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In the World of Teaming-Make Cross Teaming
SuccessfulNCMSA Conference
March 19, 2013
Lisa Owens and Shawn ReavisHudson Middle School
Hudson, NC 28638
Exceptional Children’s program
Academically Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Program
AIG cluster grouping
ESL (English as a Second Language) cluster grouping
Algebra I
The Main Reason for Cross Teaming:Scheduling
Teaming as a grade level
8th grade team Our four person team
Meetings made simple:Meeting as the students’ team, not ours.
Open House
Report Card release day
Student Support Team (SST) meetings
Tailgate Party
EOG Bash
Meetings for students’ individual plans: IEP, PEP, 504, and ESL
Tailgate Party
HIVE competitions with cross-teaming
TEAMplate
Curriculum Mapping
Vertical and Horizontal Alignment
The School as a Team
Math Science ELA
Social Studies Art Health/P.E.
Music World Languages
CTE
TEAMplate
Math Science ELA Roots: Text Options:
Roots: Text Options:
Roots: Text Options:
Social Studies Art Health/P.E.Roots: Text Options:
Music World Languages
CTE
Math Science ELA Geometry*Transformations*translations*rotations*reflections*dilations CongruencyParallel lines cut by a transversalRadicals and integer exponentsIrrational numbers and their approximations
8.L.1- effect of disease on living things8.L.1.1- spread, treatment and prevention of disease8.L.1.2- difference between epidemic and pandemic as 8.P.1.1- Classify matter as elements, compounds, or mixtures 8.P.1.2- Explain how the physical properties of elements and their reactivity have been used to produce the current model of the Periodic Table of elements. 8.P.1.3- Compare physical changes such as size, shape and state to chemical changes that are the result of a chemical reaction to include changes in temperature, color, formation of a gas or precipitate.8.P.1.4- Explain how the idea of atoms and a balanced chemical equation support the law of conservation of mass.
● Novel study-To Kill a Mockingbird-Great Depression era; correlation with Social Studies themes of conflict and civil rights.
● Grammar: adjectives & adverbs
● Writing: constructed responses in relationship to thematic topics
Vocabulary-in context with novel
3rd 9 Weeks 8th Grade HMS Rebels Team: Branch, Owens, Reavis, Schreiber
Social Studies• continue with the theme of Conflict focusing on the Civil War, WWI, WWI, Korean, Vietnam, Gulf, Cold
Wars, and the Space Race.
* theme Society & Culture + Reconstruction + Civil Rights Movement + Cultural Revolution of the 60s + American Revolution + post WWII + Great Depression + Industrialization +Information Age
Art Health/P.E.• Tessellations (Translations, Reflections, & Rotations) & integrates with Math.• Printmaking: Study of German Artist Kathe Kollwitz’s anti-war art she made using a printmaking technique protesting WWII.
Study of Genetic and Hereditary diseases in health.Volleyball in PE
Music World Languages
8th Grade ChorusØ Sight-reading in the key of F, C, G and D using the entire major scale. Will include dotted rhythms and sixteenth notes.Ø French pronunciationØ Identifying Key SignaturesØ Rhythm – dotted quarter and dotted eighth, eighth note and eighth restØ MPA Music 8th Grade BandComposers of the Holocaust (Schoenberg, Hindemith, etc.)
Conjugating Verbs Family -ir and—er verbsLocation Words Foods
CTE
ParkerSpreadsheets - review of testing values and graphingXtranormal - multimediaMicrosoft Publisher – creating a flyer – if time allows
JoplinKeyboarding Tables Letters and MemosPunctuation rulesDifferent types of reportsComputer and Internet Safety
MasseyWeb 2.0 toolsWikispaces BlogsQR CodesWireless Technology
Career Exploration:Economic SystemsPersonal FinanceOn the JobWorking with Others
PLTW:Magic Of ElectronsElectricityAtomsSensing DevicesCircuitry Design
Math Science ELA
Roots:Circum, dia, equi, radi, sect, simil, flect Text Options: Big Ideas text unit 2 and unit 9Discovering geometry text
Roots:Pan, germ, zyme, ium, it is, form Text Options: Internet various websitesHolt Science and Technology
Roots:grav, gress, gyn, gyro, haplohyper, hypo, ician, ine, lepsy Text Options:NovelInformational reading related to the themes in the novel.
Social Studies Art Health/P.E.
Roots:archy, dox, ethno, fug, labor, liber, lingo, pap, socio Text Options:SS textbook as neededTeacher generated informationLesson resources
Music World Languages
CTE
Roots and Text Options for 3rd 9 Weeks
Curriculum MappingGeneralization: MOVEMENT
People move for a variety of reasons.
CONFLICT has resulted from a desire for freedom, religion, land, resources, and
world influences.
SOCIETY & CULTURE
A society’s views and beliefs change over
time.
GOVERNMENTRevolutionaries have
risen up, challenged the establishment, and
demanded individual rights.
ECONOMYSocieties have
encountered periods of economic growth and
decline.
Possible Concepts: geographic/settlement Patterns
migration/immigration territory (gaining and
losing) quality of life religion fear discrimination needs/wants conflict
justice equality religion conflict war competition resources economic system social system fear discrimination politics national identity immigration
globalization migration conflict needs/wants economic system competition values/beliefs change national identity perspective religion technology equality
governmental systems
citizenship taxation quality of life politics ideology national identity nation-state regulation
scarcity market economy supply and
demand human-
environment interaction
technology foreign and
domestic policy social systems global economy
Essential Question(s)
1. What factors have led people to migrate?
1. How does conflict develop between nations?2. What factors have led to US involvement in foreign affairs?3. How has conflict affected the lives of people in the US?4. How has the US dealt with conflict?
1. What happens when different cultures come into contact with one another?2. How does the government reflect changing needs of a nation.3. What is an American?4. What forces affect our understanding of the world?5. How does technology affect the cultural development of a society?
1. How do individual citizens participate in government?2. What events lead to a revolution?3. What are the principles of a democratic system?
1. How do societies adapt/deal with economic decline?2. What creates economic growth?3. How does global access to goods and services affect an economy?4. What are the pro’s and con’s of economic growth?
NC Standards 8.H.1, 8.H.2, 8.H.3, 8.G.1, 8.E.1, 8.C.1
8.H.1, 8.H.2, 8.H.3, 8.E.1, 8.C&G.1, 8.C&G.2, 8.C.1
8.H.1, 8.H.2, 8.H.3, 8.G.1, 8.C&G.1, 8.C&G.2, 8.C.1
8.H.1, 8.H.2, 8.H.3, 8.C&G.1, 8.C&G.2
8.H.1, 8.H.2, 8.H.3, 8.G.1, 8.E.1, 8.C.1
Possible Topics manifest destiny colonization immigration – past and
present- reasons for Trail of Tears railroads Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark Ellis Island/Angel
Island White Flight –
Suburbia Great Migration –
reasons for Dust Bowl Relocation Gentrification
American Revolution
Civil War War of 1812 US-Mexico War Spanish American
War WWI WWII Korean Cuban Revolution Vietnam Gulf War Cold War War on Terror socioeconomic
discrepancies religious
differences political structure
Reconstruction Civil Rights
Movement Cultural Revolution
of the 60’s Roaring Twenties post WWII Great Depression Information Age
Events leading to American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
Seven Principles of the Constitution
US Constitution Bill of Rights,
Amendments to the Constitution
role of the citizen rights of minorities affirmative action lobbyist Patriot Act Review types of
government
Colonial economy Great Depression Industrial Age North/South
economies – pre Civil War
Farmer’s Alliance Post World War II –
Consumerism Roaring Twenties Labor (child,
unions, slaves) Taxes (income,
sales) monopolies textile mills-
lumber, tobacco, hog farms
global economy shift from manual
labor to service industry
Essential Vocabulary
Resources
Literacy Vocabulary
Activities/Presentations (Students Rule, recitation contest, Civil War re-enactors)
Field Trips (Patterson Science Center/Washington, DC trip)
Guest speakers (BEAMIS, Holocaust survivor)
High School programs (visits to CECHS and CCMC)
8th grade semi-formal
Special Events and Activities made successful through cross teaming
Poetry Recitation Contest
B. Trivette (left) was the county champion and B. Penley (right) received an honarable mention.
Civil War presentation
Patterson Science Center
2012-2013
Washington, DC
BEAMIS
American Chemical Society of Plastics
Visits to High Schools
CECHSCCMCHS
8th Grade Semi-formal