Mid March ’09: Topics-of-Study

I’ll try to find a few more language arts sites to practice with during the third trimester, but there don’t seem to be many. Let me know if you find anything useful!

Language Arts: Comparing/Contrasting Characters, Using Reference Materials, Summary Writing + Review of Making Predictions, Main Ideas

• Compare/Contrast Guide (notes), Compare/Contrast Essay Helper
• Using a Dictionary, Dictionary Practice
• Step Up to Writing (notes)
• Guess What Comes Next, Making Predictions
• Main Idea, Reading Nonfiction (movies), Summarize As You Read (review practice)

Mathematics: Order of Operations (PEMDAS), Area and Perimeter + Review of Degrees/Turns, Length of Line Segments, and Long Division

• What is PEMDAS? (video), Operation Order (PEMDAS), Order of Operations (PEMDAS)
• Shape Surveyor, Perimeter and Area, Bucky’s Blueprints, Area: Fitting In, Area in Odd Shapes and Places (challenging area)
• Degrees and Turns Slideshow (notes), Angles (degrees), Banana Hunt, Degrees to Turns Converter
• What’s the Point?, Billy Bug #2, Finding the Length of Line Segments (notes)
• Long Division Lesson (sample problems), Snork’s Long Division (review practice), Math Baseball, Sum Sense (division fact games)

Social Studies: Chapter Three – Exploration and Early Settlements

• Study Guideline Notes — Chapter Three
• Ready, Set, … Watch! (European Explorers Lapbook Video Just for Us!)
• The California Missions, California Missions Foundation, My Mission
• Explorers/Newcomers, Settlements/Missions (all vocabulary practice)

Science: Chapter Six – Electricity

• Chapter 6 Resources (vocabulary practice, movies, etc.)
• Magnetism and Electricity