Fourth Grade Blog

Assignment #37: Energy Usage

May 29, 2009 · No Comments

from davipt’s photostream on flickr

Think about how we use electricity. Think about all the things we have use electricity. Then do these activities:

What does it mean when we use electricity alot?

→ No CommentsCategories: assignments
Tagged: ,

Assignment #36: Changing Immigrants, Changing America

May 24, 2009 · No Comments

Immigrants today come from different places than they did in the past.

Immigration… The Changing Face of America
You will read about immigrants from the past. Pick one groups shown in pictures at the left to read about.

→ No CommentsCategories: assignments
Tagged: , , ,

Assignment #35: Electricity

May 17, 2009 · No Comments

Please do the following reading/activities until the bell rings:

→ No CommentsCategories: assignments
Tagged: ,

Assignment #32 and #33: Water, Farming, and Dust bowl

April 25, 2009 · 1 Comment


Photo source: America’s Story

We will be looking at how America has changed as more people have come west. Today, we looked at how water is being moved to farms in what was once dessert. Think about this, as you read these accounts of the results of not farming wisely in the 1930s:

We we meet the second time, please send a comment about how water is being used in our state, California, and what the risks are from this.

→ 1 CommentCategories: assignments · week6
Tagged: , , , , , ,

Assignment #31: Immigration… Where are we from?

April 18, 2009 · 24 Comments

Photo: Indian tribes, Cultures & Languages Map Collections 1500-2004 Library of Congress

All Americans who are not descended from Native Americans had ancestors that came from somewhere else in the world. Please share where some of your ancestors came from in a comment. After that, do this activities to learn more about Native Americans (who were already here), and African slaves who were forced to come here:

These will involve reading. Please pick one section (page) to read, and read it all the way through. I’ll be asking you about what you learned next time.

→ 24 CommentsCategories: assignments
Tagged: , , , ,