Friday, February 4, 2011

Another dramatic day in geography

S1-2 continued their earthquake investigation with some reinforcement of their learning so far. The class began with a discussion on why it is important to remember specific facts. The class discussed how important factual knowledge is and how significant it is to develop the skill of learning in a way that improves recall skills. They concluded that in this unit, understanding the basic facts is important so that they can build on this as they investigate recent earthquakes.

Here are some volunteers crossing the River of death. In order to move to the next stepping stone, the volunteers had to use given key words in a sentence that explained their meaning...






Here are more volunteers acting out the destructive margin story for the rest of the class...



And here, the constructive margin story...




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