Celebrating Library Week

To celebrate library week, the students from the second grade at Bishop Dunn Memorial and our class gathered together to speak about our BizWorld project experiences. I believe that the best aspect of the BizWorld project was learning by teaching along with the students and the considerable amount of cooperation and socials skills opportunities the project provided. The students spoke about their experiences and contributions to the project, which include their strengths and challenges and what they enjoyed the most. The students spoke about how much they had enjoyed our teaching and experiencing the project along with them. It truly was a wonderful educational and meaningful learning experience for all.

Students' Reflective Speeches

BizWorld Students and Teachers

21st Century Classrooms



                              I have created a voki classroom character. 

Voki allows teachers and students to create speaking avatars in engaging, stimulating, and meaningful ways. Voki motivates students to participate in classroom discusions and activities, and improves message comprehension. Voki is a student friendly way to introduce technology and an effective language and instructional tool. Now that I have learned how to use Voki, I will be sure to use it in my lesson plans. I could use Voki to act out a speech of a historical character, assign homework, or give a presentation. Students can use Voki to present their findings after research, create a historical figure they have been studying about, or create different Voki characters from various cultural backgrounds to apply what they have learned from cultural studies.

 

 

Artifact Bag Activity



Create a Motivated Historical Unit



Make Connections



Generate Questions



Create Multigenre Artifact Research Projects

                                                                                                                             




Stimulate Curiosity

                These are just a few ways to use the artifact bag in your classroom.

Using the artifact bag activity in the classroom will stimulate students curiosity for newly introduced topics and provide a meaningful way to learn history. Students will learn that artifacts are important to historians; artifacts provide imperative and conclusive evidence for a historical inquiry. There are many ways in which to use an artifact bag activity. For my artifact bag, I wanted to connect the BizWorld project with history. Since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had such a tremendous impact on America's workforce, I chose to focus on the New Deal program, which he proposed in his second term of his presidency. My artifact bag reflects the evolution of America's business ethics which President Roosevelt set forth in his Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Linking historyto the BizWorld project through an artifact bag activity will provide students with a historical perspective of how Americans worked long ago, how business ethics evolved overtime, and how important business ethics are for the health, safety, and fairness of employees in the business world.

        









Geography: An Integral Part of Life

Hug the World

Love Geography

It is not possible to think of our daily existence without thinking of geography as an integral part. To be aware of our surroundings means to be aware of geography, what is occurring in the world, why it is occurring, and how it effects ourselves as well as others throughout the world. The Native American people were the first people to experience America's geography and its influence on their lives. In class, we studied Native American tribes which spread from coast to coast; we particularly studied the Tlingit, Muscogee, and Dine Native American tribes. Each tribe had a special relationship with the particular region and environment in which they lived. The Native American people's lives were influenced by geography and the tribes were limited by their natural resources. The Tlingit tribe lived in northwest geographical region; their lives were influenced by the colder climate and rich resources of vegetation. The Muscogee tribe in the southeast geographical region; their lives were influenced by the many rivers and creeks which surrounded them.The Dine tribe lived in the southwest geographical region; their lives were influenced by the the warm and dry conditions of their environment. Learning about geography through the concept of location and the relationship people have with their environment is an important awareness for good citizenship. I believe teaching and studying about geography and its relationship with people enlightens the dynamics of what is occurring around the world; we are greatly influenced by our personal geographic location.