Week+8+questions

1. There are many different games that I could use in my classroom. The best are ones designed to assist in learning geography. I found a fantastic sight that has several games as well as a practice test. I most definitely will use this geography gaming sight in my classroom. I highly recommend playing them. Check out [|geography games].

2. The only modification I would make is to change the word "scientific" to "historical".

3. I didn't really understand the definition of a criterion-referenced examination, so I don't know how I would use it in my classes. I am however in favor of using several different assessment tools when assessing a student. I will have a system based on points and they percentage they get out of them is how I assess their progress. I will have some tests, research papers, and class presentations. Assessing the progress of an inquiry activity would be whether the student gave their best shot, since most of the time there isn't a wrong answer to an inquiry activity.

4. Case studies will be very helpful in showing a student a purpose for leaning social studies. An excellent case study I found would be the [|economics] of shopping for school clothes.

5. I found WebQuest as a great source for finding ideas for lessons that will put an everyday spin on leaning. These types of lessons will help students to understand that what they learn will be used in their future lives. I found a WebQuest that would make a great civics lesson based on the [|Declaration of Independence.]

6. The idea I have is to collect several different view points of what happened at the battle of Lexington and Concord. The samples will consist of some primary and some secondary sourses. The samples will be put into a envelope where groups of three or four will take out only two samples and evaluate that historic battle. After all the groups are done they will share their findings with the rest of the class. Hopefully when we are done we will have discovered what happened at that battle.