Twitter is the new bus

Lesson
Activity answer sheet & Activity image
Link to Slide Rocket presentation

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Tutorial on how to set up your Twitter account:

Great Railroad Debate

NEW! We asked the folks at EasyBib if they could tweak a few things to improve the product's  collaborative capabilities. Sounds like it's all do-able!

Open Google Apps
On the landing page, scroll down to open EasyBib.


Open EasyBib. Open a new project (MLA 7), name it R U What U Eat - your country name, share it with your group mates (only one group member should do this), and leave that tab open.

Do not export your EasyBib bibliography until all your group members have added all their resources. Then each group member should export the document to Google Docs/Drive, and rename it.

Bibliography evaluation form  

Online catalog, Books, eBooks & websites:

• User your personal user name and password to log in - that will make the song stop ;)
• When on campus, use print books from library shelves (titles). When at home, use eBooks (digital resources tab)

 Databases:

• Annals of American History
• Britannica
• Gale Virtual Reference Library - American Eras NOW ONLINE!!!!!!!
• ABC-CLIO - American History
• History in Context
• Historical Newspapers

See individual keyword recommendations for each topic

• Immigration: easy enough - plenty of books
• Labor Unions: same as above
• Farmer: search terms include agri* (agriculture, agrarian, yada yada yada)
• Urbanization: search terms include Progressives, and Progressive Reform Movement
• Sport: Be sure to consult the list of books we've identified. Special emphasis was paid to this topic when buying and cataloging them.
• Cattle: Same as #3, but add ranching, western expansion
• Supreme Court: We have reference books about famous court cases. Start there. Use Oliver (online catalog)
• Corruption: search terms include business, big business, moguls, gilded age, anti-trust, bribes, scandals
• Monopolies: search terms include business, big business, moguls, gilded age, anti-trust
• Technology: Industrial revolution
• Women: Be sure to consult the list of books we've identified. Special emphasis was paid to this topic when buying and cataloging them.

Google Scholar

 

Google Books

R U What U Eat?

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Images and descriptions from Hungry Planet book that inspired this project (for class use only!). Click here for User name and Password information - same as database page.

A review of the R U What U Eat lesson:

When working on research for a class at NCHS (use Chrome as a browser), you should always have multiple tabs open - Destiny (online library catalog) - you must sign-in with your own personal user name and password), the NCHS database page (click here for UN & PW info), and THE ANNEX@

Open Google Apps
On the landing page, scroll down to open EasyBib.

Open EasyBib. Open a new project (MLA 7), name it R U What U Eat - your country name, share it with your group mates (only one group member should do this), and leave that tab open.

Tutorial on exporting ABC-CLIO citation to EasyBib
Tutorial on copying and pasting a database citation to EasyBib

Go back to the Google Docs/Drive tabOPEN A DOCUMENT, SHARE it with your group members, and save it!

1. What foods make up the traditional diet of your assigned country? (using database/print resources)?
2. Compare the traditional diet of the region/country to the diet of your assigned family. In what ways are they similar? different? How can you account for the differences?
3. What does the diet of the family reveal about their lives? In what ways has agriculture shaped their diet and lives? What does it reveal about the family’s connection to markets and trade networks?
4. What impact have recent world food crises had on your assigned country and the region?
5. Using data about your own diet gathered for health class, how does your diet differ from the typical diet in the USA? Similarities?
6. What similarities and differences do you see between your diet and your assigned family's? Explain the reasons for these similarities and differences.

Online catalog (Destiny)
You must log (your personal user name and password) in to Destiny to access eBooks and websites!

When on campus, use print books from library shelves (titles). When at home, use eBooks (digital resources tab)

Here is a little tutorial about accessing eBooks in Destiny:

NCHS Database page (user name and password info here)
Instructions follow, but these are the databases to consult (Don't forget the key with database user names and passwords is on the right-hand side of the database page!)

• ABC-CLIO World Geography
• Culturegrams
• World Data Analyst
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (There's an app for that!)

ABC-CLIO: World geography 

 CultureGrams

Keep track of all sources you use today! 

Refer to page 45 in your NCHS planner or scan the QR code on the right.

All library user names and passwords information are stored there. 

Sample of a correct bibliography

Sample of an incorrect, copy/pasted bibliography

Post comments, questions and tips for your classmates in the comments blow.

Philip II - Who Killed the King?

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Mr. Phillip's assignment

OK guys, you're in the big leagues now! If you like "filling in the blank worksheets", it's time to think bigger.

This is NOT your typical assignment. It is WAY cooler. This is a mystery. And to solve it, you need to know a lot of information about Europe's Golden Age, and how it affected global trade! So start with your textbook. I mean it. You need to know what Philip II wanted - his hopes and dreams aspirations, ambitions, and the whole shebang.

You also need to know how other people (as in all over the world) with different perspectives would have felt about those hopes and dreams and aspirations. In other words, you need to know all about world history in the Renaissance.

Essential question: What in the world was going on at the end of the 16th century?

KEEP TRACK OF YOUR SOURCES AS YOU GO!!!!

When using databases and EasyBib, there is a way to copy and paste the databases citations into EasyBib. It requires very simple tweaking. 







Also, ABC-CLIO is already synced with EasyBib, so just click Cite this Document link and choose Export to EasyBib.

I want to see how you are doing your research, and what sources you are using, so you are going to use Google Docs:
Complete this guide to answer questions about your suspect.

You will need to copy the document, rename it, share and save it (CRiSS). Instructions follow.
Log in to Google Apps with your ncps-k12.org log in information.Click File, then Make a copy, then click OK (don't check Also copy document collaborators). Click File, Rename, and type your Last Name, First Name, Product, Teacher Period (i.e., Dutton, Garrett. Queen Elizabeth.Webb. 1). Click Share, Invite people, type in your group members names, your history teacher's name, and Ms. Luhtala's name to invite them To edit this document.Click Send.

Now that you know we can assess what you are using for research, here are the databases you should use:

If you need help citing your sources, refer to pages 41-47 in your NCHS student planner.

Databases (remember user name:nchs and password: library will get you into database page

• ABC-CLIO
• History Resource Center
• Biography Resource Center
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Gale Virtual Reference library

KEEP TRACK OF YOUR SOURCES AS YOU GO!!!!

You might find the following information useful. It's about keywords.

Suspect	ABC-CLIO	History Resource Center	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Gale Virtual Reference Library	Biography Resource Center
Queen Elizabeth I	Elizabeth I	Elizabeth I	Elizabeth I	Elizabeth I	Elizabeth I
Taino ghost	Taino	Tainos	Tainos	Tainos	X
King of Dahomey	Dahomey	Benin	Dahomey	Dahomey	X
Bartolome de las Casas	Bartolome de las Casas	Las Casas, Bartolome de	Las Casas, Bartolome de	Las Casas, Bartolome de	Bartolome de las Casas
Christopher Columbus	Christopher Columbus	Columbus, Christopher	Columbus, Christopher	Columbus, Christopher	Columbus, Christopher
Lutheran Minister of Wittenberg	Wittenberg	X	Wittenberg	Wittenberg	X
Dutch Jewish merchant (Amsterdam)	Dutch AND merchant	Dutch AND merchant	Dutch AND merchant	Dutch AND Jew*	X
Bartolome de Carranza	X	X	Bartolome de Carranza	X	Carranza, Bartolome de
Heranando Cortes	Hernando Cortes	Cortes, Hernando	Cortes, Hernando	Cortes, Hernando	Cortes, Hernando
Francisco Pizarro	Francisco Pizarro	Pizarro, Francisco	Pizarro, Francisco	Pizarro, Francisco	Pizarro, Francisco
Tenochtitlan Aztec	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	X
Sir Francis Drake	Francis Drake	Drake, Francis	Drake, Francis	Drake, Francis	Drake, Francis
Prince Henry the Navigator	Henry the Navigator	Henry AND Navigator	Henry AND Navigator	Henry AND Navigator	Henry, Infante of Portugal
William (the Silent) of Orange	William the Silent	William the Silent	William the Silent	William the Silent	"William the silent"
Atahualpa	Atahualpa	Atahualpa	Atahualpa	Atahualpa	Atahualpa
Henry IV of France (Navarre)	Henry IV	Henry IV AND France	Henry IV AND France	Henry IV AND France	Henry IV AND France
Silver mine owner of Peru	Peru AND silver	Peru AND silver	Peru AND silver	Silver AND peru	X
Ottoman Janissary chief	Janissary (picture only)	X	Janissary	Janissary	X
Michel de Montaigne	Montaigne	Montaigne	Montaigne	Montaigne	Montaigne
Antonio Perez	X	X	Antonio Perez	X	Perez, Antonio

We also have a whole collection of books, handpicked by me, Ms. Russo, and the social studies department for this project. You can find them on Destiny, our new online catalog . Log in with the same user name and password you use to log into the computers here at school.

KEEP TRACK OF YOUR SOURCES AS YOU GO!!!!

New Canaan Library can also help you out.

If you need a space to share work with your group-mates, use the forum below. That's what it is there for!

:-)ML

Absolutism

Your Absolutism assignment

First, you will need to understand Absolutism, and for that, I recommend:

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• your textbook
• ABC-CLIO: World History, the Modern Era (overview)

Open Google Apps
On the landing page, scroll down to open EasyBib.

Open EasyBib. Open a new project (MLA 7), name it Absolutism - your ruler's name, and share it with your group mates (only one group member should do this), and leave that tab open.

Do not export your EasyBib bibliography until all your group members have added all their resources. Then each group member should export the document to Google Docs/Drive, and rename it.

Online catalog, Books, eBooks & websites:

Accessing ABC-CLIO ebooks in Destiny

Awesome table you NEED to look at:

When on campus, use print books from library shelves (titles). When at home, use eBooks (digital resources tab)

This following keyword chart will be helpful for locating resources in the catalog, and in the databases. 

Can't see the chart? Click here for larger picture!

Databases:

• ABC-CLIO
• Biography in Context
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (includes Encyclopedia of World Biography)
• History in Context

Check spellings as you work! there may be alternative spellings and search phrases, depending on where you are searching (i.e., Catherine II instead of Catherine the Great, or know where your person is from, i.e., Montezuma/Moctezuma, etc.) Make notes of alternative spellings in the forum below. Use the chart! That's why it is there.  



Quotes and Images:

Try Bartelby.com
Also try Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Also, there are a bunch of primary source/documents books in the 909s. Peruse those for quotes by or about your rulers.

 
Don't forget New Canaan Library!