Update: Time Traveler Avatars can now be seen in the Vault of Memories, categorized by class period. Enjoy!
Monday, Sept 9, 2013
Digital Housekeeping Day
- New seating chart
- Assign new caretakers for the week - Clock caretakers create time sign
- Collect Drawings and check off
- Edmodo
- How to see comments in assignment documents
- Look for Avatar picture grade
- Upload your assignments if not done. Turn in your Time Travel machine/device drawing. For those students having either upload or computer issues, we’ll have time in class to sort them out.
- How to see comments in assignment documents
- Vault of Memories class period pages
- View uploaded avatars in slideshow
- Need two quick committees of 3-4 students each to do the following tasks. (MUST be done with TT Profile and upload and any past work.)
- Write up “Who We Are” for each class period.
- Choose royalty free music to put on class period page Use this site: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ Email me the link and song name.
- Write up “Who We Are” for each class period.
- View uploaded avatars in slideshow
Today's skills are Employability skills:
Following directions and asking clarifying questions, time management and work completion & timeliness.
Those with missing work were notified.
NO NEW HOMEWORK FOR THE DAY
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Following directions and asking clarifying questions, time management and work completion & timeliness.
Those with missing work were notified.
NO NEW HOMEWORK FOR THE DAY
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Tues & Wed, Sept 10 & 11
Mission:
History Basic Training Part 1
Today we began our mission to understanding history: what it is, it's purpose and why it is important. Tuesday's assignment is posted on Edmodo and is titled "TT History Basic Training Day 1" Part of the assignment requires watching a short video which is posted below. After completing the assignment, students need to upload and submit the Word document back to Edmodo to turn it in. Complete instructions are with the Edmodo post. Assignment questions: TT History Basic Training Day 1
1. What goes forward but never goes back?
2. Using one of the dictionaries in the Library in the Time Travel Portal to define the following terms. Please select your definition carefully, and then you may copy and paste the definition.
time
past
memory
history
After watching the clip of, ”The Man with the Thirty Second Memory,” answer the following:
3. How is memory like history?
4. Why is it important to know and understand history? Think about what it would be like if we only knew the present and had no awareness of our past.
1. What goes forward but never goes back?
2. Using one of the dictionaries in the Library in the Time Travel Portal to define the following terms. Please select your definition carefully, and then you may copy and paste the definition.
time
past
memory
history
After watching the clip of, ”The Man with the Thirty Second Memory,” answer the following:
3. How is memory like history?
4. Why is it important to know and understand history? Think about what it would be like if we only knew the present and had no awareness of our past.
The Man with the Thirty Second Memory (above) or onYouTube
WEDNESDAY UPDATE:
In class today we will do a quick review of our vocabulary words from Tuesday. We will use Socrative, an online response system. It's fun!
Go to: http://m.socrative.com/student/#joinRoom
and wait for further instructions.
This review is an in-class only activity.
WEDNESDAY UPDATE:
In class today we will do a quick review of our vocabulary words from Tuesday. We will use Socrative, an online response system. It's fun!
Go to: http://m.socrative.com/student/#joinRoom
and wait for further instructions.
This review is an in-class only activity.
Thursday, Sept 12, 2013
HIstory Basic Training Part 2
Completed History Basic Training Part 1 and uploaded to Edmodo.
Conducted an experiment to demonstrate that History is NOT the Past.
For students who were absent, they will get a copy of a video from me taken during class. It will be placed on their computer.
During the video, follow the on-screen instructions to complete the accompanying response sheet. (Get the sheet from Miss B) The purpose of the activity is to demonstrate that history is not the same thing as the past, but is the recorded past which is incomplete and therefore essentially inaccurate.
The questions that were discussed in the groups were:
School lunches are better since the government enacted the Healthy Kids Act - (more fruit and veg, whole grains, less fat, less sugar, less salt.)
School lunches are NOT better since the government enacted the Healthy Kids Act - (more fruit and veg, whole grains, less fat, less sugar, less salt.)
Response sheet questions below
Conducted an experiment to demonstrate that History is NOT the Past.
For students who were absent, they will get a copy of a video from me taken during class. It will be placed on their computer.
During the video, follow the on-screen instructions to complete the accompanying response sheet. (Get the sheet from Miss B) The purpose of the activity is to demonstrate that history is not the same thing as the past, but is the recorded past which is incomplete and therefore essentially inaccurate.
The questions that were discussed in the groups were:
School lunches are better since the government enacted the Healthy Kids Act - (more fruit and veg, whole grains, less fat, less sugar, less salt.)
School lunches are NOT better since the government enacted the Healthy Kids Act - (more fruit and veg, whole grains, less fat, less sugar, less salt.)
Response sheet questions below
History is not the Past. Name:
1. After the experiment, please answer the following:
2. When our subject in the experiment (the person who left the room) was first asked, they couldn’t tell us what happened while out of the room. Why?
3. What version of the past did the subject retell? Why?
4. What is the past?
5. What is history?
6. Does history accurately record and retell the past? (accurate=correct in all details) Explain.
7. If history isn’t always accurate, what good is it?
8. What is the meaning of the comic at the top of the page?
1. After the experiment, please answer the following:
2. When our subject in the experiment (the person who left the room) was first asked, they couldn’t tell us what happened while out of the room. Why?
3. What version of the past did the subject retell? Why?
4. What is the past?
5. What is history?
6. Does history accurately record and retell the past? (accurate=correct in all details) Explain.
7. If history isn’t always accurate, what good is it?
8. What is the meaning of the comic at the top of the page?
Friday, Sept 13, 2013
History Advanced Training
What's wrong with history?
"Lunchroom Fight" activity
A fight breaks out in the lunchroom and the principal needs to figure out who started it. But when she asks witnesses what they saw, she hears conflicting accounts. Why might these accounts differ? As students wrestle with this question, they will hone the ability to reconcile conflicting claims, consider multiple perspectives and evaluate the reliability of sources. Not only does this lesson engage students, it helps to lay the foundation for historical thinking throughout the year. Activity from the Stanford History Education Group.
Students who were absent can either get a hard copy of this response sheet from me or download, print and complete. The student response sheet is the third page of the document.
A fight breaks out in the lunchroom and the principal needs to figure out who started it. But when she asks witnesses what they saw, she hears conflicting accounts. Why might these accounts differ? As students wrestle with this question, they will hone the ability to reconcile conflicting claims, consider multiple perspectives and evaluate the reliability of sources. Not only does this lesson engage students, it helps to lay the foundation for historical thinking throughout the year. Activity from the Stanford History Education Group.
Students who were absent can either get a hard copy of this response sheet from me or download, print and complete. The student response sheet is the third page of the document.