How do we express ourselves?

Using ART to express something...

We all have different ways to express ourselves, a thought, an idea, a project, a feeling, an emotion, a believe, a story, a fact, and many other subjetcs... and even who we are! Art in its different forms is an easy, special,  pacific and beautiful way to say what we want to express and show it to the people. Check this out!

Ways of Expression: 

3°A - 2014         3°B - 2014         3°C - 2014         3°D - 2014

Class Activity

Think about something you want to express and do it with Art! Find an artwork to express it... it could be a dance, an acting, a poem an artwork, a song or music to say it!

Go to your class wall and create a post using an art resource in any of its forms... don't forget to type your name and what you want to communicate through your choice ;)

3°A - 2016         3°B - 2016         3°C - 2016         3°D - 2016

Electronic Mail - Class Activities

Before you get your AL mail, try the following activities:



Videos:

Email for Kids

How to beat Cyberbullies

Ways to Stop Cyberbullying

Read and reflect about these readings:

Graphs, Stats, and Numbers          E-mail in practice           Around the World                        

Make a Map - Jr-Brainpop

Finally complete the ideas about Netiquette

Draw your favorite emoticon

Exploration - Consequences of Exploration

Columbian Exchange

When European explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the island he named San Salvador, he began a trade known as the Columbian Exchange.

What is an exchange?
How did the Columbian exchange work?
Why did this exchange occur?
How the Columbian exchange is connected to my country?
How would be our culture without this exchange?

Christopher Columbus

Columbian Exchange - Brainpop

Columbian Exchange for Kids

The Columbian Exchange Changed the World

*video time 20'

Think about the Columbian Exchange in terms of:
Plants, food, animals and deseases.

Columbian Exchange - Class Activity

1. Fill your group form with the items assigned for your inquiry.

2. Fill your INDEX CARD according to the model.

3. Try the extra informational links for your inquiry.

The Columbian Exchange Items

Overview of The Columbian Exchange

The Tomatoes

How the potato changed the world - Smithsonian

Quinine - Malaria

Pigs

Encyclopedia Britannica Kids

Softschools Plants Facts

Some Extra Facts

4. Create a Word document using the information on your index card, follow the checklist below.

Netiquette

Choose a word and find its relationship with Netiquette

What is Netiquette?

Netiquette is a set of rules for how to behave online.

How does Netiquette work? Does it have any rules?

How is Netiquette related to E-mail?

Does Netiquette work for WhatsApp? How?

How can we apply Netiquette?

What is our responsibility?

Are Netiquette and real life etiquette similar?

What is your point of view?

Netiquette - Brainpop

Are Netiquette and real life etiquette similar?

In many ways, digital etiquette and the etiquette of the real world are the same. Both emphasize good manners and treating others with courtesy and respect.

Netiquette - Class Activity

Create a document about Netiquette in MS Word.

Follow the instructions given by the teacher and complete the checklist.

Environmental Issues - Electronic Waste

Look at this picture carefully:

Look at the picture and think about all you see...

Talk to your friends about these questions:

1. What is E-waste? 

2. Why E-waste is growing up every year? 

3. Where does E-waste go? Why? 

4. How is E-waste connected to other types of pollution? 

5. What would be the solutions to stop E-waste from growing up?

6. What is your responsibility? How can you help? 

7. Explain the "life cycle" of an electronic. 

8. What is your point of view? Give your opinion =)

Find the answers to the questions by watching these videos:

ElectronicWaste For Kids

ElecronicWaste Video (youchange TM)

What doKids Think About E-waste?

Trash E: AnAnimation on E-Waste

The Storyof Electronics

AnInterview to a Ghana Child

Buy it, useit, break it, junk it, it's toxic. (Greenpeace International)

ElectronicWaste in Ghana (Greenpeace International)

ElectronicsTake Back Coaliton (How kids can help solve the ewaste problem)

Answer the questions for your group in a big paper.

Group 1: Questions 1 and 3

Group 2: Questions 2 and 5

Group 3: Questions 4 and 6

Group 4: Question 7

E-waste - Class Activity

1. Go to MS Word and create a document about E-waste.

2. Use the answers on the papers around.

3. Follow the instructions given by the teacher.

4. Make sure is your name on your work - footer.

5. Save the design (list# Lastname) in the folder E-WASTE DOC

Here, there water everywhere - Distribution and Availability of Usable Water

Distribution and Availability of 
Usable Water

The World's Water

"Water, water everywhere..." for water this phrase is really true. Earth's water is almost everywhere, above the Earth, in the air and clouds, on the Earth as rivers, oceans, ice and plants, and inside the Earth in the top few miles on the ground.

Taken from Earth.rice.edu/

Water - Class Activity

Share the Class in 4 groups.

Group 1: Groundwater

1. What is groundwater?
2. Why does the groundwater stay underground?
3. For how long groundwater have been underground?
4. How does the ground keep water in it?
5. What is an aquifer?
6. How do people and communities get water from underground?
7. How much do we depend of groundwater?

Group 2: Icecaps, Glaciers, Rivers and Lakes

1. What are glaciers? 
2. How a glacier is formed?
3. Where is the majority of glaciers located?
4. Do glaciers move?
5. What are rivers? 
6. How do rivers form?
7. Mention the 3 longest rivers in the world.
8. What are lakes?
9. How lakes are formed?
10. Mention the effects of ice age pluvial-lakes

Group 3: Distribution of the Water in the World

1. How many people in the world have no access to clean water?
2. What are the consequences of using unclean (contaminated) water?
3. What are the regions of the world that suffer lack of water supply?
4. What are the regions in the world where people consume more water?
5. How much water per day should a person really use?
6. From the world's usable water, how much goes to agricultural, industrial and domestic use?

Group 4: Distribución del agua en el Peru

1. Cómo está distribuída el agua en el Perú?
2. Cuál es la principal fuente de agua para la ciudad de Lima?
3. Cuáles son las alternativas de conseguir agua potable para las personas en Lima que no tienen acceso al agua?
4. Cuáles son las consecuencias de tomar agua contaminada?
5. Cómo la ubicación de la ciudad de Lima es un problema para abastecer de agua a sus pobladores?
6. Cual es la recomendación de la OMS sobre el uso de agua por persona?
7. Menciona las formas en las que se puede desperdiciar el agua potable.
8. Cuáles son los distritos en Lima con menos acceso al agua potable?
9. Cómo se puede motivar a las personas para un uso adecuado del agua?

All students in the group must create an individual informational MS Word document considering these:

• Answer all the questions of your group.
• Include 5 pictures (least)
• Check the settings for the text and pictures on the board.

Every student can access to these online informational resources made in 2015, by third grade students:

     Third A 2015     Third B 2015     Third C 2015     Third D 2015

Copyright - We Own Our Creative Work

We Own Our Creative Work :D

What is Copyright?

Examples of Creative Work:

How does the Copyright work?

Why Copyright was created or established?

How is Copyright connected to authors and artist?

How is Copyright connected to users?

What is our responsiblility as users of the website's information?

Copyright and Fair Use for Kids

BrainPOP Copyright

Copyright Idea's Organizer

Videos for Extra Information:

Youtube - Copyright At School

Copyright and Plagiarism for Kids

Students and Plagiarism Today

A Fair(y) Use Tale

Copyright & Creative Commons For Kids

Copyright Basics

Copyright

Trademarks

Follow these readings:

Copyright

Copyleft

Real Story about "Happy Birthday To You" 

Copyright - Class Activity

Choose your work group, it must have 5 members.

Go to your class wall and answer the question for your group - create a post for the answer.

Every member picks one personal question from this list:

   a. What is Internet Piracy?

   b. What is "fair use"?

   c. What does the little "R" means and what is the meaning of TM?
   d. What is the public domain?
   e. How do you cite a resource from Internet?

Create an extra post to answer your personal question.

Copyright 3A Wall

Copyright 3B Wall

Copyright 3C Wall

Copyright 3D Wall

Copyright - Class Activity 2

Create a presentation following the instructions:

• Slide 1: Personal information.
• Slide 2: Organizer "Copyright".
• Slide 3: Creative Works (6 examples, use pictures).
• Slide 4: 3 Questions and answers related to Copyright.

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Growing Well - Body Systems

BODY SYSTEMS

What a system is?

A system is a group of parts that work together to perform a task.

What is a body system?

A human body system is a group of organs that work together to develop a body function.
The human body has several body systems, each of them develop a specific function inside our body.

There are different body systems.

How do they work?

Body systems work through different organs.

What do body systems do?

Each system inside our body does different tasks, such as the food digestion, the breathing and to transport the oxygenated blood through our body.

How are body systems interconnected?

Body systems are connected one another through specific organs.

Body Systems - Class Activity

1. Choose an organ according to the body system assigned to your group.

2. Organize your index card with the information required.

Ex:

3. Find a picture of the organ you are working on.

4. Go to your class wall and create a post, consider organ name, function and care. Upload a picture and type your name.

Body Systems 3A

Body Systems 3B

Body Systems 3C

Body Systems 3D

Extra Information

Digestive System - Make me genius

Respiratory System - Make me genius

Circulatory System - Make me genius

The Heart

Digestive System

Respiratory System