Friday, February 4, 2011

Day 1: Getting Started (2/7/11)


Step 1: Go to this site and create a map of six different Chinese dynasties: you must create a map of the Shang, West and East Zhou, Qin, Sui, and Han 1.

Step 2: Go to brainpop.com and watch the BrainPop on the compass here. (The username for brainpop is palmbeach the password is palmbeach).

Step 3: To exit class today please answer this question in the comment section of the blog:

Homework: Complete the Preview 17 (Bubble Map of Classroom Characteristics).

How can computers increase your ability to learn Social Studies?

92 comments:

  1. u can learn more because its easy to research also if theres a certain topic it would easy for u just to open another page or u can just email 2 yourslf

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  2. By using the computers the students will be able to use programs that will increase the interactivity of the lessons. The students will be able to visit websites that do a great job of explaning difficult concepts.

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  3. I think that computers will help us in social studies is that we will have more resources to help us with what we want to learn. Also, I think that I will learn more from using a computer and it's much more fun.

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  4. Computers will increase my ability to learn social studies b/c it will be much easier to get hw and cw when not in class and it keeps us more organized b/c we will have less papers

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  5. It can help increase my leaning in social studies because i well get to practice.

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  6. It can increase my ability because it helps me stay focus and learn better.Also it helps not to slouch or lay my head down when the teacher is teach or given directions

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  7. computers can increase my ability to learn because
    people might not learn nothing off of it

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  8. When we use the computers it can be fun and serious at the same time, its cool to be learning on a computer and its a great way to learn.

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  9. It can increase our ability to learn social studies because it's an new way to learn different things everyday.

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  10. it can increase your ability because you are more organize and you now were everything is .

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  11. Computers would increase my ability to learn in social studies because it would make me focus a little bit better and my understanding will be better than it usually is.This would probably be better than using the textbooks.

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  12. they can increase by giving you more information and help you learn

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  13. it can increase our social studies ability by going to certain resources to help is. Also it can help us prepare for high school.

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  14. It can increase our ability to learn because I can go on the internet to get info and help on what I heed help with.

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  15. it would be easy because u can look up yo info fo what u need

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  16. it can increase our abilities to learn because now we can get different answers from all over the internet.also it will give us world wide solutions or different resorses.

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  17. Well students may pay attention in class more because they want to work with computers

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  18. students will get more information

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  19. it will get where we need to be in social studies.

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  20. IT CAN HELP US INCREASE OUR LEARNING BECAUSE WE CAN FIND NEW RESORES THAT CAN HELP US

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  21. i think it helps cuz ppl can easily look up what they need

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  22. we can also just be in a chat room instead of talking to everybody

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  23. Computers save paper and the trees that we are getting our paper from is causing forests to be cut down. In the future if all schools have computers paper will be a thing of the past.

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  24. Computers will make it so that all students can work at their own pace. Students will be able to go to great websites to learn about history.

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  25. the computers can help us improve in social studies by letting us use more resources instead of just using books and other stuff.

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  26. Computers can increase thee ability to learn better because since history is known to be boring , we can stay focused and awake with computers:)!!

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  27. they can help us because we can get more facts and find out more about what were studying

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  28. i think that using computers will help us because we can use the internet to look up information we need to instead of always using the textbooks.

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  29. it can help because we can look at videos and it makes us not have to use textbooks

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  30. It helps because your able to search what your learning.Also you can look at great illustrations.

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  31. People won't have to move as much to see .

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  32. We can learn more on the internet then in are textbook.

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  33. I think computers can help us improve in social studies because we can look up research. That we can save the earth because we aren't wasting papers.

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  34. it can increase my ability to learn because it can save paper and you can use resources that's already there.

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  35. I think that computers can help us because it will be easy to see what teammates say and what we're supposed to do during social studies

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  36. If you go on learning websites or look for information

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  37. You can get more information.Also it is a fun way to learn.

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  38. Computers can really help us in social studies because it just is a more physical way to learn. People may pay more attention in class and maybe even look forward to social studies because of the computers although they can also be another reason for people to talk. This is a very controversial subject. But i like using them it makes the class more...fun

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  39. we can look up information by our selves more efficiently.also we don't have to write.

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  40. students will get the answers they are looking for

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  41. It can help us because we can get more information that Mr. Sanders doesn't know. Also instead of talking we can get in a group chat and it will be quieter and it saves trees.

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  42. well its pretty easy to browse and to look up information definitions and other stuff it would also allow Mr sanders to stop having to answer a whole lot of questions epically after we start with the preliminary tutorial and get used to using thecomputers and google accounts

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  43. this could help us cuz some people have a hard time with the textbooks and we could have an easier time answering things like quick questions cuz you can move at your own pace

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  44. computers can help us in ss bcuz we can go faster 2 an get more wrk done, plus we wont get board like we usually do{no offence mr.s.

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  45. We could also group chat;) !!

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  46. Computers can increase your ability to learn in social studies because you can get other resources in order to help you out, you will be able to monitor your learning independently,and plus you can get chance to check out at cool apps.

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  47. It can increase our ability of learning because its easier to follow in class .Also kids our age know a lot about internet and web pages .Plus its like High School when there are less papers more technology.

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  48. it will help because we can look up things we needed help on. also we can learn more then ever. and kids our age will learn more by typing.

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  49. working on the computers woud help us because we would be able to keep all our work in one place.and it would make class fun.and there would be no reason for people to not do work .. no matter it your arm is broke :]

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  50. also we'll have our own websites to help us study for FSA's.

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  51. I like the computers yet i am having trouble with using it I'm used to simple laptops not one with all of these complexities. Well I still love using them.

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  52. the computers really did help us because we were able to look up things easy not like in the textbook

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  53. and they still conserve paper

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  54. Computers make it so that every student can work at their own pace. It will save paper and make history more engaging.

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  55. You can get more knowledge or research about what your doing.Also if your more of a person who likes to watch videos or likes to research this should be most highly recommended

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  56. I think that it will increase the stuff that we can do in class because we can now look up the stuff that the Social studies notebooks didn't have

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  57. this can help us learn because we can do things much faster and we can go to the sites that Mr.Sanders goes to so we can learn in a way that is said to be independently instead of going at our teammates pace.

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  58. You can look up research that will help our understanding.Every student will be more interested in class.

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  59. if we use computer we can research and see examples that are social studies teacher iz unable to show us

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  60. They can help us increase our learning by helping us with our work when the teacher ant help us at the time but only if we have permission.

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  61. by us searching the information other than working on the boring paper that is murdering trees >:[
    (also its more engaging)

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  62. It help u learn more better because u get to use more thing on the computers.And u would not have to use paper.

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  63. Computers can increase our ability to learn in social studies, because we wont have so many papers and it will be more fun for class. We will be able to complete our school work easier.

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  64. that it helps me be more on task with my responselbilites

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  65. it can provide fun easier and more engaging lessons

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  66. computers can help us learn by saving time. because this way we don't have to use a whole bunch of paper.

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  67. Having computers will increase our abilities because it will make our backpacks lighter and it will make it easier on us and it is fun :)

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  68. Computers can help us learn by learning different ideas on different websites.We can also learn by watching videos about what we learn and save lots of paper by using the computers.

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  69. Computers can increase you ability to learn social studies because we can prepare for high school and college. Also we can understand easier.

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  70. Computers will increase the way that people think, such as it will help you if you need to figure out something.It will help us when we study and such.

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  71. computers can help us because everyone can just go back to the previous page if they don't understand the learning

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  72. Computers can help us in social studies by allowing us to want to work in silence and in our own area. COMPUTER E-9

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  73. it is easier to research erase and it saves paper.

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  74. Computers help increase our ability to learn because we have access to Google and can ask a questions that we may have over the internet. Also,helps the economy in a way because we are saving paper.This has really helped.

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  75. computers can increase my learning because i can look up wars and dynasties

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  76. I would feel like my city is just an ordinary city. I would feel like that because we do that know in our community or city.

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  77. I feel like my city is good and can keep me safe. My family and I are very fortunate to be living in such a city

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  78. i live in a crazy place. also i have some messy people in my city.

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  79. i would be grateful to be able to live in a place like that

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  80. I think my city is a fun and safe place to be.My city is safe enough for kids to play and that is how our city is now except we have different people we talk to and that is in our circle. Our city is too big to know everybody here so I think their city is our community.

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  81. I love the city that I live in and that everyday that I go in that I see something new and that new people are here in the front of my stand asking directions and for food

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  82. I feel safe in my city,I think my city is really big and lots of people are nice and there's lots of artwork on the streets of my city

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  83. it fell because it used all of its resources on building stuff. without the resources that they had used they became weaker and weaker. they eventually fell.

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  84. While the capital flourished, many of the outlying provinces began to experience decline and poverty.The Tang Dynasty put so much of their resources into building the capital, that the military became weaker, and less effective. In A.D. 765 turmoil and uprisings began to plague the dynasty. In A.D. 907 these uprisings led to the dynasty being overthrown.

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  85. Under the rule of Tai Cong the Tang dynasty continued to grow in strength,wealth,and size.

    Sir Nasser B.

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  86. i think the iphone will be most known for because
    its one of the newest high tech in all of 2000 i think. i like it :p

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  87. We will be known for a type of military weapon or aircraft that other countries will want to buy it and they would re-engineer it to make it fit their needs and enviroment.

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  88. Computers can help me learn in Social Studies because I would be surrounded with resources I can use to help me learn.

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