Part B- Google Maps

Our students are going to find the route from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Fairbanks, Alaska where our students' pen pals live. Students will use Google Maps to do so. We will be learning about timezones. After that, students will be printing off their maps that show the route from Kalamazoo to Fairbanks and marking, on the map of the United States, where there timezones are. As a part of their report, students will need to explain the timezone change between Kalamazoo and Fairbanks. Here is what the map should look like:
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Part A- Virtual Pen Pals

Here is the link to our virtual pen pals assignment description:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uTGMo6W5ly1A6E0ETM_fmL3KXG8Kx6coaKQaXH1sGpc/edit

Pen Pals :)

Okay- I made it so we can all edit the Google Doc. Go ahead and change WHATEVER you want! And then I will log back on Sunday and I am planning on working on the Google Maps assignment then. If you guys have any ideas for that, let's leave them here. I have don't know how we should work it in yet.

Hope you guys have a good weekend!

Dianne

Virtual Pen Pals/Google Maps

Hi girls-

I am just thinking ahead because I am in a wedding this coming week so I need to start working on this weeks assignments. I am going to create a google doc by Wednesday with a draft to a Pen Pals assignment. I will make it so we can all edit and then you guys can add/change whatever you're thinking. We have to pick where out class's pen pals will be from. Any thoughts? Our students will be writing them about their weather, specifically, so we might want to consider somewhere with different weather from Michigan. Some ideas might be: Washington (state), North Carolina, Hawaii, Australia. (I don't know, I randomly came up with these. We can find an interesting city/elementary school. What do you think?)

The other part of this week is the google maps assignment. We have to decide how we want to incorporate this into our assignment. Any ideas? I'm thinking some sort of weather map activity? But I don't have any ideas on how that will work.

Talk to you guys soon! :)

Web Sites

Hey Ladies,

This week we are supposed to come up with three web sites that have to do with our project. Do you have any idea what type we should be looking for? Should the be like "teacher" sites with info on how to teach weather? Or "educational" for a student to use? I was just looking for a second and third opinion. Thanks

Rachael

Concept Map

Here is our concept map in progress for a unit on Weather Monitoring. We plan to expand, contract and edit this map until we reach perfection.

Number One!!

Yey! We're finally all members of our blog! Sorry it took so long.
-Rachael