Happenings for February 25th – March 1st

8th Grade:

Students will continue to work on their career templates in class. The template for the brochure as well as career ideas can be found in the iblog from Feburary 22nd. Students can work on the brochure this week until Friday.  Packets and brochures are due no later than Friday. Extra credit for this unit is also due on Friday!

Students who finish early will be directed to the next unit beginning on Wednesday which in on Biotechnology.

*As always students are expected to use their time wisely in class and work on our assignments first before goign onto other activities. Students may bring in a book to read or work from another class ONLY after our work is completed

7th Grade:

Students have been doing an awesome job on their egg crash vehicles so far. I have heard some great group discussions regarding solving contruction problems. Groups are progressing very well! Remember to complete daily task logs and to speak to other groups about their progress on their vehicles. Our goal is to complete the vehicles by Friday with students continuously testing on the ramp to “work out the bugs”. Final testing is slated for March 5th.

6th Grade:

We are beginning the research portion of our Technology and Invention unit this week. Students will need to have chosen a topic by Monday. They will research when the invention was created, where it was invented, who the inventor was, some fun facts about the invention and how their invention is related to others  They will type a one page paper as part of this activity and the second part of the activity will be a choice of a model of the invention or a powerpoint which displays the invention information, including pictures or  a timeline of the invention.