Saturday, January 8, 2011

Jerry Fike's Mapping America Activity

Link to my file

This is a great project to use for students to practice researching a website or websites.
I thought this would also be awesome to use for math lessons, teaching percent and how to find the percentage of any given number.


This could be used when discussing the lesson on comparing and contrasting. 




Wikipedia blog on Jim Morrison

Wikipedia’s article on Jim Morrison was fairly long and in depth.  It included his entire bio from childhood to death, as well as information about the rock band “The Doors” throughout the article.
Britannica’s article gave a quick one paragraph overview about Jim Morrison studying film at the University of California and a couple bits of information describing the band.  Britannica then gives you a prompt saying if you want to read more, you need to activate a no risk free trial account.