Studies Weekly is the program we use for our Social Studies course. The students may all access the course at home through the myspringisd.org page. They can read (or have the computer read to them) the articles we have read in class, look at enhancement videos and pictures, or review/re-take test. Everything they do on the site will help them earn points. These points are used to create a cool habitat for their virtual pet rat. The site will help bring the lessons alive for them and hopefully make it easier to remember. We will also be using it in class. If you have any questions just let me know.
Once the students get to myspringisd.org they will need to enter their user name and password. Their user name is "first initial of last name" "first initial of first name" "student ID/lunch number".
Their password is the birthday (YYYYMMDD)
Once logged in they will click on the tab (at the bottom) that says instructional. This tab will bring up several icons, click on the red one that says studies weekly. This ill take them to the site. They may be prompted to enter their email on google (email is their "user name"@students.springisd.org). They may then be prompted to allow google to view their information, click allow. This will bring them to Studies Weekly. They can navigate through the site. It is most helpful is they stay on lessons we have already covered. If they want to preview the next weeks lesson, please limit that to the weekend before. I would rather they focus on the information they have gotten in class.
I hope this program helps everyone learn better and retain the information faster. Make History fun!