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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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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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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In my social studies class we have been using individual blogs to guide use in our research of influential people. Students were asked to pick one leader/influential person and record their findings in a blog post. This assignment was originally intended to be a 2-3 page research paper….but instead we used blog posting as means…
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Today in social studies we will be continuing our talks about different types of economies. Today in class we will be using the document above to help us gain a better understanding of what type of economies are used all around the world. Students, please read the directions and use the provided resources to research…
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Students, today we will be starting a new unit over economies. I have embedded a copy of our class notes over economic systems above, please review the information. Mr. McClung
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Students, above is a completed study guide from our review day in class…..don’t forget we will have a test tomorrow in social studies. STUDY! Mr. McClung
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In social studies we study A LOT of vocabulary terms on a weekly basis. So many vocab words that we are introducing new terms almost on a daily basis. So the problem becomes how to introduce and properly teach vocab in a manner that is not so forgettable. In our class we learn vocab through…
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Students, I have already received a few blog post from you so far. While there has been some good work sumbitted so far I want to offer some suggestions while revising you post. Appealing Title Your title should reflect the information in your blog post, but should be short and catchy. Bad Example: “Talking About…
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Today we will be starting our first graded blog post assignment in social studies. Students, please read through the guidelines I have provided for you below and incorporate these tips into your writing. In addition, I have posted the instructions for the assignment below the tips. 1. Make your opinion known People like blogs, they…
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