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Welcome to the Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute Summer bridge! Click the arrow to begin your adventure! GPCI Virtual Summer Bridge 2020 Expo: An Exceptional Summer Bridge Experience

This course is your final assignment for the 2019 -2020 school year. You have 4 Activities that you need to complete for this course. Click on the door to the lab and we’ll get started!

Great! During this week, you will complete a Defined STEM activity, a core content activity, and your choice of 2 other activities. Click on the blueprint and we’ll go take a look.

Monday’s assignment is a defined STEM activity. While you are completing that, I’m going to be working on a special project in the lab. Click on the blueprint for Monday to begin.

Good Morning Architects, Today you will be designing a new playground for Grand Prairie, Texas. Please watch this video first, to get a better understanding of what goes into designing a play ground. 7 Principles of Inclusive Playgrounds You will use the app of your choice or draw on paper and submit a picture of your playground design. Here are the requirements: 1. You have a 200 feet by 200 feet block of land 2. You must draw your playground (in an app or on paper) and include explanations, then submit it to Canvas. Each playset must be shown where it will sit on the playground. 3. Your playground must include 1. Flooring that is environmentally safe and safe for students your age. 2. A fence that is safe 3. A Swing set 4. One play set similar to a jungle gym or play area 5. It must be accessible to physically disabled, you must show you will make this happen. 4. Your diagram must include all the above information, and you must show a picture of what playsets you have picked including the flooring. You can find pictures online. 5. Diagram and all pictures must be turned in by Monday night. 6. Your playsets must be safe, it cannot look like this: Good luck!!!! We will be available for questions all day.

Click the below link to access the BINGO Board of activities for today. 7 th. Defined. STEM_Green_Merrill. docx • You have been given 6 activities. • Choose 3 to complete. • Don't forget to take pics &/or record videos. • FINAL SUBMISSION: 1 -3 minute i. Movie to this assignment. • QUESTIONS? Our office hours are tomorrow, June 2 from 9 am-11 am and 1 pm-3 pm. Be on the lookout for ZOOM links. Happy Building Scholars. . .

You will use the following links to complete your Summer Bridge Defined Learning STEM coursework. This is for incoming 9 th graders into STEM Engineering pathway. Even if you may not be at the campus next year, you are required to complete the assignment. I will have office hours each day June 1 -4, simply send me a message in Canvas and I will either respond or if you want to have a face-to face Zoom, please let me know. Read the first file, Underwater Task Assignment. Then decide which of the two articles you will need. You can simply use a Word doc or if you would like you can print off the pdf for an actual Engineering Journal and then do all of your work in it , take pictures and submit them on a word doc. Use the rubric to ensure you do your best work. You will need to be able to take pictures using ipad or phone and add them to your Word doc submission. Please contact me if you have any questions. This is an individual assignment but you may ask other people for ideas to help you. Underwater Task Assignment_SB 2020. docx Article excerpt_Underwater treasures. docx Article excerpt_Underwater Exploration. docx Rubric_Underwater Robotics. docx Summer Bridge_10 page Eng Journal. pdf

Scholars, You are to upload your Powerpoint presentation file to the assignment. This is an INDIVIDUAL PROJECT (NO GROUP WORK), and will count as a Major Grade toward your Pathway course in Q 1 of 2020 -2021 School year. Open the following attached file for Further Information. Virtual Summer Bridge STEM Assignment for Current 9 th Graders. pdf apollo-13_pandemic_challenge. pdf 9 th Grade STEM Summer Bridge Project Template (Links to an external site. ) Please make sure to show up at 10 am on Monday on Zoom for further instructions. If you cannot make it, I will also be available on Monday at 11 am on Zoom. Mr. Brown's Virtual Summer Bridge Zoom Meeting https: //zoom. us/j/98779475415? pwd=WDJscj. Vx. MSt. DSWh 3 V 01 CY 2 h. Vd. HFr dz 09 (Links to an external site. ) Meeting ID: 987 7947 5415 Password: 013207 I (Mr. Brown) will have office hours available for Zoom Meetings (By Request ONLY) on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10 am - Noon. If you need to request a meeting, please message me in Canvas. -Mr. Brown

Project Description 6/1/20 People around the world want to resume their normal behaviors. That means flying, commuting, factory production, etc. As a species we have relied heavily on the use of fossil fuels to power our normal behaviors. Many people have differing opinions on the issue of climate change, but the scientific consensus is that human behavior is the leading cause, and that is because we burn fossil fuels for most of our energy needs, which release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Our normal behaviors as humans have led to depletion of marine life, acid rain, pollution of rivers and lakes, the driving of species to extinction, and global warming. Data shows that as humans slow down, nature returns to its normal state. The air becomes cleaner and plants and animals return to their native environments. Our normal state is nature’s abnormal state. Our current behavior as a species is unsustainable. That is why it is imperative to many people around the world that we reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while also maintaining our vast energy needs. Scientists and engineers have been searching for the best ways to produce energy cleanly. This has led to many options, but perhaps the most controversial one is the use of nuclear energy. The project on which you will work today is Nuclear Energy Scientist on Defined Learning. In the project, you will conduct research on how nuclear energy is used to generate electricity and formulate an opinion on your support for or against the use of nuclear energy. You will complete two products. On one product you will use your scientific knowledge of nuclear power to explain how the process works. In the other product, you will present your argument for or against nuclear power usage. • You can complete the project in a group of up to 3 members. Use the link here to record your name on the group sign up sheet. ◦ Nuclear Energy Scientist Project Signup Sheet (Links to an external site. ) ◦ • • • If you are working in a group, put your name along with your group members under the header “We will work together”. If you are working by yourself, put your name under the header “I will work alone”. ◦ Please do not move or edit anyone else’s name without their permission. You can be as creative as you like in your products. In the creation of your products, you can use your computer/i. Pad or do it by hand. If you do anything by hand, take a picture or video of your work and upload it. Each product has a rubric. You can view these to ensure that you have all of the necessary requirements. Note on using Defined Learning: • Use this link to go to the site: ◦ Defined Learning Site (Links to an external site. ) ◦ Login by using the option: “Log in with Clever” • I will have virtual hours today 9: 30 am – 11: 30 am and 1: 00 pm – 3: 00 pm. ◦ https: //zoom. us/j/5015239249 ◦ Meeting ID: 501 523 9249 ◦ Password: GPCI Assignment • Subjective Product (Click to go to assignment) ◦ Either Multimedia Presentation or Newspaper Article • Objective Product (Click to go to assignment) ◦ Either Scientific Poster or Technical Report

The instructions for this project can be accessed using the link below: https: //docs. google. com/document/d/1 Er. Vm. GN 3 QOHu. Xg. R 8 n. JTv. EV 7 og. Rwp. VTk 7 b. FLoa. BWSMebc/edit (Links to an external site. ) In summary, you are going to create the following based on a middle school science topic: • Find a good video that explains the topic • Make a sketch note video that explains the topic (you will share this here (Links to an external site. ) ) • Come up with an activity that is engaging and interesting based on the topic You will use the submission form below to organize your material and this is the google doc that you will turn in as your submission for this assignment: https: //docs. google. com/document/d/1 -2 s. JK 2 CDu 2 XNqi. MJo. Wg 2 Z 5_6 W 8 MPef. Kb. MQr. Rzp 7 Wn. Ww/edit (Links to an external site. ) Be sure to share this google doc with me and also give me access (markedlee. nelson@gpisd. org)

Good job! Since you completed today’s work, I’ll let you have this jet pack mechanism I built today. It still needs some boosters and fuel, but we can get them later this week. Come back tomorrow and we’ll work some more.

Good job! Since you completed today’s work, I’ll let you have these jet pack boosters and fuel, Come back tomorrow and we’ll work some more.