6th Grade Science and Social Studies

Today, your task is to compare the organelles in a cell to a city or a factory.

First, you need your science journals.  Turn to the next blank page and title it Cell City.  Also, add this to your table of contents.

Check out the websites below for inspiration for your CELL CITY.   I have given you a sheet with organelle names.  What part of the city could each organelle represent?  Take notes on this sheet and glue it on the right side.

GLUE THEM IN YOUR NOTEBOOK on the right side.

Use the sites below to help you. Talk about them with your group. I am listening for fantastic scientific discussion!   SHARE control of the computer.

SITE #1

SITE #2

On the LEFT page of your journal, create an analogy of the cell using a different model. Some ideas might be a school, a house, a factory, or anything you can imagine.

Be creative! Use color!

Leave me a post below and tell me what your engagement level was during this lesson and why.

Play this game at freerice.com!

By answering these vocabulary question, you will send food to people in need!

PLAY IT OFTEN!  Think about the Greek/Latin roots we do in class – it will really help you!

CLICK HERE

WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades,….

There is a tiny universe inside you!  In fact, it is inside every living thing!

Let’s learn more about it!

You will use this link to fill out your notes -

http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/3dcell.htm

Here is a link to the AWESOME CELL MOVIE that we watched in class!

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Click on the cell above to view it!

I am so sorry that I am not there.  Please, know that I miss you all.

STARTER – It is GREEK/LATIN FRIDAY!  Your root word for today is photo-.  Write this on your starter form. Then go to this website and wrtie down what photo- means and an example.  Please, turn this in to the proper tray.

IMPORTANT – if you were absent and did not take ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS notes in your science notebook.  You need to do that now.  Your table needs to teach you what we did on Tuesday.

Hey guys, do you know that the reason we have Monday off is not just to have fun?  It is a day to remember a very special man and the HUGE difference he made in the lives of EVERY citizen and in the history of our country! It is a day to give to others in service.

Click here to MAKE IT A DAY ON – NOT A DAY OFF!

He believed that life’s most urgent question is: WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR OTHERS? Find out more about him.

CLICK HERE

He gave a very famous speech where he told about the dream he had for this country. Listen and see it here.

CLICK HERE

Unfortunately he was assassinated when he was only 39 years old.  BUT HIS LEGACY LIVES FOREVER! Learn more about him!  Check out these sites:

TIMELINE

I HAVE A DREAM PUZZLE

MLK-ONLINE

Want to attend a local event?  Check these sites out!

LOCAL EVENTS

MORE EVENTS

ONE MORE!

FOR A GRADE  IN SOCIAL STUDIES DO THE FOLLOWING:

LEAVE ME A NICE, LONG COMMENT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU LEARNED ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.  How did he make a difference? What would be different today if Martin Luther King Jr had never been born? and HOW YOU WILL HELP OTHERS .

HOW CAN WE HELP THE VICTIMS OF THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE?   WE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS WHEN I GET BACK.  CHECK OUT THESE LINKS:

HOW SCHOOL STUDENTS CAN HELP IN DISASTER RELIEF

RED CROSS

GOOD MORNING AMERICA

We learned that ENERGY CAN NOT BE LOST, OR CREATED, OR DESTROYED but………IT CAN BE TRANSFORMED!

Remember that while we learn about ENERGY and how to conserve it.

First, you will visit this site with your table group and study the energy conversion that I have assigned you.  Your group will create a way to act out your assigned topic.  You will teach it to us.

CLICK HERE

Secondly,  you will research an energy source.  You will make a commercial advertising your energy source.  Is it a good source?  How does it affect the environment?  Is it renewable or nonrenewable and why? What are the pros and cons of this energy source? Click on the websites below:

CLICK HERE

AND HERE

AND HERE

Lastly, you will visit this web site and see if you can balance environmental effects and cost while you power your city.

CLICK HERE

Could you do it?  Leave me a comment and let me know how you did!

In our journey through world history this year, we last studies the Middle Ages.  Do you remember some things that were happening during this time period?  Take a few minutes to discuss this with your partner or your group.

Now, we are moving on to a time period called the Renaissance.  What exactly is the Renaissance?

Click on this sentence to find out – I want to find out the cool stuff that happened during the Renaissance!

Did that introduction give you any clues about the Renaissance?  What did you learn from that introduction?  Take a few minutes to discuss this.  I AM LISTENING!! To learn more about this time period- you are assigned several tasks.

1.  Fill out the Renaissance Spider Map.

2.  Research an important person  assigned to you by me from this time period.  You will post what you learn in a comment on this page. You will follow the format I give you in a handout.  Include important dates, events, and important ideas or inventions.  You also need to include how their ideas still affect us today. YOU MUST USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

CLICK HERE FOR LEONARDO DA VINCI

CLICK HERE FOR GALILEO

CLICK HERE FOR MICHELANGELO

CLICK HERE FOR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and HERE

CLICK HERE FOR MARTIN LUTHER (not Martin Luther King Jr)

CLICK HERE FOR ANTONY van LEEUWENHOEK

CLICK HERE FOR CARL LINNAEUS

CLICK HERE FOR HENRY THE VIII

3.  You will read the comments posted by others and describe what you learned by doing 3 things. 1- You will tell what you learned.  2-You will tell what you found interesting. 3- You will tel what you think would happen if this person had never been born.

THIS IS DUE AT THE END OF CLASS ON Thursday 12-10-09

Let’s Learn About The Dark and Middle Ages!

Mine faithful students hear me now as I assign thee to a noble quest!  In other words, here is what I expect you to do today to discover more about the Dark and Middle Ages.

The Dark and Middle Ages were a fascinating time!  It was a time of KNIGHTS, ARMOR, CASTLES.  It was the time of the mythical Merlin and King Arthur. Come explore and have fun while we learn about this exciting time period!

YOU WILL COMPLETE 2 PARTS TO THIS WEB QUEST. Leave me a comment before you leave class and let me know something you learned that really interested you.

vide0 #1

PART 1 – Pick out the topic that interests you most and write down 10 facts from the websites provided.

KNIGHTS

KNIGHTS AND THEIR ARMOR

HEALTH IN THE MIDDLE AGES

FOOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES

LIFE IN CASTLES

PART 2 – We will watch this video and then do a lab. VIDEO #2

interactive globe

Need more info on The Bubonic Plague? Try this website and the links at the bottom. CLICK HERE

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR FIELD TRIP TO MEDIEVAL TIMES? CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO THEIR WEBSITE. CLICK HERE and     HERE!

DONE WITH 1 and 2?   VISIT THESE WEBSITES AND EXPLORE CASTLE LIFE.  CLICK ON THE PICTURES BELOW.

Click here for JOUST AND OTHER GAMES

I am home with my sick Margaret today!  I am so sad.  I will be there tomorrow.

I had a surprise for you today – but I will bring it tomorrow!  It’s cool (a little stinky though)!  It has to do with ENERGY!What is energy?  Let’s find out today!  YEAH!

• 1.  Get your notebook  and title the next clean right hand page WHAT IS ENERGY.  Add this to your table of contents.

Show your neighbor that you have done this correctly.

• 2.  You will use these websites to investigate vocabulary words and ideas.   Write them and define them in your notebook (if you need to use more than one page that is OK).

• 3.  What is Energy? Click Here

• 4.Now read this to your table group (from your book p132)

You might not realize it, but YOU have a large amount of energy.  In fact, everything around you has energy, but you only notice it when a change takes place.

Keep reading:

Any time a change occurs, energy is transferred from one object to another.  You hear a footstep because energy is transferred from a foot hitting the floor to your ears.  Leaves are put into motion when energy in the moving wind is transferred to them.  The spot on the desktop becomes warmer when energy is transferred to it from the sunlight.  In fact, all objects, including leaves and desktops, have energy.

• 5.  In your notebook, write TRANSFERRING ENERGY -  and in your own words include the information from the above passage in green. Click Here for more info!

I think therefore I convert energy!

• 6.  There are 2 types of energy – KINETIC ENERGY and POTENTIAL.  You will define them  and give examples of both in your notebook using this website – click here. Cool interactive  – click on VIEW after you CLICK HERE Here is another good site!  Try this activity.  CLICK HERE.

• 7.  There are many forms of energy!  List the types of  Energy and give a brief description.  Use this website – CLICK HERE. ALSO, TRY THIS GAME – CLICK HERE. Write down what you learned in your notebook!

• 8.  On the right side – USE COLOR (pencils not markers) and draw an ADVERTISEMENT for ENERGY!  Use at least 5 words from today’s lesson.  Include FACTS, PICTURES, COLOR!

• 9.  Leave me a comment!  Tell me how you feel about today’s lesson! 

• 10.  Got time for a game?  TRY THIS:  SLIDER PUZZLE

ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY

You are the author!

You will use these websites to gather information for your first blog article.  You will use the article organizer I gave you to help you write your article.  The article will count as 2 daily grades.  (Leaving comments will also count as a grade.)

Remember that blogging is NOT TEXTING!  All the rules of the English language apply – capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

MORE INFORMATION ON THE ACTUAL BLOGGING ASSIGNMENT WILL COME TOMORROW.  IT WILL ALSO BE POSTED ON MY BLOGMEISTER PAGE.

CLICK on the link provided if you are researching Greek History.   GREEK

CLICK on this link if you are researching Roman history.    ROMAN

HOW ARE MUMMIES MADE?

We will do 2 things with this assignment.  We will learn how mummies are created.  Also, we will make one ourselves – out of an apple! This work will be in your science notebook. The title (on the right side) will be APPLE MUMMY. Don’t forget to add it to your table of contents.

Write down the process used to make a

mummy while you

make one online! (paper provided by me)

turn in when done

You will also illustrate one of the steps.

1)  Click here to view the steps!

2)     WHO’S YOUR MUMMY?    CLICK HERE!!!! WATCH THE VIDEO – you do not have to do the activity at the end.  Use the arrows to go back if you miss something.

3)   Click here to make your own mummy!

Next, LEAVE ME A COMMENT BELOW.

It will count as a daily grade

Now – get some blank paper and illustrate one of the steps to make a mummy. Include facts and draw colorful pictures.  Your picture should teach us something.

If you have finished – please visit these sites to learn more about MUMMIES!

click here for THE MUMMY MAKER

MUMMIFICATION EXPLORE

MUMMIFICATION CHALLENGE

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW ABOUT MUMMIES!

I READ ABOUT IT IN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

UNWRAP A VIRTUAL MUMMY

FUNKY MUMMY – easy but fun!