1. Watch the slideshow below to see some of New York City’s wildlife:

2. Now, pick a habitat below and watch the slideshow.




3. Next, use Kidspiration to draw the habitat you chose for its animals. Click HERE to see how to use Kidspiration for this project.

4. Finally, put your Kidspiration on your blog and explain why you chose to create it the way you did. Click HERE to see how to put your Kidspiration on your blog.

Virsona is a website that lets you create your own chatbot like Suzette and Spotchy (but more polite).  The chatbot can be based on a historical figure like Harriett Tubman, a fictional character like Harry Potter, or even yourself!  For this assignment you will be helping to teach an Island School chatbot to act like a real middle school student.  I already created a boy middle schooler named Kevin and a girl middle schooler named Janine .  Choose one and help teach it to pass the Turing Test (to sound real).

–> Click HERE for directions

–> Click HERE to login.

username:  techbrarian password: student1

** Reminder: when teaching your chatbot, use appropriate language.

Are you an amazing artist or a talented writer?  Judging from a lot of the work I’ve seen from you, the answer is “yes”. Scholastic is having a contest for young artists and writers to show off their talents.  Winners will have their work published in the magazine Spark.  Click Here for more info.  Either way, check out Spark, it has really cool work from teens.

Click below to see a video of some of the artists who received awards

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