The Senior Project Midterm Presentations will take place December XXX Each student will have 3 minutes to present and 2 minutes to get feedback from other students, teachers and outside guests.
YOU MUCH HAVE REAL TANGIBLE WORK TO SHOW AT THE PRESENTATION!
Lesson 5.1 Graphing Systems of Linear Equations
Classnotes:5.1 notes
Worksheet from Class : 5.1 Classwork
Homework: Watch Video 5.1 and take video notes! And complete 5.1 HW
Lesson 5.2 Graphical Solutions Poster
5.2 notes. Homework: 5.2 Homework
Lesson 5.3: MINIQUIZ + Solving Systems with Calculators
Classnotes:
Worksheet: Homework: Complete 5.3 HW
Lesson 5.4: Solving Systems using Substitution
Class Notes: 5.4 Class Notes
Homework: 5.4 HW Need to see Substitution Method again? Watch Substitution Video.
Lesson 5.5: Solving Systems using Elimination
Class Notes: 5.5 Elimination Alg E Homework: HW 5.5
Lesson 5.6: More Elimination
Classnotes: 5.6 notes Homework: HW 5.6 Quiz tomorrow! Watch this SUBSTITUTION video and ELIMINATION video to help review! For extra help see this step-by-step solving of a model substitution and model elimination problem.
Lesson 5.7: QUIZ! + Modeling with systems!
Homework: Complete the Modeling Worksheet from class, Here are the NOTES and a modeling video if you want a little extra help!
Lesson 5.8: More Modeling
Class Notes: 5.8 Algebra E
Homework: Really Important!! 5.8 HW[A]
Lesson 5.9: Systems of Equations Modeling
Class Notes 5.9 Class Notes Alg C
Homework: Really Important!! 5.9 HW[C]
TASK Lesson 5.10 Systems of Equations Modeling Task
HW: FINISH POSTERS!
Lesson 5.11: Presentations + Review
Watch Videos to help STUDY: Substitution, Elimination, Graphing Equations, Graphing Inequalities, Modeling.
Lesson 5.12- UNIT 5 TEST – Monday December 22nd! winter break assignment
Lesson 4.1 Introduction to Inequalities
Here are the 4.1 Class Notes.
Homework: watch and take video notes over video 4.1, also complete 4.1 HW, both due tomorrow (Friday).
Lesson 4.2 Solving and Modeling 1 variable Inequalities
Homework: finish worksheet you started in class AND do 4.2 HW.
There will be a QUIZ Monday over 4.1 and 4.2.
Lesson 4.3 QUIZ + Compound Inequalities
Homework: Video 4.3 and 4.3 HW.
Lesson 4.4: Two Variable Inequalities
Homework: 4.4. HW Assessment Sheet
Rubric for Mastery Assignment: 4.4 HW Assessment Rubric
Extra Help Video on Graphing Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities
Lesson 4.5 Modeling with Two Variable Inequalities
Class Notes: 4.5 Inequalities Task Notes
Homework: 4.5 HW
Lesson 4.6: Functions and Models of Inequalities
4.6 class notes.
Homework: Complete the worksheet 4.6from class.
Lesson 4.7 Inequalities Unit Review
HW: Complete the Inequality Review: inequality review part 1, inequality Review part 2 and check with the answer keys: part 1 key, part 2 key
Lesson 4.8 Inequalities TEST
The test will cover 4 mastery topics: 1 variable Inequalities, 2 variable Inequalities, Modeling with Inequalities and Solving Equations.
THANKSGIVING BREAK HOMEWORK:
1. Complete BtB 4
2. Each student will receive 2 practice sheets over topics from the first quarter that they did not earn full mastery on. You must review your topics by going back and looking through notes, watching old videos or looking at old homeworks and Complete both practice sheets. The first day back from back you will be able to take a MASTERY RETAKE over your topics to regain some mastery!
All senior projects are logged in this google doc: Senior Project Archive
This years work will be posted here as it becomes available.
Your Quarter 1 Exam will be November 12th and 13th. This two day test is all multiple choice questions and contains a full practice regents. All 12 topics we have covered so far this year will be on the test. The exam will be worth 20% of the total quarter 1 grade.
Please email Ms. P. with any questions! Good Luck!
Syllabus Rubric Senior Project Archive
3 Project Ideas Doc Top 5 Takeaways from R+W
SENIOR PROJECT DOCUMENT % chunk guidelines
Midterm Presentation Guidelines Absent Midterm Doc
Specific Presentation Type Information
The Project part of the Senior Project experience is where students create an original artifact in reaction to their research. The project should be deeply connected to the work done in Research and Writing and should captivate both the student and the viewer. Most senior projects fall into one of four categories:
It is difficult to describe what makes a good senior project due to the fact that they are all so very different from each other. In general, the best senior projects create something original, or do something new and are deeply personal and important to the student. Although it is hard to explain what makes a good project, it is much easier to give examples of good and bad projects. With that in mind the following table gives examples of projects for each of the four categories:
| Category | Good Examples | Bad Examples |
| Interactive Project | A cookbook that includes original recipes based on a specific diet or subculture | a cookbook that included copies of other recipes from the internet |
| Design and build a robot that can perform a specific needed task | Build a robot or helicopter from a pre-fabricated kit | |
| Preform/Present an original piece of music or art that is part of a larger set work | Create a mix tape of pre-existing music that represents a feeling or is meant for a certain task | |
| Create your own line of fashion and produce at least one look | Put together different fashion looks based on purchased items | |
| A prototype of a new design for a football helmet that could make players more safe | A website that highlights the importance of people being safe when playing sports | |
| A children’s book that helps kids feel better about math at a young age | Creating a book of different pictures you took that have no deeper meaning | |
| Creating your own board game from scratch | Play different video games and decide which one is the best | |
| A workshop for young girls and their mothers to promote positive body image | Creating a pamphlet about body image | |
| Film | A documentary showing the inside story of adolescent depression that interviews many people including experts | A documentary that only shows one opinion or does not interview many people |
| A music video for an original piece of music | A video that shows people dancing to different pieces of music | |
| A series of ‘how-to’ videos that helps people improve a certain part of their life. | A documentary about sports, when your research paper had nothing to do with sports | |
| An artistic interpretation that tells the story of the research you conducted | A video of you talking into a camera about whatever you feel like | |
| Academic Project | Conduct a survey or experiment in which you form a hypothesis and prove it through rigorous data analysis (must have a sample size of at least 30) and present your findings in a talk. | A survey or experiment that does not prove anything or only involves 10-15 people and you present your findings on a poster |
| Write a translation of an ancient text into modern language and present a side by side reading of an excerpt | Write a story that no one will actually read or remember outside of the project | |
| Create an evolutionary tree of deep ocean creatures and deliver it in an engaging ‘TED talk’ | Make a power point presentation about your project and read off the slides | |
| Community Involvement | Run an afterschool dance class for young girls and put on a recital | Volunteer at a local elementary school helping watch kids after school |
| Organize a fundraiser and a 5k run/walk to raise money and awareness for a specific cause | Help a friend or relative with their work | |
| Volunteer at a homeless shelter and organize a school supply drive for the children who live there | Participate in a volunteer day at a shelter |
The Senior Project at the iSchool is the academic capstone of each student’s experience. Each student explores a topic of their choice over a ten month long time period in their junior and senior years of high school. It is crucial that students choose a topic that is important to them! The Senior Project is each student’s opportunity to explore a topic that truly interests them and for them to create something substantial, important and personal.
Senior Project is the final of a three course sequence at the iSchool: Critical Thinking, in which students explore their area of focus (English, Social Studies, Science, Math, Technology or The Arts) and develop a topic idea, Research and Writing, where students research their topic and write an in depth literature review, Senior Project, where students create an original artifact in reaction to their research.
At the end of this process the goal is for each student to be able to engage in a hour long discussion* wherein they can demonstrate the knowledge they gained through their research, how their topic connects to what was covered in their area of focus course and discuss the specifics of their project and any future implications it may have or plans to continue working with the material. Students who truly excel in this process can earn Distinction** on their diploma from the NYC iSchool.
Students are expected to spend approximately fifty to sixty hours of their time completing their project. The time is broken down as follows: 15 hours of in-class time with a teacher, 15 hours of in-school, independent work, 2-5 hours of afterschool sessions, and about 20 hours of out of school work. Students are also required to present their work at one of three Senior Project sessions in January and have a debrief conversation with a teacher during a scheduled time.
Every senior project is different, check out the project examples page to get a better idea of what makes a good project and the project archive to see some of the work students have created.
* hour long conversation – is not expected to actually be an hour long, is more like a twenty-thirty minute convo but stems from a college thesis hour long presentation of materials
** DISTINCTION- in order for students to earn distinction on their project they must earn an 85+ in all three components of the process: Critical Thinking, Research + Writing , Senior Project.
Lesson 3.1: Intro to Lines Class Notes:3.1 notes HW: Watch Video 3.1 over Finding the Slope algebraically and complete HW 3.1
*To find the slope algebraically you can use either version of the slope formula!!!*
Lesson 3.2: What is the equation of a line?
Class notes: 3.2 notes
HW: Watch Video 3.2 over graphing a line not in slope intercept form and take notes! Then complete 3.2 hw
Lesson 3.3: Quiz + Horizontal + Vertical Lines
Class Notes: 3.3 notes Worksheet: 3.3 Classwork + Extra Video over Horizontal /Vertical lines.
Hw: Watch Video 3.3 Over writing the equation of a line given the graph and complete 3.3 HW
Lesson 3.4: Writing the equation of a Line
Class Notes: 3.4 notes Extra Help Videos: Writing equations type 2, type 3
HW: 3.4 hw
Lesson 3.5: More Writing the equation of a Line Lesson
Class Notes:3.5 notes Extra Help Videos: Writing equations type 4
HW: 3.5 hw + review for your quiz! It will cover writing equations type 1, type 2, type 3 and type 4
3.6: Quiz +What Happens When
Notes: 3.6 notes
HW: complete 3.6 hw and work on TEST CORRECTIONS. Unit 2 mastery retakes should be done by thursday, october 30th!
3.7: Linear Modeling
notes: 3.7 notes
HW: Finish the Modeling Worksheet from class.
3.8: Linear Functions with a Calculator!
Class Notes. Class worksheet
HW: Complete 3.8 hw
Lesson 3.9: Unit Review
TEST TOMORROW! STUDY!
HOMEWORK: complete as much as the Review Packet as you feel necessary! Check the answer key if you’re stuck!
Watch these videos to review for your test:
Intro to the Slope of a line Finding the Slope Algebraically
Graphing lines not in slope-intercept form Horiztonal and Vertical Lines
Writing the Equation from a graph Writing the Equation from 1 point + slope
Writing the equation from 2 points
Writing the equation using Parallel and Perpendicular lines
Lesson 3.10: Linear Function Unit Test
Each student will be creating a mini pop up book with a minimum of 4 pages all with at least 1 different pop up element. The book must also include 1 page with a light up component.
Resources:
-Students should use The Elements of Pop-Up Books to assist them in their creations! Pop Up Pinterest Page to see some great pop up and paper circuit examples!
Lessons on creating different types of popup
iSchoolPolymath 