The Week in Review

Well, we've had another great week in Social Studies! Let's think back on what we did.

• We worked on Chapter 2 in our book to prepare for the next unit;
• We watched part of the documentary Brooklyn Castles to prepare for our guest speaker who is coming to introduce the ancient Chinese board game called Go;
• We took notes on the parts of a map in preparation for our test next Wednesday;
• Today we spent the day in the library with Ms. Rummage learning about plagiarism and checking out books;
• And, tomorrow we will have a folder check and create our own artistic versions of a compass rose (and we will get our longitude and latitude tests back to place in our folder)

Another busy week!

Next week we will review the parts of a map on Monday, and then launch into map projections in order to include that material on our test for Wednesday. We will finish up our continent maps with one for Asia and one for Australia. We will take a Common Assessment with the other two 7th grade teams on what we have learned, thus far. However, this will not count as a grade - it is simply an assessment "process". We will also touch on the idea of a global community by creating mini-collages on a topic of global importance. I have National Geographic magazines to use for this, but if anyone has magazines at home that their parents are willing to donate, we always accept donations with a smile :).

Some people expressed a concern today that when they tried the absolute location finder on the iTouch map, it didn't seem to work correctly. Below, you will find another link to the World Atlas absolute location finder. Try it by clicking on the link below. See you tomorrow!!!

World Atlas Absolute Location Finder