Gearing up for another Tie Tuesday at Woodland Junior High! Don’t forget to bring your tie tomorrow for Tie Tuesday. Above is one of my favorite videos from last school year, me and my boy “El Menuaco” (or Fidel), demonstrating how to tie a half windsor knot…..and students, remember if you have ties to donate…
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Happy Monday everyone! Above is a video that I recorded today explaining our solubility lab. Mr. McClung
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We continued our class discussion today about solubility by holding our first class lab of the school year. Throughout the day my science classes tested the solubility of of several different substances. Pictured above are the materials that we used in our lab: burner, stand, timer, two beakers, thermometer, stirring and dropper. The materials that…
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This guy obviously likes to speak his mind…. Such a large part of my class depends on speaking up and speaking your mind. We constantly have class discussion between myself and the class and peer to peer discussion. In an effort to promote speaking up and having a voice in the classroom I have started…
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P E R M I T S Identification Strategy World Intro View more documents from jkmcclung. The past two days in our social studies class, I introduced a learning strategy to my students called permits. Permits is an acronym system that we use to attach meaning to terms and current issues. Listed below is the…
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Today in class we held a discussion about the placebo effect. A placebo is often referred to as a sham medical intervention. This effect can also affect the results of scientific experiments as well. Today we discussed how the placebo effect can change the outcome of data. Above is a short video that features an…
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Controls And Variables View more presentations from jkmcclung. As the school year continues on, and we begin to prepare for first class lab, today we continued our nature of science discussion by talking about controls and variables. Students used results from their mini-lab yesterday to label what controls and variables were present in their lab…
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What Is Globalization View more presentations from jkmcclung. Today we finished our classroom discussion about globalization but discussing the pros and cons of a globalized society. Above is a slide show consisting of the notes we have taken throughout our conversation about globalization, feel free to browse the class notes. Student, use the slide show…
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Today marks a very special day, it is my first Tie Tuesday at Woodland Jr. High. For those not familiar, every Tuesday I wear a tie to work….this is in an effort to put the countless ties in my closet to use and to promote professionalism of course. This may seem like a very silly…
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Above is a picture of a couple of my students checking the tags on each others clothing during an activity we called “Where’s it Made?” During this activity, students were asked to move about the room and survey different objects and find out what country was it made it. This was all apart of conversation…
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