Astronomy Preview??

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/382989281825792001/photo/1

One Cell, Two Cell, Red Cell, Blue Cell*

*I'd like to give a shout out to R.K. Grosberg and R.R. Strathmann who were the creative geniuses behind the clever name of this project. 

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/whoami/findoutmore/yourbody/whatdoyourcellsdo/howoftenareyourcellsreplaced/
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A Project to Answer the Question: How can we model the cellular life cycle of various organisms?

1. Project Outline
2. Rubrics
3. Monday Sept 30th:
• Assignment: CYU 2.2: p. 36-37, #s 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11
4. Starting Tuesday, October 1st...
• Mitosis and Meiosis Video Playlist
• Chunk 3 Assignment: Cellular Reproduction Video Critique
5. Starting Thursday October 3rd...
• Chunk 4 Description in Outline
• Chunk 4 Cell Reproduction Questions 
6. Starting Tuesday October 8th...
• Chunk 5 and 6: Mitosis and Meiosos Models
• Playlists for insporation and ideas:
• Mitosis Playlist
• Meiosis Playlist

Genius Hour Project

http://astropt.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/keep-calm-and-stay-genius.png

Videos to Introduce Project:

• Kid President Pep Talk

• Obvious to You. Amazing To Others

• Genius Hour Intro

Class Brainstorming

Research Template 

• Note: open document, go to file, make a copy, rename it, then move the copy to your NLC folder

Form to Submit Ideas 

• Note: You Need Your Idea Approved before you begin

Reflection and Feedback Survey

Student Projects Published Online:

• Kiera's Research Report on the Legalization of Marijuana

• Ming's Red Velvet Cupcakes

• Chef Connor's Corageous Cooking

• Nikki's Photo Editing Work (in progress)

• Jade's Research on Abuse
• Hudson's Research on Caffine

Fri Oct 18th: What makes a good genius hour project?

• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JWRKjkKwu1Kl3xocxfYHEsOTr-yJzljGrEfBJDToLbU/viewform

Sundae Project

• Project Outline
• Project Rubric
• Calculation Sheet (sample calculation sheet) 

Monday September 16th:

1. Project Feedback Survey
2. Celebration Email to Parents
3. Summary for the Wall
1. Open a Google Document and prepare a one page summary of your work (your own comments and ideas) including at least 4 things
• Your Team's calculation sheet
• A few sentences describing what went well in the project
• A few sentences describing what was tricky in the project
• A few sentences describing what you would do differently if you were to do the project again. 
• Optional: your sketch of the sundae bar design
2. Hand it in digitally here:

What is 21st Century Learning?

Here's our activity and assignment for the first week.

Teacher Introduction

Here's the "Teacher Introduction" handout for the first day. This highlights a few of the things I want to talk about by way of an introduction as your get to know me and this class.

We have lots more to talk about as we get into 21st Century Learning, Project Based Learning, Working Collaboratively and Digital Citizenship. These will be discussed in the coming days and weeks.