Concept mapping can help students organize thoughts and works extremely well for visual learners. There are numerous tools available to students for concept mapping on the computer, such as Inspiration, myWebSpiration.com, OmniGraffle, and more!
Students in Mrs. Sharpe’s English 6 class use Inspiration to identify literary elements in stories.
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Miss Mosier created a group for US I teachers across the county in SchoolSpace. Teachers share lesson materials through this group. Miss Mosier showed teachers how to publish quizzes by SOL for their students. Students have to get a 100% on each quiz as part of SOL review. Teachers get valuable data from the quizzes and learn how to use SchoolSpace even better!
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Ms. Heesen’s class logged onto SAS curriculum in order to identify the three West African Empires that dominated trade between 1200 A.D. to 1600 A.D. They accomplished this feat by using SAS’s interactive atlas. The atlas allowed them to create overlays and add text to the map. When the students finished their work they were able to download a .pdf and email a copy of their work to Ms. Heesen.
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6th Grade students in Ms. Cannon’s Social Studies classes utilized Google Earth to create a virtual tour of the Continents, Oceans and the US Regions, and Waterways for SOL USI.2a, b, and c. Click on the link below to download and example of the their adventure.
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Ms. Myers 6th grade Reading class worked collaboratively using the ActivStudio software to summarize and illustrate the journal, Trapped By the Ice, written by Michael McCurdy. Their small group projects where then collected to form a short story video about the real-life story if Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance. Click on the links below to find out what happened to these brave men in 1914!
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