{"id":52,"date":"2018-11-27T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2021-05-17T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:59:43","slug":"portrait-i-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Study of Midwest, Southwest, and West Regions of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this unit, students connected with, analyzed, and formed opinions about presented information regarding the Midwest, Southwest, and West regions of the United States.&nbsp; Following three Nearpod presentations, students conducted a research project in groups, followed by presentations for the class.&nbsp; My essential question for this unit was <i>What can we learn about the people, places, and cultures of the Midwest, Southwest, and West Regions of the United States?&nbsp; <\/i>Students explored important historical figures, celebrities, and ethnic groups with a particular focus on Native American tribes, along with important landmarks, cities, industries, and other elements that make each region unique.&nbsp; Students were led through a series of interactive presentations where they discovered about the regions and formed personal connections with each through activities geared towards creating opinions and making choices.&nbsp; Students were then able to take those personal connections and use them to guide their research as they completed a Google Slides presentation with their group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this unit, students connected with, analyzed, and formed opinions about presented information regarding the Midwest, Southwest, and West regions of the United States.&nbsp; Following three Nearpod presentations, students conducted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study of Midwest, Southwest, and West Regions of the United States<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}