Create-A-Country

 For those of you who are done, complete the following:

1. Start a new blog post.  Call it "Create-A-Country."
2. Take a picture of your map.  Add it to your post.
3. Take a screenshot of your flag or a picture of your flag on the board.  Add it to your post.
4. Embed your Google Doc with all your country's facts.  (File, Publish to the Web, Embed, Publish... then, copy and past the code into the html section on your blog). Use this link if you'd like to watch a video on how to do this.  The video shows a slideshow, but the process is pretty much the same for a Google Doc.
5. Write paragraphs on your post answering each of the following:
1. Tell about how you came up with your country's name.
2. Tell about your favorite part of the country you created.
3. Tell about the most fun part of the project.
4. Tell about the hardest part of the project.
5. Tell about the part you're most proud of in your project.
6. Publish!
   

Images of Greatness Reflection

 This quarter has been all about Images of Greatness.  Using elaborated communication, reflect and respond on a new blog post to the following:

1. Upload an image of you with your display board. 
   
2. Who was your Image of Greatness?  Why are they great, and what about them do you admire?
3. What part of your work on this unit makes you most proud?  Explain.
   
4. How does your project meet each letter of our Class Mission Statement?
• We Grow by challenging ourselves and each other.
• We Overcome our limits and failures.
• We Advance our thinking and our expectations.
• We Learn today to improve tomorrow.
5. How could you improve your work on this unit?  What would you do differently?

Publish, and then comment on the posts of others in GOAL when you're finished.

Stock Market Resources

 7th grade GOAL students:

Look for companies and parent companies of products you already know, use, buy, value, and respect.  Compare their prices and their histories.  Explore all the outside links on The Stock Market Game site, and use the other resources below.  We'll start trading next week!

More Resource Links for The Stock Market Game:
http://money.cnn.com/data/us_markets/
http://www.marketwatch.com/
http://markets.wsj.com/
http://eoddata.com/symbols.aspx

The CRAAP Test

Rubik's Cube Reflections

 5th grade GOAL:

Now that you've had some time to ponder your experience with Rubik's Cubes, start a new blog post and reflect on the following questions:

1. What was the hardest part of trying to solve Rubik's cubes?  Explain.
2. How did you feel if/when you finally got a side, completed an algorithm, and/or solved the cube?  Describe.
3. What are the life lessons that people can learn from Rubik's cubes?
4. What advice do you have for other kids trying to solve Rubik's cubes?
5. What advice do you have for other kids trying to do hard things? 

After you've published your post, comment on the posts of your classmates.

Independent Project Reflections

 Now that you're done presenting your projects, share and reflect on your experience.  Include the following:

• Make sure you've submitted your project on Canvas.
  
• Now reflect on Canvas.  Briefly describe your project, both your topic and the format in which you presented. 
• What do/did you like most about your project?  Explain. 
• Were you prepared to present on the due date?  Did you use your time wisely in class?  Explain your work ethic during the project work time.
  
• If you could do the whole thing over again, what would you change and/or improve?  Why?
• How does your project meet each letter of our Class Mission Statement?
• We Grow by challenging ourselves and each other.
• We Overcome our limits and failures.
• We Advance our thinking and our expectations.
• We Learn today to improve tomorrow.
  
• If you have any genuine suggestions for Mrs. Edlin about how to improve this assignment or how to make this project more meaningful to future students.
  

 

Submit your reflection.  When you finish, you may visit any link under Idleness Prevention Society at the left-hand side of this blog.

 

 

 

 

Mock Trial Reflection

6th grade GOAL students:

Answer the following questions in paragraph form on your Canvas reflection assignment.  Look over your work, and be thorough.  You do not have to copy the questions, but you need to set your paragraphs up so anyone reading your blog will know what the question was (TASTE method).

1. What jobs have you had in Mock Trial?  What has been good about them?  What has been challenging about them?  Explain.
2. Do you think you'd ever be interested in a career in the field of Law?  Why or why not?
3. What questions do you still have about how our Legal system works?
4. Watch the following TED talk.  Start at 5:30.  After watching the TED talk, reflect on what it made you think about concerning the topics of injustice, fairness, punishment, and equality.  Write a comment on this blog post including some of your thoughts.

Book Trailers

 Look at these examples of student-created book trailers.

Be thinking of a trailer you'd like to produce to get kids interested in reading a book you love! 

A few rules:

• Less than 2 minutes!
• No more than 10 slides!
• Try for 10 words or less per slide!
• Use iMovie, Google Slides, Powtoon, Adobe Spark, Animoto, or any other format you're familiar with or want to learn!
  

Shark Tank Project Reflections

picture from Wikipedia
 

Reflect on your Shark Tank Projects.  In a new blog post, complete the following tasks and answer the following questions in paragraph form.

• Upload your pitch visual to your blog.  It might be the picture of your poster or your actual slideshow.
• Explain your pitch.
• How did you come up with your idea?
• What was the best part of your project?
• What would you improve if you had more time?
• What did you learn about problem solving from the Computer Science Discoveries unit?
• What did you learn about computers from the Computer Science Discoveries unit?
• Describe your experience of actually pitching your idea to the Sharks.
  
• Besides your own project, which one in your class was your favorite?  Why? 

When you're done, publish your post.  Copy the url and paste it to the assignment submission on Canvas to be graded.  

 Read posts from your classmates and comment on at least two others.

Deep Thinking Friday: 9/30/20: Amazing Insects

 

 

What do you notice?  What do you observe?  What do you wonder?