Skip to main content

Home/ Chandler School/ Group items tagged mystery

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
1More

- Video to Help Prepare for Mystery Skype and Jobs - 0 views

www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx mystery skype mystery skype
shared by Kimberly Marlow on 30 May 14 - No Cached
  • Kimberly Marlow on 30 May 14
     
    "My amazing students have been shooting videos to help others start with blogging and Mystery Skype.  I am excited to reveal our first video in our Mystery Skype series; how to prepare and ideas for jobs.  Please feel free to use this video with whomever you see fit.  More videos are coming before the end of the school year."
1More

Mosa Mack Science Detective - 0 views

www.mosamack.org science STEM technology
shared by Jill Bergeron on 16 May 14 - No Cached
  • Jill Bergeron on 16 May 14
     
    Animated science mysteries for middle school students.
1More

The Mystery Skype Call on Vimeo - 0 views

vimeo.com/25284448 skype mystery skype
shared by Kimberly Marlow on 30 May 14 - No Cached
  • Kimberly Marlow on 30 May 14
     
    "Using the concept of "Students as authentic Contributors", Mrs. Yollis' third grade students have specific job responsibilities during a Skype call to collaboratively figure out the location of their connection partner."
6More

Simulations Can Change the Course of History . . . Classes | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...-history-classes-matt-levinson simulations game_based_learning edutopia
shared by Jill Bergeron on 27 May 14 - No Cached
  • With each unit of study, I made sure to incorporate an active simulation, ranging from mock press conferences and trials to murder mysteries and dinner parties, from spy dilemmas to mock Survivor games.
  • When a student adopted that character's thinking and point of view in one of the simulations, passion and purpose soared.
  • Even the quietest, most introverted student, given the opportunity to play a personality from history, can step up and into the opportunity to speak from that person's perspective
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • Set up the environment so that students will be speaking and debating with each other in the roles of their historical characters and around a framing problem or issue
  • Bring in a variety of sources for students to analyze and research.
  • Social media is a wonderful connector for these kinds of simulations, with students setting up Edmodo, Schoology, or Facebook pages for their characters in a simulation, figuring out friend groups, posting photos, and speaking from their character's point of view.
1 - 6 of 6
Showing 20▼ items per page