Hello Everyone!
Welcome to our new 6th & 7th period classes. I truly hope you enjoy "Making" this final trimester.
Thanks to all the volunteers that made the 7th Annual Skoolcade Game Design Challenge a HUGE success. We had over 280 participants & showcased over
Wednesday 9 - 11 am - 5th Grade Campus Visit
Check out what's Up in our Sky for the month of March. Click on the image.
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Period 2 - Computer Science
Monday - Recap of Skoolcade & Winning Games - Link to Skoolcade Arcade
Tuesday - Looking at Tinkercad Starters and Projects
Wednesday - Post your Starter Page in your portfolio
Looking at Tinkercad Starters and Projects
Thursday - Wrap up your project & post
Friday - Tinkercad & What's next for you?
What's your experience level?
Do you sketch? In 2D? In 3D?
Do you have a problem that can be solved with a thing?
Design Thinking Strategies
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Understanding & Moving forward in 3D Manufacturing
2D to 3D abstraction
Creating a product - design mindset
Building based in a library - reusable resources
The intersection between different manufacturing environments - electronics, plastics, metal, wood/paper, food
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Period 3 - Robotics
Monday - Skoolcade Report - Mario, Christopher, & Eric
What does automate mean? How does this apply to your project?
Link to Skoolcade Arcade
Tuesday - Project Automate It - continue building & programming
What do you need? Are you stuck?
Wednesday - Project Automate It - refining the design to automate
Thursday - Project Automate It - refining the design to automate
Friday - Project Automate It - starting to wrap up the project - Are you meeting your design goals? How have you updated/changed your plans? Why?
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Period 5 - English Language Development
Quote of the Week
Monday - Question - If you could come up with a great video game idea, what would it be?
Task:
Log into Newsela through Clever - Your assignment will be there for this week. Follow the instructions
Tuesday - Question -
Task:
Log into Newsela through Clever - Your assignment will be there for this week. Follow the instructions
Wednesday - Question -
Task:
Log into Newsela through Clever - Your assignment will be there for this week. Follow the instructions
Thursday - Question -
Task:
Friday - Question -
Task:
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Periods 6 & 7 - Computer Science on the Wheel
Monday - Welcome to Computer Science - Starting our Class Routines
Copy and paste these links into new tabs. We will create a new bookmark folder in your Chrome browser
riovistatech.blogspot.com
mail.google.com
tinkercad.com
scratch.mit.edu
https://projectstem.org/users/sign_in
Typing.com - period 6
Typing.com - period 7
Tuesday - Starting Our Class Routines
- Why are we keyboarding every day? - Time
- Checking out your mail every day? - Communication
- Let's look at our Rio Vista Computer Science Blog
Wednesday - Starting Our Class Routines
Why are we learning about Space?
Thursday - Class Routines
Lessons - What is the class blog for?
Friday - Typing Game Day Friday
