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We start off the year by looking at what our continent was like before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, and at how European colonization started to change the lives of the people who lived here and the people who moved here. Our Big Question for the unit is: How do conflicting ideas change the way …
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This year in Geography, we’ll be traveling around the world, learning as much as we can about our diverse and ever-changing world. Before we can start to study Geography in depth, however, we first need to understand the framework through which we’ll study the countries. That’s why we start off the year with a unit …
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Dear Families, Welcome to the 2019-2020 school year at Harrisburg South Middle School! I’m very excited to start the new school year, see familiar faces, and meet some new learners. We’ve got a lot of exciting things planned for the coming months, and I can’t wait to explore and learn alongside your child. As we …
Over on my teaching blog, I recently wrote a reflection on my family's supper trip to Europe. In Germany, we were constantly amazed that restaurants would hand our two-year-old her drinks in fancy glass cups, with no lids and no straws. It got me thinking about the ways in which students can surprise us with …
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