https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj 2-18-20 STEAM Cross Curriculum Meeting for 8th Grade en-us 2020-02-11 19:15:36 UTC 2020-02-25 14:39:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/446994052 --Argumentative Writing 
      **When is it right to take a stand?**
--What Matters
--Social Justice
-- Cultures- Myths, Traditional Stories, and Religious Works
--Formal presentations]]> 2020-02-18 18:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/446994052 https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/446994517 Topics Covered in Q4:
- Transformation in the Coordinate Plane (Translations Reflections, and Rotations)
- Parallel Lines cut by a Transversal
- Graphing Linear Inequalities of Two Variables.

Driving Question: 
- How can one variable change the outcome (i.e. a shape, answer, event)? Reflect on this.]]> 2020-02-18 18:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/446994517 kagisotelis https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/447402175 Topics Covered in Q4: 
- Properties of Waves, 
- Behavior of Waves,
- Electromagnetic Spectrum

Driving Question:
- What are the characteristics and properties of waves, and how are they used in our everyday lives? 

]]> 2020-02-19 14:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/447402175 https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/447647854 March:
-Unit 1: Introduction to Creativity, the Elements of Art and Principles of Design, Sketchbooks, Portfolios, and Visual Journaling.
Unit 2: Students will investigate the big idea of change and how it is applicable to various aspects of their personal lives. Students will consider personal challenges they have overcome that have results in a significant change in their lives. Students will use these ideas as sources of inspiration for a multimedia drawing that blends two images into on to reflect change.
April: 
-Unit 3: Students will investigate how images have been used as a form of communication since the dawn of time and how many images and symbols cross boundaries of culture, race, and place. Students will look at how we communicate through imagery and how major companies have capitalized on this through their branding. Students will take this information and develop a multimedia composition that illustrates a concepts through images alone.
-Unit 4: Students will investigate the big idea of nature and how different artists portray this concepts across history, especially paying attention to contemporary issues of deforestation, loss of habitat, and man vs. nature. Students will choose an animal to research and gather information of and will develop a painting dedicated to that animal and it's habitat.
May:
-Continue Unit 4.
-Unit 5: ]]> 2020-02-19 19:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/447647854 https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448026935 - Great Depression - photo analysis
- WWII Propaganda Analysis
- Civil Rights - early and later movements 
- Civil Rights article analysis
- Civil Rights movement in GA and major figures within the movement 
- Social Justice

Driving Question: How can the actions of one affect change for many?]]> 2020-02-20 14:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448026935 https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448318934 Pacer Fitness Testing
Pickleball
Soccer
Base games

Personal Fitness-
Nutrition
Body Composition
Muscular strength
Muscular endurance
Cardiovascular 
Flexibility]]> 2020-02-20 20:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448318934 https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448844379 Social justice; using civil rights topics in ELA for our "What Matters" unit]]> 2020-02-21 20:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448844379 https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448844731 Topics covered in Quarter 4: Waves-wave characteristics of EM and Mechanical Waves, compare and contrast EM and Mechanical Waves, Wave behavior, Doppler Effect; Electricity and Magnetism-V=IR; compare and contrast series/parallel circuits, electricity and magnets.

Driving Questions:
How are  magnetism and electricity related?
Where and how do I experience waves in my everyday life?

]]> 2020-02-21 20:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448844731 https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448845705 images/propaganda, civil rights - cross boundaries culture, race]]> 2020-02-21 20:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448845705 https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448850979 overcoming personal challenges that result in change (art)
What matters (ELA/SS)]]> 2020-02-21 20:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dmiller1/a86bxtbl7iuj/wish/448850979