Recently, during an inservice, we were discussing vocabulary and creative ways to help students study and learn their vocabulary words. Several great ideas were presented, but my favorite has quickly become Quizlet. You can either access this program online at quizlet.com or download the app onto iPads for quicker access. What I find most beneficial about Quizlet is that the students get to play fun games, and Quizlet will produce a test and grade it for you (what teacher wouldn’t love that!). Continue reading Who doesn’t love playing games?
Category Archives: Cassie Medley
Reflecting on Technology
For my students, any time they can get their hands on technology, or I let them play on the SmartBoard, they are as happy as can be. For most of them, an iPad is more comfortable to use than paper and pencil, so any lesson that I can alter to use technology is going to be more successful in my classroom. Continue reading Reflecting on Technology
Visual Vocabulary
This week in my class we are starting a new unit that comes with several vocabulary words that my 7th grade students aren’t used to hearing. Before jumping right in to the content I want to make sure that they have the background knowledge they need to comprehend what we are learning, so we are focusing first on the new vocabulary. Continue reading Visual Vocabulary
Celebrate Freedom Week
With the new law being passed in Kansas turning Constitution Day into a week long event, I have struggled with ideas of how to celebrate Freedom Week in my geography classroom and still fit the lessons into my content. Luckily, the week coincided with my 5 Themes unit and is a great opportunity for me to give students a first hand experience with the human geography that is an aspect of the theme Place. Continue reading Celebrate Freedom Week
Teaching the 5 Themes Using Movies – Location and Place
Teaching 7th graders reminds me how much I loved walking in to the classroom when I was in school and saw the t.v. pulled to the front of the room, MOVIE DAY!! Of course, now I just have to turn the projector on, no pushing a t.v. cart around, but the kids still instinctively know that they will not have to listen to me in class that day. I can remember watching movies and wondering, even as a student, what is the point of watching this movie? Continue reading Teaching the 5 Themes Using Movies – Location and Place
