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7th Grade




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Little Red Riding Hood

little red   bad wolf


LRRHA
LRRHB

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7th grade Group Web Page       The Same Page, Another Look

Web pages must contain the following elements for full credit:

    Name (5 points)
    Title (5 points)
    Background (10 points)
    3-5 graphics (40 points)
    At least 10 links that relate directly to your page topic (4 points for each working link)

Free Backgrounds for your webpage

Animated GIF's for your webpage

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Treasure Hunt


 
Sea World Budget Test


Lion FIsh

Aquarium


Aquarium Spreadsheet Data Download

 
  Batter Up Spreadsheet Data Download

WMS Party Poopers



Party Poopers Test

Family Budget

Online Virtual Museum Tours


1. What museum did you visit?

2. What is the URL for that museum?

3. What types of things does the museum have on display?

4. What exhibit or section did you like best? Why?

5. Would you recomend this museum website to someone else? Why?

6.  What is the most interesting thing you learned on this site?

7. What multimedia events did the site use to present its contents?


Daylight Saving Time

1. In 2010, on what dates will Daylight Saving Time begin and end?

2. Name two U.S. states that do not observe DST.

3. At what geographical point on earth are day and night almost the same length all year?
   (Countries along this point usually don’t observe DST.)

4. According to  a study done by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1975, by how much  does DST
    reduce the entire country's  use of electricity  each day? (What percent?)

5. Who first came up with the idea of DST during his sojourn as an American delegate to Paris?

6. Who was the first man in the U.S. to sense the growing need for time standardization?
     Hint: He was an amateur astronomer.


  
Go to google.com to find the answers to these questions about one of the following ancient cultures:

  India: China: Rome: Greece: Egypt:Aztecs: Mayans: Incans

    1. What URL did you visit?

    2. What culture did you study?

    3. List three interesting things you found out about this culture.

    4. Where did these people live?

    5. During what time period did these people reach their highest point of achievement?
        (Keywords: Golden Age, height)

    6. What did the pictures on this website tell you about these people?


    7. What did you learn about this ancient culture that surprised you the most?

    8. What caused the decline of this ancient culture?


Judy Blume


1. What college did Judy Blume attend?

2. What series of books was her favorite as a child?

3. What is  Judy Blume’s favorite color?

4. One of Judy Blume’s middle grades books is called
   Here's to You,  R----- R-------

5. What was her favorite subject in school?

6. How many children does Judy Blume have?

7. Which of her characters is based on her son Larry as a toddler?

8. What three things is Judy Blume afraid of?

9. What was her first published book?

10. What  does I.S.A.F. stand for in Fudge-a-mania?


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The Greatest Person Who Ever Lived

Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Clara Barton
Juliette Lowe
Douglas MacArthur
Blackjack Pershing
Jonas Salk
Susan B. Anthony
Benjamin Banecker
Black Hawk
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Wright Brothers
Colin Powell
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Bethoven
George Patton
Frederick Douglass
Daniel Boone
Sojourner Truth
Booker T. Washington
Henry Ford
John Deere
Nathan Hale
Walt Disney
Jerry Lewis
Eliot Ness
Condolezza Rice
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Margaret Chase Smith
Michael Dell
Mary Kay
Sam Walton
Oprah Winfrey
Ted Turner
Albert Einstein
Ray Kroc
Christa McAuliffe
Stephen Hawking
Galileo Galilei
Marco Polo
Mother Teresa
Sir Isaac Newton
Hippocrates
Simon Bolivar
Joan of Arc
Louis Braille
Helen Keller
Julius Caesar
Bill Gates
Winston Churchill
Jesus
Abraham Lincoln
Sally RIde
Sanrda Day O'Connor
Florence Nightinggale
Leonard de Vinci
Frank Thornton



  



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