Greetings 5th & 6th Graders,

This week I am going to guide you through the process of planning your independent project for this class. Please watch the videos below and read all the text to help you as you plan your project. You have been sent a copy of the worksheets as a GoogleSlides document inside your project folder. You can "write" on the worksheets by dragging a text box onto each answer field. Your project planning document must be completed and approved before you begin on your project.

Find the slide above and then begin the video for Phase 1.

Fill out this first sheet. Then turn to the next slide, pictured below, and watch the video that introduces Phase 2.

Fill out this form and then turn to the next slide, pictured below. Once you are all set, turn on the video for Phase 3.

Make sure you save your complete planning document in the project folder I sent you. Ms. Bel, Mr. Cole-Farrell, and I will look them over and assign each of you a project advisor. You will meet with your project advisor next Thursday during class time.

Great work on your Beetle Blocks projects last week. Before we move on to this week's work, I wanted to share a solution to our Star of David challenge.

Learning Tasks

• If you have never used Tinkercad before, do the seven "Starters" lessons from the "Learn" menu. This will be essential to understanding how the program works.
• Do the "Die from Scratch" lesson. Send screenshots of completed die to [email protected]

Making Task
Using Tinkercad to design a 3D dreidel. When completed, email screenshots to [email protected]
Hints:

1. Build from bottom of dreidel up
2. Use the scribble function to make Hebrew letters
3. Consider size, shape, symmetry, and proportion.
4. Be innovative! I am showing you one idea for a dreidel, how can you improve upon this idea. 

​Here's a rough sample below.

Use your Tuesday class to try things out. You can email with any questions. I will be available to chat or "Google Hang" on Thursday during class time.


-UPDATE-

I received the same question, "How do I make sure my Hebrew letters are etched into my dreidel and not sticking out?" from several people. I made a quick video showing how to do that. If you had this question, check out the video below.

Greetings 5th & 6th Graders,

I hope you are all doing well. In my part of our elective I am going to introduce you some fun digital tools that allow us to create. Some of these will require code, others will not. The first of these is BeetleBlocks. Please see my intro video below.

We are starting off using a program called BeetleBlocks. The link to BeetleBlocks is here. Please watch the intro tutorial below.