Week8 (s16): Feb 22nd

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Monday 22nd

- Part 1) Review (click-2-comment)

Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view example folder here)
Daily Warmup Activity:

Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Dots and Boxes: https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/dots-and-boxes.html
Use this for your warmup link symbol and link it to the game (try to beat the computer but you don’t have to win to Skitch a score!)
Here are the directions ( you’re red and the computer is blue!)

Here’s my example warmup (see if you can beat my score!)

Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

Here’s how you rated last week’s programs and activities:

Click here to view your ratings summary graphs from last week

Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)

Create a winning strategy for dots and boxes
Create (or verify) your Prezi account
Explore images of colliding galaxies and star fields and capture your favorite for slide backgrounds

Practice a Quizlet on Galaxies which includes images to help you remember them
Explore Google Earth in Sky mode
Checkout our farthest traveling space vehicles

Create a Prezi account and make sure you can logon to it

Here are the directions if you don’t already have an account: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1pqJY0JfYXRoTik2D-ZHtjG7ksTzyUfmRdbNU09VFREQ
Use your School email address and your school password to create your account (so I can help you if there are problems with your account)!
If you already have an account for your school email address, here’s a link to make sure you can logon to it: https://prezi.com/login/

Slide1: Open your 5.02 Week8 Portfolio and add the following

Here are the 4 things you need on your slide

A Wordart title: 5.02 Week8 Portfolio using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
An image of colliding Galaxies added as a background (do a Google Search on Hubble Colliding Galaxies to find a cool image to use)
A subtitle: Galaxies
A note that explains your background image (the name of the galaxy and a brief description about what you’re looking at)

Here’s my example (I used the Colorzilla extension to pull the title and subtitle colors from the colliding galaxies image)

Slide 2: Quizlet Galaxies

Quizlet Galaxy Cards: http://quizlet.com/72521290/galaxies-flash-cards/
Challenges: Can you mask your Skitches (to round the corners) and add colored borders to them as you see in my example below?
Here are the 4 things you need on your slide

A star-field background (search Google for stars) with a link to the image
The Quizlet logo linked to these Quizlet Galaxy Picture Cards: http://quizlet.com/72521290/galaxies-flash-cards/
A Skitch of the cards in List View (including the example images)
Play Scatter and record at least 2 of your scatter scores

Here’s my example

Check to see if you can open Google Sky

Open Google Earth from your desktop and switch to Sky mode
Here’s how:
Search for the colliding Galaxies that you used on your title slide… here’s my example:

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

Here are the links you’ll need for today

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Dots and Boxes: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Games/dots&boxes.html
How to create a Prezi account: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1pqJY0JfYXRoTik2D-ZHtjG7ksTzyUfmRdbNU09VFREQ
Prezi logon: https://prezi.com/login/
Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Quizlet Galaxy Cards: http://quizlet.com/72521290/galaxies-flash-cards/

Portfolio Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

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Checkout this information on the 2 Voyager vehicles we launched 30 years ago which have traveled the farthest into space

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/

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Tuesday 23rd

- Part 1) Review (click-2-comment)

Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view example folder here)
Daily Warmup Activity:

Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Find a cool Star symbol or gif and link it to the Word Search Maker: http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-search/
Find all words (there are no backwards or diagonal words in this puzzle). Click here for a larger view and work together if you need help!

Here’s my example warmup (recorded as a gif)

Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

Today we have these learning goals (all objectives to date)

Practice writing for a campus-wide writing collection effort
Explore a kmz file in Google Sky, which will take you to a variety of interesting locations in our universe
Browse and collect information on Spiral Galaxies from a variety of locations including Google Sky, Space.com and Wikipedia

Writing Sample 1: Directions Slides (the same information below but larger)

ALL classes at BMS are collecting 2 writing samples from every student according to this schedule (we will write our samples today and tomorrow):

The writing assignment must be at least ½ page on lined notebook paper (down to or below the middle hole punch), and must have the following heading in the top right corner of your paper

Name: (First & Last)
Date: Feb 23, 2016
Grade: 7 or 8
Subj: Tech Apps

Topic: Please write about the process of completing our weekly warmups file in this class (as you might describe it to a new student, for example), which could include:

How you find and open your weekly warmups file
What the file looks like and what goes in each of the squares
What types of activities we have done for warmups
Which of those activities you like the best and why you liked them
Which days of the week we do regular warmup activities
What’s different about Friday’s warmup and why we do weekly reflections
How you turn-in your warmups
What you think of our warmups process and what you think might make the process better for all students

This assignment is to be completed with your monitor turned off. You may turn it on again after your have turned in your ½ page of writing with the correct heading!

Slide3: Add information from the Google Sky Tour according to the following directions

Video help with using the Sky Tour kmz file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Google%20Earth%20%26%20Sky/How%20to%20use%20the%20Sky%20Tour%20kmz%20file%20with%20Google%20Sky.mp4

Click to download the Sky Tour kmz file. When you click on it to open it, it should open up Google Earth automatically and prompt you to switch to Sky mode to see the stars! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Google%20Earth/kmz/SkyTour.kmz

Capture an image and a fact from your 3 favorite stops out of the 8 available on the tour to add to your slide3
Here’s my example slide3 which you can click for a larger view (you should have a title, 3 images and 3 facts on your slide) Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text

Slide4: Add information from Space.com and Wikipedia according to the following directions

Here are the things you’ll need on your slide4

A title: Spiral Galaxies using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
The Space logo linked to this URL: http://www.space.com/22382-spiral-galaxy.html
An image and text explanation from the Space link
The Wikipedia List of Spiral Galaxies logo linked to this URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spiral_galaxies
At least 3 label & image Skitches from the table that you find most interesting (I have 4 in my example below)

Here’s my example with the numbers from above (click the image for a larger view)
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

Here are the links you’ll need for today

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Star Search warmup: http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9vdS8PvXhxY/VO2tpl-LDKI/AAAAAAAAjCM/F3AUgPuuWrg/s1600-h/image5.png
Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Video help with using the Sky Tour kmz file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Google%20Earth%20%26%20Sky/How%20to%20use%20the%20Sky%20Tour%20kmz%20file%20with%20Google%20Sky.mp4
Sky Tour kmz file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Google%20Earth/kmz/SkyTour.kmz
Space Spiral Galaxy Info: http://www.space.com/22382-spiral-galaxy.html
Wikipedia List of Spiral Galaxies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spiral_galaxies

Portfolio Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

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Checkout this weather gif which I recorded early this morning (and our current weather animation and forecast at the links)

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=30.11580086&lon=-97.27464294&zoom=8&pin=Bastrop%2c%20TX&rad=1&wxsn=0&svr=0&cams=0&sat=0&riv=0&mm=0&hur=0
It should be a little cooler for the rest of this week: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=78602&MR=1

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Wednesday 24th

- Part 1) Review (click-2-comment)

Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view example folder here)
Daily Warmup Activity:

Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Choose your favorite of these two new versions of Dots and Boxes to practice with (both allow you to change the size of the grid) and Skitch your results to your warmup. Add all 3 links in a text box at the top!

New: http://dotsandboxes.org/
New: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Games/dots&boxes.html
From Monday: https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/dots-and-boxes.html

Here’s my example

Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

Today we have these learning goals (all objectives to date)

Explore other versions of Dots and Boxes and choose your favorite to display
Explore 2 new kmz files in Google Sky and capture your favorite images from each
Checkout information on a recently discovered Earth-like planet

Writing Sample 2: Directions Slides (the same information below but larger)

ALL classes at BMS are collecting 2 writing samples from every student according to this schedule (we will write our 2nd sample today):

The writing assignment must be at least ½ page on lined notebook paper (down to or below the middle hole punch), and must have the following heading in the top right corner of your paper

Name: (First & Last)
Date: Feb 23, 2016
Grade: 7 or 8
Subj: Tech Apps

Topic: Describe one of your favorite phone applications, desktop applications or video games. Here are some thoughts which might help you get started:

The purpose of the application or objective of the game
How you got started using it and long you’ve been using it
A couple of the main functions, tools or controls
Any tips you have for getting started with it
Some common mistakes that you or other people make using it
Some of the main reasons you like it
The hardest thing to learn to do with it
A few other applications/games that you recommend

Once you have turned in your ½ page of writing with the correct heading, you may continue with our regular Tech Apps assignments for today.

Slide5: Add images from the Google Spiral Galaxies kmz Tour according to the following directions

Use this Spiral Galaxies kmz tour: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Google%20Earth/kmz/Spiral%20Galaxies.kmz
Here again is how to view the stops on a kmz tour:
Here are the things you’ll need on your slide5

A title: Spiral Galaxies Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
The Sky mode symbol (Skitched from your Google Earth program) linked to this kmz tour URL: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Google%20Earth/kmz/Spiral%20Galaxies.kmz
4 or 5 of your favorite stops from the tour

Here’s my example with the numbers from above (can you add rounded borders which match the color of your Title?)

Slide 6: Google Sky Elliptical and Irregular Galaxies

Elliptical/Irregular Galaxies kmz file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Google%20Earth/kmz/Elliptical%20or%20Irregular%20Galaxies.kmz
Here are the 4 things you’ll need on your slide6

A cool slide background with a link to where you found it
A title: Elliptical & Irregular Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
A Skitch of the Google Sky window showing your kmz links and your favorite image from the list.
2 other images which you liked from the kmz list

Here’s my example slide 6

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

Here are the links you’ll need for today

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Dots and Boxes variations

New: http://dotsandboxes.org/
New: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Games/dots&boxes.html
From Monday: https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/dots-and-boxes.html

Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Spiral Galaxies kmz: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Google%20Earth/kmz/Spiral%20Galaxies.kmz
Elliptical/Irregular Galaxies kmz file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Google%20Earth/kmz/Elliptical%20or%20Irregular%20Galaxies.kmz

Portfolio Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

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Checkout this link Braden shared by email on Monday which talks about a recently discovered Earth-like planet (thanks Braden!)

http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-discovers-first-earth-size-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-of-another-star

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Thursday 25th

- Part 1) Review (click-2-comment)

Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view example folder here)
Daily Warmup Activity:

Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Quizlet Astronomy (with some new terms added): http://quizlet.com/72348990/8th-science-astronomy-unit-10-11-flash-cards/
Play Scatter and capture at least 2 scatter times
Challenge: Can you create a drop-shadow like you see here? (hint: consider a recolored duplicate underneath the original!)

Here’s my example completed warmups file for this week

Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

Today we have these learning goals (all objectives to date)

Practice Astronomy Vocabulary with Quizlet
Explore the Hubble Heritage site and capture some examples which interest you
Compare the characteristics of the different classifications of Galaxies in a table format
Explore a OneTab list of Science Astronomy Unit resources

Create something interesting with the Dust application

Slide 7: Add links and images to the Hubble Heritage Site

Here are the 4 things you’ll need on your slide7

A title: Hubble Heritage Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
The site title linked to this URL: http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery_category.html and a Skitch of the top Galaxy section of images
2 of your favorite images from anywhere in the gallery
A cool slide background image (this came from the Nebula section)

Here’s my example

Slide 8: Add information which will help you to classify galaxies

Here are the 5 things you’ll need on your slide 8

A title: Compare Galaxies Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
A cool slide background image!
This Galaxy Types Table: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/organizers/docs/tchr_tchart_galaxytypes.pdf
3 images (one of each of the 3 types of galaxies). Here are some resources to find images and to use in your Science Class Astronomy Unit: Galaxy Resources OneTab: http://www.one-tab.com/page/4suQupH0TJe8p8bWbgTTWA

Here’s what’s in the list of resources at the link above:

The OneTab logo linked to the Galaxy ResourcesOneTab: http://www.one-tab.com/page/4suQupH0TJe8p8bWbgTTWA

You can use this symbol if you like

Here’s my example (click for a larger view)

Slide 9: Create an interesting final slide

Try this site (which CoreyH shared yesterday - thanks Corey!)

Use Firefox!
Dust: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/dust_effect/index.php
Use screencast-o-matic to record something you create to save as a gif for your slide (if you need to install it again, it’s near the bottom of section 12 on the right side of 308 Today)