Mini-Gradebook Assignment

Due Thursday 10/17 at the end of the day.

Sample Mini-Gradebook and Requirements for Year 4 & 5

The point of this is two-fold:  with report cards coming up I want students to think about how grades are calculated.  I also want them to do a project in Excel that is a system with data in and data out.

Computer History Webquest 10-3

878DO NOW:  Turn in "Dark Tower" drawing into the red tub. On the back, write one to three sentences on the back explaining what your drawing represents.  Be sure your  name is on your drawing.

CLASSWORK:

Spend 10 minutes working on Typing Web.
Go to the Computer History Webquest website.

The items for this Webquest will be due at the end of class on Thursday, October 10th.

Since we don't have access to the desktops, you may choose to do a poster or other type of presentation instead of Power Point.

3-Point Perspective Drawing (Dark Tower Assignment)

The Dark Tower assignment gets its name from one of the images I showed the class, but the drawing does not have to be dark, or even of a tower.

I passed out 3-point perspective paper to be used for the drawing.  For our purpose, it should be done used upside down (with the copyright info at the bottom.)

Here is the paper we are using:

Fun Excel Spreadsheets #1

Click on these links and download the documents:

We will review them to see different ways Excel can be used.

The following templates are from one of my favorite sites:  Vertex42

Gantt Chart

Soccer Templates

Calendar

Simple Budget.

Assignment:  follow along and manipulate the spreadsheets the way I did on the projected screen.
(no written homework)

REFLECTION:  This activity went well.  The conditional formatting had the biggest Wow factor.   My objective was to show students that Excel can be used for more than graphs. I believe it succeeded.  Year 5 went a little better because I had the links for Vertex all ready to go.

Sept 20, 2013 Year 5 Assignment

Year 5 students, 

I will out today at a STEM conference on Environmental Education.  Mr. Copley will be your teacher today.  If you only have part of the period to work, then just do the first part.  Otherwise do both parts.

PART I
First,  look at Human Right's Watch Child Soldier's Worldwide list of countries where children are used as soldiers.

(Print a map from yoel.info.com and shade or color all the countries with child soldiers.)

PART II
Secondly, go to some sites and learn about Ishmael Beah and his home country:  Sierra Leone.  Then I want you to write a reflection on the question: 

 What do child soldiers experience that is similar to your childhood, and different from your childhood? 

Links to online resources:

Ishmael Beah's official Website featuing his book:   A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A link to an excerpt of A Long Way Gone that includes chapter 1.

Radio Interview with Ismael Beah on NPR's Fresh Air

Allow yourself time to write a good paragraph or two about what you learned from these links. 

Turn in your map and reflection into the red tub. 

See you next week.  Enjoy your long weekend!

Mr. Johnson

How-To Screenshot Project

Good afternoon 10 graders,

I am assigning a new project. I will hand out copies of the How-To Project Instructions in class today.

You may look at one of Mr. Johnson's How to find Computer Sign-up Sheet (one I did for CIS teachers), and look at Prezi example as well:  How to Use Formulas in Excel.

These examples give you a general idea of how to do the project.  They do not show all the components requrired for your assignemnt.

Enjoy!

Mr. Johnson

Start a Design Folder

The Design Folder (really a binder, as I see it) is a compulsory part of IB technology and design.

Here are the headings of the dividers:

Investigate  (Oops!--10th graders, I called this Attitudes in Technology.  We'll fix this tomorrow)
Plan
Design
Create
Evaluate