chomping into history

Salem Witch Trials Interactive Game

2011-09-09T07:13:00.000-07:00

Click here to play. Then leave me a comment(with your first name and last initial) about the experience, what happened to your character and what you learned about the witch trials.

End of Year Survey 2011

2011-05-23T09:15:00.001-07:00

Click here to take survey

Primary Sources Resources

2010-12-01T12:36:00.000-08:00

The Avalon Project

Teaching with Primary Sources-Colorado

World Digital Library

National Archives Toolbox for teachers

Library of Congress—American Memory

Smithsonians History Explorer

Tracking Sheep

2010-10-29T07:42:00.001-07:00

View 8-2 Monument Field Trip in a larger map

Talk Show Clip

2010-05-24T07:31:00.000-07:00

My American History Mall

2010-05-21T10:49:00.000-07:00

My American History Mall

Garret's National Mall!

2010-05-21T10:46:00.000-07:00

Garret's National Mall!

Cool Final Projects--Animotos

2010-05-21T10:43:00.000-07:00

national mall

Cool Final Projects

2010-05-21T10:32:00.000-07:00

My students redesigned the National Mall with their top ten in US History. They had their choice of technology--some kdis made powerpoints, Animotos, digital stories, Facebook Profiles, books, posters, movies. Here are some cool examples..

Live Binder for Final Project

2010-05-11T06:42:00.000-07:00

Link to the LiveBinder for initial research

Links for North South Project

2010-04-13T07:50:00.000-07:00

Newspaper

Comic Strip

Flip Book

Golden Gator Globe Awards--Period 7

2010-01-06T12:14:00.000-08:00

Best Picture--Period 7 Lukas

Golden Gator Globe Awards--Period 5

2010-01-06T12:03:00.000-08:00

Best Picture--Kyan Period 5

Golden Gator Globe Awards

2010-01-06T10:55:00.000-08:00

Best Picture--Period 4

Making Glogs!!

2009-11-19T09:04:00.000-08:00

Today and Friday we will be showing what we know about the 3 branches of government by making an online poster called a Glog. Go Here to start yours!

Seeing Reason Tool

2009-10-09T07:46:00.001-07:00

Here is the link to log on if you don't have it bookmarked. We will do a sample and then the assignment.

AVID Wordles

2009-09-21T16:20:00.000-07:00

AVID students took their personal story essay and made Wordles with them!

The students links are below!

Jeff--Braxton--Edgar--Nicole--Kassy--Pat--Cheyenna--

Brandon--Amanda--Alex--Megan--Ashley--Natosha--Michelle

Rosa--Jason

Sources for Colonial Brochure

2009-09-21T16:16:00.000-07:00

You need to make sure you aren't using copyrighted sources. Here are some places to search for them?

Internet for Classrooms

Flickr

HistoGrafica--search for images for a specific place and date!

Visual Ranking Assignment

2009-09-18T13:34:00.000-07:00

Go here to access the tool! You might want to bookmark it! If there is time after the 2 activities leave a comment about how you think this lesson was.

Reaction to the Alabama Literacy Test

2009-09-15T16:00:00.000-07:00

For Constitution Day--students answered 10 questions from the Alabama Literacy Test which was used to prevent African Americans from voting. Students please leave a comment below about how this test made you feel--do you think it is a valid test to be able to vote? Do you think it is fair? Why do you think it was used? How would you feel if it robbed you of your right to vote?
When leaving a comment choose anonymous and at the end of your comment type your first name and last initial ONLY. Here is a link to the lesson with the full test if you are curious!

Words of the Presidents

2009-09-15T15:59:00.000-07:00

Check out this Wordle of President's Speeches. Leave a comment below about what you notice.

Wordle of what is important in US History

2009-08-31T07:19:00.001-07:00

Brought to you by Wordles.net

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Mini Survey Results

2009-08-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone who contributed! The responses were very wide ranging. Some of my students put down personal family members who were involved in the KKK, the government, or the army during specific battles; which was very neat to see them make a personal connection to history. Popular answers were Martin Luther King Junior and the Civil War. By the end of the year my students will be creating digital stories or podcasts defending their answers!

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US History Mini Survey

2009-08-18T06:35:00.001-07:00

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It is a democracy after all...

2009-08-17T10:54:00.000-07:00

Goals for this blog

2009-08-07T11:17:00.001-07:00

I am so excited to start using a blog with my students this year! My goals include trying to do a live blogging event with my students, using google forms on my blog to help me and my students collect information, and just exposing my students to authentic audiences. Any other ideas?