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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  XXX

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