7-2 Technology '19-20 Assignments

Review the 4 videos below geared for Kindergarten - 2nd graders and create a list of the key messages shared.

Using your list as a starting point, pick 5 age appropriate rules to remind 1st graders to be safe, respectful and responsible online.

Use iMovie or WeVideo to create a 1:00 - 2:00 minute video that teaches your 5 rules.
Use text, images and sound (voice over and/or music). Your video must use language appropriate for 1st graders.

Remember to upload your final video into Google Drive so that you can attach it in Google Classroom and turn it in.

WeVideo: If you would like a refresher on using WeVideo, I've attached a video below. You created accounts on WeVideo last year for an assignment, so you should be able to log in using your Google Accounts.

Google Meet on Tuesday, May 26 at 10:40 am link to join included below.

Each quarter Middle School students must complete 30 minutes of timed tying tests on www.typing.com.

Students must earn at least 15 WPM or higher and an accuracy of 95% or higher for the test to count towards your 30 minutes.

Students should strive to be within these ranges or higher by the end of the year.
Goals:
6th grade - 25-35 WPM
7th grade - 30-40 WPM
8th grade: 35-45 WPM

If you forgot your typing.com account and have been logging in using your school Google Account, you need to add that account to my class in typing.com so I can see your progress. Log into typing.com, in the upper right hand corner, click on your name and go to Account Settings. Then scroll down to join a class. For the class code, enter sfstechnology and click join. Then I should be able to see your work.

Create a solution to safely deliver meals or supplies to the elderly or sick while we practice social distancing.

We will use the 4 Steps in the Problem Solving Process: Define, Prepare, Try and Reflect
Define: Understand the problem and the requirements
Prepare: brainstorm ideas and create a Design for a solution
Try: build a model using items available around the house- paper, cardboard boxes, items from recycling bin, clay/play doh, fabric, scissors, tape, glue, yarn, etc.
Reflect: What would you change or do differently? What do think worked well in the build? What did you have trouble with?

Complete the attached Design document. Including your brainstorming and then your design. Include a drawing of your solution and then using materials from around the house, build out a model or prototype of your solution and include pictures or quick video of your model.
Google Meet on Tuesday, 5/19 at 10:40 am

You've learned ways to add style to your websites for both text and non text elements. This week in Lesson 14 you will add the finishing touches to your websites. The style and formatting of your website will be graded based on the attached rubric.

Your website must have:
- Style and formatting rules defined in at least 1 cascading stylesheet (.css file)(2 pts)
- Stylesheets are linked to html pages via the link tag in your index.html file and all other .html files (2 pts)
- At least 1 color is specified using the RGB value and displayed somewhere on the website (2 pts)
- Text styled with CSS (e.g. font-size, font-family, text-decoration, text-align). At least 2 rules are defined for each of at least 2 text elements (headings and/or paragraphs). (2 pts)
- Layout styled with CSS for non-text elements (e.g., borders, images, backgrounds). At least 2 of these properties (e.g. height, width, border-radius, border-style with border-width >0, float, margin) are used on your site and visible. (2 pts)

I will have a Google Meet on Tuesday, May 12th at 10:40 am to help you with any coding issues or questions you may have. This call is strongly recommended if you are having trouble with your website or have any questions.

If you are unable to attend the scheduled Google Meet, but have quesetions please reach out to me and we can arrange a Google Meet that works with both our schedules. Remember I am happy to help you, you just need to ask!

This week we will learn how to create your own colors for your webpages and how to create a class - a concept where a multiple unique set of rules can be created for an element on a given page.

The Google Meet login info is below - Thursday 4/30 at 10:40-11:20 am - normal class time

You will learn to add borders and change image size and roundess of image corners

Read and take notes on the attached slides and then complete lesson 11 in code.org

Please join me for a Google Meet at 10:40
We will discuss Stylesheets and start with a couple of basic elements:
- color
- font: style, size, color, decoration (underline, overline, strikethrough)

Put Slides in present mode to watch the video.
Complete the 14 activities in Lesson 10 in code.org

We will start with a Google Meet at 10:40 am on Tuesday. I will explain the peer review. Then, I will stay on the call to help those who still need help finishing their websites.

You are going to peer review the content of your classmates' websites today.
We are moving on to formatting & Lesson 10 on Thursday. So please finish up, if you have not done so!

1. Please share your website with your partner.
Go to Lesson 9, level 12. Click Share in the upper left corner. Copy the link and paste it as a class comment to this assignment with your name.

2. Please use the attached rubric to peer review your assigned partner's website. List your name as Reviewer and their name as creator on the Name line.
For each row, check to see if your partner's website meets all the requirements listed. If yes, mark yes in column 2. if not, indicate no in column 2 and please leave a comment explaining what you think they are missing in column 3.
Please check spelling as well.

3. Before turning in your peer review, please share your completed peer review with the person you reviewed so they can make changes. All changes to the websites are due by next Thursday, April 16th.

Partners:
Sarah Jane & Briana
Joseph & Philippe
Devin & Trevor
Mario review Elizabeth
Elizabeth review Abby
Abby review Mario
Danny & Grace
Nathan & Jonathan

Create your website - 4 pages total
Build out your personal or business website.

See attached files for content requirements and rubric (use as your checklist to complete)

Each quarter Middle School students must complete 30 minutes of timed tying tests on www.typing.com.

Students must earn at least 15 WPM or higher and an accuracy of 95% or higher for the test to count towards your 30 minutes.

Students should strive to be within these ranges or higher by the end of the year.
Goals:
6th grade - 25-35 WPM
7th grade - 30-40 WPM
8th grade: 35-45 WPM

Complete all the activities in code.org for Lesson 8.
You will work with your 1:00 partners

In this lesson we will explore the different Creative Common licenses and learn when to use them.

Use the attached Hyper Doc to find your activities and place all your work in the Hyper Doc

Today we will learn the tags for creating ordered (numbered) lists and unordered (bullet points) lists

Complete all the online activities for Lesson 6 in code.org
You may work with your 7:00 partner

Today we will look at how comfortable we are sharing information with other people. This will help us understand the type of content we may feel comfortable sharing on our websites.

Go to When Does Your Privacy Matter and complete the chart independently. Then you will meet with your 12:00 partner to discuss your answers and answer the reflection questions.

Then we will look at how much we can find out about people on social media.
Complete Social Sleuth with your partner. There are 3 people's accounts on 3 different social media sites. Determine which accounts match each person on each social media site. Then pick 2 people and find out how much information you can find about them across the three sites.

Complete all the online activities for Lesson 4 Headings.
You may work with your 9:00 partner

You will be completing all online activities for Lesson 3.
You may work with your 6:00 partner

Today we will be looking at how websites can be used for personal expression as well as for business purposes.

We will brainstorm ideas of things we want to share on our own websites and you will decide if you wish to make a business website or a personal website.

We will take a look at examples of both and evaluate them in terms of organization and layout, content, page elements, and style, noting what you like and don't like about the various sites.

Finally you will sketch out a draft of one of your web pages.

Each quarter Middle School students must complete 30 minutes of timed tying tests on www.typing.com.

Students must earn at least 15 WPM or higher and an accuracy of 95% or higher for the test to count towards your 30 minutes.

Students should strive to be within these ranges or higher by the end of the year.
Goals:
6th grade - 25-35 WPM
7th grade - 30-40 WPM
8th grade: 35-45 WPM

As you will be building out your websites this year, we will start the web development unit by exploring various websites, focusing on the purpose for the website: from the creator's point of view and the audience's point of view.

You will work with your 8:00 partner.

We will be using Google Slides to create a holiday card and then adding one or more items and animating them by moving them a little bit at a time on each slide.

You may use your notebooks only while taking this quiz.

This project is a major part of your grade for 2nd quarter.
You may work with a partner or by yourself. You will have class time to work on this, but you will need to work on this at home as well in order to meet the due dates.

Here are the project milestones:
The following items are due by the start of class:
Tuesday 11/11: Step 1 - Choose your partner
Thursday 11/14: Steps 2-4 - What is the problem your app will solve
Tuesday 11/19 Step 5: Your App: What is it called, what does it do, how it will work
Thursday 11/21 Step 6: Input, Output, Store & Process. Conduct Peer Reviews in Class
Tuesday Nov 26: Completed Peer Review
Tuesday 12/3: Revised App Design
Thursday 12/5: Completed Video Infomercial & Presentation Slides. Project Due - presenting in class

Your group will be assigned to peer review another group/individual.
Each person on your team must complete a peer review form for a person on the other team. Every person must receive a peer review

When being reviewed:
1. Fill out the first part of your form.
2. Share your form with the person evaluating you.
3. After the evaluation, complete all the reflection questions on page 2.

When Reviewing
1. Open the form of the person you are evaluating.
2. List your name as Reviewer's name
3. Listen to the person/group explain their app.
4. Assess based on the 4 areas:
- problem defined
- app addresses/fixes the problem
- all the necessary input and output are listed
- the group discusses how the app processes the information and what information is stored in the app
In the comments, describe how they met the criteria, or list what was missing.
Give constructive(helpful) feedback on the 3 prompts below the table.

Today you will work with your 11:00 partner to look at different apps and the types of data they input, how they process it and then how they output it. You will also consider which data shou be stored on the device.

Each quarter Middle School students must complete 30 minutes of timed tying tests on www.typing.com.

Students must earn at least 15 WPM or higher and an accuracy of 95% or higher for the test to count towards your 30 minutes.

Students should strive to be within these ranges or higher by the end of the year.
Goals:
6th grade - 25-35 WPM
7th grade - 30-40 WPM
8th grade: 35-45 WPM

Today we will be discussing the question what is a computer?

Work with your 4:00 partner to decide which of the objects are a computer and which are not.

Work with your 5:00 partner

Use the website link below to create an avatar of yourself. It must be school appropriate

Create a 6 slide presentation ( 1 title slide + 5 content slides)
Create a title slide, be sure to include your name.
Pick 5 questions or words you got wrong or didn’t know.
For each question or word, research the answer or meaning.
Create one slide for each of the 5 words/questions
- Include a picture & the word or question
- IN YOUR OWN WORDS, write the correct answer to the question or the definition of the word.

Welcome back!
Please read and sign the expectations sheet. Please have your parent read and sign.
I've attached a copy, in case you misplaced the handout from class. It is due Tuesday, Aug 27.

A copy of the RUP can be found on the school website.