Mapping the Underground Railroad

Google Earth World Tour

Lesson Plan Site for Henry Box Brown

Take the Virtual Tour

Interactive Tour with Sound

Weather and the Underground Railroad

Today we'll be using this website:

http://www.wunderground.com/history/

to help us write about the Underground Railroad realistically.  You will need to know

• your birthday (day, month, and year)
• the names of the cities on the Underground Railroad

Desert Research

image by TLPOSCHARSKY

 in flickr  ARIZONA HIGH DESERT PLATEAU

Today in class we will be using the internet to read for information.  The first thing we will read is a page about the Sonoran Desert (click on the words Sonoran Desert to go to that page).

After reading that article for some background information you are going to research a desert animal and a desert plant.

This are the links for the desert animals.
The Southern Pacific Rattlesnake 
The Desert Tortoise
The Cactus Wren
The Jack Rabbit

This are the links for desert plants.
Desert Paintbrush
The Mojave Monkey Flower
The Ocotillo
The Organ Pipe Cactus

You will click each link and fill out your data collection sheet on the animal and plant you choose.

You will be researching by READING, so please don't watch the videos.  We are practicing getting information from written texts today.

Definitions to keep in mind:

•  Range is the geographic region where a plant or animal lives, such as “arid regions of the North American southwest” (any plant or animal you choose to write about must live in the range of the Sonoran Desert.) 
• Habitat is the kind of area where it lives, such as “sandy and rocky soils in desert locations.”

Birds and their adaptations! (October 01, 2014)

We're learning about birds, and how they're adapted to their environment and diet.

First we'll read this book about Sanderlings.

Next, we'll explore different kinds of birds.  Click the picture for your resource!

Raptors (or birds of prey)

Water birds

Hummingbird

Scavengers

Woodpeckers

Finches

If you want to look at more birds and their beaks, click here!

Programming a Game on Hopscotch 2.0

Hopscotch got a great upgrade!  Today we are going to learn about it and help our class guests to program a game in hopscotch.  This lesson builds on the previous lesson on programming a game in Hopscotch  (That is a link to the post, so if you can't remember how to do it, read that post)

The big changes in Hopscotch are that you can save an ability.  This means if you create the ability "run around" and code move and rotate blocks in a repeat loop, you can quickly add that complex ability to many characters without rewriting the code.

The second change is that it is easy to create a variable to keep score or change the performance of the game.  You can make all the characters speed up every time you score a point, or touch the edge, or step on the chicken.  Here is a short video we will watch together once and then you can re-watch if you need to.

Creating a Storyboard with Storyboard That

 You begin at: https://www.storyboardthat.com/classroom

Programming a Game on Hopscotch

This lesson owes a debt of gratitude to Wes Fryer, his book of Hopscotch Challenges has made this lesson possible.  Get it here.

We have use Hopscotch to create shapes and drawings.  Today I want you to create a game.  Let's get started.

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