Social Studies 7B Home Page BACKUP

Handy links to use.

Email Mr. Robbins
If you are trying to email me from a computer where you do not have a webmail account, copy and paste the above linked address into your email program.

Quiz Star

CIA World Factbook

The Library of Congress

National Geographic Search Engine

World Map Viewer (interactive)
Physical world map

The Class Writing Rubric

Assignment Re-Submission Guidelines

Google Earth

Class starter handouts

Syllabus and Class Rules

Before registering for any web tools, I strongly suggest you read my guidelines.
Click here to read them.

Web tools for your use

Easel.ly
This is a very handy and simple poster creation tool that includes some pretty sophisticated tools.

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thenounproject.com
This may be the largest selection of clip art on the web - and it's free.

This is the class web site for Social Studies 7B from
Mr. Robbins at Madison Junior High School.

The Old Pitsligo Church, Pistligo, Scotland

The Old Pitsligo Church, 1634, Pitsligo, Scotland

We will be studying Asia for the rest of the trimester. You can click on the thumbnail below to view a large map of shaded relief / political map of Asia.

Announcements

You will always need a notebook and a writing tool in class, but never turn in an assignment on paper with ripped out spiral bound edges. Those go straight to the Re-Do folder.

Assignments
Number, Name	Links	Deadline
One, Africa Map	Click here.	Mar. 6
Two, North Africa Packet, Part One, National Profiles	Click here.	Mar. 13
Three, Graphing Data, Practice	Click here for the data sheet Click here for the assignment	Mar. 22
Four, Africa Wrap Up	Click here for the assignment.	Apr. 3
Five, Intro to SW Asia	Click here.	Apr. 9
Refugee Help Ideas	This assignment was only available as a group project during class.	Apr. 12
Six, Palestine and Jerusalem	Click here. The videos are linked to the PDF file. The reading packet is available in class.	April 22
Seven, Asia Mapping and Terms	Click here. Use the in-class atlas to complete this assignment.	April 25
Eight, Tsunamis and Volcanoes: The Ring of Fire	Click here.	May 1
Nine, Introduction to Japan	Click here.	May 7
Ten, Indonesia, Philippines, Fact Sheets	Click here.	May 14
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Eleven, The Philippines	Click here.	May 21

Journal Items

Remember -

We evaluate a current event or fact piece about one of our topics here every day. You will keep a journal with your evaluations in it.
You will submit your journal entries from each week Friday. Please, submit only the items for that week each Friday.
You will keep your journal entries on 8 1/2" x 11" three hole punch paper.
When your journal entries are returned, keep them in your class binder.
You are required to evaluate every piece of art we use. This includes days you may be absent.

The links to the journal entries we use for each day are found in the right hand column of this table.

If you want to see an example of how your journals should be formatted, click here.

Daily Reading Vocabulary

Week ending Mar. 1