Touring Canada

We had a lot of success with our #postcardproject and learned about a lot of different communities in Canada. Now we are using that learning along with Tellagami to create a virtual tour of Canada! Each student will create a gami with 30 seconds worth of the information they got on their postcard. The full details of each location can also be seen on our Google Map of Canada.

Here are some of our gamis!

Baby Eagles

Mrs. Malkoske's class left us a comment with questions on our Growth and Changes blog post. One question was "when do you think the eagles will leave their nest?" We answered their question but we were really just guessing an answer. Some of us thought they would stay for 1 or 2 more weeks and some of us thought they would stay for 1 or 2 more months. We started talking about how scientists make educated guesses and decided that we should look further into this to make a more educated guess. Some suggestions from our class were to:

• "google it"
• "bing it"
• look it up on wikipedia
• look in a book
• ask somebody

We looked it up on google and found that the bald eagle will stay in it's nest for 11 or 12 weeks before it can fly away. We also found out that the eagle is in it's egg for 35 days before it hatches. Since we don't know when these eagles were born we don't know exactly when they will leave the nest. We have been watching them for 2 weeks so at the most they will be in the nest for another 8 - 10 weeks.
Phewf, thanks for the question Mrs. Malkoske's Class, you really got us thinking after lunch! We are also looking forward to following the Peregrine Falcons who live in a nest at a hotel in Winnipeg. This webcam is set to start streaming tomorrow at http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/falcon/.

This is a map with the locations of the animal cams we are following.

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-Mrs. Dent Scarcello's Class :)

Postcard project.

We are doing a postcard project about canada. We asked the class if they could ask people they know in canada to send our class a postcard to our class. We want to know some information about canada. When we get a postcard:

• Miss dent gets it in the mail.
• Then we read it to the class.
• Then we mark it down on the map.
• Then we write the informaion down on a piece of paper.
• Then we talk about it.
• Then we read more.
• We add it to the google map on our wiki.
• Then we do it over and over again everytime we get a postcard.

Hopefully we get a lot of postcards.
-Taylor P and Madison

Click on the blue markers to see the facts we learned about each location.

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