Jan 10
Kahoot links for final exam practice
Kahoot links for final exam practice
- https://create.kahoot.it/share/mcdade-social-studies-8-review-part-2/d2d20314-d5b2-4933-88c3-900163994bb8
- https://create.kahoot.it/share/china-review-social-studies-8/41f194be-0281-4737-893b-a68e68daa8a2
- https://create.kahoot.it/share/mcdade-ss8-review-part-3/76a95c78-1592-4494-9f59-4c8a3c9ba320
Dec 18
First Nations of Canada Project
First Nations of Canada Project
- Step 1: Select a first nation in Canada using native-land.ca
- Step 2: Pick 5 aspects of this culture and showcase your learning using prezi, keynote, powerpoint
- Food, hunting, clothing, visual art, language, dancing, stories/ legends, music, shelters, medicine, spiritual/ beliefs, tools, ceremonies, trade, education
- Step 3: Include a bibliography
Sept 19/20
- Current events discussions - Trudeau's blackfacing, Scherer's 2005 video
- Finish notes on Chinese belief, religion and philosophy as well as the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Sept 18
- Read and fill in the blanks on note template for Chinese belief, religion and philosophy
Sept 17
- Discuss evaluation terms
- Go over quizzes
- Notes on Yüan and Ming dynasties
Sept 16
- Quiz - Tang and Song dynasties
- Notes on Yüan and Ming dynasties
Sept 13
- Notes on China's Song dynasty
Sept 12
- News stories and "significance" practice
- Current events assignment
Sept 6, 9 and 10
- China geography - summative map assignment
- Tang dynasty - read and write notes using 5 themes graphic organizer
- Map due on Friday
Sept 5
- Current events activity
- Sources for current events activity
- yukon-news.com
- cbc.ca
- bbc.com
- thebeaverton.com
- theguardian.com
Sept 3 and 4, 2019
- Period 1 - geography of Africa
- Period 2 - political map of Europe
- Periods 1 and 2 - defining key terms and using them in context (expulsion, geocentric, hierarchy, infidel, matrilineal, monopoly, seigneuries, treaty, pagan, fief)
Second week of school
- Catan play and in-class written reflection on the role of human relations within societies
- Text book scavenger hunt
- African geography (period 2 only)
First week of school
- Culture building activities
- Learning letters
- Co-creation of class expectations
- Settlers of Catan game play (debrief - challenges during game play and whether or not they are realistic societal issues, strategies for winning during next week's game play)
- Homework: learn how to say hello in a few languages ***you must have one unique language when we do attendance on Monday!