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9th Grade Service Learning Projects

Students in Claude Sigmund's 9th grade Government Class recently completed service learning projects. Students were asked to come up with a project that they were passionate about, and answer the following questions: 1) Why do you care about this issue? 2) What is the root cause/underlying problem? 3) Research your issue. Find 2 good articles to inform you on this topic. Write a 1 page description of how the information from these articles impact how you would interact with this issue. Use specific quotes, statistics from the articles and other pertinent pieces of information. 4) What are some resources/organization that can help you interact with this issue and/or accomplish your goal? Make sure you include contact information such as Names, addresses, phone numbers, web address. 5) What are potential projects you could do to affect and/or impact this issue (2-3 ideas) a. Name of project idea b. Basic outline/timeline of proposal (paragraph) c. Impact? How will your actions impact...

Uploading a Video to Teachertube

Here is a video from last Wednesday featuring a lecture by Claude Sigmund on the philosphers whose ideas influenced the founding fathers of the United States. After editing the video in Windows movie maker, I saved it out as a movie in the smallest possible size that would still play in a 320 x 260 window, around 20 mb. I then uploaded the video to Teachertube.com . On Teachertube, you can either link to the URL of the video, or embed it as I did here.