Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Industrial Revolution Wordle
Modern World History is beginning a new unit on the Industrial Revolution. Students created a wordle to activate prior knowledge about what industrialization means to them
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
US History Students Create WW1 Propaganda Posters
Students created American World War I propaganda posters to demonstrate how individual citizens were encouraged to support the war effort.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The Horrors of Trench Warfare Exposed
Students learned, researched, and collaborated on what life was like for soldiers fighting in WWI. Students then became a solider and wrote a letter home to their family. Don't worry they didn't expose too many details because they did not want their letter to be censored!
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Students Use Google Drive to Collaborate on WWI Military Technology Document
Students collaborated to investigate different WWI military technologies and combine information onto one document using google drive
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Students Create Historical Allegories about Nationalism in Europe
Students created an illustrated allegory storybook that defines nationalism and chronicles the unification of a specific region of Europe from the mid 1800’s (Germany or Italy). They wrote this book for students in late elementary school.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Psych Class Creates there own Classical Conditioning Experiments
Students designed a hypothetical experiment in which you take a neutral stimulus and condition a person or animal to respond to it. In your project, you will write up a full laboratory experiment.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Cartoons of the Enlightened Thinkers - Locke, Hobbes, Rosseau, and Montesquieu
Modern World History Creates Comics!!
Economic Enigmas Unraveled
Economics class learned and discovered about economic enigmas that occur throughout our society. Below are articles explaining why these enigmas exist according to economic principles.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Spanish American War Newscast
Spanish-American War Investigation: Colebrook Undercover
We are going undercover to resolve one of the biggest mysteries in U.S. history. Together we are launching an investigation to figure out why the United States invaded Cuba in 1898. Using the information gathered from our detective work we then, as a class, create a video newscast displaying our findings and conclusions.
1. Analyze the documents and evidence
2. Make your hypothesis as to why the United States invaded Spain?
3. Create a storyboard and script for newscast: Colebrook Undercover
4. Collect Pictures, Documents, Video clips that could go into our newscast
5. Record and edit the newscast
6. Reflect and Post Video for the World to See!
Colebrook students analyze primary source documents, represent and source differing sides, and present all perspectives of historical events!
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Create Your own Governments!
Students in World History were put to the test and made tough decisions about the type of government they would create.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Jing Used to Create Parent Schoology Tutorial
Schoology is an online learning management system that is being instituted this year at Colebrook. Tutorials were created using Jing to show parents how to create their own accounts. These accounts allow them to view their child's grades, attendance, and assignments. Here is the letter that was written to parents about Schoology. Below are the Jing tutorials.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Introduction to Me - Animoto Projects!
The Introduction to Me Project allowed students to introduce themselves to the class while getting them familiar with Animoto, a Web 2.0 tool where students to create films.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Using Screencast-o-matic to create Schoology Tutorials
Schoology is a new learning management system being used at Colebrook beginning in the 2012-13 school year. Here are tutorials showing teachers and students how to use the basic features of the site with the help of screencast-o-matic!
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