Hausdorf’s Hemisphere

I had difficulty uploading the powerpoint. It may have been that video link in it. It will be available tomorrow evening. Sorry, we’ll adjust accordingly. Thank you all.

SS6CG4b: Explain how governments determine citizen participation: autocratic, oligarchic, and democratic.

After recovering from olympics, today students were introduced to the Greeks. There was a station activity set up. The stations were Government, Education, Great Men, Olympics, Alexander the Great, Geography, and Athens/Sparta.

This is a two day activity. Tomorrow, we will finish and go on to the Romans.

HOMEWORK- practice with Eastern Europe countries/capitals; timeline (both sides) for 3rd period.

Extras:

What is monotheism?

What is polytheism?

The entire sixth grade was out and putting on their best performances today as they participated in our Field Day Events. Great job to all participants!

HOMEWORK- practice Eastern Europe countries/capitals using sheppardsoftware.com

Today students took the Western Europe Map Test, except for 4th period (due to lunch). We had also had a special guest from Australia speak to our class about a variety of topics. Jake is a soccer player from Australia visiting and playing some games in our area. He was very informative and did a great job with our students. Thank you Jake!

 Well done mate!

OLYMPIC NEWS: TODAY- OPENING CEREMONIES!

Tomorrow is our Field Day during this Olympic Week, so please bring water in a water bottle (with your name on it in permanent marker) if you like water or need it, appropriate footwear (like running shoes), sunscreen if you need it, a change of clothes if you need them, and an awesome attitude!

I will collect bar graphs and journals on Wednesday.

HOMEWORK- 4th Period test day is Wednesday; practice Eastern Europe with sheppardsoftware.com

  Today students participated in part 2 of Risky Business (capitals) and Airport Review Session. The answers the review session are here: Review Session Material and the journal entry is also on this powerpoint. We had a very good review day.

Please make sure you practice using every resource available: your practice map, Europe Risky Business powerpoint the review map from our Airport Review, websites from a previous blog entry, and sheppardsoftware.com

I will be collecting the bar graph (except 4th) and journal entry (3 places you would like to see in Europe and why) on MONDAY.

HOMEWORK- review for Western Europe Political Map Test, finish journal entry

Today students completed an awesome review session. First, welcome back! Second, the warm up prompted students to think of political Europe, then we played “Risky Business” for review, then we focused on a differentiated lesson, called “Airport Review Session”. Read the powerpoint below and find out more details. We will finish that tomorrow.

TEST MOVED TO MONDAY

DUE MONDAY- bar graph, journal entry

HOMEWORK- practice capitals/countries, finish bar graph

Please be sure to use your time off wisely and practice the countries and capitals of Europe. The test will be moved to Monday.

Don’t forget your bar graph is due when you return to school.

Create Your Population Bar Graph

HOMEWORK- keep practicing and finish the population bar graph

NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY (practice the countries all day and create one awesome bar graph!)

WESTERN EUROPE MAP TEST MOVED TO FRIDAY

Today was a very interesting day. Despite all the weather distractions, students were fairly focused on their mission to develop a skill and compare European country populations.

Using pages 264-268 (Data File), students were to compare the population of the 18 Western European countries, then display this information in a student created bar graph. I went over the directions and even had some examples on the whiteboard. HINT: find your range of your populations first, then figure out your increments. This assignment is due on Wednesday, even if we do not have school tomorrow.

HOMEWORK- work on the bar graph, practice Western European countries using sheppardsoftware and review your practice map/T-chart.

EXTRAS:

Congrats to Katie A. for being the first student to identify the flag of Albania from Friday’s blog entry!

Colleen, don’t forget about your awesome Iceland pictures and quick presentation for Wednesday!

Megan M. was the only student to attempt to solve all the extra questions about European countries from Friday’s blog. She handed me a printout with her answers, awesome Megan, way to go!!!

SS6G8b

 What country in Europe flies this flag? (first correct email wins)

After completing todays warm up questions, students handed in the scavenger hunt assignment from yesterday ( I read many of these in class and I was impressed with many students), then a Western Europe political practice map was given to each student.

The assignment was to create a T-chart or two column chart, with one column being a “Capital” column and the other being the “Country” column, then students filled in the appropriate capital and country for each number. Lastly, students were to color the countries so that they could distinguish them from each other.  THE PRACTICE MAP IS LIKE YOUR REVIEW TOOL.

I also displayed all the websites from yesterday’s blog to each class. That way they could see how to practice and spend 20 minutes each night doing so.

HOMEWORK- finish and review the practice map; practice identifying political Europe using the website links.

EXTRAS:

In this country it’s all or none-

In this country it’s all about the chocolate-

This capital is not good if you don’t like vegetables-

This capital city like to have fires-

This capital city is a sister city to the home of UGA-

This capital city is great for people who trade (think wall street) at home-

Keep practicing!!!