Today students took a mini-"quiz" - really it was supposed to be a real quiz but I didn't want to spend that much time on it so I made it a warm-up. That was good though. I need to remember to do more warm-ups.
Then we did a bit of work in Processing. This was students first time using processing. We created a "bubble" sketch where bubbles rose to the top of the screen. I gave them the bubble class and we added some material in the set-up and draw functions.
It was a shortened hour, but I think the skeleton of the lesson was good - I had extensions ready for students to try.
I teased students a bit with our project next week which will be all processing. One of my students left saying that he was really looking forward to the project next week - me too!
AP CSP
We continued adding the scoring mechanism for the color sleuth project. Walking around and helping students, I realized there still are some big gaps in understanding. There were people putting variables inside methods, methods inside methods, if statements just hanging out... it wasn't pretty. I think I need to give students some more independent project/tasks to see what they can do. Right now, I am thinking of the following:
- Make hangman
- Make an escape room
- Make a Simon-game
- Make a math-fact practice game
- Make a "guess the color" game
I would like to characterize these by difficulty to see what I should have students do.
Concepts
Exponents continued today - I think students actually kinda liked it. That was surprising! We quiz on it tomorrow!
One Good Thing
I said NO to someone today! Another teacher was putting together something and it sounded awesome but I said I wouldn't be able to do it. I feel relieved. Also... I didn't wear makeup today so I think people felt like I looked overwhelmed :)
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