The past two weeks have been very engaging in American History Class. Students have been investigating one of my favorite topics in American History, the Early Republic. Names like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton have been the topics of discussion in the majority of these lessons. In addition to these famous founding fathers, students used an iBook to investigate the Whiskey Rebellion. Several years ago, I created the iBook on the Whiskey Rebellion in order for students to learn more about local history. Individuals like John Neville, Oliver Miller, David Bradford, and Albert Gallatin were all mentioned in the Whiskey Rebellion iBook. The iBook contained several videos, interactive images & maps, concept check questions, and 3D images. Students also used eBackpack, Google Earth, and other applications to enhance their study of the Whiskey Rebellion. Students also participated in a sequencing activity on portions of the iBook. The students used the iBook to judge George Washington and his administrations response to the Whiskey rebels. Hamilton’s Report on Public Credit and national bank were also topics that were examined. Students worked together to complete a concept map on Alexander Hamilton’s financial plans for the young country. The students used their knowledge of Hamilton and his financial plans to link different aspects of the plan. At first the tasked appeared to be daunting, but once the students got started it was great to see the students apply their knowledge on the topics. Students also got the chance to role-play as advisers to President Washington. I presented the students with several challenges that faced President Washington and used the Poll Everywhere application to project the students’ advice to the President. The challenges involved the Whiskey Rebellion, conflicts with Native Americans, and issues pertaining to Great Britain and France. It was very interesting how the students created solutions to these problems, and that many of the solutions were similar to how President Washington responded to these difficult challenges. Class periods also participated in Mr. Hartnett’s Key-Concept Matching March Madness Competition. I created 60 topics with descriptions that have been recently presented to the students. Students worked as a complete class period to correctly match the concept(s) with the descriptions. I timed each class period and added a five second penalty for every wrong match. Congratulations to American History Period 2 for the winning time of 4:19 seconds! Irish Culture Day was celebrated on St. Patrick’s Day. The students were taught how to do several steps of an Irish River Dance. Students also participated in a Kahoot competition that pertained to different aspects of Irish Culture. Finally, students had the chance try out Irish Road Bowling. The students were taught the rules and lingo of the Irish Road Bowling and put their skills to the test outside on a course that went around Elizabeth Forward Middle School. For anyone that would like to check the presentations from the past two weeks, please check out these out below: Section 8-1 Emaze Section 8-2 Prezi Section 8-3 Near Pod
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July 2019
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