Week 5 – Letters Home from Yosemite

Videos:

To watch videos, click on the links below.  Then logon into Discovery Education using: 

username: nasdgrade4

password: student

The Eruption of Mt. Saint Helens (2 min)

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=3C184A91-EB7E-420F-8269-A5EEAD98007C

Volcanoes: Mountains of Fire (27 min)

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=8565EFBE-6F25-42BF-A60C-0BEA7F34ADCA

National Geographic: Yosemite National Park (3 min)

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/parks-and-nature-places/yosemite-overview.html

National Geographic: Yosemite - The Wild Side (3 min)

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/nat-geo-wild/wild-all-videos/ngc-yosemite.html

National Geographic: Giant Sequoias Need Fire (3 min)

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/parks-and-nature-places/yosemite-sequoias-fire.html

National Geographic: Lightning Peril on Yosemite's Half Dome (3 min)

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/parks-and-nature-places/yosemite-half-dome-lightning.html

National Geographic: Secret Yosemite (45 min)

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/national-geographic-channel/all-videos/av-7309-7516/ngc-secret-yosemite.html

Build Background

Look at the pictures below to determine the many different geographic feature and wildlife found in Yosemite National Park.

Vocabulary

• Is a glacier hot or cold?  Is it large or small?  Does it move quickly or slowly?

• How do you feel when you see an impressive sight in nature?

• In what kind of things does a naturalist study?

• If you want to preserve a forest, are you helping it or hurting it?  Explain.

• What are the names of some animal species?

• How are slopes different from mountain peaks?

• What sorts of things would you find in a wilderness?
• Is there more or less oxygen at a high altitude?

• What makes a butte rock formation?

• Why is it important not to pollute water reserviors?

Vocabulary Strategy - Suffixes (-ive, -ist)

• -ive means "tending or inclined to ____"

     Example:  active - tending to act

                     passive - tending to pass

                     impressive - tending to impress

• - ist means "one who is an expert or studies ____"

     Example:  biologist - an expert in biology

                     naturalist - studies the natural world

                     dentist - an expert in dentistry

Fact & Opinion

• Fact - can be proved true or false

• Opinion - a person's beliefs, feelings, or way of thinking that can't be proved true or false

Click on the link below to play a jeopardy review game for fact & opinion and other review activities.

http://www.sikeston.k12.mo.us/mapattack/6th/cz04.ppt

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/biog/images/factopinion.ppt

Main Idea

• the most important thing the author is trying to say
• What is the point?
• supported by details
• usually the 1st or last sentence in a paragraph

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html

Main Idea Song - Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W24RyhtX1qA

Yellowstone National Park Videos

Click the link below to view videos about Yellowstone National Park from the Montana State Travel website.