Mrs. Haugen's Sixth Grade Technology Page 

You'll find the assignment for the day, links to use and a list of past assignments (if you were absent or need to finish something).   Welcome to our computer lab assignment page. 

Use the Table of Contents to navigate.

 

Current Lab Assignment Current Classroom Work Subjects Social Studies  Language Arts Science  Past Assignments

Current Lab Assignment

Look here for directions in the lab. 

We review them in class, but this is an excellent way to begin every session in the lab--review the instructions. 

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

1) AR quiz on The View From Saturday

2) 10 minutes of Math Facts in a Flash

3) 

Student Wiki 

 

Current Classroom Work

• Does your Grantbook page/Tux Paint Portrait need work?  How's your Book Review?
• EnVision Math site: Do you have assignments?  
• Typing
• AR quiz (check with Mrs. Haugen first) 

 

Subjects

Social Studies

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 Language Arts

• Small Steps: http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/poliohistorypage.htm
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Science 

•  United States Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/
• Science Daily
• Earth Science Picture of the Day  http://epod.usra.edu/

 

Past Assignments 

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

1) AR Quiz on The Challenge

2) IS THIS FINISHED?  THERE ARE 15 LISTED IN THE BOOK REVIEW FOLDER.  IS YOURS ONE OF THEM?  Book Review Part 2: Go to the student wiki.  Create your own page using the template: Book Review with TuxPaint Illustration.  Title your wiki page with your book title and your name.  Replace all the <xyz> instructions with information.  Do you remember how to add your TuxPaint drawing?  Is it ready for students to comment?

3) Browse through the Book Reviews.  Are there any you can comment on?  Practice your appropriate, complete academic commenting.  Proofread before allowing the comment to post.

4) BrainPOP.  Watch the video earth's structure: http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/earthsstructure/  Take the quiz on line (DO  NOT  PRINT).

5) Finished?  Make a Thanksgiving Card for a friend or relative.  Write an acrostic or other type of poem or a letter of Thanks.  Add clip art or an original piece of Tux Paint art.

6) Now What?  Virtual Manipulatives, Math Facts in a Flash, Typing.

Monday, November 23, 2009

1) Work through each lesson for Topic 7 in EnVision.  Watching the video is optional. 

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

1) Go to Library of Virtual Manipulatives.  Go to Grades 3-5, Numbers & Operations.  Complete 7 models for each of the activities listed on your half sheet.  Use tally marks to keep track.

2) Is this finished & turned in?  DO YOU REMEMBER HOW?  Type a one-paragraph summary of the book you are currently reading.  Create a TuxPaint picture to accompany your writing.  Put the 2 together on your Word Document.  Make sure it fits on one page.  Print it.  Make a pile near the printer.

3) Read the comments on your Grantbook page.  Make any changes and/or edits that your comments suggest.  You'll be sharing this page with your parents tonight and asking their permission to allow your page to be posted outside of the log-in. 

4) Book Review Part 2: Go to the student wiki.  Create your own page using the template: Book Review with TuxPaint Illustration.  Title your wiki page with your book title and your name.  Replace all the <xyz> instructions with information.  Do you remember how to add your TuxPaint drawing?  Is it ready for students to comment?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

1) Quiz on Where the Red Fern Grows

2) Typing practice. 10 minutes

3) DO YOU REMEMBER HOW?  Type a one-paragraph summary of the book you are currently reading.  Create a TuxPaint picture to accompany your writing.  Put the 2 together on your Word Document.  Make sure it fits on one page.  Print it.  Make a pile near the printer.

4) If you are finished go to Math Facts in a Flash or Library of Virtual Manipulatives. 

Tuesday, November 2, 2009

1.  Go to http://mathcasts.org/gg/student/angles/angles/angles_index.html

2.  Please complete 3 problems correctly from each level of measuring angles, then complete 3 problems correctly from each level of drawing angles. Remember to move the protractor to the angle.  The colored "buttons" can be moved.

3.  Then go to enVision math.  When you log in, it will say that you have an assignment.  Click on the Premium button to access your assignments.  You can choose to watch the video or go straight to the quiz.  Please quiz on all four lessons.

4.  Finished?  Go to Past Lab Assignments to check for unfinished work.  If you are all caught up go to Typing, Math Facts in a Flash or Library of Virtual Manipulatives.  

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 

1. Open your paragraph about Ropes Course and your Tux Paint picture of the trip.  Listen to Ms. Mason as she walks us through the process of merging the two media.  Print your when ready--one page only!

2. Go to The Library of Virtual Manipulatives:  Grade 3-5 under Numbers & Operations.  Try Circle 0 or Circle 21.  If subtracting was tricky, you can try Number Chips, subtraction also.

3. Visit the 3 Grantbooks pages you're assigned.  Make appropriate, constructive comments based on our in-class discussion.

4. WORK  TO  FINISH: Complete the volcano and earthquake page for Ms. Reynolds.  Stack it near the printer when finished.  Did you Quiz on Seedfolks?  Finish work on your Dinosaur Ghosts chart.  Stack it near the printer.

5. Done?  Return in Virtual Manipulatives--check out what's there.

Monday, October 25, 2009 (bonus lab day)

1. Use your notes from class to write a one-paragraph  summary/description of a morning challenge at the Westminster Woods Ropes Course.  Print your paragraph.

2.  Go to Tux Paint.  Create a scene of this morning challenge that will accompany your paragraph. 

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

1.  Complete the volcano and earthquake page for Ms. Reynolds.  Stack it near the printer when finished.

2. Did you Quiz on Seedfolks?

3. Finish work on your Dinosaur Ghosts chart.  When everyone's page is open, we'll change the layout a bit and ensure it prints to one page when you're done.

4. Library of Virtual Manipulatives:  Grade 3-5 under Numbers & Operations.  Try Circle 0 or Circle 21.  If subtracting was tricky, you can try Number Chips, subtraction also.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

1.  Open a Word document.  Follow my instructions for aligning your text and setting up a table.  Save your table.

2.  Minimize your Word document and go to AR.

3.  Log on to AR.  Take the quiz for Dinosaur Ghosts.  Then finish your chart.  Print it when finished--1 page only!

4.  Go to: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ Look at recent earthquakes in CA and NV and then in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Write in your science notebook the 3 largest earthquakes of the day in CA and their magnitudes.   

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

1) After a demonstration in class of portrait-making in TuxPaint, please start with this--your portrait.

2) IDEA: Consider making a background to your portrait.

3) If you finish early, please go to Typing or Math Facts in a Flash

4) At approximately 11:40, Ms. Mason and I will walk you through the steps to add your portrait to your Grantbook page.  

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

1) Quiz on Small Steps-- be sure to chose the one by Peg Kehret

2) Type for 15 minutes

3) Continue working on Grantbook page (consider the ideas we reviewed in class)

4) Put up your red cup when you are ready for review by Ms. Mason or Mrs. Haugen

5) To Tux Paint for a self portrait? 

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

1.  Type for 15 minutes

2.  Instructions & demo by Mrs. Haugen for creating your Grantbook Page.

3.  Work time. 

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

1)  AR Quiz on Climb or Die (other reading)

2)  Typing (15 minutes)

3) Discussion of Private and Personal Information

4)  Go to http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/students/. Follow the directions on your handout & complete the chart.  Check out the other sites if you have time.

5) We will have a discussion & take a look at some Grantbook Wiki pages--next week's project. 

Day 1

1.  Sit at the computer that matches your cubby #--ready to listen to Ms. Mason's welcome & guidelines for the lab.

2.  We will start STAR Math all together.  Did you bring scratch paper and a pencil?

3.  When you're finished with STAR Math... go to Accelerated Reader.  Choose "Other Reading".  Take a quiz on Hatchet and Passage to Freedom.

4.  BrainPop - Digital Citizenship - Free Movie