Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Today in class we briefly discussed maps. During this discussion, we read from our Landforms book that will be accompanying us during our investigations and experiments next week. We learned that maps can have many different uses, and that there are many different forms. Two very important types are political maps, and physical maps. Political maps give information such as streets, cities, populations, city/state lines etc. Physical maps show us "physical" features of the Earth such as landforms, bodies of water etc. Click on the linked words to see examples of each. We learned that cartographers, are also known as map-makers, and that we would be "becoming" cartographers next week.

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Today we did not rotate, so I did not get to see both classes. The students took their February Reading Benchmark today, and will take their Math tomorrow.

However, in the meantime, here is a link that discusses the recent Port Arthur Oil Spill that would be good for the students to watch and discuss in regards to adapting to your environment, and coping with the changes to allow survival of a species... etc.