Day 40-42: ELA testing

Day 36-39: Webquests and spreadsheets

Our next project will teach you more about internet research and give us practice with google spreadsheets. Here is the simple spreadsheet we did in class,
Bank Book
did you get $681.12 as a result?
Knowing how to do both of these things are listed in our Standards for Information Technology.
We'll start the project here:
http://www.willard.k12.oh.us/mrwhitescomputerlab/payingtheprice/webquest.html

Day 35: 7th Grade trip to Museum of Natural History

Day 33-34: Wiki Project Portfolio

Your portfolio should include:

• Project Coverletter
• Coverpage of your wikispace website, showing URL of space and links to images or other pages in the site
  
• 10 facts about your topic
  
• 10 source URL's
• presentation rating sheet
  
• self evaluation, (word document if you need to print it)
  
• grading rubric

Please place all these items in a folder and turn in to Ms. Dryg on Friday, 1/11/08

Day 31: Wiki Portfolio Coverletter

• Intro: Generally describe the overall project and what you will tell us in the rest of the letter.
• Body

1. How to create and use a wiki
   
2. Describe the process and working collaboratively
   
3. Observing how Art and images tells us about culture and time
   
4. Learning about:
   Asian countries
   or
   American Indians
   

• Conclusion: Were you and the project a success? Did you enjoy it? What did you learn? How can you use it in the future? What questions do you still have?
  

Day 28-30 : Wiki Group Presentations

• Rating presentations
• presenting
• getting organized

Day26-27: Project workshop days

These are two days for you to work independently or in your group to fulfill the research project requirements. If you finish your individual work and group contributions, you may practice your presentation.