Announcements
How Stuff Works: Innovation in Ancient China
Yellow River - Wild China - BBC
Machines of Ancient China
How Stuff Works: Three Gorges Dam
Mr. Zoller's: Geography of China
Himalayan Mountains - (listen to information, no notetaking handout)
BBC Himalayan mountains video clip music by Rachel Scott (just for fun)
Solar flare video music, Earth to scale
Understanding Solar Activity -- NOVA (7:31min.)
Step 1 - Planet Worksheet Go to Paden-Documents-Science Astro Reseach-Planet Web Quest Fact Sheet. Download the document and record all of your planet facts on the worksheet. DON'T PRINT.
Step 2 - Planet Research Use the websites listed under "Resources" to find your planet facts.
Step 3 - Presentation Work with your group to create a slideshow of 4-6 slides about your planet. We suggest that each group member create one slide illustrating 1/4 if the facts. All slides must have a graphic, sound, and special effects. Don't forget a title and author's name on each slide. Use a flash drive to put all of the slides on one group member's laptop. Add transitions and you've got a presentation.
Step 4 - Evaluation You will be graded in three categories on this project:
> Science - facts are accurate and thorough
> Writing: Clear & Effective - presentation is interesting, well-written, and easy to understand
> Writing: Mechanics - correct spelling, punctuation, and formatting - automatic "1" if title is not capitalized
KIPP Chants
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3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24
We all can go to college
(Slap desk)
27 30 33 and 36
Uh hah
We got to keep on movin"
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4 8 12 16 20 24
That's how
We roll our fours
28 32 36
40 44 48
La-la la-la la
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DUKES UP!
Brookside, good as gold, let me hear your fingers roll
5 - 10 - 15 - 20 - 25 - 30 - 35 - 40 - 45 - 50 - 55 - 60
Take a deep breath. |
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DUKES UP!
Brookside, good as gold, let me hear your fingers roll
6 - 12 - 18 twenty-four 30 - 36
And the spider says
42 -48
54 - 60
66 - 72
How do you do?
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DUKES UP!
Brookside, good as gold, let me hear your fingers roll
7 14 21 28 35 42 (clap, clap)
49 56 63 70 77 84
Let me hear you count some more
R-o-o-l-l-in
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8 16 24 32 f-o-o-o-r-ty
with a forty down there (slap, slap)
and a forty up here (slap, slap)
48 (clap, clap)
56 (clap, clap)
64 (clap, clap)
72 (clap, clap)
Now 80
with an 80 down there (slap, slap)
and an 80 up here (slap, slap)
88 (clap, clap)
96 (clap, clap)
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9 18 27 36 f-o-o-o-r-ty-five
54 63 72
It's great
To be alive
81 90 99 just wait 1 oh 8
Don't hate, appreciate, appreciate. |
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Week of April 4-8
Fraction Action - Identifying amounts
themathgames.com/our-games/fraction-games/play-fraction-frenzy-4 Fraction Frenzy 4 - FUN!
Fraction Balls 1 - Must play the 1st two games for AT LEAST 25 minutes before playing this very fun game.
ONLINE CLASSICS
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
GEORAPHY PRACTICE
1. Continents and Oceans Quiz - tell guest teacher your score.
2. Treasure Hunt: Longitude and Latitude - do this AFTER you take the quiz.
3. Location Practice - This is the hardest, do this activity last.
Fraction Passport Activities
Online Resources for Ancient Civilizations Unit
Water for Sixth Grade - Teaching Resource
Introducing Unit
Taisei interactive map of civilizations
World Relief Map
World Geography Map
World Desert Map
World Physical Map
Timeline Iraq
Mesopotamia
Link to Power Point about Mesopotamia
Irrigation in Ur video
Levee video: shows levee breach in Missouri
Time Line - Iraq
Levee located in the Tri-Cities are of Washington. The levee is the flat hill with the bike trail on top. A good
place to see levees near us is in Mt. Vernon
This is the 17th Street Canal levee breached during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
delta
Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta
steppe video
gorge
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A calm stretch of river through Tiger Leaping Gorge
http://www.chinaodysseytours.com/yunnan/tiger-leaping-gorge-photo-tour.html
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Royal Gorge - Arkansas |
Tallulah Gorge - Georgia |
MESOPOTAMIA TREASURE MAP ACTIVITIES
Lesson 1 - Geography of the Fertile Crescent
> Shuffling Time - Practice with the time line abbreviations (more fun than it sounds).
Lesson 3 - Babylon & Assyria
>Write your name in cuneiform. Add your cuneiform name to your English name on your map
EGYPT TREASURE MAP ACTIVITIES
Lesson 1 - Gift of the Nile
Map of Ancient Egypt
Lesson 2 - Kingdoms of Egypt - online activities - FINISH THE STUDY GUIDE FIRST.
>Mummification activity - easy & entertaining
> Pyramid Builder - takes time, but interesting and fun.
Lesson 3 - Ancient Egyptian Culture
> Egyptian Tomb Adventure - Explore a pyramid: find the tomb, decode hieroglyphics, climb down a rope
> Write your name in hieroglyphics - then copy onto your passport
ANCIENT CHINA TREASURE MAP ACTIVITIES
> Visit the Great Wall of China
> Chinese Pictograms
> Magical Lanterns
Silk Road Activity
ANCIENT ROME TREASURE MAP ACTIVITIES
> Dress the Roman Soldier
> Gladiator Dressed to Kill Game (Less violent than it sounds.)
> Play Snakes and Ladders with Roman numerals
> Death in Rome: Solve the mystery using information about ancient Rome
ANCIENT GREECE TREASURE MAP ACTIVITIES
Ancient China: Land of the Middle Kingdom
Loess deposits, composed of fine wind-blown dust produced by the grinding action of glaciers.
This exposure of loess is near Palouse, Washington. (Photograph copyright Donald P. Schwert, North Dakota State University)
Loess landscape near Hunyuan, Shanxi Province, China (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loess_landscape_china.jpg)
Loess Plateau - China
Three Gorges Dam Video - p. 148
BONUS PASSPORT ACTIVITIES
When you have completed ALL of your work and TURNED IT IN, you may go to this website and have fun.
Ancient Egyptian Games
Map of Caribbean Region
Stealing Beauty
Animal Idioms
WINTER SCENCES - Winter Wonderland Art
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