Recent Biography Warm-ups

Luis von Ahn

Watch Diamond Factory, Anthrax Investigation, Auto-Tune, Luis von Ahn on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW.

Franklin Chang-Diaz

Watch Marathon Mouse, Dinosaur Plague, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Space Storms on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW.

Select and Collect Biography Information

Today in computer lab students will be selecting their subject for our biography writing unit.  We will be printing  out the raw information they collect.  Students need to get approval for their choice before printing out the raw research information.

By the end of this period students should have:

• Selected the subject of their biography and filled out the biography form. (Here)
• Gotten teacher approval for the subject of their biography.
• Printed out raw research information from biography.com.
• Allowed their lab partner to do the same

If your computer isn't printing, work on one which is.  If there are no more, then wait for one of the computers that is printing to finish, and switch computers with that group.  While you are waiting get all the non-printing steps done for both you and your partner.

http://www.biography.com/   (starting place, select subject)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  (more raw information)

Our biography form page.

From our Inspiration Writing Assignment Today:

Caine's Arcade

The Age of Persuasion

Computer Lab: Thursday March 29, 2012:

  Time to work on your online Persuasion Map. Using your materials from your persuasive essay planning and draft, create a detailed persuasion map that you can print out and use to help you for the rest of the assignment.

Vedic multiplication is demonstrated. Solve multi-digit multiplication with lines and dots. An illustration that there truly are many ways to solve a math problem.
Trouble with your 9 facts? Solved.

As seen and discussed in class...

Jane McGonigal speaks at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, California on the subject of learning, gaming, and changing the world.



UrgentEvoke, one of the three games mentioned in this video designed by Jane McGonigal.

World Without Oil, another one of three games mentioned in this video.

Archive for SuperStruct, another of the games mentioned in this video.

The TED homepage, links to more videos of fascinating and brilliant people with interesting perspectives.

Grade 4 Science....

Looking to identify a rock you've found?  Try this rock key identification site we used recently in class.