Hour of Code Choice II

1. Hour of Code Video

2. The Maze

3. Choose one of these projects to try next - maybe the Scratch Christmas Card or, if you really want to try something advanced, the Khan Academy Introduction to JavaScript.

Hour of Code Choice I

1. Hour of Code video

2. For your Hour of Code activity, you're going to work on a Scratch project that can help people learn the names of the shapes. For those of you who are coming back to finish your project, continue on with the part you were working on.

Part One Directions

Part Two Directions

Part Three Directions

3. When you finish your project, you may put it on your blog. You may work on this tutorial, or after you have finished that, you may work on one of these.

Hour of Code: Scratch Shapes

For your Hour of Code activity, you're going to work on a Scratch project that can help people learn the names of the shapes.

Part One Directions

Part Two Directions

Part Three Directions

Hour of Code

Next week, Edgemere is going to be participating in the Hour of Code and all classes in Kindergarten through sixth grade will be doing an activity with either Mrs. Salazar or me.

1. Watch this video to find out why coding is important

2. Coding game

Gaggle Safety and University Search

Video Directions

1. Gaggle

2. Try to match these universities with the clues you're given:

Berklee
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Notre Dame
Princeton
Stanford

3. If you have time, you may write a new blog post about this topic:

Is there a college you're thinking you'd like to attend if you could? Do you have any ideas of what you'd like to study right now? Tell us about it!

Circuits

Video Directions

1. The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits

2. Circuits Hangman

Think Through Math

Video

Think Through Math

Remember your login and password is your ID (lunch number) followed by yisd.

At 9:20, you may stop going through the lessons and change your avatar or check out the class/school/state leaders. You may also finish your blog assignment from yesterday.

How to Put Your Science Fair Project on Your Blog

Step One

With an iPad, take four pictures of your science fair project and put them in a folder.

Here's how:

Directions

Step Two

Use the iPad app Explain Everything to explain your experiment.

Be prepared to explain about these things:

• How did you get the idea for it? What was your initial hypothesis and question?
• What did you do to perform the experiment?
• What were the results?
• What did you learn by doing the experiment and/or doing the research?

Here's a rough guide on how to use Explain Everything.

Step Three

Talk to Mr. Mattson so he can upload your project and get you the code to put it on your blog.

Think Through Math

Think Through Math

Matter and Prime Factors

1. Matter Sorter

2. Factors and Multiples

3. Login to your blog. Write the factors and the first five multiples of 10. Then tell if 10 is a prime number or a composite number. Title it Factors and Multiples of 10.

For example, if I did this assignment about 12, I would write this:

Factors and Multiples of 12

The factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12.

The multiples of 12 are 12, 24, 36, 48, 60 . . .

12 is a composite number.

Story Elements and Introduction to Blogs

Video Directions

1. Elements of a Story

2. Edgemere 5th Grade Blogs

Continents Day III

1. Continents and Oceans

2. Continents: Interactive Map

3. World Quiz

4. Continue Your Google Earth Activity

Google Earth: World Wonders

1. Watch video

2. Before you begin, download and install the Google Earth Continents overlay.

3. Download the World Wonders document  and search for each wonder and enter the information and your picture into your Pages document.







I adapted this lesson from the one posted at Google Earth lessons.

Websites about animals

Animal Database

Ducksters Animals

Kids.gov Animals

Seaworld's Animal InfoBooks

Last Day

1. Branches of Government Quiz - you must finish in 7 minutes

2. Continue working your Westward Expansion keynote

Video directions #1 (posted Monday) covers putting the different parts of the map on the slides according to how they were added and linking the map on the first slide to the other slides

Video directions #2 (posted Tuesday) covers adding information on each acquisition and adding a button as an alternate means of navigating through the slides

3. When you're done with #2 - make sure I recorded a grade for you

4. Make Branches of Government Pyramid (Look for it in your Documents folder)

5. Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark

6. Put together the U. S. Jigsaw - you can choose the one that's easy but a probably a little boring or the one that's harder but more of a challenge.

7. Place the States

8. Design a Party

Wrapping Up

1. Take the practice Branches of Government Quiz if you need to retake the real quiz.

2. Continue working your Westward Expansion keynote

Video directions #1 (posted Monday) covers putting the different parts of the map on the slides according to how they were added and linking the map on the first slide to the other slides

Video directions #2 (posted Tuesday) covers adding information on each acquisition and adding a button as an alternate means of navigating through the slides

3. Make Branches of Government Pyramid

Day 11: Onward, Progress!

1. Branches of Government Quiz

2. Continue working your Westward Expansion keynote

Video directions #1 (posted Monday) covers putting the different parts of the map on the slides according to how they were added and linking the map on the first slide to the other slides

Video directions #2 (posted Tuesday) covers adding information on each acquisition and adding a button as an alternate means of navigating through the slides

Day 10: Moving Forward

1. Branches of Government activity

2. Branches of Government Quiz

3. Continue working your Westward Expansion keynote

Video directions #1 (posted Monday) covers putting the different parts of the map on the slides according to how they were added and linking the map on the first slide to the other slides

Video directions #2 (posted yesterday) covers adding information on each acquisition and adding a button as an alternate means of navigating through the slides

Day 9: Branches of Government Quiz and More Work on the Westward Expansion Keynote

1. Watch Branches of Government BrainPop movie

2. Take Branches of Government BrainPop quiz

Email results to your teacher
vanchondo@yisd.net
ebarrientos4@yisd.net
vbeaulieu@yisd.net
svarela@yisd.net

3. Continue working your Westward Expansion keynote

Video directions #1 (posted yesterday) covers putting the different parts of the map on the slides according to how they were added and linking the map on the first slide to the other slides

Video directions #2 (new today) covers adding information on each acquisition and adding a button as an alternate means of navigating through the slides

Day 8: Branches of Government Review and Westward Expansion

1. Three Branches of Government video

2. Battleship: The Three Branches of Government

3. Video Directions for #4

4. Another try at a Westward Expansion Keynote project

Lewis and Clark and the 50 States

1. Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark

2. Put together the U. S. Jigsaw - you can choose the one that's easy but a probably a little boring or the one that's harder but more of a challenge.

3. Place the States

Day 7: Video Review and Westward Expansion Regions

1. Watch America Gets a Constitution

2. If you were absent yesterday or you need to retake it to improve your grade, go to America From the Beginning quiz

3. Branches of Government Game

4. Video Directions for #5

5. Keynote Map Project

Day 6: Last Day for Graphic Organizer

1. The U. S.: From the Beginning (Second Quiz)

2. Finish Kidspirations graphic organizer

When you're organizer has been checked and printed, you may play the Do I Have the Right game

Day 5: Completion of Graphic Orgaziner

1. The U. S.: From the Beginning (Second Quiz)

2. Finish Kidspirations graphic organizer

When you're organizer has been checked and printed, you may play the Do I Have the Right game

Day 3: Branches of Government

1. The U. S. From the Beginning Crossword Puzzle

2. Video Directions for #3

3. Works on Kidspirations Branches of Government Document

Day 2: Bill of Rights and the Constitution

1. America: From the Beginning Let's give that another try, shall we?

2. Founding of America Quiz

3. Video directions

4. The Constitution Game

5. Bill of Rights

6. Find the rights in the Bill of Rights

7. Do I Have the Right?

Day 1: Bill of Rights Introduction

Bill of Rights Game

Study Island

Go to Study Island.

For your username, type in the same username you use for AR, followed by:

@edgemereroadrunners.com

Use the same password you use for AR.

Your teacher will tell you which activities to complete.

STAAR

STAAR L Tutorial

TELPAS Reading Test Tutorial

TELPAS Reading Test Tutorial

Link

Study Island

Go to Study Island.

For your username, type in the same username you use for AR, followed by:

@edgemereroadrunners.com

Use the same password you use for AR.

Your teacher will tell you which activities to complete.

Food Webs and Keynote Shapes Picture

1. Working on a Foodchain  - A review of how the food chain works. Watch and read.

2. Fun With Food Webs - Finish the food webs for the meadow, arctic and pond

3. Make a picture using the Shape tools in Keynote

But first, take a look at Brenda's story, which I refer to in the tutorial.

Think Through Math

Think Through Math

Study Island

Go to Study Island.

For your username, type in the same username you use for AR, followed by:

@edgemereroadrunners.com

Use the same password you use for AR.

Your teacher will tell you which activities to complete.

Improper Fractions and Study Island

1. Complete Improper Fractions activity in Kidspirations

2. Go to Study Island.

For your username, type in the same username you use for AR, followed by:

@edgemereroadrunners.com

Use the same password you use for AR.

Your teacher will tell you which activities to complete.

PLC Special: Scratch Part One

You're going to learn how to create your very own game on the computer. To do that, you're going to use a program called Scratch.

First watch this introduction to Scratch.
We're going to start with a simple maze-type game.

Here's one example - play it.

Here's another example Mark, a sixth grader at Edgemere, created.

I made video directions to a maze game I created. You may use those directions to help you make your own game. You can also change what I did to make a more exciting, entertaining game.

Prime or Composite, Equivalent Fractions and Area and Perimeter

1. What is a Prime Number?

2. Prime Landing - get to 2,000

3. Math Puppies - get to 2nd level

4. Which One is Prime? - get above 2,000

5. Fruit Shoot - up to 50, twice as many hits as misses

6. Reduce Fractions - get 10 correct

7. Triplets

8. Design a Party

PLC Special: Finish Scratch Projects and Internet Safety

1. If you're not done with one of the Scratch projects, you can work on that if you wish.

2. Router's Birthday Surprise

Scratch Part III

Here are the video directions for the maze game.

After you finish that, you can make a haunted house story or you can learn how to make a character dance.

Earth, Sun and Moon

Earth Information

• School For Champions
• Infoplease

Sun Information

• School For Champions
• Infoplease

Moon Information

• School for Champions
• Infoplease

Planets

Properties of Earth and Moon

The Earth, Sun and Moon

Metric Conversions