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 * __Media Center Class Projects __**


 * FREE Subscription to Online Newspaper - Bucks County Courier Times **

Internet Research The internet has so much information. Sometimes you may think - Where do I begin? In this assignment, we will use Google Docs to type an essay based on one of the topics below. Please use 12 Pt.Times Roman and Double Space. Filter through your web search engines and choose __3 websites from a .com, .gov, .org, or .edu__ on the topic you chose. Write about each website, why you chose it, and if the information is reliable. When your essay is complete, share it with ademarzio@olgc.org
 * Pick a Topic:  Global Warming, The Papal Visit, Technology in Education **

__**Google Slide into Good Nutrition **__ You will gather information about eating healthy diet that contains good nutrition for a student your age. What do you need to keep healthy and strong? You must include the food pyramid in your presentation. You can choose any section of the food pyramid to explain it's nutritional value and the role it plays in your diet. Which body systems are affected by the nutrients in your diet?
 * 10 Slides
 * Must include facts and images including the latest food pyramid
 * Insert one informational video on any slide
 * Use Google Slides tools to create an informative presentation.
 * [[file:MyRubricPowerpoint Gr7.pdf|Click Here for Rubric.]]

Let's have a pizza party!

==== You will create an Google sheet. Carefully enter the following data. This will give you an effective way to plan the lunch and figure the cost. ====

1. Open a new spreadsheet in Microsoft Sheets.

2. Use data below to create a Pizza Lunch Spreadsheet.

3. Save the completed document as Pizza Lunch.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4. After entering data below, calculate B x D to get Item totals.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5. Select Item totals and hit Auto Sum to get totals.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Click here for your information:


 * [|Details]
 * [[file:olgctechnology/Pizza Lunch Cell Data.pdf|Downloa]]d

<span style="color: #e2823d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">This is your Blog! [|Here's your Blog for 7th!]

<span style="color: #0038ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Internet Safety Net Smartz Teens - http://www.nsteens.org/

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<span style="color: #004aff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Movie Trailer Project How to put video in Movie Maker. [|YOUTUBEINMP4.COM Click Here] 1. Right Click and Copy the You Tube link 2. Paste the link in youtubeinmp4.com above. 3. Download as MP4 to insert into Windows Movie Maker. 4. Save downloaded video file to your computer. 5. Open Windows Movie Maker and ADD VIDEOS to find video. THAT'S iT!!

<span style="color: #000aff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">An Hour of Code <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> - Learn how to do coding through the Khan Academy.

[|Click here to learn more about coding.] [|Handout Graph Paper] [|Code Cheat Sheet]

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">October, 2013

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000aff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Google Earth Lesson Grade 7

//Click below for directions// [] Check out how soldiers use Google Earth: [] Upload your finished searches here!

Manifest Destiny You will create a Powerpoint or PhotoStory on the Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny video: http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/41BDB46D-2657-4532-B689-82FBE116D932 Multimedia Presentation Points to Consider
 * How did our fore fathers belief in a Manifest Destiny change the lives of Native Americans?
 * Which technologies opened the West, and which transformed it?
 * Link for resources: http://aop4-8pa.wikispaces.com
 * What is Manifest Destiny?
 * Who coined the term?
 * How did it influence western settlement?
 * What part did it play in the rush to California gold fields?
 * What kinds of challenges did the landscape present to travelers heading west in the nineteenth century?
 * Explain how the Manifest Destiny affected Native Americans and Mexicans who lived west of the Mississippi?
 * For what reasons might individuals and groups have headed west?
 * Which technologies opened the West, and which transformed it?

Choose an influential character from the past or present and create a Facebook page [|Click here for FAKEBOOK!]
 * Create a Fakebook! **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bucks County Courier Times - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Daily news and current events <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Newspaper for FREE!]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Create a slideshow in PhotoStory using your poem. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Type your poem in the slides and add images and music to enhance your slideshow. Have fun. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">We will present them in class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">January **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Internet Safety <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">October
<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Let's create a Halloween story <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">in [|Click Here: StoryBird!] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Choose your favorite artist and become an author.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Microsoft Excel and the 13 Colonies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Research information about the 13 Colonies. List the 13 Colonies, founder, year, and purpose in a spreadsheet. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">November **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Nutrition Link: =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> [] = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Learn about your health and how to make good choices in diet and exercise.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Happy Thanksgiving - Check this out our Photostories of things in which we are thankful.: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">(Just a sample of our great work)

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ecosystems <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|What It's Like Where You Live?] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Ecosystems, Biomes, Habitats]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Learning Excel through Internet Research and Basketball <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Fantasy Basketball]

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