Today we will begin to work on creating a Voicethread for your fables. Here are the steps that need to be completed before we begin recording.
Today you will watch the United Streaming video, Exploring Energy. The video will ask you several questions along the way. Pause the video and answer the questions on the worksheet that Mrs. Leary will provide. When you are finished with the video, click on the pictures below to take you to a Millionaire type game on energy, and a place to try your own hand at building a roller coaster.
Today you will use Inspiration to create a compare and contrast graphic organizer. You will be brainstorming the similarities and differences between Morning Girl and her brother, Star Boy from the novel Morning Girl. In the classroom, on laptops, you will turn the ideas in your graphic organizer into a well written paragraph.
Today you will key in your poem, If I Were In Charge Of The World, based on the poem by Judith Viorst. We will review some of the formatting and editing techniques in Microsoft Word. We will learn how to change fonts and sizes, use Alignment and Spacing, Spelling and Grammar check, Insert a Picture from a file, and use Borders. You will use Photobooth to take a picture of yourself for the project. You will save your document and print to the lab printer.
The Grade 5 building block of character focuses on citizenship, and citizenship also applies to online interactions. Today you will watch movie clips from Brainpop concerning three important topics in digital citizenship: digital etiquette, cyberbullying, and copyright. After watching the movies, you will use Etherpad to collaborate online with members of your group to answer questions about the movie. Click on the picture below to take you to the movie clip. Visit my eboard to learn how to enter the collaborative writing environment.
Today you will work with a partner and visit the National Geographic website Crack The Code. It appears that thieves have stolen some very valuable maps. They fortunately dropped a scrap of paper behind with clues as to the location of the maps. However the clues are in code. Use your knowledge of latitude and longitude along with Google Earth to find the identity of eight cities. The discovery of the identity of all the cities will lead you to the maps. You may not use the Fly to Search, but must spin the globe to find the coordinates. Be sure to turn on the Google Earth grid in the View menu. Please take turns using the mouse. I will hand out a copy of the scrap paper with the clues. Use the back of the scrap paper to write down your answers. Good luck!
Open House is right around the corner, so you will create a pretend magazine cover for your parents featuring a student of the year- you! I will bring the digital cameras to your classroom where you and your partner will take pictures of each other with the props you have chosen for your cover. During our next class session we will head to the lab and use the Magazine Cover Maker from BigHuge Labs to create the final product.
Thanks to Kevin Jarrett for this cool idea!
Welcome back to the Computer Lab. Today we will assign seats, review the rules of the lab, make sure everyone can log in, and review the dock and the Heights Technology Blog. We will also learn how to create a folder to store all of last year’s documents.
