PS 130, The Parkside School

This first video, narrated by Olivia & Siema, teaches you how to use Google Docs:

This next video, narrated by Olivia & Siema, teaches you how to post videos and text to this website:

The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada from February 12th-28th.  Nations from all over the world will compete in many winter sports.

Some of the nations are Germany, Norway, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Austria.

Some of the sports include figure skating, curling, hockey, speed skating, bobsledding, and snowboarding.

I found this picture by googling in the search bar. My key words were: squirrel nut tree eating

a picture we found today

Here is what we know about the Earthquake in Haiti

There was an earthquake in Haiti.  The ground was shaking, and in a short time the buildings started falling.  Doctors are coming over to Haiti to help the people who got hurt. 

The doctors are operating on injured babies. 

People are coming over to help Haiti and there are helicopters dropping food earthquake.

Buildings are falling down, a lot of people are hurting, and fighting for the food.

To find out more, we are going to do research on the Internet using Search Engines and Key Words. 

Here is what we have found so far:

• Helicopter dropping water
• An Elephant collecting food
• http://redcross.org

We’re going to continue researching and make a video report next week!

The Internet is: Where you find websites.  You can see it from computers, laptops in different places all over the world.

Website are: Places on the Internet.  Examples: Disney.com, Nick.com.  Every website has its own web address.  For example, our web address is ps130brooklyn.com.

Search Engine: A website that you can search for information from around the world on the Internet.  For example you can search on Google.com (a search engine) to find information on cats dogs, lions, or anything else.

Key Words: Words that help you find information from the Internet using search engines like Yahoo.com, Google.com.

We searched for the key words “mountains snow caps United States”, and we found a video that told us the information that the highest and longest mountain range in the United States is the Rocky Mountains. Here is the video:  Mountain Region of the United States.

We went to Kids.Yahoo.com and typed in the key words “rocky mountains” and we clicked on an encyclopedia link in Kids.Yahoo.com.  There was a lot of writing so we had to click on Edit and “Find” and we searched for the word “Highest” and we learned that Mt. Elbert is the highest peak in Colorado.  But it did not tell us that the Rocky Mountains were the highest mountains in the United States.