Finished Early? Try these activities.

Are you finished with your work?  Try some of these activities. 

Keyboarding:

Astro Bubbles
Typing Rockets
Cupcake Bugs

Keyboard Ninja

Free Choice:

Create

• Inspiral
• Make a Skateboard
• Make a Backpack
• Storymaker

Coding

• Candy Quest
• Beach Cleanup
• Dance Party
• Make your own Codable Maze

Dr. Seuss Activities

• Explore Seussville
• PBS The Cat in the Hat

Problem Solving 

• Fuzz Bug Factory
• GeoBoard

Tech-Learning About Recycling

You have been thinking about ways to help the planet.  One way you can do that is to think about what to do with your trash.  You can try this recycling game to to learn what you can reuse and what you should recycle.

CLICK HERE TO PLAY THE RECYCLING GAME!











  

Tech Grades 1-3: Let's Celebrate Dr Seuss!

Today we are going to learn more about Dr. Seuss by exploring Seussville.  While you are there, be sure to watch a video, play some games, learn something new about Dr Seuss to share with your classmates at the end of Tech period.  Click here to go to Seussville!
PBS Dr. Suess

Places to go for your research!
Facts about Dr. Seuss
Read this kid-friendly biography on Dr. Seuss
Read about Dr Seuss here 

Click here to go to Grade 2/3 Class Presentation on Dr Seuss.  

Add a fact that you have learned.  Include an image and change the color of the slide!

Keyboarding Practice-grades 1-3

Now that you have your Chromebooks, you can start learning where the keys are on the computer and practicing so you can be a better typer!

Try these fun activities-

Astro Bubbles

Keyboard Ninja

Typing Rockets

Cupcake Bugs

Keyboard Builder

Join us for 2020 Hour of Code!

 

It's Time for the Hour of Code!

Hour of Code-click for coding options

Learn about Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI and Machine Learning impact our entire world, changing how we live and how we work. That's why it’s critical for all of us to understand this increasingly important technology, including not just how it’s designed and applied, but also its societal and ethical implications.

Join us to explore AI in a new video series, train AI for Oceans in 25+ languages, discuss ethics, and more!

Candy Quest
Design your own candy troll character and go on a multi-level quest for candy to help your character find its way home. You'll solve coding puzzles to navigate your character through the human world, while avoiding obstacles and collecting gumdrops and mints.

Play Puppy Adventure

Make Your Own Kodable Mazes

Can you build a symmetrical maze? A maze with right angles? Get creative and complete maze-building challenges with basic coding concepts. Aligned with K-5 Common Core

Beach Cleanup with Kodable

Pre-reader - Grade 5 | Language independent (can be taught in multiple languages)

Save the beach babies! Learn to program using basic commands and clean up the beach to protect ocean life.

CodeMonkey Jr.: Pre-coding for Preschoolers

In a world filled with captivating creatures and bright colors, 4-6 year olds will join a monkey on a mission to collect bananas and unlock treasure chests. All the while, they will explore and learn the basics of code as they use blocks to program a monkey's journey through the world.

Dance Party
Code a Dance Party to share with your friends. Featuring Katy Perry, Madonna, J. Balvin, Sia, Keith Urban, Ciara, and 25 more! 

Learning how to use Jamboard

 Today we are going to learn how to use a new tech platform called Jamboard which is an interactive whiteboard--that means we can all be on the board at the same time.  What are some rules we need to follow when we use Jamboard?

Click on your grade level below to join in the Jamboard activity!

Grade 1 Tech Jamboard

Grade 2/3 Tech Jamboard

Holiday Fun!

As we prepare for Christmas and the holidays, enjoy some holiday themed tech!
Click here to play a wide assortment of Christmas games and activities 
Santa Tracker Village

Click here to "Make a Christmas Tree"

Build a Gingerbread House

Santa Canvas

Santa Selfie

Santa Search











 Emojify the Holidays
Santa Translations
Christmas Around the World
Christmas Traditions and Customs

Holiday Coding-
Elf Code Boogie
Build a Snowman
Grinch Coding

Thanksgiving Fun!

Done with your work?  Try out some fun Thanksgiving games!

What to do some coding?  Try this code a Thanksgiving Turkey game on Tynker!

What's the red thing on a turkey? Click here to learn more.

Where does your Thanksgiving meal come from? Click here to find out! 

 

 

Thanksgiving Activities

Turkey Touchdown
Thanksgiving Word Search
Gobble Squabble
Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving Crossword 

Click here for more games

Grades 1-3 Tech Celebrates the 100th Day of School!!!

Happy 100 Day of School!!! In honor of being at school for 100 Days, we are celebrating in Tech Class this week.

First, we will watch the Brain Pop video.

Then, go on Kid Pix and use the stamps and drawing features to make pictures with sets of ten.  We will put all your pictures together to make a 100 Day Banner!

Some 100 Day Games to play!
100 Day of School
100 Snowballs
100 Number Chart
100 Balloon Pop
Interactive Number Chart

Grades 4/5: The 13 Colonies

You are learning about the early American Colonies in Social Studies class.  Now you will get to choose your favorite colony and create a poster showing us what makes it so great!Here's your task:
1.  Choose one of the 13 colonies to research and learn more about.
2.  Complete the graphic organizer
3.  Create a poster using Canva (more instructions to follow!)

Below you will find some places to go online to learn more about your colony.  There are some fun interactive games you can play as well.
13 Colonies On-line Map
13 Colonies Regions
Overview (Duckster)
13 Colonies (Kiddle)
Heads Up for The Colonist
For Crown or Colony?

Winter Fun in Tech Class!

Happy New Year!  

2020 is starting great and is sure to be a fun year of learning!  Let's get stared with some winter fun.  Design a snowman below! When you like your creation, print a copy.  You can play some of the other winter games. 
When you are finished, go on Kidpix and write about your Snowman!
Tell us your Snowman's name.  What he or she likes to do outside for fun in the winter. And..what's special about their hat! Pretend you were out in the snow making this snowman. You can also write about all that fun!

Click here to play Make a Snowman












Now try 100 Snowballs

Are you finished and ready for more fun? Try these...
 Days of the Week Game
Break the Bank Sorting
Chrome Music Lab
Storymaker

Hour of Code 2019

It's time for Hour of Code!  Barnard students in grades 1-8 will code for an hour this week!
Click here for Hour of Code game options


This year The Hour of Code is focusing on AI-machine learning-watch this video to learn how it works with some hands on experiences. AI is like any tool:  "first you get the knowledge, then you get the power." Click here to start learning how Machine Learning works!



 Join a Beach Clean-up with Kodable!

Play Puppy Adventure

Join in the fun and start coding! Click here form more coding fun!

Dance Party
Code a Dance Party to share with your friends. Featuring Katy Perry, Madonna, J. Balvin, Sia, Keith Urban, Ciara, and 25 more!

Candy Quest
Design your own candy troll character and go on a multi-level quest for candy to help your character find its way home. You'll solve coding puzzles to navigate your character through the human world, while avoiding obstacles and collecting gumdrops and mints.

 The Grinch
Learn to program drones and a high tech sleigh with coding magic to capture presents and navigate down the mountain to return Christmas to Whoville.

Grades 6 & 7: Digital Compass-how to be good online citizens

 Click here to go to Digital Compass
 Digital Compass- a fun way to learn how to be a good citizen online. Create an avatar and username, then choose different activities to learn how to make good decisions online. Please post a comment below this assignment in Google Classroom that tells what games you played and one thing you learned.

Grade 8 Media Literacy: Checkology- Infozone Lesson

Click here to go to Checkology lesson
Today you will work on being more media savvy and literate.  You will be using Checkology and working in the lesson called "Infozones." First, create an account with Checkology using your Barnard School email. Then  watch the videos and complete the lessons in "Infozones." At the end of tech class, let Ms. Casassa know how far you got in the lesson (___/15) in the comment section below this assignment in Google Classroom.

Halloween Fun in Tech Class!

HALLOWEEN FUN! It's almost Halloween and time to have some spooktacular fun! Carve a jack-o-lantern! Play some ghostly online games! And test your Halloween trivia with Halloween Hop!

Choose from the activities below:
Make a Pumpkin
Halloween Hop
Pumpkin Carving
Halloween Word Search
Halloween Candy Hunt
Pumpkin Matching
Trick or Treat
Halloween Dot to Dot 
Halloween Coloring
Looking for more Halloween Fun? Use Kidpix to draw a Halloween picture!

Grades 2/3 Learning About Dinosaurs

DINOSAUR RESEARCH PROJECT

Do you like Dinosaurs?  Want to learn more about them?  Well, you've come to the right spot.  We ill watch this Brain Pop video and explore some of the cool dinosaur website listed below! Don't forget to write down your research! Click here to watch the Dinosaur video

Dinosaur Research Resources 

The Dino Directory
Zoom Dinosaurs -for fact sheets and information 



Other good research options
National Geographic for Kids-Dinosaurs
Fact Monster-Dinosaur Timeline

Dinosaur Facts for Kids
Discovery Kids-Dinosaurs
Kid-Dinosaurs
The Dinosaur Museum

Planning and Note-taking
Note-taking Sheet 

Ready to Create!  

Click here to work on your pages in our "We Love Dinosaurs!" Class Presentation!

Constitution Day, September 17th

September 17th is Constitution Day!

Today, you will learn about the rights and responsibilities you have as citizens and how the United States Constitution protects those rights.  Let's start by watching a Brain Pop video to learn more!

Click here to watch Brain Pop Jr.: Rights and Responsibilities

Log in information:
barnard1
brainpop




Want to learn more? 
US Constitution Fact Sheet #1
US Constitution Fact Sheet #2

Brain Pop Jr: Rights and Responsibility Word Play
Duckster: The US Constitution 

Constitution Games
Preamble Scramble
Concentration
Constitutional Board Game (online)
Which Founding Father are You Like?

iCivics Games 
Do I Have a Right?

Click here to watch Brain Pop: The US Constitution

Click here to learn more!






Poster Contest- Deadline October 1st

Sign in to Grade 4/5 Tech Google Classroom

Click here to go to Google Classroom
1.  Sign in using your Barnardschool.org username and password
2.  Join class using this code: zppof8

Review Internet Safety Rules-Grade 4/5

As we begin the school year, let's review some internet safety rules by playing Interland.  Click the link below to play.
Click here to go to Interland

Create a poster helping your classmates remember how to be safe online! You may use Kidpix, Google Drawing or presentation.  Be sure to write your rule and include a picture!

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