Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Thursday, Dec 18th 7th Grade- Tech Career- Animator- Finish Animation and Create Movie Trailer

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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 12-18-2014


Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Tech Careers- Animator

Standards:
DL-5 Digital Lifestyles
PB-1 Characteristics of Content- Appropriate and Inappropriate
PB-2 Procedure for developing a presentation


“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can animate a narrative, persuasive or educational presentation.
Students animate a narrative, persuasive, or educational presentation.

Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)

The 10 Steps to Creating a Multimedia Presentation work
for both PowerPoint presentations and animation presentations.   
Step 1 Determine your purpose    
Step 2 Identify your target audience
Step 3 Storyboard your Content    
Step 4 Select your design.
Step 5  Edit the master slide
Hatsune Miku Guitar Animated
http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/288186383

Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

On page 329 type the title and the 1st paragraph that begins "When you create a slide..."
Today’s typing is a general review using all of the alphabetic key strokes we have learned this semester..

Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)

Guided Practice:
@ WHEN students are with their animation, they will work on their movie trailer.
@ Record a 15 to 30 second recording about why your movie is great!
@ Miss W will show students individually how to convert their animation to video

@ Miss W will remind students to increase the duration of their speech bubbles
@ Miss W will show students several techniques- changing the color of the sky, ground, etc.; making something invisible or visible, moving the pieces of code to different locations, and other tips
@ Students will participate in the hour of coding by using the Alice animation program, which is based on the Java coding language.
@ Free download at http://www.alice.org

Independent Exercise:
@ CHECK YOUR SPELLING
@ Students will create animation based on their storyboards.
@ Movies are PG-13, no killing people, no bad language, etc.  





Higher Order Thinking Questions

Opinion Question: We have created 3 types of presentations (educational/informative, persuasive, and narrative) which type of presentation would be more enhanced with animation? WHY?

Student Technology/Differentiation

Students will use animation to create a narrative presentation.

Closure Strategy

Exit Activity 12: 10 Steps of a Presentation
Do NOT look at the PowerPoint






Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Wednesday, December 17th Short Cut Links

If you are a 7th Grade student click here http://www.wclassroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/wednesday-dec-17th-7th-grade-tech.html


If you are a 8th Grade student click here http://www.wclassroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/wednesday-dec-17th-8th-grade-finish.html

Wednesday, Dec. 17th- 8th Grade- Finish Review Games and Write Instruction and Test Games

Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Review Project

Standards:
DB-1  Know the Use and Purpose of a Database
DB-2  Know Data Types associated with a Database
DB-3  Demonstrate the Management of a Database




“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can be creative on my review project and explain the items I missed.
Students will be creative on their review projects and explain the items they missed.
Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)
Many companies use databases, such as
Facebook, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Twitter, etc.
Cartoon critical of big data
Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
On page 416, type the top sentences that start “A  column or field”.

Guided Lesson:
@ Last tests grades on Wednesday, January 7th on:
   Database Management Notes page (you may have copy to take) the exact questions are the questions at Exit Activity #14: Database relationships http://www.quia.com/rr/475949.html?AP_rand=1592723462

   Typing Speed/Accuracy Test- Need 15% improvement from beginning of year score.
                     http://www.typingtest.com/
                   

@ Miss W will go over the Review Test Project (This is your LAST project grade)
Learning Styles Choices Lesson: I CAN EXPLAIN THE Review items I missed.
Students will have the choice of working individually or in groups of two.
Project Rubric-
Accuracy of questions is worth 50 points, (10 points per mistake)
Review analysis is worth 5 points
Spelling and grammar is worth 5 points
GROUP CREATIVITY(Time, Effort, Originality) is worth 40 points

Yesterday's assignment:
Create a board game with at least 15 questions and answers.
5 Database questions (Put YOUR name on YOUR questions)
5 Publisher questions   (Put YOUR name on YOUR questions)
5 Typing questions    (Put YOUR name on YOUR questions)
EACH QUESTION IS WORTH 10 Points each!!!

Independent Exercise:
                      1. Finish creating a board game with at least 15 questions and answers.

2. Write down rules
   they don't need to be complete sentences but they need to be clear.

3. PLAY your game, does the rules make sense? Is it boring?

4. How can you make it more interesting?

Higher Order Thinking Questions
How can you make your topic interesting to other students?
Student Technology/Differentiation
Students use various software programs to create their review project.
Closure Strategy
Exit Activity #14: Database relationships

Exit Activity #15: Typing Symbols

Wednesday, Dec 17th- 7th Grade- Tech Careers- Animator

Interlocking AT.jpg
Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 12-17-2014



Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Tech Careers- Animator

Standards:
DL-5 Digital Lifestyles
PB-1 Characteristics of Content- Appropriate and Inappropriate
PB-2 Procedure for developing a presentation



“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can animate a narrative, persuasive or educational presentation.
Students animate a narrative, persuasive, or educational presentation.


Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)

Animation programs use to be extremely expensive (several of thousands of dollars), now you can find programs for a couple of hundred dollars. You can now create your own narratives (stories).
Computer animation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_animation

Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

On page 327, type the left upper sentence that starts “Normal view”..
Today’s typing is a general review using all of the alphabetic key strokes we have learned this semester.

Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)

Guided Practice:
@ Miss W will remind students to increase the duration of their speech bubbles
@ Miss W will show students several techniques- changing the color of the sky, ground, etc.; making something invisible or visible, moving the pieces of code to different locations, and other tips
@ Students will participate in the hour of coding by using the Alice animation program, which is based on the Java coding language.
@ Free download at http://www.alice.org

Independent Exercise:
@ CHECK YOUR SPELLING
@ Students will create animation based on their storyboards.
@ Movies are PG-13, no killing people, no bad language, etc.  





Higher Order Thinking Questions

Opinion Question: We have created 3 types of presentations (educational/informative, persuasive, and narrative) which type of presentation would be more enhanced with animation? WHY?

Student Technology/Differentiation

Students will use animation to create a narrative presentation.

Closure Strategy

Exit Activity 12: 10 Steps of a Presentation
Do NOT look at the PowerPoint

Lesson Reflections