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There are many great TED Talks: Ideas worth sharing available and they can be wonderful sources of knowledge that often lead to personal reflection. Angela Schweers provides an opportunity for her English 9 Honours students to delve into mysteries that pique their interest by encouraging them to choose their own TED talks to present and share with the class. Just click on the Ideas Worth Spreading doc below.
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TEDxTeen.com Lessons worth sharing: Ted Ed.com - make your own TED lessons with a template Candice Wong's Science 8 Honours class has been researching in preparation for debates on a number of controversial environmental issues. Their research has unfolded over three classes in the library as they worked in teams to gain an overall understanding of the issue, develop an awareness of different points of view and determine the arguments their teams would use for their in-class debates. ASSIGNMENT & EVALUATION: RESOURCES: Note: all resources available via the REMSS library website - see A. Hewitt for passwords needed for remote access Building on knowledge they acquired during their recent Humanities inquiry, students continued to be aware of the importance of quality information and included the district databases in their print and online research toolkit. Two databases useful specifically for debate preparation (click the SEE MORE link below to find out resource details...) This spring, Milann Davies' two pre-IB Humanities 8 classes engaged in an inquiry project
that led them to answer this guiding question: What led to the decline of the Middle Ages? In Social Studies 10 this year, we Skyped with a geography class located at a private school in Fayetteville, North Carolina. (I had gone to university with the teacher).
Students were asked to create yes/no geography based questions to find out the province/state, the city and the school of the students we were Skyping with. The students were not given any prior information, but practiced beforehand using iPads and asked a partner questions about a chosen location. For example, the first question asked was "are you in the Northern hemisphere?" As the students gathered more and more information, they were able to use the resources they had to determine the location of the other class and by the end of the time were successful in their task! Overall, it was an excellent first attempt! Sarah McCue Social Studies, Planning & First Nations 12 teacher Throughout this year, the Math 9 Pre-IB students have been doing an individual inquiry that lets them delve deep into the math related to real world objects. Using such sources as the Khan Academy, Wolfram Alpha, Math is Fun & whatever they find useful, students have been researching online in the library and at home. Attached you will find the assignment the students are currently working on. In brief, students pick an object and then find all the math they can in the object. They will then present their discoveries to the class using digital technologies. I am looking forward to their presentations in April - some of which we hope to be able to share on this blog. Rick Friesen, math teacher.
Here's another interesting web-based tool for Social Studies teachers. Thinglink is a program that let's the user take a photograph and bring it to life with videos, music, text, images etc. The program allows the user to make their photos interactive by adding layers to them through website and file links. Here's an example from their website: I have used it with my Social Studies 11 classes in the past. I had my students find images that related to specific Canadian history topics, such as the role of women during WWII. The students were instructed to create at least 5 layers (links) to their image. I feel like thinglink, and the research required to create one, helped my students learn more about their specific topic and the topics of all their classmates, but maybe more importantly, it allowed them to see history as something with depth and substance. Finally, photographs are extremely important historical tools and learning to critically analyze them is a valuable skill for our Social Studies students.
It looks like most of the basic features are all free, and I was able to upgrade my account to the premium service for free just by stating that I am a teacher. Give it a try! Kirk Weiss, Athletics/PE (& SS/Eng) teacher Click here for D & A day 2013 presentation: Learning and Teaching with Technology.
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