Mr. Wiley's 6th Grade Science and Geography Class

Students began to present their European city landmark projects to the class. This will continue tomorrow.

In robotics today, all students are now working on Task 2. The goal is to program the robot to stop when a noise is detected on the sound sensor.

Students worked on their European city landmark project. No more class time will be allocated to work on this project. Students will be presenting their projects to the class on Monday.

I will not be at school tomorrow. Students will be watching a BBC travel documentary entitled “Himalaya” that stars a very funny man called Michael Palin.

HW: Ensure that your European City Landmark project is ready to present for MONDAY. Put your best efforts in and let’s finish this year strong!!

Have a great Friday and weekend.

Students continued to work on their Robotic Projects. All groups are on Mission 1 of a total of 5. The missions will get progressively more difficult.

I will not be at school tomorrow. Before moving onto the next mission, the teacher needs to be shown your robot successfully complete the required task. In addition, a worksheet needs to be completed in full by each group. THIS WORKSHEET WILL BE GRADED.

Have a great Friday and weekend

Students worked on their European City Landmark project.

The majority of students completed building their robots and began programming. Basic tasks for their robots to complete were given such as moving forwards and backwards along a straight line

Students continued to build their robots. Batteries will be charging overnight and we’ll begin basic programming functions tomorrow.

Feel free to visit Lego Mindstorms (via Applications) and check out the ‘Getting Started Tutorial’.

Students continued to work on their European city projects.

HW:

If you have any bright ideas of how you would like to spend the last week of 6th Grade Geography, here is your chance.  Write out what you would like to do in class and then show me. I need to see all the details and want to see that it is well planned. It needs to be ‘somewhat’ educational (and not just eating food and watching cartoons).

Students started a new European assignment. After picking a European city, students started to research a minimum of 7 landmarks. As well as a brief description, students need to state why, where, when and by whom the landmark was constructed.

Students chose the following cities: Alex (London), Paris (Thomas), Dublin (Rivers), Monaco (Georgianna), Stockholm (Anna), Reykjavik (Chandler), Luxembourg (Avery), Budapest (Andrew), Madrid (Jonathan), Vatican City (Christian), Berlin (Nick), Oslo (Margaret)

Day 1 of Robotics. After checking software, students began building the basic robot.

Check out this Cool Robotics Video

HW:

Planet project is due TOMORROW. It includes the 3 following parts: Worksheet, Powerpoint and Model