Your Contribution / Your Legacy assignment
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Eighth Graders have spent many hours here at school, and touched on many lives. What memories of YOU will you leave behind? One way to answer this is to ask, "What assistance can you give to others about this place?" which leads to the Overall Project Concept: What positive changes would you make to the school campus, based on your experience as a student? ASSIGNMENT: Working with one partner, think up your own idea(s) to improve Holy Angels campus. ASSIGNMENT Details 1) Describe in detail how you think your ideas… ...would be beneficial to those who come after you. ...could be implemented, including what Holy Angels would be like after your ideas are put in place. Check out the video on writing a Project Proposal on the front page of Lab Works to help organize your thinking on how you want to present your idea. [The video is oriented toward organizations seeking funding for a new project, but it still contains a very good summary of what you should be considering to include in your proposal.] 2) Make a Scale Plan of your design - this can be a 3D model,a physical model, a 2D floorplan with supplements, etc., but it must have accurate dimensions (and labels). (You only need to show the part of the campus or building that will be directly affected by your idea.) 3) Produce a Cost Estimate for your design - consider all the potential costs of your design and its implementation. For actual hardware, furniture, and so on, check out on-line catalogs oriented toward school furnishings and equipment. For potential labor costs, look for construction advice sites. All of this needs to be fully cited in your project materials. Think this way: you're doing the preparation work for someone else who may have to make the final decision to go ahead with the project. Have you gathered everything they'll need to decide? 4) Make a Presentation of your plans in a form that can be fully viewed on the Internet in its entirety. ASSIGNMENT Summary You'll need:
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Ideas
Please Note: You don't need to pick one of these ideas if you have a better one. This assignment is based on what YOU think is a good idea for the school. Contest Judging will occur for those who wish to be considered for the top reward. |
Eighth Grade Projects Summary –
At this point in your schooling, you’ve learned to create things using a variety of applications. By now, you should know what goes into and how to create basic documents and presentations, and you should know how to manipulate graphics and audio files. You've also done some basic programming. These are skills that everyone will continue to need throughout their schooling and later on when they enter the work force.
You may not feel like you know everything there is to know about all these things, but you do know (or should know) how to make something using each of these:
These are solo projects unless specified. Each student is responsible for creating his or her own projects.
You may not feel like you know everything there is to know about all these things, but you do know (or should know) how to make something using each of these:
- Word processors that format your thoughts and words intelligibly, and according to recognized formats (Word, Google Docs, WordPad, Celtx)
- Graphics you’ve found and edited to your liking (Paint.net)
- Information you’ve gathered from databases and search engines
- Spreadsheets that organize information into columns and rows (Excel, Google Spreadsheets)
- Presentation programs that create slideshows with various media, and using animations and transitions for interest (PowerPoint, Google Presentation)
- Web pages designed to express your special knowledge
- Audio editors that record and edit soundtracks of your devising (Audacity)
- Video editors that help you create and manipulate frames or clips with sounds and text that result in short videos (Movie Maker, Zu3d)
- Animation editing programs that generate either animated GIFs, stop-motion frames, or program sequences that can tell stories visually (Pivot, Zu3d, Scratch)
- 3D Object Creation software builds an image that can occupy 3D space, and then converts the result into an STL file used by a 3D printer when making a 3d object. (Tinkercad, SketchUp, etc.)
These are solo projects unless specified. Each student is responsible for creating his or her own projects.
Spreadsheet Project:
This is a simple project that involves data collection and reporting. Read all of this before you begin.
PART 1 - Build the Spreadsheet: Using a Google Sheet (spreadsheet), create a 6-column x 6-row spreadsheet and type your full name in the second row of the first column. Under your name, type the names of the next four students in class that follow yours alphabetically (by last name. If you're near the end of the alphabet, continue with students at the beginning of the alphabet.) You may NOT choose any students you like, but only those 8th graders that immediately follow your name in the alphabet.
You should resize the column widths to 180 and turn on text wrap in the Format menu. Only the first column (with names) should be resized to fit the data (after you've entered in all five student names).
In each first row cell of columns B through F, type five questions that have more than two possible answers. These can be opinions, preferences, or physical traits, but the possible answers cannot be a choice of only two possibilities (e.g. yes/no, male/female, true/false, this or that). Your questions shouldn't be embarrassing to anyone but should be about things anyone could share publicly with others. Remember, the wording of the question determines how it can be answered.
When you've typed all five questions, make them boldface. The answer cells should NOT be boldface.
PART 2 - Collect the Data: Once your spreadsheet is properly formatted and you've entered in all the names and questions, type in your own answers in the five question columns. Adjust the column contents to display all the answers in an easy to read format.
When you've got it the way you want it, and you've answered all the questions, share it with the other students you have listed, and with me. Give all of us the ability to Edit the spreadsheet. Each student will then need to access your spreadsheet and fill in his or her own answers to your questions.
PART 3 - Summarize the Data: When everyone has answered your questions, you need to submit your summaries for each question. You will type this BELOW the table you've created with all your questions and answers.
Your summary should include what you've observed from the results you received. If an answer to a question is given more than once, you can note that, plus the percentage of the whole that those answers represent. Since you're using 5 people in your sample, the percentages for each question are very easy to calculate: 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% (= 0/5, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5. and 5/5).
You should write a complete sentence or two, along with the accompanying numbers for each of the results you want to note for each question. If you want to show more than two percentages for a question, you should stack the percentages in a vertical column, to make things easier to read.
If you ended up with five completely unrelated answers to one question, try to find a way to categorize them that makes sense and is not overly simplified. If you can't, you'll have to re-do that question with new results from you and your four other responders.
After you've summarized each question, see if there is additional interesting results that you can come up with for the entire set of questions and answers...You need a conclusion to your "poll". If you had a "theme" to your poll, this will be much easier. On the other hand, if you asked five random, unrelated questions then this may be the most difficult part of the project. It's up to you to think about this before you begin.
Because you've included me in your Share, I'll be able to check the History tab to see how your project progressed and when your other responders added their answers. You will be graded on how efficiently you completed the assignment and how worthwhile the summary results of your poll turn out to be.
Please follow the steps above in order. The basic layout of your spreadsheet should look like this:
PART 1 - Build the Spreadsheet: Using a Google Sheet (spreadsheet), create a 6-column x 6-row spreadsheet and type your full name in the second row of the first column. Under your name, type the names of the next four students in class that follow yours alphabetically (by last name. If you're near the end of the alphabet, continue with students at the beginning of the alphabet.) You may NOT choose any students you like, but only those 8th graders that immediately follow your name in the alphabet.
You should resize the column widths to 180 and turn on text wrap in the Format menu. Only the first column (with names) should be resized to fit the data (after you've entered in all five student names).
In each first row cell of columns B through F, type five questions that have more than two possible answers. These can be opinions, preferences, or physical traits, but the possible answers cannot be a choice of only two possibilities (e.g. yes/no, male/female, true/false, this or that). Your questions shouldn't be embarrassing to anyone but should be about things anyone could share publicly with others. Remember, the wording of the question determines how it can be answered.
When you've typed all five questions, make them boldface. The answer cells should NOT be boldface.
PART 2 - Collect the Data: Once your spreadsheet is properly formatted and you've entered in all the names and questions, type in your own answers in the five question columns. Adjust the column contents to display all the answers in an easy to read format.
When you've got it the way you want it, and you've answered all the questions, share it with the other students you have listed, and with me. Give all of us the ability to Edit the spreadsheet. Each student will then need to access your spreadsheet and fill in his or her own answers to your questions.
PART 3 - Summarize the Data: When everyone has answered your questions, you need to submit your summaries for each question. You will type this BELOW the table you've created with all your questions and answers.
Your summary should include what you've observed from the results you received. If an answer to a question is given more than once, you can note that, plus the percentage of the whole that those answers represent. Since you're using 5 people in your sample, the percentages for each question are very easy to calculate: 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% (= 0/5, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5. and 5/5).
You should write a complete sentence or two, along with the accompanying numbers for each of the results you want to note for each question. If you want to show more than two percentages for a question, you should stack the percentages in a vertical column, to make things easier to read.
If you ended up with five completely unrelated answers to one question, try to find a way to categorize them that makes sense and is not overly simplified. If you can't, you'll have to re-do that question with new results from you and your four other responders.
After you've summarized each question, see if there is additional interesting results that you can come up with for the entire set of questions and answers...You need a conclusion to your "poll". If you had a "theme" to your poll, this will be much easier. On the other hand, if you asked five random, unrelated questions then this may be the most difficult part of the project. It's up to you to think about this before you begin.
Because you've included me in your Share, I'll be able to check the History tab to see how your project progressed and when your other responders added their answers. You will be graded on how efficiently you completed the assignment and how worthwhile the summary results of your poll turn out to be.
Please follow the steps above in order. The basic layout of your spreadsheet should look like this:
Grade 8 Activities
ToyBuildersLab of Pasadena - PLA colors
Choose your top 3 colors in this form. Use the color names as shown in the drop down menu on the right side of the webpage. After you submit your responses, you'll eventually see your votes register in the table below.
Choose your top 3 colors in this form. Use the color names as shown in the drop down menu on the right side of the webpage. After you submit your responses, you'll eventually see your votes register in the table below.
FOLLOW-UP: I ordered Blue, Red and Purple, but as of 1/27/2016, they were out of stock on Powder Blue. [Ordered 1/27 and received 1/28!!!!]
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GRADE 8 ACTIVITIES
FIVE PART Document
- Problem Statement
- Problem Solution Statement
- Specific Issues Highlighted and Explained
- Modeling Design
- Presentation Description/Script
