Upcoming events for Technology
6th grade Exploring Technology:
For the next three weeks students will be focusing on what technology is and how we use it in our lives. For this unit students are working on a Pict-o-word poster in small groups and then they will be working on a research project. This project has two parts: a one page typed paper about an invention and then a choice of either a timeline or a powerpoint or a model of the invention. Links which may be helpful can be found below:
inventors.about.com
https://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventions.htm
7th grade Foundations of Technology:
Students in this class have been working this past week on creating a label for a bottle. This activity is to help students understand how advertising influences our purchases, Students can make their labels for a pop, coffee, energy or juice drink. Each label is to contain eight items:
- A logo with a description and a promotion (win a prize)
- Nutrition Facts (required by law) which describes the serving size, calories and such.
- Ingredients (also required by law)
- A recycle symbol
- A deposit of 10 cents
- The bar code (what is scanned at the check out)
- Company information (a website or address)
- The size of the bottle (12 fl. oz. or 20 fl. oz.)
To continue our unit on advertising students will next choose a Public Service Announcement (PSA) and create a commercial using power point. A public service announcement does not sell a product but is used to inform the audience. To find examples of PSA’s take a look at the website below:
https://www.psacentral.org/home
We will work on these commercials and showing them to our class over the next two weeks. This is a summative projects (worth 80%)
8th grade Applications of Technology:
We are continuing our energy unit this week with students completing their research and then focusing on creating their energy folder.
