Pretty cool catching up with students who participated in their campus 24 Hour World Tours at @DeLayMS and @FlowerMoundHS ! Thanks for interviewing your kiddos @GarzamMonique and @killoughfmhs #LISDLandT

Mystery Call #1

Ahhhhh, time for our crew to take part in a mystery call!  These teams are STUMPED.  Wait.... 2 minutes in and they located Lucy. She is on a high speed train heading to Taipei.

• 300 kilometers per hour! FAST
• South Taiwan to North Taiwan = 2 hours
• Traveling for the day... on way to educational conference
• Beautiful scenery

Lucy teaches English!

Teachers working together to locate Lucy

Does NOT like K Pop 😂

Chamada to Brazil

2 Monicas and Athelo

- Connecting educators with students in Brazil

Favorite places to visit in Brazil 

• Central lake - 6km lake where people are able to go to relax and enjoy 
• Lapinha Cave - 
• Peter Lund Museum - near the entrance of the Cave 
• Archeological Museum of Lagos 

Students are able to express their opinion on their experience with not only the research of the areas but also personal experiences at these different locations

 

Interesting fact - the largest rodent on the earth 

Top 5 Things to Eat in Brazil 

1. Feijoada dark meat and beans served with rice and kale 
2. Tropeiro - Beans, eggs and spices
3. Canjica - served at typical Brazilian celebration s
4. Avarajé - fried  bean pastry with many variations
5. Coxinha - dough of wheat flour stuffed with chicken 

Places to visit in Brazil 

5. Rio de Janeiro 

4. Paramá 

3. Rio Grande de Norte 

2. Rio Grande de Sul 

1. Minas Gerais 

Top 4 Holidays in Brazil 

1.  Independence Day - Sept 7th 1822 

2. ?

3. Our Lady of the Apparition - Oct 12th 

4. Proclamation of the republic Nov 15 1889

- Non of these are school holidays 

First Call? National Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas

Pre-Interview Tweet intro-
Excited to start our PM PD with a call to the @PacWarMuseum in Fredericksburg. This place is amazing and they are excited to chat/tour artifacts with @LewisvilleISD Social Studies teachers. Thanks for connecting us, Rick!

Bloggers- Val and Lois
David Shields rang us up early and kicked off early introductions. Then he explained the exciting work that they are doing with the San Antonio School District.

David stood with his back to the outside artifacts, that looked like a mini battlefield and face stadium seating for reenactments. (Curious because Nimitz was a navy officer.) When they developed the mini-battlefield they worried that they were glorifying war. David then went on to describe the different sections of the set up and why they determined to put them there with a quick review of WWI. Explaining that this is a reflection of the movement of war.

David then walked over to a quanza hut (like the one pictured above), that has been made into a classroom. He went on to define education artifacts, saying they are resources that are rebuilt or created for visitors to get a feel of what the history was like.

David answered questions about what was most popular- saying it was the gallery. Stating that it would take a day and a half to walk through the entire thing.

After showing us the replica of the plane that former President George Herbert Walker Bush flew when he was shot down. David shared that they are only able to display 25% of their collection. It is not a stagnant gallery but will be changing always. They have created narratives that focus on a single theme- like freedom, women in the workforce, or movement during the war, and race relations.

What is a surprising fun fact about Charles C. Nimitz?

He was court marshalled at the very beginning of his career. On his first command in the Philippines and ran it to ground then went to sleep. The next day the court proceedings took place and the leadership showed him mercy. It was from this that he took on a more merciful to others. From then on every chance he had he did whatever he could to maximize his opportunities.

Seeing a cool floor map- the question was asked what was it of?

It is at the beginning of the tour to show the vastness of the territory that was involved in the war in the Pacific.

Time was up! We are excited to talk to him again.

May 30th Connected Classrooms

On May 30th starting at 5:00, we will start a video conference world tour.  We hope to talk to students, teachers, and a museum during our session.  We will connect with 4 continents during out tour and work on ways we can use video conferencing to enhance our classroom.