Climate Change

What is climate change? It is something that is on the news often. Why should we know about climate change? It can have an impact on many ecosystems.

Follow the steps below to learn more about climate change.

1) Watch the video Climate Change Basics.

2) Read about the Impacts of climate change.  Record them in your RRJ.

3) Examine the clues of climate change. Write a brief paragrah (4-5 sentences) describing some of the signs we see of climate change.



We will then come back together as a class and discuss what we can do to help.

Life in the Southern Colonies

Today you will work with a partner from your reading group to continue thinking about main ideas and supporting details.

In our mini-lesson, we talked about a few different types of graphic organizers we could quickly sketch to keep track of our main ideas and supporting details:

• Boxes and bullets
• High five
• Concept web

Pick the organizer that works best for you!

Read about life in the Southern Colonies from the websites listed below for your groups. Then jot main ideas and supporting details from each section of the text. It might help you to create a separate page in your RRJ for each website.

Group 1 Sites

Daily Life

Southern Colony Facts

Similarities and Differences between different colonial regions

Group 2 Sites

Daily Life

Facts about the Southern Colonies

Group 3 Sites

Schools in Colonial America

Day to Day life in the Southern Colonies

Chores and Jobs

Video for all groups
Southern colonies video

Middle Colonies

You will be assigned to groups. Your goal today is to read each of the websites listed for your group.

Before reading, you will:
a) Partner up with someone from your group.
b) Preview the text- talk as partners- What is this text mostly about? What do you think this text will tell?
c) In your RRJ, set up a 3 column chart. It will look like this:

Website Name	What I expect to learn	What I actually learned

d) Complete columns 1 and 2 with your partner as your preview the sites.

e) After previewing each site, read independently on your own. Be sure to record new information learned in the "What I acually learned" column. This does not have to be complete sentences. It can be jots.

Websites for Group 1:

Summary- Life in the Middle Colonies

What makes in middle colonies unique?

Daily Life in the Middle Colonies

What was it like to live in the Middle Colonies?

Websites for Group 2:

Summary- Life in the Middle Colonies

Daily Life in the Middle Colonies

Websites for Group 3:

Daily Life in the Middle Colonies

What made the middle colonies special?

The Salem Witch Trials

  Beginning in the fall of 1692, a group of men, women and even children were accused of witchcraft in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

National Geographic Site

What do scientists think really happened?

Questions and Answers from the Salem Musuem

Schools in Colonial New England

As a group, use the websites listed below to complete the graphic organizer.

Site 1

Site 2

Site 3

Jobs in Colonial America

Visit this website to learn about some of the important jobs people held in Colonial America. Which jobs are the same as jobs we see today? Which jobs have changed?

Shark Week!

This website has factual information about types of sharks, their habitat, predators, teeth and other interesting info:

http://www.kidzone.ws/sharks/facts.htm

Here is a site that includes facts about the Great White:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/content/kids/en_US/animals/great-white-shark/

This website teaches about the Bull  Shark:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bull-shark/

Want to learn about the Sand Tiger Shark?

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/sand-tiger-shark/

Check out the hammerhead shark:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/hammerhead-shark/

Here are some rare shark facts:

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/shark.html

More little known info about sharks:

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/27222-shark-fun-facts

Basic facts about sharks:

http://www.defenders.org/sharks/basic-facts

Here is a site created by a veterinarian who works with sharks:

http://www.childrenoftheearth.org/shark-information-kids/interesting-facts-about-sharks-for-kids.htm

This is a great site with information about different species of sharks and efforts to protect them:

http://www.sharks-world.com/