The Flooded City Extensions

 This week, we're reading an expository text with a problem/solution text structure. Extend your learning with these activities!

What Makes the Tides?: 

The tides make Venice's flooding worse. What causes the tides? Learn more at this SciJinks website. Watch a video, view an animation, and learn what tides look like.

Ancient Rome Interactive: 

After the fall of Rome, early Venetians found safety in the lagoons. What was Rome like? View Roman artifacts and learn more about this civilization at this website.

Building Big: Bridges

The city of Venice has many different bridges. In this activity, you get to be an engineer and try to build bridges for a city.

The Day the Dam Broke Extensions

 This week, we are reading about the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Visit these extensions to learn more!

Johnstown Flood Museum: Take a look at the exhibits and artifacts of the museum made to commemorate the flood.

Dam Safety: How can people build dams that are safe? Check out this site for more information.

Building Big: Dam Challenge: At this site, you get to be a consulting engineer! Read about different dams, and then decide what to do to fix them.

Gimkit and Quizlet links: These are posted on Google Classroom this week.

Volcano Warning: Extensions

 This week, we'll be reading about volcanic eruptions! Extend your learning with these activities:

News article about the White Island volcano: Read this news article about the 2019 eruption in New Zealand.

Volcano Hazards Interactive Map: Click around on this map to see where volcanoes are active right now.

Brain Pop Volcano Game: Learn more about the history of volcanoes with this game.

Volcano Quiz Whiz: How much do you know about volcanoes?

Gimkit

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Quizlet: Plural nouns practice

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Week of September September 27-October 4: Extensions

 This week, our Shared Text profiles cave explorer and microbiologist Hazel Barton. Learn more about microbiology and biology careers with these extensions!

Microbiology for Kids: This page, from the American Museum of Natural History, explores the topic of microbiology. Play a game about bacteria in the cafeteria, learn about your microbiome, and more!

Echo Explorers: Bats use echolocation to find their way in dark places. Rescue some bats (kind of) and try your hand at echolocation with this Cyberchase game.

Karst Topography and Mammoth Cave: Watch a video about Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and learn about karst topography.

The Plural Girls: Practice identifying singular and plural nouns with this game. (Remember, don't click on the ads!)

Week of September 20-27: Shared Text Extensions

 This week, we're reading about cave zones! Expand your learning with the activities below.

Virtual Tour: Carlsbad Caverns

Take a virtual tour of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico at this site.

Cave Ecology website

Learn more about caves with the videos on this site.

Cave Species Interactive

Click "Launch" to start the activity.

Sortify: Nouns

Classify nouns with this BrainPop game.

Shared Text Extensions: Week of September 13-20

 This week, we are learning about extremophiles! Extend your learning with these activities.

Membean: -man

Membean is a website that teaches you about word roots. Visit this website and listen to the podcast.

Membean: -phil

Learn about the root -phil by listening to the podcast and reading the words with this root.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: Dive and Discover!

Learn more about hydrothermal vents at this website.

NASA Our World

Watch the video to learn more about extremophiles!

Capitalization and Punctuation Game

Practice capitalization and punctuation with this game.

Spelling and Vocabulary: Unit 1 Week 2

Here are links for this week's words!

Tier 1 Spelling

Tier 2 Spelling 

Vocabulary