Happenings for December 4th – 9th

8th Grade:

Students have completed the shoe model activity for our manufacturing unit and have begun creating their commercials to advertise their shoes.

 

This commercial is due by this Friday! The next week we will watch the commercials and evaluate each others work. The next activity will be learning about tool names and their uses, machines and their uses and general safety while in the technology lab.

 

4th hour students will be creating a tray our of pallet wood and 7th hour students will be working on gear driven vehicles.

7th Grade:

This class is continuing to learn about architecture and how to design a floor plan. This week they have been on the computers designing an eight room homes and adding landscape details as well. This activity should be completed by Friday but students can continue working next week if needed.

Our next step will be to take our floor plans and draw them out to scale on a large paper.

6th Grade:

We are now in our third week of building game boards and creating rules for our games. There are so many creative ideas going on in our technology lab. I am so excited!!!