What is engineering?

We know science, technology, and math, but what about engineering?  Check out some of these activities to get to know engineering-- you'll love them!

Discover Engineering

Possessive Nouns

Google SketchUp Tutorial

5th Grade Wall

5th Grade- Animal Adaptations

How do animals adapt over time to survive and reproduce in their environments? Remember, 3 adaptation types are physical, structural, and behavioral.  


Read about these animals first!


Eco Kids Adaptations


Discover! Simulations


BBC Interdependence and Adaptation


Harcourt Animal Needs


School Media Interactive

Miss Beach's Class Wordle

Here are the words we think are the most important about our environment!

PE/Health Enrichment

Mix science with PE/Health!  Check out these sports science activities in Exploratorium!


Sports Science Exploratorium!

STEM Class

What was one thing you learned from STEM Class that you did not know before?


STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.  Which one is your favorite, and why?


Which area of STEM do you want to know more about? Why? 

Best Inventions...and Computers!

Which invention is your favorite?


What did you learn about computers that you didn't know before?

Ingenious Inventions

Parts of a Computer

Yasmin's Computer

History of the Computer

Forces of Nature

The National Geographic site below allows you to explore natural events (that sometimes cause natural disasters).  Check it out!


National Geographic Forces of Nature

Environment -3rd Grade

Sometimes, humans hurt the environment!  Play the games below to see how we hurt the land around us.  Think about how we could change those things!

Eco Kids

Earth Day Games

Environment Wordle for Mrs. Boles' Class!

STEM Club

STEM CLUB has started building!  We made it through the easy and medium K'NEX activities, and are waiting until next time to try the hard versions!

Ms. Taylor's students: Check out these math enrichment games!

UEN Math Games

Thoughts on Homework

Cartmell Students: Please check out the homework survey, and complete it carefully. 

Cartmell Student Homework Survey 

Veteran's Day at Cartmell!

Force and Motion Game x2

Click to Run

Forces and Motion ...Continued!

 Check out some of the activities below about force and motion.

Force and Motion Activities

Force and Motion Gamequarium


Make Tracks


BBC Forces in Action


Moovl

Constructor 

Skate Park Force and Motion

Click to Run

STEM Career Link

STEM Careers

STEM Club Presentations

STEM Club Students- What IS STEM?  Do some research using the websites below and any others that you might find on careers that are part of the STEM field.  

1) Decide on ONE STEM related career, write it on the board and post it as a comment so others know it is "taken."

2) Using the websites below and any others you might find, research your career.  How much money does it earn?  What education do you need?  What will your daily work be like?  and much more...

3) Develop a presentation of your choice (PowerPoint, Prezi, interview, monologue, etc) to teach the rest of the STEM Club members about your job (who knows, they may want to do it some day after hearing your presentation!)  

** Remember to be creative!  SELL your job!  Choose one that you are interested in!

 MN STEM

Engineer Girl 

Your STEM Career Links 

STEM Career (Links on the right side)

 

Enrichment of the Mind

In order to stay focused and exercise, sometimes we need to explore!  Check out these games, and be ready to comment on what they taught you below.  


Weebit World

Scale City

Rock N' Roll Tour!

Power Up! Saving Energy 

Invention at Play 

Next, check out Wonderopolis and share at least one "wonder" you read about.  

Last activities:

Innovation Science 

Mars Rover Engineering 

Bridge Building 

   Bank Account!

Design Squad Games 

3rd Grade: What happens in an oil spill?

Click on the links below to investigate!

Tracking an Oil Spill

Nat Geo Gulf Oil Spill

NY Times Oil Spill Tracker

Exxon Valdez Spill

Sunscreen

We know that sunscreen helps us protect ourselves...but how?  Fourth graders, do some research!


KidsHealth Sunscreen Info Sheets

3rd Grade Endangered Species

Choose an endangered animal from the list on this website.  Read about it, and answer the questions on your sheet.


Kids Planet Endangered Animals

Monarch Migration

Read the monarch migration article below.  


Monarch Migration Article

Third Grade Interview Activity

Science Links


Fantastic Contraption


Compound Machine

Humans and the Environment

History of Oil Spills


Climate Change  


NatGeo Green Scene 


Protect Our Seas


All About Beaches


Ocean EDU

More Weather Prediction

Find the Weather in Your Area!


Scholastic Weather


NatGeo


Fema Weather


Aim a Hurricane


Nasa Weather

Latitude and Longitude Practice

To predict weather, we must know latitude and longitude!


Kids Geo Latitude/Longitude Game


Tutorial


Nova

5th Graders Become Meteorologists!

5th Graders are learning how to predict weather by finding patterns in the atmosphere, and prepare for weather disasters!

Ready! 

The Weather Channel Kids!


Weather Edheads


Weather Wiz Kids

4th Grade Force and Motion

Wagon Game


Force Game

Third Grade Environment Interviews

Earth's Movement

4th Graders! Check out these games!


Earth Rotation Basketball Shoot Out


Earth, Sun, and Moon


Earth Sun Moon Video Game


Labeling Game

3rd Grade Wordle

Mrs. Raker's Class Wordle!

4th Grade Web-Quest

Fourth Graders: 


Here is your Web-Quest challenge!  


Thursday: Answer questions 3 +5
Friday: Answer questions 6+7

Try out the games!

Sometimes on the blog, there will be games for you to play, like this!


Genetics Games


Weather Maker


Roller Coaster Builder


Power Play

Check out the Blog!

Practice using the blog to post:


Remember--

•  use only your first name and last initial when you are posting
• show your best work, you have an audience!

What was your favorite part about the summer?  Write at least three sentences!

Welcome to the 2011-2012 School year!

Wow! We are only two weeks away from the start of a new year!  You will notice the blog changing a little bit! Mrs. Preis will now be teaching STEM classes.  STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.  Students will get to do big projects involving the four areas.  Check back for more details soon!

SuMmEr!!

What are YOU doing over the summer?

Environmental Games

Eeko World

Michael, Michael, Go Recycle!

Planet Protectors 

Switch 'Em Off 

Enjoy some geography games!

Satellite Finder

Where's Buster?

Map STATS

Relay for Life

Our class is selling toys, rainbow pinwheels, and suckers to earn money for Relay for Life.  We will update our earnings daily! 

Day 1: $15.25
Day 2: $41.25
Day 3: $26.89

Branches of Government

Play the Branches of Government game below!

BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT

Fractured Fairy Tales

Check out the literary elements in the fractured fairy tales link!

Fractured Fairy Tale Literary Elements

Literary Elements Game

See if you can complete this literary elements game! Be careful, though! It is tough!

Glencoe Literary Elements Game

iCivics

The new iCivics challenge has begun!  Log in using your email or facebook account.  Use the code Taney43158 to become a part of our class on the site.  Make sure your are focusing on getting the most points in the assignment that was sent to you on the site, NOT all of the games.

Remember, the Challenge ends on 4/29/11- the top 3 people in each class get an ice cream party during lunch!

Interactive History Map

 Check out the interactive history map below- see if you know how our country developed over time!

Interactive History Map

Figurative Language Rap

Mrs. Preis' Students performing EducationalRap.com's Figurative Language Rap

Mrs. Preis' Class: Literary Elements

Mrs. Preis' Class: Literary Elements: "Today, practice your literary elements on at this site. Literary Elements Practice Directions: Please make sure you choose the following ..."