Summer Session Week 8

B1-2 Technology:

No keyboarding this week. Instead, we gathered in the "clubhouse" to read Gotta Go! Gotta Go!, a great book about the monarch migration to Mexico. Each fall, monarchs from all over the United States and Canada migrate to the same 12 mountain tops in central Mexico where they roost all winter long in the oyamel fir trees. They find this spot all on their own, never having been there before. It is an incredible story, one that you can learn all about by exploring the fantastic site, Journey North. We used Google earth to check out the monarch sanctuary and to "fly" the 1900 miles there from Maryville, Tn and discussed how monarchs are a shared resource between the countries in North America. The students all made symbolic monarchs which will also spend the winter in Mexico. In the spring, we will get back paper monarchs from students all over the United States and Canada. Thanks to Journey North, everything will be entered on a collaborative map so we will be able to track where our butterflies landed in the spring. Very exciting!

3-4 Technology:

Are you Cyber Smart? Fort Craig students are! After some Dance Mat keyboarding, we started working on a Cyber Smart powerpoint. This week, students added slides for each of our SMART rules: Safe, Manners, Attachments, Reliable, Tell. They wrote text and inserted pictures for each slide. We spent the last 10 minutes of class exploring the social networking features of Kerpoof, including the message boards, emailing pictures, and "favoriting" pictures.