Essential questions activities usually lend themselves well to multidisciplinary investigations, requiring that students apply the skills and perspectives of math and language arts while wrestling with content from social studies or science. Two new projects emphasize the use of Wikis, collaboration, and inter-disciplinary learning.
Take advantage of some exciting new Wiki projects put together by Vicki Davis at Westwood Schools. Ms. Davis, teacher and author of the
Cool Cat Teacher blog , has a wiki-centric classroom as shown in a previous example on the Flat Classroom in Chapter 4, page 65 of my book Using Web 2.0 Tools in the K-12 Classroom.
Click Current Events to review two new projects, ideal for social studies, history, mathematics and English/language arts: 1) Arab-Israeli Conflict Simulation: Political Reality in the Classroom, a joint project with the University of Michigan and 2) Stock Market Simulation.
All the material is available so you, too, can create your own Wiki project. Send me your comments! I'd love to hear from you.
• Website: http://aic.conflix.org/ - A joint project with the University of Michigan. Six teams will participate on the project this year.
• Stock Market Game: http://www.vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx
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