In the next day or two the students will start working on Scrapblog to create their final project for our Self Awareness unit. Scrapblog is a great website where students can upload photos and add borders,stickers, backgrounds, etc to their pages. It's scrap booking online.
PARENTS- Just so you know there is an option on Scrapblog to purchase some of their packages. Your children should NOT have to purchase anything to do this! Scrapblog offers hundreds of free items and those will be plenty for you kids to complete their assignment.
They will have time in class to work on this but it should also be worked on at home if needed. Visit my website or moodle page for specifics on the assignment. The scrapblog website is www.scrapblog.com .
I'm excited to see how these turn out! If any of you are interested in the website or scrap booking you will love this site. You can create books, postcards, calendars, etc. I've used it for personal use and their products are reasonable and neat. In case you're interested :) .
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Back in the swing of things!
We've officially been in school for the last two weeks and things are going really well! My students are now really into their "self awareness" unit and have already started contributing to discussions and asking some really great questions.
This week the students did a few quick writes where they reflected on how their parents and families influenced them as well as which songs represent their individual personalities. We also read two interesting articles this week that discussed the scientific idea of nature vs. nurture. The students were forced to look at their lives and try to determine how much of who they are has come from genetics and how much has come from how they are being raised and experiences that they have had. The second article we read was called "Identical Strangers" and it was about a set of identical twins who were adopted at birth and were separated on purpose so that scientists could study the effects on nature vs. nurture. The twins discovered each other at age 35. A man named Neubaurer, the scientist in charge of this study knew that it would be controversial so he locked the results in a vault at Yale University until 2066! So when my students are 70 they are going to check the news to see if the vault has been opened.
Next the kids will be using a fun computer site called wordle to create a great word map of themselves.
Overall the students were interested in the topics discussed in class and I already see them coming out of their shells and becoming part of our class! It was a great week!
This week the students did a few quick writes where they reflected on how their parents and families influenced them as well as which songs represent their individual personalities. We also read two interesting articles this week that discussed the scientific idea of nature vs. nurture. The students were forced to look at their lives and try to determine how much of who they are has come from genetics and how much has come from how they are being raised and experiences that they have had. The second article we read was called "Identical Strangers" and it was about a set of identical twins who were adopted at birth and were separated on purpose so that scientists could study the effects on nature vs. nurture. The twins discovered each other at age 35. A man named Neubaurer, the scientist in charge of this study knew that it would be controversial so he locked the results in a vault at Yale University until 2066! So when my students are 70 they are going to check the news to see if the vault has been opened.
Next the kids will be using a fun computer site called wordle to create a great word map of themselves.
Overall the students were interested in the topics discussed in class and I already see them coming out of their shells and becoming part of our class! It was a great week!
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