Plan for your Regatta

• Draw on paper
• Use SketchUp
• Save 6 different views (front, back, bottom, top, sides) with measurements
• Build a model
• Determine surface area
• Determine buoyancy

• calculations 

Agenda: Monday, 5/16/16

• Stellar Evolution
• Regatta:
• Each assignment must be approved by Ozias or Coop before moving on to the next. That begins with Executive Plans which are due today!!!!!!!
• Workshop: working with SketchUp
• Draw it first
• Use the metric system
• Plans are due tomorrow.
• Calculations due on Wednesday
• Boat Models due Thursday
• All missing Technology work must be turned in by Wednesday in class.

Agenda: Friday 5/13/16

Stars and Stellar Evolution

Turn in Regatta Executive Plan

Turn in project storyboard for disaster film

Agenda: Thursday, 5/12/16

Regatta-y stuff

Groups

Agenda: Tuesday, 5/10/16

1.  Regatta Group Suggestions (form)

2. Rock Stars! Disaster Film Project

• Finalize who is in your video group
• Brainstorm and Discuss ideas for the film (which science topics will you use?)
• Storyboarding
• Begin sketching the movie poster (look at other box office busting film posters to get some ideas!)

3. Finish work on timelines

• due Wednesday; if you are doing something unusually complex and need a different due date, you will need to negotiate with Mr. Ozias)
• Assignment details for the time line.
• Instructions for adding interactivity to Google Slides
• Example of interactivity in a Google Slide

Agenda: Monday 5/9/16

1. Here comes the Sun...

• Sun Vocabulary
• Sun Vocabulary Assignment (google classroom)
• Sun Parts Worksheet

2. Work on timelines (due Wednesday; if you are doing something unusually complex and need a different due date, you will need to negotiate with Mr. Ozias)

Assignment details for the time line.

Instructions for adding interactivity to Google Slides

Example of interactivity in a Google Slide

3. Regatta Group Suggestions (form)

Agenda: Friday, 5/6/16

• Work on timelines (due Wednesday; if you are doing something unusually complex and need a different due date, you will need to negotiate with Mr. Ozias)
  
  
• Assignment details for the time line.
• Instructions for adding interactivity to Google Slides







Example of interactivity in a Google Slide

Agenda: Thursday, 5/5/16

• Space: how we know stuff (slideshow)
• Let's make a time line again!!! (It's a swipe to the left; and three clicks to the right!)
• Brainstorm content
• Research
• Create
• Tech tools: 
• Photoshop
• Keynote
• Other???
• Design principles

Agenda: Wednesday 5/4/16

Our place in space! Hint: space is really, really, really big.

Group planet distance line

Photoshop assignments were due yesterday. Turn yours in via Classroom if you haven't already.

Agenda: Tuesday, 5/3/16

• Earth Quake!
• Animation?

Agenda: Monday, 5/2/16

• The History of Everything (in just 230 meters)
• A Packet! Yay! A Packet! Look out! Chapter 13 is coming for you!
• Finish and submit your Photoshop assignment.
• Other photo editors (in smaller groups)
• Chrome: Polarr (also available for iOs, Android, Mac (10.10 and up), and Windows 10 (Mac and Windows also have paid versions)
• Snapseed (iOs and Android)
• Some other tech magic happens.

Agenda: Friday, 4/29/16

• Did you remember to turn in edited photo (instructions are here)?
• Turn in your packets?
• Photoshop: Introduction to Compositing


• Guidelines
• Shoot from the same angles
• Use solid backgrounds
• Sketch out ideas
• Design
• Rule of Thirds
• Consistency of light and color
• Use guidelines
• Use foreground, middle ground, and background; overlappping.
• Techniques
• Selection
• Pixels: how it works
• Solid background wih contrast
• Quick selection brush
• Magic Wand
• Feathering
• Filters


•  Work on Extraordinary Circumstances Assignment
• 
  
• 
  
• Probably Not Today:
• Review NTKs and what we have learned. Each group will take one of the following terms and explain it to the class using a visual.
1. Exposure
2. Selection
3. Layers
4. Contrast
5. Levels
6. Cropping and The Rule of Thirds
7. Saturation

Agenda: Thursday, 4/28/16

Did you remember to turn in edited photo (instructions are here)?

Turn in your packets?

Photoshop: Introduction to Compositing

• Guidelines
• Shoot from the same angles
• Use solid backgrounds
• Sketch out ideas
• Design
• Rule of Thirds
• Consistency of light and color
• Use guidelines
• Use foreground, middle ground, and background; overlappping.
• Techniques
• Selection
• Pixels: how it works
• Solid background wih contrast
• Quick selection brush
• Magic Wand
• Feathering
• Filters

 Work on Extraordinary Circumstances Assignment

Agenda: Wednesday, 4/27/16

• Beginning of class: turn in edited photo (instructions are here)
• Photo Observations
• Small group: look at the pictures in this document and answer the questions.
• Share out and discuss.
• Photoshop 
• Review NTKs and what we have learned. Each group will take one of the following terms and explain it to the class using a visual.
1. Exposure
2. Selection
3. Layers
4. Contrast
5. Levels
6. Cropping and The Rule of Thirds
7. Saturation
• Notes: Introduction to Compositing
• Guidelines
• Shoot from the same angles
• Use solid backgrounds
• Sketch out ideas
• Design
• Rule of Thirds
• Consistency of light and color
• Use guidelines
• Use foreground, middle ground, and background; overlappping.
• Techniques
• Selection
• Pixels: how it works
• Solid background wih contrast
• Quick selection brush
• Magic Wand
• Feathering
• Filters
• Extraordinary Circumstances Assignment

Agenda: 4/26/16

• Photoshop and photo editing
• composition
• cropping
• rule of thirds
• changing color and value
• levels/histograms
• contrast
• hue/saturation
• selection tools for selective edits
• Assignment: 
• try the different tools available to you
• take an okay photo and make it better. List the changes you made (hint: take screenshots at different stages)
• Packet time
• Reading Guides and chapters are available here.

Agenda: Monday, 4/25/16

• Discuss change in plans for the year.
• Due date for the current project=moved back (TBA)
• Regatta
• Photoshop and photo editing
• composition
• cropping
• rule of thirds
• changing color and value
• levels/histograms
• contrast
• hue/saturation
• selection tools for selective edits
• Other photo editors (in smaller groups)
• Chrome: Polarr (also available for iOs, Android, Mac (10.10 and up), and Windows 10 (Mac and Windows also have paid versions)
• Snapseed (iOs and Android)
• Assignment: 
• try the different tools available to you
• take an okay photo and make it better. List the changes you made (hint: take screenshots at different stages)
• Packet time
• Reading Guides and chapters are available here.

Agenda, Friday 4/21/16

Catch Up Day!

Work on your packets.
Reading guides and chapters are available here.

The three packets due today should be placed on Ms. Coop's desk.

If you are done with all 5 packets, you can get a head start on next week's packet (it's on Coop's desk)
OR you can play with Photoshop (because trying things is how we learn!)

Agenda, Thursday 4/21/16

Rock on! Finish being rock detectives.
Reading Guides and chapters are available here.


Good free photo editor for Chrome: Polarr (also available for iOs, Android, Mac (10.10 and up), and Windows 10 (Mac and Windows also have paid versions)

Intro to Photoshop

Agenda, Wednesday 4/20/16

• TODAY:
• How to turn in your photos
• Geologic time: relative age dating
• Extra copies available under "Projects" tab in "Earth Science Resources" folder

• HOMEWORK: 
• Reading Guides for chapters 3, 9, 10 due Friday 4/22
• Reading Guide for chapter 12 due Tuesday 4/26
• Textbook pages are available under the "Projects" tab in "Earth Science Resources" folder
• Extra copies of reading guides are available under the "Projects" tab in "Assignments" folder

• Tech Homework (due today):
• Take three pictures of the same subject using different exposure settings. Insert them into the slideshow provided for you in Google Classroom. Explain what specific changes in between each image.
• 2nd-3rd hour
• 4th-5th hour
• If you have a mobile device that you are using as a camera, download Snapseed (free)
• iOS
• Android
• Extra Credit: have a cool pic from today that shows off what can be done with a camera? Upload it to the "Cool Pics" assignment in Google Classroom
• Mobile Camera Apps
• Suggested apps for manual camera control:
• Android:
• Open Camera
• VSCO
• The stock photo app on LG phones has manual controls built in
• iOs
• VSCO
• tutorial
• The stock Apple photo app now has manual controls (links to tutorials here and here).

Agenda, Tuesday 3/19/16

• Earth Science
• Volcanoes 
• HOMEWORK: Reading Guides for chapters 3, 9, 10 due Friday 4/22
• Textbook pages are available under the "Projects" tab in "Earth Science Resources" folder
• Extra copies of reading guides are available under the "Projects" tab in "Assignments" folder

• Tech Homework (due tomorrow):
• Take three pictures of the same subject using different exposure settings. Insert them into the slideshow provided for you in Google Classroom. Explain what specific changes in between each image.
• 2nd-3rd hour
• 4th-5th hour
• If you have a mobile device that you are using as a camera, download Snapseed (free)
• iOS
• Android
• Extra Credit: have a cool pic from today that shows off what can be done with a camera? Upload it to the "Cool Pics" assignment in Google Classroom
• Mobile Camera Apps
• Suggested apps for manual camera control:
• Android:
• Open Camera
• VSCO
• The stock photo app on LG phones has manual controls built in
• iOs
• VSCO
• tutorial
• The stock Apple photo app now has manual controls (links to tutorials here and here).

Agenda: Monday, 4/18/16

• Intro to cameras part II
• Shutter speed, exposure compensation, and pre-focus
• Suggested apps for manual camera control:
• Android:
• Open Camera
• VSCO
• The stock photo app on LG phones has manual controls built in
• iOs
• VSCO
• tutorial
• The stock Apple photo app now has manual controls (links to tutorials here and here).
• Practice taking pictures
• Homework:
• Take three pictures of the same subject using different exposure settings. Insert them into the slideshow provided for you in Google Classroom. Explain what specific changes in between each image.
• 2nd-3rd hour
• 4th-5th hour
• If you have a mobile device that you are using as a camera, download Snapseed (free)
• iOS
• Android
• Extra Credit: have a cool pic from today that shows off what can be done with a camera? Upload it to the "Cool Pics" assignment in Google Classroom

Agenda: Friday, 4/15/16

• Earth Science quiz; use your notes!
• Intro to cameras: apertures

Agenda: Thursday 4/13/16

Entry Doc
Plate Tectonics
Maybe cameras

Agenda: Wednesday 4/13/16

PSAT

Rock Samples

Agenda: Tuesday 4/12/16

No School: SAT

Agenda: Monday 4/11/16

Intro to OzCoop's "Rock Star!" video project

Rock Cycle

Agenda: Friday 4/8/16

Science test corrections

Multichoice Test

Agenda: Thursday 3/7/16

Project Feedback
-what did you learn about group work?

Character Ed.

Groups

• Contracts? or something else...
• Project boards?
• How does the Internet work?

Makeup Points/conferences

For those who are failing Tech: here is a list of assignments and their resources.

Agenda Wednesday 4/6/16

Pre-ID for the PSAT.

Agenda: Tuesday 4/5/16

Earth Science Test

Agenda: Monday 4/4/16

Welcome back!

Check thy grades. Make passing happen.

Project wrap-up:

• Who did what? 
• Share one copy between the group, Ozias, and Coop
• Project reflection (in Classroom)
• How did your group function during this project? What went well? What would you do differently? What do you need help with?
• What was something(s) that you learned that you thought was valuable?
• Peer Evaluation
• 2nd/3rd hour
• 4th/5th hour

Test Review

Agenda: Monday, 3/21/16

Happy Spring!

This week:

• Project presentations due Tuesday
• Rubric
• Late work due Wednesday
• Earth Science test Thursday
• Study Guide

Bees!

Agenda: Wednesday, 3/16/16

If you missed the test yesterday, please take it today. HTML Test Answers go here.

Product life cycle notes were due yesterday in Google Classroom.

Today:

• Turn in your notes on environmentally-sound (or "Green") practices;  due today in Google Classroom.

• Turn in your notes (take pictures if they are on paper). Include an explanation of why the sources you used are valid.

• Work on project.

• Intro to Blogger

Google Resources

Google's tutorials

Agenda: Tuesday 3/15/16

HTML Test Answers

Turn in your product life cycle notes in Google Classroom.
Turn in your notes (take pictures if they are on paper). Include an explanation of why the sources you used are valid.

Agenda: Monday 3/14/16

1. Finish sharing results from Other Human Impacts Research Groups

2. Project work time:

• Research on product life cycles (includes environmental impact at each stage) due 3/15
• Research on green design and best practices (for business and products) due 3/17

Coming Up Tomorrow: HTML/CSS Test 3/15 

study guide here.
HTML info here
HTML Cheat Sheet is available too.

Agenda: Friday 3/11/16

1. Other Human Impacts Research Groups

2. Share Results

3. Project work time:

• Research on product life cycles (includes environmental impact at each stage) due 3/15
• Research on green design and best practices (for business and products) due 3/17

Coming Up: HTML/CSS Test 3/15 

study guide here.
HTML info here

Agenda: Thursday 3/10/16

Today's Work:

Lab Debrief
Nitrogen Gone Wild

Discuss Project Next Steps:

• website set-up
• project life cycles
• green design
• best practices

Research time

HTML/CSS test on Tuesday; study guide here.

Turn in:

personal web site (past due) submit as a zip file in Google Classroom
infographic (individual): submit in Google Classroom

Agenda: Wednesday 3/9/16

Today's Work:

Lab: the Nitrogen Cycle

Work time for finishing infographics

• Example
• Design guidelines

Turn in:

• personal web site (past due) submit as a zip file in Google Classroom
• infographic (individual): submit in Google Classroom

Agenda: Tuesday 3/8/16

Today:

Work on infographic assignment

Stuff that is past due:

• Earth Science
• Business idea form
• Ch. 21 reading guide
• Carbon web
• Carbon data analysis (the graph thing)
• Make a city (the continent thing)
• Webquest
• Technology
• Contract
• Group poster
• Principles of Design notes
• Website
• Infographic analysis

Agenda: Monday 3/7/16

Stuff that is due:

• Earth Science
• Business idea form
• Ch. 21 reading guide
• Carbon web
• Carbon data analysis (the graph thing)
• Make a city (the continent thing)
• Webquest
• Technology
• Contract
• Group poster
• Principles of Design notes
• Website
• Infographic analysis
• Lifecycle of a cellphone infographic

Today

• Turn in website and Infographic analysis (both in Google classroom)
• Lifecycle of a cellphone infographic assignment
• Work time

Coming up:

• Nitrogen cycle
• Final project work time

Agenda: Friday 3/4/16

Check To-do list and calendar

Due Today:

• webquest

Due Monday:

• Personal web site project requirements (due Monday)
• Principles of Design (slide show available here)
• HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet

Today:

• Work on website
• Intro to infographics
• Examples:
• Infographic 1
• Infographic 2
• Infographic 3
• Assignment: annotate one of the infographic examples to show how it was designed (see Google Classroom)
• Assignment: create an infographic about the lifecycle of a cellphone
• Planning process

Agenda: Thursday 3/3/16

Check To-do list and calendar

2nd/3rd

• Personal web site project requirements (due Monday)
• Principles of Design (slide show available here)
• Work on website

4th/5th

• Personal web site project requirements (due Monday)
• Principles of Design (slide show available here)
• What makes a well-designed website?
• World's Worst Web Site
• As a group, pick a site from the CSS Zen Garden (index of designs here) and analyze what what makes the design good. Take notes and turn in.
• Report out to the class and discuss.
• Notes on principles of design.
• Finish webquest (due tomorrow)

Agenda: Tuesday 3/1/16 & Wednesday 3/2/16

Snow Day !

Agenda: Monday 2/29/16

• Character Ed: Reducing school stress through organization
• How to use a to-do list
• How to use a calendar
• Challenge: try these strategies for one week
• Finish working on Earth Science webquest

Agenda: Thursday 2/25/16 & Friday 2/26/16

Snow Days!

Agenda: Wednesday 2/24/16

COP21 WebQuest

Web sites

• demonstration of layout using CSS
• Personal web site project requirements (due Thursday)
• World's Worst Web Site
• CSS Zen Garden
• index of designs

Agenda: Tuesday 2/23/16

Notes on Climate Change

Web sites

• demonstration of layout using CSS
• Personal web site project requirements (due Thursday)

Agenda: Wednesday 2/17/16

Turn in these assignments:

Graphing CO2 Data here

Chapter 21 Reading Guide  (Ch. 21 available here)

As a group, begin researching the life cycle of a cell phone in terms of:

• raw materials
• manufacturing 
•  transportation
• use
• disposal

Intro to CSS

HTML Cheat Sheet

Agenda: Tuesday 2/16/16

• Counselors are here to talk about graduation requirements and transcripts
• Use the Graduation planner shared with you in Google Classroom to plan out your high school career.
• 4/5: Green House gases
• Greenhouse gases notes can be found here.
• Graphing CO2 Data here
• Chapter 21 Reading Guide (due Wednesday)
• Reading Guide
• Ch. 21

Agenda: 2-12-16

"Hello?...Yes, just a second...Hey, it's Phone Jail and it's calling for you."

• 4/5: Carbon Web
• All: Green House gases
• Greenhouse gases notes can be found here.
• Graphing CO2 Data here
• Chapter 21 Reading Guide (due Wednesday)
• Reading Guide
• Ch. 21

Website Creation Resources

Text Editor for Chrome

HTML Cheat Sheet

How to Code a Website

Agenda: Thursday 2/11/2016

Spirit Week!

Did you turn in:
*Project: Business idea and products?
*Finish Carbon web assignment?

Learn HTML.

• Download a text editor
• Plain text vs. word processing
• file types and extensions
• Open a text editor and create a folder with a blank text document.
• Cheatsheet for html tags.
• Practice.
• Bases on what you know, with a partner draw a diagram of how you think the internet works. Include questions about vague areas.

Review carbon web.
Greenhouse gases notes can be found here.

Agenda: Wednesday 2/10/16

Spirit Week: Crazy Day!


*Project: Business idea and products assignment due today.

*Finish Carbon web assignment. It is due today.


Review carbon web.
Greenhouse gases notes can be found here.
Learn HTML.

• Download a text editor
• Plain text vs. word processing
• file types and extensions
• Open a text editor and create a folder with a blank text document.
• Learn about tags.
• Practice.

Agenda: Tuesday 2/9/16

Spirit Week: Kings and Queens!



Project assignment here. This is due tomorrow.

Carbon and the Carbon Cycle notes here.

Activity: Making a Carbon Web. The directions are here. This assignment is due tomorrow.

Agenda: Monday 2/8/16

Spirit Week: PJ Day!


Unit 4 Entry Doc and NTKs

Project: Create a business, Identify products

Agenda

Contract
Plastic-stuff
Entry Doc

Agenda: Monday 2/1/16

PSA projects DUE TODAY

PSA Rubric here

Agenda: 1/25/16- 1/29/16

Work on PSA projects (due 2/1)

PSA topic list here

PSA Rubric here

Agenda: Tuesday-Friday, 1/19/16-1/22/16

Study for Exams
Exam Schedule can be found here.


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Answer Form for Technology Exam

Agenda: Friday 1/15/16

U3 Test make-up for Thursday's absentees

Final Exam Concepts: The Ozone Layer is NOT related to Global Warming

Study time




U3 Test Corrections:

• Matching retakes will be given Tuesday
• Online section questions click here
• Online section results will be emailed to you today
• Only corrections in proper format will be accepted!
• corrections format click here 
• All corrections are due Tuesday

Agenda: Thursday 1/14/16

U3 Test: Freshwater and Us

Study time

PSA work time

Agenda: Wednesday 1/13/16

Workshop: B-Roll & Chromakey (take notes)

Work on projects

Animation Notes




Exam Schedule can be found here.

• Tech Midterm Review available here.

Agenda: Tuesday 1/12/15

Tech Midterm Review

Work on exam reviews
Work on projects




Exam Schedule can be found here.

1. Try understand your topic
1. Type your topic into Google. Read or skim several (4-5) sites. What do you notice? What do they have in common?
2. Talk to others in your group. What did each of you learn? Put your ideas together.
2. As a group, identify your main points:
1. What is the problem you want to solve?
2. What information will your audience need to understand the problem?
3. What do you want the audience to do about the problem?
3. Research and gather any information you need to support your main points.
4. Begin planning your project.
1. What are the most effective ways you can: 
1. engage your audience? 
2. communicate your ideas to them?
2. What resources will you need?
3. How will you organize your project?
1. Structure: Intro, Body, Conclusion (talk to Deb) 
2. Argument/Persuasion: 
1. Claim, 
2. reasons, 
3. evidence (ethos, logos, pathos) 
5. Create your project
6. Get feedback and refine it.
7. Present

Technology Exam Review (preliminary)

• Google Tools/collaboration
• How computers work
• Parts and functions of a computer
• How information flows
• What do computers really do?
• spreadsheets
• research:
• types of sources
• validity
• Animation
• Spread Sheets 
• Header rows/columns 
• Format cell for data type 
• Formulas and functions 
• Basic math functions, parentheses 
• Shortcuts 
• Graphing Data 
• Merge and format cells 

• Transfer to text document 
• Fill down 
• Relative vs. absolute cell references 

Agenda: 1/7/16

Today:

• Finish Freshwater notes (4th hour)
• Discuss research
• Validity
• Sources
• Research to understand topic
• Develop project

Agenda: Wednesday 1/6/16

Animations due Thursday



Humans and Freshwater Resources Notes



PSA Topics

Agenda: Tuesday 1/5/16

Poster Rubrics

Collective notes on humans and freshwater resources

Work on animations

Agenda: Monday 1/4/16

Go over Unit 2 test corrections

Work on animations

Semester grades calculations

Agenda: Monday 12/14/15

1. Finish Groundwater workshop
2. Learn about research:
1. Go to GCFLearnfree.org and do the following:
2. Read through the tutorials on search skills.
3. Complete this journal (2nd-3rd hour | 4th-5th hour):
1. 3-2-1
• Three things I learned
• Two strategies I plan to use
• One question I still have
2. How do you know if a web site is valid?
3. Create a poster
1. Read the instructions for the Poster project assignment.
2. Research
1. Create a shared Google doc for your notes. 
2. Label what each person contributes. 
3. Include sources (copy-and-paste the web addresses).
3. Create your poster.

Posters and Water cycle animations will be presented in class on Wednesday.

Agenda Friday 12/11/15

Congratulations to our students who earned pancakes this morning!


Post Lab discussion
Water cycle animations
Coding

Groundwater: shaping the subsurface

Agenda: Thursday 12/10/15

Stream Table Lab

Learning to Code!

Agenda: Wednesday 12/8/15

Pre-Lab Lecture
Streams  :shaping the landscape


Water cycle animations

Earth Science Test Corrections formatting/how to do them
     part 1 of the test 

(DUE TODAY)

Agenda: Tuesday 12/8/15

Breakfast survey

4th hour: Water Cycle Overview

Plan idea for water cycle animations

Intro to animation


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Earth Science Test Corrections formatting/how to do them
     part 1 of the test 

(due Wednesday)

Agenda: Monday, 12/7/15

Technology Retake

Water Cycle Overview

Earth Science Test Corrections formatting/how to do them
     part 1 of the test 

(due Wednesday)

Agenda: Friday, 12/4/15

• Finish Group Contracts #squadgoals
• Make your group requirements concrete and enforceable.
• Vocabulary Dances
• Water Cycle Overview

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Coming Up:
Earth Science Test Corrections formatting/how to do them
     part 1 of the test 

(due next Wednesday)

Test retake is Monday. You MUST have your right/wrong answers form AND notes on the wrong answers in order to take the test.

Agenda: Thursday 12/3/15

• Finish Group Contracts #squadgoals
• Make your group requirements concrete and enforceable.
• Go over tech quiz
• Use the quiz evaluation form to identify what you need to study
• Take notes during the test review. 
• Test retake is Monday. You MUST have your right/wrong answers form AND notes on the wrong answers in order to take the test.
• Vocabulary Dances
• Water Cycle Overview

Earth Science Test Corrections formatting/how to do them
     part 1 of the test 

(due next Wednesday)

Agenda: Wednesday 12/2/15

• Finish NTKs
• Create Group Contracts #squadgoals
• Make your group requirements concrete and enforceable.
• Vocabulary Dances
• Technology Make-ups

Earth Science Test Corrections formatting/how to do them
     part 1 of the test 

(due next Wednesday)

Agenda: Tuesday 12/1/15

Earth Science Test Corrections : part 1
& Technology test make-ups

New project: H₂O and Us!

• Analyze this web page
• what are the facts you notice?
• what do they imply?
• Entry Document:
• Individually:
• Underline practical stuff
• Circle or highlight content
• What are the implied NTKs?
• As a group:
• Knows/Need to Knows
• Group Contracts #squadgoals
• Next Steps

Agenda: Monday

• Let's learn about Google:

1. The following websites have tutorials about different Google Apps. You will use these sites to learn something:
1. http://learn.googleapps.com/
2. http://www.gcflearnfree.org/googledocuments
2. Everyone: start with a tutorial on Google Drive. Read/view the tutorial (use earbuds for videos!). Then try to do whatever the tutorial showed you how to do.
3. Then: pick another topic.
1. Read/view the tutorial
2. Then try to do whatever the tutorial showed you how to do for yourself (example: if it showed you how to create a folder, then try creating a folder)
4. When you are done, complete this journal (post in Classroom)


1. Name one thing you learned. How do you know you learned it?
2. How did learning using an online tutorial work for you? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Make up test

part 1

Happy Thanksgiving!

Agenda Tuesday 11/24/15

Lots to do today!

• First, take the technology test
1. Take the test.
2. Turn in the test booklet But not the answer sheet).
3. Input your answers on this form.
4. Turn in your answer sheet.
• Then complete these two items:
• Project Reflection journal (2/3 and 4/5)
• Peer Evaluation (2/3 and 4/5) (please include yourself in your evaluations)
• Make-up presentations

Happy Thanksgiving!

Agenda: Monday 11/23/15

• Beginning of Class tasks
• Earth Science test part 1
• Earth Science test part 2
• Project debrief
• Reflection journal (2/3 and 4/5)
• Peer Evaluation (2/3 and 4/5)
• Prep for Earth Science Test (Monday
• Prep for Technology test (Tuesday)
• Study Guide

11/22/15

• some stuff
• some more stuff
• www.google.com

Agenda: Friday 11/20/15

• How to use a study guide
• Prep for Earth Science Test (Monday
• Prep for Technology test (Tuesday)
• Study Guide

Agenda: Thursday 11/18/15

Today:

Beginning of class

• Starting work

Our Focus today:

• 
  
• Study Guide (ES)

Tonight:

• Study for Earth Science

Coming Up:

• Earth Science test on Friday
• Technology Spreadsheet Quiz on Monday

Agenda: Wednesday

Today:

• Finish Presentations

Coming Up:

• Earth Science test on Friday
• Technology Spreadsheet Quiz on Monday

Agenda: Tuesday 11/17/15

Time to screen some vision!

In Class:

1. Take this survey on organization.
2. Take this self-assessment on Google skills.
3. Presentations

Agenda: Monday 11/16/15

Prepare for Project 2 presentations

Begin presentations

Agenda: Friday 11/13/15

Project Rubric

Research

• PCS Energy Usage

Our school: 350,000 square feet

Statistics on average school energy consumption

Be ready for Monday!

Agenda: Thursday 11/12/15

• Project Rubric
• Research
• PCS Energy Usage
• Workshop: animating a 3D model
• Our school: 350,000 square feet
• Statistics on average school energy consumption
• According to this, on average a school of our size uses approximately 3.5 million kWh of electricity per year.

Agenda: Wednesday 11/11/15

Research
PCS Energy Usage

Agenda: Tuesday 11/10/15

• Don't let your cell phone go to Cell Phone Jail
• Finish Fossil Fuel presentations
• debrief
• Rubric
• Research sources
• Work time

Agenda: Monday 11/9/15

Fossil fuel presentations

Agenda: Friday 11/6/15

A visit from Link Crew.
Fossil Fuel debate presentations

Agenda: Thursday 11/5/15

Check Thy Grades!

Fossil Fuels Debate (due Friday)

•         Directions
•        Groups:
•         2/3 Hours
•         4/5 Hours
• argument graphic organizer (pages format)
• Research skills: finding sources

Due today:

• slide guide/notes   

Agenda: Wednesday 11/4/15

Check Thy Grades!


Fossil Fuels Formation Activity

• Coal, Oil, Natural Gas
• Oil Shale
• Oil Sand

Fossil Fuels Debate (due Friday)
       
         Directions
     
       Groups:
        2/3 Hours
        4/5 Hours

Making effective arguments

• argument graphic organizer (pages format)

Happy Hump Day!!!

Agenda: Tuesday 11/3/15

• Finish spreadsheet activity
• Alternative Energy part 2
• Reading Guide 2 (due Friday)
• text book here (chapters 1, 2, & 17; pages 94-98, 102-107, & 486-487)
• Work Time: All missing and late work due Wednesday

Agenda: Monday 11/2/15

• Submit meter data 
• Develop Meter spreadsheets 
• DTE charges 2015 here
• Workshop: alternative energy, part 2 
• Reading Guide 2 (23-38) (due Thursday)

Sample Data from class averages

• 32650
• 34985
• 35446
• 36596
• 37936
• 37977