Wed Dec 11th (Stories of Exploration)

Space Exploration | Learn about Space Exploration on instaGrok, the research engine

Questions:

• How can we create fictional exploration stories that are appealing to a younger audience and that are based on real stories of exploration?
• How have people, ideas, and technologies advanced understanding of the universe and solar system?
• What have we learned through space exploration missions?

Day Plan:

1. Read Starry Messenger
2. 15 minutes to Brainstorm Story Ideas:
1. See new Chunk 2 doc shared with your Team (Due Friday). It now includes:
1. Pictures of Your Mission
2. A brief summary of the mission (written collaboratively
3. Pitches for each of your stories
3. Rest of the block to work on Chunk 4 (Due Thursday)  
1. Individuals are encouraged to:
1. see if they can find world book articles on their topics
2. Use Instagrok as a way to breakup the topic and narrow their search. Notice the slider on the top right to filter results by level of difficulty. 

Project Resources:

• Outline
• Pinboard of resources 
• EBSCO databases - perfect for media coverage of missions 
• World Book Student - very research friendly articles on missions 
• Example of Students writing stories for a younger audience

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/
~/media/WhoAmI/FindOutMore/What%20controls%20the%20cell%20cycle.jpg

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.