Mrs. Fine's Fourth Grade GATE

Adapted from http://www.mcpasd.k12.wi.us/kms/Bookmarks/cyberhunt/Shakespeare/Shakespeare.html

1. When was Shakespeare’s born?

2. Where did he live?

3. How many brothers and sisters did he have? List them.

4.  Who were his parents?

5.  What did his father do for a living?

6.  Was Shakespeare married? If so, to whom?

7.  Did Shakespeare have any children? How many?

8.  What type of plays did Shakespeare write?

9.   How many plays did he write?

10. List five plays Shakespeare wrote.

11. When was the famous Globe Theater built, and by whom?

12.  What happened to destroy the Globe Theater on June 29, 1613?

13. Beside plays, what other types of writing did he do?

14. What is a sonnet?

15. When did Shakespeare die?

Photo from http://phillipmartin.com

1.  Which whale has one long tusk?

2.  What clings to the back of the gray whale?

3.  Which whale is called “wolf of the sea?”

4.  How did the right whale get its name?

5.  Which whale makes bubble nets to catch its food?

6.  What is a baleen whale?

7.  What is the real name of the killer whale?

8.  Why do whales use echolocation?

9.  Listen to whales here. What do they remind you of?

Play this game about keeping our oceans clean. AND

this game about whale migration.

1. Why is the bald eagle called the bald eagle?

http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/bald_eagle.html

2. What is the scientific name of the bald eagle?

http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/

3. Where can you find bald eagles?

http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/baldeagle.html

4. Describe the American bald eagle.

http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle8.html

5. When was the bald eagle declared the national emblem for the United States?

http://www.eagles.org/moreabout.html

6. Why was the bald eagle threatened with extinction?

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Bald_Eagle.html

7. What do bald eagles eat?

http://www.enature.com/flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=BD0103

8. What is the habitat for bald eagles?

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/info/Eagle.shtml

9. Why were bald eagles reclassified from endangered to threatened?

http://www.nwf.org/baldeagle/

10. What can you do to help conserve rare, threatened, and endangered species and their habitats? Read the entire article and tell me your favorite.

http://www.endangeredspecie.com/Ways_To_Help.htm

Adapted from Scholastic
Directions: Put on your night-vision goggles and let’s go bat-watching! Expand your knowledge of these nocturnal flyers by visiting these fascinating bat sites. Write your answers in your notebook. Be sure to title the page.

1. Bats are mammals. What can they do that no other mammals can do?
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/bats.htm

2. Bats can barely see, so how do they find their way around?
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/chiroptera.html

3. What is the smallest bat in the world? How light is it?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/bat/

4. Wrinkled-lipped bats often roost together in caves. How many bats might be in one cave together?
http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/caught/conservation/thailand.html

5. What are three things that different kinds of bats eat?   http://www.batdetective.com/batseat.htm

6. Megabats are large, fruit-eating bats that live in tropical rain forests. What are they sometimes called?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_bat

7. Where did the Spotted Bat get its name?
http://www.northwestwildlife.com/articles/Spotted_Bat.pdf

8. What are two ways that bats are helpful to humans?   http://www.bats4kids.org/help.htm

When you have completed this cyberhunt, go HERE to play a game about echolocation.

1.  What is the  way to achieve immortality  by preserving the body of a person once they had died, and wrap them up in linen bandages?

2.  What is  used to pull the brain out of the head through your nose?   

3.  What can be made out of onions?

4.  What is used to glue the bandages together?

5.  The nest of coffins that you will finally be placed in your tomb and inside a large stone coffin is called what?

6.  Where is the mummy buried?

7.  What are some things that the tomb raiders are after?

When you have completed this cyberhunt, click on this to go to an Ancient Egyptian Game.

1.  What is kohl?

 2.  What did the ancient Egyptians call Scarab beetles?

3.  Who was the last great pharaoh of Egypt?

4.  What was the name of Egypt’s female king?

5.  Were the ancient Egyptians monotheistic or polytheistic?

6.  What kind of writing did the ancient Egyptians use?

7.  Where is the Great Pyramid of Egypt located?

8.  How many years did it take to build the Great Pyramid of Giza?

9.  Who was the archaeologist that uncovered the tomb of King Tut? 

10.  What is the name of the longest river in the world?

First thing to do this morning is go out to our blog and respond to the next question on our book – Chasing Vermeer.

Click here.

gods and goddess definition

Click here to play rome-and-greek-gods-and-goddesses

 We will be studying Greek Mythodology these next few weeks and the students will want to learn about Medusa.  Well, this week we will learn about her.  How did she come about to be such a scary monster?  What happened to her when she was slain?  Ever heard of Pegasus?  These questions will be researched this week. 

Beside learning about Medusa, we will learn about the myth of Echo and Narcissus through readers theater.  What moral does this story tell us today?

Don’t forget our book discussion and blog on Chasing Vermeer.  It is really getting good.   When we were through with our blog, we went to http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/interactive/arcade.htm and then http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/preload.htm

The opening of school is here.  This summer workers have been working at EPIC to give it a much needed facelift.  Along with a new paint job, we have new flooring and lighting.

This summer I completed the XO laptop summer camp.  Along with several teachers and students, we learned a computer programming language called Scratch.  I can’t wait to teach the students how to create their own programs and games.  Please be sure to have your XO’s ready and repaired if needed.  Go to our page on this site for Tech this Week.

Our 4th grade GATE supply list is posted under pages.

Another exciting project planned is our garden.  We have volunteers coming to teach us about gardening and plants.

We will start classes the week of August 24.  Looking forward to a great year!!!!

  1.  Where is the hottest place on Earth?  In 1922, it hit the highest temperature recorded anywhere on earth, ever. How hot was it?

2.            Where is the coldest place on Earth?  What was it coldest temperature and when?

3.    Where is the driest place on Earth?

4.    What is the highest mountain in the world and how high is it? Who were the first two brave people to reach it’s summit?

5.    Where is the wettest place on Earth? What is the average amount of rain?

6.    What is the deepest point on Earth?  How deep is it?

7.    What is the largest country in the world?  

8.    What is the longest river in the world?  What is the second longest in the world?

9.    What is the largest canyon?

10. What is the highest waterfall in the world?

11. Which of Earth’s ocean is the largest?

12. What is the largest animal on earth?

13. What is the largest lake in the world?

14. What is the world’s deepest lake?

15. What is the world’s largest island?

16. What is the largest lake in North America?

17. What is the highest, driest, and coldest continent on Earth?

This week, try these website during computer lab time (or at home). Be sure to read the instructions to get the most out of your activity.

Cyberchase Logic Zoo

San Diego Zoo  Dealing with Endangered Species

Kid’s Planet

Animals of the World

Build and Online Habitat

Arctic Adventure

Tundra

Rainforest at Night

Dive into a Barrier Reef

Great website I found for us to try.

 This week we will continue studying success stories from the Endangered Species Act. This week’s animal is the American alligator. Answer these questions in your notebook. Don’t forget to title the page of your cyberhunt.

1. What is the origin of the word alligator?

2. How long can an American alligator grow?

3. Where do American alligators live?

4. Why did the American alligator almost become extinct?

5. What happened to keep the American alligators from becoming extinct?

6. What is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?

7. Why should we save alligators from extinction?

I hope you are having a great spring break.  I came across this fun website while searching for new things for us to do.  Enjoy!

Build Yourself Wild