Language Support History is on a Roll!



My Language Support Historians have been very busy in class these past few weeks. The start of the school year (especially this year) is all about assimilating to a new country, state, city, and school. We are building community and are now ready to roll!

Last week and this week was spent diving into the five themes of geography and focusing on different regions of the United States. Groups selected two states from a particular region to study through the 5 themes lens. 



I  introduced students to Noodle Tools, helped them create a project, showed them how to link their project to my teacher inbox, search our Media databases and e-books, select sources, cite those sources in Noodle Tools, and use those sources for research!

It is affirming for all of us to see the momentum build as we dive deeply into 21st Century learning!

The next step in our project is to practice speaking skills. I am learning how to even better support and scaffold work for these students and I created a cloze note script for students. This support will reinforce the need for their research and give them a starting point to build a script for their TouchCast Studio video. Students filled in their scripts and practiced speaking parts. Next week we will video and view our progress!

The rest of November will be spent learning about 20th Century Michigan Thanksgiving and we will celebrate with A Taste of Thanksgiving.

Update: I have a few more weeks to wait before I find out about my National Board Renewal. Trying to keep busy and not focus on it too much...

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