Third Quarter

Students have been working on the Exhibition Research Process this quarter.  They have generated guided questions, found answers to them and pasted them into a research file. They have labeled each paragraph with a letter corresponding to the souce.  They have read, highlighted and bulleted all the information and put the bullets into a PowerPoint outline.  From this they wrote both sect ions of the paper.

We have also turned the information from the Appalachian Trail brochure into a website using Dreamweaver.   These will be linked from the school's website to an Intranet, accessible from the school's computers.

Second Quarter

Second quarter students completed several projects:

• Began mapping Stamford
• An AT brochure using their original postcard and leaf drawings and the 5 paragraphs they wrote from their research.
• An exploration of Exhibition topics -- definitions of technology, list of 100 topics and summaries of 3 possible topics.

First Quarter

For the first quarter, students on both teams have completed one unit:

• Are You A Square? -- Everyone's height and reach in cm were recorded in an Excel spreadsheet. Students had to use built-in functions and their own formulae to convert to inches, feet, yards and miles. Then students in groups of two found one question about all the data that they could answer. They completed a lab report with their conclusions, then created a PowerPoint to present their findings to the entire group.
  

They began working on a second unit:

• Each student chose a topic relating to our trip to the Appalachian Trail. They researched five questions, highlighted and bulleted key words and then wrote gobr good paragraphs to put into an original brochure. In Art class, they drew scenes from the trip which will be incorporated into the brochure.