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Regina Schaffer replied to Jesse Peters's discussion Flipping a Middle School Classroom? in the group Middle School Social Studies

"I am going to try it this year with my middle school students. In the past I taught 7th and 8th grade, this year all 8th. Your percentages for students not returning homework is what I averaged also so I was hoping it improved with the flipped…"

Jul 10, 2012

Dana Sutcliffe replied to Jesse Peters's discussion Flipping a Middle School Classroom? in the group Middle School Social Studies

"I'm going to be trying the flipped classroom this fall have have been hearing mixed reviews about it in the public school setting. I wonder if you start it at the very beginning of the year as a "set the tone of my class" activities…"

Jun 21, 2012

Amanda Ballard replied to Jesse Peters's discussion Flipping a Middle School Classroom? in the group Middle School Social Studies

"Did you "model" on "what" they should do? Many students do not "get" that they need to pause, rewind, and watch again. I say this not from my direct experience (I plan on venturing more this way next year)…"

Apr 2, 2012

Livia Marlene Perez replied to Jesse Peters's discussion DBQ Assessments in the group Middle School Social Studies

"http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ss5/b/causesofamrevdbqfinal/index.html"

Mar 26, 2012

Leticia Hallmark replied to Jesse Peters's discussion DBQ Assessments in the group Middle School Social Studies

"Jesse, Our school uses dbqs that were created by the American History Grant through our education service center. They used to be posted at www.esc13.net under social studies. I think they were removed though. I can email you the…"

Mar 24, 2012

Jesse Peters replied to Jesse Peters's discussion DBQ Assessments in the group Middle School Social Studies

"This wouldn't be until the next school year so I would have the whole summer to plan. Any help would be appreciated."

Mar 11, 2012

Andrew Bianco replied to Jesse Peters's discussion DBQ Assessments in the group Middle School Social Studies

"Jesse... When do you want to start some of the DBQs? I have some things from when I used to teach 8th grade SS in NY, but I need to find my old files. I can also send you some websites that will be extremely helpful. I used to use them for my…"

Mar 10, 2012

Jesse Peters added a discussion to the group Middle School Social Studies

DBQ Assessments

Does anyone have DBQs for middle school curriculum from Revolution to Reconstruction? I am wanting to do more of them next year as we move into common core standards with all of the writing focus.

Mar 10, 2012

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Eric Makelky replied to Jesse Peters's discussion Flipping a Middle School Classroom? in the group Middle School Social Studies

"I didn't something similar with 7th graders as an experiment and had the same result. 75% of the students viewed the video and passed the quiz that accompanied it, the rest chose not to do it. To complicate things our school…"

Mar 2, 2012

Jesse Peters added a discussion to the group Middle School Social Studies

Flipping a Middle School Classroom?

One of the new methods for providing direct instruction to students is to do so using the power of the internet: YouTube, Vimeo, and other video streaming services. I teach 8th grade and mulled the idea over for a while during the school year and finally decided to give it a try. It was received with excitement by many of my students but the end product has not impressed me so far. I record over my PowerPoints (in PDF version) using my iPad with the program Explain Everything and post…See More

Mar 1, 2012

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Jesse Peters joined Timothy Monreal's group

Middle School Social Studies

Place where middle school teachers can share lessons, questions, tools, books, or really anything. Also a place to start dialogue with high school teachers to alleviate transitional issues between middle school and high school.

Feb 25, 2012

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Jesse Peters joined Angela Cunningham's group