7th Grade Humanities A-Z: What is air pollution?

Welcome Back to School Fisher's Finest! We're going to have an awesome year. I have attached a link to all of the important terms for the year below in the assignments link. If you click on the link below here you can use my flashcards and even play a fun game or two with them.


7th Grade Humanities A-Z: What is air pollution?

What a fab year!

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you so very very much from the bottom of my heart. What an amazing year we have had. I have adored every one of you and hope to have frequent visits from many of you big 8th graders next year! Stay well, have fabulous adventures, and most of all...stay in touch
XO

Flights Check!

All groups should have all 4 legs of their flights done and an itemized list of the costs for each. Please keep track of this information because it needs to get turned in! You should be working now on the hotels and then the activities in each destination. Don't forget rooms are booked by the number of nights not days and that you need to have enough bedspace for all of your group members in each room or book multiple rooms. If you have an overnight flight you will not need a hotel room for that night.

Bon Voyage!

Virtual Trip Around The World

Now that CRCT's are done we will be traveling the world. You will have two weeks in your groups to use your lottery money (10,000 each) to see a country in each of the three regions we've studied. Don't forget your money has to last for the whole 21 days that you are traveling in June and that your airfare must include a return ticket back to Atlanta!! I have attached the assignment and helpful sites for the project under the assignment heading.
Bon Voyage!

Louie Game Link Below

Have fun guys!!
Louie Game

CRCT's

We finished up last week with our quiz covering Asia. Please use your two study guides on Africa and the Middle East as well as this last quiz on Asia for review.

I am uploading here a copy of three CRCT review sheets for you to use to go over everything we have learned this year.

Economics Review Sheet
Government Review Sheet
History Review Sheet

Enjoy!!!!

Conflict

Today we looked at the Korean War, The Rebuiliding of Japan after WWII, and the Vietnam War through the eyes of Conflict. We used a powerpoint with a guided worksheet that can be found under the assignments link and a prezi that I created on Conflict. Click on the link below to see the presentation.

Conflict Powerpoint

Welcome Back All!!

This week we have hit the ground running discussing the nationalism movements of both India and Vietnam. Click on the links below to see 3 different powerpoint presentations on these countries and on the non violence movement in general as inspired by Mohandas Gandhi.

Indpendence of India and Vietnam

India Vietnam Nationalism Movements

Non Violence Movement

Jeopardy here for you to use!!!

Test tomorrow (Friday) on the Geography and Religons of Asia!!

Click on the link below to see the game.

Review on Jeopardy!

Power Point on Religions of Asia

Hey All!
Check out the following link to help you with your review sheets on Asia and to study for your Geography/Culture test this Friday!

Religions of Asia Power Point

Also check out the Review Sheet  under the assignments link if you need to print a new copy!

and the Compare and Contrast Buddhism and Hinduism Document which has a religion chart properly filled out for you below!
Religion Comparison Chart

Religion Begins!!

Today we started learning about Hinduism. We started reading Chapter 27 and filling out the 5 Religion Graphic Organizer. You can find the link to print one at home under the assignments heading. We saw a great movie on Hinduism and look forward to doing the same tomorrow with Buddhism.

We have a test on Friday over the geography of Asia and the major religions there.

Don't forget  to complete your chart including Judaism, Islam, and Christianity by Wednesday!

Resource Issues of Asia Power Point

Click on the link below to see the power point presentation that we saw in class today
Resource Issue Power Point

Asia Geography has begun!!!

Late last week we started learning the physical features and countries of Asia. We also discussed the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.

Get ready for your quiz tomorrow (Tuesday)

You can study by using the mapping links under S.S. to the left of this post.

Shepard Software and Atlas are two great sites! Have fun.

Economics of Africa

This week we started reviewing basic economic terms that we have learned in the past by playing with the economic matching cards. We also completed the graphic organizer with the help of Chapter 8 and Chapter 9. Be able to compare Nigeria's economy with South Africa's!!!

Tomorrow is your test on African Governments!!!!!

Feel free to play the study island games to review! Click on the link below and use your log in to get going!

Study Island African Governments

Log in: Lunch # @RCS
password: 12345678


After you have logged in....
Click on the Africa Government test review under your assignments
then click on the blue box that says "start studying"
you will then see the screen that let's you choose to play games, click on games and pick your favorite.
Have fun!!

This Week

Monday- We watched all of the groups present their Prezi projects in class and posted our prezi links to our wiki pages so that all class members can review and comment on each others projects. Every student should have a paragraph or two on their own page by their prezi link as to which group made the best argument for how governments in Africa could better deal with the AIDS crisis.

Tuesday- We saw the documentary Foul Water Fiery Serpent about the guinea worm problem in Africa. All students should have received a Governments of Africa Reveiw Sheet that they will need to have complete by Thursday.

Wednesday- We will work on our review sheets and Prezi posts ( link for the review sheet is also under the assginments link)

Thursday- We will go over the review sheets and play review games for Friday's test on the Governments of Africa

Friday - Test over the Governments of Africa.

AIDS Projects Begin!!

Tuesday and Wednesday-
On Tuesday and Wednesday we finished up learning about the different governmental structures in South Africa, Kenya, and the Sudan. We also viewed a promethean presentation on the Sudan region of Darfur.

Click on the link below to see it at home.
Crisis in Darfur

We also finished up class yesterday breaking into our groups for our project on AIDS and learned a little about how the disease is crippling much of Sub Saharan Africa. We read a diary entry from a 13 year old AIDS orphan and began filling out our problem/solution handouts.

Thursday-
The groups continued answering their problem sheets to answer the question, What preventative measures are currently in place in Africa to deal with AIDS? What problems do you see with what the governments are currently doing?

Governments of Africa!

We have completed the history of Africa and are now beginning to learn about the governments of Kenya, South Africa, and Sudan. Please click on the link below to see the promethean presentation that we used in class and refer to your Chapter 5 and 6 handouts. I also attached a link to the graphic organizer under the assignments settings to the left!

Governments of Africa

Test tomorrow!!!

Study Study Study!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Click on the link below to do the jeopardy game!

Jeopardy Game on History of Africa

Test on Friday!!

Monday- Today we will have our quiz on the colonization of Africa
Tuesday and Wednesday- We will continue our discussions about specific countries in Africa with an emphasis on South Africa and Pan African Movement
Thursday- We will play jeopardy!!
Friday- Our big day! Don't forget to study!

A review Sheet will be due on Thursday. You can see it under the assignment link

Have a Great Weekend!

Friday- We learned about the history of Kenya and read a play that was an interview of Kenya's first black president, Kenyatta. We also showed a short clip of his country with a timeline of important events that occurred durring colonization in Africa.

Don't forget your quiz on Monday over Colonization!

map of imperialism in Africa

Map of Imperial Powers in Africa

Click on the link above to finish your maps of Africa if you didn't have time in class to add all of the European powers to your political maps.

Colonization of Africa

Today we went over 8.3 and 8.4. Copies of the worksheets are under the assignments heading. I have also attached a copy of the promethean presentation on Colonization below.

Africa Conolization Presentation

African History Begins...

Thursday- We went over the Unit One Test for Africa. As well as, began filling out a history gathering worksheet on Africa. We will continue completing the sheet in class on Friday and discuss our answers.

Monday- I will be out of the building but you will be seeing a film on child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday!!

Jeopardy Review Game for you to Use!!

Here is a link for you to use for tomorrow's test on Geography and Cultures of Africa/ It is a great Jeopardy game

Jeopardy Africa Geography and Culture

Unit One Africa Test Tomorrow!

Know your information about all of the major physical features, countries, ethnic groups, and religions of the continent. I have attached a copy of the ethnic group graphic organzier and the review sheet under the assignments tab. You can also click on the link below to see the flipchart about the various ethnic groups here.
Ethnic Groups Flip Chart of Africa

Snow Day No Day!!!!!!

Well, it has been a long weekend for sure! most of you did really well on your physical features quiz of Africa and if you need to brush up a bit, feel free to check out some of the social studies links that let you play map games. We'll discuss more resource issues when we get back on Wednesday. Stay warm!

Africa Geography Quiz Tomorrow!

Hello All-
So great to see you all again today. I hope your break was restful. Tomorrow you will get to show me what you know about African Geography. Please go over the 5 highlighted countries of Africa and the major physical features from your maps! There is a great promethean presentation a couple of days back on this blog spot for you to go over!