Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Spreadsheet for Zoo Project


Objective: You need to make a spreadsheet with your zoo project partner. Your spreadsheet needs to have a sheet for each kind of animal in your zoo. Here is a video teaching you how to use the spreadsheet app.

How to Make a Spreadsheet on Google Apps

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Read our Conclusions

Hello everyone!

Great writing lesson today.  You all showed great understanding of our objective, "Good writers write a strong conclusion."

Read some of our conclusions.


Friday, April 19, 2013

Design a Zoo Project!

Your task is to design your own zoo.  You have been given a total budget of $100,000 dollars.  The total cost of your zoo must not exceed the budget you have.  Your zoo must have at least 5 different enclosures with at least 5 different species of animal and there must be some type of vegetation inside your enclosures based on the animal's needs.  There are some logical steps that you need to follow to complete the design of your zoo.

Firstly, you will need to decide on the animals that you wish to have in your zoo.  You will need to decide on the animals that you wish to have in your zoo.  You will need  to research each animal and decide how much space the need, what type of food they eat and if they co-exist well with each other (if you are having more than one animal in each enclosure)

Using the graphic organizer and the information on this website San Diego Zoo choose the animals for your zoo.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Elapsed Time Word Problems on a Table


Our objective today is to learn how to solve elapsed time word problems in minute intervals using a table.

To access today's videos you are going to visit Learnzillion.

At the top of the page it will say, enter your quick code, which is LZ579.

Watch the video and then fill out the google form I have emailed to you.

Don't forget to do guided practice if you need more help!


If you want to review problem solving to the nearest 5 minutes watch LZ577.

If you want to review problem solving to the nearest minute, watch LZ578.


Monday, April 8, 2013

Introduction to Persuasive Writing

Our Objective:  Brainstorm ideas for our persuasive letter.



When you write a persuasive letter you need to find a topic that you really care about.  We write persuasive letters to try to convince someone to agree with our point of view.  If you choose a topic that you don't care about you will not be as convincing.

On the board below, brainstorm some ideas by clicking in an empty space and brainstorming something that you really care about.  Once you have shared a few of your ideas, read some other ideas.  Then, open the google doc I shared with you called, "Persuasive Writing T-Chart" and choose some of the topics below, or add more of your own and write your ideas on the chart.



Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Elapsed Time Using a Number Line

Thursday's Homework!

Our objective today is to learn how to solve elapsed time word problems in whole hour intervals by using a number line.

To access today's videos you are going to visit Learnzillion.

At the top of the page it will say, enter your quick code, which is LZ576
.

Watch the video and then fill out the google form I have emailed to you.

Don't forget to do guided practice if you need more help!

Parts of an Elapsed Time Word Problem

Wednesday's Homework

Our objective today is to learn about elapsed time by identifying the start time, the change of time, and the end time of real world situations.

To access today's videos you are going to visit Learnzillion.

At the top of the page it will say, enter your quick code, which is LZ575


Watch the video and then fill out the google form I have emailed to you.

Don't forget to do guided practice if you need more help!

Monday, April 1, 2013

Ancient Greek Theatre

Hello Thespians!

Below is an example of a Greek Theatre Production.  Please watch the video and look for evidence to support the information we learned in class on Monday.  The video is in Greek, so you probably won't understand it, unless you speak Greek.  You DO NOT need to watch the whole video.  Just watch enough to get an idea of what Greek Theatre looked like.


Don't forget to fill out the google form.