Simply, we need to help get as much gold to the ship before class ends. Class scores will be posted on the rles home page throughout the next lesson cycle. The class with the highest score gets one "free" day in library to focus on whatever students want.
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Design Task
You will have two weeks - and two class periods - to design your own keychain, magnet, or bag tag. . Doing the tutorial from last week will help. Below, you'll find three short videos of me demonstrating the assignment. Make sure to look at last week's assignment for the link to sign in.
Keychain #1: Easy
Keychain#2: moderate
Keychain#3: Difficult
Today we will:
- Watch a video about 3D printing!
- Log into Tinkercad and complete the tutorial lessons. Then explore and tinker away in preparation for your first assignment.
Signing in - click on your teacher and enter your first name followed by the last 4 digits of your lunch number: "adam3423"
About 3d Printing
Things we've printed so far!
Intro Video if you missed class!
Today we will:
1. Review norms and basics with Kahoot!
2. Borrow books!
3. If time allows, review computer lab basics.
1. Review norms and basics with Kahoot!
2. Borrow books!
3. If time allows, review computer lab basics.
Today We Will:
1. Borrow books and read!
2. Practice keyboarding.
3. Play Games!
Game Option: Silent Minecraft!
The rules are simple:
1. No talking. All communication is done through the keyboard. Use the "T" button. You may request items from Mr.B!
2. No griefing! Griefers will get frozen upon first offense, banned on the second. Destroying is easy - creation is beautiful!
3. Take on a mission to achieve library immortality!
1. No talking. All communication is done through the keyboard. Use the "T" button. You may request items from Mr.B!
2. No griefing! Griefers will get frozen upon first offense, banned on the second. Destroying is easy - creation is beautiful!
3. Take on a mission to achieve library immortality!
- Fix the Media Center: You spawn into the library, but it doesn't look great yet. Help Mr. B make it more interesting. Make a huge sign outside, improve the lighting, design new features, or build a second story!
- Build a rail system: Design a rail system or roller coaster for the class!
- Build a monument: Build your own monument to represent something important (or silly).
- Build a mansion! Like in third grade, but even more awesome!
- Create a Zoo: Can you gather the different animals (and monsters) from Minecraft to create your own zoo? I will pay to see it!
- Build a farm: Someone needs to feed us! How many different types of plants and animals will your farm have?
Today We Will:
1. Review library basics 4657 0766.
2. Borrow more books!
3. Look at media center website.
4. Practice computer lab basics.
Lab Options
Standards: Read grade-level texts fluently, with sufficient accuracy, rate, and expression to support comprehension.
What is a GIF? GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. A GIF is basically a series of images placed together to make a short, soundless video clip that plays on repeat. They are small files, making them perfect for being silly online.
Your assignment is to make your own GIF using Brush Ninja. When finished, you will download your GIF, then upload it to our Padlet for the entire fifth grade to see.
Your assignment is to make your own GIF using Brush Ninja. When finished, you will download your GIF, then upload it to our Padlet for the entire fifth grade to see.
Gif ideas
1. Create a transformation. For example, a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, yourself going Super Saiyen, a hoarse becoming a unicorn, how your face changes when pizza arrives, a horse turning into a unicorn, a flower blooming...etc. Be creative!
2. Sports: Recreate an epic sports moment!
3. A math problem you struggle with: Animate your solution of a math problem. Studies have shown that drawing out something difficult will help you remember solutions.
4. Video game: Find inspiration in your online adventures. Perhaps animate your Minecraft character getting better and better equipment.
5. Animate a violent storm.
6. Animate a fish going after your bait.
7. Animate a new species of animal that you discovered!
8. Create an animated Christmas card for a friend (or your whole grade).
9. A plane in flight or a rocket taking off.
10. Come up with your own, unique idea!
2. Sports: Recreate an epic sports moment!
3. A math problem you struggle with: Animate your solution of a math problem. Studies have shown that drawing out something difficult will help you remember solutions.
4. Video game: Find inspiration in your online adventures. Perhaps animate your Minecraft character getting better and better equipment.
5. Animate a violent storm.
6. Animate a fish going after your bait.
7. Animate a new species of animal that you discovered!
8. Create an animated Christmas card for a friend (or your whole grade).
9. A plane in flight or a rocket taking off.
10. Come up with your own, unique idea!
Share with padlet!
Today we will:
1. Go over (Virtual) classroom basics.
2. Create or retrieve MackinVia accounts.
3. Place at least 10 books into your virtual backpacks.
4. Ongoing homework: Read at least 20 minutes for enjoyment or learning each day!
Standards: 5.2.10.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
a. Self-select texts for personal enjoyment, interest, and academic tasks.
a. Self-select texts for personal enjoyment, interest, and academic tasks.
Do the Activities, then take the quiz!
Click on the link above to get started. Each section teachers an aspect of digital citizenship - behaviors and habits that allow us to work and play safely online. When finished, click on the link below to take a Kahoot quiz. Challenge your family to play!
Directions!
For our final CoSpaces assignment, we will recreate a dream. What kind of dreams do you have? Do you have any recurring dreams? Have you ever wonder what dreams are? We will explore this important aspect of sleep through this assignment.
Using code with cospaces!
Today we begin making our own amusement park rides using Cospaces. You will need to attach the camera to your "cart" and then create movement using blockly code. Make sure to decorate the scenery to make your ride more interesting!
Add Music to your ride!
The Free Music Archive offers music for designers and film makers like yourselves with a creative commons licence. This means you can use these songs without violating copyright law. Click on the image to get started!
How to Take a Screenshot!
Step One: Open SimplePlanes, load your best plane. Then press "Print Screen"! Fly your plane and experiment to get the best shot you can!
Step #2: Minimize your game by using the windows button. Open up Microsoft Paint. Paste your screenshot.
Step #3: Save your picture to the desktop. Here is the naming convention: Teachers Name - Your Name - Name of plane.
Example: "Wolf-Fernando-The Sky Speeder"
Example: "Wolf-Fernando-The Sky Speeder"
We have two days to finish. When you finish, here are your choices:
1. Typing Club
2. Create anything at all in SimplePlanes (take another screenshot for you website!)
3. Minecraft: take a screenshot of your creations!
4. Flying drones with Mr. B!!!
1. Typing Club
2. Create anything at all in SimplePlanes (take another screenshot for you website!)
3. Minecraft: take a screenshot of your creations!
4. Flying drones with Mr. B!!!
Last week you were given a design problem: to design a plane that flies. What kind of plane did you start making? Did it fly? Keep designing - adding and subtracting parts, moving them around, testing your design - until you are happy with your plane. You are also welcome to use a second save file for a new design.
Our Assignment
1. Design Problem: You need to design an airplane that can fly. More specifically:
A. A fast plane: My "Blue Bolt 10" reached 1200 MPH. Can anyone beat that?
B. A funky plane for your favorite artist or celebrity: This person is eccentric and wealthy - they want something that will really stand out and be unique!
C. A military plane: There is a lot....a lot of $$$ in making things for the military. It will need to be fast, maneuverable, an armed for a specific purpose.
D. Design the largest plane: How will you get all of that weight in the air?
E. A fun plane for your future, famous self: What kind of plane would you want you and your friends to fly around in?
E. Come up with your own design problem: Maybe you'd be happy just to make something that can stay in the air?
2. Research and Brainstorm: This game is physics based. Designs that work in the real world will work here. Use your knowledge of airplanes today! But there are also some basics.
Design/Test/Evaluate (This step is repeated). I repeated it eight times before my machine took flight. My plane seemed to want to take a nose dive and blow up before takeoff. Then I tried a million different things - often undoing what I had done because it made the problem worse or created a new problem.
Develop a new design problem: If your plane flies, you can come up with a new design problem. Perhaps you want your plane to be bigger, faster, or more maneuverable. Perhaps you to design a plane for the military. Whatever your goals, keep designing.
Share/Publish: We will have 2-3 class periods to complete this project. Then you will post a screenshot of your plane.
A. A fast plane: My "Blue Bolt 10" reached 1200 MPH. Can anyone beat that?
B. A funky plane for your favorite artist or celebrity: This person is eccentric and wealthy - they want something that will really stand out and be unique!
C. A military plane: There is a lot....a lot of $$$ in making things for the military. It will need to be fast, maneuverable, an armed for a specific purpose.
D. Design the largest plane: How will you get all of that weight in the air?
E. A fun plane for your future, famous self: What kind of plane would you want you and your friends to fly around in?
E. Come up with your own design problem: Maybe you'd be happy just to make something that can stay in the air?
2. Research and Brainstorm: This game is physics based. Designs that work in the real world will work here. Use your knowledge of airplanes today! But there are also some basics.
Design/Test/Evaluate (This step is repeated). I repeated it eight times before my machine took flight. My plane seemed to want to take a nose dive and blow up before takeoff. Then I tried a million different things - often undoing what I had done because it made the problem worse or created a new problem.
Develop a new design problem: If your plane flies, you can come up with a new design problem. Perhaps you want your plane to be bigger, faster, or more maneuverable. Perhaps you to design a plane for the military. Whatever your goals, keep designing.
Share/Publish: We will have 2-3 class periods to complete this project. Then you will post a screenshot of your plane.
The Four Forces of Flight!
The History of Flight (Design process over time!)
Standards: ISTE 4A: Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
ISTE 4C: 4cStudents develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
ISTE 4C: 4cStudents develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
What is the design process?
The design process - sometimes called the engineering process - is a method for solving problems. It is used to make things - cars, phones, planes, toys, video games, robots, furniture...anything that must be created.
Failure is a very important part of this process. You learn from your failures to create better and better designs. Each prototype may have new problems, and so you keep improving until you have a finished product. Others may improve on your design. This process has made our cars faster, more efficient, safer, more reliable, more comfortable, and more convenient. What will designers do to our cars in the future? We may use renewable energy to power them. We may not even drive them! Below you'll find an illustration and video of the design process.
Failure is a very important part of this process. You learn from your failures to create better and better designs. Each prototype may have new problems, and so you keep improving until you have a finished product. Others may improve on your design. This process has made our cars faster, more efficient, safer, more reliable, more comfortable, and more convenient. What will designers do to our cars in the future? We may use renewable energy to power them. We may not even drive them! Below you'll find an illustration and video of the design process.
Simple pLane Design
Simple Planes is a design game that has different modes. To learn how to play the game, we will complete the "build your first plane" tutorial. If there is time, you can take the flying tutorial as well. So what is our first design problem? Leaning how to use the tools of the game!
Standards: ISTE 4A: Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
ISTE 4C: 4cStudents develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
ISTE 4C: 4cStudents develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
Choose your Assignment
There are now five assignments in our class CoSpaces page. You should have completed both the "room" and "dream" assignments. There are three options to choose from for your last assignment. Make sure to share your completed projects! Below you'll find directions and examples for the final three assignments!
Build and AQUARIUM or Terrarium!
You are a highly sought after designer, and an eccentric (strange) and very rich customer named Scrooge McDuck has requested that you build an aquarium or terrarium for his mansion. Don't disappoint Mr. McDuck!
Build your Dream House!
Using the "Building" shapes in the CoSpaces library, build your dream home. It can have an inside or just be exterior (outside).
Create an ASSIGNMENT!
This option is for students who have their own idea about what to build.
First, share/publish your Dream project!
First, make sure to "share" (publish) your Dream project from last week. This will allow for sharing your creations with others online, as well as allow Mr.B to put your project on the school library website. The picture below highlights the share button. Make sure to name your project!
Next, complete "Create your own room" Assignment!
The year is 2075 and you have been selected to make a 10 year voyage across the stars to an earth-like planet. Each occupant on the ship is allowed to design their own small room. What will your room look like? What will keep you happy and sane over the long journey? Below you'll find my example!
Lastly, choose your final cospaces assignment
Once your are finished creating your room, choose another assignment. You have three options. You can build an aquarium, your own house, or choose your own assignment. Examples will be added below next week.
Program your Dance Moves!
You've learned how to make Sphero move, but can you make Sphero dance? Use and combine the codes below to make your unique moves. Or, make something completely different. At the end of the period, show off your moves at the Sphero Dance party!
The Circle
Spin
The Wobble
The Square
Spins and LInes
Directions
1. Choose one of the mazes in the library.
2. Create a program to move your Sphero from one box to the other.
3. Once solved, add lights, sounds, and celebratory spins/art to your solution.
Important Tips!
A. Decide the direction, or degrees of your rolls before starting. A consistent speed of 75 works well for solving mazes. The only unknown variable it time. Use trial and error.
B. Always start your sphero from the same exact spot or you won't know if your code is improving. Make sure to aim carefully!
2. Create a program to move your Sphero from one box to the other.
3. Once solved, add lights, sounds, and celebratory spins/art to your solution.
Important Tips!
A. Decide the direction, or degrees of your rolls before starting. A consistent speed of 75 works well for solving mazes. The only unknown variable it time. Use trial and error.
B. Always start your sphero from the same exact spot or you won't know if your code is improving. Make sure to aim carefully!
Creating Animations
Today we will be focusing on using the newest feature on the Sphero Bolt: the Matrix. The matrix can be animated quickly and easily using block programming. There will be a short demonstration followed by time to come up with your own unique animations. At the end of the period, we will all show off our animations in the lab.
