CTA Electives with Mrs. Rose!

Monday, January 26, 2015

Research Investigations, week 9

Monday
Students will be able to build a bridge that will withstand the class designed tests.
BRIDGE BUILDING DAY

Tuesday
Students will be able to reflect on their bridge creation - the process and the final product. Students will be able to test their bridges with the class designed tests.

Before we test the bridges (and after your bridge is complete). Take a picture with you and your partner AND your bridge.
Post the pictures to your web site and answer the questions:

Why did you choose that design?
Why did you choose those materials?
How do you think that your bridge will hold up to our tests?

BRIDGE TESTING DAY

Wednesday
Students will be able to reflect on their bridge creation - the process and the final product. Students will be able to test their bridges with the class designed tests.

BRIDGE TESTING DAY
Now that the bridges are tested, answer on your web page:

How did your bridge fair in the tests?
What would you have done differently next time?

Thursday
Students will be able to

Friday
Students will be able to

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Digital Media, week 8

Students will be able to create engaging ads to market themselves and a new product. Students will be able to create a 30 second commercial marketing their new product.

Monday
Students will be able to define graphic design and become familiar in which careers use graphic design.
Marketing yourself

Whether we know it or not, we are constantly marketing ourselves. Using only the pictures you collected on the assignment over break, how can you market yourself?
Use canva.com
NO LAYOUTS
Post on your blog when you are done

Tuesday
Students will be able to reflect on images taken and decide how to market themselves in a positive light using those photos and graphic design tools.
Marketing yourself

Whether we know it or not, we are constantly marketing ourselves. Using only the pictures you collected on the assignment over break, how can you market yourself?
Use canva.com
NO LAYOUTS
Post on your blog when you are done

Wednesday
Students will design a unique product, and use graphic design tools to create a magazine ad for their product.

Thursday
Students will plan a commercial for the unique product that he/she has created.

Free time? NEVER! :)
Fotoflexer.com
Code Academy
Code.org

Friday

Conservation, week 8

Monday
Students will understand how energy we use everyday to power all we use is traditionally created.

What is energy?
Pass out notes page
Presentation

Tuesday

Students will understand how energy we use everyday to power all we use is traditionally created.

finish traditional creation of "power" discussion
What is alternative energy?

Why use it?
Why not?
Options:

solar
wind
biomass
nuclear
geothermal

In groups, research at alternative energy source

Benefits?
Drawbacks?
Costs?
SOURCES formatted correctly. Use
Any other interesting facts you would to include easybib.com to help.
You may present your information however you like

song
"movie"
presentation
short story
design a shirt

Wednesday

Students will be able to effectively work in groups to create a presentation of the alternative energy source of their choice.

Work on presentation - today will be you last day to work on this in class. After today, you will need to complete this on your own time

Thursday

Students will be able to analyze how conservation topics are taught to children. Students will be able to identify conservation topics to media.

Fern Gully and worksheet

Friday

Students will be able to analyze how conservation topics are taught to children. Students will be able to identify conservation topics to media. Students will be able to effectively present on an alternative energy of their choice.

Finish Fern Gully

Energy Presentations.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Research Investigations, week 8

Monday
Students will be able to discuss the various aspects of bridge engineering and design.

Read through the web quest from last week
What did we find out about bridges?
How will we be able to test our bridges?
What was your favorite type of bridge that you researched?

How will we test our bridges??

Tuesday

Theodore is riding an ant under a bridge in France. He loves the ants in France
because they can walk on water. He also LOVES to eat and France has delicious
pastries and breads and cheeses.

Students will be able to digitally crop a picture of themselves into a bridge picture. Students will be able to creatively write about what they are doing in the picture.

Find your bridge picture and full length picture of yourself.
Open Pixlr Editor
Following the directions from Mrs. Rose, open the bridge picture, then the picture of you (IN THE SAME TAB) and cut your self out using the lasso tool. Cut and paste the image into the bridge picture. SAVE.
Upload to your blog and creatively write about where you are and what you are doing on the bridge.
When you are COMPLETELY done, help someone else.

Wednesday
Students will be able to identify the types of bridges in their pictures using information gathered in an earlier class. Students will be able to successfully create a venn diagram of the information in the picture and the information in the description provided.

Using the information in front of you (will be randomly assigned by Mrs. Rose) fill out the venn diagram sheet (paper or digital) to show similarities vs differences of the picture and description we completed yesterday.
Check with Mrs. Rose and start designing your bridge!

Thursday
Students will begin to construct bridges according to the design submitted and materials requested.
Bridge building time!!
Not building? PUZZLE TIME!!

Friday

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Digital Media, week 7

Students will be able to use digital editing tools to create unique images. Students will be able to discuss the pros and cons of digital tools and non-digital tools when editing photos.

Monday -Wednesday
Pixlr photo editing

Photo with background, two pictures cut out, and text

When you are done, post it to your blog.
Send the NON EDITED pictures to me (remember that you re-sized some of your pictures).
Now, with scissors and glue, re-create your edited picture. Take a picture of this, and put it on your blog near the digitally edited picture. Discuss (in writing) which method you liked better, and the pros and cons OR similarities and differences of the two methods.

Map of Cedar Springs. Take the pictures from your photo scavenger hunt, and "cut" them out. Place them on the map where the picture was taken. Post to your blog when done.
Illustrate your creative group story. I suggest a Google Presentation so that you are all able to add to it. In the notes section, state who is responsible for this page.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Conservation, week 7

Students will be able to discuss the relationship between topography and pollution. Students will be able to discuss the contamination plumes. Students will be able to define alternative energy.

Monday

Review: topographic maps
Finish topographic map from last week - Who done it? activity

Tuesday

Using your topographic map of your area, have a partner place a contamination site on it
What direction will the water flow in your area?
Where will the contamination plume go?
If I only told you that the soil was contaminated, why is it important which direction that the water will flow?

Wednesday