Conservation, week 9

Questions??

Monday
Students will be able to present on a form of alternative energy.

• student presentations
• Geothermal
• Solar

Tuesday
Students will be able to 

• Articles 
• Green Sidewalks
• Solar Roads
• Student presentations

Wednesday
Students will be able to 
Thursday
Snow day

Friday
Students will be able to 


Presentation Links
Hydroelectric Power
Geothermal 
Solar Energy

Digital Media, week 9

Monday
Students will be able to present their projects.

• Graphic design projects
• Top 10 DIY Music sites

Tuesday
Students will be able to 

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Wednesday
Students will be able to 

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Thursday
Students will be able to 

Friday
Students will be able to 

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 

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.

Research Investigations, week 8

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

1. Read through the web quest from last week
2. What did we find out about bridges?
3. How will we be able to test our bridges?
4. 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.

1. Find your bridge picture and full length picture of yourself.
2. Open Pixlr Editor
3. 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. 
4. Upload to your blog and creatively write about where you are and what you are doing on the bridge.
5. 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.

1. 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.
2. 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

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.