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Close Reading and the Magic Eye – A quick thought
After researching close reading strategies for a lesson that I want to do sometime in the next few weeks, I had an epiphany of sorts while running past my eye doctor’s office. Last fall, I spent hours upon hours waiting … Continue reading
Connecting Lessons to Common Core: Nationalistic Travel Brochures
For the past few weeks, I have been reflecting upon my past lessons and adapting them to the Common Core Standards for History/Social Studies. It has been a great exercise and has allowed me to reexamine the purpose of my … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Core, education, Nationalism, Social Studies, World History
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Connecting Lessons to Common Core: Star Wars Episode V.V: The Empire Strikes Endor
<Imaginary scrolling text begins> A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…. COMMON CORE Episode V.V The Empire Strikes Endor It is the end of your lesson on the the five motives behind imperialism. The students have analyzed … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, History
Tagged Common Core, education, Imperialism, Primary Documents, Star Wars
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The Muppets Guide to Project-Based Learning (PBL)
One of my goals for this upcoming year is to create a project-based learning (PBL) unit for my World History class. In order to wrap my head around this concept I have been lurking in different Twitter chats and reading … Continue reading
Connecting Lessons to Common Core: Extra Extra! Primary Documents turned into News Articles!
What started off as an exercise to prepare for a department meeting has now become a bit of a hobby. For the past few weeks, I have been reflecting upon my past lessons and adapting them to the Common Core … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, History
Tagged Common Core, education, History, Primary Documents, World History
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Teacher Trading Cards: Make Your Own!
Last week, I posted about teachers having Teacher Trading Cards as a means to connect with students, parents, colleagues, and learning networks. Also, collecting them all could become a great new pastime. Many people have contacted me for a template to … Continue reading
Connecting Lessons to Common Core: Bill and Ted’s Excellent Assignment
I have always been an advocate for time travel in the classroom. Imagine learning about the Constitutional Convention by actually going there? Or becoming involved in a discussion about human nature with John Locke? I fully realize that by doing … Continue reading
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: A Tale of the Modern Classroom
One of my students was frustrated today with a question on an open notebook quiz she was taking. The problem was that the answer was not in her notes (she is great about taking thorough notes). We are studying the … Continue reading
Teacher Trading Cards: Collect Them All!
Instead of “Baseball Cards,” imagine if children collected “Teacher Cards”? Every week, students saved up their allowance to purchase their “Teacher Cards” and a stick of stale gum from the corner store. This is a brief conversation I imagine students … Continue reading
The Enlightenment: A Glam Rock Music Epic (proposal)
I would like to write a glam rock musical based on the Enlightenment. This would probably be the greatest glam rock musical based on the Enlightenment ever (unless there are more). The major thing that is holding me back is … Continue reading
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