Monday, March 11, 2013

General Announcements:

• Friday PE: Wear or bring clothes/shoes to move in indoors.
• If you ever notice something missing or wrong on the blog, comment to let me know about it - I don't always have the whole picture. -Grace

Humanities:

• If you signed up to make a Thank You card for one of the people who helped out with Coffeehouse, it's due tomorrow
• Grade 7: 20 notecards due Monday for "Hero" project.
• Grade 8: 100 words of rough draft due tomorrow
• All: Read about ¼ of your novel by March 19.

Math:

Big Ideas Math Website: choose your color/name of book.

Graph paper link on the sidebar →

Grade 7 Level 1

• Due Tues., 3/12: Your finished box project, including the following:
  • Sketch of box design and sketch of flat plan, dimensions labeled (does not need to be to scale, but I will be checking your proposed measurements against what your design describes). This page should also include the surface area of your design.
  • Your cardboard prototype
  • Your one-paragraph pitch, describing how your box design fulfills the criteria listed on the project sheet. For reference, those are:
    • easy to make
    • holds together with just cardboard and tape
    • easy to open and close
    • uses a minimum weight of packing material
    • visually interesting

Grade 8

• Due Tues., 3/12: textbook, p. 256, #1, 9-14, 16-20, 26, 28, 31

Tech:

• I've gotten this question enough times, so here are the links to Fantastic Contraption and the World of Goo download page:
  
• Fantastic Contraption


• World of Goo Demo download page.

Science:

• Due Tues., 3/12: At least 3 resources for your research project on the Renaissance/Golden Age of Islam

Spanish:

Grade 7
Grade 8

8th Grade Project:

• Due Tues., 3/12: At least 100 words of your first draft.

Moment of Zen

Elemental Beauty

Japanese chemist and photographer R. Tanaka has a beautiful set of photos of elemental crystals, which take some intriguing forms (see the above Bismuth crystal). Click above to see his crystal Flickr set.