In the spirit of lightening the mood a bit, I'm going to post a link to a bit of my school work on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11x5Bz2qwAk
I wrote this little skit to be the lead-in to a cross-curricular lesson that's part of my master's program. The team chose pizza as the cross-curricular item. I drew the social studies straw. After viewing the video, the students would be divided into Groups Anna and Luigi. Each side would have a limited time to conduct Internet research in support of either Anna or Luigi. Research would be followed by a structured debate. It's all in good fun, and hopefully the kids would learn something about research, time management, debating, etc.
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