Ian Kicks It Up!

Ian tries out some scratch and the 'walrus' effects! Keep rockin Ian!

Jacob Scratches It Up!

Jacob plays the guitar uses scratch effects, and plays what sounds like the Jimmy Hendrix version of the National Anthem. Rock out Jake!

Nick Rocks Out!

Nick plays with the guitar and the guitar synthesizer. Nick and Mr. Wert try out echo effects.

Music Class - Guitar Synthesizer

Mr. Wert showing the students how to rock out with a guitar synthesizer!

6th Grade Exit Blog 10.28.2009

How are soils classified?

Please make your response 2-3 complete sentences. If you need to research this information, please make sure to include the website address that you used as source.

6th Grade Exit Blog 10.27.2009

What are some types of soils?

Please make your response 2-3 complete sentences. If you need to research this information, please make sure to include the website address that you used as a source.

6th Grade Exit Blog 10.26.09

What is humus?

Please answer in 2-3 complete sentences. If research is needed, please copy and paste website address to your answer.

6th Grade Exit Blog 10/23/09

How is soil formed?

Please answer in 2-3 complete sentences? If research is needed, please copy and paste website address to your answer.

10.29.2009 REWIND

What part in the cell holds all the DNA and blueprint for our bodies? Please respond with 2-3 complete sentences in your blog.  

Title this post 10.29.09 Exit Blog Response

Exit Blog 10.28.2009

Please review what you chose for your Kingdom layers for your last exit blog.  Please define those three layers.  For example, if you chose Animalia for one of your layers, you may want to define it  as being made of mostly multi-cellular Eukaryotic cell animals.

Title this post 10.28.09 Exit Blog Response in your blog.

Exit Blog 10.27.2009

Please list three different layers in the Kingdom level of the Taxonomic rank.  If you need a reminder,  please ask a friend or a teacher.  

You may make a list for your answer.

Title this post 10.27.09 Exit Blog Response in your blog.

Exit Blog 10.26.2009

Please list all 9 major levels in taxonomic rank.  If you need some help, visit this site to look at the diagram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)

You make make your answer in a list-form.

Title this post 10.26.09 Exit Blog Response in your blog.

Exit Blog 10.23.2009

When you drove to school this week, why kind of rocks did you see on the way here?  You may not know the names, but what did they look like?  

Please make your response a list.

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Exit Blog 10.22.2009

Name 3 different cell parts and one role they have in the cell.  Please make your response 4-5 complete sentences.

Title this post 10.22.09 Exit Blog Response in your blog.

Exit Blog 10.21.2009

What are the differences between an animal cell and a plant cell?  Please make sure your response is in 2-3 complete sentences. 

Title this post 10.21.09 Exit Blog Response in your blog.

Tech. Ed 10.20.2009

BRONZE

AGE

3000 B.C Tools made from metal; development of the wheel

1900 B.C Plowing with animals

1500 B.C Grinding of grain

2.

Please take Cornell notes while Ms. Picard reads the following article:

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/timelines/3000bc.htm

3.

Please visit this site and look up your assigned topics. Take CORNELL NOTES on each one you are assigned.

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/maps/bronzeage.htm

You MUST include the following: DATES, PLACE, NAME along with any other information you are given that you find important.

Tucker:

Chinook

Florida

Germans

Pyramids

Nick:

Iroguois

Kush

Knossos

Hittites

Ian:

Chaco Canyon

Goddess Temple

Mohenjo Daro

Sparta

4.

Write the name and date on a Post-It and put the Post-it on the LOCATION on the map.

5.

Read the following article and take Cornell notes please.

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/history/earlybronze.htm

ARDI

Please write one fact about Ardipithecus Ramidus from Ethiopia (Ardi).  We will be watching a documentary on her later this week, but it good to know what you ALREADY know!

Make sure to write a full sentence.  If you do not know anything, please write that.

What was this dinosaurs name? It was a predator. What signs can you pick up from this animal that would make it a good predator?

Ian and Mrs. Tatro measure the length of a Deinosuchus, a prehistoric alligator. It was 50 feet long!

Ms. Picard checks out the dino's dental work!

Ian and Nick slice apart shale to find Trilibites.

The Bryant Academy looking at the Grallator and Eubrontes tracks.

Pleases view the video of Jobaria. It gives just a little insight into how large this animal was!

Tucker and the head of the African version of the T-Rex! It's name is Carcharodontosaurus!

What was this dinosaurs name? Where was it found? What is one fact that you remember about this animal?

Nick and Ian split shale stone to try to find more Trilibites. Mr. Picard did the same thing when he found the his dinosaur tracks, the only difference were the tools were larger when he found the tracks.

Mr. Picard hows students the stride length and foot placement of the Grallator. It is said that each inch of the footprint length equals the a foot length in the animals height. The print that Mr. Picard found shows that the Grallator that made it was approximately 5 feet tall.

Students compare illustrations of Coelophysis to the Grallator footprints. The Grallator supposedly looked very much like the Coelophysis.

Days of Dinosaurs: Fossils and Tracks

Mr. Picard teaching Bryant Academy students about the different dinosaur strides and stride length relation to animal height. The two animals that made the prints Mr. Picard found were the small carnivor, Grallator and the large carnivor, Eubrontes.