My friend Ryan and I, on a mountain looking over Bogota, Colombia in 2009. We had our South America map quiz today in class, which included Colombia!
Hi wonderful students,
Great to see you all again today! It was a quiz and work day in class. Here's what happened today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 6: I can demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of locations and regions.
Knowledge LT 7: I can demonstrate the ability to use geographic tools.
Soundtrack: "Es Por Ti" by Juanes. Selected for today because Juanes is a singer from Colombia, which is in South America, which is what our map quiz today was about! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 9/23/14:
Wildcat News Brief – Tandra
SA Map Quiz
Five Themes Work
Oceania
Homework: Read the blog. Finish Oceania map (colored and labeled) for the quiz next class. Next news brief: Meaghan.
Wildcat News Brief: After the school wide TV news, Tandra had the news brief today and selected this story to talk about: CalgarySun.com - Canada will not be scared off by ISIS threats: PMO spokesman. We found Canada on our world maps (easy, because we just did the North America quiz, and you should already know where Canada is) and talked about the news story today of President Obama announcing that we have bombed Syria (mostly going after ISIS there) with a group of other countries. Thanks, Tandra! Meaghan was drawn as the next person up.
SA Map Quiz: As promised, the next map quiz. This was way easier (I hope, at least), and it seemed like many more students realized the importance of having completed maps to use on the quiz. Scores (out of 10) were up across the board from the North America quiz. We corrected the quiz in class and I passed it out for students to see what they got, before collecting them to be returned for good next class.
Five Themes Work: This was the atlas work packet that we have been working on in class the last few days. This will be due at the end of the Geography unit (in about 3 classes, when we are done with each of the continents) and will count towards the assessment of a learning target. If you missed class, the packet is here (you need to work in class with the atlas in order to complete this):
Please keep at this in class and work hard to get it done!
Oceania: The last part of class was dedicated to labeling and coloring the Australia/Oceania section of the map packet, in order to be able to use it on the upcoming quiz next class. This is much tougher than the South America quiz, so be ready! For checking the blog, here's a question from the quiz: This is the northernmost country in Oceania, with U.S. territories to the west and east. If you are missing your map packet and know you need to have it done, please print out another and have it ready to go for next class:
Again, mostly a work day today. Next class, we might dive more into culture as well, because just taking quizzes every day and labeling/coloring probably isn't all that exciting. I mean, I love geography, but I get that it might be difficult to keep at it over and over! Thanks for your focus today. See you next class!
Jocy,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your thorough and extremely well thought out song recommendation! I have never had a student post such detailed reasoning. I'm sure we can find a place and time for the song. TobyMac used to be a part of dc Talk, which was my favorite group growing up! :-)
Have a great night!