Videos - Earth Science - 12/10

Dust Bowl - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNuskt7Q_y8

Dust Bowl - Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agJMhsRrv5g

4th Typing Assignment

ADMIRAL SIR PETER PARKER’S DRAWERS

JUNE 28, 1776

CHARLESTON HARBOR, SOUTH CAROLINA

From the book, Unlikely Heroes, by Ron Carter

British Admiral Sir Peter Parker stood on the quarterdeck of his flagship, HMS Bristol, anchored in the Atlantic Ocean just outside the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.  He extended his telescope and for a long time studied the fort that stood on the great sandbar that partially blocked the harbor entrance.  With several other British warships under his command, he had been ordered to bombard Charleston into submission and to give general support to British troops that were to invade the southern colonies to put down the American rebellion.

Videos for Chapter 6 Lesson 3

Trouble in New York

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history/videos/washington-loses-new-york-but-saves-the-revolution

Washington Attacks Trenton and Princeton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3unJKrf1mk

Victory at Saratoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAFBt86L3g

https://www .youtube.com/watch?v=foUOhPkNONU

Setbacks of 1777-78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtb9W3mPVtE

War at Sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kouoyzlF1KA

Lesson Plans - October 26th - 30th

Lesson Plans for October 26th - 30th

Lesson Plans ~ Oct. 19th - 23rd

Lesson Plans ~ Oct. 19 - 23

French-Indian War Videos - 10/13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V81u1HJY6m4&index=8&list=PL7CAF64659026F401


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33NCbQzOIg&index=9&list=PL7CAF64659026F401

P.E. at the Range

We had a great time at the range a couple of weeks ago.  Even our staff and parents got behind the .22 and took a few shots.  Huge THANK YOU to the Yankton County Sharpshooters for hosting us.

Bendable Bones

 We had to borrow a kindergarten student to finish a study we were doing in 5th/6th grade science about age and how it affects the ratios of head circumference to height and leg length to height.  

The 5th/6th graders are learning about the endocrine system.

The 5th /6th graders found out how important calcium is for STRONG bones.  Chicken bones were placed in vinegar for a week and the results are seen above in the two photos.  The students also learned about the chemical reactions that took place to make the bendable bones. 

 We have been blessed with some beautiful late summer weather to keep us outdoors for p.e. class.

Mayflower Story Pt. 1

Pt. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-_JxApHzo


Pt. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDqpDYcBmkQ


Pt. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvfn3t08lEc

Periodic Table of Elements Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0m7jnyv6U

First Full Week of School ~ Full of Activities

 The 7th/8th graders had to design their own experiment to test which of 3 types of soils would hold the most water.  Each experiment was different reflecting the uniqueness of each student in the groups.  Looking forward to hearing their conclusions later this week.

 "Cool!"  "Wow!"  "Come look at this!"  These are just a few of the statements I heard on Thursday as the 5th/6th graders brought in items from home to look at under the microscopes.  We had a snake skin, leaf, dog hair, baby spider, cricket leg, and crystal.  It was fun to watch them be amazed at God's  creation at the microscopic level.

The breakfast of a teacher rushing from a 7:40 am radio interview to the classroom by 8:15 am.  Love being on the air talking about the school on KYNT 1450am here in Yankton ~ first Wednesday of each month. 

Had to share this photo because I think a batch of these will be showing up for our 3rd Annual Fall Banquet and Auction on October 24th.  My daughter Mary makes these cute pink pigs.

Forty, the Ultimate Biblical Number

Bible Trivia is held on Friday's in the 7th & 8th grade classroom for devotions.  This past week the students answered the following questions...read the following 20 questions and see how you would do?  The results for the two teams from Friday are below.  Blessings ~

1) Who was told by God that rain would fall for forty days and forty nights?
2) Who boasted that he had 5x received the punishment of forty lashes minus one?
3) Who prophesied that the pagan city Nineveh would be destroyed in forty days?
4) What wise king reigned in Israel for forty years?
5) Who was forty years old when he married Rebekah?
6) What did Noah release from the ark after forty days?
7) With whom was God grieved for forty years?
8) Who was the target of an assassination plot by forty men?
9) Who was tempted by the devil for forty days?
10) Which prophet asked, "Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
11) Who pleaded with God not to destroy Sodom for the sake of forty righteous people?
12) What man-and-woman military leadership team gave Israel forty righteous people?
13) What food did the Israelites eat for forty years?
14) Who was in the midst of a cloud for forty days?
15) What did Moses receive after being with the Lord forty days?
16) Who explored the land of Canaan for forty days?
17) Why did God make Israel wander in the wilderness for forty years?
18) What leader did forty thousand Israelites muster under?
19) Who subdued the Midianites so that Israel had forty years of peace?
20) Who bragged for forty days in front of the Israelite army?

One team got 16 right and the other 15 right...close call.  Very proud of these kids and the knowledge they have of the Bible at this middle school level.

And, We Are Off!

The 2015-16 school year has begun for MVCA.  I am blessed with 7 students for grades 7th/8th in the morning and 7 students for grades 5th/6th in the afternoon.  So excited for these two classes and the activities we are going to get into over the next nine months!

How cool is it to have a lab on the first day of school!  Well, the 5th & 6th graders had just that...making observations with quantitative and qualitative data.

Even Mrs. Nelson has a first day of school photo.  I'm shown with my son and daughter, both MVCA students.  My daughter is in my classroom and my son is right next door ~ keeping close tabs on both of them all day long.  I don't know if they like it, but mom sure does!

Lesson Plans for 8/31 - 9/4

Lesson Plans for August 31st - September 4th

Videos for US History ~ Chapter 1

Cahokia Mounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-u9FBBnhc


How Portugal Became the First Global Sea Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdO0QTmxIU


Roanoke: The Lost Colony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT0l6EO4BH0

Khan Academy - Pre Algebra Review for 8th Graders

Since your online Algebra I class does not begin until September 8th, you will review some pre-algebra concepts via Khan Academy.  You will find the link below.  Please work through all the videos and questions  in order...
1) Negative Numbers and Absolute Value
2) Factors and Multiples
3) Decimals
4) Fractions
5) Ratios, Proportions, Units, and Rates


https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra

7th Geography - May 5th

The Great Wall of China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds58ry-R61s

Turkmenistan's Quest for 'White Gold', Aral Sea, Nuclear Bomb Made Lakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx5MpoYrGd8




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N-_69cWyKo



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp_mlKJiwxg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEqYroQEtA8

Videos for 5th/6th Heritage Studies - WWII

Treaty of Versailles - WWI
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles


The Munich Agreement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKA-lhWFbsE


Neville Chamberlain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO725Hbzfls


Evacuation of Dunkirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F47B4O5mrCo


Winston Churchill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFUSLK2z6qI


Attack on Pearl Harbor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdIR7_B3JA


FDR Declares War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhtuMrMVJDk


Operation Overlord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Zz7sgOF0A

5th/6th Heritage Studies ~ Panama Canal Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOu8aqE5GN0&feature=youtu.be

7th Life Science - Human Anatomy Videos

Digestive System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zyk0H1HmjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH1UT4RR6TE
Circulatory System
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease/multimedia/circulatory-system/vid-20084745
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs7Kt_WJfJo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkxU_ZhtNiw
Respiratory System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc1YtXc_84A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXeHpYHsEpc




Excretory System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oxkf-tnMyQ








Skeletal Systemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8x6tZI2hVI
https://www.schooltube.com/video/90309397928d42458fe0/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIuOSx5ecNM






Nervous Systemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dah-4mtAnsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivk_irrH1WY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYziGwDmEvc






Endocrine Systemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmS4_7kvDM






Immune Systemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGOcOUBi6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUfR_ptnwY

Videos for Heritage Studies

Stalin Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2eX6T5Nr9I


Mussolini & Hitler Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TA1Ennsmb8

5th-6th Science - Concussion & Spinal Cord Videos

Levels of Function - Spinal Cord Injury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PseUxltIw_U


Concussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyRBlSAfb_k

7th Grade - Frog Dissection Videos

Video #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y8Ysek4Vac


Video #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOJyhk4QZvc

Heritage Studies Videos for 4/7/15

Polio #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP2iUz4JzMY


Polio #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjIgaswKh60


Polio #3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wegY13xbdi0


Polio #4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTSM7daxnxs

Lesson Plans for 3/23-3/27

Lesson Plans 3/23-3/27

Video - 7th Grade Geography - 3/25/15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNknAJHNk2I

7th Grade Insect Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQZAiuDoTg

Lesson Plans for March 16th - 20th

Lesson Plans for March 16th - 20th

Video for Science Class ~ March 16th

Immune System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NIWoeN6SPU

Videos for Heritage Studies - March 19th

1929 Stock Market Crash & The Great Depression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccNilnpvbJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6qnlFavdF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ti_wXD5ei0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7f_oYoZmJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRKGsLCowyg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IIPig-kx4M

Lesson Plans for March 2nd

Lesson Plans for March 2nd - 5th

Earthworm Dissection Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p-GAX4Xb2A


http://www.schooltube.com/video/18d6a53a03bf39345e0b/

Lesson Plans for February 23rd - February 27th

Lesson Plans For February 23rd

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans for 2/9-2/13

Videos for 7th Science

7th Grade Science - Algae Video
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/antarctica-algae-forest-vin


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10162236/Carpet-of-green-algae-covers-sea-in-China.html

Amoebas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvOz4V699gk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6rnhiMxtKU

Ciliates Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblKiwlPp3c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BzDJhsEiUc

Happenings After Christmas Break

The 7th Graders did a lab last week involving milk, pH, and a variety of other liquids.  We just wrapped up a unit on bacteria including their helpfulness and harmfulness.  Now on to protists.

We are just finishing up one of my favorite units in science, "Matter".  Love teaching about atoms, chemical reactions, and why reactions happen.  Amazing, amazing world God has created!  Absolutely enjoy showing these kids the marvelous things HE has given us to explore.  The pictures above are molecules created by the students out of toothpicks and clay.

Videos for February 2nd - 6th

5th-6th Grade Science
Static Electricity
Matter


7th Grade Science
Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates (algae)
EUGLENA
Beautiful Diatoms

Lesson Plans for the 1st Week in February

Lesson Plans for February 2nd - 6th


Just a reminder Mrs. Nelson will be gone Wednesday - Friday (February 4th - 6th).

Lesson Plans and Classroom Videos for January 26th

Lesson Plans for January 26th - 30th


7th Geography Videos
High Altitude Lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQI7NPi18Ds


Largest Salt Flat in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9nTqYlSBhk


Hotel Made of Salt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkN0olZ51OM


Inca Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knpzNN258_0


7th Science
Life in a Drop of Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cpBK2t0Yeo


Diversity of Protists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln69k7LyTsU

Lesson Plans for the Week of 1/19

Lesson Plans 1/19 - 1/23


**Mrs. Nelson will be gone on Friday.

Lesson Plans 1/12 - 1/16

Lesson Plans 1/12-1/16

7th Science Video Link for 1/12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1n0Bctodck