Thursday, December 3, 2015

Additional Help for 30 Second Commercials.

Here is a good breakdown to help point you in the right direction before we start filming on Monday, December 14th.


Sunday, November 15, 2015

Getting to Know Ourselves

This week we will be finishing our Avista Videos, but first we are going to start working toward learning what is really important to us.  However, to learn what is important us we have to learn how we grow as people.  Today the students will be taking a personality test, scoring the test and reflecting upon it.  First, they are going to learn why we do what we do!




Should be another fun week!

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Let's Learn about Energy Workers

Today the students will begin their quest to learn about Energy Workers.  Specifically the students will being to create a Prezi.com exploring the four different types of Energy Workers in the field.  Specifically, they will be exploring the following types of Energy Workers.

Line Workers

Engineers

Technicians

Power Plant Operators

They will use the following Website as a resource

Get Into Energy

Then the students will begin to build their Prezi's

The Prezi Must include the following information for each job listed above.

Title Page with your NAME ON IT!

Years of Education needed

Years of Experience

Job Description

Salary

Your Prezi should be a total of 5 slides.

Prezi Tutorial





Prezi Logins are below.  (Students replace # with their Group #'s)

Get to PREZI BY CLICKING HERE

sciencegroup#@jlmsolution.com
Password: student1

Friday, October 30, 2015

Solving Challenges Inside the Box????

Today the students will be exercising their creative talents.  They will be completing the Paper Airplane Challenge in class.  The students will be creating a Paper Airplane that will only fly 10 feet and landing inside of a 2ft x 2ft box.

They will be given the following supplies:

1 Sheet of Printing Paper
12 inches of Tape
12 inches of String
3 paper clips

They will have 10 minutes to plan and then they will be given 5 minutes to build.

But first they need to understand the baseline teaching theory behind what we will be doing.

Creative Thinking






Paper Airplane Samples


Monday, October 26, 2015

Friday, October 23, 2015

7th Grade Avid - Creative Lab Friday

Today we are laying the ground work for Philosophical Chairs.  In their table groups they will be watching the following group rules and creating a Group Set of Philosphical Chair Rules.




After the students have created a quick group list of rules we will share, discuss, and create a classroom set of rules for Philosophical Chairs.  We will be doing our first Philosophical Chair on Monday!

Lastly, we will be doing our first Creative Lab Session.  During this session the students will be given a prompt, have 10 minutes to create, write, draw, plan, etc....  Then we will come to the circle and Share.

Should be a productive day!

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Friday, October 16, 2015

College and Career Fair Registration


Today in AVID you will be registering for the College and Career Fair.

Click on the link below to complete your registration.

www.gotomyncf.com

Scroll down to the Spokane Listing and Click the Attending Box.

Then Click Register Now.

Use your Log In User Name and Password for your sign in information.

Click Print after you have finished the registration and give the barcode to your teacher!

Wednesday, September 16, 2015