Verb Practice

Your exit ticket out of class is to copy 10 sentences from the games you play and circle the verb in each sentence.

1. Practice using the past progressive verb tense.

2. Play the verb game.

3. Practice find nouns (people, places, things, or ideas) and verbs (action words) with Grammar Gorilla.

4. Click on "Cosmic Quest" then "Design a Space Station".

5. Play a game on the Nobel Prize website.

Mars Simulations

The following links are ones that will help you with our design phase of building our Mars container. You can use any or all of these websites to complete your graphic organizer.

1. Mars Astronaut Base - http://www.exploremarsnow.org/ Pay special attention to the greenhouse!!!

2. Check out this crazy greenhouse design for Mars - http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/08/28/the-prince-of-mars/

3. Build Your Own Mars Base and lots of other Mars games -

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/funzone_flash.html

4. Explore Mars Through a Rover - http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/toolsforadventure/games/mars.html

5. Look at 3-D pictures of Mars without the glasses - Read the directions first!!! http://www.marsunearthed.com/CrossEyed_3D/MarsCross-Eyed_3DIndex.htm

6. Check out this article on greenhouses on Mars - http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/25feb_greenhouses.htm

Welcome to our class blog page!

Your assignment is to create a Power Point presentation that compares and contrasts Earth and Mars.

Use the T-Chart we made in class. You can also get some more information off of the links below:

Compare Mars to Earth: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/facts/index.html

Look at pictures the Rover on Mars has taken: http://www.marsquestonline.org/mer/

Learn all about NASA's mission to Mars here: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

and here http://athena.cornell.edu/kids/index.html

Figure out what those words mean with NASA's picture dictionary: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/dictionary/index.html

If you are looking for pictures that you can use in your Power Point, I've pasted some good pictures here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AToHVMbd6ghfZGQ5MjdtbjJfMmhmbmg4Z2Z0&hl=en