Sunday, December 14, 2014

Holiday Tech Fun!

Try these fun Holiday Activities!


Design Your Own Gingerbread House 

Click on the Gingerbread House to go to the website and start decorating.  You may print out your house when you are done!

http://www.highlightskids.com/flash/gingerbread-house
Click here to decorate a Snowman

Click here to Decorate a Christmas Tree
Only 10 Days to go!  Click the picture below to visit the North Pole and see what Santa and the Elves have been up to!

http://www.northpole.com/CraftCottage/

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Using InstaGrok for research










Today you are going to learn how to use InstaGrok to complete your research for your informational essays on New Hampshire.

FOLLOW THE STEPS BELOW--
1.  Log in to your barnardschool.org account in Google
2.  Click here to go to Instagrok 
3.  Click log in with gmail (see illustration below)












4.  Type in your research topic in search bar



5.  Review search results.  Start your research.
REMEMBER--put the information IN YOUR OWN WORDS!!! If you want to use the exact words from a site, put them in QUOTATION MARKS and give credit to your source.
6.  Use the journal feature to take notes (you need to be logged in to save your work!)