Wednesday and Thursday we discussed how inventions are most often made for the upper 10% of the world population and how this affects underprivledged areas. See the Cooper Hewitt listing under Social Studies links. The Other 90%.
Friday we took an inventory of basic social studies knowledge to see where students needed review.
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Mrs. Fisher
Social Studies Links
- Funnelbrain Flashcards for the year
- CIA Factbook
- Currency Converter
- Freedom House
- I Like 2 Learn Map Quizzes
- Index of Economic Freedom
- Kiva
- Mint
- NY Times
- Political Cartoons In The News
- Recycle Almost Anything
- Sheppard Software - Geography
- the other 90% Cooper Hewitt Inventions
- Trivia Plaza Quizzes
- U.S. Debt Clock
- World Atlas
- World Democracy Audit
21st Century Tools
- Our Class Workspace at PBWorks
- Creative Commons images & media for projects
- Audacity for Podcaster
- Wordle Word Cloud Creation Site
- Screencast Screen Capture
- Audio Pal site to record yourself
- Glogster Interactive Poster Creator
- Prezi project creator site
- Voice Thread
- Animoto video creation site
- Thinkquest Student Project Site
- Go Animate Cartoon creation site
- Toondoo comic creation site
- Pixton Cartoon Creation Site
- Kerpoof animation/movie making site
- Voki create talking avatars
- Blabberize Create talking photos
- NCES Graph Maker
- Ediscio flashcard site
- Bubble graphic organizer creation site
Assignments
- Vritual Trip Around the World Project
- Helpful Links Around the World Project
- Rebuilding Japan, Korean War & Vietnam War
- Asia Geography/Religion Review Sheet
- 5 Religion Graphic Organizer
- Goverments of Africa Review Sheet
- Countries of Africa Graphic Organizer for Governments
- Review Sheet African History
- 8.3 and 8.4 History of Africa Colonization sheets
- Step Sheet for Colonization of Africa
- Review Sheet for Geography and Culture of Africa
- Ethnic Group Table
- 3-D Map of Africa
- Middle East Economics Review Sheet
- Problem Solution Handout
- Government at Its Best Rubric
- Onlevel-My Government at Its Best
- TAG My Government at Its Best
- Government and Civic Understanding Document
- Middle East History and Conflict Review Sheet
- Middle East Think Tac Toe
- Religions of the Middle East Project
- Name That Place Map
- Middle East Geographic Region Notes
- Fisher's Projects 2010-2011
- Get To Know You Survey
- course syllabus
About Me
- Mrs. Fisher
- I am entering my 8th year as a teacher of both middle and high school students. I love teaching! I am married to Peter Fisher. We have identical twin girls, Peyton and Kenzie who are 6th graders at RCS. I was raised in a suburb outside of Chicago and graduated from University of Wisconsin
Contact Me
fishersu@fultonschools.org
hey i found this thing about an ipad like tablet pc and its only $35 so that people in india and poor countries can buy it i feel like thats kind of for the other 90% heres the link:http://tweentribune.com/content/tablet-computer-%E2%80%93-only-35 by the way this is allen hornsay my google has a weird name
ReplyDeletethat is so cool. you should bring it up in class!
ReplyDeletesorry i type hornsay its hornsby
ReplyDeleteLOL. I figured it out buddy.
ReplyDeleteSee you at school.