Mr. Williams’ Class Blog

Here are the links that we looked at today in class.

TravelPod IQ Game – Place the marker as close to the location listed as you can. The closer you are, the more points you get.
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq

Stop Disasters Game – Choose a natural disaster then prepare a village for that disaster. Once the disaster hits it shows how well you prepared the village.
http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/

Statetris – Like tetris, but using states instead of blocks. Set your difficulty and put the states in their proper place.
http://www.mapmsg.com/games/statetris/usa/

Cathy’s Math – Online interactive math practice.
http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html

On half-day Fridays, we have Reading Buddies with Ms. Mumford’s kindergarten class. Over these last few weeks we have taken a book they made and turned it into a VoiceThread. We are still working on it, so there will be audio comments on all of the pages within the next few weeks.

The Right Now! section of the classroom blog is back online. If you click on the link on the top right labeled Right Now! you will be taken to a page with a picture of what is currently on our SmartBoard. If we have the screen capture program running it will show a new picture every 3 minutes. This program will not be running if we are doing any activities that might have student names and/or pictures on the board.

Feel free to stop by and see what we are up to!

Math

Cathy’s Math -  Go Here – Click on Math Magic – Click on All Operations at the bottom. Put your name in. Find out how many you can get right in 5 minutes. Do this at least twice.

Rain Forest Math – Go here and check out the probability and input-output sections under 6th grade.

Other Links:

Google Maps – Go here and check out the Street View’s. See how close you can get to your house or the school. (Start Street Views by clicking on Street View on the top right of the map. Drag the little yellow guy onto the blue roads)

Google Mars – Go check out images of mars put together a lot like Google Earth.

Flickr Search – Flickr search for California Wildfires. You can click on Most Recent, or Most Interesting.

Suns Stats – Percentages and statistics from last season. Look for decimals and percents and how that information was found.

Rain Forest Math – Go here and check out some of the neat math games you can play.

Cricket Market VoiceThread -  Pictures and voice from the Cricket Market in Shanghai, China.

CNN Student News – Watch news made for students.

Writers Room – Pictures of where writers write. Writers offices with a written description by the writer.

Cathy’s Math – Math practice online. This one is timed and FUN!

Interactive Math Activities Index – This has a bunch of fun interactive math activities and games that you can play by yourself or against the computer.

Wiki Mind Maps -  The Wikipedia mapper I showed you in class.

Also Check out the other Computer Lab Links.

Reading:

Anti-Phishing Phil Game - Figure out if the website are real or fake websites trying to “phish” your information.

NetSmartz Kids Page - a bunch of different information and games about staying safe online.

Math:

Mathisfun.com

1. Mean
2. Median
3. Mode

Mathisfun.com Puzzle Games - Pick a puzzle game and try to solve it.

Science:

Wikipedia Oceans Page

BBC Ocean Games – A bunch of different games and activities based on oceans.

Things we are working on:

Maze Game – navigate using coordinates. Don’t hit any bombs!

Looking for the Top Quark – Hide your Quark, find some Quarks. This is a lot like Battleship.

Online Battleship Demo – I didn’t try this one out to much, but it is suppose to be an online version of Battleship.

Creating Charts on Microsoft Excel – Tutorials on how to make charts on Excel.

Neat stuff:

Wiki Mind Maps – put in anything you want to search on Wikipedia (and set it to en.wikipedia.org) and it gives you a visual “map” of information.

What the World Eats Photo Essay – a picture of what people eat from around the world and how much it costs. Interesting.

Top 100 American Speeches – List of the top 100 American speeches from American Rhetoric. You can listen to the speeches online.

9-11 Tribute Panorama – A panorama (360 degree picture) tribute to September 11th.

Here are some links to explore during our computer lab time today.

Statetris – A Tetris like game where you put states in their correct places.

Type, Type Revolution – Dance, Dance Revolution but for typing. This one is tough.

Earth Guide – An interactive tour of our planet.

Google Maps – Go find an interesting place (not just your house!).

Math Magician Games – this is the one we looked at in class. Test your math skills here.

Yellowstone National Park Panoramas – Go take a look at Old Faithful in a 360 degree view!

Monterey Bay Aquarium Live WebCams – Take a look at what animals at the Monterey Bay Aquarium are doing right now.

Stop Disasters Game – Prepare a village for a natural disaster.

Equivalent Fractions Pointer – Create equivalent fractions.

Fraction Sorter – Make fractions and figure out which is the largest.

Fraction Four – A Connect Four game that uses equivalent fractions.

The Exploratorium – Online part of the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco.

Internet Public Library – Teen Space – Links to good reference material.

Number the Stars Wikipedia Page – Wikipedia page for the book Number the Stars. There are links to more information.

Topaz Relocation Center Wikipedia Page - The setting of most of the book “Journey to Topaz.”

GeoGreeting! – Use buildings to spell words.

The Water Cycle – a diagram that you can click on to learn more about each part of the cycle.

Aquaculture Wikipedia Page – More information about aquaculture.

Here is the slide show that we have had on the board for the last couple of days.