Happenings for May 21st-24th
8th Grade: This week students are continuing to work on their awesome serving trays! They are working at a great pace and should be completed by the end of next week! Look for a fun activity for the last few days of school for our class to try. Students were asked if they would like […]
Happenings for May 14th-18th
8th Grade: This week we will be making our sanding blocks so that we can use them to build and sand our serving trays. Any student who needed to do rewrites of their safety test will need to have them completed by the 14th! 7th Grade: We begin our new unit on architecture this week […]
Happenings for May 7th-11th
8th Grade: Students are working on safety when using hand tools, power tools and machines. This Friday is the safety test and then next week we will start using building our sanding blocks and then our serving trays! 7th Grade: Students are working this last week on their paper roller coaster activity and will be […]
Happenings for April 30th – May 4th
8th Grade: Students are finishing up their artificial arm models at the beginning of this week and then spending one school day without the use of an arm on Tuesday or Wednesday. We will next begin our final unit on tools, machines and safety later in the week. Also, notebooks are due this week. Students […]
Happenings for April 23rd-27th
Sorry for the delay everyone! 8th Grade: Students are completing their presentations of commercials, turned in packets and then began learning about Biotechnology. In this new unit students are learning how biotechnology assists humans to extend their lives. It allows amputees to live normal lives and creates medicines to help us feel better. 7th Grade: […]
Happenings for April 16th-20th
6th Grade: Students are finishing up their invention activity this week with A day classes turning in their project by Tuesday and B day classes turning in by Wednesday. Upon turning in both parts of the assignment students are to go to this link to get a head start on the next unit: Manufacturing […]
Happenings for April 9th-13th
8th Grade: Student completed shoe models the week before break and will continue our unit on manufacturing by creating a commercial using their shoe model in their commercial and by using power point to create the commercial. The commercial and the unit packet (including extra credit), will be due by April 20th. Our next unit […]
Happenings for March 19-23
8th grade: This week students are transitioning from creating their shoe design on paper to creating their shoe on CAD. Our focus will be to create the shoe and then begin to create the model so students need to consider if there is any material they may need which is not found in the technology […]
Happenings for March 12th-16th
8th Grade: This week we finish our first design using Sketchup for students. Here’s an example below: We move into our manufacturing unit on Tuesday where students will be learning how manufacturing effects their lives. This unit will last approximately four weeks and in that time students will create a shoe manufacturing company, design a logo […]
Happenings for March 5th- 9th
8th Grade: Students have finished their unit on careers and wow do we have some ambitious students! Many have chosen careers in the health sciences, some are interested in law enforcement, artists, lawyers, graphic designers and interior designers! Our next unit will be on how to use the Sketchup for students program so that we […]