April 26, 30

1.First, 15 minutes typing

Next: on to the Formulate a Design Specification

2.Follow these instructions: Type 3. Formulate a Design Specification (left justified, font size 16, bold, underlined)

3.Design Specification must include:
-3 interesting historical notes about your recipe or individual ingredients.
-how the recipe is important to your family
-why you like the recipe
-Create 3 more design specifications (let's brainstorm some possibilities)

4. Then create a survey/questionnaire to evaluate your product/solution(recipe page). Remember to include a scale. For example, on a scale of 1 to 5 - 1 equals awful and 5 equals awesome!

- Make 1 question for each item in your design specification
- Keep everything ordered properly;-)

Learning Objective: The student will design, with limited guidance a test to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification.

April 19, 23

Good Morning Year 7 - hope you had a great weekend.

1) 15 minutes typing
2) Let's complete our Develop a Design Brief and hand it in today at the end of class.

3) Begin Research

There are 4 areas that you will research:
My Recipe
3 Interesting Historical Facts or Notes about my recipe or ingredients used
How the recipe is important to my family
Why I like this recipe

History and Culture through Food


Directions
1) Select a favorite family recipe.
2) Research your RECIPE online OR copy down the recipe and bring it to school on Friday.
3) Open your Investigation (we began it last week)
4) Type 2. Develop a Design Brief (left justified, font size 16, bold, underlined)
5) Go to Google.com and type in the name of your recipe (example: Apple Pie recipe).
6) Copy/paste the recipe into your document.
7) Next, find as much information as you can about your recipe and the ingredients. For example, if your recipe calls for mustard, look up mustard on the timeline.
8) Select three interesting historical notes about your recipe or its individual ingredients. Type these in your Investigation.
9) How is my recipe important to my family? (What traditions surround this recipe? Who in your family is famous for this recipe?) Answer this question and type in your Investigation.
10) Why do I like the recipe? Try to explain why the combination of ingredients is pleasing to you. Answer this question and type in your Investigation.

Learning objective: The student will develop research strategies, record sources and document learning.

April 16

Year 7, it's another rainy day:-(

1) 15 minutes of typing

2) Let's finish the Identify the Problem (which we started on Monday,-)

3) Begin Research

There are 4 areas that you will research:
My Recipe
3 Interesting Historical Facts or Notes about my recipe or ingredients used
How the recipe is important to my family
Why I like this recipe

History and Culture through Food



Directions
1) Select a favorite family recipe.
2) Research your RECIPE online OR copy down the recipe and bring it to school on Friday.
3) Open your Investigation (we began it last week)
4) Type 2. Develop a Design Brief (left justified, font size 16, bold, underlined)
5) Go to Google.com and type in the name of your recipe (example: Apple Pie recipe).
6) Copy/paste the recipe into your document.
7) Next, find as much information as you can about your recipe and the ingredients. For example, if your recipe calls for mustard, look up mustard on the timeline.
8) Select three interesting historical notes about your recipe or its individual ingredients. Type these in your Investigation.
9) How is my recipe important to my family? (What traditions surround this recipe? Who in your family is famous for this recipe?) Answer this question and type in your Investigation.
10) Why do I like the recipe? Try to explain why the combination of ingredients is pleasing to you. Answer this question and type in your Investigation.

Learning objective: The student will develop research strategies, record sources and document learning.

April 12

Good Morning Year 7!

First, let's start the class with a little typing lesson. Click here to visit Free Typing Games. But first we need to change the keyboard from Portuguese to English;-)

This site offers free lessons and games. To become a really proficient (fast and accurate) typist, you should do a combination of both lessons and games. Lessons help because they show you where you should place your hands on the keyboard and give practice with specific letter combinations. Lessons help typing become automatic. Games are fun and help you build speed!

Next, let's take a look at the 5 steps of the MYP Design Cycle. It's really important to understand how it works. Investigate, Design, Plan, Create, Evaluate

Then, let's explore the unit of work.

Finally, let's begin the Investigation.

1) Let's look at the structure of the documentation process. Remember that this is a scholastic document (a formal school project) and should conform to certain standards. That means that is a school project that you must hand in and you will be graded upon this work so it has to look professional;-)

We will type in font size 12. We will type in black. We will use a formal font (Times New Roman, Calibri, Ariel).

Let's look at the template for the Investigate that will make this process easier for us:
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