Reading Log Blog Due Friday December 2nd

11/27/2016

Synthesizing Information- Getting ready for final presentations
Researchers, your presentation on your topic is on Thursday! Today in school, your research team made a plan for what you might teach and what information you would still need to gather in order to do that teaching. To get ready, you might do a bit more research to fill in any gaps, using any books, articles, websites, or videos you can find on your topic. Synthesize this new learning with your previous learning, thinking about how it adds to and changes what you already know. Add this new information to your notes and synthesize what you've learned.
As you read, continue to practice tackling the hard parts of your nonfiction books. For instance, you might continue slowing down when you reach a hard, technical part, breaking it into parts and thinking, “What is this part teaching?” Or, you might work to form full definitions of the tricky words and concepts in your books, reading more books, going online, or talking to family members to learn more. Then write about your learning in your own words.

25 Comments

Allison

11/27/2016 05:04:30 pm

Hi, I've been reading all about hurricanes and with in most texts that I have read I come across the text talking a lot about Hurricane Katrina. The two text I have been synthiesizing are Violent Skies and Surviving a Hurricane. They both have talked a lot about other subjects about a hurricane but both books give some good information about this hurricane. In Violent skies it talks mostly about the damages it had caused like crushing houses and tearing down trees but in Surviving a Hurricane it adds on with some stories from people who have experienced this hurricane.

Molly Dorighi

11/30/2016 07:22:36 am

I have liked being in your group learning about hurricanes for our project. I agree with you about each book. Hurricane Katrina destroyed so many lives.

caroline the awesome bawsome

11/28/2016 03:56:42 pm

This week I am reading about Venus and Serena and I learned that once in a while they would hear gun noises while playing and once a man drove by with a gun and he started shooting out the window . But luckily they ducked so the man missed. bye

Anna Banana

11/29/2016 06:10:06 am

Other than reading about tsunami's I've been reading about american revolution. One country was fighting America because they wanted our land to, but we wanted to be our own country. Luckily, we won the fight and got our own land for two reasons. A, we were free as our own country B, if we lost the fight we would've been super duper punished!

Kingsley

11/30/2016 07:34:46 pm

YOU SPELLED BANNANA WRONG! I THINK.

Sam The Amazing

12/1/2016 06:30:09 pm

You spelled it wrong Kingsley!!!

Go Boom from Attack of the Bots

11/29/2016 03:53:54 pm

Hey, I found some thing. One source says that leukocytes are white blood cells in general, one says that they are a special type of WBC.

sophia g

11/29/2016 04:46:00 pm

Hey, I have been reading about tornados and I read 2 books about tornados! I read in one book that you will need a tornado shelter if you live in tornado alley, and in the next book it said the same exact thing. The 2 books that I read shared most of the same information. In each book it told a lot on what is a tornado. My chapter in my group was what is a tornado, so I got most of my information in those 2 books. I can't wait to read more about tornados!

The last guy who posted at 3:53:54, I'm fixing this darn thing

11/29/2016 05:22:14 pm

I found a lot of information during my research. I am researching White Blood Cells and two of my sources crossed with some conflicting information. One source said that leukocytes were white blood cells in general.
My second source is telling me that leukocytes are a special type of white blood cell. I do not know which is true. Did you know about Neutrophil spreading antibodies that cause allergies? It's true.

Ava

11/29/2016 06:52:55 pm

I am reading about TORNADOES. And it is talking about what is a tornadoes, the disasters,and how it happens. They look like they are scary. Have you been in a tornado?

But still they are scary but I will talk more at school or on the log blog. But I will talk more about tornadoes. Bye.

KINGSLEY THE GREAT

11/29/2016 08:02:31 pm

Do you know when and where the worlds worst tornado happened?

Ava

11/30/2016 07:28:58 pm

When hot and cold go together and it is mixing and they are going in a circle. So that is how a tornado happens.

Kingsley

11/30/2016 07:35:26 pm

That is very cool!

11/29/2016 07:38:20 pm

I am reading about Droughts for my Non fiction research group. We have learned lots of facts. For example, Droughts mostly occur in deserts where it is dry, and hot. Trust me I could go all day with facts that will blow your mind. How about another fact. There are 4 types of Drought Meteological, argicultural, Hydological, and Socioeconomic. There are many more types of Drought that you probably can't prenounce.

KINGSLEY THE GREAT

11/29/2016 08:01:16 pm

I have been reading about floods and Blizzards.This is a fantastic book about all of the damage that happen in floods and when blizzards happen, what to expect. One cool fact is the worlds worst flood was in china and it happened in 1931, it flooded about 30 feet of water from the rain in 6 days! That would be very scary in my logic

Molly Dorighi

11/30/2016 07:28:28 am

I have read Hurricanes Have Eyes But Can't See and Surviving a Hurricane. I have also researched on the internet for homework. When I synthesize all of my information about hurricanes, I realize how devastating these tropical storms are to so many coastal regions. Both books talk about the deadliest hurricanes and the information I have found on the internet agrees and shows pictures of the destruction. I have learned some new information from each resource but also the more I read about similar facts then the more I understand my topic.

Sam The Amazing

12/1/2016 06:28:09 pm

I've been reading all about earthquakes and a couple things I learned are how they start I also learned about the things you do in a earthquake in order to be safe first you drop then you get under a small table or chair and get covered and the last thing you do is oh let me think. HOLD ON!!!!!
If you are in a car stop your car and duck. I also learned how much damage they do and the scale or the rate of damage or how common it is so in colorado it is not that common but in other sates like California they do a lot of damage and it is pretty common.

Sophie

12/2/2016 06:33:08 am

I am in the Hurricane group and have been reading Surviving Hurricanes and I have been searching about hurricanes. One thing that the book Surviving Hurricanes tells that the internet does not is in the book it tell real stories about real people in a hurricane. But on the internet it tell what happens during a hurricane. Like on the internet it says the wind speeds.

Scotty alias Bobo Trekelfruit

12/2/2016 02:09:47 pm

Yo dudes. I was learning about court. Don't ask why. I learned in one book that the jury can decide in some types of court, and that in others, the judge does. In another book I learned that in some types of court, there aren't juries. I thought, "Those are the types where the judge decides everything."

garrett

12/2/2016 02:13:03 pm

I am in the floods group and I am reading on how to survive floods. In the books it explains story's it has pictures it has diagrams it says stuff that the internet wouldn't

Sean

12/2/2016 03:08:56 pm

In the books I've read it mostly talks about the damage earthquakes do. This makes me think that earthquakes impact our lives.

Reese

12/2/2016 03:52:30 pm

This unit I have been reading is about tornadoes and I have been mostly studying the cause of tornadoes. To compare and contrast what I have read the two books state that when the updrafts and downdrafts in the thunderstorm are interacting with the wind this results in a tilting of the wind that forms an upright tornado vortex. Both of the books talk about it in the same way. They also both talk about the fuji scale which is a scale that measures the wind speed of the tornado. The fuji scale goes from EF0 tornado to an EF5 tornado. To compare the books I have read one of them tells you fast facts like that tornadoes have struck in all 50 states and that tornadoes usually strike from 3:00-9:00 pm. The other book doesn’t tell you anything about that and there’s not even a page that has fun facts!

Wills

12/3/2016 09:05:45 am

Hi. Right now we are reading about tsunamis in are research groups. We have learned lots of facts in many different books. One big fact that I have learned is that tsunamis are caused by earthquakes most of the time. All of the other books that I have read about tsunamis say the same thing and have not changed my thinking about it!

Sienna?

2/6/2017 05:07:45 pm

I have came across two books that are very detailed. One is called " Tornadoes" and one is called " Extreme weather" Both of these books are very detailed and have given me great info. But comparing them they are very similar. I love comparing even some chapters that are very similar. I noticed that on most facts they say the exact same things. But one big difference that I notice is that they both have different facts about the highest wind speeds.

cooper

2/6/2017 06:40:15 pm

I have read two books about about tsunamis and south of them gave me the same facts! But the both of the books same different heights!

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