A1: It would be fun to use longitude & latitude to locate places for events in the Olympics. Then, lots of work with comparing, ordering, adding/ subtracting decimals for many different events. Built in engagement! #LearnLAP

A3) My favorite part of the OPTIC Strategy I used in class was P-arts. Students take time to take in all parts of the image you are analyzing.

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A3: This year I centered my entire day around the eclipse as an opportunity to engage while reviewing for a unit test this week. We’re wrapping up ancient Egypt, so we looked into their beliefs on the solar eclipse and gamified it. details here: moriartyhistory.blogspot.com/2024/04/conver… #sschat

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A6 - I created this online lesson & took my class outside to collect leaves: psolarz.weebly.com/i-never-knew-t… & psolarz.weebly.com/new-assignment…
- We created videos explaining our learning: paulsolarz.weebly.com/6---kendall/wh…
- We applied it to our learning of plants here: paulsolarz.weebly.com/ian/plants-as-…
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QUESTION 6:
The changing colors of the leaves in fall or tree buds blooming in the spring can be the perfect excuse to get outside and learn a little science. How might you use the outdoors for some quick learning?
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A5 - My class put on an Arbor Day Event for our community with the mayor and local community members at a local park. We planted a tree, listened to the mayor's speech, performed a skit that we wrote, and sang songs that we rehearsed in music: psolarz.weebly.com/arbor-day.html
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Paul Solarz I would teach about the history of Halloween #learnLAP

Yes! I think we used that in 2016 as well! I retired in 2019, so 2016 was our last election together too. Every presidential election, new tools become available and seem like wonderful ways to introduce civics to students! #LearnLAP

QUESTION 5:
Holidays are a great way to connect with the community. How might you (or have you) used a holiday to connect with your local or global community? How else can we use holidays as an inspiration to learn?
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A4: I've facilitated opportunities for student w/cognitive delays to participate in 'Student Vote'. All different levels. Some activities included...

1. Learn about candidates
2. Identify items in community they want to improve
3. Ask candidates questions
4. Voting

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A4) It’s hard to teach Pre k about this topic. But for Election Day, I did teach them what voting is. Best way to teach them was to have them vote between an oreo cookie or a chocolate chip cookie #LearnLAP #LIUEdTech

A4 - We ran a presidential election simulation in our class every 4 years. We ran as ourselves based on our stance on issues (we answered questions online to learn about our political party lean) & used iCivics.
- paulsolarz.weebly.com/presidential-e…
- youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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A3: I'm not really like the originality in my ideas, but maybe...

1. Research different athletes
2. Calculate average times/distances?
3. Research different countries, use that information to try & explain why certain countries excel in certain sports?

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QUESTION 4:
Presidential Elections (or Prime Minister Elections) only happen every four years. Obviously, actual politics can be controversial, but do you do anything to teach your students about civics or government on these cycles? If so, what and how?
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We used a website to create flags for our invented countries - each color has a meaning, symbols, etc. #LearnLAP

A3 - Way back when we got the newspaper in our classroom every day for every student for free thanks to 'Newspapers in Education' we would track the medal count and create bar graphs to represent the data.

We would also locate each participating country on the map! #LearnLAP