Power Point

I enjoyed putting together my power point project. Before this class I was never formally taught how to use all the tools properly for a creative presentation, it was usually just short sentences with a colorful background. But I'm glad I know how to draw shapes and customize action features and create buttons and hyperlinks. It makes the presentation that much more interesting and easier to get students involved.

Let Children Play

I thought the "Let Children Play" video brought up a very good point. Not only do children need to play to increase their social and intellectual thinking, but with child obesity becoming a growing problem in the country, I think it's important to keep recess as a way for children to have physical activity everyday. Some students do not participate in sports outside of school so this might be the only time in the day that they can participate in a physical activity and play with friends. Even if the school does not have a playground available, students can use the school's gymnasium or have indoor recess in their classroom and play board games or arts and crafts.

Is Geography Being Left Out of the Curriculum?

After completing my you tube project, I came to notice that a majority of people are not familiar with world geography. I'm not going to go into detail, but the results were very poor. Most of the people that were interviewed stated that they never had to take a geography course in school. Others said that the only geography class they took was in 7th or 8th grade and it was only local geography. I think geography should be a mandatory class in high school and in college no matter what your major is. How can you travel somewhere and not know where you're going? How can you study a country in a history class and not know where it is? The state is talking about putting social studies on the PSSA's, but how good will the scores be if the basics are not being taught?