Happenings for November 25th – December 6th
8th Grade: Students this week and next week will be continuing to learn about hand tools, power tools and machines. We will complete learning how these tools are used and safety requirements when using them. I will demonstrate how all items are used with a safety test to be completed on December 6th. 7th Grade: […]
Happenings for November 11th-15th
8th Grade: We continue this week with our unit on electronics. Students will work in groups of 2-3 to create circuits, test them and then draw the schematics based on the symbols we drew last week. We will have nine circuits to complete this week and ten next week. The circuit sheets and electricity packet […]
Happenings for November 4th -8th
*Please note that there is no school on Tuesday November 5th. 8th Grade: Students begin a new unit on electricity this week which will run for about 2 weeks. We will discuss parallel and series circuits and then using electronics kits we will construct circuits and test them and then draw the circuits using symbols. […]
Happenings for October 28th – November 1st
*Please note that November 1st is the last day of the marking period. 8th Grade: This week will finish out our manufacturing activity. We will be completing our commercials and then presenting them to our classmates for review. So far I have seen some really exciting ideas! Keep up the good work 8th grade! 7th […]
Happenings for October 21st-25th
8th Grade: Students are completing their shoe models this week and will begin the final portion of their unit which is to create a commercial using power point to advertise their shoe company. *Just a reminder that final notebook check is October 30th (20 points, formative). End of the marking period is November 1st! 7th […]
Happenings for October 14th-18th
8th Grade: Students are now moving into their next phase of construction which is to build a model of their shoe. Shoe models will be the sme size as the tudents foot and students will have the entire week to work on their shoe. 7th Grade: Students have completed watching eachothers PSA’s and will soon […]
Happenings for October 7th – 11th 8th Grade: We continue our activity on manufacturing but this week we are devoted to using Google sketchup to produce a three dimensional object. We are making a turtle sandbox and once that is complete we are going to then take our shoe drawings and create them in Google […]
Happenings for September 30th-October 4th
8th Grade: Students who were at a 70% or below received progress reports on Wednesday as a reminder to turn in late work. This week focuses on our next unit on manufacturing. This unit will take approximately 5 weeks to complete. We will focus on the six steps of the design process this week to […]
Happenings for Sept 23rd-27th.
8th grade: Students will begin their new unit on Biotechnology this week. We will construct a model of an artifical hand and then on Friday we will conduct an experiment in which we will spend a school day (from 8-3) without the use of our non-dominate arm. 7th Grade: Students will be completing their unit […]
Happenings For September 16th-20th
8th Grade: This week the class will spend half of the week working on their career brochures which has a link on this iblog to download the template. Later this week we will begin our unit on Biotechnology. Our focus will be on how technology works with the medical field to enhance our senses and […]