Tonight before the HOA meeting, I spoke to a teacher down the street. She is currently working on her units for next year and gathering all the materials now. I personally think this is a smart move.
With it being an election year, she is really looking to incorporate this theme in many lessons. Having the students create the laws of the classrooms, writing speeches to elect the classroom government, balancing budgets for classroom activities, and so forth. Of course I mentioned that she had to use the Online Activity from Scholastic titled ""http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif. I also mentioned the great one computer classroom software from Tom Snyder titled "Decisions! Decisions!". My personal favorite is probably "On the Campaign Trail".
With these great tools, teaching in the classroom can be even more exciting.
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Great idea to link the election year to the classroom. I feel like we do this naturally already with creating the rules, etc. however there is definitely a ton of literature floating around now that could tie into so many other issues. I'm going to start gathering now too, thanks!
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