Mrs. Abraham's Class

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High Five

1. Please read the first part of the sentence.

2. Then write your own answer. Or pick number 1 or number 2.

CLICK HERE

Objective: Students will analyze the classroom rules by writing why we do high five.
Language Objective: Students will tell a friend what answer the picked or if they wrote their own.

Current Events

CLICK HERE to answer these current events questions.

End of the Year

Open WORD or use POWER POINT and write about your middle school experiences:

If you choose WORD, each answer should be at least one paragraph.
If you choose POWER POINT, each answer can be a slide.

1. What will you remember about 7th grade?
2. What will you miss about 7th grade?
3. What excites you about 8th grade?
4. What scares you about 8th grade?
5. What advice do you have for the 6th graders?
6. What advice do you have for 5th graders?

Internet Safety

Objective: Students will explore safety issues by navigating through TeensHealth.org and answering questions.

Click here to read about Internet Safety

Click here to read about the health risks of being "connected" all the time.

Click here to answer questions.

Story Telling

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to construct a story by using Domo Animate.

Think about:

• Genre
  
• Characters
• Problem
• Solution
• Your story must make sense.
• Someone watching must be able to know what's going on.

Click here to explore!

Reasoning behind “Using your Brain”

Objective: Students will decode the differing views out in the world and on the web by analyzing several websites and determining for themselves what they believe.

This assignment is intended to make you think. When a movie came out that said the world is going to end in 2012, a lot of people blindly believed it. What do you believe?

1. Open a word document.

2. Find two sources that say the world will end in 2012.

• Type the title of the web sites and the URLs (the web address)
• Type two sentences describing the websites.
  

3. Find two sources that say the world will NOT end in 2012.

• Type the title of the web sites and the URLs (the web address)
• Type two sentences describing the websites.
  

4. Find one source that says the world will end in a different year, other than 2012.

• Type the title of the web site and its URL (the web address)
• Type two sentences describing the website.
  

5. Explain why you think there are so many different ideas about when the world will end.

6. Which source do you trust the most? Why?

Typing and Data Entry

With this assignment, you will be working on two important computer skills:

• Typing
• Data Entry

Today, you will be practicing your typing skills. You will go to a website and practice with games and lessons. Then when you are ready, you will take the tests.

Here is the website. Click here to go to the typing website.

Or try this one: http://www.typingtest.com/

At the end of the test, you will get a number for your words per minute and your errors. For now, just click NO and keep on trying to improve your typing.

Tomorrow we will move on to Part II: Data Entry. We will be inputting this information into a new program called Excel.

Current Events, 4/8

Answer these questions, then free time.

CLICK HERE for today's Current Events questions.

Please use full sentences.

Please list your source. Where did you find the answer?

Technology Timeline

Students will create a Power point slide show using research from the internet.

1. Five (5) basic facts. Facts about yourself. When you were born, when you came to Castro, etc.

2. Five (5) personal technology facts. Facts about when you got your iPod, when your parents got a TV, etc.

3. Ten (10) world technology facts. Research online to learn when things were made. Research the history of music equipment (records, 8-tracks, tapes, cds, ipods), or the history of computers. Or something different!

Remember to give credit. Where did you find the information online?

OBJECTIVE: I will create a presentation showing a timeline of technology by using my knowledge of Word, Powerpoint and Internet research.

Welcome to the "Working" Internet

Hello students,

This is your assignment web site. Welcome to the "working" internet.

Click here for your questions for today.

Your answers will be sent to me. I will be looking for:

• proper grammar

• correct spelling

• correct punctuation

• full sentences

CONTENT OBJECTIVE: Students will understand the usage of Google documents by analyzing their work with multiple communication technologies.

LANGUAGE OBJECTIVE: Students will discuss the final question (about communication) with each other or the teacher by determining how communication can be similar in personal contact and through technology.

Word or 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://freerice.com/

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

Try for the over 3,000 grains!

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.

Current Events - March 2, 2011

Hello class!

Sorry I can't be with you today. We will continue our iMovie interviews on Thursday and Friday. You are doing a great job with that assignment.

Today, please be caring, respectful, honest, responsible and do your best!

You will be answering questions today about current events. Think about how your interviews around school might be like these current events.

CLICK HERE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

Remember, "I don't know" or "IDK" are NOT acceptable answers. You have the internet to search for your answers. Use it! Be sure to write where you found the information.

Also, please write 3-4 sentences of your own thought and ideas.

Rules of Journalism

1. Journalism's first obligation is to the truth.

• What does this mean to you?
• How will you find the truth when you work on your story?
• If you can't find the truth, how can you still write your story?

2. Its first loyalty is to citizens.

• What does this mean to you?
• How can you be loyal to students, teachers and staff as you tell your story?
• If you can't be loyal, how can you still write your story?

3. Its essence is a discipline of verification.

• What does this mean to you?
• How will you verify facts in your story?
• If you can't find out if everything is true, do you still tell your story?
  

4. Journalists must maintain an independence from their stories.

• What does this mean to you?
• How will you remain independent in your story? (Do you take sides?)
• If you can't find every side to the story, how can you still tell your story?

5. It must serve as an independent monitor of power.

• What does this mean to you?

6. It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise.

• What does this mean to you?
• Will people criticize your story?
• How will you deal with people who criticize your story in a respectful way?

7. It must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant.

• What does this mean to you?
• How will you make your story interesting and relevant?
• If your story is not interesting and relevant, do you still tell it?
  

8. It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional.

• What does this mean to you?
• How can you be short and to the point, but also tell everything you need to tell?
• What if your story is too long? Too short?
  

9. Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience.

• What does this mean to you?
• If there is a story, but you know you should not contribute to gossip and rumors, do you still tell the story?

Story Ideas

Open your word documents from this week.

• No technology
• Technology of the future
• If you were the principal...

Pick one topic you'd like to focus on.

For example: If you were the principal and you want to change the uniforms, that is your story. Decide what else you want to write about that topic. Who might you talk to? What would you ask? Is there a solution?

OR: If you think there will be flying cars in the future, who might you ask to see what they think? What do we need to get flying cars?

Answer these questions to begin to form your story idea.

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.

Technology of the Future

What changes do you think will happen in the next year? Next five years? Next 10 years? Fifty years!?

(Just think, Google was created in 1998 ... remember your technology timeline!)

Write about what you think will exist in the future.

Write 3 paragraphs (3-5 sentences each) about what technology will exist in the future.

How will it help us? Will it hurt us?

Technology Crash

Imagine that all of the computer technology in the world stopped working at the same time.

Write a story that describes what the world would be like in this situation.

Please write three paragraphs (beginning, middle, end). Each paragraph can be 4-6 sentences long.

You may want to use an outline to begin your work. Decide the who/what/where/when/why and how of your story.

Be sure to include details of what the world would be like and how the world will be changed.

Editing and Questions

Today's Choices

• Click here to answer these questions.

• Continue to edit your domo movies.

Story Telling

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to construct a story by using Domo Animate.

Think about:

• Genre
  
• Characters
• Problem
• Solution
• Your story must make sense.
• Someone watching must be able to know what's going on.

Click here to explore!

Progress Report

You will be creating your progress report using tables in PAGES.

OBJECTIVE: Students will work to become independent, reflective problem-solvers by looking at their work and making decisions about their progress.

Your Assignments:

• Way of Life in WORD
• About Me in POWERPOINT
• Technology Timeline in WORD and POWERPOINT
• Typing Graph in EXCEL and WORD
• Google maps in PAGES
• Career site in iWEB

Set up your TABLE so that you have:

• Four columns
  
• One column for a list of your assignments
• Three columns that say - Ran out of time, Could Improve, Did My Best

In the columns, choose whether or not you ran out of time, could improve or did you best. Then in that column, write what you learned from the assignment.

• What computer skill did you learn?
  
• What did you learn about yourself?
  
• What did you get out of doing the assignment overall?

My Career Continued

Continue to research your career.

• What skills will you need?
• Where would you like to work?
• Remember, choose something that you enjoy.

In iWeb, make three pages:

• a Welcome page
• an About Me page
• a page about your career
  

My Career

What do you want to do when you grow up?

1. Pick what you want to be.

2. Research what it will take for you to do that job.

• This might include looking up jobs on the internet, looking at what skills you will need, what type of education you will need and more.
  

3. Take notes

• As you research, write down in WORD what skills you will need, what education you will need, where you'd like to work, what you'd like to do.
• Make bookmarks of the websites you visit.
  

4. Create a business or find a business that you'd like to work for. What will you do there?

Your Microsoft WORD document might look something like this:

What I want to be:


What skills and education I will need:


Some names of places where I could work:


If I could make my own business, it would be:


Websites that could help me:

Google Maps

You will navigate Google Maps to:

* Learn about world cities and landmarks (geography)
* Find a landmark in the map and take a screen shot (command-shift-4)
* Write two paragraphs (3-5 sentences each) about each city and a landmark in that city.
* Collect your work in PAGES
* Drag your photos into PAGES, write your sentences in a text box.
* Remember to list your sources. (Where did you find the information?)
* Chose 5 out of the 10 choices

Here are the names of the cities to research:

1. London, England
2. Paris, France
3. Washington, DC
4. Great Wall of China
5. New York, New York
6. Baghdad, Iraq
7. New Orleans, Louisiana
8. Pyramids of Giza
9. Honolulu, Hawaii
10. Pick your own

What are Others Doing?

OBJECTIVE: To observe and analyze "Do Something" examples from fellow Castro classmates. Consider options to help, build and grow their plans or your own plans.

OBJECTIVE: Continue to search online for what you can do to positively impact the world by using Do Something.org as a starting point.

Do one of the projects! Go to freerice.com and use the login mruttech and password castro. Be sure to click on the groups and click on Castro Middle School.

Here are some more examples. The projects are listed as a student idea first and then an already established organization:

Big Kids, Little Books and First Book

World Hunger and Free Rice

Music in Our Schools and Music in Our Schools Month

GED Help

Helping Kids With Cancer

Do Something is ACTION, not just thoughts

The dosomething.org website allows students like you to actually plan out your ideas. Take some time to think out your idea further.

And continue to explore the website for ideas and examples of other students your age making a change to make this world a better place.

CLICK here to continue to think out your idea before we post your idea.

Then start searching for websites that relate to your topic. For example, if you chose:

Animal Welfare, just type 'animal welfare' into google or check out http://www.azhumane.org/

Violence and Bullying, just type 'bullying' into google or check out Olweus

Discrimination, check out http://www.tolerance.org/

Be sure to bookmark sites you find or take notes in WORD

Change for Good

If you could positively change the world, what would you do?

Today, let's explore our responses a little deeper.

You will be searching for information on dosomething.org. There are questions to answer, but the main purpose is to get you familiar with the website. Once you are familiar with the website, if you are inspired to do something, then let's do it!

1. Go to DOSOMETHING.ORG

2. Answer these questions.

Current Events

What is going on in the world?

It is important for us to think about, study and find out what is going on in our world. We can search and read about current events on the internet.

1. Click here to answer the questions

2. You can search for your answers using news.google.com

3. Remember to write down where you found the information. You can cut and paste from the address bar.

4. Write 4-5 sentences for each answer.

Typing and Data Entry

With this assignment, you will be working on two important computer skills:

• Typing
• Data Entry

Today, you will be practicing your typing skills. You will go to a website and practice with games and lessons. Then when you are ready, you will take the tests.

Here is the website. Click here to go to the typing website.

At the end of the test, you will get a number for your words per minute and your errors. For now, just click NO and keep on trying to improve your typing.

Tomorrow we will move on to Part II: Data Entry. We will be inputting this information into a new program called Excel.

First Three Weeks

Hello,

I would like to know what you have learned and what you think about the first three weeks of class.

Please click on this link and answer the questions.

Please answer the longer questions with 4-5 sentence answers. Please use proper grammar, full sentences and correct punctuation.

Your answers will be sent to me and, as always, I would like you to be honest and respectful.

Technology Timeline

OBJECTIVE: I will create a presentation showing a timeline of technology by using my knowledge of Word, Powerpoint and Internet research.

1. Five (5) basic facts. Facts about yourself. When you were born, when you came to Castro, etc.

2. Five (5) personal technology facts. Facts about when you got your iPod, when your parents got a TV, etc.

3. Ten (10) world technology facts. Research online to learn when things were made. Research the history of music equipment (records, 8-tracks, tapes, cds, ipods), or the history of computers. Or something different!

Organize your facts in different colors.

Remember to give credit. Where did you find the information online?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'"

Click here to answer these questions: Please use complete sentences, proper grammar and correct punctuation.

Explore the following websites. Watch videos, read articles, look at the pictures.

http://www.thekingcenter.org

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

http://mlkday.gov/

In a WORD document, write down 5 things that you like about the websites.

Welcome to the "Working" Internet

Hello students,

This is your assignment web site. Welcome to the "working" internet.

Click here for your questions for today.

Your answers will be sent to me.