Normally I’m not a big fan of using cell phones in the classroom, however today we were able to put them to good use. Today I introduced the stock market challenge to my students…in this challenge they are given a fictional amount of money, $1,000, and asked to invest it whatever they deem as worthy….
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Today in class we will be starting a new project in which we will take a look at the stock market and actually hold our own mock stock market in our classroom…in order to accomplish this task we will need to use the CNN Money website to research stock. You will be using the suggested…
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1965 Literacy Test View more presentations from Joe McClung In class today my students took the 1965 Alabama literacy test for voting. At the time of taking the test my students were not aware that what they were taking was a literacy test for voting but after they found out they were very surprised to…
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With all the excitement running around about the current republican nomination and the upcoming presidential election in November, we decided to get into the spirit ourselves. My students were asked to create a poster/pin/sticker for an ad campaign for a fictional or real person. They were asked to use symbols and slogans in their project…
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Feeling lucky? Not particularly…the image above is the view of Google’s homepage in response to the SOPA and PIPA acts. The past week we have been talking quite a bit about the governmental process and how, theoretically, our voice as citizens is heard through a representative democracy…and today a perfect exercise of how this works…
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Today in class we discussed the role of government and where the power should rest within our government structure. The charts above are from my student feedback today when I asked them who they believed should have more power…the state government or the federal government. With the exception of one class, the answers varied a…
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On Friday we went through phase two of our Arkansas geography project. Students were asked to make a mixture of salt-dough in order to create a physical feature map of the state of Arkansas. On Thursday students created their mixture and Friday they put pen to paper…so to speak. Students took their mixture of dough…
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Students, today we will be beginning our salt dough projects. We will be using this project to better help us understand the six geographical regions of Arkansas and the characteristics that describe them. First off we will have to mix up our salt dough mix…seen above are the instructions that you will need to do…
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Created with flickr slideshow.This past week my students wrapped up their short unit on WWII and propaganda. This is the 4th year that I have done this project with my students and each year it continues to be a favorite among my students. Students are asked to research a piece of propaganda and recreate it….
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