Week of October 6 - October 14

Note: No School Monday October 13

Monday 10/6
Entry Spelling:On your own, create new words from these base words: quiet, relate, upset, like, love

Finish spelling lists. Revise action stories, if needed.

Discuss:

How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.


Tuesday 10/7 Entry:
1) Choose from your Personal Spelling List and Write your 5 spelling words in the first column on your Weekly Spelling Study Sheet.
2) Read over your notes so far, including your work from yesterday. Highlight the important details. Write a gist statement of what you have learned so far to turn in.

AUP

Discuss:

How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.


Explore these resources for more information about how global warming is changing the Arctic life, and how these changes may subsequently affect the place where we live.
NOAA: Global Warming FAQ
Global Warming: How Hot? How Soon?

Reflection: Will what we do affect the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may eventually affect us? .




Wednesday 10/8 Entry: Have your gist statement ready for me to read. Go to the computers to:
Ms Edwards Home Page
Click What Else Site
Sidebar -----> Polar Problems https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Polar-Problems
Step 2

Explore and take notes from these resources for more information about how global warming is changing the Arctic life, and how these changes may subsequently affect the place where we live.
NOAA: Global Warming FAQ
Global Warming: How Hot? How Soon?

Reflection: Will what we do affect the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may eventually affect us? .



Thursday 10/9 Entry: Spelling tests.

Quiz and discussion from web work yesterday.



Friday 10/10 Entry: Write a paragraph persuading me not to give you homework this weekend.

Share.

Connect to persuasive writing strategies.



Skit to persuade parents. Connect again. What are persuasive strategies?


Tuesday 10/14
Entry: 1) Choose from your Personal Spelling List and Write your 5 spelling words in the first column on your Weekly Spelling Study Sheet. 2) What are persuasive strategies?

Take notes on paper copies of yesterday's links to answer our questions.

Discuss:

How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.

Write a draft of your ideas so far. Use paragraphs.

• What is your research about?
• How does it survive the Arctic?
• How is global warming affecting it?
• How are we contributing to your topic's problem?
• How is the problem affecting us?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may ultimately affect us?


Share paragraphs and gist statements. What do we know? What do we still need to know? Continue research answers to above questions at sites.

Discuss and take notes on combined research. Class gist statement.

Polar Problems, continued

For 9/22

Entry: Draw a picture of your researched people or animal living in the Arctic. Use your notes. Label your picture.

Question: How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

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Spelling Base Words: catch, tackle, write, work, agree

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Review: Who and what live in the Arctic? What is your research focus?

Terms to review: behavioral adaptation and biological adaptation; interconnectedness

First: How will we remember what we read?
Review Note-taking Strategies
Summarizing and Gist Statements

Tasks and Resources:
https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Polar-Problems

Note-taking Review:

http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
Download graphic organizers that fit your style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_note-taking_system
Cornell Note-taking

http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/cornellintro.pdf
A Cornell Note How to from Jim Burke

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=13&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cls.utk.edu%2Fpdf%2Fls%2FWeek2_Lesson14.pdf&ei=Q6nNSIi6EpmWsAPzveCIBw&usg=AFQjCNH7f7Yl42v76z7A7vTNVasFmh372A&sig2=2Uf9paP1E6149TW_HYzPiA
How to search google

https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Google-Search-Lesson
Our google lesson

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Today's Work:

Begin research of your people or animals using organizing questions provided. Have the people and animals adapted? How? What do you think others need to know?

As you discover interesting facts, let me know. Remember, you're helping me update my resources for next year ?) Great work on google searching!

So Far

___________________ What have we learned so far? ___________________

Draw a picture of the Arctic Ocean and the animals in it.
How have these animals adapted?
Are these animals affected by us?

Take a quick quiz about the Arctic: https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Arctic

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Read the Team Roles and remember:
Whether you are a team member or working alone, these roles must be completed for your project. If you are working alone, you are responsible for all roles.

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Our Project and Questions

• Based upon what you've learned about plant, animal, and human adaptations in the Beaufort Sea communities, how do you think global warming affects these species?
• Does what we do in ____________ (name of students' local area) really affect the life in the Beaufort Sea area?
• Do you think our actions affect life in other polar regions, such as Antarctica?
• How might what happens in these polar regions affect us and others around the world?

https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Polar-Problems

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Check out the area:

Find the NORTHERN PACIFIC AND ARCTIC.

Find the Arctic Ocean-Beaufort Sea.

List the facts on paper: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How

http://www.mcbi.org/shining_sea/s2ss_globe.htm

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Write a 20 word gist statement explaining the main idea of what you read yesterday.

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Wy du wee nede two lrn too spel?

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How do we remember what we read? Note-taking Strategies

Two columns

Facts/Main Ideas Connections (to yourself, your knowledge, your experience, etc.)

Read a section. Review and discuss what it says and what the main idea is. Use your own words in your notes. Check your spelling before reading the next section.

Gist Statements: Twenty words that summarize ALL the most important ideas of the day's work.

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Which do you want to research and why?
* Ringed seal
* Polar bear
* Inupiat Eskimos
* Athabascan Indians
* Arctic cisco
* Beluga Whales
* Bowhead Whales
* Kind Eider
* Loons
* Thick-billed Murres
* Guillemots
* Porcupine caribou
Albatross
* Elephant seal
* Fur seal
* Arctic fox
* Arctic Hare
* Caribou
* Arctic Tern
* Puffin
* Lichen
* Arctic moss
* Collared Lemming
* Musk Ox
* Narwhal
* Walrus

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How will you find information? Learn how to use your Google search bar effectively:

https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Google-Search-Lesson

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Ok. We're caught up. That's where we are now as of 9/19.