FOOD WEB ACTIVITY

Click on the activity below to choose items in the environment that are LIVING.






Now, choose ONE ANIMAL and click on the magnifying glass. It will show you what that animal eats, what eats it, from this information fill in your food web.

Energy Tutorial

Take a look at this voice thread tutorial about Energy standards for grades 2-5! I'd appreciate your comments for improvement.

UNBLOCKING WEBSITES

I am frustrated at the number of web sites that are blocked from the district web service. Great Web 2.0 sites are available, yet blocked. For example, blogs have a great use in the classroom! Teachers can create a daily log of what is going on in class for students, parents, and admin to keep track. Yet the web site to create a blog is blocked. Slideshare is also a web 2.0 tool that would allow students and teachers to upload PowerPoint and embed these into the blogs or websites, then anyone without PP could still see the project. I really would love help to begin the conversation with the Tech department on how to get these good tools UNBLOCKED.

See Yourself on the FRONT COVER of TIME!

Write on It!
A cool website to put yourself on the front page! You can choose from many different magazines. I wish I could change the color of the type at the bottom of the magazine page.

WORDLE - Beautiful Word Clouds

Wordle is one of my favorite sites for these awesome word clouds. Just type in text (like science above was typed in multiple times, so it has more weight). All the smallest words were typed in just once. Check out the wordle site for other's word clouds.

WSTA: Moses Lake Conference

Please come and join us for some great science!! Not to mention some fun too. There are 3 fantastic keynote speakers, many break-out sessions, and a chance to connect with some science friends at the Friday night banquet! All of this in sunny Moses Lake!!

My Webspiration

Mywebspiration.com is another of the great WEB 2.0 tools. The one thing I like about it more than bubbl.us is that I can convert it to an outline form with longer descriptions of each topic in the web graphic organizer. The embed code is available after using the sharing tab, publish to a URL, then at the bottom of the published web page is the "copy embed code".

Moses Lake Sand Dunes or THE MOON?

June 2008
So, where are these Astronauts? Could it be the moon? If so, there were a lot of spectators. It was an exciting day to watch NASA scientists work and test their moon designs in the desert sands of Moses Lake's south end sand dunes. We do hope the space men will return soon!