My life is pretty much unbalanced right now, and I am unable to fully commit to each of my responsibilities.
Basketball 5 times a week,
Teaching,
Grad school work,
and sprinkle in all the different wonderful conferences, PD day organization, workshops... Not to mention a new puppy at home
Bah... I need to re-evaluate how much I am taking on from now.
In any case, that wasn't the point of my first post back.
Things are happening -- That's really the point of this post.
Things are happening not only in my life, but also around the school as well. For example, there is an addition to the school about to be constructed.
So things are happening - it's just about how we choose to harness it. I mentioned before about harnessing a current event about a sinkhole. So it's no surprise that I'd try to do something with something as delicious as the school addition.
Since I don't have much time, and I don't want to keep 100 drafts in my blogger... I will just outline what's going on, and maybe go into details in a later post.
Topics covered:
- cost of materials (linear relationships)
- spaces, surface area, and volume (Geometry)
- measurement of inaccessible heights (trigonometry)
- budgeting and researching for suppliers and costs (budgeting, research, life skills)
Flow of things
1. beginning with a smaller box of figuring out prices, costs...etc
2. then carrying onto an existing section of the school, figuring out prices of glass, drywall, paint, tiles, bricks... more details the better
3. and finally an estimation of the school addition. students submit their estimates, plans.
Some pictures (recently my iPad's doing some funky stuff, so I am unable to access the pictures on there... so just iPhone pictures for now)
More pictures to come... once the iPad is fixed.
What would you do with current events? What have you done? Share it with me!
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