KC3: Kids Creating Community Content Check out videos of the winning videoconferences from our very own MeneMAC 2008!MMC3: MeneMAC Creates Community Content! Check out our websites!
Iolani Palace the only official state residence of royalty in the United States
Hawaii's Plantation Village an outdoor museum that showcases the lifestyles and experience of Hawaii's plantation workers.
Hawaii's Endangered Species Hawaii is the Endangered Species Capital of the World....there are more endangered species per square mile on these islands than any other place on the planet
Loko i'a Hawaiina Fishponds Only in Hawai'i was there such an intensive effort to utilize practically every body of water, from seashore to upland forests, as a source of food, for either agriculture or aquaculture (Apple & Kikuchi, 1975).
Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve Not a “beach park” for beach sport, but a Nature Preserve dedicated to safeguarding the fragile marine life in the Bay, Hanauma is the first Marine Life Conservation District in the State.
Hawaiian Food Then and Now The Hawaiian word for health is ola. It also means life. Thus, the word health and life was one and same. Hawaiians obviously believed you could not have health without life, nor life without health.
Sample Group Website, PowerPoints, & Surveys -- Spring, 2009
Sample Survey Monkey Survey Answer this survey; then check out the data that results and begin to design the survey for your KC3 research!
Still want more more??? No problem! We're running our annual Brainyflix Video Contest starting JANUARY 1, 2010. We'll be awarding a Grand Prize of $600 to the video that receives the most number of votes. Half will go to the maker(s) of the video and the other half will go to his or her school. And to make this viral, we'll give out 1 free iTunes download for every 3 videos you submit or referrals you provide. (iTunes downloads available for first 900 videos only).
Official Rules
Make a video about any SAT/ACT vocabulary word of your choosing from this list. Please pick a word without any videos submissions! :)
1 video for 1 word, but you can make as many videos as you want.
In your video, you MUST use the word & use the word correctly. In fact, the more times you use the word, the better the video.
Anyone can enter the competition! Just remember that part of the prize money has to go to a U.S. high school or middle school of your choosing.
All voting will happen at BrainyFlix.com, so make sure your video includes the following Vote for this video at www.BrainyFlix.com/words/. And substitute with your vocab word.
Be fun! But please be cool and not submit anything that will get us busted by your teachers. That said, we reserve the right to remove videos for any reason, stated here or not.
Important contest dates:
Video submission opens: 1/1/2010
Video submission ends: 3/15/2010
Voting opens: 3/16/2010
Voting ends: 3/29/2010
Winners announced: 3/31/2010
Video Submission Suggestions
The ideal video length is about 1 minute or less. Viewers tend to lose their attention for anything longer.
For uploading your video, use SchoolTube.
Start and end the video with the word, its part of speech, definition, and the url where it can be voted on - http://www.BrainyFlix.com/words/xxxxx and replace with your vocab word.
For the information you fill out when uploading a video, enter the following:
For the Title, and replace with your vocab word.
For the Description, write the vocab word, its part of speech, definition, the sample sentence (if you have one), and the Vote for this video at http://www.BrainyFlix.com/words/ and replace with your vocab word.
The Tags BrainyFlix, SAT, ACT, vocab, contest, reading, writing, memorize, MIT, and replace with your vocab word.
Exercises at Grammar Bytes Parallel Structure at Grammar Bytes Big Dog's Grammar SAT Vocabulary Free Rice.Com now, put your SAT smarts to work...get the words right and donate rice to the United Nations World Food Program!Resource Links -- Book ListsFantasy & Science Fiction for Teens from the Plymouth Library, Michigan Science Fiction Book List from Cerritos Library, California Humanities Interactive Click on Bonfire of the Liberties. The bonfire was a very efficient form of censorship in an age when books were handwritten and existed in very few copies. But in the era of printing and mass markets, censors have had to devise other methods of restricting access to publications.Interdependence -- How do you figure in your interdependence quotient?Earth Day -- April 22! Coming Soon! To a planet near you...check out what YOU can do! Green Living Ideas...green hair and skin care...green recipes...even green pet care! Your Ecological Footprint About the Ecological Footprint Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz and complete the following in a Word document. When you have completed the assignment, print out the document and also post your reflection on the "Ecological Footprint" forum in our Media Central online forum, under science fiction.
Click on the USA map and select English. Then answer the questions to the best of your ability. Be sure to answer in complete sentences.
What is your total ecological footprint? How much larger is it than the number of bilogically productive acres per person on Earth?
How many Earths would it take to sustain our population if everyone lived like you?
Click on Take Action! to make your pledge for reducing your ecological footprint. Record your total footprint reduction and explain how you would be able to achieve it.
Read the "What You Can Do" section. If you lose the link, click on the Word document and read it here. Describe some of the ideas from the document that you think you or your family would be able to implement to reduce their ecological footprints.
Click on the Care 2 Make a Difference site to see what else is going on in our world to make a difference in our environment. Describe ideas for activism there that you could take to make a difference for yourself.
