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Miller, Jason
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My Home Page
- Industrial Revolution Timeline of Inventions
- Thematic Maps Pretest
- President Project
- Civics/Government Project
- Current Events Article Analysis Questions
- Contemporary United States Project
- Social Studies Compilation Project
- People, Events, & Places in History
- Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel
- Depth of Knowledge chart
- 2010 Arizona English Language Arts Literacy in History/Social Studies Standard s ( Common Core)
- Research-Based Project Rubric
- Rubric for Writing Assignments
- Geography Pre-Test/Post-Test: The World in Spatial Terms
- Geography Pre-Test/Post-Test: Places and Regions
- Geography Pre-Test/Post-Test: Human Systems
- Geography Pre-Test/Post-Test: Environment and Society
- Geography Test: Geographic Applications
- 100 Influential People
- Influential People Project
- Country Project outline (Geography)
- Curriculum Map (Geography Studies for Quarter 1)
- List of Countries A-Z
- Industrial Revolution Project
- Curriculum Map for Quarters 3 & 4
- Curriculum Map for Quarter 2
- Important Events in History Project
- Superstition Mountains (image)
- Primary source examples
- Revolutionary War Causes
- TEST: Causes of the Civil War
- Missouri Compromise Map
- Civil War Slideshow Outline
- Solar Eclipse 2015 graphic
- Superstition Mountain T-Chart pic
- Lesson Plan 9-17
- The Political Spectrum
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- Today in Social Studies
- Government Systems
- Wrangel Island
- Singapore Standardized Test Answer
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Articles
- Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Activity
- The Trillion Dollar Coin
- How the Rabbit got its Cotton-White Tail
- Waves of Trash in Indonesia
- Fifty Amazing Facts About Earth (Infographic)
- Mona Lisa's Skeleton
- The Immortal Henrietta Lacks
- London Crossrail Dig Unearths Big Discoveries
- Bill Gates on Education
- The Workplace of the Future
- Population Control Campaigns
- The Fate of Easter Island
- The Hyperloop
- Industrial Revolution's British Beginnings
- Thomas Edison
- The Gettysburg Address
- The Alamo
- Missouri Compromise of 1820
- Ellis Island
- John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid
- The Great Depression & Hoovervilles
- Hoover Dam
- Trail of Tears
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 1911
- Andrew Carnegie
- Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin
- The Model-T
- St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- Women's Suffrage Movement
- Harriet Tubman
- Slavery in America
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Wilkes Booth
- Confederate States of America
- Prohibition
- Civil War Technology
- Mexican-American War
- Mount Rushmore
- Pearl Harbor
- Area 51 Revealed
- Everest Maxed Out
- Wrangel Island
- Sky Caves of Nepal
- The City Solution
- Hothouse Earth
- Iceman Autopsy
- Reconstruction
- The Empathy Gap
- Reversing Negative Thoughts
- Scientists and Volunteers Track Trash in Ocean
- Denali, Ongtupqa and other Native American names for landmarks
- How much would you pay for the world's worst video game?
- Apparently, you shop like your parents
- Garbage collector creates library from rescued books
- Are summer jobs a thing of the past?
- Man provides tiny houses to homeless
- How mummies are made
- New York City wants to cut waste by 90 percent
- Raw Talent vs. Hard Work
- Whole Language Text with Encryption
- Technology and Privacy
- Can Dogs Detect Cancer?
- Hypotheses for the Perception of Time
- Dred Scott Decision
- 11 Traits of Likable People
- My Calendar
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- Practical Money Skills
- Grades and Achievement
- Spend Bill Gates' $
- Cold War in Pictures
- Life 50 Years Ago
- 25 Unwritten Rules you Should Follow but Don't
- Spend Jeff Bezos' $
Study Skills Q1
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Mr. Miller Study Skills
This class is designed to help students learn about current events by examining, discussing, and reacting to various news events/stories. Students will experience news presentations from many sources i.e. television, radio, internet, newspapers, magazines, and social media.
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Course Topic
Concept
Standard Connection
Learning Artifact
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Classroom & School Procedures
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Classroom & School Procedures
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Introduction to news media
Examining news sources.
(8.W.8) I can gather information from multiple sources, and accurately cite them.
Submit list of citations.
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Introduction to news media
Examining news sources.
(8.W.8) I can gather information from multiple sources, and accurately cite them.
News article synopsis. #1
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Introduction to news media
Examining news sources.
(8.W.8) I can gather information from multiple sources, and accurately cite them.
News article synopsis #2
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Introduction to news media
Examining news sources.
(8.W.8) I can gather information from multiple sources, and accurately cite them.
Article review #1
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Introduction to news media
Examining news sources.
(8.W.8) I can gather information from multiple sources, and accurately cite them.
Article review #2
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Introduction to news media
Examining news sources.
(8.W.8) I can gather information from multiple sources, and accurately cite them.
News Team.
Original article #1
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Introduction to news media
Examining news sources.
I can gather information from multiple sources, and accurately cite them.
Original article #2
