Students use Google Classroom to graph early American Slavery

The addition of Google Classroom and access to Chromebooks helps students master math and computer skills while concurrently studying early American history. Today students and staff utilized the document sharing ability of Google Classroom while discussing slavery in early America. Each student could share his ongoing progress with the teacher, Mr. Eck, in real time from their computer. When Mr. Eck recognized something noteworthy or important in a students work, he could send the images to the projector and allow everyone to see the information.

"The ability to give immediate feedback to students is so important", Mr. Eck explained. "If you can catch a mistake or thinking error right away, you can stop it or correct the thinking error before it becomes ingrained in the students head. The students also get a kick out of having their accomplishments shared with their peers; this technology helps build confidence."

Student Levi A. posted to this blog today, explaining what he learned today in class. He, along with the other students, experienced a multi-discipline lesson, incorporating reading and writing skills, social studies, mathematics, and technology. The inclusion of these new resources - Google Classroom and the Chromebooks - has improved the educational experience for students at the Milton AEP.

Slaves in Colonial America

In Mr. Eck's class we are learning about slaves in early America in the 1700’s.

We have learned that their were about 8 to 10 million enslaved Africans taken to colonies in the Americas. There were about half a million of slaves in British colonies in North America. About four million Slaves were in the British, French, and Dutch colonies of the Caribbean. In the Portuguese colony of Brazil, there were nearly three and a half million enslaved Africans. Other Spanish colonies accounted for 1.5 million additional slaves.

Part of our assignment included creating a bar graph to visually describe the distribution of slaves in the early colonies. (see the graph below)

-- by Levi A.