Please read “Scientists see dramatic drop in Arctic sea ice“. How do you think this may affect you?

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Please read the article, “Most Polar Bears Gone By 2050, Studies Say“. What other animals do you think will be affected by climate change? Do you think some animals will do better?

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Please read the article “U.S. Coal-Burning Boom Drastically Warmed Arctic“. What are your thoughts on our use of power in the United States?

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Please read the article “Playing with blocks helps with language, study finds“. How else do you think play is important to learning?

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What is a feed reader and why are we using them in Science class? I want to take the opportunity to explain some of the power of this tool. If you haven’t heard of RSS before or you are new to the technology, you should first view the video posted on our wiki.
I [...]

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Some of you may have noticed that the quiz on variables has fallen to the wayside. Due to a need to focus blocks of time with technology this week I have not had time to offer the needed additional instruction during class time. We will have that time next week and any students [...]

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The new due date for the First Article Assignment will be end of class Tuesday, next week.

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Everyone did a great job posting their paper-blogs last week. Several teachers have been posting comments to you and have said that they really enjoy reading what you have written.
This week we will focus on learning the mechanics behind a few of the web based tools we will be using this year. Once [...]

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This week we began using RSS to feed content to us. The sites you have linked to with Google Reader should give you a fair amount of material to choose from. Your assignment is to choose one or more articles to summarize while using Google Docs. The goal of this exercise is [...]

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Here are the sites I want you to subscribe to. You can go to each site to pick up the feed. It is expected that your school Reader Account will contain only feeds related to school work (you may not subscribe, through this account, to your friends etc…)

Mrs. Anderson’s Language Arts Class
Mr. Biche’s Science [...]

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