World History
- Ap Score Calculator
Every year I tell my kids that they have to get a 60% on my tests and the final to be in the 3 range and slightly more than half on the FRQs. Well this AP score calculator by AP Haven does a pretty good job of proving me correct, except that it...
- Mastery Learning
One of my students came back the other day lamenting that colleges do not offer second chance tests! Another teacher said, "As it should be!" But I was reminded that the doctor who helped bring my son Grant into the world had only delivered ten kids prior...
- Book Recommendation: How We Learn By Benedict Carey
There aren't many books about teaching that truly excite me, but I just finished reading a book that every educator should read. How We Lean: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey details several techniques...
- How To Set Up A Standards Based Classroom
I wanted to give you a few highlights of the great work Frank Franz has done (and very briefly posted on a few days ago) in the last year as he really is doing what so many people discuss, but few do - that is set up a standards based classroom. ...
- 5 Themes Of Geography
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)...
World History
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, Around the World in 80 Treasures. Students have to find 13 objects that represent the time periods of history that we have studied, the six themes of history, and the different regions. So each object must represent a time period, a theme, and a region. Here's a link to the the World 9 assignment and here's a link to the World 10 assignment. I usually show the kids one or two clips from the video to show them how the objects can tell a story. And there is also the great book, A History of the World in 100 Objects.
- Ap Score Calculator
Every year I tell my kids that they have to get a 60% on my tests and the final to be in the 3 range and slightly more than half on the FRQs. Well this AP score calculator by AP Haven does a pretty good job of proving me correct, except that it...
- Mastery Learning
One of my students came back the other day lamenting that colleges do not offer second chance tests! Another teacher said, "As it should be!" But I was reminded that the doctor who helped bring my son Grant into the world had only delivered ten kids prior...
- Book Recommendation: How We Learn By Benedict Carey
There aren't many books about teaching that truly excite me, but I just finished reading a book that every educator should read. How We Lean: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey details several techniques...
- How To Set Up A Standards Based Classroom
I wanted to give you a few highlights of the great work Frank Franz has done (and very briefly posted on a few days ago) in the last year as he really is doing what so many people discuss, but few do - that is set up a standards based classroom. ...
- 5 Themes Of Geography
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)...