Deep Thinking Friday: Sleeping and Dreaming

Deep Thinking Friday 1/12/18

Surface Tension Experiments

NASA + Origami


B-roll: Origami Solar Array Prototype from JPLraw on Vimeo.

Tesselations and Miura Folds

Origami Robotics

One Word

What is your word?

Watch the three videos above.  

1. Brainstorm YOUR word.
2. Make and decorate a physical copy of your word that will be posted in the classroom.  Use markers, stencils, stickers, crayons, ribbon... whatever you need to make it uniquely yours.
3. Once you have designed your word, write a blog post explaining why you chose it.
4. Find or create a digital image of your word (or take a digital photo of the physical word you made), and include it at the top of your blog post.
5. Comment on the blog posts of at least 5 other students.  Use good commenting skills.

TKAM Blog Post

Now that we're done with the movie, compare and contrast it to the book in a blog post of your own.  Then comment on the posts of others.

• COMPARE means to find similarities.
• CONTRAST means to find differences.
• How did the movie compare to your expectations?
• What would you have changed?
• Was anything better than you imagined it in your mind?
• Include any other relevant thoughts or conclusions.

National History Day, 2018

History Day Resources

The following links can help you with your project for this year's National History Day theme: Conflict and Compromise.

https://www.docsteach.org/topics/nhd

https://www.nhd.org/students

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/finding.html

https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_the_United_Kingdom:_Primary_Documents

http://www.shsulibraryguides.org/worldprimary

http://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289297&p=1929346

https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog

https://www.nhd.org/conflict-and-compromise-history?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq93-1oaZ2AIVgbjACh1irgGcEAAYASAAEgLIuvD_BwE

Financial Literacy Investigation

Investigate all the episodes at http://bizkids.com/show.  Find some of the topics you gave low ratings on our financial literacy pretest.  Educate yourself!  We'll report out what we learned at the end of class.

When you're done, try some of these financial literacy games:

https://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/play

http://www.genirevolution.org/

https://financialentertainment.org/

http://financeintheclassroom.org/student/activities.shtml

https://www.mymoney.gov/Pages/for-youth.aspx

http://www.richkidsmartkid.com/

http://senseanddollars.thinkport.org/

http://bizkids.com/games

https://handsonbanking.org/htdocs/en/k/

Iowa State OPPTAG Experience Reflection

7th grade GOAL:

Reflect on your day in Ames.  Answer the following questions in a thoughtful paragraph.  Back up your opinions with evidence and/or explanation.

Here's a link to the official track titles, if you need them.

• Describe your first class.  What did you learn?  What did you do?  
• Describe your second class.  What did you learn?  What did you do?
• What was the most educational part of your day?  Explain.
• What was something you learned about Iowa State University?
• What was the most fun part of the day?
• If you could give one piece of advice on how to improve the experience, what would you say?  Explain.
• What is your biggest "takeaway?"  In other words, why did we do this?  What did you get out of the experience?

Thesis Statements

Here's a quick and easy guide to writing thesis statements.

Persuasive Paper Topics

Not sure what to write about?  These links might give you some ideas:

https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/writing/persuasive-essay-topics/

https://www.thoughtco.com/persuasive-essay-topics-1856978

http://www.myspeechclass.com/persuasivetopics2.html

http://www.k12reader.com/persuasive-essay-and-speech-topics/

Deep Thinking Friday

Here are some videos to get us thinking about plastic water bottles... why we have them, their impact, and what we can do about the problem of SO MANY of them.  Watch these in any order you'd like.  Comment with your thoughts and ideas.

Plastic Bottle Village from MEL Films on Vimeo.