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WANTED
Good Thinkers, Wise Decision Makers,
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Write a Letter
Use the writing processor to write a letter.
Notice the templates available. Does "Help" offer any help?
Write Your Favorite Author
Addresses available from Kids Read
Calling all Major
League Mathletes!
 Math Baseball*
Beat any of our top 3
scores and
post your name on our Major League Scoreboard in the lab.
Watch for the
Prize Day coming sign, and always do your best.
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Enter your score beginning in
row 2. Include your runs; outs are optional.
Do NOT enter scores in the green scoreboard area.
A TOTAL of all runs and outs (up to 100) will automatically appear in the green scoreboard
area.
An AVERAGE of all runs entered will automatically appear in the Batting Average section.
To save this spreadsheet
click the Export to Excel button  in the
toolbar directly above the scoreboard.
From there you can generate
graphs to illustrate your progress,
and use the saved document from week to week, documenting your Math Baseball scores.
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How are baseballs made?
Research and report your findings in a shape book:
Ball, Bat, Glove, or Diamond
(Research Tip: See Volumes 1 and 2.)
Ever had a hot dog at a baseball game? How did it get there?
Popcorn, Peanuts, & Hot Dogs
Real World Math from the Futures Channel
Watch the video and then try the activities. Printable data sheets available.
Go in search of
green life in the
Great Plant Escape
Help Bud & Sprout solve the mysteries
of plant life.
Weather Basics from the Weather Dude
See what he has to say about clouds and precipitation.
What is precipitation anyway?
Web Weather For Kids
Weather Basics from USA Today
Click any topic.
Cat at Bat -
Rhyming Baseball
Grand Slam Math
plus more word problems with Katie
 Academic
Skill Builders
Including
Turtle Dash - Vowels
Furious Frogs - Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms
Tug Team Tractors - Addition, Multiplication,
Fractions
Spelling Bee - use the keyboard to practice
keyboarding skills
and many more
can be played as "private" teams, e.g. classroom(s), with secret password
Going Buggy*
Play "Monster Bugs", go on an Insect Bug Hunt,
or read answers to kids' questions about bugs.
Alphabet Soup
word search
Migrating
Monarch Cyberhunt*
Bird Study
Coloring Book from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Bird
Brain Challenge from All About Birds
Video and sounds
Build Your Own Sod House from Our Story in History
Notice the timeline along the top. Click Learn More at the end of the building activity to
see Darkroom Detective showing actual pictures of a sod home.
BONUS
Wow! Find this NASA site that features a picture taken in Cordell!
What is in the picture?
For an extra bonus - what day of the week was the picture taken?
How many years ago did the event occur?
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What Can I Do in Lab page |
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Science, #96 Space Place by NASA |
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Scrambled Eggs*
(Compound Words)
Right-click, Save Target As. Save, then open in Paint.
Use the Selection tool, transparent option, to match the eggs.
What are
cascarónes?
Use Webster's Online Dictionary to look it up.
Hint: click the radio button for Spanish/English.
Easter Island
What's behind the name? What unique feature is associated with the island?
Use Google Earth to take a look.
G-Map
Pedometer
Double-click to place markers along your path.
Calculate the distance between the Bricktown Ballpark and the Myriad Botanical Gardens downtown
Oklahoma City.
Hint: Visit the Gardens' web site to locate the address.
Enter that address (plus city) into the Gmap Pedometer Jump field.
Use the satellite view to locate the ballpark east of the gardens.
How many calories would you burn walking that distance?
Etiquette
What's that?
Look it up.
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Dr. Dave and Dr. Dee |
Animation
What is a thaumotrope?
Follow these instuctions
to make one.
Earth Day is April 22 |
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Penny's
New Flower Garden
Use Excel or the Create a
Graph site to create charts and graphs of Penny's data.
Butterfly
Life Cycle
Butterfly Q & A
Can you use the Paint program to create a symmetrical butterfly?
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Spreadsheets With Smarties
Use Claris Works or Microsoft Excel
to create a bar graph.
For extra fun - go to these candy sites to see how
they're made and try some games.
SKITTLES M&Ms |
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Create a pictograph to illustrate your results:
In Excel, format each bar using
Fill Effects to then select a picture.
Edit the Stack and Scale field
to show 1 unit per picture.
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Use similes to tell us about your favorite ice cream treat.
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50 State Quarters
Coloring pages and Information on
Quarters from the U.S. Mint
Oklahoma Proposed Designs
Create your own coin design
representing our school.
How about a Computer Lab Quarter!
Vote. Create a spreadsheet to report
the results. Link the pie chart to a newsletter.
Put your headset on and listen as you
read along with these and more.
These are terrific displayed on the large TV monitor or projection screen.
A Sunny Funny
Bunny Day and other stories offered by RIF
RIF
STORIES ROTATE, featuring a variety of stories
Additional online
stories:
The
Tortoise and the Hare and
other stories by Fables from Aesop
Printables and craft
ideas available from First-School.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit - two versions: text only plus
a read-aloud version in Real Player (listed as a multimedia slide show)
that automatically advances.
Discovery School's Clip Art Gallery
Locate clipart illustrating a
seed or bean. Include it in a PowerPoint presentation.
Plant a thought, reap an act.
Plant an act, reap a habit.
Plant a habit, reap a character.
Plant a character, reap a destiny.
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 *Star designates items mentioned
in Computer Lab Planner & Teacher's Guide lessons.
Update Options Here
for links that have changed
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(Power Point) View and listen to the intro
slide, followed by one example slide with a word problem. Students use the next template
slide replacing "Shhh!" with their own word problem. Save. Teacher combines
students' slides into one presentation to view and solve during the next lab session. Use
this 
to record your solutions.
