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Susan Joling replied to Elizabeth Hunt's discussion Final Papers (not the ARS) go here in History through the senses
"My reflection focuses on how I will implement specific materials from the class into my own 5/6 classroom. Still cogitating on your engaging class. Thanks so much.JolingReflectionHistoryThroughSenses.docx"
Jun 14, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Elizabeth Hunt's discussion Final Projects - ARS - live here in History through the senses
"5/6 Civil War Image Exploration - Was the war worth it?Joling ARS_template.docx"
Jun 8, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Elizabeth Hunt's discussion Day 4 Afternoon Reflection in History through the senses
"I enjoyed learning about the history and the different teaching techniques this afternoon. My kids will like to get up and move around from quote to quote to decide who said what and will listen hard to the audio pieces to see if they got it right.…"
Jun 1, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Elizabeth Hunt's discussion Day 4 Morning Reflection in History through the senses
"The most memorable thing about the morning was a Stephanie Campbell quote in reference to underwear and padding relating back to the 16th century, “The bigger my junk, the more macho I am." 
I love the High Five Buddy activity. I will do this the…"
May 30, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Elizabeth Hunt's discussion Article #2 Response in History through the senses
"http://www.edutopia.org/blog/core-practices-arts-integration-susan-... By Susan Riley “Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core – Edutopia.org

This article maintains that true arts integration is rare. This rings true from my experience. I know…"
May 30, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Elizabeth Hunt's discussion Day 3 Afternoon in Review in History through the senses
"Okay. I finally get the purpose of the ARS. It's a collection for short bits of "stuff" for a unit rather than all the things one might use in a unit. That helps. I'm not sure I would use the template for unit planning. I might just use Library of…"
May 29, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Elizabeth Hunt's discussion Day 3 Morning Review in History through the senses
"I am so going to do a Hootenany next year. I know the music and P.E. teacher will teach the kids some of the songs and dances and I can fill in the rest. I might have some interested students lead some of the dances. In fact, I might be able to do…"
May 29, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Stephanie Campbell's discussion Day 2 -Afternoon - Negro Spirituals / Civil War in History through the senses
"My teaching partners and I are starting off with Mini Society next year. We will be connecting things like our Constitution with writing a class constitution. I will definitely kick off the currency piece having students analyze money from…"
May 28, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Stephanie Campbell's discussion Day 2 Morning - Colonialism and Revolution in History through the senses
"I think I'm going to use the Civil War as the topic for my final project. Since I'm a "whole to part" kind of person, I really would like to have at least a scaffold of a unit plan before I gather things in an ARS.

I enjoyed hearing about the first…"
May 28, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Elizabeth Hunt's discussion Day 1 Afternoon Reflection in History through the senses
"I think it would be fun to do the Renaissance and Baroque periods as we study scientists and mathematicians when we do our Astronomy unit. It would be nice to add the music, art, and dance components to this theme:  here is the music and dances…"
May 27, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Stephanie Campbell's discussion Welcomes in History through the senses
"I teach a fifth/sixth grade class at Chugach Optional Elementary along with two other 5/6 teachers. We get our fifth graders back the next year as sixth graders and only get half a class new. This next school year we will be teaching fifth grade…"
May 27, 2014
Susan Joling replied to Stephanie Campbell's discussion Day 1 Morning reflection in History through the senses
"I'm trying to think of appropriate magazines to use with fifth and sixth grade students for the primary source activity. Perhaps I could use a video game magazine??

I've used the music, get-in-groups activity before. I'm thinking it would be good…"
May 27, 2014