Monday, December 8, 2014

Research Investigations, week 4

Monday
Why is it that, in general, the hair on a man's head goes grey before the hair in his moustache does?
Tuesday
Two naturalists were walking in the country. They were both keen to protect the environment and to conserve nature and wildlife. One said to the other, "I was impressed by the way that you hit the bird." The second replied, "Yes, it was as good as that large bird that you hit earlier." What were they talking about?
  • Egg Drop
Wednesday
  • Egg drop
  • When you are done:
    • 1 snowflake (optional)
    • Find an origami object you would like to create and send the instructions to Mrs. Rose (optional)
    • CODE
Thursday
A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment. Why?

Friday
There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?
  • Egg projects
  • Work on next week's project

Friday, December 5, 2014

Conservation - Ocean Pollution

Digital Media, week 3

Monday 
How do I add closed captions to my video?

Tuesday
Videos

Wednesday
YouTube editor - transitions, text, etc.

Thursday
Photo Scavenger Hunt

Friday
* Videos!
* Scavenger Hunt group project


Monday, December 1, 2014

Conservation, week 3

Monday
  • Finish our national parks tour
Tuesday
  • watch video below
  • Answer the questions: (rubric)
    • Why are national parks important? Or not important?
    • Why is it still important for our government to invest in our national parks when we have a struggling economy?
  • Watch 1 video from the Untold Stories




Wednesday
What is pollution?

Thursday
Pollution presentation requirements

Research Investigations, week 3

Monday - Thursday
  • Work on the "Who did it?" unit project
    • Directions
    • You may present this any way you wish (movie, poster, paper, create your own song, etc.)
    • You still have to adhere to the school policies when creating your crime scenes.
    • Use the crime problem we did as a class as an example.

Wednesday
Paper snowflake

Friday
Origami 

Group 1 Crime Scene

Group 2 Crime Scene




Friday, November 21, 2014

Digital Media, week 1

Monday

  • Contract building
  • weekly announcements
Tuesday  - Snow Day!

Wednesday
  • Intros?
  • Specials?
Thursday
FILMING

Friday
  • Put your videos together with YouTube editor
  • How-To videos