Monday, December 8, 2014

Digital Media, week 4

Monday
1. Embedding videos onto our web pages
2. Code.org  OR Code Academy

Tuesday

  1. Photo scavenger document 
  2. Code.org  OR Code Academy
Wednesday
  1. Photo scavenger document 
  2. Code.org  OR Code Academy
Thursday
  1. Photo scavenger document 
  2. CODE (new activity - click on the document)

Conservation, week 4

Monday
Question: There is a bill going through the state of Michigan to make it legal to burn plastics and rubber tires. Is this a good or bad idea? Why?
News article

Tuesday
Question: What are the environmental impacts of a meltdown of a nuclear power plant vs. a trash burning power plant?

Wednesday
  • Find a current event that has to do with conservation. Post the link to the article and a short summary of it in the comments section. Comment (as a reply) on two other people's post.
  • Expectations for tomorrow
  • Presentation: Air Pollution
Thursday
  • After yesterday's presentation, what other questions do you still have on air pollution that you would like answered? (Post any questions as a reply to the comment "Air Pollution") This is not saying that yesterday's presentation was not great (it was), but sometimes presentations make us want to know more about a topic.)
  • Either:
    •  design a national park of your choosing (it can be completely imaginary)
      • Done INDIVIDUALLY
      • Name your park.
      • What can I do there?
      • Where would it be?
      • Map of the park
    • Using your field of pollution, create a document/video/song informing people how they can help reduce the pollution problem.
      • Example: Air Pollution could create a video telling people why they should not smoke. (This one cannot be done.)
      • Another example...  (This one has lots of ways, but you can only do one. Be sure to include HOW this helps reduce pollution. Ex: Why does driving the speed limit reduce air pollution?)
Friday
Turn in your work from yesterday
Ocean Pollution presentation 1

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