Civil War Webquest

Students, click the link below and follow the directions for the task!

Civil War Webquest

Where Did You Get Those Genes?

You will need:
A journal
A pencil
A timer



You will:

Spend 20 minutes at the following site:
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/ThoseGenes/default.htm#page2

When you are finished, you will write a 75 word minimum, summary of everything you read and learned about genetics and inherited traits.

Compare and Contrast

You Need: 

A graphic organizer like the one above drawn on your paper

a timer

a pencil

You will: 

Set the timer for 20 minutes. You will read the articles below, and as you read you will complete the Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two people you are reading about.

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Tubman

Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms

Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms

You will need:

Your Journal
A timer
Headphones
A pencil
A poster
Colored Pencils or Markers

You will:

Take 10 minutes and check out the websites below. When you are finished, you will be required to complete a poster explaining what homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms are. You must give an example of each, provide and illustration, and a definition.

ReviewHomonym PracticeSynonym Practice

Conduction, Convection & Radiation

CONDUCTION, CONVECTION AND RADIATION

You will need:

Pencil
Journal
Construction Paper
8 Colored Pencils, Markers, or Crayons

Check out the links below to learn more about heat transfer.

When you are finished, create a poster explaining the three different methods of heat transfer. Please be sure to give definitions, provide examples, and illustrate each different method.

http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/mms/staff/hand/convcondrad.htm

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001582.shtml

Heredity

Heredity and Genetics

You will need:
A journal
A Pencil


Please click on the link below to learn more about the famous scientist Johan Mendel.

You will read about him, watch videos, and then click on the PROBLEM link and take a short quiz. 

When you are finished, I would like for you to write a 100 word paper about what you have learned from this website regarding heredity and genetics.

Click here to explore HEREDITY

Analyzing Analogies

Today you will work on completing analogies. 

The link below provides you practice, not only on your level, but on middle and high school level
analogies as well.

Remember to try and create a sentence showing the relationship between the two things, and then use the answer you chose to see if it works in your sentence as well.

Example:

Actors:Plays:: ____________: ____________

A. zoos:lions
B. clowns:circus
C. hot:cold
D. Actresses: Women

My Sentence:

Actors perform in plays.

Now try each of the answers in a sentence:

Zoos are in lions.
Clowns are in the circus.
Hot is in cold.
Actresses are in women.

Which sentence works? Yep, that's right! Clowns are in the circus.

So your answer is:
Actors:Plays::Clowns:Circus

Try some on your own   http://www.vocabulary.co.il/analogies/

Word Problem Madness

The best way to solve a word problem is to read it from the bottom to the top.

If you know what the question is and THEN read the information, it helps to make the problem more simple.

Once you know what the question is, then you have to determine the operation or operations.

Then you have to decide how to solve it: equations, pictures, graphs, charts, guessing, etc..

The websites below give you an opportunity to practice with word problems:

http://www.mathplayground.com/wpdatabase/MDLevel2_5.htm

http://www.mathplayground.com/wpdatabase/MDLevel1_1.htm

http://www.mathplayground.com/WordProblemsWithKatie2.html