Google Doc - Uncle Tom's Cabin

This lesson plan is a colaboration between social studies and english/language arts. The students have been reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and studying the lifestyle of African-Americans in the southern United States. Students will work in groups to discuss the similarities and differences between the book and primary resources from social studies class. After the group work students will individually construct an essay comparing the two resources. I think it is great when teachers can work toghether so that students can bring information from multiple classes into one single project.
Co-Teach LP

Web 2.0 Pop-up-book

My Book

This book is my second web 2.0 assignment and it is a project created to get to know students and what their personal dreams are. I titled it "the American Dream" and it is an assignment for them to create their own pop-up-book with pictures of what their own American Dream represents for them. This shows me what they strive for and what they are looking for from their own future. I enjoyed the process of making the pop-up-book but I was suprised at the almost total lack of images available from the website. I know it may be troublesome to ask students to go and search for images for this project in a security crazed world of school computers but I feel the project is another good way to get to know students in a fun way.

Online Quiz

This is my Online quiz, I find proprofs.com far easier to use than other online quiz websites. This was the last of three websites I used to find a quiz that I was able to dock in the blog. I hope you enjoy. Take your time and do your best.

American Government » online test

Political Comic Strip

This is a comic strip for the web 2.0 assignment. I used Pixton to create this comic to demonstrate the uses of comics for students in government. I really like the amount of input that is allowed by the website. Although there are a limited number of characters available the amount of manipulation you can add is infinite. I enjoy this project because it can allow students who have more artistic creativity an outlet to show off their skills in the classroom while applying it to the content standards. I look forward to your comments.

Student Survey

This is the first of my Google Docs assignments. This student survey is an assignment that I start the year with to get to know the students as we start the year. I have in the past used a paper questionnaire that the students fill out that I file and keep for the year. I feel that having this database in an electronic form is far easier to keep track of as well as use. Having the information in one spreadsheet is important because it eliminates sorting through 30 student's papers looking for an individual student. As user friendly as this form is, there is one drawback being that it does not allow for the creation of a spreadsheet/table to document the student's daily schedule. This has been the only downside I have seen throughout the process though so I will continue to explore the numerous functions for Google Docs.

Survey