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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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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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.