Current Events/Mapping Monday's
6 weeks grade check - a total of 226 points (before CE 9 & 10)
Volunteers for Current Events #9 & #10
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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Rationale: Understanding the campus and where things are located will assist Freshmen in knowing their "place" of school
Evidence: Accurately and successfully placing pics and shapes on the school map within the time allotted
Directions pdf to be downloaded onto your phone
Use the pdf of the directions sheet while you are out on campus finding the various locations listed.
Step 1: go out and locate all the classrooms listed and place them on the blank map template you got in class
Step 2: use your phone to take a selfie at all the sings listed on the direction page.
Step 3: download the school map templates Map Templates Link
Step 4: start to place your selfies on the school map template
Step 5: place all the classrooms and the labels on the 2nd school map template (see below for example)
Mapping of the School
Day 1 of the Mapping the school scavenger Hunt project
Objective: Given access to a fully functioning Chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will import a map of the school and place various shapes and pictures on its surface to identify various locations on campus as part of a scavenger hunt activity
Rationale: Understanding the campus and where things are located will assist Freshmen in knowing their "place" of school
Evidence: Accurately and successfully placing pics and shapes on the school map within the time allotted
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You should be plotting the various classrooms onto the school map template this block.
Style #1 - Make a square, put the class number inside the square, modify the shape of the square to fit the available space, copy and paste the square for all additional classes
