Shanghai teachers and parents had a wonderful opportunity to hone their technology skills this weekend when Concordia International School hosted a technology conference. They hope to make it a annual thing and it has good potential with the dynamic pair of Michael Boll and David Larson in leading the way.
For the first session, I attended [...]
This week’s worthy sites will work for the next ten days. Remember on May 20th we head to the Shanghai Expo.
Math
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_128_g_2_t_3.html?open=instructions
http://www.funbrain.com/linejump/index.html – try SuperBrain Integer Level
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/animal.html
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/polyhedra/index.html
Science – The Crayfish are coming, the crayfish are coming!
http://mackers.com/crayfish/
http://ezinearticles.com/?Pet-Crayfish—The-Best-Gift-to-Give-Your-Kids&id=4120885
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Live%20Food,%20Crayfish%202.htm
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Social Studies
The 4MR students have been doing a great job on sharing current events with their slideshow presentations. Since, we covered [...]
We had a chance to share our learning of electricity with our school power expert – Mr Brad Knowles – who has saved the school hundreds of thousand of dollars with his power saving strategies. He’s a smart guy and yet his calm manner allowed everyone to relax despite the ‘humm’ in the room. He [...]
With school closed for two days as a result of the dignitaries visiting the Shanghai Expo – here is a few hours of work the 4MR students are expected to complete before the next day of school, Wednesday, May 5th.
Write your personal acting biography (4-7 sentences) for our school play – Many Moons – on [...]
I shared a video podcast from Ted Talks concerning Video Gaming. Needless to say, my students were riveted to the screen and yet their responses will surprise you. I invited them to watch the video and later discuss in small groups the implications of its message with maturity. In return, I would endeavor to share [...]
Our students won’t be searching for aliens, but the structures of life on Earth. Specifically, we will study crayfish, snails and plants. I’m inviting the students to find worthy websites on these three life forms. In class, we will discuss what makes a ‘good website’ to share. The top few will be posted below.
Here is [...]
It has been a wonderful surprise to see our class so engrossed into their historical fiction books. To culminate this experience, we will be creating book trailers using GarageBand. Students use higher thinking skills when they create their own ‘movie’ on their book. It is seen as a reading activity more aligned to their digital [...]
We are looking good for our Fraction (Chapter 7) Test on Monday. Today was our last lesson on Fractions and Probability. On Friday, we will review the skills of the chapter and have a chance to use our laptops to review our fraction knowledge.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=11
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=79
Technically, they aren’t really games as opposed to math model exploration, but [...]
Like a Dan Brown novel, a mystery of the ancient past was solved last week. Determining the exact value of Pi, whose value is used in circles, has been troubling mathematicians since Sir Isaac Newton. Yet, Fabrice Bellard of France figured it out using a home computer (with some extra hard drives) and a great [...]
It’s great learning about PowerPoint presentations with a teacher like Mr. Power. We will be moving forward in our study of China but identifying key landforms within China.
Click here to access our starting point PowerPoint slideshow.
