Learn About Georgia Swamp

Okefenokee Swamp

New Blog Addresses

Breanna's new blog

Alyson's new blog

Peanuts and Nutrition

Learn about Planters Peanuts and Nutrition of all Nuts

Citations for Maps and Info about Georgia

US map

Georgia Regions map

Georgia Information

Library Books - Georgia

Find books that are about Georgia. For example: Yumion books, The Hot Day--fiction books. Also look for non-fiction books and reference books--encyclopedias, etc.

• Georgia
  
  • Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler
  • Turn Homeward Hannalee by Patricia Beatty
  • Greg Maddux, Ace by John Torres
  • Herschel Walker by Jim Aenagh
  • Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch
  • Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
  • The PeeWee Jubilee by Judy Delton
  • Only the Names Remain: the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears by Alex W. Bealer

Learn to Use Front Page

A tutorial with audio to learn how to use Front Page.

Here's another web site for learning Front Page.

Here's a different online tutorial for learning Front Page.

Learn about Peaches, Pecans, Strawberries, Blackberries, Peanuts

A good website to learn information about peaches, pecans, and strawberries in Georgia.

The website for "Southern Grace Farms" in Berrien County tells about strawberries and blackberries, and peanuts.

Georgia Pecans

Georgia Pecans, originally uploaded by Old Shoe Woman.

These Elliott Pecan Halves were most likely grown in Berrien County since they were purchased at Register's Pecans in Ray City, Georgia.

Read information about pecans.

Search for Clip Art

There are many different kinds of clip art - plants, clothing, animals, weather, utensils, travel, buildings, communication, food, etc. Think about how you could use the clip art that you find in our web page. Download it and put it in your blog with sentences, etc.

BES Christmas Musical (on Vimeo)

BES Christmas Musical (on Vimeo), originally uploaded by Old Shoe Woman.

www.vimeo.com/clip=27740

Seven of my former third grade students participated in "This Old Gingerbread House" directed by Ms. Gwen Cosson, our school's music teacher. Two of the soloists are former third graders of mine and are on my PROMOTE GA 06 web-writing team.

http://tinkerbell101me.blogspot.com/

http://usabrat.blogspot.com/

Vocabulary Words

agriculture
harvest
horticulture
coast
plain
coastal plain
region
rural
suburban
urban

Using Flickr Toys

Create a mosaic of photographs at "Mosaic Maker."

History, Information, Games, Recipes - Crops

How did plants for crops get from the "Old World" to the "New World"?

George Washington Carver found many uses for peanuts. He is also a model for good character.

Link to a web site on Plant Nutrition with some puzzles and coloring pages.

Crossword Puzzle about Peppers.

Information about Strawberries.

Banana and Peanut Butter Sandwich Recipe

Crossword Puzzle about peaches.

Agriculture Information for Kids.

Game about Resources

All about Soil.

Using Novels about Agriculture

Compare the way cotton is today with how it was when Ms. Lenski wrote her book,
Cotton in My Sack by Lois Lenski

Compare the way strawberries are grown with how they were grown when Ms. Lenski wrote her book, Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

Amelia's Road by Linda Altman and Enrique Sanchez. Amelia's folks pick vegetables and fruit for a living and that means the family is constantly moving

The fact that the boy's father in Just Like My Dad by Tricia Gardella & Margot Apple is a rancher means that the boy's life is much different than it would have been if his father worked on Wall Street.

Here's a list of children's books about agriculture.

Facts about Crops in Georgia

Georgia Ag Facts

Agriculture in Berrien County

PROMOTE GA 06 Assignment - Make Title and Write Purpose

PROMOTE GA team members' assignment: Using the site to make COOL TEXT, make a Title for our Web page. Save it to the F drive in the PROMOTE GA 06 folder. Add the "cool title image" to your blog. Type a purpose for our web page.

TIPS:

• See the example below for an example of matching the design with word.
  
• You should look back at the proposal for ideas for the TITLE and the PURPOSE.
  
• Notice that the cool text design matches the word and photo; so, when selecting a design you should choose a design that fits the subject of the words.
• On the "Cool Text" site, please ignore all flashing advertisements--don't click on them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  

Cool Text made on this web site.

Venus, the Planet, originally uploaded by Old Shoe Woman.

PROMOTE 06 Proposal

QCC’s Grade: 3, Social Studies, History
20 Communities
Standard: Describes and classifies the physical and human characteristics of urban, rural, and suburban communities.
23 Communities
Standard: Describes the local community in regard to origin, growth and change over time
-location/geography (natural resources)
-goods and services produced
-types of jobs
Social Studies, Geography
19 Regions
Standard: Identifies physical regions of Georgia (e.g., coastal plain, piedmont, mountain).
Grade 4, Social Studies, Geography
5 Regions
Standard: Identifies and describes different types of regions found within the United States that can be categorized according to climatic, physical, political, cultural and economic.
Grade 5, Social Studies, Geography.
10 Physical Characteristics Human, Environment Interaction Region
Standard: Examines how the natural resources and physical features influence human activity in each region of the United States.

Description and Purpose

A team of third, fourth, and fifth graders will create an educational website to teach visitors about life in South Georgia, especially the area where the students live—Berrien County. Visitors to the website will learn about agriculture; i.e. growing cotton, peanuts, pecans, and peaches and learn about the uses for these products; i.e. clothing, peanut butter, pecan pies, and peach ice cream. The visitor will also learn about the physical landscape; i.e. swampy areas, cypress ponds, flat, fertile soil—a coastal plain, etc. In addition, the students will describe the climate, animals, work opportunities, and regional accents of its residents. In order to create the website students will learn to blog, search on the Internet and in books. Students will use their own words, original drawings and/or maps, original digital photographs, original audio recordings, and original video to educate visitors about their region. The site will include vocabulary words with definitions, descriptions of the various components, and interactive activities to evaluate the visitors’ knowledge gained, and a bibliography to cite sources used. The purpose of this website is to show what it is like to live in a rural community in South Georgia and compare their lives with students who live in an urban or suburban community.
Team Division: Grades 4-5
Project Category: Social Studies
Your ETTC: Valdosta
WebSite Software: FrontPage

National Council for the Social Studies
Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: II. Thematic Strands

III. People, Places, and Environments

Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments.

Technological advances connect students at all levels to the world beyond their personal locations. The study of people, places, and human-environment interactions assists learners as they create their spatial views and geographic perspectives of the world. Today's social, cultural, economic, and civic demands on individuals mean that students will need the knowledge, skills, and understanding to ask and answer questions such as: Where are things located? Why are they located where they are? What patterns are reflected in the groupings of things? What do we mean by region? How do landforms change? What implications do these changes have for people? This area of study helps learners make informed and critical decisions about the relationship between human beings and their environment. In schools, this theme typically appears in units and courses dealing with area studies and geography.

In the early grades, young learners draw upon immediate personal experiences as a basis for exploring geographic concepts and skills. They also express interest in things distant and unfamiliar and have concern for the use and abuse of the physical environment. During the middle school years, students relate their personal experiences to happenings in other environmental contexts. Appropriate experiences will encourage increasingly abstract thought as students use data and apply skills in analyzing human behavior in relation to its physical and cultural environment. Students in high school are able to apply geographic understanding across a broad range of fields, including the fine arts, sciences, and humanities. Geographic concepts become central to learners' comprehension of global connections as they expand their knowledge of diverse cultures, both historical and contemporary. The importance of core geographic themes to public policy is recognized and should be explored as students address issues of domestic and international significance.

http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands/
December 5, 2005

Promote GA 06

Look at this website. Look at EVERYTHING.
1. Do you think it is a good or bad website? Why?
2. Who do you think wrote it? What age/grade level?

PROMOTE Assessment Rubric 2005-2006 This is how we will be judged on our web site.

Find Sounds to use on the web site. Here is a site with Animal Sounds. Another page with Sounds. Maybe use mosquito, alligator, cow, deer, horse, rattlesnake, puppies (hunting dogs), bobcat, birds, buzzards, opossum, chichen snake (black and yellow),

Read about Hot Potatoes - look for "What is Hot Potatoes?"

Look at Plimoth Plantation's web site as an idea for a design for our website.

Mrs. B.'s photos of cotton

Mrs. B.'s photos of pecan trees

Mrs. B.'s photos of wildlife - Assembly at BES - animals preserved by taxidermy

Mrs. B.'s photos of old house and old barn in black and white

Mrs. B.'s photos of lizards and grasshopper

Mrs. B.'s photos of spiders

Mrs. B.'s photos of summer vegetables, especially peaches and a peach packing plant

Mrs. B.'s photos of tractor in summer with Spanish Moss on Live Oak tree and gopher tortoise

Mrs. B.'s photos of fish (bass) and toad

and another day of pond fishing

Mrs. B.'s photos of fig bush

Mrs. B.'s photos of catalpa tree - a place to keep worms for fishing

Mrs. B.'s photos of grape vine and insect galls

Mrs. B.'s photos of plants in south Georgia

Mrs. B.'s photos of fish and other wildlife at Paradise Public Fishing Park

Mrs. B.'s photos of Canadian geese and plants around a fish pond

Mrs. B.'s photos south Georgia Fish Fry

Mrs. B.'s photos of snakes from Okefeenokee Swamp

Mrs. B.'s photos of pine tree and bales of hay

Mrs. B.'s photo of sunrise over pond

Mrs. B.'s photo of old wooden farmhouse

Mrs. B.'s photo of Cypress Swamp in autumn

Mrs. B.'s photo of Gopher Tortoise

Mrs. B.'s photos of Peanut Crop

Mrs. B.'s photos of Making Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches

Mrs. B.'s photos of yellow squash

Mrs. B.'s photo of old home in New Lois














Coastal Plains Region of Georgia



Britannica Encyclopedia Online

Amber's Blog

Sage's first Blog

Sage's second Blog

Carlie's Blog

Alyson and Breanna's Blog
Information that Alyson found on peaches at Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Elementary Edition: To cite the article on peaches,
MLA style:
"peach." Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 1 Dec. 2005 .

APA style:
peach. (2005). Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia. Retrieved December 1, 2005, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition http://www.school.eb.com/elementary/article?articleId=353605

Britannica style:
"peach." Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. [Accessed December 1, 2005].



Raven's Blog

Mrs. B.'s delicious web site - a place to bookmark websites that would help with research

You can make your own delicious web site too.

Alyson's delicious web site

J. Hancock - find out about sugar cane grinding - happening now

Festivals?

Peanuts - peanut butter - boiled peanuts

Fishing

Hunting

Logging Industry

Swamps - cypress trees

Farming - Agriculture

Where does it come from?

cotton

peaches

Mr. Weaver's house at New Lois

Take pic of New Lois Community Center

Photo Story 3 - only for Windows XP

peaches, poultry and egg, vegetables, melons, onion, peanuts, pecans, cotton (2nd), rye, tomatoes, tobacco, cabbage, corn, cottonseed, cucumbers, hay, oats, sorghum grain, soybean, wheat, ornamentals, turf grass, other nursery and greenhouse commodities. Beef cattle, dairy cows, and hogs. Goat, sheep, catfish, trout, honeybees. Cooperative Extension Service. orchard, vineyard, forage, forestry Vidalia onions

Coastal Plain Experiment Station

Sand Tortoise or Gopher Turtle

Galileo - Georgia's Virtual Library website - get password from teacher

Galileo for Kids - do research on the web - get password from teacher

Podcast - Jim Talks about Fishing

Applying Knowledge from GaETC: Podcasting

I spent half of this past week at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference in Atlanta in the Georgia International Conference Center. It was a very beneficial conference because I learned valuable information about blogging, podcasting, and RSS and Atom feeds. In addition, I learned useful ways to use Kidspiration, Excel, and PowerPoint with my students. Another resource I learned about was "Streaming Video." These files are from Discovery Education and are FREE to Georgia teachers since the legislature is funding it now through Georgia Public Broadcasting and, hopefully, will continue to fund it in the future. I received the code for my school so that we can access these videos and other valuable educational resources.
The only way to prove that I’ve learned something is to use it. First I’m using my iPAQ to record audio files. These are .wav files. I downloaded Audacity to convert the files to mp3 files. Next I’ll upload the mp3 file, create a link on my blog to the podcast audio file. As it turns out, the only place I know about to upload my audio is on blogger; so, I joined audiobloggers, but I had to place a telephone call and play the file that I'd spent several hours converting from a .wav file to an mp3 file. Oh well, this is ABOUT learning and applying knowledge and skills. Then I’ll subscribe to an RSS feed so that I’ll be alerted when there is an update to this podcast. Finally, I’ll share what I’ve learned with my colleagues and friends.
BTW: It was very 'kewl' to open up my blog and learn that it is now possible to type the new blog in Word and publish it from Word. More and more my computer is becoming what I'd been told years ago: the local computer would be tied directly to the resources on the Internet. It's happened in many ways, and I love it.

To hear the "podcast" (an audio file) or "radio on demand" - click here or click on "upload the mp3 file" above.

Video of Port St Joe

View this clip on Vimeo