Basic Information:

• The Red Team represented England.
• The Blue Team represented the Continental Army & colonial militias.
• The White Team represented the countries that helped us in the war, like France and Spain.

Create a video answering ALL of the following questions:

1. Why was the blue team smaller and have fewer people?
2. Why was the red team bigger with more people?
3. Why did the white team come into the tug-of-war late?
4. Why was the blue team offered a prize if they won, but not the red team?
5. Why was one person pulled aside and told they wouldn't receive a prize?
6. Why was the white team told to cheer for the blue team?
7. Why did half of the red team have to start so far away?
8. Why did the red team have to pull the rope so far, while the blue team only had to prevent the red team from doing so?
9. In your opinion, was this a good way to learn about the BIG IDEAS in the Revolutionary War? Why or why not?
   

Insert YOUR video at the top of your blog post entitled, "Revolutionary Tug-of-War."

You insert YOUR reflection video here, not this video above!
(Although you can insert this video IN ADDITION to your video!) :)

Directions are here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/ecosystems/lesson-7-natures-waste-matter

We don't do anything after the word "Investigation" including the Review questions.

Follow the directions in the lesson here to complete this blog entry.

Embed the video that you created explaining our Mars Constitution.

Insert the embed code to our shared Google Doc of the Mars Constitution.

Write a detailed post about your first week in space. You've just blasted off of earth and joined the International space ship headed towards Mars.

Start by brainstorming everything you CAN talk about it your post. Then, organize them in order of what sounds the most interesting to OTHERS.

Focus in on the most interesting things and give lots of support (follow-ups). Don't LIST what you did! Only write about the best topics!

I will review each post and 2/3 of your grade in writing will be based on what you have written and its quality. The other 1/3 will be based on your partner's grade (especially grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization). So help your partner finish their writing and then edit and revise it before moving on!

Include a photograph of you in the spaceship (below) using our green screen and the Green Screen App (Doink!) on the iPads.

Entire lesson here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/earth-in-space/lesson-13-star-patterns

Retell a long story on video that you read in class (a myth) or several short stories using only your notes (not the book or website) on video. The goal is to become familiar with various Greek Myths and how they became constellations. Post that video on a blog post with the title above.

What do I already know about Mars?

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Create a video that answers the following questions...

• What time of year can you see Scorpius?
• What constellations can you see in March?
• Why can't you see Orion in the summer?
• What evidence do you have that the earth orbit the sun?
• Explain how you KNOW that the earth revolves around (orbits) the sun using evidence from today's lesson.
• Explain that when it is day time on earth, we are facing the sun and we see no stars (other than the sun). And then show how when it is night time on earth, we are facing away from the sun and we can see stars.
• Explain how different stars are visible at different times of the year.
• Explain how as the Earth orbits the sun, the same stars become visible at the same point in that orbit.
  

More direction available here: http://psolarz.weebly.com/colonize-mars1/1-introduce-the-simulation

Directions are here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/miscellaneous3/21st-century-collaboration-challenge

Insert screen shots of your "Mission Complete" screens!

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

1. What was hard about the game? Explain in detail!
   
2. Was the game a valuable use of class time? If so, why? If not, why not?
   
3. Regardless of your answer to #2 above, if you were marketing this game to teachers, what would you claim this game is good for in the classroom? What skills do students learn from this game?
   

My teacher, Mr. Solarz, was fortunate enough to travel to Dubai last week for an education conference and to meet former Top 50 Global Teacher Prize candidates for the Varkey GEMS Global Teacher Prize. He shared his unbelievable experience with us, and here are some things that I learned from our discussion:

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Here are the directions: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/miscellaneous3/world-poetry-day

Directions here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/earth-in-space/lesson-10-our-sun-is-a-star

Work with your Responsibility Partner to create your second Student-Led Conference of the year. Today's rule is that you cannot go onto the next slide until your partner is done with their slide. They have to let you help them! Your assignment & directions are on Google Classroom (entitled, "Student-Led Conference - March, 2017").

Directions for this post: ​http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/literature-circles/padlet-sharing

Embed a picture from Google Images of your book that you read.
Embed your ThingLink image here.
Then answer the following Reflection/Synthesis questions.

Directions are here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/earth-in-space/lesson-5-observing-the-sun-for-a-day

Directions for this blog post are here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/earth-in-space/lesson-4-observing-shadow-patterns

Directions are here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/earth-in-space/lesson-2-earths-gravitational-force

Embed your video that explains how all of the metaphors from the tug-of-war activity relate to history.

Directions are here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/earth-in-space/lesson-3-day-and-night

Directions are here: http://paulsolarz.weebly.com/earth-in-space/lesson-1-modeling-earths-shape