Mr Kampmann’s Online Classroom

Due to content ads. I am switching to this site for my online classroom. http://mrkampmann.wordpress.com/

Last week Dorchester Junior & Senior High School held a mock election. Channel 8 News came and reported on this event. Here is the video that showed on the 6 o’clock news Wednesday, October 29th.

At the end of this week we are officially 1/2 way through the semester. Some key things to note with this:

1. All of my classes have grades accumulate for the entire semester, not 1/2 and 1/2 for each quarter.
2. Students are still able to retest or hand in assignments from the first quarter during the second quarter. However, the longer it takes to retest the more difficult it is.
3. The student is responsible for their grade.

It has been a great 1st quarter, but keep it up. No let downs!

There are many people confused on what has happened with the economic problems we are having. This PowerPoint makes the problems easier to understand.

It has been a little while since I posted about the happenings in my classroom. Well, things are starting to get settled down around here. It seems like we are just starting into our school year even though it is a month and a half into it.

The American Government scholars are into Chapter 3, which is on the Constitution. I consider this to be a very interesting and exciting chapter. Although I don’t think the students feel the same way. We are still focusing on foundation of material.

The 7th graders are moving right along. They are going to be starting their second unit this week! They are doing very well. In fact, the class is averaging a 91%!!!! Now that is something to be excited about.

American History, World History, and World Geography are all moving at about the same pace. I hope this is a good pace, since so many classes are on it.

L to J has gone very well with my seniors and freshman. The seniors had an all time best last week of 68! The freshmen’s all time best is sitting at 95, just waiting to be broken.

The JH Health class has spent some time creating Tag Clouds of fitness articles. They created them on a program called Wordle. The links below will take you directly to them. I will also post the pictures to my Flickr page.

Week 2 has seen some improvement. The Geography class jumped from 49 to 70! While the Government class made some gains from 55 to 60. Things are running more smooth on the L to J quizzes as I have changed how I delivered them.

My JH Health class created cover pages for their binders. I think they look great!