Its time to sharpen the saw!

EQ – Why is it important to include habit 7 every once and a while when we use technology?

HABIT 7 – SHARPEN THE SAW

Balance is best!! Technology is a great tool for us, but just like anything else, every once and a while we need time to play or work on something we enjoy to reset and refocus.

Below you will find some fun practice sites for skills we focused on during the school year (like coding with Kodable!). You will also find some new fun and educational sites for us to try. Check it out!

GRADES 1 & 2

Starfall – Fun Reading Games

ABCYA – Mixed fun educational games

Play Piano –

Make Cool Music

Disney Google Streets

GRADES 3-5

Using Google Sheets for Budgeting

After you have created the first data and chart, we are going to create a shopping budget like the one below. Notice a couple of things…

The cells that the title is in are merged.
The cells for the data titles arefilled with grey to make them stand out.
The “total cost” and “Money left over” cells are bold.
The formulas for the “total cost” and “Money left over” cells are next to them and they are actually written in that top space that starts with fx, I only added them next to those cells so you could see what they are.
Make sure to highlight the data then click “insert” and “chart”. Select the drop down to choose the pie chart.
The shopping car was added by clicking “insert”, “image”, then search. (add space png to the end of your search to get an image with no background)

Games with Google Sheets!

You can do amazing creative things with Google sheets! It’s not just for data. Click on the link below to check out some customizable game boards that I made using Google Sheets. There is everything from checkers to Battleship! When you click on the link below, it is going to have you login and click “make a copy” to have it send a copy of the document into your Google Drive for you to keep. You can customize the board with your own pictures if you’d like.

Share the doc with a friend to play 2 player games. (Remember, the person you shared it with will have to look in their Google Drive in the shared with me section!)

Have fun!

Click this link to customize and play game boards in Google Sheets!

Checkers

Google Sheets

Wait? What is Google Sheets? How is it different than Google Docs? And how can I use it?

Think of it this way, Google Docs is a tool used to write things and Google sheets is a tools used to work with numbers. It helps you to figure out mathematical problems quickly and graph your findings. Its also great for organizing information, lets take a look!

Google Sheets Video Tutorial – How to Make Your First Chart

Learn how to create a simple google spreadsheet with a chart. This video covers the basics of entering and formatting a chart title, entering data, and creating a chart.

Time to Learn = 75 seconds

Disney Google Streets

Immigration Links

Library of Congress – Immigration – This feature presentation links students to primary sources from the Library of Congress’ online collections. Click here to read the Guide to Navigation before you start exploring this wonderful website.
Interviews with today’s immigrants – To view a project select the appropriate region of the world from the bottom drop down menu. Click “show me,” then select the specific interview you wish to see.
Young Immigrants’ Stories – Read and listen to young immigrants tell their own stories on the Scholastic database.
Immigration Data – Explore Immigration data by Decade or by Region.
Chronicling America – Digitized newspapers put in your search terms including state, years for search (start with the year you are most interested in) and a search term such as “immigrant*”
Liners on the Water – View primary documents to learn more about what the trip was like for immigrants traveling to America.

Ellis Island

Ellis Island Interactive Tour – Follow in the immigrants’ footsteps by taking this tour made by Scholastic. You’ll hear first-hand stories told by people who came through Ellis Island; see historical photographs and films; read fascinating facts; and discover the central role this station played in the story of American immigration.
Ellis Island Official Home Page – Use top tabs to learn about the history of Ellis Island, about the thousands of people who passed through it, view timelines and photographs.
Ellis Island From the History Channel Virtual Field Trip of Ellis Island – Click on the tab for virtual field trip and spend 30 minutes on a tour of the building today.
Immigrant Journey: Statue of Liberty National Monument History – Learn more about the journeys immigrants endured when they came to America. From the American Park Network.
The Ellis Island Fire of 1897 – You can read an original account of what happened.

The Ships

Steerage Passengers – Learn about conditions on board the ships for Norwegian passengers staying in steerage.
Ship List – Be sure you only use a ship that is within the time period you are talking about.

Immigrant Life in the U.S.A.

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum – Take a virtual tour of a typical tenement apartment immigrants would have lived in.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum – Another view of tenement apartments from Channel 13.

Immigration Today

Stories of Yesterday and Today – explore Immigration data by Decade or by Region from Scholastic
ProCon- Immigration – Learn about the current debate going on over the Mexican Border Fence, illegal immigration issues today, and look at a timeline of immigration for the U.S.

Immigrant Groups

Irish

Irish-Catholic Immigrationhttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/From the Library of Congress. Pictures and text telling about the history of Irish immigration to America.
Irish Potato Famine http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/america.htm From the History Place. Overview of what it was like for Irish immigrants to the different East Coast cities.
Potato Famine http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/famine_and_emigration/ from the BBC
Irish Fair in NYC http://www.gifnyc.com/
Irish Celtic Festival at Hunter Mountain, NY http://www.huntermtn.com/huntermtn/festivals/summer-festivals-celtic.aspx
Home for the Heart http://www.ailf.org/exhibit/ex_irishim.htm The Story of Irish Immigration.

Italian

Italian Immigrationhttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/ the Library of Congress. Pictures and text telling about the history of Italian immigration to America.
Italian American Contributions http://www.niaf.org/research/contribution.asp Lots of information about how America has benefited from them. From the National Italian American Foundation.
Italian Festivals in the USA http://www.niaf.org/research/festivals.asp
St. Anthony’s Festival http://www.stanthonysfeast.com/board.html#about find out about this Italian festival in New England.

German

German Immigrationhttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/From the Library of Congress. Pictures and text telling about the history of German immigration to America.

Polish

Polish/Russian Immigrationhttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/From the Library of Congress. Pictures and text telling about Polish and Russian immigrants immigrating to America.
Polish Immigration–http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/kane98/kane_p3_immig/Poland/Polish.html#Intro Learn about the first and second waves of immigrants.

Russian

Russian Immigrationhttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/From the Library of Congress. Pictures and text telling about the history of Russian immigration to America.

Create your own Timeline by Date, Time or Event. Save as JPEG and incorporate in your final product (Word, PowerPoint, PhotoStory)

IMMIGRATION

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.7 – I can use the computer to conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.