Creating a Poster

Today you will be bringing our 21st century learning skills to life with Lucidpress, an online poster maker. Just as with Quizlet, when you sign up for an account you can automatically sign in with the Google link, so look for it!

I would like you to incorporate the following things into your poster:

Components

• Title (make it bold and visible)
• A related image (you can upload with Google)
• A related quote from the text
• A citation to the text

Formatting

• Landscape your document (File: Page Setup)
• Keep it clean; make sure your message is not lost in your creativity!
• Utilize specialized formatting options for your title and image: check out shadows, outlines, frames, etc.
• Fill your poster and frame it

Saving/Sharing

Once you have checked all of your components and formatting:

• Download as a JPEG (your name and trait, for example "Ms. Reina Collaboration")
• Add to your Google Drive
• Share with me (treina@sdjccs.net)

Little Children: Big Challenges

Choose at least three of the segments Sesame Street has created for children with incarcerated parents. Then go to your journal and respond to the following prompts in paragraph form:

• What message is Sesame street trying to give children with incarcerated parents
• If you were a young one, do you think it would be helpful, why or why not?
• Open some of the other features and describe what additional resources are provided on this site

http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/incarceration

Quizlet: Flashcards...but more fun!!

It's time to see what we have learned about cell structure and Function. Flashcards are a great way to test what you've learned, and there is an online version which allows you to create cards, play games and more!

• Follow this link: http://quizlet.com/
• Select: "Sign Up," and then "Signup with Google"
• Select: "Create"
• Title: Cells
• Subject:Science
• Description:Structure and Function
• Choose a Language: Quick Switch to English for the left and right column: terms and answers
• Based on your study guide, add questions in left column and answers on right
• Select: "Create Set"

Now you need to share your set with me:

• Select the "Share" drop down menu (from the top right of screen)
• Copy the "Short URL"
• Open a Google Doc and paste the URL
• Rename the Google Doc "(Your first name) note cards"
• Share the doc with me: treina@sdjccs.net

Welcome Science Students!

Today you will be finishing your study on the structure of cells. Here are your instructions:

• Please watch the video one time all of the way through
• Rewatch the film to answer the questions on your review sheet
• Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2aS8fXqtI

Have fun with phospholipids!

Letters to the District: How have you Grown? In your letter to the district, you might want to include the
     following:

• Acknowledge what got you here, what were some of the issues the resulted in your exulsion from the district?
• How have you grown since you came to JCCS?
• In what ways do you think you are ready to return to the district?

"Affirmations, really, are simple. They are you being in  

                                                                          conscious

control of your thoughts. They are short, powerful statements. When you say them or think them or even hear them, they become the thoughts that create your reality. Affirmations, then, are your conscious thoughts."    Scott Armstrong-Boulder Coaching Academy

 

Looking over the provided list, which of the following affirmations would be the most important for living the kind of life you want to live?

• Rank your top three in order  (one is most)
• Create a Google doc
• Rename it: Journal then your first and last name
• Share with me: treina@sdjccs.net
• List your chosen affirmations in order (numbers 1-3)
• Add an image related to your affirmation - Tools: Research: Images: Free to Use
• Explain your choices; why did your #1 end up in that spot?
• How might this affirmation be important in school as well as your life?
   

General Class Discussion

• What would you like to get out of this Language Arts class, from me?
• What are you willing to offer to help make this class a positive learning environment?
• Which of the topics on the board would be your top three choices of study (in order)?

 

 

Nova Science Shorts

Ready for your quiz on Thursday? OK, then it's time to relax with some biology-related video "shorts" on the Nova website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

• Ten minutes before the end of the period you will complete an exit ticket to show exactly how much you learned!

Book Club 

Good morning class. After each Book Club, the folks that run Books Alive ask us to complete a short survey. This gives them an idea about what is working well and what they can do better.

They are giving to us by supplying class sets of books and volunteering their time. Living in integrity would suggest that we can complete each survey to the best of our ability...thank you for your effort!

Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GMQLLLV

Current Events

Either yesterday or today you composed a questions based on CNN Student News' current events and today you will get to do that research.

• Your research will be submitted in a Google Doc
• Click on "Untitled" at the top of the page, name your doc: Current Events (your name)
• Click on the blue "Share" button on the top right corner, share with treina@sdjccs.net, share and save
• Type your question on the top of the page
• Answer your question and describe three additional facts
• File-Research and include an image

Plant and Animal Cells:
Compare and Contrast



Part I

Use the following link to complete the following three instructions:
Wizznotes: Plants and Animals

• On P22, in color, draw one plant and one animal cell

• On P23 Make a list of the similarities and a list of the differences between plant and animal cells

• For each similarity and difference, draw an arrow to the corresponding parts on your plant and animal cell drawings.

For fun: Do jellyfish hold the key to immortality? Check out this link:
MSN - The Key to Immortality: Jellyfish

Congratulations, you have finished your essay on the evolution of education. Our next until will be about Edgar Allan Poe, and today you will begin researching his life.

Check out this website and explain three new and interesting things you learned about Edgar Allan Poe. Why are these facts interesting to you?

Follow this link: Poe Museum

Cell Structure

Today you will be learning about the stucture of prokaryotic, plant and animal cells. You will be handed an unlabeled copy of each to glue into your interactive notebook and you will then be responsible for labeling the parts in each cell and explaining their function.

Use the following link for the information you will need:
Cell Structure

Book Club Survey

Yesterday was the first time A Class participated in a Word's Alive book club, and I was very impressed. You all were respectful and opinionated in all of the right ways. Each day following a book club we will be evaluating the experience. Please follow the link below for your evaluation:

Student Evaluation

What is the smallest possible
unit that exhibits all of the
characteristics of life?

 

• This link will bring you to an interactive that will give you a better idea about the relative size of a cell. Look at it with your partner and compare it with the the items (coffee bean, rice and salt) you have been given for comparison:
• Cell Size and Scale
• What is the purpose if this interactive? What is it designed to teach you?
• What surprised you and what did you learn?

 

• Now peruse the site which featured this interactive:
• Amazing Cells
• List three links you followed and explain how they increased your understanding of cells

 

 

 

 

Classroom Explorations: Characteristics of Living Things

Today you will examine some of the more easily observable characteristics of living things. Just like a biologist, you will be asked to identify the characteristic and descibe what you see.

Use the links in the document below to watch the video clips:

Characteristics_Student for Blog by goldfish1969

Activity 5: Independent Reading/Research

Today you will apply your close reading skills to the Internet. You and your partner will dig into the site linked below and answer the questions in your English journal.

Here is your link: PBS: The Story of American Public Education

Questions to answer with your partner:

1. How is this website organized? (describe the text features you see)
2. What ideas or information does the website present?
3. How does this website add to my current knowledge about this topic (the same topic you have analyzed through images and personal narrative?)
4. Now dig deeper. Dig into the content from one of the website's tabs and learns something new! Write about it so you can share with the class.

This next month we will be starting our book club with Words Alive. Before we begin our work, I am asking you to compelte the following survey (see link below)

Survey Monkey

Biologically Inspired Robots

Cool Jobs: Moved by Life




 

Image Source: lifedev.net 

Congratulations; you have successfully created your own Google Site! This will be a fun place for you to demonstrate all that you are learning, doing, and thinking about in class!