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Lesson Plans for Blogging in the Classroom  =Math =

Students could use a class blog to post questions and comments about a new topic (and their classmates could help answer and explain).

This 7th grade Math blog posts questions for students to answer about many different math topics: http://verity7math.blogspot.com/  =English =

Students could create a class blog about a novel they are reading. Within the blog, they could discuss themes, characters, symbolism, and more. An example blog that analyzes the novel " [|The Secret Life of Bees] " is found [|here] .

Students can be a character from a novel and blog daily on what is happening in the book. They can also comment as that character and add information to the blog. See my lesson plan for this here  This is a great [|lesson plan]  on how to use blogging and connect it to writing. This lesson requires students to reflect on their writing on a daily basis.  =<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">History =

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students could create a blog and assume the role of a person living through a specific time period or event. They could correspond with others who take on other roles that would be relevant to the situation.

This <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|lesson plan] <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">requires students to develop their own Utopia and publish their explanation of their world on a blog.

This [|lesson plan's] goal is for students to determine how to be responsible bloggers and is going to be completed as a precursor to beginning a class blog. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> =<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Science =

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Students could blog about a classroom project or experiment. They could use the blog to share ideas, expectations, and results.