Interesting+Lessons

[|http://33532556.nhd.weebly.com] airbag website [|http://48643545.nhd.weebly.com] televisions [|http://97644924.nhd.weebly.com] Sputnik print out color photos of 9 items that were in Lincoln's pockets at the time of his assassination. [] Watch video introuduction: "What was in Lincoln's pockets?" [] divide class into groups. give each group 1 imge. Divide into roles: discussion leader,scribe, reporter. Ask questions: **What do you see? What do you think? what do you wonder?** Discuss, take notes, reconvene and share. Show images as powerpoint and share. Discuss how are they related? (A.Lincoln is embroidered on a handkerchiev and engraved on the temple of the eyeglasses, so save for the end) Students will either guess or tell them where the items are from. Discuss: What does that tell us about Lincoln as a person? How does this make you want to learn about the events that led up to his assassination more?
 * Have historical characters text with one another []
 * Make ebooks: [|www.Beyond-Powerpoint.weebly.com](Linda Chapman) Use Scribd: make PP, make table of contents, save on desktop (Flickr advanced search), Scribd.com, log in and upload - private, save
 * []Fakebook! Make a "facebook" page for a character or historical figure
 * [|FanCity.org]Like Facebook
 * []primary sources "you be the historian"activity
 * Using Weebly to make student websites
 * []write stories and share online
 * www.coldwarmovietrailer.wikispaces.com
 * digital storytelling film festival
 * make a CommonKraft style video
 * grammar videos
 * museums
 * video reflections
 * Reverse PowerPoint - take one slide and turn it into a project - explore all the details and issues
 * songs
 * List of things obsolete in last decade and 20 things that will be obsolete by next
 * Wordle for back to school, themes, character traits, outside reading, text, speeches, reflection...
 * what's missing from your text book
 * www.suffernhistory.wikispaces.comRIch Berger Suffern HS Kids basically create text book
 * online lit circles wandawiki.wikispaces.com/2008-2009+literature+circles
 * Use artifacts to engage prior knowledge or build suspense
 * **Civil War:** (Purpose: to build enthusiasm about project - using curiosity-driven questions as a foundation for beginning the inquiry process)

[|"sell" and "purchase" elements] Take names of elements (abbreviations) and make word our of them (maybe based on a theme) and color code []Weird Al [] (Weird Al) [] apostrophe song [] Grammatical Steve (homonyms) [] punctuation rap [] [] (Boring Girl)
 * **Info-mercial to teach about elements:**
 * Grammar video examples (good and bad ones)


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