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George Cooke (American 1793-1849)  Tallulah Falls, 1841 Tallulah Falls, by George Cooke, caught my attention at the Georgia Museum of Art. My parents live about 14 miles away from Tallulah Falls in northeast Georgia. I grew up around The Tallulah Falls area. I Everyday, I remember passing Tallulah Falls on the way to middle and high school. So, I was immediately amused to see the Tallulah Falls painting from 1841. This piece of art is great illustration of one of the geographical key features of Georgia. Since the Social Studies Curriculum for 8th grade is about Georgia’s geography I relate Tallulah Falls to one of the five geographical regions of Georgia. The waterfalls are obviously a good source of water and valued by the wildlife and people who reside in the area. In Cooke’s, Tallulah Falls, people gazing at waterfalls and are wearing clothes from the 1800’s One of Georgia Standards and Elements for Georgia is also about the importance of water in Georgia’s historical...

I really enjoyed participating in our Book Clubs/Literacy Circles in class. I have never been apart of a book club, so this activity was new territory and fun for me. Creating “norms”, a handshake, and scheduling our readings really provides structure for this assignment. I have never read a book so fast until I read Hoot. Looking back on the assignment, making a reading schedule really helped me. I wish I had made reading schedules for myself in the past with other books. Planning our readings ahead of time helped me, because it allowed me to read swiftly and productively. There have been a lot of times where I have felt overwhelmed with books in the past, but this time I enjoyed and looked forward to reading. I also favor Literacy Circles, because students are allowed to work in groups. Working in groups allowed me to see other areas or connections in the text that I had overlooked and view other interpretations of the book. Each member in my group had something differen...

      I found the app, 8th Grade Friendzy , to be user friendly and appropriate for 8th grade science. Below, I have attached some screenshots of a couple of questions I was asked while playing the game. The texts, within 8th Grade Friendzy , aligns with the content-area texts in science classrooms at Hilsman Middle School. This app also has content-areas like Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and a fun miscellaneous category. There is a total of 10 questions per quiz game. If you answer the question wrong, the app will still display the correct answer. I think that showing the correct answer to the questions after you miss the question helps the learning process. The app also has a visualization aspect of using the colors red and green to differentiate incorrect and correct answers. This was fun to play for me and also tested my knowledge.  142

My strategy lesson was about using Dramatic Role-Play in the classroom. I was really surprised to see how well my classmates improvised during the lesson. I feel like students took the assignment and ran with it. Students improvised by adding their own creative components to their skits. Their creativity made the activity twice as fun and interesting. Another way they improvised was by using the internet to find images of their weather patterns to use as a background image for their play. Students also collaborated well with each other. Even though they only had five minutes to come up with a skit, all of the presentations were thoughtful and entertaining. I think that the strategy lesson also promoted student engagement. I think that in the future, I could collect a better variety of props over time. Props used within a role-play activity are crucial aspects of the strategy lesson. The whole idea behind this strategy is to pretend that you are actually in the given scenario. For ex...

Ms. Maronpot uses differentiation when teaching in the science class. The students do not notice when she is using differentiation to teach in her class.Ms. Maronput uses differentiation when she assigns puzzles to different groups in her class. Every piece of the puzzle has a student’s name and vocabulary term based on their “cognitive level”. The puzzle pieces also have images of the vocabulary term. Ms. M’s differentiation technique with the puzzles catered to all learning styles in her classroom. Differentiation helps students, with all learning styles, to have the chance to learn and comprehend content-area literacy. Differentiation pertains to more than to just reading or skill levels, teachers can use differentiation when planning new lessons based on their students’ prior knowledge of a subject or using the hobbies and interests for student engagement. Differentiation can have a positive influence on learning in the classroom because it paves the path for detailed and diver...

I found a neat science app called ‘Little Alchemy’ ( https://littlealchemy.com/ ) . I choose this app for my resource blog this week because I really like the concept behind the app. Little Alchemy is essentially a gaming app about science. The game starts off with simple elements like fire, earth, air, and water. The object of the game is to mix two elements together at a time in order to produce a new element. There are a total of 580 elements to be discovered on the game. (The app is honestly a little addictive.) This app is also a great way to introduce chemistry to students. Students can experiment with elements without stepping foot into a lab. This might be an appropriate resource for teachers who have a lack of resources in their labs and schools. Unfortunately, some schools simply do not have money in their budget to buy lab supplies for their science classrooms. The Little Alchemy app is free and does not require an email address to sign up.  Also, The Little...