World Map ePals

http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/asia.html

http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/europe.html

http://www.infoplease.com/us-states/iowa.html

American Revolution Study Guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12iZppf2zZBQY3_J3BzxFRi9OXBGXrQXsntdueWyDzHo/edit?usp=sharing

Virtual Tour

http://www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas/#

Welcome to ePals

Dear 4-3 Parents,

This week we will be starting a month long ePal project with some classrooms around the world.  We will be sharing learning experiences and content with several other classrooms.  Two from India, one from Canada and three classrooms here in the U.S.  One from each of the following states; California, Florida, and New Jersey.  We are excited to learn from one another in this online learning community. This will allow us to work together in a safe format where we are sharing our information with only the students and teachers in these classrooms.  Interactions between classrooms will be monitored by the ePal instructor who is working with our groups.  

I have asked your son or daughter to do all of his/her work with ePals here at school, but you are more than welcome to have him/her show you what we are doing at home. 

Mrs. Hill

Science

http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

Introducing Ginger Genie! (+playlist)

RISE: Jessica Jerome, a film by Liberty Mutual

Augmented Reality

Spacecraft 3D
App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spacecraft-3d/id541089908?mt=8
Marker
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/apps/images/3dtarget.pdf

http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/ar/solar.html?c_id=direct
http://www.getolympus.com/pen/pen3d_start.asp
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/north_pavilion/ar/index.html
http://www.qrstuff.com/

Animated Hero Classics President Abraham Lincoln

Potential and Kinetic Energy

Potential Energy: Wile E Coyote & Roadrunner

http://youtu.be/t2vnyfNK870
http://youtu.be/e8dgPClU57o

Physics for Kids

Superiority of Pendulum Drive - Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy

Motion and Design (Energy)

Motion and Design

http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/resources/rubber_band_car.html

Rubber Band Energy
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/ApMech_p017.shtml

http://www.ncsu.edu/kenanfellows/kfp-cp-sites/motion-design/index-61222.php.html

http://www.brightstorm.com/science/physics/heat-and-thermodynamics/kinetic-and-potential-energy-of-atoms/

Kinetic and Potential Energy
Energy is defined as the ability to do work. When the work is actually being done, we term
the energy “kinetic.” When the work is waiting to be done, or when there is the potential
for work to be performed, we term the energy “potential.” Kinetic energy is the energy of
motion, potential energy comes from work having been done on an object which was then
stored. For example, a rubber band zinged from your finger has kinetic energy. While it was
stretched, waiting for you to release it, it had potential energy. The rubber band was stationary,
but work had been done on it to move it to its present position.

Now, we know that the farther we pull back a rubber band, the faster and farther it will
fly. Consider this situation in terms of potential and kinetic energy: When I pull back the
rubber band to a great distance, I am doing more work to it than if I pulled it back only
a small distance. More work means more energy is provided to and stored by the rubber
band. When I release the rubber band, it has more energy to move. More energy means
more work can be done by the rubber band. There is a connectedness, then, between
potential and kinetic energy for matter.

For moving objects, we can easily calculate kinetic energy using the formula:
KE = (mass x velocity2)/2 or 1/2 mv2
Although mass and velocity both have great effects on kinetic energy, it is velocity, more
significantly, that determines kinetic energy.

Motion and Design- Bill Nye

• http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=7916  
• http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Forces_and_Motion/Momentum/
• http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Physics/ 

Engineering for 4th Graders

http://www.engineeringinteract.org/interact.htm

Revolutionary War

http://photopeach.com/album/gygw1t

Geometry

Geometry Terms
http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/games/geopicture
Acute Obtuse Right Angles
http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=200
Congruent Similar
http://www.fuelthebrain.com/Game/play.php?ID=131
Cordinates
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BillyBug2/bug2.html
Area Perimeter
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ShapeExplorer/
Surface Area
http://www.brainingcamp.com/resources/math/surface-area/interactive.php
Names of Solid Figures
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/solid_figure_factory/
Symmetry
http://www.learningtoday.com/Player/swf/Geometry_Symmetry_L1_V1_t3a.swf
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr3/21.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr4/19.html
Volume
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr5/28.html
Angles
http://www.mathplayground.com/alienangles.html

Trisha running wildcat vermilion river, illinois

Ice Climber at Starved Rock State Park

On My Honor

Welcome to Mrs. Hill's Blog: On My Honor- Starved Rock State Park: http://www.starvedrocklodge.com/index.cfm?pageID=443&criteria=PHOTOS /http://www.starvedrockstatepark.org/

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever