Africa Study Guide

The Study Guide was not for a grade. It was to help you study. Here is a key with the correct answers: Africa Study Guide Key

I will give you 10-15 minutes to look it over before we take the test.

Africa Test

Today you are going to take your test over Africa.

You can access the test here. 

Your username is your first name, your last name, 162     There are no commas and no spaces. For example, my username would be:  jacobosborne162

Yours should look exactly like that except you will insert your first and last name instead of mine.

You must use your official school name. For example, if your name is William, but you go by Will, you must use your proper name William.

If you have 2 last names make sure you use both last names on your log-in. For example: If your name is Jose Reyes-Lopez, you would need to put josereyeslopez162.

Your password is your Mosis #.

If you have trouble logging in, here is a list of everyone’s usernames for this school year: 2021 Usernames

Whenever you finish your test press “Submit”. You don’t have to tell me or show me your score. I have access to all of the scores.

Study Guide

If you have all of your assignments finished, you are going to work on a study guide for tomorrow’s test. You need to pick up a study guide off of the desk in the back of the room. Everyone needs their own copy of the study guide. You can use the internet or previous assignments to answer the questions on the study guide. This is not for a grade. It is only to prepare you for tomorrow’s test. If you know what’s on the study guide, you will do well on the test.

If you have trouble finding some of the answers to the T/F questions here is a key to the worksheet you did on African Misconceptions: Misconceptions Key

If you are absent and checking my website, you can get the study guide here: AFRICA STUDY GUIDE

When Finished

Work on any missing assignment from this rotation (Africa). Anything not turned in by next Monday will be marked as missing.

Catch Up Day

Today and Tuesday are catch-up/test preparation days. There are still 3 assignments that I have missing from some students:

1. Africa Project
2. Africa Scavenger Hunt
3. Africa Map

I will give you a study guide Tuesday and we will take a test on Wednesday.

Track

If you are interested in joining the track team you need to join this Google Classroom Class.

It has all of the information you need to know. After you join the class, make sure you fill out the “Track and Field Sign-up Form

To join this class click this link.

Africa Scavenger Hunt

Mr. America is back! He is now wanting to take a trip to Africa. To access the assignment, go to Google Classroom and click on the Africa Scavenger Hunt.

Reminder! This is a great opportunity for you to practice your Google skills. Don’t type out the entire question. Only type key words. Your results will be more accurate and you will be able to finish quicker.

Africa Project

Today is your final work day. If you don’t get it done, you will have to finish on our Catch Up Day. Our next day of school we are going to move on to something new.

Africa Project

I’m hoping that most of you will finish your projects today.

Africa Project

Today you will continue working on the project. Make sure you are finding good facts about your topics and interesting facts that are actually interesting. I will be grading pictures on effort. If I can tell you worked hard on it, you will get a good grade for it. If it looks like you just flew through it, you’ll be losing some points.

Africa Project

Continue working on the Africa project.

You must select the items you are researching from a list in the directions! You have to select one item from each of the four categories: Landform, Landmark, Person, and Animal. The lists are found on page 2 of the directions.

I know that you will want to create your pictures first, but I don’t want to see you spend so much time on your pictures that you run out of time to find the information that you need. So make sure that you get your research taken care of.

Also, the picture on your title slide can come from the internet. Make sure you link it to my website though. You will create all of the other pictures in paint.

Tutorial Videos

You will also need to watch 2 videos for this assignment.

The videos cover adding links in Google Slides and The Basics of Paint. You can watch them both at Google Classroom.

How to Access Paint

Some of you might start creating your pictures in paint. You will be graded on effort with your pictures. If you quickly throw it together; that’s obvious. You will lose points. If I feel it looks like you put effort into the picture; you will earn your points.

You will also be using Paint for this assignment. You can access Paint by clicking in the search box at the bottom, left-hand side of the screen and type “paint”. The one you need to use will say Paint Desktop App.

Remember, there is a tutorial video that shows you how to use paint. You can watch it at Google Classroom.

Africa Project

We are going to start a project that will probably last  4-5 class periods. You will have a little bit of freedom for selecting your topics for this assignment. You are going to use Google Slides to create a “digital book”. You will also be using Paint for this assignment. You can access Paint by clicking in the search box at the bottom, left-hand side of the screen and type “paint”. The one you need to use will say Paint Desktop App.

Download this document so you can read the directions:   Africa Project

Tutorial Videos

You will also need to watch 2 videos for this assignment. They both can be found in Google Classroom.

Today’s Tasks

-Pick out all of your topics

-Start your research

Africa Misconceptions

You will have some more time to work on the Africa Map, but first I want you to do this. Go to Google Classroom and open the Africa Misconceptions assignment. Go through and answer the questions without using the internet. This is not for a grade. We will discuss the correct answers in just a couple of minutes.

Click on this link to read what a misconception is.

Africa Map

After we finish the discussion over Africa Misconceptions, you need to try to get the Africa Map finished.