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Mr. Uttech is at Sky Y!

Hello students,

Mr. Uttech is at Sky Y working with 5th graders.

Please work on these web sites on Monday and Tuesday. You may choose, but you must be working on these web sties.

On Wednesday, you may have appropriate free time.

If you combine with another class because the sub is gone, please adjust the schedule so that you work 2 days and have one day off.

Please remember our classroom rules: HONESTY, RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, CARING and DO YOUR BEST.

To earn your 100 points. Please open a WORD document and type a paragraph (4-6 sentences) for each game you play. You will have 4 paragraphs.

Write what you thought about each web site and what you learned.

1. CLICK HERE FOR Lemonade Stand
Math Objective: Students will explore supply and demand by playing a game that includes supply, prices and customers.

2. CLICK HERE FOR Free Rice
Vocabulary Objective: Students will study word definitions by choosing the correct answer and contribute to the world community by using the web site.

3. CLICK HERE FOR United States map
Geography Objective: Students will practice using their knowledge of U.S. States by using the website that allows them to see what they've chosen correctly.

4. CLICK HERE FOR The Problem Site
Objective: Students will try a variety of educational sites.

Write a story for the Castro Courier

Objective: Students will write and edit a story that describes life at Castro by focusing on the truth, the 5Ws and who cares.

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1. Open a WORD document.
2. Write a story about something happening here at Castro.
3. Be sure to include:

• Who
• What
• Where
• When
• Why
• Who Cares?

4. Edit your story for publication.
5. Find a picture that adds to your story.

50 or 100?

Here are the assignments that you should have completed. Take today to make sure you do not have any incomplete work.

High School Quizzes

Reasoning Behind "Using Your Brain"

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High School Quizzes

Objective: Students will assess their readiness for high school by taking two quizzes and reflecting on the answers.

1. Open a Word Document

2. CLICK HERE for Quiz One

In your WORD document, write down 3 sentences what you think about the quiz. What does the quiz tell you about yourself?

3. CLICK HERE for Quiz Two

In your WORD document, write down 3 sentences what you think about the quiz. What does the quiz tell you about yourself?

4. Do you think that playing games helps you learn anything new about computers? Be honest.

5. Do you have any regrets? (Things that you wish you could do over again?)

6. CLICK HERE and write 3 sentences about one thing that interests you.

Reasoning behind “Using your Brain”

Objective: Students will decode the differing views out in the world and on the web by analyzing several websites and determining for themselves what they believe.

This assignment is intended to make you think. When a movie came out that said the world is going to end in 2012, a lot of people blindly believed it. What do you believe?

1. Open a word document.

2. Find two sources that say the world will end in 2012.

• Type the title of the web sites and the URLs (the web address)
• Type two sentences describing the websites.
  

3. Find two sources that say the world will NOT end in 2012.

• Type the title of the web sites and the URLs (the web address)
• Type two sentences describing the websites.
  

4. Find one source that says the world will end in a different year, other than 2012.

• Type the title of the web site and its URL (the web address)
• Type two sentences describing the website.
  

5. Explain why you think there are so many different ideas about when the world will end.

6. Which source do you trust the most? Why?