Day Three

What an interesting day!! We started the day off doing a Cookie Mining Activity in preparation of our field trip to the coal mine on tomorrow.   We had to mine for chocolate chip cookies while being mindful of cost as the whole purpose of mining is for PROFIT.   

 From there we went to PowerPoint on STEROIDS.  I will never use PowerPoint the same way again.  If you have never used the Outline view in PowerPoint hit me up, and I will be glad to explain.  It has changed my whole perception of PowerPoint.

 After lunch, the technology keep on coming.  We used Google Maps and Google Earth. See some of the places we visited below.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iqGaDucKpncUQOx867jP11Hp7FA&usp=sharing



We ended the day by doing a reading activity that I can't wait to share with the ELA teachers at my school.  The activity can be incorporated into all subjects.  It involved reading an article, then picking out a phrase that you thought was important and then working with a group from a poem using the phrases that each member of the group selected.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day Eighteen

Today began with a synopsis of how the rest of the week would go, and then we began working on setting up our OWN business.  Our team decided to develop an Afterschool Tutoring program named Full Circle Learning. After lunch, Dr. Straughter came in to discuss how we as educator should take care of ourselves.  We took an assessment on our overall wellness.  It determined that my compassion satisfaction is high and that my burnout and secondary trauma level were low. We ended the day with a global perspective talk with a native of Brazil.
Read more

Day Seven

Today began with us creating a geological timeline.  I thought this was rather interesting to see how much of Earth's history has just been developed in the last 65 million years, and that the history from 65 million years ago to 4,600,000,000 billion years is so sparse.  I believe that can be incorporated in the Science classroom when we do the history of the atom as well as the cell. Then we began discussing the weather, and then actually creating our own weather PowerPoint.  I enjoyed this; however, I think that we did it in reverse order. If had created our own PPT prior to yesterday's visit we could have presented our own weather report while in the green room. After lunch, we worked on our Art Projects.  We laid down the foundation pieces by doing the watercolors.  We also printed our images in preparation for drawing and cutting out the template on tomorrow. Finally, we had a presentation by Nick about Native Americans, and how they have been portrayed in history.
Read more

Day Twenty

.... We've come to the end of the road. Today is the last day for the regular session.  We spent the day doing our presentations and awards.  Can't wait until we return on September 30. Have a great new school year!!!
Read more