Higher Level Thinking Question

Every year millions of trees are cut down and used for Christmas trees for a few weeks, then left to die. Do you think that is okay? Is there an alternative?

4-5 complete sentences!!

Inspiring Steps V. 78 # 9 pg 4-5 10/8-10/14

Think of an issue in your community and create a list of concrete things you can do to help improve the situation.

4-6 complete sentences!!

Please list what subject you would like for your extra credit to be applied to.

Inspiring Steps V. 78 # 9 pg 4-5 10/8-10/14

Read Inspiring Steps pages 4-5 and answer the following question.

Zach walks to raise awareness of homelessness among kids. In what other ways can attention be brought to a cause?

3-4 complete sentences!!!

Melting Away pages 4-5 V.78 # 10

Read Melting Away pages 4-5 and answer the following question.

What are some other reasons a warming world could be harmful?

2-3 complete senctence!!!

The Torch Takes Off! Vol.72 # 6 10/26-11/2

If you could be a torchbearer in an Olympic relay, in which country would you like to carry the tourch, and why?


Must be 4-5 complete sentences!

Heating Up Vol. 72 # 6 10/26-11/2

What are some other reasons a warming world could be harmful?


Must be 4-5 complete sentences!!!

Heating Up Vol. 72 # 6 10/26-11/2

1. Where is the Artic located?
2. What animals live there?

Hair- Care Queen pg. 6 Vol. 78 # 3 10/13-10/21

Read the article Hair-Care Queen on pg. 6 and answer the following questions.

1. Do you save money?
2. What short-term or long-term thing are you saving for?

Justice's Reasearch 10/13-10/21

Create a timeline of a Justice's path to the Sumpreme Court. To find bios go to www.supremecourtus.gov.

She's Making History! pg 4-5 Vol.78 # 3 10/13-10/21

Read She's Making History! pages 4-5 and answer the folloing questions.

1. What qualities do you think a U.S. Supreme Court Justice should have?
2. Do you think Just Sotomayor has those qualities?

Vol. 78 No. 4 due: 10/13-10/21

Choose any article in the Scholastic News Magazine and write a brief summary (3-4 sentences) of what the article was about.


Please let me know which subject you want the extra credit applied too.

Making Healthy Choices pg 4-5 Vol. 78 # 4 10/13-10/21

Read the article Making Healthy Choices on pages 4-5 and answer the one of the following questions.

1. Do you think that it is important for individuals to grow and eat fresh foods? Why or Why not
2. Do you think that vegetables grown in a home garden are healthier than the produce purchased in stores? Why or Why not

Flying Frogs pg. 6 Vol. 78 No. 4 due:10/12-10/21

Where are the eastern Himalyays located? What are some noteworthy facts about the area?

Extra Credit

1. Posting-All posts (click on the comment link) made (with your name clearly listed) that are at LEAST two complete sentences long will receive up to THREE points of Extra Credit (limited to two post per week).
**Make sure that you are posting on articles that you want the extra credit for in that subject.**
Example: How is the troubled economy affecting you? This would be extra credit in social studies.
If the blog does not state for which class the extra credit will go towards. Than you will have to let me know (in you post) which class you want the points to go too!!!

**Blogging is for students only!!!**

2. Become a Follower-If you have a google account you can become a follower of the website. Sign into your google account and add this blog and you will become a follower. This will allow you to get email updates about each new post. All students will get FIVE points of extra credit.

(Please ask your parent's for permission, before opening up a googgle account.)

Let your parents know about this, and you can receive an additional THREE points of extra credit for them becoming followers as well!

Year At A Glance

Just copy and paste the link below.

https://www.houstonisd.org/Curriculum/Home/11-HISD%20Curriculum/Year-At-A-Glance/Elementary/Elem_YAAG5_0910.pdf

Free Summer Camp

www.theharrisfoundation.org

TAKS Review Websites

http://www.engagingscience.org/games/onlinegames/games.html <-- Its Just a Phase/What a Mouthful/This is Your Live/Currant Affairs/Make a Note

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/

Living Science:

• food chains
• helping plants grow well
• life cycles
• moving and growing
• plants and animals in the local environment
• variation

Materials:

• changing states
• gases, liquids, and solids
• reversible and irreversible changes

Physical Processes:

• changing circuits
• changing sounds
• circuits and conductors
• earth, sun, and moon
• how we see things
• forces in auction
• friction
• light and dark
• light and shadows
• magnet and springs

Make sure that you do the activity-->revision bite---> quiz in order.

Students Post

Pedro Cavazos

The little dogs are all the same color.

Students Post Inherited Traits

<------Myles James-The inherited trait is the color of the whale which is gray.

<----Brandon Boclair

<-----Justina Jose

Students Post

LaVera Sheilds

Brittani Gardner

Inherited Traits

Alexia dela Fuente
www.finnsheep.fi/images/7.jpg

Inherited Traits

Charli McBean (good job) http://basenjinet.net/Information/Buying_a_Basenji.html

Inherited & Learned Traits

Post pictures of any living organism that shows its inherited traits.

You must have a picture of the parent and the offspring (child, baby).

U.S. Drought Scholostic News pg 6. 3/4-3/11

Write up a a plan for conserving water, include what changes you would make in your everyday life.


***Must be a paragraph long, five complete sentences.***
This will be worth 5 EC points :)

Flying Green Scholastic News pg 2 3/4-3/11

Do you think that the airline industry should have to use alternative sources of fuels? Why or Why not?



Remember: Tell me which subject to apply your extra credit to.

Do you have a question about water? Now you can Ask an Expert!

National Environmental Education Week connects your students to experts who can answer their questions! In support of EE Week's 2009 Be Water Wise! theme, we invite you to submit your students' questions about water to be answered by our panel of experts. Answers will be posted to EEWeek.org during EE Week (April 12-18, 2009.) The panel of experts is a diverse group of water professionals who can answer questions on a variety of topics, including:
Water treatment
Water quality
Aquatic biology
Water chemistry
Drought and water scarcity
Infrastructure and engineering
Pollution and mitigation
And more!


***You can only submit two questions (total)!!!***
I will submit students' water-related questions by March 15, 2009!

Life Cycle 2/21-2/27

Science Fair

Great resource for science fair.

ScotchScienceFair.com

Homework Due 2/18

TAKS Coach:

Lesson 8-9 <-----Rockets & Astros
Lesson 6 <----- Texans


YOU MUST USE YOUR PROBLEM SOLVING STATEGIES, FOR EVERY PROBLEM.


UGLY CHICKEN

Scholastic News Clearing the Air pg. 2 (2/16-2/21)

Read: Clearing the Air pg. 2 in your Scholastic News magazine.

• Do you think that government should be able to enforce such laws? Why or Why Not!!!

Make sure you tell me where you want your extra place (science or social studies)

Life Cycle Project

Life Cycle Short Story Project

Directions: Pick any type of organism you like, and research the life cycle of that organism. Create a short story about the life cycle. You can not pick the mealworm/Tenebrio Beetle or ladybug.

Life Cycle Short Story MUST include the following:

· Pictures or illustrations. Can be hand drawn, computer generated, or clipped from magazines/books.

· Must identify the type of life cycle: complete metamorphosis or incomplete metamorphosis.


· Must use scientific language. In other words, properly name the stages in the life cycle.

· Short story will be no more than 8 pages long; place one sentence on each page.


· All Life Cycle short stories are due no later than next Thursday, February 19th!!

Your project doesn’t have to be neat, it MUST be neat!!!!

Please be creative!!!!!!!!!!!!

3rd Nine Weeks

This nine weeks, the 5th grade will be focusing on Life Science. Your child should know the following vocabulary words, and be able to explain them:

• Ecosystem • Thrive • Ill • Perish • Modify • Adapt • Characteristics
•Species •Survive •Reproduce • Niche • Traits • Inherited • Learned • Photosynthesis
• Carbon cycle • Nitrogen cycle • Water cycle

We will be working on the following:
Science- Focus 3.1/Growth and Life Cycles -Focus 3.2/Food Chains and Webs
Focus 3.3 /Inherited Traits, Adaptations and Learned Behavior
Focus 3.4 /Habitat

Social Studies-Focus 3.1/ The Constitution and Bill of Rights
Focus 3.2 /The U.S. Grows
Focus 3.3 /Civil War and Reconstruction

Homework Due 2/3

Social Studies Homework: Finish reading pages 338-343 complete worksheet
Science: Finish labeling and defining your flower diagram

HBU Field Trip

All permission slips must be turned in tomorrow, to go on the science field trip to HBU!!!!!