Scratch

Early this week we are going to take a bit of a break from our Digital Portfolios and work with Scratch.

As a reminder from last year...

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Your task is to create a self running, (kiosk style) Scratch project addressing the theme. "How to survive in middle school : advice for an incoming sixth grader."

Options:

• interactive story
• game

How to Survive in Middle School Project Form

Submitted Projects

How do I?

I am attending this. It is located here.

Your tasks for today are as follows:

Type to Learn (10 minutes)
Digital Portfolio

• Language Arts Page
• About Me Page
• Me Collage Page
• Geography Page

Digital Portfolios

Today is the official first day of your Digital Portfolio project. This is a long term project that will take us through most of the remainder of the school year. It is important to keep up with the daily tasks to ensure you are done in timely manner. Follow the link below for detailed instructions.

Digital Portfolios

Digital Portfolios

For those of you who are done...

You will start constructing your digital portfolios. The first tasks are as follows:

• sign up for a Weebly account
• begin going through your writing from 8th Grade and exporting them to PDF documents

On Weebly...

make pages for:

• About Me
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Digital Literacy
• Phy Ed
• Art
• Band/Choir

Do not publish website.

Task List for The Week

Both Days
Type to Learn (10 minutes)
Place your room into Google Earth (then place in 2013 Public Folder)

Due Friday
Latitude/Longitude Problem
Complex Area Problem
As the Crow Flies Problem

When you are finished...
Watch Online Safety Videos
Animoto

Earth Day

Happy Earth Day 2009

Follow the links below for additional information regarding Earth Day.

Calculating Carbon Footprint
Earth Day History

Online Safety

Today we will start our series on digital safety. The videos you will watch today are meant to be an overview of the topics we will address throughout the last weeks of school. Topics discussed will include the following.

social networking

• myspace
• facebook
• twitter
• bebo

cell phone safety

• texting
• pictures

YouTube

• watching
• posting
• subscribing

identity theft

• passwords
• personal information
• unsecured networks

Videos

• Profile Penalty
• Post-to-be-Private
• Terrible Text