During this unit, students will have the opportunity to participate in the StoryPath The Early Northwest Coast People.  Students will be gathering information from a variety of sources, including; StoryPath, childrens' stories, museum visits, and an artist in residence.  To incorporate technology into this unit I have found a museum site that is informational simply on the web, and may even spark a family outing for children in the Seattle area.
    The Burke Museum, on the campus of the University of Washington, has a 14,000 piece ethnology collection of early Northwest Coast objects, as well as, a second videodisk of Pacific Northwest Native American Art in Museums and Private Collections, on line.
    This site allows visitors to access information on Northwest Coast Languages, Stories and Oral Histories, Totem Poles, Canoes, Chief Seattle, and Baskets.  In my classroom, this site will be used to develop a deeper knowledge of Totem Poles, and traditional myths of the early Northwest Coast people.  In the future, I would also use this site to schedule a class visit to the Burke museum, or possibly to request artifacts be sent to our school for further use.
 

Additional sites may be visited by clicking the links below.

http://www.pioneerfarmmuseum.org/generic.html;$sessionid$ES11ZHQAAFDJRWGIHUVUTIWYZA4S1PX0?pid=5
http://www.hallman.org/indian/.www.html
http://www.bluemountain.com/eng/nativeamer/NativeAmer.html
 
 

    During this unit students will develop an awareness of the importance of working together to address important issues.  As the unit evolves over a three-week span, children will have the opportunity to reflect upon how different characters in literature have come together to raise a voice.  Finally, students will have the opportunity to apply this to their own lives, and to lives of real people throughout history.
    The site I have selected will be used toward the end of the unit, when students discuss how Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged America to come together to raise a voice.  A variety of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speeches have been prepared for visitors to listen.  The speeches are live recordings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and ignite the passion behind his voice that words on paper do not capture.
 

Additional sites may be visited by clicking the links below.

http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/kschlnoe/TLU.html
http://www.pps.k12.or.us/district/depts/itss/buckman/timeline/kingframe.html
http://search.gallery.yahoo.com/search/corbis?p=martin+luther+king
 
 

    This unit has been created to provide an opportunity for students to develop an interest in air and weather, while becoming familiar with instruments used to monitor weather.  Students will participate in an inquiry based approach to science that is recognized as the most effective way to help elementary students construct a solid foundation of scientific knowledge.
    The site I have selected will be used by students frequently to compare the data they have gathered with the data gathered by the school.  There is a unique partnership between North City Elementary and King 5 that provides School Net information on current temperatures, humidity, wind, daily precipitation, pressure, and wind chill.  Students will also have the opportunity to compare a variety of data in different school locations to enhance our development of weather graphs.