Monday, April 11, 2016

Scratch projects

Scratch.mit.edu 
Basic Programming



https://scratch.mit.edu

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/104380074/
Animated Cat
Press Space after the cat is done dancing to make him go back to the dance floor.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/99142778/
Grand X
Space Shooter

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

US History - The Thirteen Colonies

Use Google Docs for the following:

1.- Identify reasons for European exploration and colonization of North America.
(why did Europeans had to explore and colonize North America?)
Provide a numbered list of reasons and include a gallery of images.


2.- Why did the 13 English colonies were established?
These reasons could be political, economical, religious and social.


3.- What is the colonial period?


4.- Who were the Paleo-Indians?


5.- What is the Mayflower compact?


6.- Find information and facts about Jamestown. Create a list.

7.- Where did Pilgrims and Puritans settled?

8.- Where did the Quakers settled?

9.- Compare and contrast Puritans, Pilgrims and Quakers. 
How are they alike? 
How are they different? 
You can create a chart and use illustrations.


10.- What do we know about the "Bread colonies"?


Vocabulary:
Migration
Hunter-gatherers
Ice age
Culture
Jamestown
Quaker
Pilgrim
Puritans

Thirteen Colonies Infographic
Use the information about the thirteen colonies to create an infographic.

What is an infographic anyway?
check this link to learn and get some inspiration for your infographic:
http://www.slideshare.net/BernardMarr/what-is-an-infographic

You can use one or some of these services to create yours:

http://www.easel.ly/
You can create your infographic here.

http://www.wordle.net/
Generate word clouds that you can then incorporate into your info graphic.

http://www.statsilk.com/
Create amazing and great looking visualizations.

http://creately.com/
a great tool for creating diagrams and flow charts.










Tuesday, April 5, 2016



Computer Class: 
Try these online resources.

http://www.beepbox.co/
BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing chiptune melodies.

http://voxelbuilder.com/
Tools for creating voxel structures.

http://kyucon.com/qblock/
Qblock

Puzzle Maker
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/AdvMazeSetupForm.asp?campaign=flyout_teachers_puzzle_maze

http://www.mineconics.net/
Online Minecraft circle and elipse generator

http://oranj.io/blog/VoxelSphereGenerator
Use this tool to make spheres for Minecraft and the like.

http://www.plotz.co.uk/
FREE HTML5 Modeller for Minecraft. Generate Spheres, Ellipsoids, Torus
 and more in your web browser.