Welcome!

Hello,

My name is Mr. Uttech and I'm glad to have you in class. We'll be working hard and learning a lot, but this class will also be a special experience for you.

We won't have your normal "fill-in-the-bubble" tests in this class. We won't have worksheets. You will be working on projects and have the opportunity to work in groups at times.

This is called a CTE class, which stands for Career and Technical Education. You'll be learning skills which you'll be able to someday use in a job. You may not necessarily work with computers all day, or become a photo-journalist, but you may need to know how to successfully use email, type or design a poster.

Two things are for sure. You will need to know how to communicate. You will need to know how to solve problems, or as I like to say "use your brain." These things are important for your life and for future jobs.

More importantly, these things are important for you right now.

Let's work hard, do good things and use our brains.

Story Telling and turn in your work

Continue iMovie and be sure to turn in all your work.

When you are finished: Try this! http://domo.goanimate.com/create

• Tell a story using Domo Animate.
  
• It can be a story about yourself, your friends or a fictional story.
• Think about everything you do in writing class: characters, plot, setting, rising action, falling action, etc.

Prepare and iMovie

1. Prepare for conferences

• Make sure you have your progress report filled out.
• Make sure you have easy access to your projects. Make a folder so you can find your work quickly.
• Decide 3 or 4 top things you want to show to your parents/guardians/brothers/sisters.
  
• Clean up your desktop. Put any random photos in a folder.

2. iMovie discussion

• Using pictures to tell a story.

Observe

It is important to OBSERVE what is going on around us.

Go to USA Today

or

The Orlando Sentinel

• Look at five pictures
• For each picture, make five observations.
  
• Write your observations in PAGES.
• Drag the picture into PAGES with your written observations.
• Remember to record where you got the photo from.

Friday

1. Learning games

• Pick any of the games we played during this week: Lemonade stand, Free Rice, United States, Word/Math Games.

Also, today:

2. Open your progress report. Make sure you add Galileo Week games.

• Did you finish?
  
• What did you learn?

Word/Math Games

Please choose a word or math game.

http://www.theproblemsite.com/

United States of America

Today you will be finding the states:

http://www.purposegames.com/game/states-of-the-usa-quiz

Mr. Uttech solved this game in 2:06.1 with 94 percent accuracy. Can you beat him?

You may also bring up a map of the United States to look at:

http://www.infoplease.com/states.html

Also try these:

http://www.purposegames.com/geoquiz

Vocabulary and Free Rice

Add to your WORD document from yesterday:

Tuesday, Free Rice
Grains of free rice:
Consecutive words:
Level:

GO TO FREE RICE - http://beta.freerice.com/

Students will discover vocabulary words by earning as many grains of rice as possible.

Try for over 500

Try for most consecutive

Econ 101

Open a WORD document.

Save it as "galileoweek"

For today, write:

Lemonade stand
Customer satisfaction:
Popularity ranking:
Gross earnings:
Net earnings:

CLICK HERE - http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/games/lemonade/

Try to earn as much as you can in 30 days.

Record your customer satisfaction and popularity ranking.

Goals: Earn $50, rankings over 75 percent.

School Principal

Imagine that you are the principal of Castro Middle School.

Write a story that describes what the school would be like with you as its leader.

Write three paragraphs (each paragraph should be 3-5 sentences). Your story should have a beginning, middle and end.

Use correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.