Happenings for December 4th – 8th
8th Grade: Students have begun their unit on safety, tools and machines. They are learning how tools and machines work in the wood shop as well as learning about personal safety in the wood shop. This weeks focus is on how to use the tools, power tools and machines. We are looking at taking the […]
Happenings for November 27th – December 1st
*Welcome back from Thanksgiving break!! 8th Grade: This week we will be finishing up our manufacturing unit. Students should have completed their commercials by Tuesday and then we will watch and critique the commercials on Wednesday and Thursday (if needed). Packets are due on Wednesday, completed. Our next unit will be on hand tool, power […]
Happenings for November 13th-17th
8th Grade: This week students are beginning their commercials for their shoes. They had fun taking pictures of their shoe models and importing them into their power points commercials. Oh, and here are some more shoe model created by our great 8th grade students! 7th Grade: This is our last week for the […]
Belated happenings for Nov 6th-10th
8th Grade: Students have been working on their shoe models this week and we have some really cool designs! See below: Next week we begin commercials to promote our new shoe companies! 7th Grade: This week we worked on our coaster structures and began adding the tracks! 6th Grade: This past week we finished up […]
Happenings for October 30th to November 3rd
8th Grade: This week starts the design of the shoe using Google Sketchup. Students will create a three dimensional rendering of their shoe design. Later this week students will begin building a model of their shoe using recycled materials. Take a look at these examples from the internet. 7th Grade: Students are continuing with […]
Happenings for October 23rd – 27th
8th Grade: This week we will begin with our new activity on Manufacturing. This unit will take about 4 weeks to complete. In this activity students will each form a company which manufactures shoes. Students will learn how manufacturing plays a part in industry, learn about the differences between craft and assembly manufacturing and durable […]
Happenings for October 16th-20th
8th Grade: We continue our unit on biotechnology this week. Students are building their arm models this week and on Thursday they will spend one class period without the use of their non-dominate are and hand. Students absent on Thursday can do the activity on Friday. Our next unit will be on Manufacturing and will […]
Happenings for October 9th – 13th
8th Grade: This week we have completed the energy unit. Students created folders displaying the seven major types of energy sources used in the world. They made books telling stories about an energy source, drew pictures about energy, made a brochure to encourage someone to use an energy source, wrote an article to discourage the […]
Happenings for October 2nd-6th
8th Grade: Students are continuing work on their energy folders. They have been researching the energies used in producing electricity. Those energies are: Fossil Fuels Biomass Geothermal Nuclear Hydroelectric Solar power Wind power This assignment is Due this Friday, October 6th. 7th Grade: Today we are testing the egg crash vehicles! I hope to post […]
Happenings for September 25th-29th
8th Grade: This week we finish up our career brochures, the brochure is to be emailed to me and packets are to be completed and turned into my tray by the end of the hour. Tuesday begins our unit on energy. Students will be learning about the seven main sources of energy used in the […]