MSM 470: CoCoRhee Kick ‘em in the Knee! CoCoRaHS Kick ‘em in the Other Knee! Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: CoCoRaHS Reports from the Front Lines The Twitterverse Don’t forget to go to #mschat on Twitter every Thursday at 8:00 pm EST. Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Resources: University cheating might be up — but don't just blame students https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/university-cheating-might-be-up-but-don-t-just-blame-students-1.5618272 Why aren’t teachers using the resources companies sell to their districts? https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/why-arent-teachers-using-the-resources-companies-sell-to-their-districts/#annotations:ASyiMLiXEeqMUCsfij4Cpg Web Spotlight: Mountain Moot http://mountainmoot.com/ Principals Quarantine https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-principals-in-quarantine-after-15382142.php

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MSM 470: CoCoRhee Kick ‘em in the Knee! CoCoRaHS Kick ‘em in the Other Knee!

MSM 469: HashTag, HashTag, We got your HashTags! Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Reports from the Front Lines The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Resources: Matt Miller - Ditch That Textbook - Remote Learning 101 https://ditch.teachable.com/p/remote-learning-101 Activity Sheets https://jarrettlerner.com/activities/#annotations:weCxALcDEeqHilMAxLDMKQ Choose Your Own Fake News https://chooseyourownfakenews.com/ Web Spotlight: #Hashtag180 Your Classroom WHERE: #Hashtag180 https://kylehamstra.com/hashtag180/

MSM 469: HashTag, HashTag, We got your HashTags!

MSM 468: Wrong on Soooooo Many Levels . . . Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Environmental Health Scientist Reports from the Front Lines Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Resources: NCSS - Position Paper on Teaching Civics https://www.socialstudies.org/positions/revitalizing_civic_learning Politicraft - Card Game for Civics https://www.politicraft.org/how-to-play-politicraft The Governor’s Decision Room Video Introduction: http://seekingmichigan.org/thedecisionroom/# Main Site: http://thedecisionroom.org/ Sample Materials: http://seekingmichigan.org/thedecisionroom/sample.pdf Article: “Our ‘Secret Weapon’ In An Age of Us-Against-Them” https://scottsauls.com/blog/2020/06/12/our-secret-weapon-in-an-age-of-us-against-them/?fbclid=IwAR2Lmj7_cjth_nPZ9jhfII1dDiorOal9PaDf53q28aikH09KQFbwXvE8BuA CSPAN: What to do with the Confederacy? Accidental Courtesy - Movie https://accidentalcourtesy.com/ Amazing Grace (2006) https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/amazing-grace-2006/id270356352 Youth in Government - Involvement and Action https://www.ymca.net/youthandgovernment & http://www.myig.org/middle_school-2/ Frederick Douglas Archives - Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-douglass-newspapers/about-this-collection https://repository.duke.edu/dc/wilberf William Lloyd Garrison Archives https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/garrison/ & https://transcription.si.edu/project/11766 Slidesmania - Hyperdocs based slides https://slidesmania.com/free-templates/ TinEye https://tineye.com/ Link to Fragment https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-to-text-fragment/pbcodcjpfjdpcineamnnmbkkmkdpajjg Web Spotlight: Flashbulb Moments https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/schacterlab/files/hirst_etal_jepgeneral_2015.pdf Visual Guide to Coronavirus https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-visual-guide-to-the-sars-cov-2-coronavirus/

MSM 468: Wrong on Soooooo Many Levels . . .

MSM 467: Hey, I got RickRolled!...Me too Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Social Justice in the Science Classroom Reports from the Front Lines Advisory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGEvASSaPyg The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Resources: Connected Papers https://www.connectedpapers.com/ Web Spotlight: What Is White Privilege, Really? https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really Last Person to Receive a Civil War Pension Dies https://kottke.org/20/06/last-person-to-receive-a-civil-war-pension-dies

MSM 467: Hey, I got RickRolled!...Me too

MSM 466: Brave New World Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: The “Story” of Climate Change Reports from the Front Lines Brave New World The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Strategies: 5 Levels Video Series https://www.wired.com/video/series/5-levels Resources: #BlackLivesMatter The Knight Foundation and O Cinema Partner to Offer Free Virtual Screenings of Magnolia Pictures Documentaries I Am Not Your Negro, Whose Streets? and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am https://www.magnoliapictures.com/knightfoundationseries?fbclid=IwAR2orrUymJXj8DpI8HdYgvbTFEhtRslep_x9FIq0uAsVb5nkD2GvqTLKOyw President Obama https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067#annotations:Q9BP1KQoEeq_qItZOelBLA Simulations: Proceed with Caution https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2008/classroom-simulations-proceed-with-caution

MSM 466: Brave New World

MSM 465: Ukulele, with a side of Historical Stalking Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Inspiring Earth’s Future Stewards Reports from the Front Lines The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Resources: Return to Sender https://returntosendermap.eu/map/ AudioMass Online audio editor. They compare themselves to Audacity. https://audiomass.co/ Why you should read Moby Dick https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-should-you-read-moby-dick-sascha-morrell#watch https://ed.ted.com/series/reading-between-the-lines Online Color Test https://www.xrite.com/hue-test?pageid=77&lang=en Web Spotlight: Has This Crisis Really Changed Schools? https://willrichardson.com/has-this-crisis-really-changed-schools/

MSM 465: Ukulele, with a side of Historical Stalking

MSM 464: Hey Google, be quiet. The Kids are the Issue. Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Environmental Health Literacy Reports from the Front Lines Advisory: ONE FINE DAY https://player.vimeo.com/video/336426629?dnt=1&app_id=122963 The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Resources: Greek Myth Resource: Greeking Out! https://www.espn.com/espnradio/feeds/rss/podcast.xml?id=27807607 Web Spotlight: Random Thoughts . . . Make a Zeppelin . . . and then eat it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZIYesaT1M&fbclid=IwAR2bMq0fjmRecinq5s-cZW0bhUA6zWM1OanSpMysIA-RN2axM3LXVMHt_gk

MSM 464: Hey Google, be quiet. The Kids are the Issue.

MSM 463: Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, What Does the Future Hold? Jokes: Eileen Award: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Integrating STEM Reports from the Front Lines The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Strategies: CDC Guidance https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6889330-Guidance-for-Opening-Up-America-Again-Framework.html Resources: Virtual Bitmoji Classroom https://www.helloteacherlady.com/blog/2020/4/how-to-create-a-virtual-bitmoji-scene-in-google-slides-or-powerpoint Web Spotlight: We Might Have Gotten Remote Learning Wrong. We Can Still Fix This School Year https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2020/05/13/we-might-have-gotten-remote-learning-wrong.html?r=2026855568&cmp=eml-contshr-shr

MSM 463: Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, What Does the Future Hold?

MSM 462: Hokie Pokie School Entry Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Unique or Identical Reports from the Front Lines The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Resources: Jim Henson on Making Puppets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC440k6iByA

MSM 462: Hokie Pokie School Entry

MSM 461: Well, that was untimely Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Mindful Modeling Reports from the Front Lines The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Strategies: Resources: Our American Voices: Citizenship Choice Board #2 https://bit.ly/3434UASic_OAV_Choice_board2 Web Spotlight: April 24, Remembering the Armenian Genocide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyUdqyAQl2g&t=157s

MSM 461: Well, that was untimely

MSM 460: Zoom on in and say “Hi” in mandarin. Jokes: Status Update: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Executive Functioning The Twitterverse Dave Schmittou EdD @daveschmittou Typical EduCelebrity @EduCelebrity Resources: Stuff You Need: The Social Distancing Badge https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sensordots/the-social-distancing-badge?ref=user_menu Stuff You Need: 1350 - Music for a Plague https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/falsobordone/1350-music-for-a-plague?ref=user_menu SEL Resources from Dr. John Spencer https://www.instagram.com/spencereducation/

MSM 460: Zoom on in and say “Hi” in mandarin.

MSM 459: Hey Parents! BeatBox Your Way to Happiness! Jokes: Status Update: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Grasping The Concepts The Twitterverse Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Resources: Beat Boxing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efk_z9kg2MU&feature=emb_logo

MSM 459: Hey Parents! BeatBox Your Way to Happiness!

MSM 458: An Interview with Bob! (That’s Me!) Jokes: Advisory: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Journaling Outdoors Interview: Transitioning to LMS Based Learning - An Interview with Mr. Bob Harrison Links? Twitter: @R_O_Harrison

MSM 458: An Interview with Bob! (That’s Me!)

MSM 457: WeChat, er, Video Conference, How about you Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: From STEM to STEAM Resources: Video Conferencing: Web Spotlight: Future The Twitterverse Don’t forget #mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm EST. Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development. Strategies: Student Journals Could Be Primary Sources - So Write! David McCullough, in one of his interviews on CSPAN, talks about the importance of daily writings he had access to to write his books. If you want to influence the future, write things on paper now is essentially his advice to young people today because when the servers turn off, there goes the primary sources. This article from MiddleWeb has some suggestions for turning your students’ journaling into the future primary sources for historians and educators. https://www.middleweb.com/42521/kids-journals-could-become-primary-sources/

MSM 457: WeChat, er, Video Conference, How about you

MSM 456: 123….Not the MAMSE Edition, It’s not another bumper Jokes: Eileen Award: iTunes: tech.teacher Advisory: How Germs Spread Video https://www.buzzfeed.com/christopherhudspeth/this-youtubers-video-showing-how-easily-germs-spread-is Check in with your students using Google Forms https://mariventurino.com/2020/03/19/school-closure-check-in/?fbclid=IwAR2JAm9aiAIWSAyj6KEHx1Wj1SLc6XElKaUhqUpkPNgMeJKcI2ykapLtQnE Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Best STEM Books COVID-19 Follow Up

MSM 456: 123….Not the MAMSE Edition, It’s not another bumper

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