Today

I achieved all of my goals! I am so ready to present tomorrow!! I am going to present tomorrow! I would give myself a 5 because I worked so well today! I am so happy with myself!!

Today:

•Meet with Mrs Kelly about my presentation for tomorrow.
•Work on project #2 with Leah

Today:
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•Change Ireland's page on wiki.
•Meet with Kelly and talk about presentation.
•Leah, Mckenzie, and I are going to work on project #2.


•Meet with Randy about social studies.
•Ask Randy for help in social studies.

Today:
•We FINISHED filming!!!!!!!!
•I meet with Mrs Kelly about my presentation next week for my first PBL project.


I was not able to work on S.Studies because of how much time the filming took.




Overall it was a great day!

Today I am going to:






FIX FIRST PBL PROJECT!!!




•Film
-Boy character lines
-Voice over
-Start girl characters lines

•Meet with Amy and Randy for formula PBL check-ons
-How we feel
-Where we are
-How much left we have to do

•Social Studies e-mail to state rep.
-Talk to Randy
-Maybe talk to Joe

By the end of the day:
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• What are your next steps?

On Wed. we are going to film the rest of the boy. If we finish with more time we will start filming the girl.

•  Did you achieve your goals today?

Yes, I stayed focus with my group and we did what we needed to do.

•  Give yourself a rating from 1(low)-5(high) in terms of how you worked today and explain your answer.

I would give myself a 4 because I did not finish all of my changes that needed to be done with my first project.

By the end of the day:
_________________

By the end of the day:
_________________

Today:
•We are going to film the guys parts today.
•Meet with Randy on S.Studies

Today I have completed:
•Finished the script with Leah.
•Did S.S. with Randy and talked with Tim and Amy about S.S.




I achieved all of my goals today. I stayed focus today. I give myself a 4 because I did everything that I needed to do. After I finished one thing I went right to the next and stayed on track.

Today I am going to do:


•Work with Leah on script
•Talk to Amy, Randy, and Tim about PBL S.S.
•S.S.

End Of the Day:

Today I have completed so MUCH!!




I am doing my project with the whole school but my group is Leah and Kylie. We are making a short romantic comedy film! 


Our essential questions is "How can we successfully write, film, edit, and produce a one woman romantic comedy?"




IT'S AMAZING!!!




On Wednesday we are going to start filming! 

Today's Goals:

Today we are starting a new PBL project. The whole school is doing a project together which the essential question is "what is creativity?" I am working with Leah and Kylie and our essential question is how can we successfully write, film, edit, and produce a one women romantic comedy.


Today I plan on:

• Fill out Project Planning Form for the new project on creativity.
• Meeting with Leah and Kylie about our short film.
• Make a script 
• Make a list of props get for film.

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For Social Studies:

• Find at least 2 people/experts that live in the west and have experience with the westward expansion.

Today's Goals:

Today we are starting a new PBL project. The whole school is doing a project together which the essential question is "what is creativity?" I am working with Leah and Kylie and our essential question is how can we successfully write, film, edit, and produce a one women romantic comedy.


Today I plan on:

• Fill out Project Planning Form for the new project on creativity.
• Meeting with Leah and Kylie about our short film.
• Make a script 
• Make a list of props get for film.

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For Social Studies:

• Find at least 2 people/experts that live in the west and have experience with the westward expansion.

What I Plan On Doing Today...

I plan on finishing my wiki, pbl project, and sending it to my experts. Also I am going to meet with Amy and Randy about my project.

Today I met expectations for my PBL.


Did I achieve my goals today?
•Yes I achieved all my goals for today.
 Do I need to finish anything at home before Wednesday?
•Yes I need to finish my project, wiki, before wednesday.
 What are my next steps?
•After I finish my wiki, I will send it to experts. After that I will pick a new topic.

Monday the 21

Today I am going to:
•Research for my project.
•Find experts.
•Start on wiki.
•Also find good pictures for wiki.

I plan on keeping these tasks in order so I can stay on track.

My Standard Paper...(Final Draft)

        What do you think of when matter and energy transformation comes to your mind? You are probably thinking about solids, liquids, and gases. These are the most common topics when someone thinks of matter and energy transformation.

         Inside matter, a solid acts like marbles. What I mean by marbles, is that since solid is in one state (does not move around like a liquid or gas) they stay together but with all of the energy they never stop moving in place. Matter is made up a few things, the most common is atoms. The atoms inside a solid are moving but not moving around. They are always touching each other.

   The only difference from solid to liquid is that liquid is “free”. If a liquid is in a glass it takes the shape of the glass, right? If you dump the water onto the counter, what will it do? It will lose the shape of the cup and become “free”. Since there are atoms in everything (matter) the atoms are always moving, sometime touching, but are always running around like “crazy people”! It’s funny if you think about it, liquid change when it is put into different but solids don’t.

    Gases are a little different on the other hand. A gas is always going different places, it hardly never stays together. The atoms inside a gas NEVER touch each other, because of how much free space there is. A gas is always moving because of the energy the atoms have to get in and out of a gas, to go into different properties of matter.

     Can you answer the question, “What do you think about when matter and energy transformation comes to your mind?” Solids, liquids, and gases are what I think about when matter and energy comes into my mind.

Resources:

• http://matterandenergytransformation.wikispaces.com/

• http://www.clickandlearn.org/gr9_sci/particle_theory.htm

End of the Day...

•I have posted my Project Planning Form on my blog.
•I have posted my Standard Paper (Rough Draft) on my Blog.


If I had to rate myself on the PBL Work Habits, I would but me in between exceeds and meets expectations.  I also think that the PBL Work Habits doc will be a good way to grade ourselves everyday on our PBL projects now and in the future.

My Standard Paper... (Rough Draft)

        What do you think of when matter and energy transformation comes to your mind. You are probably thinking about solids, liquids, and gases. These are the most common topics when someone thinks of matter and energy transformation.

         Inside matter, a solid acts like marbles. What I mean by marbles, is that since solid is in one state (does not move around like a liquid or gas) they stay together but with all of the energy they never stop moving in place. Matter is made up a few things, the most common is atoms. The atoms inside a solid are moving but not moving around. They are always touching each other.

   The only difference from solid to liquid is that liquid is “free”. If a liquid is in a glass it takes the shape of the glass, right? If you dump the water onto the counter, what will it do? It will lose the shape of the cup and become “free”. Since there are atoms in everything (matter) the atoms are always moving, sometime touching, but are always running around like “crazy people”! It’s funny if you think about it, liquid change when it is put into different but solids don’t.

    Gases are a little different on the other hand. A gas is always going different places, it hardly never stays together. The atoms inside a gas NEVER touch each other, because of how much free space there is. A gas is always moving because of the energy the atoms have to get in and out of a gas, to go into different properties of matter.

     Can you answer the question, “What do you think about when matter and energy transformation comes to your mind?”. Solids, liquids, and gases are what I think about matter and energy.

Project Planning Form...

Topic :   Around the World in 28 Days, cooking edition


Essential Question  :  What influences the culinary palate of a country?


List websites and other sources that you have identified to use for your research    
•foodnetwork.com
•http://recipesbycindy.homestead.com/Kartoffelpuffer.html
•http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/fortune-cookies-i/Detail.aspx
•http://greekfood.about.com/od/appetizerssalads/r/hummustahini.htm
•http://video.about.com/chinesefood/Egg-Rolls.htm



Ideas for presentation of content: I am going to do a blog then I am going to bring in the food when I present.


List three experts with contact information    

•Dana Hicks-dana@noozoodesign.com
•Faisal Syed- faisal@di-ltd.com
•Jin Jin 88- Chines restaurant
Need to more for Greece and Germany.



Anticipated Project Completion date

3 Weeks- March 23/24

Daily Goals

•Work on Project Planning Form
•Finish Project Planning Form
•See Amy or Randy about my form and see if
anything needs to change or be added.
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•Start on Standard Paper (Due Tomorrow)
•Finish the Standard Paper by tomorrow morning.
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•Finish MS lesson plans at home tonight.

• 
  

•I am going to do a cooking around the world project.

• I am so excited to get started finding great recipes from around the world!

I achieved all of my goals today.

√-found project ideas

√-finished planning form and met with Randy 

Daily Goals

Daily Goals 

•OH-pedia Final Reflections Blog

•Brainstorm Ideas for my pick project.

•Have ideas ready for Amy or Randy to check

•Meet with Amy or Randy about my ideas 

•Work on project Planning form.

•Work on everyone's ohpedia (that have not sent to me yet.)

OHpedia Final Reflection..

• OH-Pedia Reflections...

 

       •This oh-pedia project was a lot of fun. I was happy to get one of the harder standards out of the way than having to do them later. It was important for me to get the concept of the PBL so that I know what I will be doing the rest of the year for PBL. 

       •I was never very confident about what I would do in school. When I did this project and look back on what I had done, I was very proud of myself. This process has helped me know that I can do good work.

       •When I did not have everyones oh-pedia lesson plan, I could not work on that when I needed to get it done. I became more patient than I thought I was but I still wanted to get it done so...

       •The thing that satisfied me the most was how my lesson turned out. I was very happy with what I did. And I learned a more than I had when making the lesson wiki.

       •Everything is this process was my "style". I mostly like making my own wiki. The benchmarks were the hardest out of all probably. I still had fun.

       •I will remember my wiki that I made because that was the best part of the process for me. 

        

What I did today...

•Finished my 5 week check-in
•Found 2 more pen pals.
•Finished and put my Jamestown paper on my blog.

Today's Goals

Today I am wanting to:

•5 week check in
•Finish Jamestown paper.
•Find 2 more pen pals

What I have done...

My penpal is Roshni. She is 14 and lives in India.
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/penpals/mypage.php?REF=676901

My 3 questions for my Indian pen pal:
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1.)What are the 3 most common languages spoken in India.
2.)What form of government do you have?
3.)What is the number 1 issue India is facing, what do you think the number 1 issue is?
____________________________________________________________________________________
Standard for writing project:

•Changes in Matter

Today's Goals

This morning we presented our oh-pedia.

Today I plan on (for science):
•Pick a standard to write the paper on.

(For social studies):
•Find a pen pal in India or China.
•Think of 3 questions to ask.

What I will remember from this oh-pedia process.

      What will I remember from this oh-pedia process? The 3 main things I will remember about the oh-pedia process is, making the wiki, creating a lesson, and learning how to make my own quiz.

   When we first started the oh-pedia we created a wiki. The wiki had our standards on it. Mine was Properties of Matter. We had to write our benchmarks and find info on then, like videos, pictures, and websites. That took me about two weeks because I had nine benchmarks to make into a wiki. It was a lot of fun designing and adding my touches to what I know about matter.

      After we finished the oh-pedia wiki, I decided to create my own wiki for my lesson plan. I made it look like a notebook that you would use for school. I made all of my summaries in the other wiki and made it smaller for my lesson plans for each benchmark. In a lesson I think it is better to have less writing and more pictures and videos, so that is what I did, add videos and pictures. This was my favorite part of the whole process because, even though it took a long time to make, I made it how I would like to learn about any topic.

      We all had to make a quiz about our wikis and what we learned. Mostly we had to make a quiz for the middle schoolers, who I will be teaching, and see how well they could remember all of my info in my wiki. When making the quiz I kept looking back over my wiki making sure that the "students" would be able to answer with the info given in the wiki.

    This process was fun! I enjoyed learning and making a wiki. I hope that everyone will enjoy my wikis. Overall, hope we have a chance to do another project like this one!

Daily Goals

Today I am needing to finish:

•My lesson for oh-pedia
•Rome and Greece venn diagram
•Start and Finish Greece project
•Fill out project form

Daily Goal Recap

Today I completed 3 of the main points in my wiki. I have to finish it up before Friday at 3:30. I am doing good on my goals for the week.

Daily Goals

•Wiki work
•Work with Mrs Amy on an e-mail

Daily Goal Recap

I need to work on my wiki for my lesson for ohpedia. Once I finish that I will be done! I am feeling ok about my process.

Daily Goals

•Meet with Amy on making my lesson for my oh-pedia.
•Make my lesson
•Go over experts comments

Daily Goal Recap

I am feeling really good about both my science and social studies projects. I have sent my science wiki project to my experts and I will start on my lesson next week. My social studies mayan and incas venn diagram was completed today. So I am feeling pretty good about my projects.

I have learned so much over a short period of time we have had when working on both of my projects. I feel that I am learning because I am not in a big hurry to read or finish everything.

Daily Goals

•I have to finish my venn diagram of the Mayans and the Incas.
•Try to meet with Amy about starting my lesson.



(Also for the whip, have to add pic onto google doc.)

Daily Goals Recap

Today I finished everything on my goals!!! And I started my venn diagram for S.Studies.
Overall a great day!

Daily Goals

•Watch the Inca video

•Meet with Randy 

•Send my wiki to experts 

Daily Goal Recap

I finished all my benchmarks! But I am a little behind, on wednesday i will send then to an expert. So that means my next step is to send to an expert.

Daily Goals

Try to finish my benchmarks for oh-pedia.

Daily Goals Recap

I achieved all my daily goals. I got to my 7th benchmark and finished my lesson plan plus I made my quiz! Then next step in my ohpedia is to finish my benchmarks. I am really happy with what I did today! I hope friday is the same!!

Daily Goals

What I plan on:

•Finish my 5th benchmark 

•Finish my 6th benchmark 

If I have enough time start on my 7th or if they dont take to long finish all of my benchmarks.

•Work on lesson planning doc

Daily Goals Recap

Today I accomplished all of my goals. I finished my 4th benchmark and started my 5th benchmark. When I picked my benchmarks todo today I set the times and how long they were going to take me so thats why I thought I got everything done. I am still having trouble figuring out what to put on to my ohpedia because  am putting to much and to detailed when I am supposed to keep it simple. I am just having trouble with that, but that is the only thing that is taking so much time.

             Overall today was a great day!!!!!

OHpedia update and Daily Goals

       In my OHpedia wiki so far I feel that I am doing a good job. I am about 2 benchmarks behind but I am trying to finish 3 of my benchmarks today. Once I finished the second benchmark I had the "list" in my head of what I have to do before posting. Right now in the process of the ohpedia it is going well because I have the hang of things.  So at this point I am 2 benchmarks behind.


Daily Goals


•Finishing my 4th benchmark
•Start on Benchmark 5
•Today it is all about trying to finish all of my benchmarks!!

Daily Goals Recap

      Today I accomplished almost everything. I accomplished finishing my benchmark number 3 and started number 4. I am also about to watch the Inca video. I have learned so much about volume, mass, gravity, density, and much more science terms. Today I had a lot of fun when Mr Randy helped me and explain a few of my benchmarks. It made it a lot easier for me to do.

Daily Goals 1/28/2011

•Watch the Inca video 
•Work on my third benchmark
•Finish third benchmark on the wiki


Have R.E.P at 2.

Daily Goals Recap

     Today I had completed my Mayan Project which took twice as long as i thought it did and I was unable to do PBL after lunch. I did my Mayan Project and added more to my wiki. So I got 2 out of my 4 or 5 things done. I will have to finish them on Friday.

Paragraph for today

    I think middle school students that live in Florida should look at the OHpedia. I thought that they may need to do all of the Florida state standards that I have to do, so it would be a good place to get ideas and do lessons on it. This does not only have to be for home schooled or FLVS students. It could also be for kids at normal schools that want to do more. OHpedia is a fun way to learn and do state standards.

Daily Goals

•Mayan Project
•Finishing Benchmark 2
•Start on Benchmark 3
•Watch video
•Write about video

Daily Goals for 1/24/2010

I plan on doing:

•Work On OHpedia. Wiki entries.

•Wiki, Benchmark 2 and 3.

My Project Planning Form

Project Planning Form

Standard assigned (write out completely):

Standard #8: Properties of Matter

A. All objects and substances in the world are made of matter. Matter has two fundamental properties: matter takes up space and matter has mass which gives it inertia.

B. Objects and substances can be classified by their physical and chemical properties. Mass is the amount of matter (or "stuff") in an object. Weight, on the other hand, is the measure of force of attraction (gravitational force) between an object and Earth.

C.The concepts of mass and weight are complicated and potentially confusing to elementary students. Hence, the more familiar term of "weight" is recommended for use to stand for both mass and weight in grades K-5. By grades 6-8, students are expected to understand the distinction between mass and weight, and use them appropriately.

Essential Question:
How do students know what state standards they are expected to learn and are they able to demonstrate knowledge of the standards and reflect on their knowledge?

Things to include in OHpedia entry:1.)Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by using models to explain the motion of particles in solids, liquids, and gases.

2.)Differentiate between weight and mass recognizing that weight is the amount of gravitational pull on an object and is distinct from, though proportional to, mass.

3.)Explore and describe the densities of various materials through measurement of their masses and volumes.

4.)Classify and compare substances on the basis of characteristic physical properties that can be demonstrated or measured; for example, density, thermal or electrical conductivity, solubility, magnetic properties, melting and boiling points, and know that these properties are independent of the amount of the sample.

5.)Recognize that there are a finite number of elements and that their atoms combine in a multitude of ways to produce compounds that make up all of the living and nonliving things that we encounter.

6.)Recognize that elements are grouped in the periodic table according to similarities of their properties.

7.)Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by recognizing that atoms are the smallest unit of an element and are composed of sub-atomic particles (electrons surrounding a nucleus containing protons and neutrons).

8.)Identify basic examples of and compare and classify the properties of compounds, including acids, bases, and salts.

9.)Distinguish among mixtures (including solutions) and pure substances. 

List 3 Experts with Contact information:

1.)Mr Randy Hollinger (rhollinger@oh-institute.org)
2.)Ms. Barbara McKay (barbara.mckay@yale.edu)

3.)Dr. Norma Chick (normal@infogen.net.nz)

Anticipated date of completion of first draft of OHpedia entry:
February 2, 2011

List websites and other sources that you have identified to use for your research:
1.)Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by using models to explain the motion of particles in solids, liquids, andgases.
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_theory
•http://www.visionlearning.com

2.)Differentiate between weight and mass recognizing that weight is the amount of gravitational pull on an object and is distinct from, though proportional to, mass.
•http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae321.cfm
•http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/periodic_table/mass.html(This is a fun little site)
•http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/mass_weight.htm

3.)Explore and describe the densities of various materials through measurement of their masses and volumes.
•http://www.physics.ucla.edu/k-6connection/Mass,w,d.htm
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_balance
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume

4.)Classify and compare substances on the basis of characteristic measured; for example, density, thermal or electrical conductivity, solubility, magnetic properties, melting and boiling points, and know that these properties are independent of the amount of the sample.
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conductivity
•http://science.jrank.org/pages/983/Boiling-Point.html
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightor

5.)Recognize that there are a finite number of elements and that their atoms combine in a multitude of ways to produce compounds that make up all of the living and nonliving things that we encounter.
•http://education.jlab.org/atomtour/
•http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ci-Co/Compound-Chemical.html

6.)Recognize that elements are grouped in the periodic table according to similarities of their properties.
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table
•Here is a table: http://www.ptable.com/
•http://periodic.lanl.gov/what.htm

7.)Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by recognizing that atoms are the smallest unit of an element and are composed of sub-atomic particles (electrons surrounding a nucleus containing protons and neutrons).
•http://www.allatoms.com/
•http://www.chem4kids.com/files/atom_intro.html

8.)Identify basic examples of and compare and classify the properties of compounds, including acids, bases, and salts.
•http://www.ucc.ie/academic/chem/dolchem/html/comp/comp000.html
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names

9.)Distinguish among mixtures (including solutions) and pure substances.
•http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/pre/matter.html
•http://chemsite.lsrhs.net/Intro/Pure_vs_mixtures.html
•http://www.ausetute.com.au/puresubs.html

Brainstorm ideas for designing your "standard module":I thought that tabs, bright/bold colors, sections on topics, videos, pictures, and games.
Your name (s):
Alyssa

Daily Goals for 1/21/2011

Daily Goals:


•Finish Project Planning Form
*Figure out how I am going to present my project.
*Add my experts into the form.


•Find out what I am doing for my project.
*Start researching
*Containing items for project.

Recap of My Days Goals...

My self check for the end of the day!

•In my blog this morning I wrote about what I wanted to achieve today. I thought that I did achieve my goals, I felt this way because at the end of the school day I felt proud of myself. I had achieved all of what I wanted today, today was the first PBL day that I felt I had gotten something done.

•Today I felt that I was focused more that normal. I also thought that I did not get off track with any of my work. Overall, today was a very productive day for me!

•What went well today? Today I finished all of my work and stayed on track, whenever I stay on track I get focused and never stray away from my work. Everything I accomplished today went very well!!

•The next time I work on PBL I need to get more organized. When I say organized I mean, to make a list, first to see how long everything will take me, and list it out so that I have time for a small recap of what I learned so far.

•On Friday, I need to meet with Randy and Amy to talk about my PBL schedule, because I missed Monday. If I have any work that I missed I could make it up then.

Daily Goals for 1/19/11

Today we are setting up our daily goals:

•Start on my science project. Researching, preparing, and find out what way I am going to present it in.

•Project planning form
•OHpedia

Standard #8

Big Idea 8: Properties of Matter (Alyssa)

(A. All objects and substances in the world are made of matter. Matter has two fundamental properties: matter takes up space and matter has mass which gives it inertia.
B. Objects and substances can be classified by their physical and chemical properties. Mass is the amount of matter (or "stuff") in an object. Weight, on the other hand, is the measure of force of attraction (gravitational force) between an object and Earth.
C.The concepts of mass and weight are complicated and potentially confusing to elementary students. Hence, the more familiar term of "weight" is recommended for use to stand for both mass and weight in grades K-5. By grades 6-8, students are expected to understand the distinction between mass and weight, and use them appropriately.)

What I know about my project:

•I know that matter takes up space and that matter has masses. 

•The mass inside the matter is built up inside an object/item.

( I do not know much on this topic but I hope to learn more when I start my researching.)