Hi! I’m Emily. I grew up in Muskegon, MI. Three years ago I moved to Seaside, OR with my family. I met my husband, James, while attending Clatsop Community College. We both graduated from Clatsop with AAOT degrees and transferred to the U of O.
I’m majoring in both Spanish and Education Foundations, with Special Education as my minor. This is my second year at the U of O. I began studying Spanish and Special Ed last year, and just started the Ed Foundations program this fall. So, I'm technically a senior, but I'm a junior in the Ed Foundations program.
I haven’t decided whether I want to be a Spanish teacher, ESL teacher, Elementary teacher, or Special Education teacher. Hopefully all of my field studies and observations in classrooms over the next two years will help me decide. Currently, I'm volunteering in a second grade classroom at Buena Vista Spanish Immersion School, and I definitely like the setting! I think it's a great idea to have a Spanish Immersion school for English speaking students to learn Spanish because there are more and more people speaking Spanish in the US, especially here on the west coast. One of my goals is to be fluent in Spanish, and I definitely plan on teaching Spanish in some way. James and I love the Mexican culture, so we plan on studying abroad or living there in the future.
This song is from a School House Rock video and it helps students understand why the founding fathers wrote the constitution. This song could help kids memorize the preamble too.
There are several verbs that are irregular when conjugating them into the preterite tense. This "Irregular Preterite Verbs" song is to the tune "La Cucaracha" and helps memorize conjugated irregular verbs in "yo" (first-person) form for preterite tense. Learning the "yo" form will help you be able to conjugate the second and third-person forms.
This poster shows the different sources of where carbon is stored in the earth and how it is released into the atmosphere. The image was retrieved from Scienceclarified.com.
This image is helpful in showing the relationships between and separation of powers of each of the three branches of government and what checks and balances they have on each other. I retrieved this image from SocialStudiesHelp.com.
This food guide pyramid can be made into a poster, has great examples of types of food in each group, and has examples of different activities that kids enjoy and are getting exercise at the same time. I found this poster at CrossFit Intrepid.
TheUS Geological Survey's Cascade Volcanoes Observatorywebsite has information about all the Cascade volcanoes, including physical descriptions, location, history of eruptions, current seismic activity, alert levels for impending eruptions; information about the national parks and national monuments around the volcanoes; and miscellaneous geology information to teach about volcanoes.
The purpose of the Cascade Volcano Observatory is to monitor volcanoes, particularly in the western U.S., and to teach people about the hazards of volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, etc., so that they will be knowledgeable about volcanic activity in their area. The CVO monitors volcanic activity, assesses the dangers posed to nearby populations, informs people about the activity, and studies previous eruptions to learn more about volcanoes.
I created a Webquest designed to help High School history students better understand westward expansion by taking a more detailed look at the diverse perspectives ofvarious groups of people from the many different cultures involved.Students will be divided into groups of seven, each person taking a different role and answering questions from that point of view. The diverse perspectives that students will study are those of the Spanish, British, French fur trappers, Lewis & Clark, Native Americans, pioneers, and missionaries.
This article tells what the interactions were like between the pioneers and the Native Americans, between different tribes, between the American federal government and Native Americans, and between missionaries and Native Americans.
This article discusses the British role in the Fur industry in the Pacific Northwest.Specifically it describes the history of the Northwest Company and Hudson Bay Company that were under John McLoughlin’s leadership.
This article discusses the goals and experiences of the protestant missionaries that moved west.It also describes the missionaries’ interactions with fur traders and the Native Americans.
This article gives a specific account of an interaction between the Methodist missionaries and Native Americans.It talks about the challenges that the missionaries faced in trying to convert the tribes.
This article talks about the impact that the missionaries had on Oregon, specifically the schools and colleges that they started.It also addresses some of the beliefs of the missionaries, from their perspectives and tells accounts of the struggles that they endured.
This article discusses the important role that diaries, journals, and reminiscences have for being primary resources that tell history from first-person points of view.
This website has links that describe the culture of the tribes who met Lewis and Clark, and it talks about them meeting from the Native Americans’ perspectives.
This article teaches the history about the Louisiana Purchase, and it describes how the French, British, and Spanish felt about America buying the land.
This article summarizes the long history that the Spanish empire had in North America, including its authority over Louisiana, colonizing Mexico and the southern US, and trying to intercept Louis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery.
This article introduces how Lewis and Clark prepared to meet the Native Americans, and it also has several links that give diary entries that describe their meetings with several different tribes.
