World History
So it is about time that I put up some review assignments. I wish I knew who to credit for the two I am posting now, but the minute I became dept chair I created a digital folder for all of our subjects and it has been added to and used by all of that no one could rightfully claim credit.
So in VA our state exam is called the Standards of Learning (yes that is SOL for short and no the Board of Ed was not thinking when. This then is a tremendous review of everything from pre-history through the Renaissance. It has pictures, maps, everything.
So how do you make it work to get kids to read the material. Well our CLT today decided we will break it into parts and then have the kids work on these 150 multiple choice questions.
By the way if you want to get lots of multiple choice questions the best place is the NY Regents that seems able to power out two different tests each year in each subject. Here is the most recent WHI and WHII for VA which, in 15 years, has only released two sets of tests!
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In ten years of being a chair, tomorrow will be the second day I have missed a county wide meeting (so I can work with my AP Comp kids to better prepare for the AP exam). I was going to present on how to teach students on a snow day. But...
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Here is a very nice review page for the NY Regents exam including a ton of multiple choice exams. Here are all the world history exams going back seven years with two each year. They are fairly difficult multiple choice questions. ...
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World History
World HIstory I Review
So in VA our state exam is called the Standards of Learning (yes that is SOL for short and no the Board of Ed was not thinking when. This then is a tremendous review of everything from pre-history through the Renaissance. It has pictures, maps, everything.
So how do you make it work to get kids to read the material. Well our CLT today decided we will break it into parts and then have the kids work on these 150 multiple choice questions.
By the way if you want to get lots of multiple choice questions the best place is the NY Regents that seems able to power out two different tests each year in each subject. Here is the most recent WHI and WHII for VA which, in 15 years, has only released two sets of tests!
- Snow Day Reprise
In ten years of being a chair, tomorrow will be the second day I have missed a county wide meeting (so I can work with my AP Comp kids to better prepare for the AP exam). I was going to present on how to teach students on a snow day. But...
- Learning Pod Student Review System
My two AP classes each have two exams that they will have to take in May which prompted one student to ask me the other day how we would review for both AP exams. Well the answer, if you read my post below on How We Learn is to go back frequently,...
- Polleverywhere Adds Picture Components To Questions
Image Support for Multiple Choice Options from Poll Everwhere on Vimeo. I just taught my tech integration class how to use PollEverywhere this past week and along comes their newest innovation which is to add pictures to the questions. Frank (Panterfan)...
- Regents Prep Materials
Here is a very nice review page for the NY Regents exam including a ton of multiple choice exams. Here are all the world history exams going back seven years with two each year. They are fairly difficult multiple choice questions. ...
- Identify An Image
So each day I give 5 questions for review for our state exam and on it I include simple questions, maps, multiple choice and even items to identify an image. One of my students was having difficulty which led us to see if one could a search of an...