ePortfolio for Paul Bienvenu For this ePortfolio, I choose to look at two posts that contained a number of graphics, videos and audio files that I felt were representative of the learning I did in this course. I have linked each post below, and then included some analysis of the …
Introduction to the Comma Students in Middle School regularly struggle to use commas effectively, and so with Grade 6 and 7 English students I typically take time each year to review how commas can be used effectively. This interactive video below would be used as part of a lesson introducing …
Shakespeare’s Theatre Class: Grade 8 English Unit: Introduction to Shakespearean Theatre Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to describe the theatre where Shakespeare’s plays were performed. Students will use information drawn from a variety of sources to support their thinking about a topic. **NOTE: THIS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN …
Looking at the affordances summarized in Woolfit’s article, I think the ones most most relevant to my teaching context are “Telling stories,” “Virtual field trips” and “Building Rapport”. Using video to tell stories helps the learners to make connections to material, and as a history teacher it can be powerful …
I really enjoyed creating this video while travelling to visit family in Victoria. One of the curricular goals in my Social Studies class is to have students make ethical judgements about historical events, and I thought it would be interesting to introduce students to the repatriation efforts going on at …
Why give up on foraging? Beginning the Agricultural Revolution Learning Goals: Students will be able to discuss ways that technological and social innovations associated with agriculture contributed to the rise of complex civilizations.. Students will be able to analyze how the innovation of agriculture marked a human response to changing …
The Peloponnesian Wars were fought between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta, and their allies, and it lasted from 431 BCE to 404 BCE. As we have learned about in class, these two city states went all out to defeat one another, and it was only intervention from the …
For this activity I created a five minute synopsis of the conquests of Alexander of Macedon, and combined it with a short musical introduction that I made several years ago for my Youtube channel. My students like my bad dad jokes so several years ago I made a series of …
Grade 8 English Lesson: Accessing Poetry Learning Outcomes: Students will explore how language and text can be a source of creativity and joy. **NOTE: THIS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN ORDER TO BETTER FIT THE OBJECTIVES OF MY PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT** What makes a piece of writing appealing? Poems, songs, quotes, …
In Social Studies 7 I spend quite a bit of time on two different curricular outcomes: 1) developing research skills like note-taking strategies and 2) examining the neolithic revolution and the rise of agriculture. I like to teach students how to create multi-media notes that incorporate both visuals and text. …
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