Inspiration 8/9: City Research Project 2014

City Exploration Research Graphic Diagram.



City Web Map CITY LIST by Student

Over
the next two days you will create a web for a city in the United
States. Click on the picture to the right to see my example.  You will
be assigned a city today.  You  will be responsible for creating an
identical web to the one described.  Please include the following data:



City Facts:  Year Founded, Longitude, Latitude, Population, Area, Time Zone, and Mayor's Name.

Also
include major industries, professional sports teams, colleges,
historical places, museums, and weather information.  Each place you
list will need to have a link to the website that corresponds to it. 
HYPERLINK can be found in the TOOL Heading of the Toolbar.  Weather can
link to any local news station, but other links must be the official
sites for those places, not some other site or advertisement.  You can
use all of my formatting, or create your own diagrams.  You must include
the same headings and topics.  You must also use different colors for
each section.  You must also include a box at the bottom of the page
with a list of all the resources you used to find your information.
 This is not an official bibliography, but it must be accurate when
checked by me.

YOU MUST SAVE YOUR DOCUMENT AS A JPEG (File, EXPORT, Graphics, JPEG, Save As), and UPLOAD it to your GOOGLE DRIVE.  You must Click SHAREABLE LINK and COPY/PASTE that Link to the Google+ Community Page for credit.  If you have any
questions, just ask or email me a question.  This project is worth 300
points toward your Marking Period grade.  



Good Luck!!  Mr. S



GRADING RUBRIC



5 pts - USA Symbol/Name Connection

           Title Block:  Student Name, ID#, Class Period, City Exploration Project, Date

5 pts - STATE Symbol - (If Available)

10 pts - At Least Two Colleges and Two Historical Places

10 pts - At Least Two Industries

10 pts - Two Companies Per Industry

10 pts - Information Sources Box - Cannot use Wikipedia or Google as Sources

10 pts - At Least Two Museums

10 pts - At Least Two Professional / Amateur Sports

10 pts - Weather Information: Average Annual Temp & Avg Annual Rainfall

10 pts - Overall Neatness, Completeness, Spelling, Layout and Appropriate Linking

10 pts - WebLink Bibliography Included in Email

             Bibliography Box must include links for every site you use.

_____



Total Points X3 = Your Final Points Total Score

Inspiration 8/9: Family Tree & Timeline Project

ACADEMIC/LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Today students will use a graphic organizer to create and display information.  Students will create a Personal Timeline and a Family Tree using Inspiration 8/9.

STUDENTS WILL ENTER THE CLASS QUIETLY AND BEGIN WORKING!

Students will review ALL of the directions below prior to starting the project!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE TODAY!

Standards Covered In This Class  

PA 3.7.7 & 11 Section C / ISTE 2011

CSTA Tied With Common Core ELA/Math rev. 2011

START:  Please read the following article and create a Weebly.com Journal Entry about why learning about your own family tree and heritage is important to you.  Title the entry "My Heritage".  Please include a brief account of where your family if from and how you are going to spend time in search of your ancestors.



ARTICLE:

What is Heritage?

Heritage is the full range of our
inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture.  Most important,
it is the range of contemporary activities, meanings, and behaviors that
we draw from them.

Heritage includes, but is much more than
preserving, excavating, displaying, or restoring a collection of old
things.  It is both tangible and intangible, in the sense that ideas and
memories--of songs, recipes, language, dances, and many other elements
of who we are and how we identify ourselves--are as important as
historical buildings and archaeological sites.

Heritage is, or should be, the subject of
active public reflection, debate, and discussion.  What is worth
saving?  What can we, or should we, forget?  What memories can we enjoy,
regret, or learn from?  Who owns "The Past" and who is entitled to
speak for past generations?  Active public discussion about material and
intangible heritage--of individuals, groups, communities, and
nations--is a valuable facet of public life in our multicultural world.

Heritage is a contemporary activity with
far-reaching effects.  It can be an element of far-sighted urban and
regional planning.  It can be the platform for political recognition, a
medium for intercultural dialogue, a means of ethical reflection, and
the potential basis for local economic development.  It is
simultaneously local and particular, global and shared.

Heritage is an essential part of the present we live in--and of the future we will build.

 FAMILY TREE AND PERSONAL TIMELINE

Today you will continue to design graphic organizers on Inspiration8/9.  Please create a Personal Timeline and Family Tree in a digital format.  You must create these from scratch using Inspiration 8/9.

YOU MUST CREATE A HAND-DRAWN VERSION BEFORE WORKING ON A DIGITAL VERSION ONLINE!

To start, use a blank piece of paper to list your birthday, list all the schools you have attended, list any significant events in your life (birthdays, deaths, weddings, graduations, holidays, family trips, honors, awards, or any other events you can remember) and the dates they happened.  Open Inspiration 8/9 and open a New Blank Document.  Begin to drag boxes into the timeline and label them in order.  Once you have created your first box with a date underneath, you can now select the box, copy and paste a new one next to it, and link them with an arrow.  Continue until you have listed all the events up to today's date.  You need to list 10-15 events to complete the project.

For the Family Tree, make a complete list of all of your parents, step-parents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, grandparents, and any other family members you can think of.  Now begin dragging in boxes and labeling them with each person's name and date of birth (if you know it).  Now list weddings in text between married couples.  Make sure to line up each placemarker with others in the same generation.  Make sure you include extended family (Aunts, Uncles, Brothers, Sisters, Etc.)  I would like you to do your best to include at least 3 levels of your family tree.  These should include siblings, parents, aunts & uncles, grandparents, and anyone else you might know.  Once you have your Timeline and Family Tree on one document, Go To FILE and EXPORT and save it to the desktop as an IMAGE (JPEG) File.  Upload the JPEG File to your Google DRIVE and Copy/Paste the Shareable Link to the Google Plus Crossroads 2014-2015 Community Page for credit.  DO NOT

Create a NEW box.....look for the assignment box I created to post your link.



See the sample below for some more clarity.  Good Luck!

- Mr. S

MP2: Pre-Holiday Catch Up Day II

ACADEMIC/LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Today students will have the opportunity to complete outstanding work.  Students will review the class website and work on any items that are not already turned in for credit.  These items include, but not limited to VENN DIAGRAMS,

WORD CLOUDS, CODE.ORG INTRO COURSE, SCAVENGER HUNT, or any other assigments for the Second Marking Period.

STUDENTS WILL ENTER THE CLASS QUIETLY AND BEGIN WORKING!

WORK ON YOUR JOURNAL ENTRY IMMEDIATELY UPON ENTERING CLASS!

Students will review the class website to determine what items are due, and what items they have not completed for the Second Marking Period.

Tomorrow we will begin the Graphic Organizer Timeline and Family Tree Project!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE TODAY!

Standards Covered In This Class  

PA 3.7.7 & 11 Section C / ISTE 2011

CSTA Tied With Common Core ELA/Math rev. 2011

ADDITIONAL PROJECT:  Big History! (Click Here For Information)



Make sure you check out the link above for an exciting project that you might be able to earn additional High School credit for!



Today you have the ability to work on any of the following items:



     Veteran's Day Interview



     IMovie Public Service Announcement



     StampPass Sign-Up



     Personal Word Cloud



    "Giving Thanks" Tackk.Com Project



    VENN Diagram Project



    "Peace Day" Tackk.Com Project



SCAVENGER HUNT (SEE BELOW) - YOU MUST TURN IN THE ONLINE VERSION, NOT THE PAPER VERSION YOU DID IN CLASS!



Do
not forget to check to make sure your Weebly website is up to date with
links to all of your assignments.  You also need to make sure you are
keeping up with the Journal Entries.



If you have
completed all of the work listed above, please look on your computer for
the Inspiration (8 or 9) application.  We will be using this program to
create Venn Diagrams, Family Trees, Personal Timelines, and a
City/State Research Project.  We will be looking at different uses for
Graphic Organizers and posting our creations to the school Google+ page.



Good Luck!



Mr. S



To Complete The Following Scavenger Hunt, you must include the Answer AND The WEBLINK Where You Found It! COPY AND PASTE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS INTO AN EMAIL TO me at hscribnercaa@gmail.com.  The Subject of the Email is "SCAVENGER HUNT".

SCAVENGER HUNT 

(This Counts As A Quiz Too!)

Copy the following questions into an email and add the answer and the weblink you found it at:

1. Find information about a new Baskin Robbins Ice Cream
flavor.



2. Where can you find information on how people without computers can access
“Welcome to the White House”?



3. What are the Italian and Chinese names for Mickey Mouse?



4. Who won the 2002 White House News Photographers’ Association photographer of
the year award?



5. What college did WNBA player Diana Vines attend?



6. Find a site with the daily feature ”On this Day in
TV History.”



7. When was Pluto the dog first seen and in what movie?



8. Find a band with “guava” in its name.



9. What player appears first on the College Football Hall of Fame New Members
site?



10. Where is the Red Feather Lodge located?



11. In season 3 of “The X-Files,” what was the name of episode 3X12, which
aired January 5, 1996?



12. How many Beanie Babies are there?



13. Which college team holds the 1997 USILA Club championship?



14. Where is Camp
Lachenwald
located?

15. What
happened to Bill Cosby on November 11th 2004?