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This is the final of 6 live lessons during the pandemic. 05/20/2020 you can find all 6 lessons on the MCPSS YouTube channel.

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Nov 2018, I was selected to work on a team with ALSDE and DRC to write the standards aligned state test for science 6th grade. This work is on going and I worked on the Item Writing team and the Item Review team.

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1st Place Website Design
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Our Denton ACES team created two versions of their code. One of the versions are manual, meaning it is controlled by a remote control. The team developed a system of controlling the robot using a single joystick system. This one joystick controls right, left, front, and backwards movement.

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I was asked to represent NASA Teacher Leaders in Montgomery for NASA's 60 anniversary

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Planned, recruited, and facilitated for the event and led a Raspberry Pi Jam introducing students and their parents to physical computing using the Raspberry Pi, LED bulbs, and PYTHON coding.

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BEST Robotics provides opportunities for 6th, 7th and 8th grade students at Denton Magnet to do the things engineers do: identify problems, brainstorm ideas, design solutions, test and retest, build and then share the results. Students become immersed not just in coding and building robots, but also marketing and presentation skills. At BEST kick-off, teams are given a box of the exact same supplies and a breakdown of the challenge for the competition. Teams have 42 days to build and code their robot along with making a commercial for their robotics company, a booth to highlight their company, and a sales presentation.  BEST Robotics allows ALL students to shine and puts middle and high school teams in direct competition.

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Letter of Recommendation from my current principal

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Letter of Recommendation from my current principal

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Always looking for ways to bring education outside of the classroom, these students took a walking field trip to our district's environmental center to discover local flora and fauna

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Students tackled the problem of single use plastics by sponsoring a community wide grocery bag drive and collected over 10,000 bags to be recycled.

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I created a middle school computer science elective through the robotics program at my school. Students learn 'drag and drop' coding as a function of computational thinking and student production.

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Letter of Recommendation from my former principal.

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Letter of Recommendation from my former principal.

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This was for the NASA ALSDE Institute in Feb 2016.

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I became a NASA Teacher Leader in February 2016. I was selected to partner with ALSDE and NASA to be formally trained on the newly adopted state standards and create standards aligned lessons using NASA resources.

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June 2016, I attended SAE in Huntsville Alabama. An absolutely amazing experience.

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NASA Teacher Leader created lesson. Students had to design and create a prototype rover that successfully carried their payload. Project culminates with a collaborative technical writing assignment through Google Classroom tools.

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Relative Size Scale Model of the Solar System

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Relative Size Scale Model of the Solar System

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Lesson created and designed by Jacq. Adams
I led a district wide PD for 6th grade science teachers on this project in January 2019.
Abstract:  In this 5 day project based lesson (PBL, hands on), students work in cooperative groups to create a collaborative relative size model of the solar system.  Each student group is assigned a planet and responsible for research and construction of their planet.  The teacher’s role in this unit to facilitate student research, discussion, and presentations.  Strong time management is the key to this unit’s success.

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In this project students work in cooperative groups to explore the science of wind turbines.  They design a prototype of a wind turbine and build it from corrugated plastic using an iterative design process.  They test their design  on a tower equipped with a generator and measure the amount of electricity their prototype produces with a volt meter, then set to re-deign for quantitative improvement.

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This project was given to my students as an extension of their EYE work on Wind.  After completing the module, students collaborated in groups to decide on a location for a wind farm and create a Padlet explaining their choice.