This is the week before vacation.  Did you really need me to remind you?
For your planning:
I will need one day this week.  That day will be Tuesday.
Vocabulary quiz on Thursday- 5 words.  Nothing new here, just be ready.
You should budget two days for the Temperature Variation activity.  This is from the climate wiki.
You may use [...]

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Last week you spent some time thinking about yourself as a learner.  You used learning style and interest inventories to help you.  Last year, I wrote an article titled “How I Learn Best”.  I am republishing that articles here.  I hope that you too can take the time to reflect on your own learning style, [...]

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I am looking for responses here. We have been using a variety of technology tools to help you in your learning. We have used blogs, wikis, google docs, word processors, the internet (for data collection), and spreadsheets. So here is the question:
How has our use of technology helped you to learn?

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One of the ways we can be sure to enjoy the great view this year is to take the chance each day to look out the window and observe the weather. We have a grand sweeping view to the north with a variety of topography to help us interpret what we see. While [...]

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I have been spending some time thinking about how I learn.  Here are what I think to be the main ingredients to my own learning.

Strong interest
Deep, focused study
Opportunity to collaborate and discuss
A break from it

Strong Interest
I learn best, those things I am most interested in.  Over the years I have found that I will develop [...]

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