As some of you already know, I created a History Day blog for my students last year. I deleted all of the old comments and started fresh this year. My students got the information on how to blog yesterday. I already have 10+ posts from kids. There is one that I wanted to share with the group to show the power of blogging...
Here's the original post from a student: How do we write a para. about why the topic fits the year theme if we have a person, wouldn't we just say "they had a great impact and legacy"?
Here's the response from one of his peers: For the paragraph you do write about their impact and legacies. To dig deeper you write about what impact they had. What did your person do to change history? Also, you write about what legacies they had and how they got them. Just ask yourself questions as to what did your person do in his or her lifetime to influence the people around them.
Kids teaching/coaching other kids! Yippee!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
History Day Blog
Posted by Sarah Rother at 10:56 AM
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3 comments:
That's a pretty insightful and amazing comment from another 8th grader. How nice to have the students helping each other on this. I know History Day is a huge undertaking and it's nice to have any help you can get.
Way to go with the blog!
Very cool! I love it when kids take on this role. How powerful!
That's great ... give a man a fish ...
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