May 11

May 11/17 Social 9 Team Challenge #1

One focus of working in teams is to develop cooperative and productive interpersonal skills. Another is to add an element of Competition to the class.Image result for team challenge gif

Your team’s first challenge in competition against the other teams is this:

Discuss, search, and determine what our most valuable artifact of past peoples is.

To reveal your answer, you will:

  • post your response as a video explanation on your Team Instagram account.
    • Make it a habit for all Instagram posts to:
      • add the #ksoc9 hashtag
      • tag the two other teams in your post
  • Your answer to the challenge must be prepared/planned out and include:
    • your reasoning for your conclusion, with adequate support
    • an explanation/overview of the artifact item and why it’s the most valuable to our shared history as a human race
    • images – these can be displayed on other team member’s iPads and recorded during your explanation
    • the inclusion of all members of the team in the explanation of your choice (everyone must play a role in the presentation other than “recorder”)
    • bonus points for
      • clarity of presentation
      • creativity
      • tech skills
      • focus (don’t make too much of a game out of this)

As this will be our first Team Challenge, we’ll review after each presents their findings to develop some pros/cons from the samples and build a set of expectations/rules for the future Challenges.

Good luck!

May 4

Social 9: Documentary Viewing – How did people of the past survive?

You’ve learned a few things through your own research about the many past civilizations of our history. But have you questioned how you can know these things?

  • How has this knowledge been gathered?
  • Are there differing accounts or explanations for some beliefs of the past?
  • Who benefits from these accounts of history?
  • What voices are missing from our record of our human past?

This documentary is nearly 2 hours, so it will fill at least two class periods. Your During Viewing job is to take jot notes of ideas mentioned in the documentary. You’ll have a discussion about what your reaction and thoughts are after viewing, either in person or you’ll post reflections through your new Twitter #ksoc9 account.

Developing the Skill of Note-Taking: You have two options while viewing this film:

  1. Medium Challenge Level: take jot notes in just a chronological way like you’ve probably done many times before
  2. Higher Challenge Level: take jot notes and watch for transitions to new topics so that you may differentiate between categories of the documentary. It is a skill that’s important to develop to be able to organize the structure of a text in your summary. The image below shows how you can use indentations, topic headers, etc to try to develop categories of the information.This will not be marked – it is only a challenge to you to test your ability in practicing this skill or establish your note-taking methods early in the class to compare them to your methods later after some practice.

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The Great Human Odyssey