Today in class we will be taking a look back at an old class favorite from this past year, Google vs. China. This goes along with our on going conversations involving economy and government. Today we will be using Google vs. China as an example of what can happen when a company decides to expand…
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It’s a Friday tradition in my class…the Friday song. At the end of each week we take the time to celebrate the week by doing our weekly Lessons Learned segment and jamming out to Arcade Fire’s song “Wake Up”. The video clip above is from my 4th period class enjoying the music. Mr. McClung
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Students, in continuation of our discussion about the current mosque debate in New York we will be discussing in class on Friday the recent decision by the pastor in Florida to call off his self proposed “burn a Quran day”. Mr. McClung
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As continue of our talks about culture and globalization, today we will take a look at a developing problem that is occurring in New York. Debate over the potential site for a Mosque located near Ground Zero in New York has sparked several heated rallies. Today we will take a look at this situation and…
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John and Jake explain the objective of our grass competition. Sarah takes a minute to explain how she made her soil. Mr. McClung
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Big things are happening in my room this week…today we continued our work with salt dough as we got a little hands on today. After letting our dough sit over night, this morning it was ready to mold into the state of Arkansas. Students were asked to take their dough and mold it into the…
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This week I decided to welcome my students back from their weekend by getting a little bit messy. Today we began preparing or salt dough lab that we will be working on for the next few days…but before we preformed our lab we first had to create some salt dough. In the video above, you…
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This entry was originally posted back in February, but in light of Jamie Oliver’s new show I felt like it was appropriate to repost…enjoy! Recently Mr. Lamshed featured this video of Jamie Oliver on his blog. The video was in response to their weekly “Fresh Fruit Friday”, this is a weekly event where his students…
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A lot of big news has occurred while we were on our spring break. Today in social studies, we will devote time to talking health care and what are some possible positives and negatives that could occur from this bill. Mr. McClung
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A couple of my students displaying their homemade guitar. Friday we spent some time making some music. As apart of our study of how resonance works, we created instruments that make noise due to the resonance they put off. The video above displays a simple guitar that we made using a meter stick, fishing line,…
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