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Tag: 8th grade
STEM challenge: Design a Greek Temple
There are certain design styles that are eternal. They come back into style over and over again, and one of the most eternal is the Greek columns. You constantly see them brought back whenever a society wants to show they are mature and need to be taken seriously. Look at all of the European capitals…
Syria Unit
I was going through my emails to find a recipe and saw my Syria unit recipe and thought, ‘Why do I still have this email? I already wrote this,’ then I came over here to discover, no I never actually wrote my Syria unit. I just thought I had written it. So years ago we…
Design a Siege Tower
When we talk about technology we always think in terms of digital items. We think something that involves a screen most likely because that’s what technology has been recently. But thousands of years ago technological advances were much simpler it was the inclined plane or the screw. When the Assyrian Empire was around they created…
Daily paragraph bingo
When my kids were in upper elementary their writing skills were not where I wanted them to be. They needed to work on their editing and their ability to quickly write a paragraph, so I sat down and started creating some writing prompts. I then turned the prompts into daily paragraph bingos and it became…
Gilgamesh lesson
Sometimes you have a lesson that the first time you teach it, you have a mild interest in it, and then something catches your interest and suddenly you are much more interested in it. That’s what happened with our Gilgamesh lesson. The first time I taught Ancient History back in Kindergarten, I barely even registered…