World History
Every year about now I start wondering what I want to do the first week of school. On the first day I actually spend most of the time just getting to know my students and perhaps giving them a small overview of the class.
But on the second class I like to get into why it is important to study whatever we are learning. So for world history, looking at this "What's across the ocean" series of maps might be a great exercise. First off, a lot of my students go to the beach and few wonder what is on the other side (in our case) of the Atlantic Ocean. My idea would be to start with the students drawing the world's continents, major rivers they know, etc. and then looking at this article. While you are on it, you could tie in different maps and show the great West Wing clip below.
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World History
First Week Map Exercise
But on the second class I like to get into why it is important to study whatever we are learning. So for world history, looking at this "What's across the ocean" series of maps might be a great exercise. First off, a lot of my students go to the beach and few wonder what is on the other side (in our case) of the Atlantic Ocean. My idea would be to start with the students drawing the world's continents, major rivers they know, etc. and then looking at this article. While you are on it, you could tie in different maps and show the great West Wing clip below.
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This is an eleven minute Ted Talk overview of each of the world's five major religions. I would show each part to your students as a summary as it does a great job of giving your students the main points you are teaching. But it adds...
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Hard to believe the first month of school is already over. As always thanks for coming to this blog page. We had 42,000+ page views (including the US and government blogs) last month including 14,000 on this site alone The top three...
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