It's All About Organized CHAOS

Walk past my room on any given day and you'll see students sprawled about, moving, collaborating, and essentially, LEARNING. It's loud and chaotic, but believe me, there is a method to the madness.

In fact, I encourage my students to become sort of "mad scientists" in social studies because that's what it's all about!  Questioning.....Hypothesizing...Researching and Testing...And Again..And Again... until a Conclusion is reached.

In this case, students learned about an essential GEOGRAPHY tool used to answer the question any professional geographer would ask: "Where is it located?"  And that is none other than our friends Mr. Longitude and Ms. Latitude.

First I transformed my room into a gridded map...a coordinate plane of sorts and let the students roam free. They had to determine the correct placement of each point with the help of only an atlas and themselves.

Later, we explored various locations around the globe using 3-D Virtual Reality!  My kids were AMAZED at what they could see with a simple app called Google Street View and a handy dandy Cardboard Viewer. (Photos to come)

All We Do in Class is PLAY!

Well, not really. But we do play a lot of games. In fact, I make it a point to integrate gaming with technology as much as possible. When I do that, students tend to absorb the content at a greater concentration than if they had not been this engaged in learning. And by the way, it's FUN!

Here's a snapshot of the fun.

Before every unit test, we play a FUN FUN game of Kahoot. My kids LOVE it! They were so grateful. One of my precious students even told me, "Thank you so much for taking the time to make us a Kahoot...because I tried to make one before and it took FOREVER."  *Hugs*

My 7th period got to be the guinea pigs of a new game I found to help with vocabulary. Quizlet LIVE. They LOVED it!  Special thanks to my parent Mrs. Esaili who recommended it!

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One Thing You Don't Want to Be in the DARK About

Moms, Dads, and Guardians:

Watch this 4 minute video to learn how to best support your student in knowing what they are learning everyday in Social Studies. Their ISN is the essential tool for success in my class.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Amber Brown, M.Ed.

E-mail: amber.brown@redoakisd.org

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