List 3 things that you and your family will do for the rest of the week to become a little greener.

This Sunday is Earth Day.

Answer does Earth Day really matter?  If yes or no, please explain

Explain in a paragraph why those small steps will make a difference. Please be detailed.

Also, embed a video or attach a link to a video or website or blog that you found interesting talking about Earth Day.

You can check out: http://www.earthdaytv.net/ to further help you support your answer…or http://earthday2011.org/

Have a great weekend.

Write a Blog Post or Embed a Prezi on your own bl0g on what you are going to do with your family during Earth Hour to cut down on Energy use. For example: read a book instead of playing a video game. Or, I will not watch tv, but play a board game instead or I will try to not use lights in the house. Come up with your own list.

Commenting on other student blogs:

Blogging

What makes a good comment?

Check out http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/ for assistance

Have you visited lots of other student blogs and left a quality comment?  If not, find a blog from this link and attach your address into your post, so this student could then check out the amazing work that you have done on your blog.

http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/participants-march-2012/students-march-2012/

The Spelling Debate:

We live in a world where texting, tweeting and instant messenging or writing messages on a DS is a part of who you are as learners. Is spelling no longer important in 2011? If you think this way then you probably believe that spell check, invented spelling and other ways of communicating are more important than spelling a word exactly or the way the dictionary says .  OR…. If you think that spelling tests, the dictionary and correct spelling is as important to you today as it was 100 years ago then you believe that spelling correct spelling is very important.

Please explain why you think this…back up your answer and “check for errors..ooops…did I say that?”

Here are two articles that may help you:

http://www.growingkids.co.uk/effect-text-messaging-spelling.html

or http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/12/spelling-is-it-important-to-do-it-properly.html

C U L8er

Watch this video.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/education-20.html?play
What is the main idea this video Education 2.0?

Do you agree with change or is school fine the way it is. Think about it for a moment.
100 years ago, there were one room school houses where 10 kids ranging from grade 1-8 were in one class….now there are classes that are taught virtually over the internet using web-cams.

Does our traditional view of  schools need to change and if so, how?

What are aspects of school that you like that you wouldnt like to see change?

An identity question is hard to narrow down, maybe it doesn’t need to be narrowed at all or it is simply impossible to do.
We are people that now call Canada home, even if our family or ancestors were from somewhere else. Write an acrostic poem using the words. “Canada who are we” to explore what we are all about. Use the discussions, debates and videos from today to inform your thinking.