July 16 • Day 7

Today in History

This Day in History
1862 Journalist, suffragist, civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells was born
1935 World’s first parking meter was installed
1945 Atom bomb successfully tested
1951 Catcher in the Rye was published
1969 Apollo 11 left Earth
2004 Millennium Park opened in Chicago

 

 

Yesterday in Chicago

 Team Wow  Team Aha
 Improv and Musuem Trip
Tech Tips – Moved to Today Tech Tips – Moved to Today
 Storify  Storify

 

Today in Chicago

Today in History
  World of Wonder

  • For TeamAha – Heike Crabs & BLT w/Cheese and Mayo
  • For TeamWow – BLISK15 & Parkour Monkeys
 Readings & Discussion

   Debate a Concept Video Activity 
 Lunch
Tech Tips

  • For TeamAha – Heike Crabs & BLT w/Cheese and Mayo
  • For TeamWow – BLISK15 & Parkour Monkeys
   QuickFire: StopMotion
   Conference/Worktime

Reflection Time
Video to End the Day

 

Homework

Complete the following readings and be prepared to discuss in class on FridayStories of Aesthetic Understanding:  Come to class ready to share the experience of understanding something that transformed your thinking (could be in or out of school)

 On Your WebsiteThings you have done so far (add these to your website)

  • Shoot & Tweet (Day 1)
  • Quickfire: Video Story Problem (Day 2)
  • Cosmos Slides (Days 2 and 4)
  • Quickfire: Where does it STEM from? (Day 4)
  • IDEAS photo assignment (Day 4)
  • Creation Station Portrait Mask (Day 5)
  • Quickfire: Meme (Day 5)
  • Ultimate STEM (once complete)

And of course, World of Wonder & Tech Tips

July 15 • Day 6

Today in History

This Day in History
1606 Rembrandt was born
1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchardduring Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign
1848 Born, Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923) [The 80/20 rule]
1903
Ford Motor Company took its first order
1928 Born Carl Woese (biologist at UIUC). Discovered a new kingdom of life – prokaryotes, eukaryotes and now archea. [“I think Woese has done more for biology writ large than any biologist in history, including Darwin”]
1943 Born, Jocylen Bell Burnell, astronomer, discovered pulsars/neutron stars. Did not receive a nobel prize.
1988 Die Hard (the greatest action film ever made) hits the big screen
2003 The Mozilla Foundation was established and Netscape was dismantled.
2006 Twitter was launched

 

Yesterday in Chicago

 
  Tech Tips

   Storify 

 Today in Chicago

Today in History
  Wavelengths

Lunch

   Museum of Science and Industry 

  • Meet at museum at 2:00pm
  • You will be responsible for transportation to museum

Complete Book of Wow

 

Homework

Prepare lesson and materials for Teaching Demonstration. Complete the following readings and be prepared to discuss in class

July 14 • Day 5

Today in History

This Day in History
1789 French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
1918 Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was born
1933 The Nazi eugenics begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring that calls for the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders
1969 Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
1995 MP3 was introduced to the world
2015 New Horizons closest approach to Pluto  #PlutoFlyBy

 

 

Yesterday in Chicago

 Team Wow  Team Aha
 
Tech Tips
Cosmic Cloud

 

Tech Tips
Pentagonals

 Storify  Storify

 

Today in Chicago

Today in History
  World of Wonder

  • For TeamAha — 4x+y=Awesome!
  • For TeamWow — STEMradarie
Amazing Teaching Moments

 Lunch
Tech Tips

  • For TeamAha — 4x+y=Awesome!
  • For TeamWow — STEMradarie
 Amazing Teaching Moments Continue

  • Create Top 5 with explanations
Readings — QuickfireReadings — DIscussion

alien, avatar, cyclops, emoticon, monster, monsters, wow icon Book of WoW

Introduce i-Image for Field Trip
Enter Website URL on ShareTracker

Group Reflection Time

Video to End the Day

 

Homework

Complete the following readings and be prepared to discuss in class on THURSDAY

 On Your Website

Things you have done so far (add these to your website)

  • Shoot & Tweet (Day 1)
  • Quickfire: Video Story Problem (Day 2)
  • Cosmos Slides (Days 2 and 4)
  • Quickfire: Where does it STEM from? (Day 4)
  • IDEAS photo assignment (Day 4)
  • Creation Station Portrait Mask (Day 5)
  • Quickfire: Meme (Day 5)
  • Ultimate STEM (once complete)

And of course, World of Wonder & Tech Tips