Leave comments with your thoughts about the pictures…

The Constitution:

• In Congress Assembled
• Created Equal?

History of our country:

• America Dreams
• Colonial Williamsburg  
• America’s Library
• The World of Benjamin Franklin

Human Rights and Civil Rights:

• Tolerance.org: Planet Tolerance
• Human Rights Education from Amnesty International
• Conflict Map from the Nobel Peace Prize Website
• RACE – For Kids 
• From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans

Some of these links are a reference source (they have information), some of them have activities to complete. Here are some possible ways to do this report:

1. A PowerPoint (at least 5 slides with some writing) with pictures
2. A post to this blog (at least 8 sentences) with links to the pages you used
3. A podcast where you give a report
4. A podcast where you have a discussion about an activity

You can write about a subject, or do an acitivity. If you do an activity, you can discuss or write about what you learned from the activity. If your write about a subject, you need to include links, or citations in your report. If you do a podcast, you should include a script (with citation of sources).

Please leave comment telling me what you will be doing for your project. Include the topic (subject), and what you will produce (a written report, a podcast, etc.):

The Constitutional Convention

This will be our final week before Spring Break, but the fun will continue over break as we start our research projects.

This week in our class we will learn more about statistics

• Statistics (averages like mean, median, and mode)
• Integers (negative numbers)
• Area game (the space inside shapes)
• Percentages (parts of 100)

What is interesting about these pictures? Why do you think they look this way?

“Shh, We’re Writing the Constitution” PowerPoint: 

“We the People, of the United States of America” PowerPoint:

CPW for selection

Here are Language Arts links:

• Contraction quiz
• Double negatives

Here are links about the Revolutinary War:

• U.S. Constituion for Kids
• The Revolutionary War on Yahooligans!
• America’s Homepage
• The Intolerable Acts
• Fraction Rythyms from Phil Tulga’s site: Go to the bottom, select the songs button, and pick out some of the drum signals from the Revolutionary War.
• Declaration of Indepedence
• Thomas Jefferson interview
• Timeline: The Age of Revolution

Here is the discussion of last week’s selection, “The Master Spy of Yorktown”:

Tell Raven is a website for a fourth grade class in Alaska. You can read some of the writing there to see what other students are writing.

What did you find interesting at the Tell Raven site? Comment below…

This week should be more normal. We will go to the library on Thursday, so bring back your books, and there will be no assemblies. We are still working towards our class party at the end of next week, so lets do our work, and have some fun learning things!

• Language Arts links
• Mathematics links
• Social Studies links

I’m going to cancel homework club until Spring Break. Most of you are getting help at the new afterschool program, and haven’t needed to come to the online club. I will be doing some special sessions during break time.

Question of the week: What projects or research questions would you like to look into after break about our unit theme, Making a New Nation, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, or Human and Civil Rights?

This week we will be reading about an African-American slave who was a spy for the Patriots in The Master Spy of Yorktown.

Here is a PowerPoint for the selection:

And CPW for Master Spy of Yorktown 

• Direct and indirect objects
• Multiple meaning words
• Passive voice

And here are some links on the Revolutionary War:

• America’s Homepage
• Colonial Lexington
• The Intolerable Acts

Question for the week: What inalienable rights should children have?

This week we will be studying:

• Area
• Proportions
• Coolmath on angles in polygons

Last week’s question was not answered correctly. Remember, I need both the area and the perimeter.

Question:  What is the area of a triangle where the base is 10 cm, the sides are 6 and 7 cm, and the height is 8 cm? What is the perimeter of that triangle?