Honoring Dr. Suess in Room B9

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Welcome to Room B9

Hot Seat Activity where students pretend that they are a character from Sneetches. The rest of the class asks them questions in character. Great Fun!

Another student in "character"

Student Message Board on Reflection of Our Ancient Greece Presentations

Message Board Comments:

• I liked presenting to my group my power point because they could see all of my information. I learned from Rachel that Greeks hid in the Trojan horse to trick Troy. I learned this since she presented it to my group. I thought people enjoyed since it was the only one I played. Plus I played Rachel's and I really liked it. The board games were the most fun of all the presentation. I think at the end I got better at writing first person narratives.
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• jennifer t
  What I liked about the presentation were the pictures that they had and most of the facts that I saw in the power points. I learned that there were many routes in the Mediterranean Sea. I think I did good overall in the presentation with my group. The board games were put some of them were long so we didn’t get to finish the game think that the board game was fun. I got better at ancient Greece facts
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• Jesus G
  I think the presentations went great, I had so much fun. I have learned a lot of different facts about ancient Greece like that the Spartans kids were getting prepared to be in the army at the age of 7. I think that I did great but not as fantastic as others. I thought the board games were really fun. I got to play my board game and Jorge’s but I think his is better than mine because his questions were card and to see if you got the answer correct you had to flip the card open. I thought that the board games and listening to all the other people’s power points was really exciting. What I think I got better at was that I put a lot more information on the ancient Greece power point than I did on the ancient Hebrew power point.
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Short Video on Ancient Greek Presentations

Our research included covering all the State social studies standards of Ancient Greece. Students were also able to blend art and technology in the investigation of the Ancient Greeks. For example, students created Greek Architecture models, participated in a Socratic Seminar, wrote a first person historical account as a Greek Philosopher, as well as studied the dress of the Ancient Greeks (then dressed up themselves as Greeks). Students also created a short book of Greek facts as well as a board game in the theme of Ancient Greece. Everything they created was embedded into a Power point slide which was then shared as a oral report to an audience of calssmates, school leaders, and parents. To see specific student Power points please log into ThinkQuest.org and ask your child to show your their project.

Ancient Greece Research Presentations

 The old and the new....Time to Present our Research

 Sharing out in small group while taking notes...

 More groups sharing....

 A proud teacher hearing what her student has researched on the Ancient Greeks

 Presenting to the larger group on the LCD projector in front of classmates, school leaders, and parents

 Time to play student made Ancient Egypt board games.... Greekopoly anyone?

Parents participate too....

Socratic Seminar

Socrates was a famous Ancient Greek Philosopher who promoted discussion using the famous Socratic Seminar. Our class participated in a Socratic Seminary with Ms. Cook. The students did a great job participating in the activity.

Student Performance

A student playing a song for the class.
Great job!

Space Camp II Video

A short video of our launches..

Space Camp with my Inside Class!

Space Camp Part 2 D.A.T.A. Inside Class:

Too much fun (and lot's of science)
Mind mapping a scientific paper...

 Researching the inventory and posting mind map essay on Thinkquest..

 Inventory and building rocket launcher directions on Thinkquest....

 Getting there...

 Out to field to launch and test hypotheses....

 Looking fierce..

 Angles matter (field notes)...

 launches

 debrief and lab write ups...

 Success!

Thanks students for bieng so great,
and Thanks Mr. Wulff for the great lesson that we all enjoyed!

D.A.T.A. Videos

In case you have not seen them yet...
check this out..

http://www.youtube.com/user/Deanzaacademy

Yes, its true..... We are doing all this and more,
We are living the future of education is 2011.