Wash Your Hands….Because Obama Said So

During school today, like many schools across America, our school took time to view President Obama’s speech on education (video above). While many may disagree with his speech (one way or another), there is no denying that many of the points that were made were valid….and many of those same points have been rattled off…

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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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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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Don’t Forget…..Tie Tuesday

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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Solubility Lab

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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Speak Up!

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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