Tuesday & Wednesday Nov 29th & 30th Days 66 & 67

Assignments due today (Tues/Wed) 

Chapter 16 Biomes Sections  

This week 

Biomes Chapter 16 all sections due Thursday/Friday

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Today's schedule - Tuesday/Wednesday, Nov 29th, 30th

Part 1 - Finish the Chapter 16 Sections and get into Section groups (all Section #1 confirm answers)

Part 2  - Return to table groups and share out sections with other table members

Part 3  -
When you are home, print out and bring these maps  to class for Thursday/Friday 
-Temperature, Rainfall and Vegetation Maps
Look at the Three Keys for those maps, but you DON'T NEED TO PRINT THESE OUT
Put the keys on your map by hand
Temperature Key       Rainfall Key         Vegetation Key

Step 4 -  Directions Sheet for Etiquette Project
List of Countries (this also includes a link to the country)
Resource site for Etiquette Project
You should also use the Culture Collages on the Blog (see tab on blog navigation bar)

Monday Nov 28th Day 65

Assignments due today (Monday) 

Finish and Upload the two Culture Worksheets from Last Week Wed 

This week 

Biomes Chapter 16

Here are the questions for Chapter 16 separated by section

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Today's schedule - Monday, Nov 28th

Part 1 - Finish the Culture Questionnaire - Culture Questionnaire

Part 2  - Finish Everyone has a culture worksheet - Everyone has a Culture Worksheet

We will start the Chapter 16 Biomes material today

Part 3  -Chapter 16 reading on Biomes
Answer each of the section reviews. On this assignment, assign each table member a section of the Biomes Chapter (there are 4 sections). The section 1 students will  all gather at a single table and confer on the answers for their section, and when finished will take their agreed upon answers back to their original table. The other 3 sections will follow the same process. When the original members return, they will share out their answers for each section.

Wednesday Nov 23rd Day 64

Scroll down for today's assignments

Assignments due today (Wednesday) 

Nothing 

Postponed until after the break 

Biomes Chapter 16

Here are the questions for Chapter 16 separated by section

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Today's schedule - Wednesday, Nov 23rd

Part 1 - Fill-in the Culture Questionnaire - Culture Questionnaire

Part 2  - Fill-n Everyone has a culture worksheet - Everyone has a Culture Worksheet

We will start the Chapter 16 Biomes material when we return

Part 3  -Chapter 16 reading on Biomes
Answer each of the section reviews. On this assignment, assign each table member a section of the Biomes Chapter (there are 4 sections). The section 1 students will  all gather at a single table and confer on the answers for their section, and when finished will take their agreed upon answers back to their original table. The other 3 sections will follow the same process. When the original members return, they will share out their answers for each section.

Monday & Tuesday Nov 21st & 22nd Days 62 & 63

Columbian Exchange TEST

Assignments due Today (Monday) 

 Current Events #21 & #22 

Postponed until after the break 

Biomes Chapter 16

Here are the questions for Chapter 16 separated by section

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Colombian Exchange Day 5

Objective(s):

Given a chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will be able to analyze the various food products, diseases, and human cargo transferred between the Old World, Africa and the New World, and explain with detail the effects, both positive and negative experienced by each participant.

Rationale: Understanding first impressions of groups who had never seen or interacted before will provide some valuable insights about an exchange of cultures which is somewhat impossible to replicate in the 21st century

Evidence: Being able to evaluate and analyze first encounters will demonstrate that students understand the isolation the native people of the Western Hemisphere had for all those years.

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Today's schedule - Monday/Tuesday

Part 1 - Play Kahoot as a review of the Columbian Exchange

Part 2  - 

Take the Columbian Exchange Quiz

Postponed until after the break - but we can assigned the section you are in charge of for the jigsaw of the chapter

Part 3  -Chapter 16 reading on Biomes
Answer each of the section reviews. On this assignment, assign each table member a section of the Biomes Chapter (there are 4 sections). The section 1 students will  all gather at a single table and confer on the answers for their section, and when finished will take their agreed upon answers back to their original table. The other 3 sections will follow the same process. When the original members return, they will share out their answers for each section.

Thursday & Friday Nov 17th & 18th Days 60 & 61

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE TEST WILL BE MONDAY/TUESDAY 

(Per2.4.6 Mon, 1.5 Tuesday)

Assignments due Today 

 Columbian Exchange Effects 

- Columbian Exchange EDPuzzle - answer questions during the video (activate closed captions it easier to understand because he talks pretty fast)
Question sheet for EdPuzzle video

Plants Animals and Diseases

Postponed until after the break 

Biomes Chapter 16

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Colombian Exchange Day 4

Objective(s):

Given a chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will be able to analyze the various food products, diseases, and human cargo transferred between the Old World, Africa and the New World, and explain with detail the effects, both positive and negative experienced by each participant.

Rationale: Understanding first impressions of groups who had never seen or interacted before will provide some valuable insights about an exchange of cultures which is somewhat impossible to replicate in the 21st century

Evidence: Being able to evaluate and analyze first encounters will demonstrate that students understand the isolation the native people of the Western Hemisphere had for all those years.

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Today's schedule - Thursday/Friday

Finish and submit the Columbian Exchange Article questions and answers (if you haven't already done so)

Part 1 - Columbian Exchange Effects Article  

Assigned questions to each table member. When finished, each student will "teach" the other students about the sections they were assigned, and have them fill-in the document answers. DO NOT SHARE THE DOC AND SIMPLY FILL - IN EACH OTHERS SECTIONS

Part 2 below is to be completed by each student. Part 3 will be postponed until after Thanksgiving break

Part 2 - Plants_Animals_Diseases

Read the article and answer the 3 questions at the end. This is an example of what your current events stories should look like starting next week.

Postponed until after the break

Part 3  -Chapter 16 reading on Biomes
Answer each of the section reviews. On this assignment, assign each table member a section of the Biomes Chapter (there are 4 sections). The section 1 students will  all gather at a single table and confer on the answers for their section, and when finished will take their agreed upon answers back to their original table. The other 3 sections will follow the same process. When the original members return, they will share out their answers for each section.

Tuesday & Wednesday Nov 15th & 16th Days 58 & 59

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE TEST WILL BE MONDAY/TUESDAY (Per2.4.6 Mon, 1.5 Tuesday)

Assignments due Today 

 Everything assigned yesterday needs to be submitted by today...even though it may be late

Assignments due Thursday/Friday 

 Columbian Exchange Effects, 

Assignments due Monday/Tues 

Plants animals and Diseases

Postponed til after break

Biomes Chapter 16

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Colombian Exchange Day 3

Objective(s):

Given a chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will be able to analyze the various food products, diseases, and human cargo transferred between the Old World, Africa and the New World, and explain with detail the effects, both positive and negative experienced by each participant.

Rationale: Understanding first impressions of groups who had never seen or interacted before will provide some valuable insights about an exchange of cultures which is somewhat impossible to replicate in the 21st century

Evidence: Being able to evaluate and analyze first encounters will demonstrate that students understand the isolation the native people of the Western Hemisphere had for all those years.

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Today's schedule/Tuesday/Wednesday

Part 1 - Columbian Exchange Effects Article  

Assigned questions to each table member. When finished, each student will "teach" the other students about the sections they were assigned, and have them fill-in the document answers. DO NOT SHARE THE DOC AND SIMPLY FILL - IN EACH OTHERS SECTIONS

Part 2 - Plants_Animals_Diseases

Read the article and answer the 3 questions at the end. This is an example of what your current events stories should look like starting next week.

Part 3  -Chapter 16 reading on Biomes
Answer each of the section reviews. On this assignment, assign each table member a section of the Biomes Chapter (there are 4 sections). The section 1 students will  all gather at a single table and confer on the answers for their section, and when finished will take their agreed upon answers back to their original table. The other 3 sections will follow the same process. When the original members return, they will share out their answers for each section.

Monday Nov 14th Day 57

Assignments due Today 

 Current Events 19 & 20, Food Origins Assignment, Columbian Exchange DBQ, Columbian Exchange Article w/questions

Assignments due Tuesday/Wed by end of block

 Columbian Exchange Effects Article, Chapter 16 Biomes

Current Events #21 & 22 due Monday Nov 21st

Objective: Given access to a Chromebook, students will be able to access Google MyMaps App and a Google Drive based Current Events Template from the class Blog. Using the MyMaps app and the template, students will be able to look-up current events and summarize their selected story on the template. In addition students will be able to use the MyMaps app to plot the location of these current event stories. 

Rationale: Students need to utilize the tools taught to them to ensure the learning becomes a part of their skill set. In addition, students need to become geographical aware of the world around them.

Evidence: Filling-in the Current Events template as well as using MyMaps to plot the location of the stories, will demonstrate that students have acquired the basic skills of fulfilling the  assignment.

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Colombian Exchange Day 3

Objective(s):

Given a chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will be able to analyze the various food products, diseases, and human cargo transferred between the Old World, Africa and the New World, and explain with detail the effects, both positive and negative experienced by each participant.

Rationale: Understanding first impressions of groups who had never seen or interacted before will provide some valuable insights about an exchange of cultures which is somewhat impossible to replicate in the 21st century

Evidence: Being able to evaluate and analyze first encounters will demonstrate that students understand the isolation the native people of the Western Hemisphere had for all those years.

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Today's schedule/Tuesday/Wednesday

Part 1 - Columbian Exchange Effects Article  

Assigned questions to each table member. When finished, each student will "teach" the other students about the sections they were assigned, and have them fill-in the document answers. DO NOT SHARE THE DOC AND SIMPLY FILL - IN EACH OTHERS SECTIONS

Part 2 - Plants_Animals_Diseases

Read the article and answer the 3 questions at the end. This is an example of what your current events stories should look like starting next week.

Part 3  -Chapter 16 reading on Biomes
Answer each of the section reviews. On this assignment, assign each table member a section of the Biomes Chapter (there are 4 sections). The section 1 students will  all gather at a single table and confer on the answers for their section, and when finished will take their agreed upon answers back to their original table. The other 3 sections will follow the same process. When the original members return, they will share out their answers for each section.

Wednesday & Thursday Nov 9th & 10th days 55 & 56

Assignments due today 

Per 2,4,6 Wednesday, Per 1,5 Thursday

By the end of the Block - Columbian Exchange Mapping, Columbian Exchange Annotation Summary -

Assignments due Mon 

 Current Events 19 & 20, Food Origins Assignment, Columbian Exchange DBQ, Columbian Exchange Article w/questions

Colombian Exchange Day 2

Objective(s):

Given a chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will be able to analyze the various food products, diseases, and human cargo transferred between the Old World, Africa and the New World, and explain with detail the effects, both positive and negative experienced by each participant.

Rationale: Understanding first impressions of groups who had never seen or interacted before will provide some valuable insights about an exchange of cultures which is somewhat impossible to replicate in the 21st century

Evidence: Being able to evaluate and analyze first encounters will demonstrate that students understand the isolation the native people of the Western Hemisphere had for all those years.

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Today's schedule

Food Origins Assignment

The Food Origins activity will allow students to see the effects of the Columbian exchange on the foods they eat.
Directions for the Food Origins Assignment

Part 3 - Columbian Exchange Reading - questions at the end

Part 4 - Columbian Exchange DBQ

Monday & Tuesday Nov 7th & 8th Days 53 & 54

Assignments due today 

Per 2,4,6 Monday, Per 1,5 Tuesday

Current Events # 17 & 18, Court Cartographer Project -

Assignments due Wed/Thurs 

Nothing Due, but progress on Columbian Exchange Assignment Foor Origins Assignment and Colombian Exchange Annotation Article 

Colombian Exchange Day 1

Objective(s):

Given a chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will be able to analyze the various food products, diseases, and human cargo transferred between the Old World, Africa and the New World, and explain with detail the effects, both positive and negative experienced by each participant.

Rationale: Understanding first impressions of groups who had never seen or interacted before will provide some valuable insights about an exchange of cultures which is somewhat impossible to replicate in the 21st century

Evidence: Being able to evaluate and analyze first encounters will demonstrate that students understand the isolation the native people of the Western Hemisphere had for all those years.

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Today's schedule

Columbian Exchange Section

The Columbian Exchange activity will assist in introducing the event to you.

Part 1 - Get the modified world map - ( here ) Using Google Slides, copy this map onto 3 separate slides. Make a 4th blank slide for answers to questions.

Get the directions to the activity - Colombian Exchange Mapping Directions

Colombian Exchange Writing Assignment

Part 2 - Intro to annotate the Columbian Exchange - ( here )

Food Origins Assignment

The Food Origins activity will allow students to see the effects of the Columbian exchange on the foods they eat.
Directions for the Food Origins Assignment

For Wed/Thursday

Part 3 - Columbian Exchange Reading - ( here )

Part 4 - Columbian Exchange DBQ - ( here )

Thursday & Friday Nov 3rd & 4th Days 51 & 52

Assignments due today 

( Thursday per 1, 5 -  Friday per 2, 4, 6) 

Assignment Sheet check -

Assignments due Monday 

Current Events 17 & 18, Court Cartographer Project 

Colombian Exchange Day 1

Objective(s):

Given a chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will be able to analyze primary documents of the various groups involved in Columbus' first encounter with the native populations in Western Hemisphere and evaluate the impression each had of each other.

Rationale: Understanding first impressions of groups who had never see or interacted before will provide some valuable insights about an exchange of cultures which is somewhat impossible to replicate in the 21st century

Evidence: Being able to evaluate and analyze first encounters will demonstrate that students understand the isolation the native people of the Western Hemisphere had for all those years.

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Today's schedule

The first step in the Unit is to look at the results of the Voyage, where a new map needed to be created...this is where we do the Court Cartographer Project - Directions for the Project

Columbian Exchange Section

The Columbian Exchange activity will assist in introducing the event to you.

Part 1 - Get the modified world map - ( here ) Using Google Slides, copy this map onto 3 separate slides. Make a 4th blank slide for answers to questions.

Get the directions to the activity - ( here )

Part 2 - Intro to annotate the Columbian Exchange - ( here )

Part 3 - Columbian Exchange Reading - ( here )

Part 4 - Columbian Exchange DBQ - ( here )

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Tuesday & Wednesday Nov 1st and 2nd Days 49 & 50

Mapping Test Day

Colombian Exchange Day 1

Objective(s):

Given a chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will be able to analyze primary documents of the various groups involved in Columbus' first encounter with the native populations in Western Hemisphere and evaluate the impression each had of each other.

Rationale: Understanding first impressions of groups who had never see or interacted before will provide some valuable insights about an exchange of cultures which is somewhat impossible to replicate in the 21st century

Evidence: Being able to evaluate and analyze first encounters will demonstrate that students understand the isolation the native people of the Western Hemisphere had for all those years.

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Today's schedule

The first step in the Unit is to look at the results of the Voyage, where a new map needed to be created...this is where we do the Court Cartographer Project - Directions for the Project

Columbian Exchange Section

The Columbian Exchange activity will assist in introducing the event to you.
Part 1 - Get the modified world map - ( here ) Using Google Slides, copy this map onto 3 separate slides. Make a 4th blank slide for answers to questions.
Get the directions to the activity - ( here )

Part 2 - Intro to annotate the Columbian Exchange - ( here )

Part 3 - Columbian Exchange Reading - ( here )

Part 4 - Columbian Exchange DBQ - ( here )
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