First pick a Biome

Find an animal that lives in that Biome and write about that animal.

Some things you should think about including in your report:

1. Habitat
2. Where in the world is your animal found
3. Diet
4. Is it a mammal/reptile etc.
5. How long is your animal expected to live
6. Does your animal change color depending on the season
7. Characteristics

You will write your report in class, but do some of the research at home.

If you didn’t finish your American Indian protect in class, please do it at home. Mrs. Thompson will be collecting them first thing tomorrow morning.

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Today many Native Americans still live on reservations. Some reservations have developed their own businesses and industries to help make them more self-sufficient. Research to find information about a reservation in the United States today. Choose a tribe and write a report describing one of the major businesses on that reservation. Don’t forget to write a brief history about the reservation.

Some links that might be of interest:

500 nations

Indian Reservations in the USA

Shinnecock Nation

Powhaten Nation

Native Americans

Native Americans 2

Winnebago Tribe

We are designing a For Sale sign using MS publisher. We will be selling a used car – a car of your choice. Research information about your car from kbb.com.

Things to think about:

1. What makes you stop and look at a sign in a store window?
2. Think about what information is important to have on your sign
3. Don’t forget to put a photo of your car on the sign
4. Maybe the price is most important – if you think so, have the price stand out in a larger font size and different color to the rest of the information
5. Use tables to display your information neatly

Things we’ve already learned to do in MS Publisher:

1. Center text
2. Change color and size
3. Wordart
4. Format the picture (wrap the text around the picture using a ‘right click’)
5. How to put a border around a picture, text box, individual cells in a table

Draw a quick sketch on a scrap piece of paper to give you an idea on how your want to set our you sign.

Example

This is the map you should have taken home with you. Next week you will be asked to label it. For example I might ask you to label Staten Island, or Long Island. Those aren’t on the map above, but we discussed where they were while in the classroom so you should be able to find their position on the map with ease.

The site we visited in Class was sheppardsoftware

Open a browser and Go to:

1. search.yahoo.com
2. google.com
3. ask.com

Search for “Indian Elephants”

Write down the top 3 results from each search engine.

It doesn’t matter what browser you use, whatever you have on your computer at home is fine.
Due Tuesday October 18th

Please try and write your report in your own words, I also know how to get to wikipedia.com and I know how to search google :)

If anyone has photos from the fun run and would like them displayed in our gallery, please e-mail them to me. I’d love to see them and so would the rest of the school. :)

Thank you