Friday, September 7, 2007

American Geography Games

These are the games we're playing today:

Name all 50 states as fast as you can.

Accurately place the state capitals in their correct locations.

This is another version of Game #2, dragging states into their correct places. A very tough one, but gets easier when you've placed 10 states or so. My first score was 90.19. First one to beat it gets 5 points EC. Thanks to Alyssa McLean for the find!

Game Number Three.

This is a much, much better version of Game #3. It's by National Georgraphic, and you can test your knowledge of all countries, continents and states/provinces throughout the world. Might be tougher on slooooow computers. Thanks to Mrs. Hagensee and Macy Murray for finding this one.

Finally, a completely new game that not only requires identification of a state, but also asks you to type in the capital name, too. Thanks again, Macy!

Another great game - you need to draw each state, identify it, and name its capital. Lots of different learners should like it - and learn from it! Jordan Krawczyk - you the girl!

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Homework for 9/6

Textbooks went home today, and they should stay home! I have a textbook set here, so keep that at home. And no book socks, please. They're too small and damage my books.

For homework, students should finish their letters to Mr. Little. These letters should be "free-writes, where students write about themselves and let me know what they think of their learning style and personality types. This is a simple letter to let me know a little more about students, but also to assess how much they learned while studying the kind of "learners" they are, and the kind of personalities they have.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

What Kind of Learning Style Does This Demonstrate?



~Thanks to Jessica Lach, 7th Period, for supplying the video!

Homework for the Week of 9/3

Student Inventory Sheets are due tomorrow. These are the yellow worksheets handed out in class today. Any student that completed the previous "Student Inventory Cards" will recieve 3 points extra credit for them. Instead, Student Inventory Sheets are a mandatory assignment.