Hausdorf’s Hemisphere

After your warm up, DG 25 (1-4), you finished your culture box presentations. 1st period began brainstorming some ideas for imovie topics, 2nd and 3rd  periods finished the presentations, and 4th period was finished with the box presentations so you worked on brainstorming topic questions for Canada.

imovie assigned topics: 1st period-Quebec; 2nd period-Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Northwest Territories; 3rd period-Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Nunavut; 4th period-Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. We will talk more each week about imovie material.

I announced the U. S. and Canada Test will be in about 2 weeks. You will have access to review guide on the blog soon. There are no test grades on the progress reports yet, but with the U. S. and Canada Test coming in about 2 weeks and an imovie project in the works, there will be some test grades for student report cards.

HOMEWORK- complete GDP bar graph, research imovie topics if you would like

Today was Renaissance Day and it was a fast moving day. We completed many culture box presentations but have a few more to go on Monday. Your GDP bar graph assignment will be due the following day after the last presentation. I also spoke briefly about the imovie assignment. The dates I gave you were May 3, 4 we will be in the maclab researching the topic question; May 18th (could change) is the due date. Be thinking about issues that relate to Canada, healthcare, immigration, etc. I showed a small imovie sample from Mabry Middle School in class to give you an idea of what they might look like.

Have a great weekend.

HOMEWORK- none

Round 2 of presentations will be tomorrow, make sure you are getting every country’s GDP for your bar graph assignment. I told you to take notes on this information and to put the most interesting facts about presentations on the back of your notes (GDP’s).  We will try to finish tomorrow and talk about the imovie assignment coming up very soon.

HOMEWORK- none

After your DG quiz, 3rd will take it tomorrow, you continued your work on the culture box assignment. Remember, it is due tomorrow. You will talk about your country and show us the box you’ve created tomorrow as well. Many students finished and are ready to go. Most of them looked really informative, I can’t wait to hear about them.

HOMEWORK- finish the culture box

After your warm up, DG 24 (quiz tomorrow), I explained your assignment on the culture box and then I drew names for each country. I gave you a copy of the rubric/checklist and went over that thoroughly. We had a cart full of books on each country from our media center to use in class. I explained that any information not found in the books, might be found on the links below. The assignment is due on Thursday, you are to be prepared to give a quick presentation on your country.

Please bring any materials tomorrow for your culture box to work on in class. You will have the whole class period tomorrow to work on this.

www.countryreports.org

www.infoplease.com/countries.html

www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

HOMEWORK- work on culture box, study for DG

After your warm up, DG 24 1-4, you watch a visual reinforcement about the Amazon (piranha), answered my questions, generated your questions, wrote about man’s affect on the Amazon, and interpreted the "Critters in Crisis" chart.

Homework- none

Download where_will_you_find_piranha.doc

Download critters_in_crisis.txt

Download critter_in_crisis.pdf

Last day of testing and today was Social Studies, great job to all our students for maintaining their focus and taking care of business all week.

We finished the mission to Australia activity, because of testing schedule situations 3rd and 4th periods turned in their work today, so, 1st and 2nd will turn in the work on Monday. Have a super weekend, get out and enjoy the fresh air!

Homework- none, unless you want to finish the activity (2nd and 1st)

Download australian_animal_mission_math_conversion.doc

Download australias_states_and_regions.doc

After taking your DG quiz, I told you about your australia animal activity. You will be working on it tomorrow. Below is the incomplete, part 1, powerpoint with some videostreaming. We will talk about part 1 and part 2 tomorrow. The focus of this assignment is to get an understanding of Australia’s geography and regions. You will also have to convert or exchange currency tomorrow. Come in please ready to go tomorrow, it will be busy.

Download unique_animal_mission.ppt

Science tomorrow on the CRCT, get a good night’s rest and only two more tests to go…

HOMEWORK- finish language activity if you didn’t

We really jumped into Australia with some notes today and a language activity. We will continue tomorrow and take the DG 23 quiz tomorrow as well. Here are your resources for your work.

Download aussie_language.doc

After your warm up, DG 23 (quiz is tomorrow), you reviewed for your physical map quiz on United States features, took the quiz, then worked on your Canada acrostic. We will work on the acrostic and start Australia tomorrow.

Remember we are on an abbreviated schedule so come in and get ready right away please. Mini tests should be below, I will collect your answer document on Friday for 10 extra points on one of your lowest quiz grades. You must have all mini tests done, for a list look on the board in class.

HOMEWORK- study for DG quiz, get rest and eat breakfast tomorrow

Download minitests.rtf