Research tag

Research Tag

Choose a country and write a question about it.  For example what foods do they eat in Romania?

Topic:

China

Big idea:

Animals

Now go and find a book that you think could answer the question and fill out this information.

Book title:

Travel through china:Come on a journey of discovery

Author/s:

Lynn Huggins-Copper

Publisher:

Steve Evans

Date of publication:

2007

Keywords found: Animals Habitats, Nature

Page #’s: 25, 26, 27, 28

Key pictures found: Red panda, leopard, monkey, panda, tiger

Page #’s: 25, 26, 27

Today at the Library we were looking at research about a topic/country and a big idea/Animals.

Line Vocabulary

Today for geometry we were learning about our line vocabulary

Simple machines: Load and Effort

Today I worked with Mia to complete this slideshow.  Our topic for the term was simple machines, in this slideshow you will see that the effort is how much energy you put into doing something and load is something that is weighing you down.

Matching parts of a book

Index = Alphabetical list of all the topics in a book with the page number where the information can be found.

end papers= The first and last pages of a book.

Illustrator = The person who prepared or drew the pictures.

Introduction = Information about the book found at the beginning of a book.

dedication = Words about a special person found at the front of a book.

Author = The person who wrote the book.

Glossary =  List of special words used in the book with their correct meanings.

Spine = The flat narrow outside strip of the book.

Publisher = The company who made the book.

Cover = The outside of the book.

Spine label = The label which identifies the book on the shelf.

Bibliography = A list of more books on the same subject.

Contents = A list of the titles of the chapters.


Today for library skills we had to find out what words were the meaning of the definition.

Geometry Vocabulary

Geometry Vocabulary

Word	Diagram	Meaning	Picture
Right angle		An right angle is 90 degrees.
Scalene		Having sides and angles that are not all the same length.
Equilateral		All the sides and angles are the same length .
Isosceles		An Isosceles triangle has two sides and angles that are the same.
Parallel lines		Parallel lines are lines that never cross into one another.
Perpendicular lines		Perpendicular lines are lines that cross over one another.
Diameter		A straight line passing from side to side through the center of a body or figure, especially a circle or sphere.
Radius		The distance from the center to the edge of a circle.

Differences from normal text from Graphic text

Today I made this ven diagram. This diagram shows the difference and the similarity of normal text and graphic text.