Form and Function Project Part 2 October – November 2020

Hello Students!

Today I will be checking in with you about your research. Many of you have done a great job answering the questions from my last post, and I look forward to seeing your notes in your journals!

I can see we are doing a lot of learning as we go about:

  • How to feed Google the right words for effective searches,
  • How to ask for help when you need it,
  • How to choose topics, so you are not spending too much time researching something that is too difficult,
  • How to manage your time, keeping to 30-40 minutes a night if needed for extra research at home, and using your class time well by not talking to others, and
  • How to document your notes by following specific instructions about which questions to answer and what details to put down for the sources you used.

Remember, this is only our first project! This is why I gave you the questions to answer for this one!

Now, we need to do a presentation, so there are some choices to make:

  1. Use the Book Creator app to put pictures and text together into a short, 6 page book about your topic. It is fun, colourful, and you can do it on the iPad. You can access it at school. You would need to answer all the questions in your book and provide some illustrations, which you can import from the internet. Save the pictures in your photo gallery on your iPad, then get started making your book. We will talk about it in class.
  2. Write a speech and present it aloud to the class. The speech can be handwritten or typed out using the iPad. As you speak, you can have pictures to show. Find the pictures you need and put them in your photo gallery on your iPad. You can use Haiku Deck to show the pictures, or just slide through the pictures from within the gallery. We can hook up your iPad to the projector. The speech would be no more than 2 minutes. One paragraph for each question.

Laptops are not currently available for this project, so we won’t be able to have you work on Book Creator at home, and we can’t do PowerPoint yet. Don’t worry, we will get to do that soon! Maybe the next project!

I will post a rubric for you in MS Teams later this week, along with the assignment description. That way, we can practice turning in an assignment.

Look forward to seeing your research!

Ms. D