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Profile: Karen Bioski
Karen's PROJECTS
Students explored different issues affecting California’s geology and environment through a group inquiry project. In lieu of writing an essay, students translated the essay format into a script for a Public Service Announcement (PSA), and then stude...
Edit Delete | CA Geology - Reflection
Edit Delete | Introductory Research & Choosing a Topic (Benchmarks 1 & 2)
Edit Delete | Formulate a Research Question (Benchmark 3)
Edit Delete | Background Research (Benchmark 4)
Edit Delete | Formulate a Thesis (Benchmark 5)
Edit Delete | Public Service Announcement (PSA) Proposal (Benchmark 6)
Edit Delete | Create Script & Final Storyboard (Benchmark 7)
Edit Delete | Create Public Service Announcement (PSA) movie (Benchmark 8)
Edit Delete | Script for Presentation - Artist Statement (Benchmark 9)
Edit Delete | Practice for the Presentation (Benchmark 10)
Edit Delete | Final Presentation of PSA and Presentation of Artist's Statement (Benchmark 11)
In the Rube Goldberg Project, students will build a Rube Goldberg Machine (by definition, "of, relating to, or being a contrivance that brings about by complicated means what apparently could have been accomplished simply....") and explain the phyics...
Edit Delete | The hook into Rube Goldberg Projects
Edit Delete | Project Planning continued
Edit Delete | Assigning group roles and starting a formal proposal
Edit Delete | Project building. Should take 2 or more days
Edit Delete | Calculating different aspects of physics in your Rube Goldberg device
Edit Delete | Writing a script for the presentation (can be also done during project building and calculations)
Edit Delete | Presenting your Rube Goldberg Device to the class