Room 613 Talk

About Rodents By Keith
I will tell you about chipmunks, prairie dogs and squirrels. I’ll tell you what they eat, and how their homes are. Chipmunks mostly eat acorns, seeds and berries. Where they live usually is a rock wall or forests.. What do prairie dogs eat? They eat flowers and mostly [...]

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Plate Tectonics by Sam M.
Plate tectonics was discovered long ago but now it has grown to be one of the most fascinating studies in geography. Before plate tectonics was discovered a man named Alfred Wegner discovered continental drift. He believed that all the continents were joined together to form what he called Pangaea. Over time [...]

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Plate Tectonics by Jake O.
Today in class when we watched a video we learned some things about the earth. We talked about the pieces of the earth, crust, mantle, outer core and the core. Also we talked about plate tectonics. Then we learned about divergent boundaries, when two plates pull apart. Also, we learned [...]

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This week the students studied the basic physical geography of the Earth. Topics included the Earth’s internal structure such as the core, mantle and crust, plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcano’s. The students made sketchs of the three major plate boundry conditions. We also continued work on flashcards. Two column notes were introduced [...]

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Our First Podcast - EVER!

Listen to our podcast here.
URL - http://mhetherington.net/podcasts/Room613PantherPodcast-2005-10-7.mp3
The students of Mr. Hetherington’s homeroom worked hard on their first podcast. They wrote (and re-wrote!) the script and recorded (and re-recorded!) the audio until we had a finished product. Take a listen!
Show notes for Room613PantherPodcast-2005-10-7.mp3 [...]

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Summer by Amanda M.

Hot and sticky
As hot as the sun
Swimming, and never done
Burns and sun tans
And endless demands
Lakes, pools and summer jobs
Going to stores like Kohl’s and Bob’s
Evil summer school
And trying to [...]

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The students started their second puzzle of the year two weeks ago. It is a globe shaped earth puzzle with magnetic pieces placed on a black metal globe. This is a very difficult puzzle since the continents could not be placed until they were tied together with the north or south pole pieces. After [...]

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Today the attire was baseball. Red Sox and Yankee shirts were all the rage. And yes, one lone, but proud Phillies shirt. Well, there’s always next year… right Sox fans?
Mr. H.

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The students in Room 613 have been working hard, studying different types of governments and economies, culture and ethnic groups, majority and minority groups, physical and human geography, and most recently investigating Google Earth and the workings of Global Positioning Systems (GPS). In one activity, we ran a relay race around the school track while [...]

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Class Representatives by Emelie V. and Heather R.
Ever since Monday when they announced on the loud speaker we were having class elections, it’s been the talk of the school. All around school, there are signs on lockers and buttons with vote for me written on them. In 6H, Brianne and Maya [...]

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