Human Body Symposium

What a great job you all did today on your Human Body Presentations! The eighth graders were SO impressed!

Mr. Steffens even posted pictures of you on his wiki.  Take a look: https://mrsteffensaisd.wikispaces.com/ 

Reminder!

Don't forget to include your name in your comment. Many of you left comments with no name, so I didn't post them!!

Body Systems-Assignment May 6

Here are some videos to help you learn about the different systems in our bodies. Watch each video and leave a comment or a question on it!

Skeletal and Muscular Systems

Watch these videos on the skeletal and muscular systems and leave a question or comment!

Circulatory System

Watch these videos on the circulatory system and leave a question or comment!

Nervous System

Watch this video on the nervous system and leave a question or comment!

Respiratory System

Watch these videos on the respiratory system and leave a question or comment!

Digestive System

Watch these videos on the digestive system and leave a question or comment!

Just for Fun

Anil created this cool movie. He shared it on Edmodo, but I wasn't able to see it. So I'm posting it here for everyone to see. Leave your comments below!

P.S. Anil, do you plan on writing an informational text about venomous snakes?

Human Body

Take a look at these cool videos about the human body! What an amazing machine!  

What are your thoughts about this upcoming unit?

One Billion Acts of Green

Wow! This organization is trying to get 1 billion (that's 1,000,000,000!) people to pledge to do something to help save the planet. We have thought about and discussed tons of ways to conserve energy and water this year in class. So take a minute to think about what you can pledge to do to help the planet!
 http://act.earthday.org/

Announcement

Dear boys and girls,
I forgot to leave this note with the substitute. If possible, ask your parents if you can bring in a digital camera tomorrow. You will need it for a cool activity we are going to do! If they say "no", it's OK. You can share with a friend.

Ms. G.

Photography-Another Way to Express Yourself

Many people express themselves through photography. We will be meeting a photographer next week. Take a look at these videos to learn about how you can express yourself through photography.

What were these people expressing? 


How are they unique?


What would you like to try through photography?

Assignment April 11

I love this website. It is so cool and has so much neat information. I was on here today and noticed some really interesting articles. Take a look at this website, find an article that you like and read it. Then post a comment telling us which article you read and what you thought of it. I wonder what you'll think about the furry Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Time for Kids

Assignment

Today you need to visit this website and take the test. When everyone is finished, we will talk about your different kinds of smarts.


What your smarts?

Dress to Express

Today we had a visit from Bengali actor and model Mr. Fardeen. He talked to us about being confident and doing what you're passionate about. Tomorrow is Dress to Express Day. Think about what you will wear to express yourself. How will you show your uniqueness?

Watch these 2 videos from today and reflect: What makes Mr. Fardeen unique? What is the big idea he was trying to share with us? What did you learn? What questions do you still have?

Uniqueness

Watch this video and think about this man. He is obviously unique because he has no arms or legs, but what else is unique about him? What is your opinion of him? What kind of person do you think he is? What is something you think you can learn from him?

Looking into the Mirror

We are starting a new unit! It is called Looking into the Mirror. Our central idea is: People use many different forms of expression to convey their uniqueness as human beings. Think about that idea as you watch the 5 videos I've posted below. Respond to each video. Don't forget to leave you NAME in your comment or I won't publish it!!


How are people expressing themselves in these videos? 
How are these people unique? 
What is your opinion of these different forms of expression?

Expression through art

Expression through song

Storytelling

Unique Expression

Persuasive Essay

We have to save water

By Minkyoung Cha

Many women walk for miles and miles to get some water, but all they get is one bucket of dirty water. For them, clean water is precious as gold. For us, we are wasting water like it is nothing, thinking that water is everywhere. But actually, only 0.37% of water is drinkable for humans in this entire earth. Also, there are countries that fight for water. There is a country that actually built 27 dams to prevent the water flowing to different countries!

See how important water is? If you’re even wasting water right now, doesn’t this make you think of a solution of this problem? The solution for this problem is to shower for only 2 minutes. It will save at least 2 gallons of water. Another way to save water is to not change clothes too much. If you change your clothes too much, there will be lots of laundry, and to do those laundries, at least 4 gallons of water are needed.

If you use these strategies, you will be able to save lots of gallons of water. It is just like a piggy bank. If you save some money, it won’t be too much now, but it will be very heavy in the future, and help us.

Restaurant Review

By Maheeka

I'm going to present to you the coolest, the most nicest restaurant I've ever been too its Mainland China.

One Reason it is the best, it has nice and comfortable chairs that you wouldn't know which one to sit on it is a revolving restaurant too I mean the floor revolves not the table isn't that cool!?!?

Oh if you're a chinese person and you eat with chopsticks just chill cause there you get chopsticks. Better visit mainland china!!!!!!!!!! Next the food there will make your mouth water because the food is so tasty that its hard to choose which one to start with It is a very popular restaurant.Right After  you've finished your food, if you want then for dessert you can order brownie with icecream. The brownie will come in sizzling pan and the icecream will come on a normal plate. And a bowl of chocolate will be served to you. The waiter will put the chocolate sauce or you can yourself after you or the waiter has put it guess what, steam starts to come up, it starts to sizzle

Another Reason is that the service people there are betterthan room service people who work in hotels cause they don'tsay1 min or 1 sec  they just come right to you whenever you call them!!!!!!!

Hey you people I've given you three reasons of why mainland china is the best restaurant don't forget it revolves and don't forget thhat the food there will make your mouth water sooooooooooooo why don't you jump in and try it out!!!!!!!!!!!????????????

Shashank's Review

Jaws

If you are dying to watch the movie Jaws, then you came to the right review! This review will tell more about Jaws. The main character is Nicholas Flint and he has a son named Michael Flint. Jaws is a Shark/Dinosaur/Megalodon she eats anything especially humans. She can chew down anything and cannot be shot easily. So beware and you might make your pants wet from scares. This movie I recommend is for kids over 13 and under 13 so bad luck for people who are 13 ok Boohoo!! Watch it if you dare!!!

Fifth Grade Action

Some fifth graders have designed a website to give people information about endangered animals. They have some cool videos, interesting polls, and good information to share with you. Check it out! www.defendearthsanimals.wordpress.com

Homework 2/16/2012

Hi, boys and girls!  Your homework for this weekend is to help me test out a new website I think we can use to help us learn. You need to go to www.edmodo.com. You will see this login page:

Your username is your first and last name (no spaces and no capitals). For example, my username would be: melissagallagher  Your password is tiger. Once you've logged in once, you should change your password (go to account and then click on settings).

Your assignment for this weekend is to explore. Play around. Change your profile. Read my message. Discover Edmodo.  If you feel like it, post a comment on Edmodo telling the class what you think!

Efficiency

This video is not related to our units, but we have been talking a lot about efficiency. Notice how focused each person is to make this whole operation run. If you're writing a review on Emirates, this might be helpful to you as well.

Homework 2/8/2012

Tonight your homework is to go to linoit.com
Login: username: 3gallagher
           password: 12345
Once you login, you will see this page:

Click on Electricity.
Then follow the directions on the red Post-it. If you can't see the toolbar, look in the upper right-hand corner. You can pull down the toolbar by clicking the tiny triangle.

See what you can post! I can't wait to read about what you've learned!

Bill Nye-Storing Energy

Watch this video. If your parents allow it, try to create the bottle with pennies and a rubber band. How does this simple machine store energy? Can this relate to the toys we were playing with today?

Energy Intro

Today we read this book about Energy. We learned that energy exists in many forms and can be used and conserved in many ways.  You all had so many questions, your hands were waving furiously through the air! Post any questions you have about energy by adding a comment to this post.

Energy exists in different forms and can be used and conserved in many ways.

Watch this video. How does this show energy? What form of energy do you think it is?