Term Outline for @Home Screencasts

Here is an example of how I divide content and outline my units. I try to only have students watch three lectures (screen-casts) at home per week. Occasionally there will be 4, in addition they have other work that they complete while watching the screen-casts  I set a due date of Fridays for weekly lectures. Students are encouraged to complete them before coming to class for the week, but their learning is not impacted if they do them over the course of the week. They have a checklist for the term on when things are due so that they can keep track of their progress, and work ahead if they choose. Here is a sample of how I broke up the lectures students watch for the first term:

Unit
Week 
Due Date
@Home Screen-casts
Introduction
1
September 14
Social Sciences
Skills of an Historian
Tools of an Historian
Archaeology
2
September 21
Archaeology
Important Findings
*Master Test 1 Due
Early Man
3
September 28
Very Early Man
Old Stone Age
The Neanderthals
Early Man
4
October 5
Cro-Magnon Man
Cave Paintings
Neolithic Age
*Mastery Test 2 Due
Mesopotamia
5
October 12
Introduction
Geography
Rise of Sumer
Mesopotamia
6
October 19
Religion
Education
Family Life
Mesopotamia
7
October 26
Gilgamesh
Sargon I
Hammurabi
Contributions
*Mastery Test 3 Due
Mesopotamia:
Later Mesopotamian Empires
8
November 2
Hebrews
Phoenicians
*Mastery Test 4 Due
Mesopotamia:
Military Empires
9
November 9

Term Ends Nov. 11
Assyrians
Chaldeans
Persians
*Mastery Test 5 Due
Term 1 Lecture Outline


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