Agenda
1) Welcome to our new room
2) New seating chart
3) Introduce Extreme Earth
4) Sample presentation
Homework
None
Happy New Year and welcome back to our students. As of today we are in a new classroom, E125. The primary reason for the move was so that Journalism, which I also teach, could take advantage of a mini computer lab we set up in a room that adjoins E125. But all of my classes will benefit from the new room, which is much bigger than my old room and a much better fit for my typically large classes.
Today we introduced the Extreme Earth project, which is an oral presentation. Each student will get a category, for example "hot." This student will then research the hottest place on Earth, and present a 2-minute oral presentation about it. This is the last project in our Research unit.
To help the students get up to speed I gave a sample presentation about The Deadliest Lake in the World. Lake Nyos, in Cameroon, killed 1,700 people in a single day. Ask your kids how.
