HUGE thinking maps

To review for their Africa unit I had the students create a thinking map.  The thinking map was filled in by a reading selection I gave to the students.  When the student think they had correct answers they wrote the answer on a sticky note.  One person in their group was responsible for writing the correct thinking map on paper to share with the group.

The one issue I had is that I had three different ones and it took longer than I thought.  Perhaps I should have had fewer and with less information.  However, I had hoped it would go quicker as this was a review activity.

Happy Teaching!
C

Classification of Information

We are wrapping up our Middle Ages unit.  Yesterday, one of the stations involved classifying different people or important events in the four nation-states of England, France, Russia and Spain.  The index cards were divided among the group so each student had something to determine.  Students first sorted the event or person index cards by nation-state.  Then some of the nation-states had more information that could be further classified.  Once the students had the proper information together they were to to write the information down on a piece of notebook paper.  

Classification Thinking Map

We test tomorrow.  The test is 35 multiple choice questions and one writing prompt.  I am both anxious and nervous to see how the students do tomorrow.

Happy Teaching!
C

Hinduism and Buddhism Double Bubble

The last two days we watched videos and discussed the two religions associated with SOL WHI.4c and d.  If you have access to United Streaming/ Discovery Education, they have a great series on world religions.  I created a worksheet for the students to fill in as they watched.  At the end of each video (they are not all class- about 20 minutes) we discussed.

Today, I had the students brainstorm similarities and differences.  This year the brainstorming occurred on a Monday so I gave them some prompts: What is the country of origin?  Where are the religions practiced now?  What about the founders?  What are the sacred texts?  What are the key beliefs?  They brainstormed for about 8 minutes.

I then created the double bubble  by cold calling students to tell me where to put the information.   At the end of class the students have the completed double bubble for their notes.

Here is our end product:

This is the "old school" version on the board.

This is the one we created with my Chrome Book group.

Happy Teaching!
C