Teaching Tuesday: 100th Day of School Overview

 In no particular order, I finally pulled some photos off my phone for 100th Day.  I posted some of the details in previous post, but my approach this year was to create a 'museum' in my room  where students got to explore what life was like 100 years ago.

 I had a station where I found youtube videos of how breakfast, lunch, and dinner has changed over the last 100 years the students could scan and watch.  Each student also got to eat an Oreo (born MORE than 100 years ago) and I printed out what advertisements looked like for some of the foods we still have today (Jello, Corn Flakes etc).

 I had a station for politics and current happenings and found some videos about the President (Woodrow Wilson), women's right to vote (passed this year), and a virtual tour of the Grand Canyon (officially made a National Park in 1919.

 I had another station for fashion where students could watch the fashion and hair styles for women and men change over 100 years.

 I created a nearpod they could tour to look at what school was like 100 years ago.
There was also a station for daily life that included this like how to play jacks and marbles, and had some toys and inventions from 100 years ago (what the telephone looked like, cars, planes etc).
 And I had a station where Charley Chaplin scenes were playing and students could scan a QR to find out about Silent Films, famous stars, and listen to music from this year.

Teachers signed up and brought there students at their allotted times.  I borrowed some 6th graders to be docents for the tour.

 I also placed some baskets in the hallway with cups and yarn for students to measure and build things, along with posters to write things like-100 books we've read, 100 words we can spell etc.

 Each student was given a bag with a bookmark, pencil, classroom ideas, and a Blowpop along with a Science experiment (100 licks to the center-there weren't enough Tootsie Pops at the store, so we had to go with Blow Pops)

 Perhaps most importantly, we made Jello/Oreo Pudding Cups for the teachers to enjoy while their students browsed because....snacks are important no matter what the year!
I've already got (different) plans for next year.....Roaring 20's style, but first....I have the other 80 some odd days to survive until summer!

Teaching Tuesday: 100th Day-Entertainment

     Apparently, it's all about the 100th day right now.  In my defense, it's what I've been working on.  In my other life, I'm helping plan a trip that got really big really fast, so all the details have consumed a lot of my time.  By the end of January, I will be back, and my hope is I'll have more time to prepare things in advance, like lessons.  I'd love to put all my 100th Day Museum pieces in one email, but right now, I'm posting it piece by piece. 
     I'm creating a 'museum' of things from 100 years ago for the students to tour on the 100th day of school.  I have all different categories:  school 100 years ago, entertainment, inventions, daily life, food.  There will be some interactive pieces, and samples. 
     This year, our district provided ipads for each student, so what I've been doing for a lot of the different categories is making QR codes.  In this case, when you scan the QR code for the Jazz page, a song should pop up that was popular in 1919.  Here is a link to a free printable of this page. 
     Once I have it all together, I'll try to post it all together, but right now you can click the 100th day link below this post to go to the other resources I've already published.   

Teaching Tip: 100th Day Museum

I started sharing about our 100th day last week, but this week, I'm adding another addition.  I'm going to set up a 'museum' in our school with inventions from 1919, food, politics, and news stories.  Another big thing that happened in 1919 was the fact that this is the year Congress endorsed the 19th Amendment.  I made a little flyer with a QR code that leads to a short/informative video about how this came about.  Here is the link to the free printable. 
I also used this website:
https://www.thoughtco.com/womens-suffrage-activists-3530534
to print off info about 10 women.  I'm going to set up a ballot box with their names on the ballots, and I'm going to make a sash like the ones they would have worn during protest. 

Teaching Tuesday: 100th Day of School

Here's a confession, that nobody that knows me will be surprised to hear.....I'm working on 100th Day activities for February.  That's right, it's November....and I've been thinking about what I want to do since last spring.  There are pockets of grades that do a really cute job celebrating 100th day at my school, but I was trying to think of something that would be fun to provide for the whole school to do (amidst their usual celebrations), one idea I came up with was creating a museum of things from 100 years ago.  I've put out a call for some different inventions and items, and I have some food I'm planning on purchasing, but one fun thing about 1919 was the popularity of silent film, specifically, Charlie Chaplin.  I'm planning on running a youtube video and providing this little flyer about ol' CC.  I'm making a bunch of these and trying to create some interactive stations at my museum.  Here is a free printable of this particular station.