WELCOME TO English Language Arts - POETRY
Please read this prior to our second class.
WELCOME TO ENGINEERING:
Bloomberg website regarding renewables vs fossil fuels
Keystone Pipeline Article from Newsela
Links for Final Project
Massive Yellowstone oil spill poisons drinking water
Transporting oil
TED talks on alternative energy
Land transportation of oil
Oil spills on land
Oil Spill articles and videos with multiple links
Animated oil spills, dispersants, cleaning, etc.
Oil spill in India
Watch this video on the BP oil spill
What's happening today in the Gulf?
Watch this video on Exxon ValdezWhat's happening now?
Newsela article - set your reading level Exxon Valdez 25 years later
Oil eating bacteria? More ideas for science
Watch these two videos on dispersants: fleece plants
Each week you are responsible for one box on the choice board. Please write the date you complete each box on your shared google doc.
DUE THE FIRST class in February - Please read this article and explain what has happened and the effect it has on the area. What should the community do?
Crossword puzzle link for your vocabulary definitions
Watch this video of a dispersent? What is it? Are the advantages and disadvantages of using dispersents for cleaning an oil spill? Are there others?
Due the second week of January:
Read about two of these oil spills and in your own words: 1. When did it happen?
2. Where did it happen? 3. How did it happen? 4. Why did it happen? 5. What was done to decrease the problems? 6. What were the long term and short term effects of this spill?
Review this pH scale
Check out Greenkidsnow website. Listen to the founder at age 13 and what he did as a second grade student.
On a google doc, 1. Would you like to be part of this? 2. What would you like to do?
Please watch this video for cleaning an oil spill
Interactive Food Web - Please try if you need practice
Discovery Ed
How does our Federal Government protect our waters? Learn more Explore the story map
Week#3:Please watch these Brainpop videos prior to coming to class. Oil spill effects
Week#2: Please read one of these articles about the Elwha River:
Temperate Rain Forest in Washington State
Springing back to life
Restoration Project
More Food Web Practice
Week#1: Before class, please read the story I emailed you. Be prepared to become an expert on one of the characters by sharing why you chose this character. What is the theme of this story? Be prepared to share your answers with your group.
Can you list the steps of the ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS as they occur in the story?
#2: Using puzzlemaker.com, Discovery-Ed Crossword Puzzle Maker, a BINGO CARD, a matching game or wordsearch, create a vocabulary game using the following words below.
THE CLUES are the DEFINITIONS of the words. 1. Engineer 2. Engineering Design Process 3. Environmental Engineer 4. Consumer 5. Ecosystem
5. Pollution 6. Producer 7. Technology 8. Base 9. Acid 10. ph 11. Food Web 12. Neutral
Read about these Nobel Prize winning women
Here is a 4th option for your final project: Here is the rubric
Here is your November link on liquid measurement:
Here are several "GO BEYOND" links on solid volume measurements
Link for Preview by mid November
Here is a link on solid measurement
Links for October on Area and Perimeter:
Here is a review link
Check this link out!
Here is another Link:
Try this Discover Education site on lengths
Please review this link on Volume
Homework for November - Final Project choices 1-4!
Workbook pages and Think Beyond Cards
Homework due the third week of October is completion of pages 29 and a Think Beyond Card
Homework due the second week of October is completion of page 11 or 23 and a Think Beyond Card
Homework due the first week of October is completion of TB Card Measurement.
Homework due the final week of September is completion of page 5 in your workbook.
Our First Homework is to share your packet with parents and return the inside page during your next class!
Links for October on Area and Perimeter:
Here is a review link
Check this link out!
Here is another Link:
Try this Discover Education site on lengths
Please review this link on Volume
Homework for November - Final Project choices 1-4!
Workbook pages and Think Beyond Cards
Homework due the third week of October is completion of pages 29 and a Think Beyond Card
Homework due the second week of October is completion of page 11 or 23 and a Think Beyond Card
Homework due the first week of October is completion of TB Card Measurement.
Homework due the final week of September is completion of page 5 in your workbook.
Our First Homework is to share your packet with parents and return the inside page during your next class!