Baby estimation!

   Go here!

http://www.babiesbet.com/pool/c9c07f9d-51ce-4505-1a8b-310f9d1cdade

Podcast Project

Our Last Big Project is coming up, and we need your help!  We'll be making our own podcasts similar to This American Life and Radiolab.  YOUR JOB is to find awesome stories that make great examples and stories/articles/ideas that you might want to use in your podcast.

Please post ideas/stories/links in the comments below.  Thanks!

--Ms. Kruger

Sites to check out:  thisamericanlife.org
radiolab.org

Literary Devices Practice Quiz--Early activity

Please take this quiz.  When you are done with the quiz, show Ms. Kruger your screen so she can see your score.  Please do this BEFORE you are searching for poems.

http://www.quia.com/rr/482059.html

Poetry Sites to Check Out!

Links to poems (including some audio)--a well-organized website.   http://www.poetryfoundation.org/

Poetry 180--a list of 180 poems that aren't too long (1 for every day of school) http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/


Some good poems, especially for the nature theme http://www.publicdomainpoems.com/


An online book of "Poems Kids Should Know"--(Try using ctrl F to find a word that you're looking for to fit with your theme) a little hard to search, but there are some good ones here!
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16436/16436-h/16436-h.htm

Poetry of American History (for those history buffs out there!) http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetry-of-america/

Guided Reading Computer Practice

Hello 6th graders!

This is a GREAT website with links to lots of activities to get ready for the NWEA (and have fun doing it!).  Please follow the directions on your sheet using the link below.

Click here to practice :)

VIDEOS of the TED De-Extinction Conference

TED conferences are where really smart people give a short, usually exciting speech about research or projects they're doing.  There was a de-extinction TED conference that would be worth looking at for a few reasons:

1. They are videos, which some of you love!
2. These are EXPERTS, and if you find an expert you like, Google their name and find other articles that include them.
3. All of these sources are credible!  What you find here is worth putting in your notes.

http://tedxdeextinction.org/

Beth Shapiro, an important source in the article "Will We Kill Off Today's Animals If We Revive Extinct Ones?" has a video (toward the bottom of the list).

Woolly Mammoth Websites

Start with one of the articles here, then click on the links IN the articles that look helpful.  If you find a great website/article that isn't here, please post it in the comments with your name and grade.  Thanks and happy hunting! :) 

De-extinction Site for National Geographic--LOTS of great articles and background for pro/con sides.  Excellent photographs.  

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/deextinction/

Short article on de-extinction from Scientific American (great science source!), focusing on biodiversity. 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-de-extinction-movement-all-about

Passenger Pigeons are focused on here (and the problems with cloning birds) 
Efforts to Resuscitate Extinct Species May Spawn a New Era of the Hybrid (also from Scientific American) 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lost-species-revived-from-dna-and-restored-to-nature


Will We Kill Off Today's Animals If We Revive Extinct Ones?

De-extinction hopes to revive mammoths, gastric frogs and other missing species, but it might undermine the conservation of creatures that still survive (the headline says it all!  Great article and not too long)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=de-extinction-to-bring-back-extinct-species-but-challenges-conservation

Humans Alone Wiped Out Tasmanian Tiger, Study Says 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-alone-wiped-out-tiger

De-extinction: Can we revive the woolly mammoth?

Should we bring back these species? And what would we do them? (some interesting links in the middle/end of this article)

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/de-extinction-can-we-revive-the-woolly-mammoth