Thursday September 27, 2018 & Friday September 28, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Students will be able to locate people, places, and things throughout the world. Students will understand how humans impact the environment and vice versa. Students will be well informed members of society and will be able to formulate educated opinions on global, national, and local issues.

Circle: How would your best friend describe you?

Anchor Activity: You will have ten minutes to work on your world issues projects.

Five Themes Summative Project: You will be working in your groups to complete the five themes summative project. The final product will be a slide show, with at least one slide per theme. Here is the product descriptor for this assignment. Please make sure to answer ALL questions on the product descriptor. You should be using pictures and maps in your slideshows. The presentation should be 3-5 minutes long.

Homework: Finishing your 9/11 papers!!!!!

Wednesday September 26, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Students will be able to locate people, places, and things throughout the world. Students will understand how humans impact the environment and vice versa. Students will be well informed members of society and will be able to formulate educated opinions on global, national, and local issues.

Circle: What is your favorite show to watch on TV?

Anchor Activity: You will be working on your World Issues Project for 10-15 minutes.

I-Time: We will be doing an I-Time activity called "Getting Acquainted."

Whole Class Game: You will be mingling around the room with a word written on a piece of paper. When I say go, you will search for the other student who has the same thing written on their paper. You will try to get with that partner as quickly as possible. When everyone gets together there will be a get to know you question for each person to answer. The group that is last to meet up will share each others answers with the group.
-If you could drive any car, what would it be?
-How many siblings do you have?
-What's your favorite pet that you've ever had?
-What's your favorite subject in school?
-What's your favorite color?
-If you could be any super hero that exists, who would you be?
-If you could travel the world with one person who would it be?

Exit Ticket: What is one thing you are enjoying or doing well at in this class so far? What is one thing your are not enjoying, doing poorly at, or nervous about in this class?

Monday September 24, 2018 & Tuesday September 25, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Students will be able to locate people, places, and things throughout the world. Students will understand how humans impact the environment and vice versa. Students will be well informed members of society and will be able to formulate educated opinions on global, national, and local issues.

Quiz Today: You will be taking the absolute and relative location quiz today. You will be using the maps in the textbook to answer the questions and will be writing your answers on a separate piece of paper.

When you are done: When you are done with the quiz you should continue working on your world issues project. Please remember to take notes and to put a date on the notes you take!

Note: Several of you have not yet turned in your 9/11 paragraphs... This would be a great time to work on them if you get done the quiz early!

No Homework For Wednesday/Thursday!

Wednesday September 19, 2018 & Thursday September 20, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Students will be able to locate people, places, and things throughout the world. Students will understand how humans impact the environment and vice versa. Students will be well informed members of society and will be able to formulate educated opinions on global, national, and local issues.

Circle: If you were a famous actor/actress, what genre of movies would you star in?

World Issues Project: We will spend the first 15 minutes of class today deciding which world issue we want to do a project on and then doing research and taking notes on that topic. Remember: You need 10 different sets of notes. So ten different days you need to take notes and date those notes.

Longitude and Latitude Practice: Students will be using these three websites for practice with using longitude and latitude. Site A   Site B   Site C      For more practice and studying, use the study guide at the bottom of the page.   Note: It is very important for the quiz that you know the difference between Absolute and Relative location.

World Continents Practice: Remember, in order to be successful on the upcoming quiz, you have to be able to locate all of the continents so you know which map to turn to! For a refresher on the continents go to this website.

When students are done with these practice game: When/if students feel confident for the quiz and are done with the study games, they will work on their 10 places that are important.


Quiz Next Class!!!! Period 8 will be having their quiz on Friday and Periods 1 & 2 have theirs on Monday. Please use this study guide along with this answer sheet to help study for the quiz as well as using those online study games.

Note: The quiz will be set up in a very similar format to the questions on the study guide. It is critical for this quiz that you know the difference between Absolute and Relative location.

Monday September 17, 2018 & Tuesday September 18, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Students will be able to locate people, places, and things throughout the world. Students will understand how humans impact the environment and vice versa. Students will be well informed members of society and will be able to formulate educated opinions on global, national, and local issues.

Circle: What is your favorite season and why?

Circle Discussion: What is the learning target for world issues project?

Word of the Week: Neophyte

Current World Issues: I will be handing out the rubrics for the current world issues project. Students will need to have finalized their project ideas for Wednesday.

Individual Activity: Students will be going to this link. Students will be seeing how many of the states they can locate correctly.

Class Activity: We will be going over how to read longitude and latitude lines again as a class.

Group Activity: Students will be given a list of places to find on the map using longitude and latitude lines. They will attempt to write down the correct answers for these places. We will go through the answers as a class.

Individual Activity: Students will be working on their anchor activity with whatever time is left in class.

Thursday September 13, 2018 & Friday September 14, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Students will be able to locate people, places, and things throughout the world. We're working on maps!

Circle: Describe your favorite vacation.

Circle Discussion: What is a learning target? What is the circle for learning targets? What is the learning target for today?

Individual Activity: Students will do individual research to decide which current world issue they would like to do a project on.

Individual Activity: Students will be going to this link. They will first go through the American states tutorial for five minutes. They will then play the beginner game.

Group Activity: Students will be working together in groups to create a list of ten important places around the world. Students will label world maps with these places and will also be writing blurbs on why these places are important.

Class Activity: We will be going over how to read longitude and latitude lines again as a class.

Individual Activity: Students will be given a list of places to find on the map using longitude and latitude lines. They will attempt to write down the correct answers for these places.

Exit Ticket: What is one important place you located on your map? What country is it in and what city/town? In your own words, why do you think this place is important? How comfortable are you with finding places on a map using absolute and relative location?

Tuesday September 11, 2018 & Wednesday September 12, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Students will be learning about 9/11 and will understand the impact that it still has on our society today.

Class Activity: Google Classroom.

Circle: Name two things or people who always make you laugh. What do you know or have you been told about 9/11?

-Discussion in Circle: What is a learning target? What is the learning target for circles? What is the learning target for today's class period?

Class Activity: We will be watching this series of videos from the day.

Class Activity: We will be watching this summary of the day.

Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together in groups to research and discuss the ways that 9/11 still impacts us today. This is a great article to read!

Individual Activity: Students will be working on 9/11 paper posted on google classroom.

Homework: Finish up 9/11 paper if it was not completed in class.

Friday September 7, 2018 & Monday September 10, 2018

-Today's Learning Target: Student's will be learning map skills.

-Circle: If you were an animal, what animal would you be?

-Discussion in Circle: What is a learning target? What is the learning target for circles? What is the learning target for today's class period?

- Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together to brainstorm a list of current global issues.

- Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together in teams to finish a map scavenger hunt.

- Full Class Activity: Students will be competing against each other in teams. They will be trying to find different places on the map.

- Rock Paper Scissors Math

- Exit Ticket: How are your first couple of weeks of high school going? Is there anything you're struggling with? Is there anything me or one of your other teachers can do to help with anything?

-Homework: Pick a current events news article and give a 3-5 sentence summary on the article.

Thursday September 6, 2018

-Today's Learning Target: Student's will know what the five themes of geography are and why these themes are important.

-Circle: If you had the whole day to do something with three friends, what would it be?

-Discussion in Circle: What is a learning target? What is the learning target for circles? What is the learning target for today's class period?

-Seating Chart Activity: Finish discussion on physical things that we want and need in our lives.

-Individual Activity: Students will be describing the Oxford Hills area in their own words. They will be talking about the physical environment as well as the people living in it.

-Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working in their groups to create their own make believe country. This country will include natural features, climate, and the types of products that their country will be producing for export. They will then be making a list of items they would need imported.

-Seating Chart Activity: Students will be using their list of items that they need and be categorizing them by where they are produced. Are they produced in Oxford Hills? Maine? USA? World?

-Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together to name as many regions as they can think of that would exist in the United States.

Seating Chart Activity: Students will be putting together a list of pro's and con's for having seating charts in the classroom.

Tuesday September 4, 2018 & Wednesday September 5, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Student's will know what the five themes of geography are and why these themes are important.

-Circle: If you could only have one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

-Discussion in Circle: What is a learning target? What is the learning target for circles? What is the learning target for today's class period?

-Individual Activity: Students will be trying to list the names of the seven continents.

-Individual Activity: Students will be labeling the five oceans on a world map.

-Individual Activity: Students will be shading in and labeling the five major regions of the United States.

Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together in groups to generate lists of the ways that humans impact the environment and vice versa.

Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together in groups to describe the Oxford Hills region, specifically looking at the physical characteristics as well as the people who live here.

Individual Activity: Design your own country! Using drawings and words, design your own country. Included in this description you will need; Natural Features (rivers, mountains, etc), Human Made Features (Highways, Cities, etc), Region of the World This Country Will be in, List of Products Your Country Will Specialize in Producing, Name for Your Country.