Day TWO

I've really enjoyed today! I LOVE looking at maps and learning about other places, so geography is so fascinating to me. I didn't really learn a lot about it in school myself, so it was fun to learn about. I definitely think that I can use a lot of the websites and activities we discussed in my classroom--especially for upper level classes. If nothing else, just getting students familiar with maps and comparing the US to other countries I think is very valuable. I really enjoyed looking at different maps that show the world based on various factors (poverty, population, etc.) Just something crazy I learned from one of these websites (https://www.undispatch.com/human-trafficking-map/ )
I couldn't help but notice how the US is one of the only countries that only IMPORTS for sex trafficking. 

Activities we did:
Lined up by color to represent the climates of the earth. 
Getting to know your class investigation. Made a hypothesis, wrote a question to ask others in the room to collect data, displayed the data in a chart and shared our conclusions/results. 
Other cool websites I really enjoyed using related to geography : 
https://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/migration.html  
http://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2005/ 

Session two we learned the basics of using Excel. I definitely needed to brush up on my Excel skills, and it was very cool looking at excel from a teacher's perspective since I have only viewed it as a "hypothetical situation" or from my own student perspective in the past. 


After lunch, we heard from a Grad student on the Civil Rights movement and using technology to teach the Civil Rights movement. I really liked how he brought out the local history of the Civil Rights and gave awesome resources to use in the classroom. 

We concluded with analyzing political cartoons. I had never done this and found that quite fascinating. I would like to find some political cartoons related to hispanic hisotry, and even immigration to show students and see if they think the cartoons are portrayed well/persuasive.