New Approach to Lecturing

I hate lecturing….and one of the biggest challenges I have been faced with this year is how to present social studies curriculum to my students in a manner that does not involve lecturing everyday. So, this past week I have introduced to my students a different approach to acquiring knowledge and does not involve myself…

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#comments4kids

Today marked a weekly event (Wednesday) that was created by a former co-worker from Noel, Missouri. Comments4kids was originally started to encourage students to check out other students work through blogging. Students would do this by reading selected blog readings and simply leaving a positive comment for that particular class. In the past few months…

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Google Docs Screencast

Above is a screen shot of a screen cast I made explaining how to send a document using Google Docs. Students, in order to view the screen cast you can click here or simply watch the video above. Mr. McClung

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A Joyful Noise

Not only does music play a huge role in my everyday classroom instruction, but it is something that I take very seriously. As any of my current or former students will tell you, I always have music playing in my room and/or singing a particular song. I really believe that playing music sets a comfortable…

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Life Map

For the past week, my social studies students have been working on their Life Map exercise. A Life Map is a map in which each student plots out significant events in their life in chronological order. Students were asked to use photographs or images that depict/describe certain events in their life. Students were asked to…

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Solubility Data

Solubility View more documents from jkmcclung. Class, above is a spreadsheet that includes all the data from everyone’s lab from yesterday. Today we will use a website called ChartGo to make line charts that include our data from yesterday. Please follow the link below to access ChartGo. http://www.chartgo.com/ Mr. McClung

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