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Fake News Readings

Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds

Fake Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts

As Fake News Spreads Lies, More Readers Shrug at the Truth

Fake News Sites List

How to spot fake news 

Don’t get spun by Internet rumors.

False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources

On the Media Fake News 

Assignment:
Create a Power Point to explain to other students how to detect Fake News in Social media.

Teaching Fake News:

•Identify examples of Fake News- “Aka the Flower”

•How do you figure out if it is Fake news? NPR article – use examples.

•Teach students how to find “good sources”
•Go to Grovesclass.blogspot.com
•Create a Powerpoint to teach students how to identify  

Election Day Assignments Classroom Reporter 11/8/2016

Election Day Activities

Email all your answers to Mr. Grove for a completion grade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H3gvnN468

Activity 1:

Go to ProCon.org

If you have not taken the nonpartisan quiz, please take it.

Click “Topics” A-Z and choose your most important 5 topics.

What issues are most important to you?

Typed at least 1 sentence per issue.

Why? Which side do you believe?

Activity 2:

Look at your ballot, choose the candidate you know and you want to vote for.

Then the candidates that you do not know, Google search their name and read about the candidates and make a choice, and educating decision.

Take your time to google each of the candidates, research each side and decide on a candidate for each position.

You can use the following sites:

https://ballotpedia.org/North_Carolina_judicial_elections,_2016

http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Campaign-2016.aspx

Classroom Reporter 11/2/2016

Science:
Today in science class we started our Chapter 4 Table of Contents and our Word Wall. We shared some good news about our Halloween weekend!

Social Studies

Today in social studies class we took a look at our Unit 3 Study Guide and our Unit 2: CFA questions. At the end we played a fun game of Kahoot!

Chapter 3 Science and Unit 3 Test Social Studies on 11/2/2016

Classroom Reporter 10/25/2016

Science:

                What we learned in class today was changing states of matter. I will describe how matter changes between states and write definitions of changing states. Like the freezing point of water is 0 degrees Celsius and vapor is a change from a liquid to a gas. And we all are taking test today chapter 3 section 4 notes.

Science 10/26/2016

We watched a 20 minute video on matter (density, volume, weight, etc.) Things we also learned about in the video was solids, liquids, gases, and plasma. We graded our quizzes from yesterday and worked on our u picks. 

Social Studies:

Social Studies

L.T.- I can explain the importance of the Bill of Rights. We identified the different amendments and explain what they mean. 

Classroom Reporter 10/21/2016

Science: 

   Today in Science class, we started off by watching a video about how water reacts in space. We then continued to take notes on how the terms mass, volume, and density describe matter. Every substance has a unique density, you can even use density to identify an unknown substance (EX- 2 liters of water and 2 cups of water WILL HAVE THE SAME DENSITY, because it is the same substance). We started Chapter 3, Section 2 Changes in Matter. This chapter is about classifying changes in matter as physical or chemical. A physical change alters the appearance of matter, but DOES NOT make a new substance (ex- crushing, breaking, bending, dissolving). The 3 states of matter are solids, liquids, and gases. Solids hold shape, and has a fixed volume. Liquids fit to the shape of the container, they have a free surface, and a fixed volume. Gases fit the shape of the container, and the volume of the container. After, we went over the correct answers for the Density virtual lab papers.

Social Studies:

                In Social Studies class today, we first took time to look over our notebooks before doing the notebook check. We then watched a documentary about the Revolutionary War called “America: the story of us”, while answering questions as we watched.

Classroom Reporter 10/20/2016

Science:

                Today in class, we learned how the terms mass, volume, and density describe matter. Weight and mass are often thought to be the same thing. Weight is the measure of the force of gravity on an object. Mass is the amount of matter in an object (it is measured in grams and kilograms). Volume is the amount of space an object takes up (measured in millimeters or cubic centimeters). To find the density, you have to divide the mass by the volume (Units=g/mL or g/cm cubed).

 Social Studies

                Today in Social Studies, we started off with a brief discussion about the final Presidential Debate between candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton looks to be in the lead after the debate that took place. After our discussion, we identified the powers in the Constitution and to whom they are given. We made a 6 set foldable on the different branches of Government, the Amendment process, the Federal System, and the Checks and Balances.  We took the last 20 minutes to organize our notebooks for our notebook check.

Classroom Reporter 10/19/2016

Science:

Today in science, we talked about the field trip later on October 27. After that, we went to the media center for the last time this week. We did another virtual reality lab where we had to find density, mass, and volume of the given objects. Density is a physical property of matter that is calculated by dividing the mass of an object by its volume.

Social Studies:

Today in Social Studies, we went over the 3 branches of the government: Judicial, Executive, and Legislative. We then went to the media center and some of us took the WIN survey. While in the media center, we did a work assignment where we cut and pasted different parts of the government to the 3 different branches. 

Classroom Reporter 10/18/2016

Classroom Reporter: 10/18/2016

Science:

                             Today in science class, we learned about the Archimedes Principle. The Archimedes Principle states that the buoyant force acting on a submerged object is equal to the weight of the fluid the object displaces. We then used a virtual lab to find the mass, volume, and density and materials and crystals. To find those, we had to use a virtual 3 beam balance scale.

Social Studies:

                In social studies class today, we first talked about politics and the election coming up. After that, we talked about some more current events for a little bit. We then wrote down notes in a fill in the blank worksheet on the Government we had in the 1700's.

Science Density Lab #1

Science Link

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT01/CT01.html


Triple Beam Balance Practice
http://www.ohaus.com/input/tutorials/tbb/tbbentry.swf

Carbon Fiber

Develop your own Colony Brochure 9/26/2016

Instead of creating it on a poster, simply make it a tri-fold brochure with a piece of computer paper.

Ted Video from Class.

Very neat!
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/14/431388860/what-does-it-take-to-produce-nuclear-fusion-in-your-garage

https://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_yup_i_built_a_nuclear_fusion_reactor?language=en#t-180935

Classroom Reporter 9/26/2016

Science:
We worked on Word Wall for Chapter 2.
Reviewed Test Results
Grade Notebook Tomorrow

Science Homework: 

Notebook Check #1 Science
Grading Rubric for Interactive Notebook 
Interactive Notebook Pages (PDF Format)

 Social Studies

Schedule 2016-2017

I look forward to our new school year.
My schedule for this year is:

1st- Science
2nd- Social Studies
3rd- Planning
4th- Planning
5th- Social Studies
6th - Social Studies

8th Heroes and Legends

Home Room 7:35 - 7:42

1st  7:45 - 8:45 

2nd Period  8:48 - 9:48 

3rd Period 9:51 - 10:41 

Rotation 4 10:44 - 11:34 

Rotation 5 11:37 - 12:37 

12:40 - 1:17 Lunch

6th Period 1:18 - 2:20

Welcome to School Year 2016-2017!

I look forward to meeting my new students tonight at Open House from 4-6. Parents and Students - please subscribe to my blog! Thanks Mr. Grove

Cultural Diffusion in Action. I can't communicate with my grandfather.

Help! I can't communicate with my Mandarin-speaking grandpa......'t

The Story we listened to in class. 

The World's Largest Wombat!

School Lunch in Japan

This is absolutely fascinating to see the difference in Japan and the USA.

Half Life Lab and Political Party Quiz

Science: 
Glencoe Half Life Lab



 Social Studies

Political Party Quizzes:
Which do you belong to?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/vote2012/quiz/

https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz

http://www.people-press.org/quiz/political-typology/'

The Chernobyl Disaster | Biggest Nuclear Meltdown In History

Hawaii Volcano - 2011 Kamoamoa fissure eruption, six months later

Science:Social Studies

The Iceman

Science:

We are back! Classroom Reporter 2/9/2015

Science: 

Today in class Mr. Grove checked our homework then went over our chapter 9 study guide and did a Kahoot.

Test Chapter 9 Tomorrow! 

Social Studies:

First, we did attendance and the question was "if you could have any job, what would it be."

Next, we filled out a sheet named "Causes of World War I." (Main Reasons-Imperialism, Militarism, Alliance, Nationalism, Assassination) Then, we went over the word wall. Mr. Grove wanted to make sure all of the definitions were up to date and valid.

After that, we labeled a World War I sheet with color.