Today Mr. McClung asked the class to write a blog post. I chose to write about what movie I felt was the best movie in the past year. I pick the Blind Side. The movie “The Hurt Locker” won six different awards including the Best Picture award. I have never seen of this movie and couldn’t…
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In the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, your band of the week is Flogging Molly. Flogging Molly is a seven-piece American Celtic punk band that formed in Los Angeles, California. Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dublin born Dave King was the vocalist for heavy metal band Fastway featuring guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke. Dave King retained…
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This Blogs post was assigned to me in class by Mr. McClung, It is about the banning of laptops in colleges. Colleges on the east coast are starting to reject technology. They are banning the use of laptops in lecture halls and are saying that it is more of a distraction than a benefit to…
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A couple of my students displaying their homemade guitar. Friday we spent some time making some music. As apart of our study of how resonance works, we created instruments that make noise due to the resonance they put off. The video above displays a simple guitar that we made using a meter stick, fishing line,…
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Lesson One – Mythbusters Fund There is nothing quite like movie day in school…but if your anything like me you tend to shy away from the library collection of films because, let’s be honest, most educational science films are boring. In my science classes we solve this solution by watching Mythbusters and this past week…
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For our most recent blog assignment, I chose the topic of writing a review for one of my favorite movies for the year. I’m a self proclaimed movie buff and had an EXTREMELY hard time choosing. After a long hard 30 seconds of thought, I finally made a decision. My choice is…. UP!!!!!! This…
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Perfect pitch…not so sure. Our class today was completely devoted to trying to pitch and how to it can be altered. Students were given different size bottles and asked to fill them up with water to achieve high and low pitches. They were also given tuning forks and asked to match the pitch of the…
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As we continue to talk about the properties of waves, today my students constructed some good ole’ fashioned telephones using string and cups. These telephones were used to demonstrate the point that sound can travel through mediums as a disturbance or a vibration. In this video above, my students used their voices as the disturbance…
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This coming week (March 15th) our school district will be hosting The National School Board Association as they visit our school district in which we will showcase how we use technology to enhance student learning here at Woodland Junior High. Attending this conference and visiting our school will be various school administrators and teachers from…
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