Grades 7-9

Beacon Christian School

Classroom Art Gallery -- Click on the art icon to go to our class's art gallery featuring student art works created. You are also invited to view art from previous years stored in the gallery's archives, including sculptures, clay human busts, clay masks, and watercolor paintings.

Who I Am Technology Project -- This is a technology/computer /Internet project designed to be used at the beginning of the school year so students and the teacher in the classroom can get to know each other better.

Teachers: Download the Who I Am Lesson Plan and the Who I Am PowerPoint template. Save the PowerPoint template on your computer, then open it using your PowerPoint application.

Students: Download the Who I Am PowerPoint template. Save the PowerPoint template on your computer, then open it using your PowerPoint application. Receive further directions from your teacher.

Rodeo Rich's Oregon Trail Web Page Check Rodeo Rich's (aka Mr. Rasmussen) web page out to find some great resources on the Oregon Trail.

Buffalo Eddy Petroglyphs -- View pictures of petroglyphs (rock drawings) carved hundreds of years ago by the Nez Perce Indians along the Snake River near Asotin, WA. Buffalo Eddy is one of the sites of the Nez Perce National Historical Park.

Fossil Finds -- View fossils found at The Fossil Bowl Dig Site in Clarkia, Idaho. The Clarkia Miocene Lake site is considered to be the richest fossil site in the world.

Life in Medieval Europe During the Middle Ages -- Download Microsoft PowerPoint presentations created by the seventh and eight graders on life in Medieval Europe during the Middle Ages.

Links to Some of Our Classroom's Favorite Web Sites

Research Reports Resources --

How to Write a Research Report -- Download this helpful PowerPoint Presentation created by Mr. Rasmussen on writing research reports and citing your sources, including electronic sources.

So You Have to Do a Research Report? Information to help students write and complete a research project.

Social Studies --

Adventures in Time and Place Internet Projects -- Web-linked lesson plans related to chapter themes in McGraw-Hill School Division's social studies program, Adventures in Time and Place.



Westward HO! -- Travel the Oregon Trail with hundreds of others with the Westward HO! wagon train.

Westward HO! is an integrated web-based U.S. History program. Classrooms throughout the United States participate in this program. Classrooms from California, Virginia, Alaska, Florida, Arizona, Missouri, New Hampshire, and many other states traveled along the Oregon Trail with us each year.

We rite to tel ya' that the annual jurney to Oregon Territory will take place from January 22 - February 22, year of 2008...wen yore humble servant, Rodeo Rich (aka Mr. Rasmussen), agin will help ta lead brave souls to the New Land. The jurney will be long and hard, but with Rodeo Rich as our scout we hope to be able ta keep up with the Wagon Train.

Oregon Trail Links -- Browse a list we made of great Oregon Trail links.

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