• BTS Top 10 Best Songs
  • How would you describe the style of the video?
  • What is the story of the song?
  • What is the story of the video?
  • How do the story of the song and the video relate?

2018 Play Week

sTEM Links

Monday, May 14

• Newsela (Read any 2 of your choice and take the quiz)
  • Dream Job: Environmental Engineer
  • Geography of California
  • Dream Job: Wildlife Biologist
  • The Ohlones and Coast Miwoks of California
• IXL (Language Arts if it's your Humanities Day, Math if it's your STEM Day)

Roenne's plastic usage survey

• Take the survey!

Ecofootprint Calculator

• Class Spreadsheet

links

1. (Article) Tracking your ecological footprint
2. Footprint Calculator (from Islandwood)
3. Footprint Calculator (from Global Footprint Tracker – use your sf-nomadians email)
4. (Article) How many Earth's do we need?

You have the option to work on any of the items below.

ixl

• Continue working on your decimal skills, ask Lisa if you're not sure what skill to work on!

pi day links

• What is π?
• One Million Digits of Pi
• The Beauty of Pi (Artistic representations of π)
• Pi Transformed Visually
• Pi as music (the digits of pi played as a scale)
• Lose Yourself in the Digits (Pi Rap)
• Vi Hart's 2018 Anti-Pi Video
• Tau manifesto (some people think π is wrong!)
• A Song About a Circle Constant (Vi Hart also π is wrong!)
• Anti-Pi Rant (Vi Hart has LOTS of opinions about π)
• Pi, Anyone? The secret to memorizing the tens of thousands of digits
• Find your fave number in π (search your address or birthday – see if it appears!)

newsela

• Evidence shows that microplastics are harmful to ocean zooplankton
• If you drop plastic in the ocean, where does it end up?

Water Grows Life – Week of March 4

Photosynthesis

• (Newsela) Learn the Photosynthesis Formula
• (Ted Ed) The Simple Story of Photosynthesis and Food
• (Crash Course Kids) Who Needs Dirt?

Experiment design

• Becoming a Plant: Lab Template
  • Create a copy, rename with your name(s), and share with lisa@sf-nomad.com

Ocean Life – Week of February 27

Newsela

• Bodies of Water: Oceans
• Big questions: Do sharks sneeze?
• Drop in krill threatens Antarctic penguins and seals
• Found: A barnacle-covered basketball lost at sea

tides – Week of February 20

Newsela

• What causes tides in the ocean?
• Explainer: How do you measure a sea's level anyway?

Brainstuff

• How do tides work?

Once you've read both articles and watched the video fill out your Oceans & Tides Reflection sheet.

Maps – Week of February 5th

Newsela

• Reading Maps & Globes
• What are Latitude & Longitude?

Map Resources

• Map Fight
• Map Projections
• The True Size

optional articles

• "This interactive map shows how 'wrong' other maps are"
•  "The Peters Projection and the Mercator Map"

Morse Code

• Morse Code Translator 

Week of Tuesday, December 12

• Your IXL Assignment
• Choose TWO Articles from the Science & Math NEWSELA Section
  • Take the quiz
  • On your NEWSELA Post-it, write the article title, and write three "I learned..." sentences and one "I wonder..." sentence.
• Choose TWO videos from TED ED Science & Tech or Mathematics
  • TED Ed Science & Technology
  • TED ED Mathematics
  • On your TED ED Post-it, write the video title, and write three "I learned..." sentences and one "I wonder..." sentence.

project resources

• Radio Project Research Template (make a copy and share the doc with lisa@sf-nomad.com)
• Links for STEM-ians

Tuesday, November 7

IXL

• Your IXL Assignment!

Khan academy

• Introduction to Probability 
• Simple Probability: Picking a Yellow Marble

Newsela

• Coincidences aren't strange – they're a number probability

Ted Ed

• Ted Ed: What happens if you guess?
• Ted Ed: The last banana: A thought experiment in probability
• Ted Ed: Check your intuition: The birthday problem

thursday, November 2

radio Research Resources

• How Stuff Works: Radio Basics
• Techwalla: What are the main parts of a radio?
• Explain That Stuff!: Radio

Thursday, October 26

You can work through these links in whatever order you want! However, you need to make sure you complete all the ones with a star (**).

articles

Read through these four short articles. Write down any important ideas or definitions in your STEM notebook.

• **Sound waves
• **Amplitude & Frequency
• **Frequency & Pitch
• **Doubling frequency

IXL

• ** 15 questions in the IXL Diagnostic
• ** Write a Ratio
• ** Write a Ratio: Word Problems

Khan academy

• ** Intro to Ratios
• (Practice) Basic Ratios
• (Practice – Challenge) Equivalent Ratios

ted ed

• How to read music
• How playing an instrument benefits your brain
• Music as a language

Vi Hart

• What is up with noises?
• Doodle music

Tuesday, October 17

You can work through these links in whatever order you want! However, you need to start with the ones with a star (**).

Khan academy

• ** Production of Sound
• ** Intro to Ratios
• (Practice) Basic Ratios
• (Practice – Challenge) Equivalent Ratios

IXL

• ** 15 questions in the IXL Diagnostic
• ** Create Line Plots
• ** Write a Ratio
• ** Write a Ratio: Word Problems

Ted Ed:

• ** The Physics of Playing Guitar
• What Does Sound Look Like?
• Earworms: Those Songs that get Stuck in Your Head

VSauce

• Sound

Newsela

• Musicians in aquariums make sound in a silent world
• Explainer: The Evolving Sounds of Indie Music

Crash course physics

• The Physics of Music

What If

• Supersonic Stereo

OLD Links

Field Notebooks Through the ages

• Frank Tose
• Sterling Bunnell
• Washington Henry Oschner
• Albert Einstein
• John Muir (definitely get to at least page 10 and 12)