Evaluating Websites: Are you Joe Cool or Joe Fool?

Think you know about the Web? Here's your chance to prove it! Take a CyberTour with Josie and Joseph Cool, as they visit their twelve favorite websites, and decide whether or not they're making smart choices. It's easy to do. Every time one of the Jo's has to make a decision about a website, write down:

• What kind of website is this?
• What decision does Jo have to make?
• What should Jo be looking out for?
• Does Jo make the right decision?
• Why or why not?

How do your answers compare to the Jo's? Any surprises?
After you're done, compare your answers with those of your friends.
Once you've taken the CyberTour, see how much you've learned by completing the Jo Cool/Jo Fool CyberQuiz. There are twenty questions about the Net and how kids use it—are you up for the challenge?
Click here for online comprehension strategies diagram
Click here to join Joe Cool/Jo Fool Cyber Tour
Take the quiz

Let's go deeper:
Deconstructing websites
Click to go to Deconstructing webpages
How to search the internet effectively

Halloween Safety Tips with Voki

Give your friends some Halloween Safety Tips using a Voki avatar
Click here to go to Voki

Tech- More Halloween Fun

Tech-It's Almost Halloween!

Watch this Brain Pop video to learn more about Halloween!
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Learn how to say Halloween in sign language--



Halloween Fun and Games
Can you make a Jack-o-Latern?  Try this game out!
Click here to play Trick or Treat Home
Click here to carve your own pumpkin!
Halloween Dress-up 
Spot the Pumpkins 
Sort pumpkins in this pumpkin patch! 
It's Halloween-Interactive Story 
Halloween Safety Game 
Halloween Bingo
Halloween Math Puzzle
Halloween Math
Jigsaw Game
PBS Kids-Halloween Activities and Game

Halloween Coding

Direct a Trick or Treat Scene- A Ghost is trick or Treating at a cranky old man's house

Scavenger Hunt at Monster High-Solve coding puzzles to complete a scavenger hunt while avoiding the skeletons that have invaded Monster High

StoryboardThat-Mutt's Promise Plot Summary

Made with Storyboard That

Tech Grades 1-3: Who is Johnny Appleseed?

It's apple picking time! The perfect time to learn about Johnny Appleseed!  We are going to watch a BrainPop video about Johnny Appleseed and see why we have him to thank when we go apple picking this fall!

Click to watch the Brain Pop video
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Now for some apple fun!

• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Test your apple knowledge

• Play Simple Simon-Apple style

• Apple Festival Concentration
• Life Cycle of an Apple

Creating with Kidpix-

• What would Johnny Appleseed tell people today? Make a picture with his message.
• Share something new you learned about Johnny Appleseed! 

Aimsweb Practice Test

Click here to take the Aimsweb practice test

Let's try out Storyboard That!

Can you think of your favorite book you've read?  Let's share it with the class by creating a storyboard that retells the key events and introduces us to the main characters. Or would you rather introduce us to the main characters in the story? Create a Storyboard with the characters and show us what they are like.
Click here to join our Storyboard That class
Log in using your Barnardschool.org account

Ms. Casassa's class information: 
Teacher: scasassa
Access key: words0555

Click here for the plot template
or using 5 frames-tell the story yourself!