Today’s digital citizenship lesson will focus on what is cyberbullying. We will watch a video, review key terms, and discuss scenarios.
Category Archives: Grade 5
Private and Personal Information
Today’s digital citizenship lesson will focus of the difference between personal and private information. We will learn what information is safe to share online and what information should be kept private.
Rings of Responsibility
Maker Space Activities
Today you will rotate through three makerspace activities. Try your hand at solving math problems while programming the Bee-bot to race to the answer. Create an illuminated paper picture using copper tape, LED lights and coin batteries, and explore Makey Makey and make ordinary objects control your laptop.
Poetry Anthology
April is poetry month! You have been learning about the different types of poems and have written some, too. Let’s create an anthology using the iPads and Book Creator. Be creative on how you express yourself and choose elements to enhance the written word. Below is an example of a few different ways to enhance the poems using apps like DoInk, iMovie, Green Screen, My Flake, PicCollage and Drawing Pad.
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.
Black History Month
February is Black History month! You will research a famous African-American in library, then write a short script about the field he/she is famous for, the time period he/she lived, and the reason why he/she is famous. You will also get a short video of the individual if it is available. We will use the iPads and SketchbookX to draw a portrait of the individual. Next we will bring the portrait into Yakit and record the script. Finally, we will create a gallery of the pictures in the rotunda with an augmented reality component which will display your Yakit and the video creation.
Skype with an Economist
Kiva Project
We will begin our Kiva Project by researching information about the country of the entrepreneur from Kiva that you wish to sponsor. Next you will begin to create an i-Movie presentation which will hopefully persuade your classmates to vote for your entrepreneur. Below are the steps to creating your presentation. Use our Kiva wikispace for resources.
1. Research and chose your entrepreneur
2. Storyboard your persuasive writing
3. Collect pictures for your presentation
4. Place pictures on the i-Movie timeline
5. Record your voice and synch with pictures
6. Create a credits page
7. Add transitions
8. Add background music
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.
Hour of Code
Magnetic Strength and Washers
Book Trailers
You have seen movie trailers from studios which advertise their movies. Now it’s your turn to create a book trailer, in iMovie, for a book you love! We will begin by exploring and watching book trailers created by other students and teachers.
Visit the LiveBinder for examples of Book Trailers by students and teachers and all resources for this project.
Next we will choose a book and write the script for the trailer. Use this Book Trailer Storyboard document to type your script. We’ll search for or take pictures and find music for the trailers using the resources on the LiveBinder. Finally we will use iMovie to put it all together and record the narrative. See my example below.
PARCC Scavenger Hunt
We will explore how to navigate the new PARCC assessment that you will be taking this year. Use the link below to go to the sample tests. Explore the navigation features and then use the scavenger hunt sheet to answer the questions.
MesoAmerican PowerPoint
Today you will continue researching and also gather pictures for your chosen Meso-American culture Powerpoint presentation.
Use the links at the Heights Website to gather information about your particular culture and cultural universal. Over the next couple of weeks you and your partner will create 8-10 slides with the information to form a comprehensive slideshow for your civilization. For the first slide of your show, create a Wordle with words that represent your civilization. Below is a sample of one culture and one cultural universal.
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
Potential and Kinetic Energy Animation
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Strong Passwords
Today we will learn about how to create a strong password for your accounts. After some discussion at the whiteboard, you will log into your Google account and change your password to the one generated by the random password generator below.
http://www.dinopass.com/
Open House Bio Poem Movie
You will use the iPads to create a movie for your parent to view during open house. First type your biopoem in in the app Drawing Pad. Add a few pictures and an attractive font. Next import the saved jpg file into the app iMovie and read the poem to voiceover. Add some music to finish it off.
Review of Word
We will use the laptops to type in your paragraph. We will quickly review how to set up a heading, center a title, indent a paragraph and double space. You will also spellcheck and add a border to the page.
Strong Passwords
Today we will learn about how to create a strong password for your accounts. After some discussion at the whiteboard, you will log into your Google account and change your password to the one generated by the random password generator below.
http://www.freepasswordgenerator.com/
Smithsonian Virtual Tour
Changing the Earth’s Surface
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
Novel Poetry
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.
Introduction to Sketchup 8
Multicultural Biographies
Today we will begin to create an ebook about the multicultural person you researched. We will use the app Book Creator on the iPads. Gather a few pictures to place inside your book using Wikimedia Commons. Be sure to create a bibliography page at the end of your book for resources and pictures.
William Wegman’s Dogs
Now that you examined the work of photographer William Wegman and his Weimaraner dogs, it’s time to create your own dog portrait in art, using water colors. Using a green screen, the apps Superimpose and SketchbookX, we’ll merge your painting with a photo of you to create an new piece of art on the iPad. We’ll use augmented reality to display your work at the art show.
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.
Boost Your Keyboarding Skills
Explorer Smashup
We will begin our explorer projects using the iPads. Use the Explorer Wiki Resources to help you.
1. Research your explorer and include the following information:
a. Why he explored
b. Who sponsored him
c. Where he traveled
d. How did he treat the Native people
e. What was accomplishments
2. Write the script and the bibliography.
3. Gather public domain images or creative common images for your script and save to the Camera Roll.
We will Use Explain Everything for your bibliography, Drawing Pad to create a green screen, Tellagami for your avatar speaking your script, and Green Screen to put your images and avatar together. See my sample below.
MesoAmerican Research
Today you will research the cultural elements of the Maya, Incas, and Aztecs. Use the links at the Heights Website to gather information about your particular culture and cultural universal.
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.
Geometry in the Real World
Today Mrs. Stewart’s and Ms. O’Brien’s class will work collaboratively in creating a geometry book using the iPads. You will work with your learning buddy to
- Travel around the school in search of geometric shapes that can be found in everyday items and photograph them using your iPad.
- Fill out the storyboard for your book including the name of the shape and the properties of the shape.
- Use Explain Everything to put together your book, outlining the shape in your photograph and recording your script onto each of the pages, complete with annotations.
Explorer Trading Card
Hour of Code
Wish for the World
You have worked in Art to create your own four letter wish for the world based upon the work of pop artist Robert Indiana, most famous for his LOVE painting and sculpture. Today we will work in the art room and use the iPads to take a picture of your Wish for the World artwork. We’ll use Wordfoto to incorporate your writing into the drawing.
Explorer Research
Use the follwing websites to learn about the explorers Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, and the Vikings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/namerica.shtml
http://mrnussbaum.com/explorersflash/
Skype with an Economist
Tar Beach
After reading the book Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold, you drew and painted a multi-layered city in Art. Take a picture of your cityscape with your iPad. Next you will draw yourself in a flying position in the app SketchbookX. Using the Keynote app, you will animate yourself flying over your imported city, just as the main character does in the book. Download the figure template here. When you are done upload the finished product to Google Drive and share it with me.
Flying from Heights Elementary School on Vimeo.
Kiva Project
We will begin our Kiva Project by researching information about the country of the entrepreneur from Kiva that you wish to sponsor. Next you will begin to create an i-Movie presentation which will hopefully persuade your classmates to vote for your entrepreneur. Below are the steps to creating your presentation. Use our Kiva wikispace for resources.
1. Research and chose your entrepreneur
2. Storyboard your persuasive writing
3. Collect pictures for your presentation
4. Place pictures on the i-Movie timeline
5. Record your voice and synch with pictures
6. Create a credits page
7. Add transitions
8. Add background music
Grade 5 Historical Timeline
Ms. Douglas has given you a list of dates and famous events in mixed up order. Put them in the correct order and create a timeline using Timeliner software.
Energy Guide
Today you will be creating a study guide on Energy in preparation for your test. Use the following websites to find pictures to use in your guide.
Wikimedia Commons
Pic4Learning
Imagebase
Morguefiles
Photos8
Public Domain Photos
Multiple Intelligences Glog
You have been learning about Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences in class. Use GlogsterEdu to create a digital poster which represents the intelligences.
Formatting Word Documents
Today you will be keying in a short writing piece. We will review some of the formatting features in Word such as how to create a heading, center a title, indent a paragraph, double-space a document, and spellcheck.
Intro to Google Drive
Today we will learn how to use your sharonschools.net Google account. We will review the terms of use. Next we will set up your shared folders in your drive account, so that you will be sharing all your work with your teacher. We will also upload a file from your network save so that you can work at home on it.
Potential and Kinetic Energy Animation
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Million Dollar Project
Today you will continue to work on researching information for the How to Spend a Million Dollars Project. Enter your information in the Google Drive workbook we set up in class last week. Today you will learn how to create a formula that lets you link the sums on each of your sheets to the overview sheet, so you can keep track of what you have spent so far.
Tessellations
Today you will use the paint tools in Appleworks paint to create an original tessellation. We will translate a square many times until we achieve a unique tessellation. This lesson is based on Suzanne Alejandre’s great work at the Math Forum.
Try these websites at home for fun activities with tessellations.
Simple Machines Web
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:
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)
Potential and Kinetic Energy Animation
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Powerpoint Book Reports
You have read your book and filled in your storyboard, so today we will set up your Powerpoint slideshow for your book report and populate it with pictures and text.
Tall Tales
Today will type in your Tall Tale project. We will learn how to make columns so that you can create a long tall tale! We will also illustrate your tall tale by creating a picture in Kid Pix.
Jamestown
Use the websites below to enhance your understanding of the Jamestown colony.
The Jamestown Online Adventure
On the Trail of Captain John Smith
Light Energy
World Math Day
Gallery of the Gods
Use the website below to learn about Roman Gods and Goddesses. You will be writing a short script introducing your god and describing his myth. Download a picture of your god, too. We will use Face Talk on the iPads to record your information and collect them all into a God Gallery. Click the picture of Cupid to see my sample.
Heat and Temperature Webquest
Use the file link below to begin your webquest on heat and temperature.
Cut Snowflakes Designed on an iPad
Today you will learn all about symmetry, both bilateral and radial, to design a snowflake on the iPad using My Flake. Once you are happy with your design, you will transfer the cut lines to your paper and create a beautiful tangible version of your digital design. Save your digital design to the Camera roll, too so we can display both at the Art Show.
Showtime!
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Hopes and Dreams
Today you will key your Hopes and Dreams paragraph into Microsoft Word.When you complete your paragraph use the Wordle website to create a word cloud.
Multiple Intelligences Glog
You have been learning about Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences in class. Use GlogsterEdu to create a digital poster which represents the intelligences.
Food Chain
Skype with an Economist
Animal Newsletter
Today you will continue to work on the animal newsletter you started in science class with Mrs. Leary.
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.
Geometry Glog
Let’s grab the digital cameras and find objects around the school that represent different geometry terms. We will then create a Glog at GlogsterEDU describing which term is shown in the picture. Give a definition of the term as well. You will create two Glogs and link them since you will need extra space for 12-15 pictures.
Animal Research
Use the Livebinder below to help you collect information for your Animal Research Project.
Introduction to Google Drive
Multiple Intelligences
Math Practice
Citizenship Tagxedo
Today you will key in your paragraph about what it means to be a good citizen into Word. Next we will create a word cloud using Tagxedo.
Hopes and Dreams For the Coming Year
Today you will key in your writing piece on your hopes and dreams for the coming school year in Microsoft Word. We will review how to use header and footer, tabs, alignment and spacing, first line indent and spelling and grammar check.
Letter to a Fourth Grade Student
Today you will key into Word your letter to a future fifth grade students, explaining what they can expect next year.
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.
Introduction to Garageband
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
Math Practice
Erosion Animation
Flip Cameras!
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.
AfterSchool Snack Graph
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
Tall Tales
Today will type in your Tall Tale project. We will learn how to make columns so that you can create a long tall tale! We will also illustrate your tall tale by creating a picture in Kid Pix.
Multiple Intelligences Glog
You have been learning about Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences in class. Use GlogsterEdu to create a digital poster which represents the intelligences.
Getting Sound into Glogster
Today we will take the recording of your poem that you created in Garageband and share them as mp3 files. We will then upload them to your poetry glog.
Digital Poetry Anthology
Today you will use Powerpoint to compile the poetry which you have written this year into a digital anthology. Use one slide per poem, including the type of poetry it represents in the heading. Create a slide for the title page and an About The Author slide. Choose a background that goes well with each slide, and be creative with your presentation. Also, the slide show should advance on a click with the same transition between each slide. Record yourself reading the poem with the build in record sound feature in Powerpoint.
Learning Styles
Introduction to Garageband
World Math Day
Skype with New Zealand
Explorer Powerpoint
Poetry Glog
Today you will create a Glog, at Glogster EDU, of the poem you chose to read and interpret . You can download a public domain image of the poet at Wikimedia Commons. Include the following information on the Glog:
- Name of Poet
- Country of Origin (i.e. American Poet, English Poet, etc.)
- Birth and Death
- Type poem if possible, if copyrighted still create a link to the poem
- Any unknown or tricky vocabulary and what it means
- Use of figurative language
- Interpretation of poem
Explorer Research
Explorer Wiki
Your research is nearing completion and today you will create a map in Google Maps of the explorers’ routes. There are four maps, saved in Google maps, one for each of the countries that sponsored the explorers. Work in your country groups to create a map of each countries exploration. Include a placemark for the beginning and end points of the exploration and use the line tool to draw a line mapping out the route.
Explorer Glogs
Today we will learn how to create a digital poster for your explorer research using GlogsterEdu. Include the following information
○ Why explored
○ Who sponsored him
○ Where did he go (map)
○ How did he treat the native people
○ Did he accomplish his goals?
○ If not, what did he contribute to the world’s knowledge
○ What are the effects of his contributions in today’s world?
Use the resources page on the Explorers wiki to find a picture of your explorer and a map of his route.
Below is a sample project.
Marco Polo Wordle
Solving Word Problems with Diagrams
Today you will use Kidpix to create a visual solution to your chosen word problem. After creating the drawings, you will record your thinking on the picture. When all your pictures are complete move to the slide show section of Kid Pix and create a slide show of the solution. Export in iPod format and place in your file locker in Edline to bring home.
Ordering Fractions and Decimals
Today you will use the websites below to practice ordering fractions and decimals.
Flower Power
Ordering Fractions and Decimals
Ordering Numbers
Find Grampy
Famous Inventor Magazine Cover
Today you will use Big Huge Labs to create a magazine cover of the famous inventor which you chose for your book report. Find a picture of the person at Wikimedia Commons and download it into your documents folder. Then compile the information on a magazine cover.
Polar Bear Newsletter
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.
MesoAmerican Powerpoint Presentations
Today you will research the cultural elements of the Maya, Incas, and Aztecs. Use the links at the Heights Website to gather information about your particular culture and cultural universal. Over the next couple of weeks you will create 2-3 slides with the information, which will be combined with other members of your group to form a comprehensive slideshow of each of the civilizations. For the first slide of your show, create a Wordle with words that represent your civilization. Below is a sample of one culture and one cultural universal.
Tundra Connections
In preparation for your Tundra Connections webcast next week, you will research the arctic ecosystem and how animals, specifically the polar bear, adapts to its environment. Use the links below to answer the questions on the worksheet that Mrs. Leary has provided you.
Arctic Habitats– Brainpop, jr.
National Geographic
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/polar-bear/
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/polar-bear/
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/animalsnature/polar-bears-threatened/
Everyday Math Reaction Time Graph
Protected: Primary Pads
Digital Citizenship
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 online safety. After watching the movies, you will use Primary Pad 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.
Writing Prompt
Today you will use Word to key in your writing prompt. Put a heading on your page, center the title, add a picture and border to the document.
Edline File Lockers
Today we will activate your account in Edline and learn how to use the File Locker to continue to work on documents that you start in school and vice versa. We will also save your Energy animation as a Flash file and upload it to your locker so that you can show it to your family at home.
Time Capsule Letter
Today we will work on the Time Capsule Project. We will review some formatting and editing tools in the new Microsoft Word 2011. We will learn how to set a tab, indent a paragraph, format the font, add a border, and use the spelling and grammar check. Next, we will learn how to take a picture of ourselves using Photobooth and how to add the picture to your document.
Word 2011
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Energy Paragraph
Hopes and Dreams for the Coming Year
Today you will key in your writing piece on your hopes and dreams for the coming school year in the new Microsoft Word. We will review how to use header and footer, tabs, alignment and spacing, first line indent and spelling and grammar check.
Citizenship
Biome Powerpoint
Today you will continue working on your Biome Slideshow. We will insert pictures, animate text, and chose a transition for the show.
Skype with Our Learning Buddies from Spain
Your learning buddy from Spain and you have created slideshows and movies telling all about our schools and hometowns, which we have placed on a wiki. Today we will get to meet them through Skype!
Biome Food Chain
Tessellations
Today you will use the paint tools in Appleworks paint to create an original tessellation. We will translate a square many times until we achieve a unique tessellation. This lesson is based on Suzanne Alejandre’s great work at the Math Forum.
Try these websites at home for fun activities with tessellations.
Amazing tessellations by artist M.C. Escher
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.
Colonial Scientist
Today you will use the LiveBinder below to research your famous colonial scientist. Use Kidspiration to create a web to organize the information below as you are researching:
Digital Storytelling: The Hand-Me-Down Project
We will begin to get organized for the big Hand-Me-Down Story Project. You have completed the first step of interviewing your family members to gather information about a story that is often retold at family events. The next steps include:
- Use Inspiration software to create a graphic organizer that will help you write the actual story.
- Collect pictures and scan them into the computer.
- Write the story in Word.
- Storyboard the story for iMovie
- Narrate the story in iMovie, arranging words, pictures, and music into a heartfelt tale.
Newspaper Article
Today you will create a newspaper article which focuses on either the day of the tsunami (The Big Wave) or the day Brian was rescued (Hatchet.) First type in the article in Word and spellcheck and save. Use the template provided at the ReadWriteThink website to create the newspaper format. Copy and paste your article into the template.
Movie For Our Learning Buddies in Spain
Today we will work on our iMovie project which introduces Sharon, MA to our learning buddies from Spain. We will post them all on our wiki and they will do the same as they introduce us to Barcelona, Spain.
Artist Biography Slide Show
Today you will begin to set up your Powerpoint Slide Show based on your biography book of a famous artist. It must include the following slides:
- Title Slide with the name, picture, birth, and death of your artist. Also include your name of this slide.
- Biographical Events Slide- choose three events in the artist’s life that had an influence on him or her
- Artist Style- include a short paragraph in the style of the artist and an example of a piece of work that illustrates the style
- Gallery- include a picture of a piece of work and a short paragraph about the piece
- Bibliography page- include the book source and websites where you obtained pictures.
Skype with Captain McCarthy
MCAS Math Practice
This week you will take the fifth grade math test that the state of Texas gives their students at the end of the year. The test will give you practice for your exam and will also let your teacher know about the areas in math she may need to review with you. The test is online and you can score it instantly. Click on the link below and enter your first name only.
Biome Research
What’s Your Angle?
Using a protractor can be tricky business. We will gather at the whiteboard to review the different kinds of angles, and then we will practice using the protractor tool to measure different angles at the board with a flipchart on angles. At your work station you will visit ThatQuiz and Banana Hunt for individual practice. Looking for another game to play at home to estimate angles? Try Alien Angles or Angles.
Powerpoint Book Reports
You have read your book and filled in your storyboard, so today we will set up your Powerpoint slideshow for your book report and populate it with pictures and text.
Slideshow for Keypals
We have 67 pictures that you took around the school! Today you will work on creating a Powerpoint slide show to complete Task 2 with our keypals from Spain. Include information about the school, the classroom, the subjects you study, and of course some pictures.
Poetry Glog
Today you will create a Glog, at Glogster EDU, of the poem you chose to read and interpret . You can download a public domain image of the poet at Wikimedia Commons. Include the following information on the Glog:
- Name of Poet
- Country of Origin (i.e. American Poet, English Poet, etc.)
- Birth and Death
- Type poem if possible, if copyrighted still create a link to the poem
- Any unknown or tricky vocabulary and what it means
- Use of figurative language
- Interpretation of poem
World Math Day!
World Math Day is March 1! We will be competing all day long on February 28 since the site originates in Australia and they are a day ahead of us. Tens of thousands of students around the globe will be competing in mental math heats to break the record for number of correct answers. Classes have signed up for 25 minute time slots in the lab to give it their best. Good luck!
About The Artist
The Art Show is coming up soon and we want to let the visitors know a little bit about the artist. You will key into Word the information that you wrote about yourself in art class. Next we will copy and paste the information into a QR code generator and print the code. The code will be displayed on the artwork that is in the show.
Black History Magazine Cover
Today you will use Big Huge Labs to create a magazine cover of the famous African-American which you chose for your book report. Find a picture of the person on the Internet and download it into your documents folder. Then compile the information below on a magazine cover.
Name of Person
Caption to state why s/he is important
Date of birth and death (if applicable)
Two character traits
3 – 5 important events in life or reasons why s/he is important
Famous quote or something else you feel is important to include
Tall Tales
Today will type in your Tall Tale project. We will learn how to make columns so that you can create a long tall tale!
Self Portrait
Explorer Projects
Your research is done and the Explorer Wiki looks great. It’s time now to focus on the project you chose to demonstrate your knowledge of your particular explorer. Below is a sample of a glog project.
Snow Poems
Today you will key your snow poem into Microsoft Word. Put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word, center a title, use the spelling and grammar check, and edit the font. You will create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake and insert it into your poem, as a picture behind the text.
States Visited Graph
Idioms
Today you will create a two panel comic on your chosen idiom. On the first panel create the literal version of the idiom. On the second panel create a comic demonstrating what it actually means. Title your comic the actual idiom. Click on the comic below to go to the site. If you are finished early visit the sites below the comic.
The Important Book of Explorers
Today you will begin to create your page in Microsoft Word for the class Important Book of Explorers, based on the classic book The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. Use the Explorer wiki to collect copy-free maps and pictures of the explorers.
Reading Comprehension Test
Today you will take the online Reading Comprehension test given by the state of Texas so that Mrs. Leary can see areas that might need improvement.
Stream of Consciousness Poem
Grab your lasso and rope in your tessellation creation from last week. Copy and paste it into a Word document. Place a heading on the Header portion of your page, and then let your thoughts roll onto the page, developing a stream of consciousness poem about the tessellation.
Snack Graph
Snow Poems
Today you will key your snow poem into Microsoft Word. Put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word, center a title, use the spelling and grammar check, and edit the font. You will create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake and insert it into your poem, as a picture behind the text.
Explorer Project
Today you will continue your research on European explorers using the class wikisite.
Hero Voicethread
What is a hero? Today you will key in your paragraph describing your vision of a hero. You will also create an avatar to use in the class Voicethread. Take the content of your paragraph and turn it into a Wordle, which we will use on your page of the Voicethread. We will invite your high school Ordinary Heroes partners to comment on your Voicethread once it is complete.
Choose one of these sites to create your avatar.
Idioms
Today you will create a two panel comic on your chosen idiom. On the first panel create the literal version of the idiom. On the second panel create a comic demonstrating what it actually means. Title your comic the actual idiom. Click on the comic below to go to the site. If you are finished early visit the sites below the comic.
Explorer Research
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:
Family Traits Wordle
Map Scale
Map scale is the relationship between distances on a map and the corresponding distances on the earth’s surface expressed as a fraction or a ratio. Today you will use Google Maps at different zoom levels to measure how far 3 inches will take you from a specific point. Use the worksheet to record your location, number of feet traveled, and how long it will take you to walk the distance.
Tessellations
Today you will use the paint tools in Appleworks paint to create an original tessellation. We will translate a square many times until we achieve a unique tessellation. This lesson is based on Suzanne Alejandre’s great work at the Math Forum.
Try these websites at home for fun activities with tessellations.
Amazing tessellations by artist M.C. Escher
Letters to Afghanistan
Today you will use Word to key in your letter to Captain McCarthy. We will podcast this letter and place it on Our Soldier in Afghanistan wikisite.
Self-Portrait
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.
Geometry Review
After you finish you Animation-ish energy project, watch the Brainpop movies below to review geometry concepts. Take the graded quiz for each movie.
Then play the games below to reinforce the skills covered.
MesoAmerican Powerpoint Presentations
You have completed your research on the cultural elements of the Maya, Incas, and Aztecs by using the links at the Heights Website. Now it’s time to work in groups to create a comprehensive Powerpoint slideshow of each of the civilizations. For the first slide of your show, create a Wordle with words that represent your civilization. Below is a sample of one culture and one cultural universal.
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Review of Word
Today you will type in and edit the paragraph that Ms. Douglas has given you. We will review the formatting features of Word including setting tabs, centering, indenting paragraphs, line spacing, spelling and grammar check, and working with pictures.
Blog Reading Response
Today you will key into Microsoft Word your reading response comment. We will review how to use the formatting features in Word as we set up the response as a friendly letter to Ms. O’Brien. Later you will transfer the response to your blog.
Crack The Code
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!
If I Were In Charge of the World Voicethread
We will be creating a class Voicethread showcasing your If I Were In Charge of the World poems, based on the poem by Judith Viorst. Below are the steps for creating the final product.
1. Key in your poem into Microsoft Word. We will review some of the formatting and editing techniques. We will learn how to change fonts and sizes, use Alignment and Spacing, and Spelling and Grammar check.
2. Create an original work of art based upon your poem and scan it into the computer.
3. Create an avatar to use as an identity on My Avatar Editor.
4. Record your poem in Garageband and save it as an mp3 file.
Time Capsule Letter
Today we will work on the Time Capsule Project. We will review some formatting and editing tools in Microsoft Word. We will learn how to set a tab, indent a paragraph, format the font, and use the spelling and grammar check. Next, we will learn how to take a picture of ourselves using Photobooth. Finally, we will learn how to add the picture you took in Photobooth to your document.