Archive for September, 2011
Visualizing Chapters 1-5 in Tuck Everlasting
Seventh graders drew pictures of images they visualized while listening to the first five chapters of Tuck Everlasting.
Local History Glogs
After a unit on local history, eighth graders visited a harvest festival, celebrating pioneer life and spirit on the prairie. They have created glogs showing what they learned. Click on the images to see their blog post.
Our Study Hall Chess Club
Chess is a two player board game that has been around for a very long time. In the Soviet Union state officials played chess to compete for promotions. This year in study hall we are learning how to play chess in our chess club. The goal of chess is to trap the king and take [...]
If I Lived Forever…
If you lived forever on earth, would it be a blessing or a curse? That was the question we considered before we began to read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. We have joined hundreds of other students around the world in the Global Read Aloud. Here are our answers to the question that is asked [...]
Contributors
By mrsdkrebs | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon We went from copying pictures from Google to learning how to properly post pictures on our blogs. We learned to use the Clipart our school subscribes to. We learned about the Creative Commons licenses on Flickr and how to properly link the [...]
Bugscope Session
The Bugscope is an $800,000 scanning electron microscope housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A student sitting at a laptop in Iowa (or anywhere) can focus, change contrast, and zoom in on some really interesting specimens. My students and I were privileged to be the first Bugscope session of the season. It was [...]
8th Grade History!!
My class and I have recently posted about our personal museums and about American History. Be sure to check out our posts on the “Active Eighth Grade Blogs” blogroll at the right! You can also click here to see our video about what we think history is. Posted by Jaci
