Month: October 2009

The Fundred Project
Oct 29

The Fundred Project

Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> The Fundred Project is a art project that focuses on bringing awareness to lead-contaminated soil in major U.S. cities and contributes. How you may ask? By creating fake one hundred dollar bills (Fundreds). Students are given one hundred dollar templates and asked to design these Fundreds in any…

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Lessons Learned
Oct 29

Lessons Learned

Yet another week has come and gone in great education….now it’s time to reflect on the week that was. Leçon Une: Play With Fire and You’ll….Burn Your Hand The disgusting hand pictured above belongs to one of my first hour students…..needless to say I was very proud of him when he told me that he…

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The Letter “E”
Oct 29

The Letter “E”

Above is a picture of a clipping of the letter “e” from a newspaper….it is being projected using an Eyeclops. That’s right….today’s science lesson is brought to you by the letter “e”. In continuation of our talk about living organisms, today I introduced microscopes to my students to become familiar with their functions. In order…

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China’s Economy
Oct 29

China’s Economy

For the past two days, my students have been watching a documentary profiling the economy of China. This film was featured on Discovery Education and really gave us a great insight to some of the problems this country is currently facing. Students, below is the writing prompt assignment I gave in class today. Please make…

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Economic Comparison
Oct 28

Economic Comparison

The past few days in my social studies class, we have been comparing different economies from around the world. To help aid in our conversation about comparasion students have been using the CIA World Factbook. This website provided by the CIA contains a wealth of information about every country around the world. In a few…

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Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips
Oct 27

Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips

On November 12th the University of Arkansas will welcome author Dr. Gene Glass to speak here in Fayetteville as apart of the Education Leadership Distinguished Lecture Series for Practicing Public School Leaders. Dr. Glass is a professor of educational leadership and psychology in education at the Arizona State University. He will be speaking about his…

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1,000 Hits
Oct 27

1,000 Hits

Today students were given the day off while teachers conducted parent teacher conferences. While I was meeting with parents today our class blog hit a milestone. We had our 1,000th visitor today (Houston, Texas), and it only took use about two months to accomplish this. Many thanks to all the students, parents, teachers, and everyone…

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Tuesday Conversation
Oct 27

Tuesday Conversation

Thuy and myself talking via Google Chat Being a social studies teacher and a novas traveler, I’m always fascinated with hearing stories from hail from a different part of the world than I do….and on Tuesday night I got a chance to do just that. My social studies students are currently in the middle of…

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Ecomony Terms
Oct 26

Ecomony Terms

Students, we will have a quiz on Friday, embedded above are the terms that you will need to be familiar with in order to prepare yourself for the quiz. If you would like to print these terms off, please follow the directions below. Click on the button located at the bottom left hand corner of…

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Sing it Like You Mean It….
Oct 26

Sing it Like You Mean It….

Your band of the week is Against Me! Against Me! is a punk rock band formed in 1997 in Gainesville, Florida. The band orginially started out as a solo act by lead singer Tom Gabel. Their first full-length album, released on No Idea Records in 2002, is Reinventing Axl Rose. Their latest album, New Wave, …

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