https://goo.gl/forms/5Jhh9NBS9ePFvyYh2Theme song
Technology Education grades 3 &4
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Welcome to Technology Education 2022- 2023
Grades 3 & 4
September/October
Dash robots "Driving School"
Hardware/Software
What is a robot?
October/November
Parts of a robot
Learning to code the Ozobot bit and evo robots
What is a catapult?
3rd grade:
Compare Earth vs. Mars
Terrain vs. Landform
Your work today:
Clever Login
Microsoft Flag
Log in with your email:
3rd grade: lastnamefirstinitial2029@365.bcsd.org
Select BrainPOP Jr
Type Mars in Search Box
Watch Mars Movie
Take Easy Quiz
Submit to Teacher Harp
Draw about it
Write about it
Thinking Box
Venn diagram
5th grade:
Compare Earth vs. Mars
Clever Login
Microsoft Flag
Your email: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
BrainPOP
Type Mars in Search Box
Watch Mars Movie
Take either quiz
Submit to teacher Harp
5th Grade: Comet vs. Asteroid
Clever Login
Microsoft Flag
Your email: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
BrainPOP
> Comets
>Asteroids
Take either the review or graded quiz for each movie
Complete the handout Comet vs. Asteroid vs. Meteor
Meteor is within both movies
Planet Page Project in Word on the iPad
1) Select the Word app
2) Select New, Blank Document
3) Sign in with your email and lunch number:
3rd Grade: lastnamefirstinitial2029@365.bcsd.org
4th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2028@365.bcsd.org
5th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
Now you are in Word on your OneDrive account! Yay!
4) Type Planet Page by Your Name in the document work area
5) Save the project to your OneDrive:
Select the box with 3 dots at top left
Click the GREEN save bar
Click your OneDrive account
Scroll down the document list to find "Create a new folder" and call it Technology
Name the document Planet Page
SAVE
6) Do the Planet Page Assignment
To insert a picture:
Insert > Picture
Use the Screenshot button on the keyboard
7) Log out
Use Back Arrow at top <
Click Settings
Click your account name and the arrow >
Sign out
Sign out
DoneTo use MyON:
Select Clever Login
Log in with your email
3rd Grade: lastnamefirstinitial2029@365.bcsd.org
4th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2028@365.bcsd.org
5th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
Select MyON app
Project: Solar System Exploration - or - search for a planet
2) Compare Earth vs. Mars
Reminder:
Third Grade
Clever login
lastnamefirstinitial2029@365.bcsd.org
BrainPOP Jr
Watch Earth movie
Take Easy Quiz - Review
Submit to Teacher KB -TECH - 3 HARP
Watch Mars movie
Take Easy Quiz - Review
Submit to Teacher KB -TECH - 3 HARP
Grades 4 and 5
Clever login
4th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2028@365.bcsd.org
5th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
BrainPOP
Watch Solar System movie
Take either quiz; Submit to Teacher HARP
Watch Mars movie
Take either quiz; Submit to Teacher HARP
Take the Challenge
Game that doesn't work on iPad: "Fly to Mars"
Who is this famous woman? What did she do for the space program?
START HERE FOR PACKET ASSIGNMENT:
Put your name, Tech seat number and Homeroom on the 1st page.
Take notes on important facts that show how each planet is unique.
How Big is Space?
Planets in order from the Sun are:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Outer Planets:
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
(Dwarf Planet = Pluto)
Use NASA app> Featured > Planets > Each planet has "top 10"
SUPERBOWL AD about Mars
State of the Union - Space
Sign in to PowerPoint app with your email and lunch number then ckick below
PowerPoint Moon
All about the Moon
Compare your packet to the following videos:
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac18-912-sci-ess-tourofuniverse/tour-of-the-universe/
What is Mercury?
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News from Pluto
by Dr. Brian May, rock star and astrophysicist
More than you wanted to know about Pluto
What is a gravity assist from Jupiter?
Clever > BrainPOP > Pluto > Game "Time Zone X:Pluto"
Log out of BrainPOP by clicking on your name!
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Review Solar System using Theme song and National Geographic overview video
National Geographic overview video
PowerPoint Assignment
To start:
Select the One Drive app
Log on with email and password
3rd Grade: lastnamefirstinitial2029@365.bcsd.org
4th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2028@365.bcsd.org
5th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
YOU MUST LOG OFF from OneDrive at the end of class. Tap on person, settings, your email, log off, yes
To pick your planet or topic of interest:
Pick any one of these titles
To make the presentation:
Select PowerPoint
Open a blank presentation
Rename the presentation with the name of the planet you are presenting
REQUIREMENTS
Each slide must have text and pictures. Pictures must have the source listed unless you drew it yourself
Do NOT use Google or Wikipedia for information
Slide #1: Title Slide: Planet or Dwarf Planet Name
Your Name, HR Teacher's Name, March 2020
Slide #2: Location of your planet with respect to the Sun and other planets
Slide #3: Characteristics of the planet that make it unique
Slide #4: Comparison of your planet vs. Earth - use Comparison slide
Slide #5: Missions to that planet: past, present or future
Slide #6: References and sources
Extra credit slides:
Music about the planet
What images of the planet have been used in movies?
Original artwork you did
Build a Scale Model
PBS tool
Reading about the Solar System in MyON:
Select Clever Login
Choose Office 365
Log in with your email
3rd Grade: lastnamefirstinitial2029@365.bcsd.org Choose BrainPOP Jr. Watch Solar System Movie
4th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2028@365.bcsd.org Choose BrainPOP Watch Black Holes movie
5th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org Choose BrainPOP Watch Black Holes movie
All grades: Take either Quiz and submit to HARP
Fifth Grade: Do writing Assignment on Black Holes.
FIFTH GRADE:
Clever Login app
Select Office 365
Log in with email
5th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
Choose Discovery Education
1) Search for "A Spin around the Solar System: Our Rocky Neighbors: The Inner Planets"
Watch the movie and take the quiz. Hand it in with your name on it.
If time, you may choose one more Discovery Education resource.
2) Next class:
Search for "A Spin around the Solar System: The Outer Planets: The Gas Giants"
Watch the movie and take the quiz. Hand it in with your name on it.
If time, you may choose one more Discovery Education resource.
Trivia: what music was sent to outer space?
Avoid fake news
H G Wells: "War of the Worlds" 1938
Find reputable sources
3) How do scientists have information about Mars?
flyby
rover
4) What is the Mars Rover 2020 and what can it do?
5) How can we build and drive a rover in class?
Teenagers
a) download spacecraft AR app on Promethean board
Tools We need for the Trip:
a. Weird facts about space travel
How to wash your hair in space
b. Scratch 3.0
SCRATCH 3.0 for iPad
Beginner Video for 3.0
How to make your first program
How to use Scratch 3.0 on iPad if you used Scratch before
BrainPOP
1) Clever Login on iPad
2) "Login with your Brighton Office 365 account"
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3) If there is a list of names, click the + Add Account
4) Type your login
3rd grade: lastnamefirstinitial2029@365.bcsd.org
4th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2028@365.bcsd.org
5th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
5) Select the BrainPOP app if you are in 4th or 5th grade
Select the BrainPOP Jr app if you are in 3rd grade
7) Double click the iPad home button and swipe up the app.
Close the iPad and place your headphones on top.
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5th Grade Challenger Readiness
Your class will be taking a trip to the Challenger Learning Center.
You need to know the following:
1) What happened to the Challenger Space Shuttle?
What happened to Challenger?
2) What experiments did the teacher design to do in space?
Space Experiments
3) What are some differences between Mars and Earth?
Let's Launch
Scroll down to "Maya's Mission to the Red Planet"
4) How do robots drive on Mars (skip if it won't load)
Rover on Mars
5) What stuff do you need to go to space?
Bill Nye
6) How will you find signs of life on Mars?
Life on Mars?
7) Scroll down to video "Mars 2020 Landing Site: Jezero Crater Flyover
8) Turn in Mars Webquest
InSight Lander
9) Read about the Challenger Disaster in MyON
What happened to the Challenger?
a) Clever Login
b) Log in with your Brighton Office 365 account
5th grade: lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
If there's a big list of names, click "+Add account"
3) Select MyON
4) Choose the Grade 5 Challenger project
5) To log off, click the red EXIT and the X in the top right corner
Double click the iPad home button and swipe up the app.
Close the iPad and place your headphones on top.
Robot Jobs
Start Coding the Ozobot with Ozoblockly
Watch robot coding video
Continue coding with Ozoblockly
Grades 3 & 4
Lion Video
Grade 5
BrainPOP "Binary" movie
Intro to SeeSaw
Open the SeeSaw app
Select "I'm a student"
Scan Class QR code
You have an activity assigned
How to use tools:
If you need help, you can watch videos:
To answer: What are the parts of the ozobot?
What is a sensor?
What does a flashing red light mean?
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8UytImfIw
To answer: How do I calibrate the ozobot?
How do I command the ozobot using lines and colors?
Watch http://www.viewpure.com/uRsFoAX4rGA?start=0&end=0
On the handouts:
Put your name and seat number on each sheet
1) Use the black marker to trace the path on Handout 1.
2) Follow the directions on Handout 2 to trace corners.
3) On Handout 3, use the color markers to fill in the codes.
Look up the codes in the packet in your box.
Make a prediction about what will happen.
4) Calibrate the ozobot using the black dot sheet. You and your partner will take turns with the ozobot, following Handouts 1, 2 and 3.
5) On Handout 6, make a code map to go from HOME to SCHOOL using the color codes and your markers.
6) If time permits, you and your partner may use the ozobot on the map you have made.
7) Any arguing means YOU LOSE YOUR OZOBOT!
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5th Grade: Computer Programming (Masz)
Select Clever app
Log in with email (lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org) and lunch number
Select BrainPOP
Put on your headphones
Click on Notifications, select the first assignment, watch the movie, take the quiz and play
Blockly Maze game
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3rd and 4th grade: Computer Programming
Select Clever app
Log in with email (lastnamefirstinitialyear2028@365.bcsd.org) and lunch number
Select BrainPOP Jr.
Click on your assignment
Put on your headphones; watch the movie
OPTIONAL THINGS TO TRY AT HOME:
Get to my webpage:
Click on Google Chrome
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Google chrome to bcsd.org
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Our schools -> FRES -> Teacher Pages -> Harp
1) Scratch tutorial
Click on this link to access Scratch
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Select "Getting Started"
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Click Sign in at the top right corner
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Your username is lastnamefirstinitialyear
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Your password is your lunch number
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When it shows your class, click Get Started
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Fill in the information and click Next Step
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Select Go to Class
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Click Create on the blue stripe
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Click Tutorials on the blue stripe
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Watch the “Getting Started” tutorial
2) Keyboarding Games
a. Nitrotyping
Nitrotyping race
b. Cup Stacking
http://www.abcya.com/cup_stack_typing_game.htm
c. Keyboard Ninja
https://www.typing.com/student/games/play/keyboard-ninja
d. Dance Mat Typing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr
e. Popcorn Typing
http://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/PopcornTyper/play.html
3) Try solving the Rubik's Cube
5th Stream Study PowerPoint Requirements
6 slides that cover the following topics:
1) Where are we going?
Add pictures of the park and fish hatchery
2) What are the big issues there?
a) Black bears
https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/what-do-about-black-bears
b) Ticks that make you sick
Types of ticks in NY and where they are
How to prevent getting a tick
https://nysipm.cornell.edu/whats-bugging-you/ticks/how-do-i-protect-myself-ticks/
How to get rid of a tick once it's on you
c) Leeches
Google chrome -> Clever -> Discovery Education -> assigned video on medical leeches
Additional Things we need to make:
Warning PowerPoint for ticks
ID cards for ticks
Posters for macroinvertebrates
Collection jars for the nurse
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5th Grade Civil Rights
Setting:
The Civil War ended April 9, 1865 when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
The slaves were officially freed in December 1865.
Segregation in the United States
A. Watch the following BrainPOP movies, take a quiz on each one and submit it to KB-Tech 5 – Harp:
1) Jim Crow,
2) Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
3) Jackie Robinson
B. Answer the following questions
1) What were the Jim Crow laws and what did they do?
2) What does “separate but equal mean”? What did the Supreme Court decide about it?
3) Who was Jackie Robinson and why is he important?
C. Go to the PBS app:
1) Watch Freedom Riders: Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation
2) Get there by: Google Chrome -> Clever -> sign in with email -> PBS app
D. What did the freedom riders do and how did they do it?
E. Read the book about the Greensboro sit-in by yourself or on Youtube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLN5ONjw0OI
1) What type of strategy did the four friends use?
2) Who were they following as their leader?
Getting ready for Friday May 24
Background Research for Esperanza Rising Name: ____________________________
1) What was the housing like for Esperanza’s family?
2) Are there migrant workers now?
5) Watch the Rochester news about migrants
6) What have you learned about migrant workers from studying Esperanza Rising? Why are they doing migrant work and what does it do for them?
7) Example of Mexican ballad: Mexican ballad
How did Esperanza’s family keep their culture alive?
9) Does this image and information change your perception of Marta in Esperanza Rising? How?
10) If you have time, watch https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/americon-vid-cesar-chavez/video/
about a person who lived through the Great Depression and became a leader
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Grades 3 & 4: Bird Identification
A) Basic Shape
1) woodpecker 2) owl 3) hawk 4) duck 5) goose 6) gull 7) sparrow
B) Bird Sounds
Go to BrainPOP: Google Chrome -> Clever -> Log in with email -> BrainPOP
Type Bird in the Search Box
Watch the Birds Movie
Take any quiz
Submit to teacher: KB-Tech-Harp
Game: Bird Song Hero
Game: Beast Box - use the birds!
Worksheet
Google Chrome ->Clever -> log in with email -> Discovery Ed app
Watch the video and complete the worksheet: Compare and Contrast Burrowing Owl vs. Barn Owl
- Animal Behavior: Owl Cam (Video Segment)
- Breaking Trail: Burrowing Owl (Full Video)
- Approaching an Owl Burrow (Video Segment)
- Owl pellet (Image)
- Rotate Your Owl (Video Segment)
- White Owl preying on snake (Image)
- Bird: Owl : Calling (Sound Effect)
- Nocturnal Raptors: A Look at Barn Owls (Video Segment)
Google Chrome -> Clever -> PBS App
Type owl in the Search box
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Owls Science Trek
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Feeding Injured Birds
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Outdoor Nevada: Burrowing Owls
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Ready2Read Goes Wild: Learn about owls
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See What makes Owls so Quiet and Deadly
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No more cages: Wild Kratts
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Birds of Prey: Science Trek
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Fun with Raptors: Wild Kratts
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MyOn project on Owls
Google Chrome -> Clever -> log in with email -> MyON app -> Owls - Grades 3 & 4
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Audobon Society
Worksheet
Name: ____________________________
Comparing and Contrasting Burrowing and Barn Owls
Watch the videos about two different types of owls. Write 3 facts about each type of owl.
Then put 2 facts they have in common in the middle area where the circles overlap.
Yellow Warbler bird guide
How to use binoculars
Merlin App
The app asks the date and location, the bird’s size and color, and what the bird was doing.
For Human Rights Day - May 24
1) Watch BrainPOP movie: Great Depression Causes
2) Take any quiz
3) Submit to KB Tech 5 Harp
4) Google Chrome -> Clever -> sign in with email -> Discovery Education app
Take notes on the Great Depression (Lanovara) or the Dust Bowl (Rauscher), answering the following questions:
What was the event?
Who were the people involved?
Where did it take place?
When did it happen?
To what extent were people involved (small or big problem)?
5) FRES Library website -> Encyclopedia Brittannica online
Beware "Reading levels" on top
Holocaust: Gottfried, Lanovara, Vordonis, Giordano
World War II: Eden, Giordano
The Great Depression: Lanovara, Widor
Anti-racism: Masz
Immigration: Giordano
Dust Bowl: Rauscher
Natural Resources
1) Go to BrainPOP:
Google Chrome -> Clever -> sign in with email-> BrainPOP
2) Type Natural Resources in Search box
3) Watch "Natural Resources" movie
4) Take any Quiz. Submit to teacher KB-TECH Harp
5) Scroll down to Game Up
6) Choose Sortify
7) Put your highest score and name on Post-It
8) Start a PowerPoint with 5 slides titled: "How to be awesome at Sortify: Natural Resources"
A) Strategy slide
B) Content slide: Ask and answer a question based on the game: "What is a Mineral?"
9) Play the game again and add to your slides
10) Share with ellen_harp@bcsd.org
OR: Read books in MyON about recycling:
Must have 4 ideas, your name, teacher's name and date.
Share with ellen_harp@bcsd.org
Example:
Theme song:
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Google Chrome -> Clever -> sign in with email-> BrainPOP Jr
Type Reduce in Search box
Movie is "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"
Any Quiz -> Submit to teacher KB-Tech Harp
Game controller-> Drag and Drop game
Read recycling Books in MyON:
Make a one slide poster about Earth Day and the 3R's
"Things I want to learn from Earth Day" from assembly, movie or game
Must have 4 ideas, your name, and homeroom teacher's name.
Share with ellen_harp@bcsd.org
Example:
Theme song:
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Earth Slide Show
National Geographic Slideshow
Google Chrome -> Clever -> sign in-> BrainPOP -> Type Robot in Search box
Watch movie and take either quiz
Submit quiz results to KB Tech Harp on drop-down
Introduction to Ozobot
Watch Ozoblockly Tutorial
Ozoblockly Game
Shape Tracer
Shape Tracer 2
Read 1 robot book on MyON or a library book
_______________________________________Meet the ozobot evo and bit
Last 5 minutes: Robot Theme Song or
Robots taking human jobs? Click on DARPA
After break
Calibration
Coding with lines and colors
Coding with Ozoblockly on the iPads
The Arctic
North Pole 90 degrees North of the equator (=0°) (latitude)
Arctic Circle is not fixed; today it is 66°33′47.5″ North
Q1. What is the northern-most town on earth?
Svalbard Norway
Q2. What is Aurora Borealis? Click Here to Find Out
Where could you travel to see the Aurora Borealis?
Where to see Aurora Borealis
Q3. Where do the Inuit live?
includes land, ice and water
Q4. What is a beluga?
Clever
Studies Weekly
Beluga
Q5. What are the Top Ten arctic animals?
Q6. How do animals adapt to the Arctic?
nationalgeographic
arctic marine life
Understanding Polar Bears and Ice
Arctic Adaptations
Q7. What is the Arctic Food Web
Q8. What is the difference between the Arctic and Antarctic?
Ted Talk on Arctic vs. Antarctic
Q9. What is Hibernation and Camouflage?
1) Log in using Google Chrome. Select Clever.
2) Select BrainPOP Jr.
3) Type Hibernation into the search box. Watch the movie and take notes as you watch.
4) Take the review quiz.
5) Click on Games and play the hedgehog game.
6) Watch the Camouflage movie and play the game with the hidden animals.
Grade 5: What is the Tundra? What is Hibernation? What is Camouflage?
1) Log in using Google Chrome. Select Clever.
2) Select BrainPOP
3) Type Tundra into the search box. Watch the movie and take the review quiz.
4) Select Primary Source under the Tundra movie. Look at the 2 pictures online and fill in the worksheet.
5) Click on NewsELA and change the reading level to 730 on the drop down in the right top corner. Read the article and fill in the sheet.
6) Type Hibernation into the search box and watch the movie. Take notes on the page about Hibernation.
7) Take the review quiz and play the 2 games.
8) If time: Watch the Camouflage movie on BrainPOP Jr and play the game with the hidden animals.
9) OR: you may read what it is like to travel to the North Pole
what-its-really-like-to-voyage-to-the-north-pole
10) Investigate the mystery predator
mystery_predator
Robot Arena
Hour of Code
Virtual VEX robot
Activity 1 Practice:
- Left-click to grab and rotate the robot
- Right-click will allow you to move the robot around
- The mouse scroll wheel will make the robot bigger and smaller
Activity 2:
1. Run the program
2. Look at the Blockly area
Activity 3:
How to turn the robot
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In Clever, choose CODE then Minecraft
3rd Grade
lastnamefirstinitial2028
password = lunch number
1) Double-click Google Chrome
2) Clever
3) Click on the flag
4) Log on with email lastnamefirstinitial2028@365.bcsd.org
5) KWT app
6) From Clever choose BrainPOP Jr
Select MyBrainPOP
Arctic Habitats Assignment
Movie and Review Quiz
7) From Clever choose MyON
Grade 3 and 4 Arctic Habitats and Animals project
8) Compare the poles using PBS
9) Log off using the Windows key, the gray bubblehead and Sign Out
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4th Grade Logon
lastnamefirstinitial2027
password = lunch number
1) Double-Click on Google Chrome
2) Clever
3) Click on the flag
4) Log on with email lastnamefirstinitial2027@365.bcsd.org
5) KWT app
6) From Clever choose BrainPOP
Select MyBrainPOP
North Pole Assignment
Movie and Review Quiz
7) From Clever choose MyON
Grade 3 and 4 Arctic Habitats and Animals project
Take notes in your packet
8) Compare the Poles using PBS
9) Log off using the Windows key , the gray bubblehead and Sign Out
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5th Grade Logon
lastnamefirstinitial2026
password = lunch number
1) Double-Click on Google Chrome
2) Clever
3) Click on the flag
4) Log on with email lastnamefirstinitial2026@365.bcsd.org
5) KWT app
6)From Clever choose BrainPOP
North Pole Assignment
Watch the Movie and take the Review Quiz
Gather information concerning environmental threats at the North Pole
7) From Clever choose PBS
Arctic Ecosystem
Choose an animal to research and present.
Discuss how climate change affects that animal
8) Compare the poles using PBS
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Choice:
1) Interesting facts about clouds
Clouds: It's okay to be smart
2) Digital Citizenship Advice
Zach Marks' video
3) Song and cartoons
a. Theme song https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/pause-think-online-psa#
b. Privacy https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ruff16-pd-privacy/wgbh-ruff-ruffman-privacy-and-you/#.Wc1KKGiPIdU
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