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Interview Video

Some of our students interviewed other students and made a video, enjoy!

Praise for the site:

A message from Sue Rolf, head of the HP/ISTE grant that gave New Glarus $120,000 in training and equipment:

'”OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! HOW AWESOME!!!!…. you have blown me away with this.  It is just the coolest thing EVER!!!  I am so proud of you.  I want the whole world to see this.  Put it in the Portfolio if you can.  I am totally and completely IMPRESSED!!!!!!”

Good work fifth grade! its your work that has made this happen!-Mr Briggs.

Eskimos

We saw the Eskimos at 3:58pm two minutes before we had to leave. The building we were in was the Field Museum. Something I saw was the clothing. Something I learned was that they have to wear fur to keep warm. Something I found cool was that they have to hunt to get their fur they also have to skin the animals for the fur. Juanita said that are really cool. This exhibit does not really remind me of anything in New Glarus.

-by Maya

Jordyn's Powerpoint

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Anna's PowerPoint

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Evolving Planet

I am doing a little report on the exhibit that we saw called the Evolving Planet. We saw the exhibit at 2:45 and we saw it in the Field Museum. We saw the earth turning around in circles. We learned that we are related to apes. The things we saw went back millions and billions of years ago. The first fish on Earth didn’t even have jaws. We saw a big T.V and it was showing the bottom of the ocean. Kailey said, “that the big T.V was really cool!!” It doesn’t really remind me of anything I saw or know of in New Glarus.

By: Anna.W

Reagan's Powerpoint

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Devyn’s Powerpoint

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Northern Birds

At the field museum we saw the birds of the north.We saw allot of birds like Eagles,Hawks,Pheasants,and allot of other birds.    

Inside Ancient Egypt

At 11:00 am we arrived at the exhibit. Inside Ancient Egypt was inside the Field Museum.  Before we started to look around we saw a sign that said “ A lot of the artifacts are not real.” We saw a mummy with a gold face, it was called Mummy with the gilt face.  We learned that many people think Egyptians were obsessed with the dead, that is NOT true. We also learned that many years ago robbers stole some of the mummies.  Chantel said “EWW! There all shriveled up!”  we thought it was neat that the Egyptians preserve the mummies so well. The exhibit didn’t remind me much of
New Glarus , except that there are a lot of things that have been around for awhile.

                     By: Kati & Chantel 

Waters of the World

We arrived at 10:30.  There were lots of fish.  When we walked in there were a lot of people, the exhibit must have been very popular.  All the fish reminded me of going fishing.  Zoe said  “Look at all the pretty fish!” We learned  that there are some fish in the Great Lakes that are not supposed to live their.  Every thing was very exiting!  

By: Bridget

The Important North American Birds

At the Field Museum Zach & Cody covered the valuable,precious Birds of North America!Cody took most of the pictures I had too do most of the writing.there was one glass box that was full of the extinct North American birds!Cody & I thought that the North American birds were sweet!We learned that the North American birds can & sometimes are rare!

By:Cody, & Zach  

 

Rock an Roll McDonalds

We arrived at the Rock an Roll McDonalds at 5:37pm.  There was allot of really cool things in the Restaurant there was two levels on one level there was a ordering place for food and another for ice cream.  You would be able to see the Hard Rock Cafe across the street.  You would be able to see the 9 flat screen TV’s.  I learned that the  food is fantastic there.  People love their chicken nuggets and almost everybody had the chicken nuggets.  I think that it is cool that it has two levels and had escalators and stairs.  Aileen said”This place is so awesome and i never expected it to be this cool and so good.  It does not remind me of anything that we have in New Glarus.

 

By:Kendra

Maori House

we saw the Maori House in the museum.  It had carvings in the walls and there are only 3 of them in the world.  they were brought from new Zealand.  they had to tear it apart and rebuild it. there were weavings on the walls.  it was pretty big inside. 

by Trenten

Africa

At the museum, we looked at many different artifacts from Africa.  when we walked in we saw many people dressed in clothes from Africa.  we learned about the foods they ate, the music they listened to, we learned about how they fought with spears and swords. 

I learned that the king has a special sword, shield and spear.

this is motorcycle that carries a tape player and lots of tapes to sell.

here are some foods people eat.

-by josh

The Aquarium

We were at the aquarium by 10:25.I noticed a lot of orange Chicago shirts.There was also a bin for are lunches.Now I know how to use a digital camera.It was much different then New Glarus.  I  said “I was really scared because I’m scared of aquariums.”

By:Erick 

The Mummy Exhibit

 

In the museum we saw the Egypt exhibit.  We saw mummies that stared at us.  We also saw the tunnels that robbers went trough.  I learned about hieroglyphics.  I thought that how mummify was very neat.  Whitney said that “We were going to throw up.  This did not remind me of anything in New Glarus.

By:Erick

Skyline

We saw the Skyline at 9:46am. We saw the all the tall buildings while we were on the bus. Some of the things we learned was like how tall the buildings were, they were tall. Another thing we learned was that they have antennas. Something that I found cool was how many there are and how tall they are. One thing that Aileen said was that “they are all tall, cool, and pippin.This reminds me of the Swiss Church in New Glarus

By:Maya 

 

 

Mammals

We went to the mammals exhibit.  We saw zebras, monkeys, rhinos and a buffalo boy.  The rhino and buffalo were big I thought it was very cool.  

By: Trey