US Geography Games!

Fifth Graders! Today you are going to practice your U.S. Geography skills.

Try these links :

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/usaquiz.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/us-puzzle.html

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/us-features-puzzle.html

http://www.abcya.com/usa_geography_puzzle_map.htm

Enjoy!

Chief Seattle Video

Mr. Kanani wants his students to view the following YouTube video:

California Virtual Tour

Hey Fourth Graders!  We are going to start a new project! You are going to make a slide presentation about California's regions. This project will come in three parts:

1. Explore: You will visit various websites to find out and explore California.

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g4CA_u1/

http://www.visitcalifornia.com/

http://www.untraveledroad.com/USA/California.htm

http://goldenstateimages.com/catlist.htm


2. Collect: From one region (Desert, Mountain, Central Valley, etc.)  you will collect pictures. You will also write down the names of cities, cool places, climate, land forms and things to see.

3. Organize: You will put your images and texts together in a slide show made with Google apps

3. Present: Show the world what you made!

Keyboarding!

Today we are going to start practicing our keyboarding skills. We will spend a lot of time this year practicing and getting better at typing. Pretty soon you won't even have to look at the keyboard!

Let's start with a lesson Here: http://www.freetypinggame.net/free-typing-lesson.asp

1. Start the lesson by Pressing START

2. When you are finished, try the  next lesson. Your goal is to reach 15 words per minute at this stage.

3. Try at least 5 lessons before you move on this game: http://www.freetypinggame.net/play17.asp

FREE RICE!

Freerice.com is a great way to practice and improve your vocabulary skills. It also has other practices from Math to Geography. You can even practice French and German!

Each time you answer a question correctly, the United Nations donates 100 grains of rice to the poor and starving people of the world.
Go to Free Rice, try the English Vocabulary.

1. Play for 10-15 minutes until you get 1,000 grains of rice.
2. Post your best level as a comment on this site. Remember, use a web safe name.
3. Try another subject.
4. If it is too hard, change the level to 1. 
3.

Find your standards!

We will be working with our new Common Core Standards for technology form now on, so it's best to get to know the standards for your grade. Click on the link below and you'll find a slideshare page. It's like a slideshow, and many of you will learn to make them. http://www.slideshare.net/lhuff/ccss-technology-k12

When you are don't copy and paste them below!

Welcome!

Hello, Welcome to Computer class! My name is Francisco Nieto Salazar. We are going to do all kinds of activities in our lab this year to help you improve your knowledge of computer technology. Before we begin our class, I would like to see what you already know about computers, so please fill out this Google Forms below.