TP – Students will explore the concepts of engineering by building a tower and documenting the process
The following Microsoft PowerPoint outlines the process:
You will assessed twice on this project. Once for the groupwork in planning, constructing, and managing the tower. The other for the multimedia presentation that follows the construction.
TP – Students will design an animated sequence using Microsoft Powerpoint
Students in the 7th grade will be creating an animated sequence using Microsoft Powerpoint. This will help you to navigate the tools and abilities of Powerpoint. You will learn how to create new slides, have slides automatically go to the next slide, insert clip art, create and insert sound, use the shape tool, and more.
This link shows multiple ways to do multiple things:
Here are some sites and tutorials to help:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Animation-or-Movies-with-Microsoft-PowerPoint
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19105/how-to-animate-text-and-objects-in-powerpoint-2010/
http://it.usu.edu/plugins/work/sitemaps/47/files/PowerPoint_animation.pdf
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/animate-text-or-objects-HA010021497.aspx
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-tips-for-creating-animations-in-powerpoint-2010/316
My outline
Your Rubric:
Please go to the following link about landforms:
http://www.brainpop.com/games/landformdetectives/
Play some of the different scenarios.
In a Word Document, make a bullet-pointed list of notes about interesting facts you learned. We will share these with each other.
I would like to welcome all my new 6-8 grade students to this site. It will help you throughout the course. It has many resources and your current projects on it at all times. You can access it through any internet device (CPU, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, etc.) Here is the first lesson we will work on to begin the course:
Ask me if you have any questions!