to lecture to ten or fewer minutes. To create the lecture watch...
- Around The World In 80 Treasures: An End Of The Year Project
Here's an idea for an end-of-the year world history project. In Virginia, we still have a couple of weeks of school although we have completed the AP tests and the end of the year state tests. The project is based on Dan Cruickshank's BBC documentary,...
- First World History Unit On Prehistory
Finally I feel as if my world history freshmen are hitting their technological stride as they can now make folder, documents, move them about, share with someone else, copy my documents in Google Drive. Since I put so much technology on them...
- China Powerpoint
I started this blog (and the US and government ones) to be able to share with teachers everywhere which is why I so appreciate all the e-mails I get for items to put on the website. I can't claim that I made all of this PowerPoint as I inherited...