6th+Grade

Create your own Bio-Poem!
@http://freeology.com/worksheet-creator/poetry/bio-poem-generator/

Play With Magnetic Words
__http://isnoop.net/toys/magwords.php__

CONFLICT
World War II - Overview for Building Background @http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/interactives/inside-wwii-interactive

Read aloud : __The Butterfly__ by Patricia Polacco

=Web Site Evaluation=

[|Drive-By Web Sites]

[|Web Site Drive-by Evaluation] http://www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/Evaluation/driveby/index.htm#slide=1

[|Web Site Evaluation Chart] - Use Accuracy, Expertise, Bias/Objectivity, Currency, and Coverage to judge a website!

Kathy Schrock's 5 W's of Web Site Evaluation



Earth Day Recycling Sites! Use this link to see them all: @http://fur.ly/3h3e
@http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/just_for_kids/13936 ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/kidspage @http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/recycle.htm kidsrecyclingzone.com planetpals.com/earthday epa.gov/kids [] ** childrenoftheearth.org **

// Thanks to Dr. Jean at ////http://drjean.org///// for pulling this list together //

Main Entry: **flot·sam** Pronunciation: \ ˈ flät-səm\ Function: //noun//Etymology: Anglo-French //floteson,// from //floter// to float, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English //flotian// to float, //flota// shipDate: circa 1607
 * 1** **:** floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo; //broadly// **:** floating debris

Tracking Trash! Ranger Rick, October 2008. Rubber Duck News Ocean Motion and Surface Currents - Curt Ebbesmeyer profile Beach comber alert - rubber duckies!

[|6th Grade Reads] - Click here to fill out a Somebody-Wanted-But-Then form for a book review of your favorite book!

Decades Study
Decades - A Study of the 20th Century =Internet Safety=

[|**Drive-By Web Site Evaluation**]
Bibliography Websites - Create your MLA style bibliography online, then download or print!

Decades Information and Evaluating Websites

[|Book Awards of Interest]

GLOBAL WARMING!!

 * [|Environmental Protection Agency Kid Site]
 * Read the "Take Action" tips at [|stopglobalwarming.org]
 * [|Chevron's Energy Generator Tool] The Energy Generator is a tool that demonstrates that energy saved is energy found. Developed with the Alliance to Save Energy, the Energy Generator suggests several easy ways we can save energy in our daily lives.
 * Natural Resources Defense Council, an organization dedicated to protecting wild life and wild places, explains the basics of global warming! http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp

RECYCLING!! [|Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Respond] - 4 Basic Principles for Reducing Solid Waste from the Environmental Protection Agency

[|Reduce, Reuse, Recycle] - Kid friendly site created by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

[|Trash People] - an artist's original way of recycling with a message! "In //Trash People//, German artist HA Schult offers commentary on constant human consumption. Fifty life-sized figures, sculpted of trash collected at a municipal dump in Cologne, line the courtyard of National Geographic's headquarters. Schult's army of trash figures have traveled to some of the world's best-known landmarks as part of a series of projects called "Archaeology of the Present." Installations at the Pyramids at Giza, Red Square in Moscow, and the Great Wall of China served to raise awareness of the volume of garbage left by humans and the world's resulting ecological imbalance. After this stop in Washington, D.C., the //Trash People// are scheduled to appear in New York City and Antarctica." (from the National Geographic Website)

Inventions - follow this trail of websites to choose two inventions from different time periods to compare: http://www.trailfire.com/mhhacker/trails/51099

If the World Were a Village : A Book About the World's People

FOOD - view these photo essays at Time.com [|What the World Eats, Part I] [|What the World Eats, Part II] [| What the World Eats, Part III]

[|Create a graph] to show a visual comparison of "What the World Eats" using a program from The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)