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    TOPIC

    LINKS & DETAILS


    September

     
    First Days of School

    Get to know yourself: «16 Personalities Test  «Strengths
    «Learning Styles "Got Style" - see document below
    «Academic Honesty


    Brain/Thinking / self awareness
    Backfire Effect-
    Amazing LINK
    «Growth Mindset excerpts
    «The Teenage Brain excerpts

    Danger of a Single Story (to study history) article link
    TedTalk


    Support


    Additional
    HELP

    Study Strategies- Learning Scientists.org
    Homework- Coming up with a plan of attack!
    Organization- Setting up your HW Binder!
    Active Listening- "SLANT"
    Writing- See HANDBOOK
    Reading Strategies- 3 Questions & THEIVES


    Contests


    Blue Team
    & beyond

     
    Geography Bee- January


    Topic 1


    Geography

    Tutorial- http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

    50 States:
    «Website 1   «Website 2  TEST your SKILLS:
      «Europe  «Africa  «S. America  «N.America  «Australia  «Asia
    Have you mastered each of the continents? CLICK HERE


    Topic 2


    Current Events

     STREAMING NEWS OPTIONS:   ÌPBS News Hour   ÌCNN News (10 min.)

    ÌPBS WXXI Political Party Test

    Identifying Media Bias
    Student News: Fishing for a Story LINK
    Types of Media Bias- LINK


    Topic 3

     
    Be your best

    Identity, Diversity, Acceptance & More
    mWorld Trust: link
    qDerrick Gay: student link
    ÌSweethearts & Heroes
    qTen Truths a Middle School Student Should Know- link


    Topic 4

     
    Community Service

     Making our community a better place! Information on volunteer opportunities and how to submit! LINK

    Student initiated groups/programs example- "We dine together"


    Topic 5

     Creative
    Resilient
    Mindfulness
    Spirited

     *Best Work, Best Self *The Calkins Way!
    Mindful & Resilient: *Presentation Skill*  link

     

    RESOURCES & LINKS 

     

    PBS Learning Media link
    **Primary Source Inquires link Recommended Websites link
    NewsELA * Wordify

    New York State Archives link
    Sway
    Engaging Congress link
    Jackie Robinson- national baseball archives link 
    https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/baseball-history/remembering-jackie


    Culturally Responsive Classroom
    https://www.socialstudies.org/publications/socialeducation/may-june2009/isnt_culturally_responsive_instruction_just_good_teaching
    DASA  reporting- teach history of N (Eyes on the Prize), students write feelings,

    Get links- icivics, teaching tolerance, facing history, zinn education project

    Strategies- wait time, hand down when others are working

    NIFI Formus Deliberations  LINK *use safe topic first to learn strategies


    Chrome

    Kahoot link
    Alice Keeler link
    Insert Learning link
    Engaging Congress- link
    Quizzizz link
    Flowcabulary link
    360 cities link
    *recap link
    *Sutori link
    Nearpod link
    Big History Project link
    New Visions Curriculum link  New Visions Enduring Issues
    Schoology link
    Print Post-its link

     

     Flipped Classroom
    movadi screencastomactic
    post on teachertube (edpuzzle, schoologoy

     

    EdPuzzle link
    https://goformative.com/

    https://www.socialstudies.org/

     

     

     

     

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    H O N O R S  
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    GENERAL
    -BOTH GRADES
    7 & 8

     

    Pod Cast: subscribe to "Stuff you missed in history class"
    Youtube: Subscribe to Alternate History Hub- link
    Choose your own Adventure Books- see classroom library
    Pod Cast: subscribe to NPR "Hidden Brain"


    GRADE
    7

     -see above, search for videos/podcast relating to topics covered in class


    GRADE
    8

     - see "General" and search for videos/podcast relating to topics covered in class

    OER Commons- click here

    Monroe County Fireman’s Essay  Contest- due 10/24/14

    Halloween Costume Contest- categories TBA

    New York Times Video Vocabulary Contest- due 11/10

     

    National Geographic Bee- early January

     

     

     

     BIE http://www.bie.org/- Project Based Learning

    Stanford Bookcamp Bootleg pdf

     Critique and Revision- Austin's butterfly video (7)

     BIE Project Based Learning 101 resources- link

    Matt Baer mbaer@bie.org  bie.org

     

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