Hypothetically, if your school year is ending in 8 weeks and you had a boatload of snow days and you were feeling the panic of "oh no, did we really accomplish all that we had hoped?"...does anyone have a terrific "all encompassing" sort of activity to complete the year while ensuring that the key concepts are solidified? We are just completing our Autopsy of an Empire. Our district likes us to "get to" (don't love that phrase) the Bubonic Plague. I feel like the year has zoomed by. I'd love to offer my students the opportunity to review the year of learning and tie it up with a big bow of creative learning. Any suggestions? (asking for a friend)
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Hi Denise Ford , we have all been there when we run out of year for the amount of cool stuff we want to provide for our students' learning!
I don't use Origins curriculum, but I am familiar with needing to shorten up curriculum to fit a reduced timespan.
It looks like your colleague only "has to" get to Unit 6. After that, all of the topics covered will also be covered in US History. They will not be as comprehensively covered from a global perspective, but they will not be left out.
With that in mind, I think I would look at the remaining units as one large unit framework. So zoom out and be willing to give up some details. Think about areas that 1. students aren't likely to get if not in your class and 2. can be connected with what they have learned already so that the main narrative is preserved.
I'm tagging in Bryan Dibble , since he is also really good at big picture/small space planning.
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Donnetta Elsasser Tagged me in here. Lucky for me nobody tells us how far we have to get in the curriculum. Wait, that's because nobody cares how far we get in the curriculum. For sure they can't tell on plague from the other. We are using Origins for the first time after about 4 years of Big History. In our freshemn classes the capstone activity is building websites. It's a real skill to know how to build a website. We focus on a world civilization. But the kids build these sites to house all the work in every class till they are seniors in our history department. Google Sites is what we use, and the final presentation is sharing their sites with others in the class. These sites are so creative and all of them are different. You could just require a page from all the Eras in Origins. We do peer review activities prior to the final presentation. It's fun, creative and a really great skill. Denise Ford
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Building a website could be a really terrific way to cap off our year.
