RV Robotics, Science, & ELD Week 12/8 - 12/2025

 Hello Everyone!

We have a busy week.  If you have not talked to your class about a Winter Class Party yet, you need to do so this week.  Time is running out to prepare.

Keep up with your work, try to not leave any work for your vacation.  Because....

It's beginning to look a lot like ___________!

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Period 1 - Robotics

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

Sphero Class Code - 7QMRG3

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Monday - Morning Routine

Holiday Ornament Design

• Keep working on your prototye design
• Meet with Mr. G when you think you are ready to finish
• Reiterate as needed and repeat your check with Mr. G

Finish all work in your portfolio

• Add this project - 
• Holiday Ornament Design -  take pictures of your design on the screen and when it is complete.  Post your reflection after completing the project.

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Holiday Ornament Design

• Keep working on your prototye design
• Meet with Mr. G when you think you are ready to finish
• Reiterate as needed and repeat your check with Mr. G

Finish all work in your portfolio

• Add this project - 
• Holiday Ornament Design -  take pictures of your design on the screen and when it is complete.  Post your reflection after completing the project.

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Holiday Ornament Design

• Keep working on your prototye design
• Meet with Mr. G when you think you are ready to finish
• Reiterate as needed and repeat your check with Mr. G

Finish all work in your portfolio

• Add this project - 
• Holiday Ornament Design -  take pictures of your design on the screen and when it is complete.  Post your reflection after completing the project.

Thursday - Morning Routine

Holiday Ornament Design

• Keep working on your prototye design
• Meet with Mr. G when you think you are ready to finish
• Reiterate as needed and repeat your check with Mr. G

Finish all work in your portfolio

• Add this project - 
• Holiday Ornament Design -  take pictures of your design on the screen and when it is complete.  Post your reflection after completing the project.

Friday - Morning Routine

Holiday Ornament Design

• Keep working on your prototye design
• Meet with Mr. G when you think you are ready to finish
• Reiterate as needed and repeat your check with Mr. G

Finish all work in your portfolio

• Add this project - 
• Holiday Ornament Design -  take pictures of your design on the screen and when it is complete.  Post your reflection after completing the project.

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Period 2 Advisory

Brush Ninja Padlet - Post your design here

Monday - Morning Routine

Movie and time for classwork

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Movie and time for classwork

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Movie and time for classwork

Thursday - Morning Routine

Movie and time for classwork

Friday - Morning Routine

Movie and time for classwork

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Period 3 Science

Join our typing team.  Click here

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - ELY98AXG5

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Thermal Unit Student Page

Monday - Morning Routine

Finish Roller Coaster Project and grading

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Tuesday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit Day 1

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit Day 2

Thursday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit Day 3

Friday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit Day 4

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Period 4 - Science

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - C5GFEQ2SV

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Class Pot Luck

Elysse - donuts

Bella 

Luke - banana

Noah - chips

Ryan - fruit

Dorian - Sprite

Pedro - chips

Damian - water

Luis - plates

Sebastian - Chips

Adilene -cookies

Richard - cups

Jorge - ice cream

Maliah

Makaylah - cool aide

Julian - 

Elisabet - 

Noellah

Lorenzo

Malaysia - hot chocolate

Darleen

Robert

Gio - 

SophiaV

Nathan

Jade

Sophia G

Elijah

Monday - Morning Routine

Finish Roller Coaster Project and grading

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Tuesday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit Day 1

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit Day 2

Thursday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit Day 3

Friday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit Day 4

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Period 6 - Tech Tales ELD

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - AUDDGHSGY

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

 

Secret Santa Rules:

• $10 Limit
• Keep your identity a secret
• Try to do nice things for your person all week long
• On Thursday, 12/18, bring your wrapped gift to give your person.
• Bring food to share

Monday - Morning Routine

Grade Scratch Test 1 project - Student Graded with support

Finish up Scratch Coding Project - Pong Game

• Post game on class padlet

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Tech Tales - Day 1 - Description 

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Tech Tales - Day 2 - Description 

Thursday - Morning Routine

Tech Tales - Day 3 - Description 

Friday - Morning Routine

Tech Tales - Day 4 - Description 

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Period 7 - Tech Tales ELD

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign up link - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - GVNCWEREF

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

PotLuck -

• Jayden - Pizza
• Abraham - Cookies
• Mateo - Chips & Candy
• Damien - Chips
• Sarai - Chips
• Alberto - Candy
• Brytanny - Drinks
• Breanna - Cupcakes
• Anthony - Popcorn
• Damien - Yogurt
• Michael - Plates
• Lily - Fruit
• Ita -
• Adan - Chips
• Adrian - Chips
• Ashley - 
• Bryan - Cookies
• Yahir - Drinks

Bring food on Thursday, 12/18.  If it needs to be in the refridgerator, bring it to Mr. Garcia in the morning.

Monday - Morning Routine

Grade Scratch Test 1 project - Student Graded with support

Finish up Scratch Coding Project - Pong Game

• Post game on class padlet

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Tech Tales - Day 1 - Description 

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Tech Tales - Day 2 - Description 

Thursday - Morning Routine

Tech Tales - Day 3 - Description 

Friday - Morning Routine

Tech Tales - Day 4 - Description 

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Space Out Friday

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Special Stuff

Here are some Google Chromebook shortcuts that can help you out.  Try them when you can.  You can find a more comprehensive list here.

History of Robotics - 

    

RV Robotics, Science, & STEAM ELD Week 12/1 - 5/2025

 Hello Everyone!

Welcome back.  I hope you all made the most of your time off with family and friends.  

We are back to work for 3 weeks.  Winter Break starts on 12/19 at 3:20 pm so make the most of your time while you are here.  Keep up with your work, get the help you need, and finish this year with nothing left undone.  That is a proactive way of thinking.

Are we having a Winter Holiday Party?  In your classes, discuss if you would like to do something special with your class on Thursday, 12/18.  I'm thinking Secret Santa, Pot Luck,  White Elephant Gift Exchange, or something else.

What's Up for December!

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Period 1 - Robotics

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

Sphero Class Code - 7QMRG3

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Monday - Morning Routine

Winter Holiday Project - Create an ornament or similar object that represents how you celebrate the Winter Holidays.  Think about your family traditions, how your family decorates the home, and the significance of this holiday to your family.

Software - Tinkercad or Fusion 360, drawing program, tablets(if needed)

Hardware - 3D printers, laser cutter

Materials - Plastic filament, wood, acrylic

Due Date - Finished Product Due the week of 12/15.  The finished product should be ready to use at home.  Full reporting on the process to create this is due in your portfolio, including photos.

Portfolios - You are responsible for finishing your portfolios within the next two weeks.  This can be done at home.  Below is the list of tasks

• Purpose - to show what you know - a platform to organize your best work so you can present it to others who want to know
• Reflection - a critical account of your work by you - reflections allow you to analyze your thinking and your processes.  A very important skill, especially when things don't go as planned or when they go extremely well.  
• Organization - How easy will it be to find the information you want to communicate?
• Customization - This relates to the look and feel of your website.  This is business. It should have a feel that you want to project to others, colorful, minimalistic, homey, creative, ...
• Content
• Keyboarding tests
• Robotics
• Microbit Inch Worms
• Microbit Monsters
• Lego Spike
• Drones
• Special Projects
• 3D Design
• Brush Ninja GIF
• Community Service
• Your Personal Home Page
• A Personal Page - Things you create that may not be part of our class
• Your content of any special things you like to do like:
• your own games
• your own art

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Winter Holiday Project

Learning to Use Tinkercad

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Intro to our Glowforge Laser Cutter - Glowforge Introduction Video

Designing 2D designs in Tinkercad for laser cutting

Thursday - Morning Routine

Friday - Morning Routine

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Period 2 Advisory

Brush Ninja Padlet - Post your design here

Monday - Morning Routine

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Thursday - Morning Routine

Friday - Morning Routine

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Period 3 Science

Join our typing team.  Click here

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - ELY98AXG5

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Monday - Morning Routine

Review Roller Coaster Project

Key vocabulary - 

• kinetic energy
• potential energy
• mass
• velocity
• Types of energy
• mechanical
• thermal
• nuclear
• chemical
• electromagnetic
• sonic
• gravitational
• ionization

Roller Coaster Project Due Friday 12/5

You will have some class time on Monday and Tuesday only.  The rest of the week we will start looking at a specific type of energy. W

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Roller Coasters - Last day to work on your coaster in class.  It is due on Friday

RC Grading

C - Meeting the basic requirements

• one funnel
• one initial drop
• one loop
• one curve
• one hill
• marble soft stop

Anything more will raise your grade but the track must work.

Anything less will lower your grade. 

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Unit 2 Thermal Energy

Day 1 - Lab

Thursday - Morning Routine

Unit 2 Thermal Energy

Day 2

Friday - Morning Routine

Unit 2 Thermal Energy

Day 3

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Period 4 - Science

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - C5GFEQ2SV

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Monday - Morning Routine

Review Roller Coaster Project

Key vocabulary - 

• kinetic energy
• potential energy
• mass
• velocity
• Types of energy
• mechanical
• thermal
• nuclear
• chemical
• electromagnetic
• sonic
• gravitational
• ionization

Roller Coaster Project Due Friday 12/5

You will have some class time on Monday and Tuesday only.  The rest of the week we will start looking at a specific type of energy. W

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Roller Coasters - Last day to work on your coaster in class.  It is due on Friday

RC Grading

C - Meeting the basic requirements

• one funnel
• one initial drop
• one loop
• one curve
• one hill
• marble soft stop

Anything more will raise your grade but the track must work.

Anything less will lower your grade. 

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Unit 2 Thermal Energy

Day 1 - Lab

Thursday - Morning Routine

Unit 2 Thermal Energy

Day 2

Friday - Morning Routine

Unit 2 Thermal Energy

Day 3

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Period 6 - Tech Tales ELD

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - AUDDGHSGY

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

 https://scratch.mit.edu/signup/dcykmfwpd

Monday - Morning Routine

We worked on some class routines that we will be using through the year.

This week we will be opening some of the software we will be using this trimester

• Software
• 3D Simulations & Design - Tinkercad.com
• Create your own Avatar/Giff - Brush Ninja
• Coding for a purpose - Scratch

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Thursday - Morning Routine

Friday - Morning Routine

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Period 7 - Tech Tales ELD

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign up link - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - GVNCWEREF

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

https://scratch.mit.edu/signup/e9x9dn5yw

Monday - Morning Routine

We worked on some class routines that we will be using through the year.

This week we will be opening some of the software we will be using this trimester

• Software
• 3D Simulations & Design - Tinkercad.com
• Create your own Avatar/Giff - Brush Ninja
• Coding for a purpose - Scratch

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Thursday - Morning Routine

Friday - Morning Routine

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Space Out Friday

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Special Stuff

Here are some Google Chromebook shortcuts that can help you out.  Try them when you can.  You can find a more comprehensive list here.

History of Robotics - 

    

RV Robotics, Science, & STEAM ELD Week 11/17 - 21/2025

 Hello Everyone!

Welcome to Trimester 2!  

Trimester work should be all turned in.  If you have a special circumstance, please let me know ASAP.

Welcome to our new STEAM ELD classes!

We have one week before we go on our Fall Break which starts on 11/24 - 28/2025.  After that, we come back and it will be December.  How many weeks will we be in school before Winter Break?

I look forward to spending this week with you all learning and communicating.  Let's make it a good one.

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Period 1 - Robotics

Tinkercad sign-up link - use your first name

Typing Class Link

Sphero Class Code - 7QMRG3

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Monday - Morning Routine

Debrief last week

Reflect on Robot Progress

Portfolios

• Purpose - to show what you know - a platform to organize your best work so you can present it to others who want to know
• Reflection - a critical account of your work by you - reflections allow you to analyze your thinking and your processes.  A very important skill, especially when things don't go as planned or when they go extremely well.  
• Organization - How easy will it be to find the information you want to communicate?
• Customization - This relates to the look and feel of your website.  This is business. It should have a feel that you want to project to others, colorful, minimalistic, homey, creative, ...
• Content
• Keyboarding tests
• Robotics
• Microbit Inch Worms
• Microbit Monsters
• Lego Spike
• Drones
• Special Projects
• 3D Design
• Brush Ninja GIF
• Community Service
• Your Personal Home Page
• A Personal Page - Things you create that may not be part of our class
• Your content of any special things you like to do like:
• your own games
• your own art

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Working on Microbit Robots

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Working on Microbit Robots

Thursday - Morning Routine

Due - Microbit Robots

Friday - Morning Routine

Microbit Robot Display

Portfolio Check

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Period 2 Advisory

Brush Ninja Padlet - Post your design here

Monday - Morning Routine

Debrief last week

Airplane display & debrief

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Your Circle of Influence

Your own work

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Your own work

Thursday - Morning Routine

Gratitude & Thanks

Friday - Morning Routine

Your Own Work

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Period 3 Science

Join our typing team.  Click here

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - ELY98AXG5

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Monday - Morning Routine

Debrief last week

Grades & Work

New Unit - Thermal Energy

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Tuesday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit

Thursday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit

Friday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit

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Period 4 - Science

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - C5GFEQ2SV

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Monday - Morning Routine

Debrief last week

Grades & Work

New Unit - Thermal Energy

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Tuesday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit

Thursday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit

Friday - Morning Routine

Thermal Energy Unit

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Period 6 - Tech Tales ELD

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign-up link  - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - AUDDGHSGY

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

 

Monday - Morning Routine

Welcome to our New Class

• Introduction
• Expectations
• Projects
• 3D Simulations & Design
• Create your own Avatar
• Coding for a purpose

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Introduction to STEAM ELD - Day 1

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Introduction to STEAM ELD - Day 2

Thursday - Morning Routine

Introduction to STEAM ELD - Day 3

Friday - Morning Routine

Introduction to STEAM ELD - Day 4

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Period 7 - Tech Tales ELD

Typing Class Link

Tinkercad sign up link - If you have a Tinkercad account, you may need to add this code - GVNCWEREF

Project STEM Link - 

• Computer Science - 69499f
• What is AI - 

Monday - Morning Routine

Welcome to our New Class

• Introduction
• Expectations
• Projects
• 3D Simulations & Design
• Create your own Avatar
• Coding for a purpose

Tuesday - Morning Routine

Introduction to STEAM ELD - Day 1

Wednesday - Morning Routine

Introduction to STEAM ELD - Day 2

Thursday - Morning Routine

Introduction to STEAM ELD - Day 3

Friday - Morning Routine

Introduction to STEAM ELD - Day 4

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Space Out Friday

You are the Artemis Generation

What does it mean to be in the Artemis Generation?

Watch this commercial for Artemis

A More Detailed Description of the Mission and the Gear

What is Artemis?

Exploration Mission 1
 Click here to witness what the first mission of the Artemis Project will feel like


For the Hard Core Space Geeks!
The EveryDay Astronaut YouTube Channel has detailed information about all areas of our space program.
How Astronauts Will Get to Space


Questions & Comments

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Special Stuff

Here are some Google Chromebook shortcuts that can help you out.  Try them when you can.  You can find a more comprehensive list here.

History of Robotics -