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UNIT 1 - JOURNEY HOME

8/31/2022

 

WednesDAY, AUG. 31 AND THurSDAY, Sept. 1, 2022 - A/B BLOCK

Notes 1.3 - Compass Directions, Indoor and Outdoor Compass Practice and HW 4  - Click on "Read More"
​Today, in class, we:

Greeted students at the door with the gong challenge, using the threshold technique.
Wrote our homework down in our agendas for the DO NOW.
Presented HW 3 to the Home Work Robot.

Updated our Table of Contents (see below).
Updated our vocabulary primer on page 11 and added the terms, cardinal directions, intermediate directions and orient.
​Took and discussed Notes 1.3 - Types of Maps on page 19 in Cornell fashion (see below).
​Created the My Compass Rose device on page 19 (see below).
Participated in the Indoor and Outdoor Orienting Course (see picture).
Created, on a piece of notebook paper,
HW 4 - Directions to My Home (see below).

Homework:

1) Complete the vocabulary primer entry for the terms, cardinal directions, intermediate directions and orient on page 11.

2) Complete HW 4 - Directions to My Home (see below).
​

3) If you have not collected your supplies for my class here is the list (printable version below).
Here is the complete supply list for class:


2 Composition Notebooks (Not spirals, they are dangerous)
1 Paper notebook of any color with brads
At least 200 pages of notebook paper
Black ink pens (Used by other classes as well)
Box of colored pencils (Used by other classes as well)
Glue stick or bottle of glue (Used by other classes as well)
Pencils (Used by other classes as well)
fall_2022_toc.pdf
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File Type: pdf
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notes_1.3_-_compass_directions.pdf
File Size: 26 kb
File Type: pdf
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compass_rose_on_p_19.pdf
File Size: 78 kb
File Type: pdf
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hw_4_-_directions_to_my_home.pdf
File Size: 472 kb
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Picture
Students in my A5 class practicing orienting their compasses and determining cardinal and intermediate direction in the cone course set up outside.

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    Gib Henington

    6th Grade World Cultures
    Individuals and Society - Year 1
    Sustainability 6 Neighborhood
    Tanglewood Middle School

    ​gheningt@houstonisd.org

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