Week 7 Day 1

Today we continue the team presentations.

We finished all the group's presentations! Well done everyone!

Next class we will catch up on all of the LdL we missed from around Week 3.

Week 5 and 6

So we have finished our landscape projects and also the essays. Now, we need to work on the Team Presentations that are coming up.

For the first week, we prepare ourselves for the team presentation. We make the PowerPoint and also have to prepare ourselves for the presentation.

Week 6 Day 2, we have the Team Presentations. We should be able to teach the deep material and also be able to keep our time in around 3 minutes.

If you can walk around the class and engage the class to the material, you will get extra points!

This week, three groups go first. So we will finish the rest of the groups next week.

Week 3 and Week 4

We don't have any LdLs these two weeks.

During History Class, all we did was finish the landscape project. The landscape is about the battlefield in World War 1.

After we finish the landscape, we need to write an essay about the chosen battle on the one in your landscape.

Next week we will continue with all of the other LdLs that we missed.

Week 2 Day 2

Today Mr. Rick did not do a lecture.

We go straight into doing an LdL. We have to finish the LdL that we did not do last class. So here is the teacher...

In some other groups there are 2 teachers because they have 4 members. We only have three members in a group, so we get some time to wait.

Mr. Rick said there was going to be a landscape project about World War I, so we have to do that too.

Week 2 Day 1

Mr. Rick realizes that we haven't been taught any material from class 1 and 2 of last week, so he has to rush everything this class.

1. So here Mr. Rick talking about the class material...

2. History is made up of Causal Relationships, where everything is made up of cause and effect. If you do something, there would be consequences.

Before in the 1870s, there was no Germany, only a group of states that speak the same language. These are called the Prussian States. France and England was in war for a very long time, as you can see it was going on during Henry VIII until these 1870s. Since these sates were having war, and then the states that were going to be Germany won the war, they took 2 of the states.

Since countries like Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Netherlands were colonizing the world, the newly made country Germany wanted to do so too. Britain had the biggest Empire with the biggest Navy. Since the empire is so big, they need a more cheaper and efficient way to do things, so they build the HMS Dreadnoughts. (1 is worth 10 Destroyers, so it is more cheap) Germany sees this, they want to copy too! So then they make some too. France sees this, and it looks like danger......

How World War I started, there was a thing called the Domino Effect. It was like the Causal Relationships that are force pushing each other.

Before the war, there was these things called the Triple Alliance. This was made in the 1870s just from the Prussian War and consists of Italy, Austria - Hungary and Germany. These countries all surround France (which apparently hates everyone I guess), so in case if France makes trouble they can smash them. And there were these called the Triple Entente. It consists of Russia, France and Britain and in case Germany makes trouble, they can crush them.

So then, you all know the timeline for the World War I...
And because of that, it was the Domino Effect, because everyone blames on each other.

3. Now here is the LdL for today. Only one from last class because we don't have enough time and the lecture for catching up on 3 classes is very long...

Tomorrow there will be 2 LdLs, the one for this class and the next class.

Week 1 Day 2

Today we need to do 2 LdLs, the one for last class and this class. Mr. Rick continues talking about how to do LdL.

Sources need to be able to answer your BHQ. If it doesn't, it means that you are going off topic and so your team members would have learnt nothing about the topic.

You can find sources in about anywhere. The most wide place to find sources would be the internet, as there are lots of them out there.

Sources have to be from the historical perspective, from someone who has lived in that time. To do that, there need to be quotation marks on what he said, and it must be exact. (")

And then after that, we have to do 2 LdLs for the last class and the first class. There are no pictures though, sorry. 

Semester 2 Week 1 Day 1

Now we are on semester 2 after the long holidays. Back at school, learning History again. Today there is no LdL, but Mr. Rick explains us about something.

History is all about causal relationships. History requires us to chase threads, we need to go look for more info about the material and go deeper. The most important thing is that the Textbook is only a guide for what material you should learn, not the whole content. There are many things that are outside of the textbook.

• To create an LdL, everyone must make homework. (Which goes in section 3 of coursework file) 
• So then, you have to read the textbook for the material. 
• Next, you need to create a central idea, called a Big Hairy Idea. (BHI)
• And then you need to make 2 Big Hairy Questions (BHQ). This is about what you want to know more about.
• Make 2 Hypothesis. This is an educated guess, maybe an answer to the question of your BHQs.
• Then you go look for sources. This is when you do research, to prove your hypothesis right or wrong.
• If you are done and you are teacher next class, you just copy paste everything you did in the homework to a PowerPoint!

That way, you make a good LdL for your next class.