Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt Link

To Answer Question #1 go to this link:

http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving

To answer Question #3 go to this link:

http://www.pilgrimhall.org/turkey.htm

To answer Question #4 go to this link:

http://home.aristotle.net/Thanksgiving/turkey_facts.asp

To answer Question#5 go to this link:

http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/birchwood/links/Grade5links/thanksgivingshale.html

How We Celebrate Halloween

Dear Fifth Graders:

Here's the link to the Halloween Fact Sheet.

http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/interactives/halloween-by-the-numbers

Fourth Grade--ABC's of Website Evaluation

Welcome, 4th Graders!  Your assignment today is to go to a website and evaluate it using our ABC's.

Remember:

A=Author  Who created the site?  Are they an expert?

B=Bias    Is it trying to sell you something?  Is it the opinion of the author?

C=Credibility + Currency  Can you verify the information by looking in our print encyclopedias
or on another site like World Book Online?

What is the copyright date?

Let's look at two websites on the planets and evaluate which one is more reliable:

http://nineplanets.org/

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/index.cfm

Go to this website and fill out your evaluation sheet:


http://www.ancient-egypt.org/