Deep Thinking Friday: Scutoids

 

Stock Market Introductions

Give yourself some background knowledge in the Stock Market.  Watch the following videos, and jot down any questions they lead you to have. 

 

This Warren Buffett video is a long one... you won't have time to see it all, but it's great stuff to think about if you want to watch the rest on your own sometime...

NHD 2022: Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, and Consequences

 

 

 

 

More sites to help:

NHD Theme Page (this is referred to in the second video)

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

Independent Project Reflections

Now that you're done presenting your projects, write a blog post sharing and reflecting on your experience. Include the following: 

1. Start a new blog post.
2. Embed your project into your blog. 
3. Briefly describe your project, both your topic and the format in which you presented. 
4. What do/did you like most about your project? Explain. 
5.  What was the hardest part of this project, and why? 
6. How did you improve yourself as a learner or as a student during the process of this project? Explain. 
7.  If you could do the whole thing over again, what would you change and/or improve? Why? 
8.  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, please include them at the end. 
9. Publish your blog post, and submit the link on the Canvas assignment. 
10. After you publish, please comment on the posts of at least three other people. 
11. When you finish, you may visit any link under Idleness Prevention Society at the left-hand side of this blog.

DTF: What are ideas?

 

Deep Thinking Friday 9/23/21

Watch the following TED talk.  Make 3 connections to your own life, your own school, your own town, and/or your world.  Put those connections in the Canvas discussion online for your class.

Sports and Games Around the World

5th grade GOAL Students

The link below will take you to a Google Doc.  Check out the sites on that Google Doc and read about sports and games around the world that Americans don't know much about.  Choose one that you will research and teach the class.  Once you have a topic, start your own Google Doc with facts about your sport or game.  Don't forget to document your sources (you need at least 3 different sources on your topic) so you can make a bibliography as part of the project.

Go to the following link: https://docs.google.com/a/fairfieldsfuture.org/document/d/1wFDz0OtPfFUk3yLdlO87devAqSrT2er8xGewsh-3O5c/edit?usp=sharing

Archimedes and His Inventions

Watch the following videos. On a post-it note, write your name along with your thoughts.  What do you notice?  What do you observe?  What do you wonder? 

 

Flexible Seating Form

 Please answer the questions on the GOAL Flexible Seating Form.

Deep Thinking Friday: Fermi Paradox

 

 

Watch the video above.  Write something you notice, observe, or wonder in the Padlet here. (10 pts).  Rank other posts with stars.

GOAL Class Mission Statement

 Go to this link and complete the survey to help create a GOAL Class Mission Statement: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2Cc1I270YQhp9dVm9sUNn7SWkGww91B-c8VVW_DlWjr3e_Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

 

Here is an active link to the example site given within the survey: https://www.missionstatements.com/school_mission_statements.html

When you're done with the survey, you can check out any of the activities in the "Idleness Prevention Society" section along the lefthand margin of this blog.

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.