May
31

Environmental Game

Ms H on May 31st, 2010

One of our very clever Grade 5 students, Bjorn, has created this really cool game using Scratch.

It’s very clever and it’s all about saving the environment!
Check it out by clicking on the link below and have a play.  How well can you play it?
Click here to play

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Feb
5

Sustainability Web Activities

Ms H on February 5th, 2010

Here are some web sites related to sustainability.  Today in class, you will visit some specific areas of these sites with a partner, but you can revisit them any time from home to explore some more.  (At home, you can turn the volume up as loud as you like, but at school, please keep [...]

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Jan
15

Mr Charles Moore

Ms H on January 15th, 2010

Room 231 students ……… Remember the man that first discovered the North Pacific Gyre?  Mr Charles Moore?
Please watch this YouTube video.  It’s Mr Charles Moore talking to an audience about the plastic that is floating in our oceans.  After watching this video, I want you leave a 3, 2, 1 comment on this post.

3 things [...]

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Jan
15

Afloat in the Ocean

Ms H on January 15th, 2010

Yesterday we read an article about plastic afloat in the ocean.  In particular, we found out about a huge gyre of plastic, twice the size of Texas, that has formed in the Pacific Ocean, close to Hawaii.
You can read more details about the gyre and other interesting Current Events that we have been collecting for [...]

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Jan
7

Sustainability and Google Maps

Ms H on January 7th, 2010

We are going to combine our non-fiction reading strategies with our Sustainability unit to learn about some current events around the world.
Using Google Maps, we will collaborate as a class to create a map with news that we find.
On the left side of the blog, under “Pages”, you can see a link to our map [...]

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