SIRS Issues Reseacher and Discovery Education Streaming- 5th & 6th Grade

Today the Fifth and Sixth Graders were introduced to Discovery Education Streaming.  I created student accounts, which allows each student to have his/her own user and password to access the website.  The students explored the wide variety of resources and played some of the educational games.  I want the students to become very familiar with the site so that I can create assignments using my teacher account.  This will come in extra handy when I have a substitute teacher in the computer lab.  Ask your Fifth or Sixth Grader how to access the site and take a look for yourself!  The username consists of "zsj[grade #][student's 1st name]" and the password is our regularly used code for all of the student accounts.

Last week the Fifth and Sixth Graders were introduced to SIRS Issues Researcher.  This site requires a username and password. Please refer to the Iowa AEA Online pamphlets for this information.  SIRS provides a safe place to research a wide variety of debatable issues such as abortion, cloning, immigration, teenage pregnancy, etc.