Here are some iPad apps I presented on 2/17

Goodnotes: I LOVE this app! Many of the note-taking apps look horrible when I try to write on them. And if I use the typing ones, I find that I quickly fall behind. This allows you to instantly zoom in so you can write clearly. I know it is a small detail, but for a lefty, that is HUGE!

iAnnotate PDF: I use this for grading student work. You can have them place their email address in the document you are grading and immediately send the work back to them. It allows you to write on PDFs as well as record voiceovers. You can also broadcast in real time through your projector.

Mobile Mouse: While this app did cost me $2.99, I think I might have purchased it for $5. Lets your iPad take control of your computer. If moving around the room is useful for you, this might be the app for you.

Workflowy: This app allows you to quickly organize thoughts and ideas.

Google Drive: You can view the documents you’ve created on Google Drive.

iA Writer: This app is a great app for writing. It optimizes the keyboard so that it speeds up the writing process.

Penultimate: This is another note taking app.

Skriv: This app is a note taking app with a built in web browser.

TED: Presents talks from some of the worlds most fascinating people.

iTunesU: The free iTunes U app gives you access to the world’s largest online catalog of free education content from leading institutions — on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

Mindjet Maps: This app lets you easily enter ideas, tasks, and meeting notes into intuitive visual maps that help you quickly organize concepts and prioritize action items. Instantly create new maps or import them from Mindjet Connect.

ShowMe: This app allows you to create voiceover whiteboard tutorials to save online.

Wikipanion: A Wikipedia engine.

Prezi: An awesome presentation app that allows students to create PowerPoints on steroids. Imagine having a single piece of paper on which you could store and infinite amount of information. That is prezi.

GoodReader: A powerful app for annotating PDFs, this app has many uses for engaging with texts actively. I find the legion of options rather cumbersome so I am on the looking for a similar, but simpler, app for text annotation.

Instapaper: A great app for simply saving articles and documents offline in case any wireless network problems ensue.

Snapseed: Currently free, this is a great app to edit photos in a variety of ways.

Socrative: A great app for creating a variety of quizzes for instant formative or summative assessment.

Keynote: Effectively Apple’s PowerPoint, it is a nice smooth app that facilitates some lovely presentations. Similar to PowerPoint, it does take some time to get to grips with.

CloudOn: A free app that provides the opportunity to create Microsoft documents for those who wish to use the familiar tools of the likes of Word or PowerPoint.

Google Drive Tips

February 13, 2013

Ben

Here are some resources on how to use Google Drive in your classroom:

Getting Started

Cheat Sheet

SHORTCUTS (My Favorite)

Very Thorough Explanation

Motifs and Archetypes in Their Eyes Were Watching God

February 11, 2013

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If you have not read How To Read Like A Professor, I would highly recommend you doing so. I have started teaching the content of the book to my students this semester because I see it as an invaluable lens through which they need to view literature.

We are currently reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, which has glaring uses of motifs and archetypes throughout the text. I will come back and update the process of charting the motifs/archetypes as we move through the novel. For now, I will place a link to the worksheet I created below.

Motifs/Archetype Worksheet

Unpacking the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

June 22, 2012

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During the RMWP (Red Mountain Writing Project) we have been working with the CCSS and the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) in order to prepare our teachers to build a year of skills-based instruction.

Here is the graphic organizer we composed to help teachers unpack the standards.

ccrs-worksheet-unpacking.pdf

Here is how you use it:

Look through one strand of your CCSS/CCRS (for example, look at the Reading Standards for Literature strand).
Pull out the core verbs that call for an action on part of the students. These will be words like CITE, DEMONSTRATE, etc.
Pick one of the verbs and place it in the CORE VERB box of the graphic organizer.
Then, look through the section of standards for other uses of that verb. Look under all of the subheadings (Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, and Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity).
Record phrases associated with the verbs in the boxes labeled SKILLS PHRASES. For example, under the Key Ideas and Details subheading, I find DETERMINE used with the following phrases: “determining where the texts leaves matters uncertain,” ”determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text”. There are others, under the subheadings below that, but I will let you find those.
After you have your Skills Phrases down, go to the box labeled SUBJECT MATTER and write down units or lessons you would use to teach these.

After you have explored the verbs and skills required by the CCSS/CCRS, you are ready to start determining where you will EXPLICITLY teach these skills as a primary learning task verses a peripheral learning task. For example, you might require students to identify themes or central ideas with every piece of literature you read, but you will explicitly teach it with the first genre of literature that year. The rest of the year you should be able to do mini lessons to help the refine the gained skill.

I hope this helps!

If anyone would like to book some professional development, comment below.

Most Loved Books Infographic: March into Literacy Month

March 4, 2012

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This is an infographic for March in to Literacy Month. You are seeing a portion of it. Click HERE to see the whole thing.

RMWP 21st Century Literacy Conference Session

March 3, 2012

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I will have a 3 hour seminar on tech for RMWP on April 21st. Here is a link to the brochure.

Here are the sites I am presented at the conference:

Tools:
Resources

Conversion Site

http://www.online-convert.com/

Text Visualization

Visual Language/Design

Collaborative Sites

Screen Cast

http://www.screencast.com/

Slide Show

http://www.vuvox.com/

Cellphone Polls

http://cel.ly

Podcast/Audio Sites

Story/Book Creation

Time line

http://www.timetoast.com/

Prezi Project for Their Eyes Were Watching God

January 26, 2012

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My students just finished Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. To wrap up the novel we decided to have them reflect what they learned about our essential question (What makes a healthy relationship?). To do this they used Prezi and Glogster . I will post the project directions below. Then I will post student examples.

TEWWG Project Rules

WHILE ALL OF THESE ELEMENTS MUST BE PRESENT, THE UNDERLINED RULES WILL BE WHAT I AM ASSESSING. 10% OF THE 100 POINTS WILL BE GIVEN IF ALL ELEMENTS ARE PRESENT.

1. The subject of your glog/prezi will be ONE of the relationships featured in the novel.
2. Write a description of each character in the relationship of your choice.
3. Create a timeline of the relationship (include chapter numbers).
4. Find pictures (not from the movie) of people you feel fit each of your characters in this relationship.
5. Identify and write the spoken and unspoken rules of this relationship. Also, state what rules SHOULD be placed to create balance of power in the relationship.
6. Use one quote (NOT FROM THE NOVEL) that you find that represents the relationship as a whole.
7. Include one quote from each character (yes, from the novel) that describes or represents his/her tone toward the other character in the relationship.
8. Use at least TEN images (not from the movie) to visually tell the story of this relationship. NOTE: These can be visual metaphors, so they do not have to be pictures of people. For example, a picture of an open box might represent how Tea Cake allowed her to speak her mind (YOU CANNOT USE AN OPEN BOX).
9. Incorporate at least THREE songs that best represent or relate to the relationship and tell why. (BE SURE TO LIST THE TITLE AND ARTIST)

Example of a Prezi:
Link: http://prezi.com/vpftqimd8fb5/tewwg/

TEWWG on Prezi

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” Relationship Rules on Prezi

EXAMPLE OF A GLOG:

Link to see it full size: http://www.glogster.com/mkhood13/english-project/g-6lpdsqlc9kfvvtm3ihf7fa0

The Great Gatsby Wordles

October 24, 2011

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To read more posts on my blog about The Great Gatsby CLICK HERE.

Below you will find wordles of each of the chapters in The Great Gatsby. In case you are not familiar with wordle.net, it takes texts and gives a visualization of the most frequently used words. The bigger the word, the more frequently it is used.

HERE is a link to other posts dealing with The Great Gatsby.

(To see a wordle for “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, click HERE.)

CLICK on the thumbnails to see a larger version.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Please let me know how you use these in lessons and writing assignments. I think other readers would appreciate it.

Ben Davis

Thinking about Moneyball in the Classroom

September 24, 2011

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Tonight I was listening to a podcast on NPR’s Freshair. It was about Michael Lewis’ book, Moneyball. As I was cleaning my house (as I often do while listening to podcasts), I almost wanted to run down stairs and start crunching numbers.

I wonder how this type of approach would help a teacher be aware of a student’s probable performance in high school based on certain analysis.I know that my students with divorced parents perform very differently than those that don’t. I’ve also observed that honors students rarely (I’m talking 1:20) have divorced parents whereas lower-level classes have higher rates (around 2:5). And students with stay-at-home moms perform much better than those who don’t. What if we could provide a system of support to circumvent that correlation? It could be an after school program or something, or placement in a different type of teacher’s classroom, but what if we could counteract the seemingly real impact that these statistics seem to suggest?He is the podcast.

If you don’t know what Moneyball is or if you’ve never heard of Billy Beane, check it out.

Middle/High School iPad Apps

June 28, 2011

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The Palm Beach County School district put this amazing list of iPad apps together. I had to post it.

Language Arts:

iBooks – a ereader book store.

Free Books – 23,469 Classics to Go

Dictionary.com – Dictionary & Thesaurus – A dictionary and a Thesaurus.

Literary Analysis Guide – Elements of literature are arranged graphically around three wheels (poetry, prose, and rhetoric).

Kindle – Kindle is an eReader from Amazon.com

Shakespeare Pro – Complete works of Shakespeare. 41 plays, 154 sonnets, and 6 poems. All works can be cross searched for anything.

Jules Verne Collection – Sixteen of Jules Verne’s books

MaxJournal – A simple and elegant journal.

LitCharts – Link to LitCharts website. Each of the LitCharts are available on the iPad

Math:

The Ruler – measure things in inches or centimeters

Math Quizzer – Math Quizzer is an interactive and fun way to, not only learn, but also to boost your skills in; Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division. It offers an easy to understand chalkboard visual, which keeps track of your “score” as you progress.Bloomberg – Bring the power of the most trusted source for financial information to your iPad, along with tools to help you analyze the world’s markets.

Fractals – Move and pinch fractals in real time.

MASTERING MATHEMATICS GRADE 6 – A mathematics practice book for 6th grade students.

MASTERING MATHEMATICS GRADE 7 -A mathematics practice book for 7th grade students.

Geometry Stash – Access the most commonly used theorems, postulates, and corollaries.

Calculators

SpaceTime – Powerful graphing calculator. 2D and 3D graphing

PocketCAS pro – Advanced Graphic and Symbolic Scientific Calculator. Handles every mathematical problem you might encounter in school or university.

PocketCAS lite – Free Graphic calculator. Not as many features as the pro version above.

Quick Graph – 2D and 3D graphing calculator.

Social Studies:

U.S. Geography by Discovery Education – Become an expert in U.S. Geography with this app. Dozens of videos and interactive gameplay.

Civil War America’s Epic Struggle-Civil War: America’s Epic Struggle Features over 1,000 high-res photos, more than an hour of multimedia presentations, in excess of 100 authentic maps, dozens of first hand accounts, and numerous text articles and biographies, it provides instantaneous access to information on every aspect of the war.

Beautiful Planet HD – Beautiful Planet is a groundbreaking app that captures the breathtaking beauty of our world and its cultures. Featuring a collection of galleries three decades in the making by travel photographer, author and explorer, Peter Guttman, Beautiful Planet spans seven continents and 160 countries.

World Atlas HD – The best maps available from National Geographic

History:Maps of World – Collection of High-Resolution historical Maps.

The History Clock – An app that converts the current time to a year and gives a fast fact about that year.

USA Thematic Atlas & Facts – High quality maps filled with facts and information.

USA Puzzle – A USA puzzle that needs to be put together. Double tap on the state for information about that state.

Motionx GPS HD – Maps and navigation instruments. Maps from all over the world. Can include waypoints. Can be good for Geocaching.

The World Factbook for iPad – Extensive information of over 250 countries around the world.

WORLD BOOK – This Day in History – Interactive multimedia calendar that features historical events for the day.

The Presidency – Historical information on every President of the United States.

Presidents HD- Historical information on every President of the United States.

Declaration for iPad – A copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Constitution for iPad – A copy of the Constitution of the United States.

MyCongress – A portal to detailed information about elected congress officials. Please note: This is not an official government resource

GeogXPert – A reference app – containing maps which allow you to look up countries and find country information – as well as a quiz app.

Science:

3D Cell Simulation and Stain Tool – Learn about the cell and its structures in a 3D tool.

EMD PTE – A highly interactive periodic table of elements.

VideoScience – Science experiments with video.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration – If you think you’ve seen the periodic table, think again. The Elements: A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you’ve never seen before. And as the first really new ebook developed from the ground up for iPad, The Elements beautifully shows off the capabilities of this lovely device.

A Life Among Whales – Video documentary featuring the exploration into the life and work of whale biologist Roger Payne

Newtons Laws – Explains Newton’s first two laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.

Periodic Table of the Elements – Standard periodic table of elements. Free as of May 16, 2010

Molecules – View and manipulate 3D renderings of molecules.

3D Brain – Rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures in the brain.

Science Glossary – an extensive glossary of scientific terms and biographies.

myArm Muscles – Visually rich and stimulating way to learn about our complex arm muscles.

HD Birds Encyclopedia – Highly graphic encyclopedia that has detailed and comprehensive information about a variety of birds.

HD Marine Life – An encyclopedia of marine life.

Frog Dissection – A virtual frog dissection app.

Astronomy

HD Solar System – Highly graphic encyclopedia that has detailed and comprehensive information about the solar system.

GoSkyWatch Planetarium – Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations and more with a touch or by simply pointing to the sky. Have fun with family and friends discovering the images in the night sky. Go outside and explore the night sky.

Star Walk – An interactive astronomy guide.

Solar Walk – A 3D Solar System Model.

Distant Suns – A database of over 130,000 stars, nebula, and galaxies.

DrakeEQ HD – 3D simulation of the Milky Way Galaxy

GoSkyWatch Planetarium – Locate stars, planets, and constellations.

Electives/Other:

Magic Piano – Play timeless pieces on spiral and circular keyboards, or follow beams of light – mastery requires only imagination. Play alone, or travel through a warp hole and play Piano Roulette with other performers across the world.

Fashion Sketchbook: The Stylish Dress Up Game – A fashion design application that allows the users to design outfits.

Art

SketchBook Pro – A professional-grade paint and drawing application.

Brushes – Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device. The June 1, 2009 cover of The New Yorker was created in Brushes.

Picasso HD – A virtual gallery of Pablo Picasso’s work featuring hundreds of high definition paintings of his greatest works.

Van Gogh HD – A virtual gallery of Vincent Van Gogh’s work featuring hundreds of high definition paintings of his greatest works.

Klimt HD – A virtual gallery of Austrian Painter Gustav Klimt work featuring hundreds of high definition paintings of his greatest works.

Smudge – Finger painting app

Skrambler X – Assemble famous masterpieces like a jigsaw puzzle. Learn interesting facts about the artists and their artwork while putting each piece in place.

Gravilux – an app that lets you draw with stars

The Hot Rod Art Book: Masters of Chicken Scratch – Over 100 pages of hot rod artwork. Over one and a half hours of instructional videos that show the complete process from sketch to rendering.

Foreign Language

TAO – TranslateIt! Online – one click translation of text into numerous languages using Google translate.

AIUEO-HIRAGANA – Touch, Listen, and Learn Japanese.

Japanese Phrases & Lessons – 2,700 Japanese phrases with sound

French English Dictionary & Translator – French – English Dictionary

TouchLanguage French – Learn over 2,000 French words and phrases

BidBox Vocabulary Trainer: English – Spanish – Learn Spanish vocabulary

简明英汉词典 – English – Chinese Dictionary

German English Dictionary & Translator – German – English Dictionary

Italian English Dictionary & Translator – Italian – English Dictionary

Music

Key Wiz – Learn how to play the piano.

Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD – Learn the basics of music and how to play the piano.

Magic Piano – Play the piano freestyle or on a spiral keyboard.

Air Harp – Strum and pluck the strings for a harp sound.

ESE Modifications/Accomodations

Proloquo2Go – full featured alternative communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking

Speak it! Text to Speech – A high quality text to speech app.

Pocket Picture Planner HD – Use pictures or graphics to create a visual calendar.

All Subjects/General/Productivity:

Keynote – A slideshow presentation program

Pages- A word processing program

Numbers – A spreadsheet application

iBooks – a ereader book store.

Puppet Pals – Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time!

Mobile Mouse – Mobile Mouse instantly transforms your iPad into a wireless mouse and trackpad for your computer.

Bento – Manage things with 25 ready to use databases.

GoodReader – Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you’ll be transferring files from the computer to the iPad. Supports a wide range of files.

Note Taker HD – An app for writing handwritten notes, diagrams, etc.

Sundry Notes Pro – Sundry Notes is the first social note taking application. Write, draw, record and research right within the app – and then share your notes with others.Take notes right within your application, including: Write text (and change font color, size, etc.), draw anywhere in your notes, search Wikipedia, Google, and Google Books – and grab images from them for your notes using two fingers, Import PDFs from the internet, Import images from your photo library, record sound/voice, Change page background to graph paper, lined paper, legal paper, etc.

CourseNotes – Take notes in class and keep them organized by subject area.

MindNode – Mind mapping, brainstorming, organization.

iThoughtsHD – A mind map tool for the iPad

Evernote – Evernote turns the iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life.

Stick It – Sticky Notes with Bump™ – Sticky notes you can share with other iPad Users

PrintCentral – View, store, and print from the iPad

Educate – The ultimate teacher’s companion providing mobile access to your student’s data, teaching strategies, eLearning tools, and timetable.

OmniGraffle – Brainstorming, diagraming, charts, graphic design, etc.

GoDocs iPad/iPhone (Google Docs™ support) – View, edit, share, and download Google Docs

Office² HD – View, create, and edit Word and Excel files

Cramberry – Create flash cards to study from.

Professor Garfield Cyberbullying – Garfield and Friends share information about Cyberbullying

Professor Garfield Online Safety – Garfield and Friends share information about Online Safety

eClicker and eClicker Host- A personal response system that allows teachers to poll their classes in real time.

Blackboard Presenter – Turns iPad into a blackboard presenter using the VGA dongle. Mirrors iPad screen to the projector.

PDF Reader Pro Edition – PDF reader.

WritePad for iPad – WritePad lets you take notes in your own handwriting with an iPad stylus, pen, or even your finger.

Browser Duo – Designed specifically for the iPad, Browser Duo takes advantage of the iPad’s amazing screen size to enable multi-tasking in the browser.
Discovery Education – Educational videos

Inquiry Models

June 28, 2011

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While reading up on inquiry I discovered Truman University’s requirements. They require students are required to complete 7 of the 8 Modes of Inquiry. I think I might contact someone in their English department to find out what some of this looks like on paper.

Aesthetic – Fine Arts

Students who successfully complete the Aesthetic Mode of Inquiry – Fine Arts will demonstrate in their writing, observations, questions, projects and discussions:

an understanding of specialized vocabularies and symbols relative to the field of study;
an ability to analyze structures and relationships inherent to a given artistic creation (formalism);
an ability to respond or react to a given artistic creation using a range of tools that include: aesthetic sensitivity, personal experience, understanding of social context, and recognition of a variety of cultural/historical references (referentialism);
knowledge of a significant number of representative works in a chosen area (or areas) of creative production; and
thought processes that make connections between isolated components and the complete whole.

Aesthetic – Literature

Students who successfully complete the Aesthetic Mode of Inquiry–Literature will develop:

the ability to interpret a text by drawing on some of the following techniques: close, active, reflective reading; past experiences; primary and secondary sources; other critical approaches; and
the ability to analyze the structural elements and relationships within a text or between various literary genres in order to explain how authors create responses in readers.
In addition, students who successfully complete this Mode of Inquiry will show some of the following features in their writing, observations, questions, and discussions:
familiarity with a significant number of influential and representative works OR familiarity with a significant number of works of an influential author(s);
understanding of the diversity of human experience and creative expression presented in literature;
situating works into historical, cultural or intellectual contexts OR seeing literature’s connections to other disciplines OR seeing how other disciplines can inform the reading of literature;
analyzing the values in the literature read; and
recognizing how our own culturally and experientially derived assumptions shape our reading of a literary text.

Historical

In the Historical Mode of Inquiry, students will study a broad topic or major geographic area over an extended period of time and will demonstrate competence in one or more of the following areas, which characterize the work of historians:

thinking in terms of causation, change over time, contingency, context, and chronological frameworks;
drawing upon and synthesizing the content and methodologies of humanistic and social-scientific disciplines to study and interpret the past;
analyzing the interplay between choices individuals have made and the developments societies have undergone; and
understanding the social and aesthetic richness of different cultures.

Mathematical

Upon completion of the Mathematical Mode of Inquiry, students will:

be able to study assumptions critically, reason logically, and arrive at mathematically sound conclusions;
have an understanding of the role mathematics has played throughout history and how it has been used to illuminate important questions in a variety of disciplines;
be able to translate problems in physical and social environments into mathematical language, to reason mathematically about the problems, and to interpret the results of their reasoning;
understand how mathematics develops by abstracting from specific contexts a general theory which has applications in many different settings; and
have had an in-depth exposure to a branch of mathematics, such as calculus, which builds upon the skills learned to fulfill the Essential Skills requirement in Mathematics.

Philosophical and Religious

Any given Mode of Inquiry course in philosophy and religion will achieve many, but not necessarily all, of the following outcomes. Upon completion of the Philosophical and Religious Mode of Inquiry, students will:

have reflectively engaged foundational epistemological or methodological issues;
have employed one or more of the methods of philosophy and religious studies: for example: a) conceptual, linguistic, and logical analysis, or b) philosophical reflection on other disciplines, institutions, and practices, such as natural science, social science, mathematics, law, religion, or the arts, or c) close interpretation of philosophical texts or of diverse elements of religious practice and experience, or d) investigation of how the study of religion is informed by other disciplines in the humanities or social sciences, or e) historical investigation of the development of philosophical perspectives or religious traditions, or f) interpretation and critical evaluation of ethical and political issues and practices;
have studied materials appropriate to those methods, for example: primary historical texts and figures, contemporary scholarly arguments, proofs, scriptures, religious myths and practices, social practices, or literary texts with philosophical or religious merit;
have produced their own work consistent in form with one or more of the methods of philosophy and religious studies at a challenging undergraduate level;
have honed skills common to all intellectual activity but given particular attention by scholars of philosophy and religion: oral and written acuity, critical but faithful reading, argument analysis and evaluation, thesis development and defense;
have investigated philosophical and religious phenomena in relation to worldviews: comprehensive perspectives or ways of apprehending the world and valuing and acting, both historical and contemporary; and
be able to balance and discriminate between insider and outsider, empathetic and critical views of philosophy and religion, with attention to ethical and cultural sensitivity and tolerance.

Scientific – Life Science

Upon completion of the Life Science Mode of Inquiry, students will:

have engaged in scientific experimentation, including the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, and aspects of experimental design;
understand how scientific theories are evaluated and applied;
understand that science is a human endeavor, influenced by both historical and technological context;
understand the unifying principles common to all organisms, and recognize ways in which the mechanisms of evolution or human-driven selection have influenced the diversity and complexity of the natural world; and
recognize some of the issues in the life sciences that influence society, and have acquired familiarity with some of the technical language and basic theories of science that inform personal and public decision making.

Scientific – Physical Science

Upon completion of the Physical Science Mode of Inquiry, students will:

have engaged in scientific experimentation, including the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, and aspects of experimental design;
understand how scientific theories are evaluated and applied;
have learned and used symbolic language, made quantitative measurements, and applied the tools of mathematics to interpret these measurements and to solve quantitative problems; and
recognize some of the issues in the physical sciences that influence society, and have acquired familiarity with some of the technical language and basic theories of science that inform personal and public decision making.

Social Scientific

The Social Scientific Mode of Inquiry is designed to facilitate the ability to make more informed decisions about social issues, thus advancing the goal of citizenship and leadership in its broadest meaning in the context of families, groups, communities, societies, and/or the global system in general. Students will demonstrate competence in the following areas:

thinking systematically about humans, societies, and/or organizations, and their interactions;
applying critical thinking skills and analytical capabilities in the social sciences;
understanding major generalizations, discoveries, principles, concepts, methodologies, technical language, and theories in at least one of the social science disciplines (Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, and Geography);
understanding what constitutes evidence in the social sciences and how social scientists utilize empirical observations for drawing inferences and conclusions; and
connecting ideas in the social sciences to real world applications, and to the context of their historical development.

Difficult Structures for ELLs

June 20, 2011

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A friend of mine shared a PowerPoint she created for her class on sentence structures ELL students frequently find troublesome. These structures are difficult because they either sound like questions and are not, OR they don’t sound like questions but they ARE. Therefore, the ELL students find it difficult to respond to them. I just thought I’d share.

Open publication – Free publishing – More grammar

PowerPoint shared by Halee Wilson and the other people from her group mentioned in the first slide. (Since I don’t know them, I cannot provide their last names.)

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iPad Apps for Language Arts