Our Lives‌Our Stories March Issue Vol. 1
IN THIS ISSUE Vol. 1 March Stories
Mrs Keck, Mrs Dilmore, and Mrs Abrams have decided to go LIVE with their own online classroom magazine. As teachers, we believe there’s change on the horizon. We are looking for ways to enhance our curriculum using digital media. Realizing that digital media has the potential to facilitate critical thinking and higher order learning, we are looking for mathematic/geography-related online projects and resources that will help our students express what and how they know it and will challenge their thinking skills.
Our Lives...Our Stories is an online magazine for Mathematics and
Geography students in Mrs Keck, Mrs Dilmore and Mrs Abrams classes. This year our students will participate in exciting activities that address the Sunshine State Standards in the Mathematics and Geography classrooms. Students have been chosen to form the first Mathmatics/Geography Ezine for Greenwood Lakes Middle School for teens! We all know how exciting Mathematics and Geography can be and we want to share this excitement with the whole world! Students will be creating exciting articles, puzzles, challenge problems, cartoons, cover pages, editorials, your own columns (advice) and advertisements. Students will have the opportunity to address each theme and engage in activities and discussions that provide insight into their importance. Through the completion of the activities, hopefully our students will gain an understanding of their ability to make a lasting positive impact and experience a rewarding year in our Mathematics and Geography classes. So how excited can YOU get about Math and Geography? Take an interest in the topics that you pick. Hand in a quality piece of work. Feel proud to be pioneers of the first GLMS Math/Geography Ezine for teens!
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This issue will support our Month of March Activities and Projects in our classes. Students we need your help... Reading is Fundamental (RIF), a national nonprofit literacy organization and a good friend of First Book, needs your help. The President’s proposed fiscal year 2009 budget eliminates the RIF Book Distribution Program. Unless Congress reinstates funding for this program, RIF will be unable to distribute 16 million books annually to the nation’s youngest and most at-risk children. Students check out the story..."Reading is Fundamental " in the Literacy Section... March Happenings • • • • • • • •
Read Across America-Happy Birthday Dr Seuss World Maths Day Pi Day in the Math Topics Section Nasa TV and Solar Week Animal Planet presents Nim's Island Week Earth Hour is on, March 29, from 8 to 9 pm local time! Student Authors in the Student Interest Department Best Web 2.0 Tools and Kid's Educational/Games Sites in the DEN Highlights Column
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Departments Geography Topics... Literacy Section... Math Topics... Student Interests
Columns
Discovery Educator Network Highlights
Discovery Educator Network Highlights
Web 2.0 Tools
Creating Video from Discovery Streaming
Sun, Feb 24, 2008 Sun, Feb 24, 2008
Discovery Educator Network Highlights
Full Story Full Story
Discovery Educator Network Highlights
Kids Page of Games and Ideas from Discovery Educator Network
Discovery Educator Network Highlights
Judges Needed Sun, Feb 24, 2008
21 Century Storytelling Links from the DEN
Full Story
Sat, Mar 8, 2008 Full Story
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Our Lives‌Our Stories March Issue Vol. 1 Special Events
Sun, Mar 16, 2008
Sat, Mar 29, 2008
Full Story
Full Story
Getting Slimed !!! on "Pi Day" by Nancy Keck Sun, Mar 16, 2008 Pi Day...2nd Period
Full Story
How to Help Others Reading is Fundamental
by Nancy Keck
by Margie Dilmore
Sat, Mar 1, 2008
Sat, Mar 8, 2008
Full Story
Full Story
Pi Day...Third Period by Margie Dilmore Sat, Mar 8, 2008 Full Story Pi Day...Fourth Period by Nancy Keck
Solar Week by Nancy Keck Sun, Mar 16, 2008 Full Story
Special Mother of the Month by Colton
Sun, Mar 16, 2008
Thu, Mar 13, 2008
Full Story
Full Story
Pi Day...5th and 6th Period by Margie Dilmore
Check Out Our Special Parents
Earth Hour...Tonight by Nancy Keck
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News World Maths Day
Share the Gift...Change a Life Photo Album
by Nancy Keck by Nancy Keck Sun, Mar 9, 2008 Breaking News from CNN Student News
Sat, Mar 15, 2008 Full Story Full Story
Today's News from CNN Sun, Feb 24, 2008 Full Story Feature Movie of the Month Cable in the Classroom Kids...Cable...Learning Sun, Mar 2, 2008 Full Story
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Breaking News from Animal Planet
Thu, Mar 13, 2008
Nim's Island-Our World: A Reel Thinking Event
Full Story
by Nancy Keck
by Nancy Keck
Fri, Mar 28, 2008 Full Story
Breaking News from World Maths Day
Share the Gift..Change a Life Photo Album
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Resources • • • • • • • • • • • •
Fcat Math Videos Classroom Blogs Homework Webline... Textbook Sites for Mathematics Math Games Google Earth Link National Geographic for Kids Site EarthLive CSpan Practice Your US Capitals Game Scholastic Study Jams Social Studies Central
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Go North...Siberian Husky Project By Nancy Keck Sun, Feb 24, 2008 •
Our Log Info UserID: keckgreen Password: sableb7 Enter to take part in this LIVE dogsledding adventure for explorers of all ages! For K-12 classrooms to unlock the interactive world of GoNorth!: Log in.Not a registered classroom? Jointoday— it's FREE!
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Mission What's Up 5 Questions
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Cool News |
3000 schools, 52 states, 6 continents do it! Why? Explore this educational theory in the K-12 classroom
From the Russian far east, 5000 feet up and over Brooks Mountain Range in Alaska, to the Arctic Ocean in Canada...
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arabella's no bullying t-shirt arabella's no bullying t-shirt...
Kay's stop bulling t -shirt Kayleen's t shirt design...
Stop Bullying Stop Bullying...
Ginger Barks for No Bullying This is a T-Shirt design against bullying....
No bulling Tem no more bulling!!...
T-Shirt design created by Emily T for the 2008 “contest”
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Our Lives…Our Stories March Issue Vol. 1 World Math Day sponsored by By Nancy Keck Wed, Feb 27, 2008 World Math Day is March 5th
“I’ve never been any good at math.” How many times have parents and students been allowed to make that comment as if it is no big deal? We don’t allow them to say that they are no good at reading or writing, but somehow it’s acceptable to not be good at math. Math phobia can be removed with time and opportunity. As we get closer to standardized testing times across the country, why not give the students a 21st century way to enjoy math? Have you ever considered allowing them to compete with students across the globe? The Internet makes it possible and so very authentic. Multiply by 9's Rule By Daisha Sun, Mar 16, 2008
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! Rule of 9's Open both your hands and face them to you. Put down your left thumb. This represents 9 x 1 = 9. (Notice there are 9 fingers in one "group". The groups will become more obvious in a minute.) Lift your thumb, and put down the pointer finger of your left hand. there's 1 finger on the left of the "down" finger, and 8 on the right. That represents 18, or 9 x 2. The 2 comes from the second finger. Raise all your fingers again, and put down the middle finger of your left hand. This gives you 2 fingers to the left of the down (third) finger, and 7 to the right of it. 9 x 3 = 27. Get it? It only works up until 9 x 10 = 90. I've shared this with adults who say they're lousy at their multiplication tables, and they are upset they didn't learn it in the 5th grade, too!
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The Life of Pi By Mike W Thu, Mar 27, 2008
The Life of PI Pi is used in many daily life functions. I am going to tell you about some great examples of these functions that you might not know or even think about. Did you know that the orchestral symphony is based on the number pi and that the ancients may have encoded the numeric mysteries of the pi in the Bible! We also use pi in everyday cooking and decorating...what would we eat without the "pi"?? We also use pi for radio, television and telephone systems and even jet airplanes! When a football player throws a football, it can even be calculated in pi too. There are countless everyday life functions that we use pi for, and not just for eating. Some more interesting facts about pi are did you know that a farmer uses the pi formula? Yes, they use it when they are building a silo to keep corn in for feeding cows! You can even calculate your birthday in pi, mine is 73302! It is truly an amazing calculation and the more I research, the more interesting I find it. Here's another interesting fact about pi, everyone knows that March 14th is "pi day", as that is the formula, but did you know that March 14th was Albert Einstein's birthday? Now that is cool, no wonder why he was such a genius! I have also heard that many scientists have lost their minds trying to figure out pi, so I hope I made it a bit easier for you to understand how fun learning about pi can be. If you take some time you can even come up with a riddle about our fun little pi. Here’s one for fun that I found, now there is an ancient Greek letter and I think no other is better. It isn’t too tall, it might look very small, but its digits, they go on forever.
By:
Michael Wilkerson
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