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My Next Project

12/26/2018

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In the coming months I will be teaching my students about earthquakes, volcanoes and space as part of our curriculum.  I started to wonder if there was a better way to do this.  After watching a story about objects that may hit the Earth, I thought it would be an interesting unit to discuss the end of times on the Earth.  What events would make the Earth uninhabitable.  These tie perfectly into plate tectonics, the study of earthquakes and volcanoes.  What’s more interesting is these could be easily turned into STEM activities.  Study the events that would seriously disrupt the Earth, then create a solution to fix it.  To start this research off, here’s the first article I am considering for initial research.  My goal here is to tie some instructional material to real world solutions to save the human race and the species that live here.  In the following posts I will detail more of my content outlines and information I hope to teach about in Middle School
Four Ways the Earth will End

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Using Google forms in the Classroom

12/16/2018

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Google forms are a versatile tool for use in the classroom.  They allow you to collect information, quiz students and organize data.  Consider having students use Google Forms to collect information on class projects.  For example, in science we look at 24 different specimens of life.  Over the year’s students would create labels for each jar, then they could cut and organize them into different groups.  To improve this activity, I created a Google form that each student uses to collect information.  They fill out a form ticket for each jar and the ticket populates a spreadsheet they can use to analyze data after the activity.   The same method could be used for observations of daily events, daily writing prompts or even vocabulary tickets.  The best part is there are no lost notebooks and sorting data in a Google Spreadsheet is a snap.  The following are video instructions from my animal classification lab.  This lab requires students to collect data from 24 preserved specimens, then analyze it in Google Sheets
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Donors Choose and Google CS

12/3/2018

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Looking for some extra funding in your classroom?  I always am.  DonorsChoose.org offers a CS first coding activity.  Any students in grades 3 to 8 can complete this.  Once complete, they will offer you a 100 dollar DonorsChoose.org gift card.  Not a bad deal for less than an hours work.  
Follow this link to learn more. 

https://help.donorschoose.org/hc/en-us/articles/360009486654-Classroom-Rewards-for-CS-First-Animate-a-Name-with-support-from-Google
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  • Professional Development
    • Designing Online Content for Middle School
    • HyFlex Classroom
  • Sequenced Lesson Plans
    • Earthquakes for Middle School
    • Teaching Science Process
    • Metric Measurement
    • Cells
    • Geologic Time
    • Genetics in Middle School
    • Computer Skills
    • Google Apps in Middle School Science
    • Ecology
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