Birch Bark Canoe Assignment

Birch Bark Canoe

Go to the following website: http://jumaka.com/birchbarkcanoe/buildingpage/building.htm .

I want you to summarize in point form ( in Microsoft Word) and in order the steps involved in making a birch bark canoe. Make sure you give detailed information and that the steps involved are easy to follow.

Another good site to look at is: http://www.northwestjournal.ca/VIII4.htm.

When you are finished summarizing the steps, I would like you to answer the following questions:

1. Did you learn anything about making birch bark canoes that surprised you?
2. What was it and why did it surprise you?

Save your work in your folder.

Math Focus Grade 6 website

Find all sorts of review activities on this link:

http://www.nelson.com/mathfocus/grade6/student/tryout.html

Tree Assignment

Follow the following instructions:

Go to the following webquest and examine it carefully, then alone or with a partner complete the webquest.

http://www.blackgold.ab.ca/ict/Divison2/Forestry/index.htm

uses of trees http://www.domtar.com/arbre/english/les_utilisations_des_arbres/index.asp
http://www.farcourt.co.uk/ge/usesfortrees.htm

Importance of trees:

http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_forests/importance/

http://www.earthconservation.net/importance-of-forests.html

http://greenpack.rec.org/forestry/importance_of_forests/index.shtml


Your presentation could be done in powerpoint but may also be done in any other technology that could be presented at school.

Enjoy! Good luck

First Computer Lab Activity

Today you are to go onto the computer and explore as many possible ways that you can enhance an ordinary document and make it look really impressive. Among the simpler things you could do would be to change the font, colour, and size of the document. Explore more complex ideas such as changing the background and other effects or styles that you may come across as you complete this activity. There are three steps to follow in this activity:

1. Copy the following into a new word document:

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. The mention of Marley’s funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say Saint Paul’s Churchyard for instance -- literally to astonish his son’s weak mind.

2. Make as many changes to the above text as you can to change its appearance.

3. Save everything into a folder that you will be shown in the lab.

Enjoy!!