We will use the iPads and the app Tellagami to create a movie of your researched animal. Download a picture of your animal from Dropbox, then create your avatar. We will create a class movie when we are done.
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Solar System Research
Animal PicCollage
Animal Report
Now that your animal research is done, you will type up your report in Microsoft Word and embed a picture of your researched animal in the report.
Volcano Research
Phases of the Moon Animation
We will learn how to use Animation-ish to create an animation of the phases of the moon. Click on the picture below to see a sample.
Illuminating An American Symbol
Makey Makey
Anyone can be an inventor! We will learn the basics of electric circuits using a BrainPOP movie and explore conduction by experimenting with connecting different materials to a MaKey MaKey. A MaKey Makey is kit that allows you turn everyday objects into touchpads. It allows you to use anything with at least a small amount of conductivity connected to the MaKey MaKey to control keys like the space bar or control a computer mouse.
Day and Night
Paper Circuit Haikus
Today we will start a project which will merge paper circuits and poetry. You have written a haiku about light. First you will illustrate your haiku using a collage method, making decisions about which element of the illustration you wish to illuminate. Once the illustration is complete, you will design a paper circuit using copper tape, LEDs, coin battery and a switch. Once it is designed you will create it on cardstock, which will sit behind your illustration.
Paper Circuits
Magnetic Strength and Washers
States of Matter
Today you will use KidPix to draw a picture of how molecules act in three states of matter.
Try these websites at home:
States Of Matter Animation
We will use the iPads and the app DoInk to create an animation of how molecules behave in three states of matter.
How to Make a Complete Circuit
Show what you know about how to make a complete circuit. Use the iPads and Explain Everything to create a short movie on how to create a complete circuit to light up a bulb. You may go to Pixabay to gather pictures for your materials. Include labels for your objects on the materials page. Label the critical contact points on your final slide. You can also demonstrate how the electrons flow with your laser tool. Use the storyboard to plan out your project.
Marionette STEAM Project
We will begin our research in the library on Newton’s Laws in preparation for the creation of a marionette in art class which will demonstrate those laws. After the marionette is built, we will use the iPads and the app Explain Everything to show what you learned and to demonstrate how the movement of the marionette demonstrates Newton’s Laws. Use the resources below to start your research.
Science Weekly newspaper article on Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
Science A-Z: Force and Motion book
Brainpop- Newton’s Laws of Motion
A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
Life Cycle of a Butterfly Movies
We added a twist to our butterfly life cycle animations. We created a movie with iMovie, complete with music and a title page made with Drawing Pad. See our movies here.
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Your butterfly eggs have arrived! Today we will use the iPads and DoInk to animate the life cycle of a butterfly.
Digestive System
Phases of the Moon Movie
Now that we’ve completed the phases of the moon animation, let’s bring it into iMovie on the iPad and add music. Create a title for the movie in Drawing Pad and save to the camera roll.
Dinosaurs
YakitKids Animal Poems
Animal Research
Today you will begin your animal research. Click on the links below to begin your research.
You can also use the Britannica Online site from the Heights LIbrary.
Powerpoint Narrations
Today we will record narration for your animal powerpoint. We will combine all the slideshows and present them to our families during our big learning celebration.
The Circulatory System
Smithsonian Virtual Tour
Insects and Bees
Learn About Your Bones
Today we will watch the Brainpop, Jr. movie on bones. Click the picture below to get to the site.
After you watch the movie, in Brainpop, choose the game Construct-A-Saurus.
Next, play Learn the Skeletal System.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Today to learn more about ways to help the earth we will watch the Brainpop, Jr. movie on Recycling. Next we will visit the website below and help clean up the earth.
Changing the Earth’s Surface
The Solar System
Healthy Habits Games
Simple Machines Comic
Today your group will use the iPads and Strip Designer to illustrate four examples of one simple machine. We will put all the pages together into a comic book study guide. Be sure to include a definition of your machine.
Use this link for pictures.
http://www.mikids.com/Smachines.htm
Erosion
You have taken pictures with the iPads of erosion in our outside environment and uploaded to Google Drive. Today we will create a new document and use Google Draw to annotate the pictures. Also, type a paragraph about the process of erosion under the inserted drawing.
Phases of the Moon
Today we will create an animation of the phases of the moon. We will use the iPads and the app DoInk.
The Moon
Sketchup Bootle Greenhouse
The Water Cycle Comics
Today you and your companion class partner will work on creating a comic book about the water cycle. Use the storyboard to plan out your comic book, then open Strip Designer on the ipads to create the comic. Click below to see my sample book.
Animal Slideshow
Today you will begin to create an Animal PowerPoint slideshow based upon the information you collected during your research sessions in the lab.
Predicting and Reporting the Weather
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
Introduction to Sketchup 8
Skype with a Yellowstone National Park Ranger
Dinosaurs and Fossils
The Water Cycle
Today you will use KidPix to create a scientific drawing of the water cycle. Visit these websites at home to learn more about the water cycle.
Drippy the Raindrop: The Land of Ice and Snow
Dinosaur Train
States of Matter
Constellations
Water Cycle
Volcano
Today we will use the iPads and the app Drawing Pad to draw a cross-section of a volcano. Label the different parts of the volcano and save to the camera roll. Upload your picture to Google Drive. You will use your picture in a paragraph in which you will write about the different types of volcanoes.
Tour the Planets
First we will take a tour of the planets with the Cat in the Hat. Then we will journey through the solar system, spinning the planets and viewing them up close.
Phases of the Moon Animation
We will learn how to use Animation-ish to create an animation of the phases of the moon. Click on the picture below to see a sample.
Favorite Weather
Weather Glog
Today you will begin to create a Glog on your chosen weather phenomenon. Include three pictures, a short paragraph and several bullets to explain the meteorological phenomenon.
Let It Snow
Today we will create a snowflake at Make A Flake. We will collect all of our flakes and put them in a movie using the class singing about snow as the soundtrack.
Magnetism Minibook
Today you will create a minibook on magnetism as a study guide. You will need 7 pictures from the web that will go along with the topics of each page. Four pages should be titled Properties of Magnets, another page Electromagnets, and a final page called Electromagnetism. You may use the guide in the Lessons folder if need be.
Weather Research
Use the iPads and the following websites to help you collect information for your weather topic.
Weather Whiz Kids
Weather Web for Kids
Treehouse Weather Kids
Discovery Kids Weather
The Weather Channel Kids
You may also use the Britannica Online and Brainpop sites for further information.
If time allows start to gather pictures from Wikimedia Commons for your weather glog.
A Complete Circuit
Show what you know about how to make a complete circuit. Use the iPads and Explain Everything to create a short video on how to create a complete circuit to light up a bulb. You may go online to gather pictures for your materials. Include labels for your objects on the materials page. Label the critical contact points on your final slide. You can also demonstrate how the electrons flow with your laser tool. Use the storyboard to plan out your project.
Create the Weather
States of Matter Animation
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
Leaves for Our Class Tree
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Life Cycle of a Frog
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Weather Glog
Today you will begin to create a Glog on your chosen weather phenomenon. Include three pictures, a short paragraph and several bullets to explain the meteorological phenomenon.
Weather Research
Use the following websites to help you collect information for your weather topic.
Weather Whiz Kids
Weather Web for Kids
Treehouse Weather Kids
Discovery Kids Weather
The Weather Channel Kids
You may also use the Britannica Online and Brainpop sites for further information.
If time allows start to gather pictures from Wikimedia Commons for your weather glog.
Simple Machines Web
Solar System Slideshow
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to add pictures, custom animations and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Planet Glog
Today you will begin to gather pictures and assemble your Planet and Solar System Glog, using GlogsterEDU.
Simple Machines Glog
Grab the digital cameras and photograph simple machines around the building! You will use the photos to create a Glog in Glogster complete with definitions.
Use these websites to help you:
Building Boats
Your STEM Day Challenge is to build a boat that will hold at least 25 pennies without sinking. Below are resources to help you with the research portion of the design process.
Question: Why do boats float?
Information to Read
Information to Watch
Why boats float (created by two kids)
Rubberband Cars
Your STEM Day Challenge is to build a rubber band car that will travel at least one meter. Below are resources to help you with the research portion of the design process.
Question: How do you make a rubber band powered car?
Information to Read
1. Mr. Rob Hafernik, an engineer, explains how
2. Step by step directions with several photos
3. Wooden rubber band car instructions
4. Another set of step by step directions with photos
5. PBS Kids Design Squad instructions
Information to Watch
How to make a car that runs on old CDs (explained by kids)
Animal Slideshow
Today you will begin to create an Animal PowerPoint slideshow based upon the information you collected during your research sessions in the lab.
Solar System Research
Potential and Kinetic Energy Animation
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Volcanoes!
To complement your Rocks and Minerals unit, we will explore how the inside of a volcano looks. Draw a cross section of a volcano in Kid Pix, then color and label each important feature.
Learn more about volcanoes by visiting the following website.
Planet and Solar System Slideshow
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to search for and download pictures from the NASA website, add custom animations, and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Animal Research
Today you will begin your animal research. Click on the links below to begin your research.
Solar System Research
Light Energy
Heat and Temperature Webquest
Use the file link below to begin your webquest on heat and temperature.
Water Cycle Animation
States of Matter Animation
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Light and Shadows
Today we will view the Brainpop,jr. movie on Light. We will learn how to use the Activotes to take the Easy and Hard Quizzes. You will also explore the BBC science clip on Light and Dark at your computer.
Food Chain
Animal Powerpoint
Using the information that you have collected over the last few weeks, you will create a Powerpoint slideshow, complete with pictures, animations, sound, and transitions.
Bugscope!
Our day has finally arrived for the Bugscope project! We will connect to the scanning electron microscope at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to examine the honey bee, an important plant pollinator. During our Bugscope session, we will control the microscope as we examine the insect at incredible magnifications. Have your questions ready because we will chat with the scientists during our session.
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Mealworm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Predicting and Reporting Weather
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
Plant Parts Scavenger Hunt
Let’s take advantage of the last few days of warm weather and go outside with the digital cameras in search of plant parts. Your group will be looking for and photographing roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds. Brainstorm with your group the function of each of the parts. In the lab we will use iPhoto to create a book with the pictures.
Cloud Haikus
Biome Podcasts
You will create a podcast, using Garageband, with your group on the biome that you have been researching.
1. Create an engaging script with an introduction and conclusion.
2. Collect pictures to enhance your script.
3. Include the following elements in your podcast.
- Title page with a picture, name of the biome, group members’ names
- Location, climate, and terrain
- Animals of biome
- Animal adaptations
- Plants of biome
- Plant adaptations
- Typical food chain for biome
- Sources
4. Record and edit your section of the podcast in Garageband and export as an mp3
5. Import all the mp3 into one podcast and add pictures and music
Use the Live Binder below to help with your research.
Forces in Motion
Today we will watch a Brainpop, Jr. movie on Pushes and Pulls. We’ll take the quiz with the activotes, too. If there is time we will return to the computers to play the games below.
Life Cycle of a Frog
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Food Chain
Today you will create a web in Kidspiration detailing the food chain of your chosen animal. If you are done early you may visit the websites below the picture.
What Living Things Need and The Food Chain
Bugscope!
Our day has finally arrived for the Bugscope project! We will connect to the scanning electron microscope at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to examine the honey bee, an important plant pollinator. During our Bugscope session, we will control the microscope as we examine the insect at incredible magnifications. Have your questions ready because we will chat with the scientists during our session.
Planet and Solar System Slide Show
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to search for and download pictures from the NASA website, add custom animations, and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Erosion Animation
Solar System and Planet Glogs
Today you will begin to collect pictures for your Planet and Solar System Glogs. Next we will assemble the Glog in the lab, using GlogsterEDU.
Gather pictures from the following NASA websites:
Wikimedia Commons
NASA Images
NASA Images Exchange
Great Images In NASA (GRIN)
NASA Multimedia
Water Cycle Animation
Create an animation of the water cycle using Animationish. Use Advanced-ish and create a background which includes all the necessary ingredients to begin the cycle. Switched to the foreground and animate the different stages of the cycle ending with accumulation.
Simple Machines Slideshow
Grab the digital cameras and photograph simple machines around the building! You will use the photos to create Powerpoint slideshow on simple machines. Include a definition on each of the slides.
Resource websites
MIKids.com
Simple Machines
The Elements of Simple Machines
Solar System Research
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
NASA Images
Phases of the Moon
Create a slideshow in KidPix that illustrates the first five phases of the moon from new to full. We’ll start by reviewing the phases of the moon by going to an interactive website. Then, open each of the seven slides in the Phases of the Moon folder and follow the directions given. Once finished, create a slideshow in Kid Pix. Click here for a sample.
Animals of Hawaii and Massachusetts Wiki
Learn About the Moon
States Of Matter Animation
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
Skype With A Penguin Expert
You have done your research and now you will get a chance to ask penguin expert, Ron Naveen from Oceanites, all your unanswered questions via Skype. Mr. Naveen, a field scientist, has just returned from Deception Island, Antarctica where he spent several weeks counting chinstrap penguins.
Bugscope!
Our day has finally arrived for the Bugscope project! We will connect to the scanning electron microscope at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to examine the honey bee, an important plant pollinator. During our Bugscope session, we will control the microscope as we examine the insect at incredible magnifications. Have your questions ready because we will chat with the scientists during our session.
Animal Research
Today we will begin your animal of Massachusetts research. We will present everyone’s information on a wiki so that we can share it with our friends in Kea’au, Hawaii. Click on the links below to begin your research.
Famous Scientist Glog
Now that the research for your famous scientist is complete, we will use GlogsterEdu to create a glog.
Polar Bear Newsletter
Uses of Electricity In Our Daily Life
Today we will use Kidspiration to create a graphic organizer of all the different ways we use electricity in our daily life.
Try this website at home.
Penguin Research
Today you will use the following websites to help you with your research on penguins.
Enchanted Learning Penguins
National Geographic Penguins
World Book Online
If you have time read an online book about penguins
Light and Shadows
Today we will view the Brainpop,jr. movie on Light. We will learn how to use the Activotes to take the Easy and Hard Quizzes. You will also explore the BBC science clip on Light and Dark at your computer.
Simple Machines Glog
Grab the digital cameras and photograph simple machines around the building! You will use the photos to create a Glog in Glogster complete with definitions.
Tree Observation
Today we will begin to create an animation that shows how the oak tree outside of the school changes with the seasons. We will begin the animation with the two observations that you made so far this year. We will add to the animation as the seasons progress until we have a finished illustrating all of the changes over the course of the year.
Nanuk The Great White Bear Webcast
Today you will connect with scientists from the Polar Bear Institute in Churchhill, Manitoba, Canada to learn about Nanuk, the Inuit name for polar bear. You will learn about their natural history and specialized physique for living in the arctic.
Top of the World Webcast
Today we will connect with scientists from the Polar Bears International in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada to learn about the Arctic and the ecosystems within it. We learn about the creatures that inhabit this harsh environment and the adaptations they have developed to allow them to survive here.
Bugscope!
Our day has finally arrived for the Bugscope project! We will connect to the scanning electron microscope at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to examine the honey bee, an important plant pollinator. During our Bugscope session, we will control the microscope as we examine the insect at incredible magnifications. Have your questions ready because we will chat with the scientists during our session.
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Meal Worm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Skype with a Meteorologist
Reporting and Predicting the Weather
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
Brainpop,Jr. and Light
Today we will work in your classroom and view the Brainpop,jr. movie on Light. We will learn how to use the Activotes to take the Easy and Hard Quizzes. We’ll also explore the BBC science clip on Light and Dark.
A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
Tree Observations
Today we will begin to create an animation that shows how the oak tree outside of the school changes with the seasons. We will begin the animation with the two observations that you made so far this year. We will add to the animation as the seasons progress until we have a finished illustrating all of the changes over the course of the year.
Plant Parts Scavenger Hunt
Let’s take advantage of the last few days of warm weather and go outside with the digital cameras in search of plant parts. Your group will be looking for and photographing roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds. Brainstorm with your group the function of each of the parts. In the lab we will use iPhoto to create a book with the pictures.
Cloud Haikus
Predicting and Reporting Weather
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Meal Worm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Energy Paragraph
Simple Machines
Today we will look at the movie clips from Brainpop on Simple Machines. When you are done, we will head to the whiteboard for some interactive activities, and a quiz using the activotes.
Try these games at home!
Biome Powerpoint
Today you will continue working on your Biome Slideshow. We will insert pictures, animate text, and chose a transition for the show.
Butterfly Life Cycle
Your caterpillars have arrived! To enhance your study of the life cycle of the painted lady butterfly, we will use Kid Pix to draw the four stages of the butterfly’s life cycle.
Learn more about butterflies by visiting the websites below.
Solar System Research
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
NASA Images
Life Cycle of A Frog
You have been watching your frogs in the classroom grow and change. Today we will use KidPix to draw the life cycle of a frog.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs.
Biome Research
Today you will begin your biome research. Use the LiveBinder below to watch the Brainpop movie on Biomes. Then head to the NASA Missions site and take notes on your specific biome. If you are done early, play the Great Graph Match activity at the Missions website.
Parts of a Flower
Today we will gather around the whiteboard to quickly review the Life Cycle of A Plant. We will then use Kid Pix to draw a cross-section of a flower, labeling all the major parts.
If you are done early, then visit the website below.
A Raindrop’s Journey
Life Cycle of a Frog Slide Show
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Rocks and Minerals Review
Today we will review Rocks and Minerals. Watch the Brainpop movie by clicking on the picture below then open up a blank Word document, place your heading in the header area, and answer the following open response question:
Elena found a piece of a mineral while on a hike. She wants to identify the mineral she found.
a. Identify two physical properties of minerals.
b. Describe how Elena can test the mineral she found for each of the physical properties that you identified in part (a).
If you are done early you can try the following games:
Biome Research
Planet Postcard
This week you will begin to create a giant postcard based upon the planet that you have been researching. We will use two slides in Powerpoint for your postcard. You will find two pictures for Slide 1, the outside of the card. For Slide 2, the reverse side of the card, you will insert an image for a postage stamp from the planet and write a friendly letter incorporating some of the facts that you researched. We will print the slides and gluestick them to card stock creating an 8.5″x11″ postcard.
Solar System Research
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
NASA Images
Animal Research
Today you will visit the Enchanted Learning website to begin the research for your animal report. At the website you will click on the letter that is the beginning letter of your animal. Write your notes on the research guide that your teacher has given you. Click below to get started.
You can also use the WORLDBOOK ONLINE for extra information about your animal.
Drawing States of Matter
Today you will use KidPix to draw a picture of how molecules act in three states of matter.
Try these websites at home:
Water Conservation Tips Book
Animal Research
Today you will visit the Enchanted Learning website to begin the research for your animal report. At the website you will click on the letter that is the beginning letter of your animal. Write your notes on the research guide that your teacher has given you. Click below to get started.
Try this website at home to create your own original animal at Build Yourself Wild!
A Complete Circuit
Today you will use Kidpix to demonstrate how you would get a light bulb to light if you were given a copper wire, a light bulb, and a battery. Label the parts of the bulb and the critical contact points. We will import your drawing into Animation-ish to create an animated drawing demonstrating the how electrons travel to light a bulb.
States of Matter Animation
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
Inside The Earth
As part of the rock and minerals unit, today you will draw a cross section of the earth. When you are finished go to Discovery School, put in the assignment code, and watch the movie.
Skype With A Meteorologist
Uses of Electricity in Our Daily Lives
Today we will use Kidspiration to create a graphic organizer of all the different ways we use electricity in our daily life.
Try this website at home.
Famous Inventor Slideshow
Today you will create a PowerPoint slide show based upon the research you conducted on your famous inventor. You will learn how to choose a layout and slide design, insert a picture, create a bulleted list and animate it, and add a slide transition.
Simple Machine MiniBook
Today you will create a simple machines minibook that you will use as a study guide. Create one page for each of six simple machines. Each page of the book should include a title (name of machine), a definition, and a picture of an example of the machine.
Use the following websites to help you.
If you are done early:
Johnson Space Center Videoconference
Today we will connect with the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to learn about gravity and how astronauts adapt to their new home, the Space Station. We’ll discover the everyday challenges of how astronauts live in orbit live from a mock-up of space station living quarters and take a look at the food that NASA has prepared for the astronauts.
Rocks and Minerals Review
Today we will review for your unit test on Rocks and Minerals. Watch the Brainpop movie below and take the graded quiz. After you achieve 100% on the graded quiz move on to the rocks and minerals game below.
Food Chain
Today you will create a web in Kidspiration detailing the food chain of your chosen animal. If you are done early you may visit the websites below the picture.
What Living Things Need and The Food Chain
Reporting and Predicting Weather
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
Weathering and Erosion
As part of your Rocks and Minerals unit, you are learning about weathering and erosion. Today you will watch the Brainpop,jr. movie clip on this topic by clicking on the picture below.
Answer the questions in the Talk About It activity. Then play Shape-It-Up, a game on erosion.
Skype Call With A Meteorologist
Bugscope Session
Our day has finally arrived for the Bugscope project! We will connect to the scanning electron microscope at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to examine the honey bee, an important plant pollinator. During our Bugscope session, we will control the microscope as we examine the insect at incredible magnifications. Have your questions ready because we will chat with the scientists during our session.
Johnson Space Center Videoconference
Today we will connect with the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to learn about gravity and how astronauts adapt to their new home, the Space Station. We’ll discover the everyday challenges of how astronauts live in orbit live from a mock-up of space station living quarters and take a look at the food that NASA has prepared for the astronauts.
Cloud Haikus
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Meal Worm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Plant Parts Scavenger Hunt
Let’s take advantage of the last few days of warm weather and go outside with the digital cameras in search of plant parts. Your group will be looking for and photographing roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds. Brainstorm with your group the function of each of the parts. In the lab we will use iPhoto to create a book with the pictures.