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?

Deep Thinking Friday: Quarantine Edition 5/1/20

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

Deep Thinking Friday: Quarantine Edition, 4/17/20

This video comes from a student recommendation... thanks for sending it, T.H.!  It is indeed mind-blowing!  And, even though we're facing some big challenges right now, this video reminds me that I'm glad to call earth home.  Although, two shadows would be pretty cool.  ;) 

Book Talks from 4/10/20

I've linked all the books that were talked about on Friday in our Zoom session, in case you're interested in reading them sometime.

The Last Boy and Girl in the World

Anne of Green Gables

Adrift

Series of Unfortunate Events (this is linked to book 1... I think there are 13 total?)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Heroes of Olympus (also a series... this link takes you to book 1)

Percy Jackson (another Rick Riordan series... this link takes you to book 1)

Refugee

The Sand Warrior

Darth Vader and Friends

Bravelands (also a series... this is linked to book 1)

Tucket's Travels (this book has 5 Tucket books in one publication)

Deep Thinking Friday: Quarantine Edition 4/10/20

I'm hope to see some of you online today for our Virtual Book Talks and DTF time (see your e-mail for the link), but if you can't come to that, or if you need a little more Deep Thinking Friday, here you go!

Deep Thinking Friday: Quarantine Edition 3/27/20

In case anyone is checking the blog, below are some things to explore for this Deep Thinking Friday.  It's hard to think that the last day we were together was Friday the 13th when our topic was Coronavirus.  It seems like a lifetime ago!  Be well.  Keep reading and thinking and learning.

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

Japanese Chef's Meal Journal

Space Shuttle Thermal Tiles

The Crusher

Balcony Marathon

Tallest Outdoor Elevator in the World

3-D Trick Art

Fingal's Cave (I saw basalt columns like this in Iceland last summer... very cool!)

Comments are welcome, of course!  What cool things are you finding while you're home?  Share with us all!

Deep Thinking Friday

Let's talk Coronavirus!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/03/13/why-everything-is-closing-for-coronavirus-its-called-flattening-the-curve/#2bc741396e2b

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/politics/read-trump-coronavirus-address/index.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/03/03/coronavirus-schools-closing-online-florida-washington-california/4928377002/

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/11/coronavirus-global-panic/

https://grownandflown.com/finest-hour-covid-19/

Coding

Let's work on some coding!

 You may use any of the following options:

https://code.org/ (drag and drop/block coding... this is the beginner level for those who haven't tried coding before)

https://scratch.mit.edu/ (more block coding... this site lets you use your imagination to create more than to solve puzzles like on code.org)

https://www.madewithcode.com/ (several coding activities... I don't know much about this one... maybe you could become our expert on this site!)

https://www.codeschool.com/learn (this is where you can learn different computer programming languages like HTML, JavaScript, and iOS)

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing (a variety of computer programming experiences in the Khan Academy course platform)

https://www.codecademy.com/ (another site to learn different coding languages)

Look through the sites and find an area that interests you.  Decide what you will learn in the next few weeks.   Create an account for yourself using your school e-mail and password, and start learning!