Play Google's Quick Draw: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/?_sm_au_=iVVSZJL480szRk5s
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Click on this link to make a copy of a Horizontal Digital Poster: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1GiAYxAmoEj1CCPaGUhmax8kE5jKOwyZE4-rbN-AXUnA/copy
Click on this link to make a copy of a Vertical Digital Poster: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1biwBChs3EsMn0YFmaIp3Drs30UBde5l4Li-3Nq8aDR8/copy Click on this link to allow you to make a copy of the Tree HyperDoc then follow directions in the Hyper Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z8PGeijoKJWpbdmqIrBJ2ra00CXsb8p-ccAJHUXNhaE/copy Visit this link to see a copy of "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein. |
Watch this video to see how to create a Comic Strip in Google Slides: https://youtu.be/dcTbckKjvpM
Watch "The Adaptable Mind" video at this link: http://www.letitripple.org/films/adaptable-mind/ Be able to describe at least one of the 21st Century Human skills mentioned in the video.
13 Colonies Project LInk: https://sites.google.com/a/laverne.edu/competing-colonies/home
"Protect the Earth" Lesson
- Visit the Storyboard at the link below and take notes on how people are helping the Earth. http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/tools/storyboard/view/e737bd8e-728c-46b7-8751-a78bca87258d/
- Build a Public Service Announcement (PSA) with a partner. Persuade others to protect the Earth by creating a Google Slides presentation or a Discovery Education Board on Recycling. Visit the following Discovery Ed Link to learn more: https://app.discoveryeducation.com/builders/boards/assetGuid/1137ED7A-A76F-D569-29C2-47694C9F5AB1/includeHeader/true/layout/default
Login to your NC EdCloud account and select Discovery Education. Open the Board Builder feature then follow the directions at the link to create a Board on Newton's Laws:
http://wilson-rms-science.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/4/0/7840575/newtons_laws_boardbuilder_14-15.pdf
http://wilson-rms-science.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/4/0/7840575/newtons_laws_boardbuilder_14-15.pdf
Food Waste
Watch the PBS LearningMedia Video about Food Waste: http://unctv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/930d15c4-5137-46f3-a9d8-39b8cd8d27f9/930d15c4-5137-46f3-a9d8-39b8cd8d27f9/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing
Read about Food Waste at the following website: http://www.epa.gov/waste/conserve/foodwaste/
Set a purpose: Read two online articles and a blog to gather facts and information about the problem of food waste.
Before reading: Preview the articles and blog by reading titles, captions, subtitles, and by studying the graphics.
During reading: As you read, make connections to your own experiences and knowledge, develop readers’ questions, and make inferences about the impacts of food waste. Jot down interesting, surprising, or pertinent facts.
After reading:
Create a digital presentation using facts to persuade others to be mindful of not wasting food.
Watch the PBS LearningMedia Video about Food Waste: http://unctv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/930d15c4-5137-46f3-a9d8-39b8cd8d27f9/930d15c4-5137-46f3-a9d8-39b8cd8d27f9/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing
Read about Food Waste at the following website: http://www.epa.gov/waste/conserve/foodwaste/
Set a purpose: Read two online articles and a blog to gather facts and information about the problem of food waste.
Before reading: Preview the articles and blog by reading titles, captions, subtitles, and by studying the graphics.
During reading: As you read, make connections to your own experiences and knowledge, develop readers’ questions, and make inferences about the impacts of food waste. Jot down interesting, surprising, or pertinent facts.
After reading:
Create a digital presentation using facts to persuade others to be mindful of not wasting food.
Read news for kids at this website: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Read about how someone has created a microscope how of paper that is saving lives. Describe how the microscope is made and how it works in your blog. If you could choose to give these microscopes to people anywhere in the world, where would it be and why? http://www.dogonews.com/2014/3/19/origami-inspired-paper-microscope-may-help-save-thousands-of-lives
Read about how plankton is being used to provide light at night then write a blog entry where you describe what is being done in the Phillipines and what you would also do to help people survive and thrive after a typhoon. http://www.dogonews.com/2014/3/22/glowing-ball-installations-bring-light-to-typhoon-ravaged-philippine-residents
Read about how scientists are using carpets on the floor of the ocean to gather energy at the website then write a blog entry about the pros and cons of this new technology: http://www.dogonews.com/2014/2/25/will-seafloor-carpets-be-the-key-to-harvesting-wave-energy
Click on the Flocabulary link to hear about Presidents! http://www.flocabulary.com/44-presidents/
Click on the link to hear about how American Presidents are elected. http://www.flocabulary.com/presidential-election-process/ Write a Blog Entry that describes what you learned about Presidents and what you would do if you were to be president.
Essential Question: What are characteristics of several common ecosystems?
Record the Essential Question in your Google Drive Document and take notes in Google Drive Document while you are reading the DE articles.
Discovery Ed passages to find:
“Desert and Tundra Ecosystems”,
“Plants, Plants, Everywhere”,
Video Quiz: Plants Can Be Found Everywhere”
“Don’t Bug Me Please”,
“Living the High Life”
Record the Essential Question in your Google Drive Document and take notes in Google Drive Document while you are reading the DE articles.
Discovery Ed passages to find:
“Desert and Tundra Ecosystems”,
“Plants, Plants, Everywhere”,
Video Quiz: Plants Can Be Found Everywhere”
“Don’t Bug Me Please”,
“Living the High Life”
Essential Question: What is the relationship between producers, consumers, or decomposers? How can you classify organisms according to these categories?
Record the Essential Question in your Google Doc. Read DE passages below after logging in to your DE account and take notes in your Ecosystem Google Doc about the Essential Question.
Discovery Education Passages:
“A Food Chain”,
“Decomposers”,
“Food Chains”,
“Food Webs on the Savannah”,
“Huge Gain, Tiny Loss”,
“Producers and Consumers”
Record the Essential Question in your Google Doc. Read DE passages below after logging in to your DE account and take notes in your Ecosystem Google Doc about the Essential Question.
Discovery Education Passages:
“A Food Chain”,
“Decomposers”,
“Food Chains”,
“Food Webs on the Savannah”,
“Huge Gain, Tiny Loss”,
“Producers and Consumers”
View the Big 6 information here: http://big6.com/media/freestuff/Big6Handouts.pdf
Take a Quiz on The Big 6: http://www.ranchoromero.net/games/Big6/bg6quiz.html
Read this website to see a national challenge for cities to reduce the amount of energy that they are using which could have a positive effect on global warming and lessen climate change: http://www.dogonews.com/2014/4/26/georgetown-university-launches-5-dollars-million-usd-challenge-for-us-communities-to-re-think-energy-use
Visit http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/30034 to analyze Billy Collins' Poem called "Today". Use the Copy Change Technique to write your own poem about a special day.
Visit Class DOGO news site below and write your opinion of it in a Google Doc.
http://www.dogonews.com/2014/1/17/in-norway-everyone-is-a-paper-millionaire
http://www.dogonews.com/2014/1/17/in-norway-everyone-is-a-paper-millionaire
Click on this website to learn more about weather: http://weatherwizkids.com/
Evaluate web resources. Determine if they are credible. Watch the video at the site below:
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/
Find Copyright Free Images to use in your presentations at this site:
http://www.pics4learning.com/index.php
http://www.pics4learning.com/index.php
The Symballoo below has links to the Wonderopolis website. Read and discover interesting facts!