Anna+Wilhelmus

= Anna Wilhelmus = I am a sophomore and I am majoring in Middle Childhood Education. My specialty areas are history and language arts.

**NETS for Teachers**

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
- In a history class, students could be given a current real world issue and their assignment would be to solve the issue and then regroup as a class and discuss the possible solutions that the students have come up with.  - Have students use online brainstorming tools to illustrate the creative thinking process.  - Have a class atmosphere that encourages creativity.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
- provide students with multiple age appropriate, learning tools that are computer based. This will allow the student to decide which tool is best for them to use and will help students who have diverse learning styles.  - If there is a SMART board in the classroom, that is a great technology tool to use in teaching lessons to students and to allow students to use the board for group activities and class activities.  - Use web tools for online tests/quizzes. This will provide students with immediate feedback on how they did. Possibly use some online tool to track their progress from test to test.

== 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning - Online grade book, e-mail and being able to effectively use computers and other classroom technology. ==  - Being able to understand and effectively explain technology to students so there is no lost classroom time on figuring something out.  - Online discussion groups

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
- Understand and know copyright laws, explain laws to students.  - Demonstrate responsible use of technology in the classroom.  - For the students who don't have computers at their home, have small discussion with students about positives and negatives of technology. Make sure students know about being safe online.

= Lesson Plans =

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= Seating Chart =

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= Custom Search Engine = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I created a custom search engine for teaching resources. I put sites together that will help give teachers ideas to use in the classroom, help for writing lesson plans and a multiple of other things that will be helpful to a teacher.

= Delicious - Bookmarks = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">My delicious bookmarks are a collection of history and language arts websites that I think would be useful in the classroom and would be resources that would help me as a teacher.

<span style="color: #ff0095; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Easy Test Maker

 * <span style="color: #ff0095; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Multiple Choice: There is only one correct answer. **

1) What is the Bill of Rights? a) The first 10 amendments to the United States Consitution that guarantee human rights and liberty b) The amendment that gave everyone in the United States the right to vote c) The first official constitution of the United States d) The amendment that was written to abolish slavery

2) What is the first purpose of government? a) T o tell people what to do b) To make laws c) To solve foreign affairs d) To provide security and order

3) The main difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is their view on what? a) Abortion rights b) The absolute size of the government c) The debt of the United States d) Foreign affairs

**True or False**

4) The most important form of public opinion is voting. a) True b) False

5) The most common form of polling is Internet polls. a) True b) False

6) The United States has a direct democracy government. a) True b) False

7) Suffrage is what candidates have to go through when they run for office. a) True b) False

**Fill in the blank. Please write clearly.**

8) The “shot heard around the world” is so important because it was the start of the _________________ movement and the _________ ________ movement.

9) There are ________ major functions of a political party.

**Short Answer: Read the question carefully and make sure that you answer allthe parts. Please write clearly.**

10) What was the first official government of the 13 colonies? Did it work? Explain why or why not.

Podcast
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For my podcast, I recorded a session of me outlining a chapter from a political science book and reiterating the important topics that the students would need to know.