Greenhouse gas emmissions

Claim Support Question

1. Make a claim about the topic

2. Identify support for your claim

3. Ask a question related to your claim

See-Think-Wonder

1. What do you see?

2. What do you think is going on?

3. What does it make you wonder?

Wild animals in captivity

Read the information below about animal behaviour

animal behaviour info

Maths Problem Solving Sites

Check out these Web sites for problem-solving activities:

Word Problems for Kids: http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/
MathStories.com: http://www.mathstories.com
DuPage Children’s Museum: http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/
RHL School: http://www.rhlschool.com/math.htm
Problem of the Week: http://www.wits.ac.za/ssproule/pow.htm
Education Place: http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html
National Council for Teachers of Mathematics:
http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter3/prob.htm
About Mathematics: http://math.about.com/cs/testprep/a/ps.htm

Opinions- for and against keeping animals in zoos

http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-we-ban-the-keeping-of-animals-in-zoos

The plight of animals held captive in Zoos

http://www.captiveanimals.org/news/2010/03/10-facts-about-zoos

Read this!

Are zoos good or bad for animals?

Click on the link below to read about Zoo pros (the good things) and cons (the bad things)!

http://animal.discovery.com/animal-facts/zoos-good-or-bad1.htm

Pro-Con-Neutral

 

1. Why would people be in favour of this?

2. Why would people be against it?

3. What would be a neutral position?

What Makes You Say That?

1. What’s going on?

2. What do you see that makes you say that?

Fun with Prepositions!

I thought it was a really cool idea to get students to do a drawing activity, with me dictating a set on instructions to them. Of course, the instructions contained a lot of different prepositions.

“Prepositions are used before nouns to give additional information in a sentence. Usually, prepositions are used to show where something is located or when something happened.”

This is the list of instructions (prepositions in bold):

• Open a blank page in your notebook.
• Draw a medium sized square in the middle of the page.
• Draw a rectangle inside the square with its shorter side touching the bottom of the square in the middle.
• Draw two small squares inside the bigger square at the same level on the either side of the rectangle.
• Draw a triangle on top of the square.
• On top of the triangle draw a small flag.
• Draw two trees beside the big square.
• Draw a swing inbetween two branches.
• Draw three steps below and touching the big square.
• Under the trees draw a small pond with fish swimming.
• Draw a few birds above the flag.
• Draw a few mangoes hanging from the trees.
• Draw a fence around the big trees.
• Draw mangoes lying on the ground.
• Draw the sun over the birds

After a bit more practice and exposure to prepositions, finally, students were asked to write down as many prepositions that they remember and now know of.

Have a look at our class ‘wordle’ for this list of words. The larger words were the most common/popular for our class!