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Project Based Learning? Why? "Preparing Students for a Project Based World"
Investigative Study (rubric) (stages) (checklist)
Opinion Paper (rubric)
UNITS (Unit Reviews)
1) Morals as the Basis for Societies
Morality, Relativism and "How do I fit into this world?"
EQ: "From where do the morals of the Enlightenment originate?"
DBQ: Enlightenment
STRATEGY: Marking the Text
Skill #1: Moral Analysis
Criterion D: strand ii "use information to give an opinion"
Criterion D: strand iv "identify different views and their implications"
Skill #2: Define Relationships Between Events/People/Etc.
Morals and Prehistory (Transition Article)
Charles Koch: Why hate the Koch brothers?
Malcolm Glidewell: The Basement Tapes
PPT - Religions
PPT - Islam
5 person paper writing (write as if you believed the morals)
Religious Timelines: East / West (very large images)
PPT Greek
Definitions: Time Periods from Greeks to Enlightenment
Morals Handout & Morals Page
Challenging Our Meritocracy: HuffPost / Research / Jobs / In school / Asians / Full Research (very long) Test / Article: Affirmative Action
/ Caring in Kindnesss to Get to College?? (article)
Enlightenment DBQ -
Enlightenment Worksheet
Enlightenment Image PPT
Image Greece to Enlightenment
Project: Sources of Morality.
2) Prehistory - 1800: Prehistory to the Revolutions of 1800?
EQ: "Why are the Revolutions of the late 1700s so revolutionary?"
STRATEGY: Summarizing the Text
Skill #1 Power Words & Superlatives
Notable; Important to note; Important; one of the __________ (earliest, first, last, most recent); significant.
Skill #2 Note Taking
Skill #3: Restating Questions (thesis for projects, simple questions etc)
INTRO: How It All Began (Listen)
Image #2 1400-1750
AWESOME PPT from LEEDS University: powerpoint (needs nusd login)
http://wac.colostate.edu/journal/vol16/boch.pdf
The Cornell Method:(Why I hate Cornell Notes)
Stanford (info for incoming students)
http://lsc.cornell.edu/Sidebars/Study_Skills_Resources/cornellsystem.pdf
Concept Mapping:
http://cmap.ihmc.us/publications/researchpapers/theorycmaps/theoryunderlyingconceptmaps.htm
Smart Wisdom Method:
http://www.drewhajduk.co.uk/index.php/smart-wisdom-note-taking-made-easy/
Matrix Note-Taking:
http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/teaching_resources/tips/building_note_taking_skills_for_students.html
Note Taking in the 21st Century
CONNECTIONS: Research / Connections - REading & Writing
CONNECTIONS: Brains during sleep (TED Talk on Maslow's)
Notetaking Whitepaper (Texas Tech) overview
This American Life: Seriously (Connection to Present & Enlightenment)
Crash Course World History: #1 - 19
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20
Essay: Compare / Contrast American and French Revolutions (rubric)
Criterion D: strand identify and analyse a range of sources
3) Development or exploitation? "Poverty and the idea of improvement."
SKILL: 5Ws or 6BQs (Who what when where why and how)
SKILL: DBQ - In-text Citations (IB handout)
STRATEGY: Charting the Text
Project: Open Choice (Criteria B: all strands as objective)
Project: Choose a colonized country or region and present a 5 minute presentation to the class. (assignments)
Hispanic / Latino / Spanish - "Breakdown of the Difference. . . "
Colonialism & Imperialism PPT
Colonialism & Imperialism VIDEO
Colonialism & Imperialism GIF
4) Industrial Revolution
SKILL: In-text Quotations
SKILL: Plagiarism
STRATEGY: Writing & Drawing in the Margins
Project: Open Choice (Criteria A, B, C & D)
Create a company. Place it at any time in history. Using only technology then available, make a plan to become a hugely powerful organization.
Industrial Revolution: PPT
Time: web / Energy: web / Smithsonian: Time
Energy in History: web / academic journal
5) World Wars (Inter-disciplinary Unit)
What are the common themes that connect Napoleon to Hitler?
SKILL: Thesis Essential Statements
SKILL: In-text Quotations
DBQ: World War I
Causes:
Congress of Vienna: PDF / PPT
WWI Overviews: Video Overview / Video British Analysis (broken) / Video American Entry / Video Extra Trenches / Overview w/ Video / Trenches 2018
Video #1 SHELL SHOCK: Best Video Overview
Video #2: The Necessary War (notes)
Depression / InterWar: PPT
Political Spectrum - Left vs. Right
Century of the Self: Edward Bernays (video) article
Hidden Brain: Head in Sand / Attention Merchants
Holocaust: pdf (from US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
- Who's willing to take Jews? http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170530-the-ugly-story-behind-a-breakfast-meat
Hitler Youth: video
WWII: pdf / timeline /
WWII: Video
Hitler & Decisionmaking: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions TED
Apocalypse: 2/6 0:00 to 20:00
Apocalypse: 3/6 0:00 to 13:00 & 25:00 to 32:00 38:00 to 43:00
Apocalypse: 4/6 0:00 to 16:00 & 22:00 to 30:00
Apocalypse 6/6: 0:00 to 13:30 & 19:00 - 26:00 & 27:30 to 30:30 & 39:25 to 41:03
Review PowerPoint
Vocab review
Project: Essay (Criterion A & B): What was the holocaust and what were its causes?
6) Cold War
EQ: Should you ever give up power?
SKILL: Restating Questions
SKILL: DBQ: Supporting arguments with quotes
Time Zones & Hitler: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170504-the-strange-reason-spaniards-eat-late
Edward Bernays & Freudian Propaganda https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/bbc-the-century-of-the-self-happiness-machines-season-1-episode-1#watch-film
PPT: file
Yalta Conference (handout)
Potsdam Conference (handout)
The Power of Language: Spoken & Unspoken (TED Talk - entire episode)
Nuclear War:
Tests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
Early Years
Korea
Vietnam (handout)
Glasnost & Perestroika
Democracy War & Covert Action (article JSTOR)
Project: How does the Cold War affect a particular country? (Criterion C & D)
7) Fundamentalism / Terrorism / REVIEW
SKILL: Making Connections
SKILL: Finding Essential Statements
Example Missing Middle Ground http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/politics/democratic-debate-analysis/index.html
Israeli / Palestinian Conflict: UN Facts / UN Palestine Website / PPT / Map / water / water map/ Criticism?
Cultural Revolution China / ppt
Culture Wars US
Russia & Putin -
Terrorism: Why / Strategy: CIA / UN
Arab Spring Failure Article on Failure / Cause? research
Isis Video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKb9GVU8bHE
Venezuela & Bolivia
North Korea
US Polarization as an Example to the World Politicians (CNN Article)
The Problem We All Live With (Radio) [2 parts]
Obama: State of the Union 2016
Project: Study Materials for AP Test (unassigned)
?? Superhero Project
8) Health and Development (Inter-disciplinary Unit)
SKILL: Research Project (Argumentation & Presentation)
SKILL: Planning for Projects (Schoology)
Hygiene - http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health10.html
Sanitation: Image
Safety Preparedness / Risk Choices: Tsunami;
School Inequality: Brookings Institute
Freakonomics: Earth 2.0 - Income Inequality Unavoidable? 32:30
TED Radio Hour: Beyond Tolerance
GLOBALIZATION
DBQ - document
Project: Open Choice (All IB CRITERIA: A, B, C, & D)
Health based project presented to peers as target audience. (global perspective as well).
EQ: Do you think humans have improved over the course of human history? Are we better?
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