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Grade 4 Vocab
What is technology vocabulary. Unit 1

• Technology
• Work
• Tool
• Compute
• Calculate
• Abacus
• Technique
• User
• Invent
• Device

Rain Forests and Global Warming

http://www.scholastic.com/downtoearth/

http://www.usmayors.org/

Go to FACTS ON FILE WORLD ATLASLook UP RAIN FORESTS

Native American Indian Project

• Native Links

• Browse by Geographic Location or American Indian Tribe

CELLS

Cells Alive

Fossil Project

4A Planet Sites

Kids Astronomy

From Mercury to Pluto

The Planets

Assignments Instructions

GO TO THIS SITE:

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=24&cid=1

Find country. Choose one of the website links for your country. Click on it. There will be a list of several websites made by students about your country. Click on one of those links. There will first be a page that tells you who made the site. On that page there is a link to the site. Go to the site. Find something cool to print out.

GO TO THIS FIRST SITE (THE OLYMPICS MUSEUM SITE) AND JUDGE THAT ONE.  WE ARE GOING TO JUDGE THE COUNTRY SITES IN SCHOOL! OR LATER FOR  HOMEWORK!  

You Be the Judge--In this assignment you get to be the Olympic Judge. Evaluate this site using the worksheet that I gave you for homework.   Remember to write a separate page with your personal reaction to the site. 

Go to this site

http://www.olympic.org/uk/passion/museum/home_uk.asp

If you lost your worksheet or left it in school, you can find a copy here

http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/act_sheets/CY00_Stdnt_G45_L16.pdf

You must have Adobe Acrobat reader to view this page.  Get it here.

Below sites are for IN-CLASS work!

Pseudo code Assignment Instructions 

"WRITE A NAME PROGRAM"

1. Choose the name of a famous person.

2. Try to write clear directions for a classmate to write that name.

3. No Letters allowed in your directions

Example: CESAR

1. Draw a half circle going to the left.

2. Leave 1/4 inch space next to the half circle, then draw a straight line from North to South or (Top to Bottom) , making it the same size as the half circle.

3. From the East or (Right) of this line, at top, draw another line going from West to East or (Left to Right). Make this line 1 inch long

4. Draw another 1 inch line exactly as before this time from the bottom of the North-South line.

5.Draw still another line, between the West-East (Left-Right) lines. This time make it 1/2 inch long.

6. Leave 1/4 inch space then draw a snake without a head north to south facing east.

7. Leave 1/4 inch space next to the North-South (Top Bottom) snake, then draw a Tee-pee with a line going across the center.

8. Leave 1/4 inch space, then draw another North-South (Top-Bottom) line.

9. Draw a half circle, this time going to the right, to connect to the top and the middle of this line.

10. From the middle of this line draw another line at an angle going from north to southeast.

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If . . .Then . . Else Statements = Thinking  (Cause & Effect) & Flow Charting

A computer can't think!  So a person who wants a computer to perform a task has to remember that a computer can only do what it is told.  

When we tried out our name programs we found out that it's not so easy not to think while doing a task, and that it's not so easy to follow instructions when you can't think!  

This is the reason that we must take our name programs and put them into a thing called a flow chart. We need the computer to have all of the instructions that it needs to complete the task.  Some tasks are simple, and some are complicated.  Let's use the example that we used in class.  Getting a cup of Hot Chocolate. 

We can write out the instructions in a list.

1. Pour the hot choc.

2. Drink the hot choc.

That would be a simple task.. .but there are some causes and effects based of what we call criteria and priority that make this problem a bit more complicated.  What IF? Yes we all know that hot choc. can be HOT!  Sometime too hot to drink!  We need to tell the computer what to do IF the Hot Choc. is too hot. This is simply to hard to do in a numbered list.  We must use a Flow Chart to help us see what to tell the computer to do next.  

A Flow Chart is a series of Boxes arrows and circles that tell gives us a way to see the cause and effect of the task using different criteria  to lead the way!