Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Grades 2/3-Researching Dinosaurs

Do you like Dinosaurs?  Want to learn more about them?  Well, you've come to the right spot.  Watch this Brain Pop video and explore some of the cool dinosaur website listed below! Don't forget to write don your research!
Click here to work on your pages in our "We Love Dinosaurs!" Class Presentation!


Click here to watch the Dinosaur video

Dinosaur Research Resources
Zoom Dinosaurs   USE THIS SITE FIRST-great information
National Geographic Kids-Dinosaurs
Fact Monster-Dinosaur Timeline

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


Once you finish your class slide, you can create your own book! Here's a link to the template.


Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Grade 1 Tech-Learning about Thanksgiving

Do you know why we celebrate Thanksgiving?  Where the first Thanksgiving took place?  Watch this Brain Pop video to learn more!
Click here to watch Brain Pop jr Thanksgiving
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Monday, November 6, 2017

Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation

Today we are going to work together to make a plan for reading using the strategies from the Online Comprehension Strategies Diagram.

Click on the link to the Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.
Use these questions to evaluate the website
Complete this Graphic Organizer-Is This a Hoax?

How do we know if we can trust a site?
There are a couple of key pieces of information that will help us decide if we can trust a site or not. Each of us needs to make up our minds if we can trust the site, in the end it’s a judgement call on the user’s part. But these key pieces of information can help us?
  • Authority
  • Currency
  • Content/Purpose
  • Audience
  • Structure/Workability
Other sites to explore
All About Explorers
Dihydrogen Monoxide Research

The Republic of Cascadia
The Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs
GenoChoice
Buy An Ancestor Online
The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency 

Comparing and evaluating websites 
Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and  Pacific Tree Frog
Mike the Headless Chicken and Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Dog Island and Nova: Dogs and More Dogs
Save the Guinea Worm  and Guinea Farm