Friday through Thursday (Friday is work day)

Students will be pulling all of the lessons together to create their Element PowerPoint and Podcast presentations. Students have the choice of creating their PowerPoint first then adding the podcast or recording the podcast and then creating the PowerPoint or creating both items together. If students work in groups both students must create a PowerPoint and participate in the podcasting. Students then decide which PowerPoint to use for their presentation. Students will present their presentations when they return on Monday.

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Thursday- Inspiration and Research

Today students will use Inspiration to record notes about the elements they are using for their presentations.

Students will also continue with their research. By the end of the period they will have completed a storyboard for their presentation and have started on the audio script.

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Wednesday- Inspiration and the Elements

Today students used the Inspiration graphic organizer software to create a study guide to understand the difference between metals and nonmetals. Students will be able to use this study guide to help them with their Elements presentation.

Click here to see worksheet that has the metal vs nonmetal information.

Click here to see how to use Inspiration.

Tuesday- Inspiration- Graphic Organizer Software

Today students will learn how to use Inspiration, which is a graphic organizer software program.

They will practice using the Anti-drug Red Ribbon theme.

Once they learn how to use the software program they will create a graphic organizer for their Element Podcast/PowerPoint presentation.

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Monday- What is a Periodic Table?

Today we listened to students' "Scary Stories" podcasts that they created on Friday.

Today's lesson is "What is a Periodic Table?" They will be creating a podcast and Power Point presentation about elements. Today's lesson gives them time to understand the concepts.

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Friday- Practice podcasts

Today students are going to create practice podcasts then work on a podcast exercise to give them the necessary skills to insert podcasts into their Project PowerPoint presentation.

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Thursday- Podcast

Students reviewed 2 different podcasts related to their upcoming Element assignment and studied the different components of a podcast.

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Wednesday- Red Ribbon (Say No To Drugs) Word Processing Assignment

Over half of the Information Technology students are on a field trip so the remaining students completed a word processing assignment for the upcoming Red Ribbon Week (Just Say No To Drugs) October 23 to October 29. The students used the computers to create posters for the event.

Tuesday- Vocabulary Test & Word Processing

After a Database Vocabulary test, students will have a word processing review to get them ready to create their Power Point presentation.

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Information Technology Standard Course of Study
7.TT.1 & 8.SI.1 Use technology and other resources for assigned tasks.

Monday- Database Practice

Today we practiced sorting and filtering using a database of the Elements.

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Information Technology Standard Course of Study:7.TT.1.1 & 8.SI.1.1 Use appropriate technology tools and other resources to access information.

Friday- What is a database?

Today's lesson is "What is a database?"

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Information Technology Standard Course of Study:

7.TT.1.1 & 8.SI.1.1 Use appropriate technology tools and other resources to access information.

Thursday- Starting New Unit- Learning the Elements with Power Point and Podcasting

This unit's project will be to contrast and/or compare different elements from the periodic table.

Students will create a Power Point presentation that uses podcasting to explain the different elements.

Students will study the following technical tools:

Databases (using the periodic table as an example),

Word processing (formatting),

Inspiration (a graphic organizer)

Power Point (different features)

Podcasting (recording software)

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Standard Course of Study for Information Technology

7.SI.1 & 8.SI.1 Evaluate information resources based on specified criteria.

7.TT.1 & 8.SI.1 Use technology and other resources for assigned tasks.

7.RP.1 & 8.RP.1 Apply a research process to complete given tasks.

7.SE.1 & 8.SE.1 Apply responsible behaviors when using information and technology resources.


Standard Course of Study for Science

4.03 Explain how the periodic table is a model for classifying elements and identifying the properties of elements.

4.05 Identify substances based on characteristics physical properties: boiling/melting points, solubility, specific heat.

Tuesday & Wednesday Presentations & Test

Some classes presented today and some classes took the unit vocabulary test today.

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Friday & Monday- Presentations & Study for Test

Students started to make their presentations on Friday and will finish them on Monday.

Students will study for the Vocabulary Test, which will be on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday- Continuing with Animation

The classes continue to animate their ancient Egypt or feudal Japan stories.

Students need to return progress reports by Monday. Returned reports will be counted as a 100 for a daily grade. If you do not return your progress report it will be a 60 as a daily grade.

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Information Technology Standard Course of Study:

7.TT.1 & 8.SI.1 Use technology and other resources for assigned tasks.

7.SE.1 & 8.SE.1 Apply responsible behaviors when using information and technology resources.

Social Studies Standard Course of Study:

2.03 Utilitze different types of technology

2.06 Create written, oral, musical, visual and theatrical presentations of social studies information.

7.2 Examine the causes of key historical events in selected areas of Africa, Asia and Australia and analyze the short and long range effects on political, economic, and social institutions.

8.1 Examine the causes of key historical figures and evaluate their impact on past and present societies in Africa, Asia, and Australia