Landforms

Students, Use the links below to research your assigned landforms. :)

Mountain:

 http://www.ducksters.com/geography/mountain_ranges.php
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/surface-of-the-earth/mountains-article/
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/topten/highestmountains.html

Canyon:

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/surface-of-the-earth/canyons-article/ http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/grandcanyon.html

http://kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0078B-grand-canyon.php

Island:

http://www.ducksters.com/geography/islands.php

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/is/Island http://library.thinkquest.org/J003007/Disasters2/volcano/formed/formed.htm

Bay:

http://www.facts4me.com/disp_subject.php?s_id=1246 http://www.mobilebaynep.com/mobile_bay_watershed/mobile_bay/

Prairie:

http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/nature/habitat/whatprai.htm http://www.campsilos.org/mod1/students/index.shtml

Waterfall:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/photos/gallery/waterfalls/ http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/niagarafalls.html http://www.priweb.org/ed/earthtrips/Kashong/waterfalls.html

Plateau:

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/surface-of-the-earth/plateaus-article/ http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/plateau

Welcome Parents!!

Welcome to Miss Powers' third grade class!  We are going to have a wonderful year! Check our classroom blog for updates. :)

Take a Trip With Miss Powers' 3rd Grade!

Our class has been traveling the United States to visit different sites that all symbolize America. Below are postcards from their travels.  Enjoy! :)

Animal Glogster Project

Choose an animal from the list below.  Use the listed websites to research your animal.  Then create a Glog about your animal.

Animals: 

• Emperor Penguin
• African Elephant
• Alligator
• Bald Eagle
• Bottle Nosed Dolphin
• Polar Bear
• Beluga Whale
• Zebra
• Tiger
• Octopus
• Boa Constricter
• Honey Bee
• Cheetah
• Chimpanzee
• Loggerhead Sea Turtle
• Clown Fish
• Vampire Bats

Websites:
National Geographic
Animal Database
Ocean Animals- Sea World

Newsletter- 11/13/12

Our Plants- Days 2- 6

Our classroom must be full of "green thumbs" because our Brassica rapas are already growing!  We planted our seeds on Tuesday, and by Wednesday night when I left school, our plants were sprouting. The picture below shows the seed coat splitting open and the plant sprouting from the seed.

October 17 (evening)

On Thursday morning, the students where surprised to see leaves!  Some of the students said that our plants looked like four leaf clovers.  The class learned that the leaves that they saw are the plant's seed leaves.  They thought it was cool that the leaves that first emerge were actually contained inside tiny seeds!

Today the students noticed that our plants are growing taller and taller!  They also noticed that true leaves are starting to emerge from the stem.  They even noticed that some of the seed coats were still attached to the true leaves.  CJ compared the seed coat spitting open to a caterpillar busting out of its chrysalis to become a butterfly.  The students are all curious as to when we will begin to see buds and yellow petals!

We hope that you will come by and see our Brassica rapas and all of the things we have been learning about plants at Open House tomorrow night!

October 22:

Wednesday, October 17

Tonight in my graduate class, we played around with Voki.  I thought it would be cool to post one here!
What We Will Learn Today- October 17