RV Robotics, Science, Computer Science, STEAM ELD Week 9/28 - 10/2/2026

  Hello Everyone!

Happy last week of September!

That means that Halloween is coming!!

Progress reports will also be coming so get your work done and turned in ASAP or boo hoo to you:)

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Period 1 - Robotics

Sphero Robotics Download

Project STEM Link - 

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

Monday - Morning Routine

Working With Spheros - Continue with the lessons in Sphero EDU

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Monthly Keyboarding test - Take 2 - 1 minute typing tests.  You will be posting the results in your portfolio

Portfolio - A collection of your best work - starts today

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Portfolios - Building a portfolio to be proud of:)

Thursday - Morning Routine

Working With Spheros - Continue with the lessons in Sphero EDU

Friday - Morning Routine

Working With Spheros - Continue with the lessons in Sphero EDU

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Period 2 Advisory

Weekly Schedule and Lessons

Leader In Me website

Monday - Morning Routine

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Thursday - Morning Routine

Friday - Morning Routine

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Period 3 Science

Join our typing team.  Click here

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - ELY98AXG5

Monday - Morning Routine

• Using the CER format
• How to annotate

Let's look at some articles and graphs to get a better understanding of the issue.  Focus in on something that interests you and you can write about.

Continue Writing - identifying your point of view and supporting it with data and create a reasonable argument for your writing project

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Tuesday - Morning Routine

Looking over our rough draft.

1 - do I have a strong CLAIM?  A strong claim will give you the focus of your paper and will help you identify the evidence you need to find and cite.

2 - does my evidence support or defend my claim?  

3 - did I use at least 2 quotes and cite them correctly?

4 - Do my reasons connect my claim to my evidence?

5 - Does it sound the way I want it to sound?

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Finishing our rough draft.

1 - do I have a strong CLAIM?  A strong claim will give you the focus of your paper and will help you identify the evidence you need to find and cite.

2 - does my evidence support or defend my claim?  

3 - did I use at least 2 quotes and cite them correctly?

4 - Do my reasons connect my claim to my evidence?

5 - Does it sound the way I want it to sound?

Thursday - Morning Routine

Finishing our rough draft.  Starting my final draft.

1 - do I have a strong CLAIM?  A strong claim will give you the focus of your paper and will help you identify the evidence you need to find and cite.

2 - does my evidence support or defend my claim?  

3 - did I use at least 2 quotes and cite them correctly?

4 - Do my reasons connect my claim to my evidence?

5 - Does it sound the way I want it to sound?

Friday - Morning Routine

Finishing our rough draft.  Starting my final draft.

1 - do I have a strong CLAIM?  A strong claim will give you the focus of your paper and will help you identify the evidence you need to find and cite.

2 - does my evidence support or defend my claim?  

3 - did I use at least 2 quotes and cite them correctly?

4 - Do my reasons connect my claim to my evidence?

5 - Does it sound the way I want it to sound?

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Period 4 - Science

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - C5GFEQ2SV

Monday - Morning Routine

• Using the CER format
• How to annotate

Let's look at some articles and graphs to get a better understanding of the issue.  Focus in on something that interests you and you can write about.

Continue Writing - identifying your point of view and supporting it with data and create a reasonable argument for your writing project

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Looking over our rough draft.

1 - do I have a strong CLAIM?  A strong claim will give you the focus of your paper and will help you identify the evidence you need to find and cite.

2 - does my evidence support or defend my claim?  

3 - did I use at least 2 quotes and cite them correctly?

4 - Do my reasons connect my claim to my evidence?

5 - Does it sound the way I want it to sound?

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Finishing our rough draft.

1 - do I have a strong CLAIM?  A strong claim will give you the focus of your paper and will help you identify the evidence you need to find and cite.

2 - does my evidence support or defend my claim?  

3 - did I use at least 2 quotes and cite them correctly?

4 - Do my reasons connect my claim to my evidence?

5 - Does it sound the way I want it to sound?

Thursday - Morning Routine

Finishing our rough draft.  Starting my final draft.

1 - do I have a strong CLAIM?  A strong claim will give you the focus of your paper and will help you identify the evidence you need to find and cite.

2 - does my evidence support or defend my claim?  

3 - did I use at least 2 quotes and cite them correctly?

4 - Do my reasons connect my claim to my evidence?

5 - Does it sound the way I want it to sound?

Friday - Morning Routine

Finishing our rough draft.  Starting my final draft.

1 - do I have a strong CLAIM?  A strong claim will give you the focus of your paper and will help you identify the evidence you need to find and cite.

2 - does my evidence support or defend my claim?  

3 - did I use at least 2 quotes and cite them correctly?

4 - Do my reasons connect my claim to my evidence?

5 - Does it sound the way I want it to sound?

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Period 6 - Computer Science

Sphero Robotics Download

Project STEM Link - 

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

Monday - Morning Routine

Working With Spheros - Continue with the lessons in Sphero EDU

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Monthly Keyboarding test - Take 2 - 1 minute typing tests.  You will be posting the results in your portfolio

Portfolio - A collection of your best work - starts today

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Portfolios - Building a portfolio to be proud of:)

Thursday - Morning Routine

Working With Spheros - Continue with the lessons in Sphero EDU

Friday - Morning Routine

Working With Spheros - Continue with the lessons in Sphero EDU

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Period 7 - Tech Tales ELD

Sphero Robotics Download

Project STEM Link - 

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

Monday - Morning Routine

Writing Prompt - Do You Use Cloud Computing?  

CER Writing Format - Informational

Sign into NewsELA through Clever

• look for your assignment from Garcia
• look at paper copy
• Jigsaw read 
• Report out to class - teacher records on chart paper

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Monthly Keyboarding test - Take 2 - 1 minute typing tests.  You will be posting the results in your portfolio

Portfolio - A collection of your best work - starts today

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Portfolios - Building a portfolio to be proud of:)

Thursday - Morning Routine

Check out your portfolio and keep working on completing the home page.

Let's build a game in Scratch

Friday - Morning Routine

Work on your portfolio

Finish your game in Scratch

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Space Out Friday

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Special Stuff

Here are some Google Chromebook shortcuts that can help you out.  Try them when you can.  You can find a more comprehensive list here.

History of Robotics - 

    

RV Robotics, Science, Computer Science, & STEAM ELD Week 9/21 - 25/2026

Hello Everyone!

September is rapidly coming to an end.  Be sure to keep up with your work load and talk to your teachers about any late or missing assignments.  

This week will zoom bye as we are building our different projects and starting to write or build.  Keep focused and moving forward.  Ask questions to keep up and participating.

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Period 1 - Robotics

Sphero Robotics Download

Project STEM Link - 

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

LOFI Robots

Monday - Morning Routine

Complete AWS Tour

Project Sphero - complete the 8 activities to learn about your Sphero Bolt robot

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Your Student Portfolio - What is it and why use it?

Begin building your portfolio on Google Sites

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Sphero Robotics - Continue with the Sphero lessons

Thursday - Morning Routine

Sphero Robotics - Continue with the Sphero lessons

Friday - Morning Routine

Sphero Robotics - Continue with the Sphero lessons (Select Web App Browser)

To get credit for the day, you must make progress and complete at least of the the 8 sphero lesson and demonstrate understanding about what you learned and coded.

Things to watch out for:

• All robots must be returned to their chargers before students leave

• Avoid dropping the robot, run you robot on the floor only, not on the desk.

• Have fun and be creative!

Start thinking about what kind of monster robot you are going to make.  You will also need to collect the items you will use to make your robot.  Here are some links:

Milk Carton Monsters

Different types

Cardboard Robots LOFI

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Period 2 Advisory

Weekly Schedule and Lessons

Leader In Me website

Monday - Morning Routine

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Rally Survey

Thursday - Morning Routine

Pick a game for Friday

Friday - Morning Routine

Student Guided Fun Friday Game!

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Period 3 Science

Join our typing team.  Click here

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - ELY98AXG5

Monday - Morning Routine

Fast Fashion - Lab Presentation

• Science Notebook Preparation
• Lab Rules
• CER Format
• Why CER Format
• Practice orally
• Fast Fashion Lab - Student Slides
• Review goals of the lab
• Begin data collection
• Review the data that we collected

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Tuesday - Morning Routine

Fast Fashion - Lab Presentation  - Continuation from Monday

• Science Notebook Preparation
• Lab Rules
• CER Format
• Why CER Format
• Practice orally
• Fast Fashion Lab - Student Slides
• Review goals of the lab
• Begin data collection
• Review the data that we collected

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Fast Fashion Unit - Writing - Use chart paper for slides 6 - 

• My Maps - pin the area where you found clothes made
• Using the CER format
• How to annotate

Let's look at some articles and graphs to get a better understanding of the issue.  Focus in on something that interests you and you can write about.

Thursday - Morning Routine

Task for the day: Fast Fashion - Essay writing

1. We will work on a rough draft of our essay writing today. It will be due on Friday.
2. We will use a template to get the idea of the CER format.
3. We will generate ideas to write about
4. We will start the writing today
5. You will take notes and start writing.
6. You may need to read another article to get more ideas.
7. Continue on Friday

Friday - Morning Routine

Task for the day: Fast Fashion - Essay writing

1. Continue where we left off on Thursday
2. Looking at your notes, do you have:
1. a claim
2. 3 pieces of evidence
3. a few sentences why the evidence supports your claim
4. a few ideas of how the problem can be fixed
3. You need to put these notes into paragraph form separated by the claim, the evidence, and the reasoning that is supported by the evidence

To get credit for the day, you must complete the first draft of your essay.  

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Period 4 - Science

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - C5GFEQ2SV

Monday - Morning Routine

Fast Fashion - Lab Presentation

• Science Notebook Preparation
• Lab Rules
• CER Format
• Why CER Format
• Practice orally
• Fast Fashion Lab - Student Slides
• Review goals of the lab
• Begin data collection
• Review the data that we collected

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Tuesday - Morning Routine

Fast Fashion - Lab Presentation  - Continuation from Monday

• Science Notebook Preparation
• Lab Rules
• CER Format
• Why CER Format
• Practice orally
• Fast Fashion Lab - Student Slides
• Review goals of the lab
• Begin data collection
• Review the data that we collected

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Fast Fashion Unit - Writing - Use chart paper for slides 6 - 

• My Maps - pin the area where you found clothes made
• Using the CER format
• How to annotate

Let's look at some articles and graphs to get a better understanding of the issue.  Focus in on something that interests you and you can write about.

Thursday - Morning Routine

Task for the day: Fast Fashion - Essay writing

1. We will work on a rough draft of our essay writing today. It will be due on Friday.
2. We will use a template to get the idea of the CER format.
3. We will generate ideas to write about
4. We will start the writing today
5. You will take notes and start writing.
6. You may need to read another article to get more ideas.
7. Continue on Friday

Friday - Morning Routine

Task for the day: Fast Fashion - Essay writing

1. Continue where we left off on Thursday
2. Looking at your notes, do you have:
1. a claim
2. 3 pieces of evidence
3. a few sentences why the evidence supports your claim
4. a few ideas of how the problem can be fixed
3. You need to put these notes into paragraph form separated by the claim, the evidence, and the reasoning that is supported by the evidence

To get credit for the day, you must complete the first draft of your essay.  

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Period 6 - Computer Science

Sphero Robotics Download

Project STEM Link - 

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

Monday - Morning Routine

Complete AWS Tour

Project Sphero - complete the 8 activities to learn about your Sphero Bolt robot

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Your Student Portfolio - What is it and why use it?

Begin building your portfolio on Google Sites

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Sphero Robotics - Continue with the Sphero lessons

Thursday - Morning Routine

Sphero Robotics - Continue with the Sphero lessons (Select Web App Browser)

Friday - Morning Routine

Sphero Robotics - Continue with the Sphero lessons (Select Web App Browser)

Things to watch out for:

• All robots must be returned to their chargers before students leave

• Avoid dropping the robot, run you robot on the floor only, not on the desk.

• Have fun and be creative!

To get credit for the day, you must finish at least one Sphero lesson and understand what you coded 

Start thinking about what kind of monster robot you are going to make.  You will also need to collect the items you will use to make your robot.  Here are some links:

Milk Carton Monsters

Different types

Cardboard Robots LOFI

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Period 7 - Tech Tales ELD

Sphero Robotics Download

Project STEM Link - 

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

Monday - Morning Routine

Complete AWS Tour

Writing Prompt - Do you use cloud computing?

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Ceramics

Thursday - Morning Routine

Finish and debrief AWS Data Center Tour

Project STEM - Complete lesson 0.4 

• Watch the instruction
• Get a partner pair
• Create an account and sign into CODE AI
• Complete one of the coding activities - make sure to save it in your account so you can show me the project to get credit for the day
• If you have time, you can do another coding practice

Friday - Morning Routine

Project STEM - Complete lesson 0.4 

• Watch the instruction
• Get a partner pair
• Create an account and sign into CODE AI
• Complete one of the coding activities - make sure to save it in your account so you can show me the project to get credit for the day
• If you have time, you can do another coding practice

To get credit for the day, you must save your progress in CODE AI and complete (or come close to completing) one of the three projects(Minecraft, Star Wars, or Frozen)

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Esport Info

- Dates of tournaments

Games we play - 

• Mario Kart
• Smash Bros
• Rocket League

What We Do

• Practice
• Strategize
• Communicate
• Present
• Hang out
• Eat
• Help each other
• And more

Meetings

• Currently - Tuesdays at lunch
• Afterschool - 3:30 - 4:30

Drone Club 

Meetings - Currently on Thursday at lunch.  We could go afterschool if the group wants it.

What we do - We learn all about drone and RC tools for play and work.  We learn how they work, we learn how to fly both with manual and automated controls.  We'll practice regularly and extend our time to afterschool if the group wants it.

We fly all kinds of different aerial drones.

D&D

Meetings - Friday at lunchtime

What we do - 

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Space Out Friday

What is Artemis and How Will We Live On The Moon?

Here is the link

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Special Stuff

Here are some Google Chromebook shortcuts that can help you out.  Try them when you can.  You can find a more comprehensive list here.

History of Robotics -