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:::SpenceSpace:::: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Now that the winter session is upon us, it is time for the winter club season here at our school! Over the next few weeks, I will be posting about some activities from my two clubs, the Middle School Art Club and the Middle and Upper School Comics and Gaming Club. Keep on the lookout for the following upcoming activities:. Silhouette Paintings with Masking Technique. Creating Comics with Pixton Software. Making Superheroes with Marvel Site. Fantasy Board and Card Gaming. The go...
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:::SpenceSpace:::: January 2015
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Thursday, January 22, 2015. New Perspectives on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Underground Railroad. I have written about edX courses before. But now I have a renewed appreciation for the massive open online course (MOOC) movement now that I am fully immersed in a new course. For the past few weeks, I have been following (and loving) renowned historian Eric Foner's second module of the three-part series of courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction. Posted by MaryBeth Spencer. To begin the assig...
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:::SpenceSpace:::: History Mystery - The Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013. History Mystery - The Lost Colony of Roanoke. To kick off our unit on British colonization, we will begin with a "history mystery." The first section of the book briefly discusses the Roanoke Colony, but knowing my students' love for a good mystery, I thought I would expand on this opportunity with some detective work and a writing assignment. Below are some images of student work, as well as image versions of the documents:. Posted by MaryBeth Spencer. Caught in the Middle.
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:::SpenceSpace:::: The Game of Life
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Friday, November 30, 2012. The Game of Life. While studying Native American cultures, we focused on four geographic regions and one culture for each. As a culminating assignment, I decided to have the kids create a board game, based on the "Game of Life" showing real-life situations and events in the everyday life of the Iroquois, Cheyenne, Hopi and Kwakiutl. You can find several great game board templates here. Posted by MaryBeth Spencer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Game of Life. BLOG DESIGN...
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:::SpenceSpace:::: Imagining Life in the Mills
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Friday, January 16, 2015. Imagining Life in the Mills. Because of the great success of our Roanoke Island mystery. Assignment, I wanted to give the students another authentic experience of sifting through documents and really "doing history." In our study of the early Industrial Revolution, I wanted to focus on the "mill girls" of Lowell, Massachusetts and their experiences in the factory textile mills. By Katherine Paterson. I was also able to find an authentic rule sheet for both the factory and th...
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:::SpenceSpace:::: Complexity of Character: Teaching de las Casas to Middle Schoolers
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Complexity of Character: Teaching de las Casas to Middle Schoolers. One of the more difficult transitions of teaching history to middle schoolers is to leave behind the relatively simplistic, binary understanding of 'heroes.' In their elementary years, students tended to learn about historical actors as one-dimensional figures in a dichotomy of good. And advocated to the Spanish government to reform these practices. As a result, many lessons. The culminating assignment was a post...
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:::SpenceSpace:::: "You Hit My Battlefort!'
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. You Hit My Battlefort! As in the Game of Life. Activity, it can cut down on lots of direction and instructional time to use familiar games to support class concepts. This way, many if not all of the students will already know the rules of the game and can simply apply it to the new context without long explanations of procedures that can be difficult for non-auditory learners and those with attention problems. When students' boards are completely colored in, they may cut out the f...
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:::SpenceSpace:::: May 2015
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. You Hit My Battlefort! As in the Game of Life. Activity, it can cut down on lots of direction and instructional time to use familiar games to support class concepts. This way, many if not all of the students will already know the rules of the game and can simply apply it to the new context without long explanations of procedures that can be difficult for non-auditory learners and those with attention problems. When students' boards are completely colored in, they may cut out the f...
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:::SpenceSpace:::: Have you checked out Understood?
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015. Have you checked out Understood? Is really intended as a resource for parents of students with learning differences, but it can be tremendously helpful for teachers, as well. The site has information about learning disabilities, simulations to "see the world through your child's eyes," and tools and forums for parents. They offer an email newsletter that provides frequent updates about new material. Posted by MaryBeth Spencer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Why science and ...
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:::SpenceSpace:::: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Complexity of Character: Teaching de las Casas to Middle Schoolers. One of the more difficult transitions of teaching history to middle schoolers is to leave behind the relatively simplistic, binary understanding of 'heroes.' In their elementary years, students tended to learn about historical actors as one-dimensional figures in a dichotomy of good. And advocated to the Spanish government to reform these practices. As a result, many lessons. The culminating assignment was a post...