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History and Geography Department: Middle School Section History Activities Overview

January 7, 2022

This semester, the history department has worked on several exciting projects that have allowed students to demonstrate their skills as independent learners. 6th grade has created their civilization using the Seven Elements of Civilization and is currently designing a tomb for a fictional Egyptian Pharaoh. The 7th grade celebrated the achievements of the Pax Romana by creating a brochure for an imaginary festival that highlighted this period of peace and progress for the Roman Empire. H level is working to create a magazine that showcases life in Rome during a specific time in the empire. These projects allow students to show the independent learning traits of creativity, critical thinking, inquiry and research, and self-management as students need to manage their time with these longer assignments.

Cornell Notes

Both 6th and 7th-grade students use Cornell notes as a note-taking strategy that can be very helpful to them when they are preparing for tests and quizzes. Cornell notes were developed by a professor at Cornell University and proven to help students be successful independent learners. Cornell Notes allow students to use critical thinking skills, analyze information for importance, and establish connections.

Simulations

7th grader S+ students recently had a simulation of the Roman senate. To understand and honestly think critically about how the senate worked during the Roman republic, the students acted as Senators, Plebian Tributes, and Counsels. They discussed and ruled on issues facing SHSID and them as students to make this applicable to their lives and connect their modern lives in Shanghai and Ancient Rome.

6th-grade students had the opportunity to attend a lecture on Chinese history and some of the relics from Ancient China. Students were then given the task of guarding one of the relics we studied. Students created posters or videos about their dinosaur and their plan for protecting it.

Geography

8 S Climate change cartoons

•Interpret meaning from real-world events and independent research.

•Evaluate global impacts.

•Cross curricular mode of creative representation.

8 S+ Extreme Weather Reports

- Conduct research into current affairs.

- Evaluating impacts and causes of extreme weather events.

- Storyboard procedures for news broadcast creation.

8 H Climate Change Awareness Posters

•Incorporates a digital gallery walk via LC-linked padlet.

•Students identify extreme weather events for various climate zones.

Global Citizenship meets Independent Learning

•Every year, students engage and share their thoughts on what Global Citizenship means to them and how our courses at SHSID help them become one.

•Potential “Task” for the new grading site.

(Written by Katie Crips Pictures by History and Geography Department Edited by Huang Shiyuan, Brie Polette)