Week 3

Today the school counselors are coming to talk to you about extra curriculur activities offered at our school. While they are hear, you will give them your full attention. Turn your monitors off before they begin talking.

I will be teaching you about Population shifts today. I will lead a discussion on the Smartboard.

After our population shift discussion:

1. Make sure both assignments have been turned in (Geography Survey and Carthage PowerPoint). If they are not turned in today, you will have to make arrangements to stay after school to get them finished. I need them by next Friday (Sept. 07) or you will receive a ZAP.

2. If you are finished with both assignments, you may visit the classroom links or use Google Earth.

Week 3

We are on the field trip today. No new assignments.

If you never finished your pre-test and I brought you in to finish the test here is the  link: http://www.quia.com/quiz/3770582.html

A message will pop up saying you need a username and password. Your username should be your last name followed by your first name followed by 690. There should be no spaces. Example: My username is osbornejacob690. Your password is your Mosis #.

After you log in it will ask you for a “secret word”. The “secret word” is carthage.

Week 3

Continue working with your partner to create symbols for your map key of the map of Carthage. After you create your symbols, you need to start placing them on your map where you believe they belong. I do not want you to use the internet. I want to see if you can figure it out on your own with your partner.  Use pencil because we are going to go over the correct locations later this hour. That way you can erase your answers and place them where they need to go if you make a mistake.

Week 3

1. You need to grab 1 ruler for you and your partner to share. They are on the desk at the very front of the classroom (you walk right past it when you come in the door).

2. Grab 1 sheet of plain white paper for both you and your partner. You each need your own sheet.

3. On one side of your paper, copy this map outline. Use your ruler and start copying the outer portions first. It should take up nearly your entire paper.

4. On the other side of the paper, copy this list Map Locations

5. When you finish steps 1-4. Sit quietly and wait for further instructions.

Week 3

This is your final week with your current partner. We will switch partners next Monday.

Your assignment today is to finish Friday’s assignment. Just scroll to the post directly below this one to get to the directions. You need to turn your assignment in today.

Week 2

This will be a 2 day assignment. You will still need to stay on task if you wish to complete it on time.

Today we finally get to learn about Carthage! There’s a lot more to Carthage than you probably realize. Today’s assignment has 2 parts to it.

1. You will need to go through this PowerPoint:  Carthage  Whenever you open this press F5 on your keyboard to go into slide show view. You can either press the arrow keys or the space bar to go onto the next slide. You need to read each slide and listen to the audio. Every time you see a little yellow speaker on a slide, click on it to get sound. You will need to have your headphones on. Whenever too many students click to download it, it has trouble loading sometimes. Just be patient. It might take more than 5 minutes if you were one of the last groups to click on the link, but it will eventually load. 

2. Before you finish the Carthage PowerPoint, you might want to go ahead and open this assignment so you can be looking for answers while you go through the PowerPoint. You need to answer the questions on this handout: Carthage Powerpoint Guide  When you finish, save it to your H drive. Make sure you save in the correct format: hr-lastname lastname-carthagepowerpoint  .   When you finish, turn it in the same way you submitted your Geography Survey assignment. If you don’t remember how, go back and watch the video. This is a link to the video: Saving and Turning in Video

Week 2

If you didn’t turn in the Geography Survey on Monday you need to finish that assignment first.

You will have 10-15 minutes to continue yesterday’s Google Search activity. Open your document that you saved, and continue working. If you didn’t start it yesterday or you didn’t save it properly, scroll down to yesterday’s post and open “Google Search”.

Later this hour, we are going to discuss the answers and what problems you may have ran into. I will give you some tips on how you can more effectively search in the future.

Week 2

Sit next to your partner in the computer lab today.

If you didn’t finish your quiz yesterday, you will need to finish it in class today. To access the test, click on this link: http://www.quia.com/quiz/3770582.html

A message will pop up saying you need a username and password. Your username should be your last name followed by your first name followed by 690. There should be no spaces. Example: My username is osbornejacob690. Your password is your Mosis #.

After you log in it will ask you for a “secret word”. The “secret word” is carthage.

 

 

If you are already finished or you get finished with your quiz, we are starting a new activity. We are going to spend a little bit of time learning how to correctly use Search Engines.

1. Open this document: Google Search

2. Follow the directions.

3. Save the document in your H drive as “hr-lastname lastname-googlesearch”

3. You aren’t turning this assignment in today. We are going to talk about your answers  in class tomorrow.

Week 2

Today we are in the computer lab. Each student needs their own computer so you can take a pretest. To access the test, click on this link: http://www.quia.com/quiz/3770582.html

A message will pop up saying you need a username and password. Your username should be your last name followed by your first name followed by 690. There should be no spaces. Example: My username is osbornejacob690. Your password is your Mosis #.

After you log in it will ask you for a “secret word”. The “secret word” is carthage.

 

Week 2

Today we are going to continue to take things kind of slow. Your only assignment is to finish the assignment from Friday. I had very few students finish the assignment and I want to make sure you know how to save properly and how to turn your assignments in. To access Friday’s assignment, just scroll down to the next post. If you click the calendar date, you won’t be able to click on any links.

Whenever you finish you may visit any websites in my links section, use Google Earth, or log off and read a book/work on homework from another class.