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Salmon Day

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  1. Work on your salmon PowerPoint. title page anatomy of a salmon 5 main types of salmon in WA slides Salmon life cycle (self illustrated, not one picture from online) Salmon predators slides - each predator gets: which group does it belong to hunting techniques natural habitat Salmon path in our area post a picture of the Seattle area from google Earth - screen shot use your edit pen to draw the path that salmon travel to make it to the salmon hatchery

Salmon External Anatomy Vocabulary

  Dorsal: The top of the fish, or the back of a human. Ventral: The bottom of the fish or the belly of a human. The Fins Dorsal Fin: Provides steering control and balance Adipose Fin: There is no known use; however, this fin is often clipped to differentiate hatchery fish from wild fish Pectoral Fins: Aids in stabilization, maneuvering, and braking. Pelvic Fins: Aids in stabilization, maneuvering, and braking. Anal Fin: Provides balance. Caudal Fin: Also known as the tail fin it provides the main source of propulsion. Females use their caudal fin to dig their redd (nest). Body Shape The overall body of a salmon is streamlined for easier movement through the water. External Body Parts Nares: Fish use their nostrils for smelling, not for breathing. Eyes: Fish eyes can see both to the left and right at the same time, and each eye can move independently. Mouth: Allows the fish to take in food. All salmon have teeth, but some have bigger teeth than oth...

3rd Grade Salmon Project day one

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  1. Create the science button for your iPad 2. Login and create a new PowerPoint 3. Begin your slides of salmon species in Washington. ( click here to read more ) 4. If you finish early, you can start slides to show the salmon life cycle.

Science Choices

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1. Work on a certification. 2. Infinite flight 3. Paper airplane making 4. Science video (below - you need headphones) 5. Google earth 6. Science project of your choice (check with teacher)

Kingdoms of Life Mini-Project

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 1. Watch this video: 2. Make a new PowerPoint presentation with the first slide titled "Kingdoms of Life" 3. Make slide show with at least one slide per Kingdom. You can use more slides for some  of your favorite kingdoms so be creative and have fun with it. 4. Make sure you save this project to your iPad AND to the Microsoft cloud. 5. If you finish early, you can pick one of these activities. Work on Infinite Flight and try to get your license. Use Google Earth - there are many many activities, games and adventures included. Get certified for your favorite class animal!

Scientific Paper link

 Click here to access the scientific paper link

Final PowerPoint project

 You will make a PowerPoint project to put together everything we have done so far. (distance group will stop the project they are on now and do this instead. Here are the slides that should be in your project. Have fun making the slides creative with animations, links and other ideas that you can think of. Title slide "Aeronautics" The forces of flight slide Parts of an airplane (labled by YOU not an image with the parts already labled) A picture of your paper airplane design (you can remake one using the links below if you want) A slide with some screen shots of you flying with infinite flight. Images or short videos from our guest speaker (distance group won't have pictures) 3-5 things you learned about with our guest speaker links: (click on the link) Paper Airplane building site NASA parts of an airplane