Happy New Year to all! It's been a while since we met. I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday break! It was so nice to have time to spend with our family and friends. I really enjoyed the vacation but it is nice to get back with you, too!
This week we are going to tackle United States History. Hmmmm, what will be the best way to share our leaning on our blogs? I have some other web tools to discuss with you. Your teacher and I met before the holiday. We shared ideas and plans and we both look forward to doing that with you.
I have been looking through your textbook - lots of interesting information there. It's going to be an interesting journey!
I was looking through the "How-to-Use this Book: A Study Guide. I'm really curious as to how you learn best. I think we can develop some good strategies together.
Let's talk about how to begin each unit or section. So let's think about learning techniques and which ones you use a lot and why. I bet we can help each other with various strategies. Everyone has different ways to approach learning and if we put our heads together we could be awesome! So check these out and think about which ones you find helpful and get ready to add to the list.
Here we go!
- Studying the pictures
- Reading quotations to connect the ideas to the pictures.
- Reading the titles of the chapters and thinking about what they mean.
- Checking out headings of sections and paragraphs to locate main ideas.
- Reading chapter and unit summaries to identify key ideas.
- Using timelines to make connections and think about when things happened.
- What about maps or graphs? Do they help?
- What's the best way, in your opinion, to learn new vocabulary?
I know you will be able to add to this list as we begin to think about how we can use some of these new web tools to make learning more relevant and fun! See you Friday!
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