Posts tagged: 6thgrade

‘Animate Your Name’ Workshop

Today, we had a workshop involving animation.  The ‘Animate Your Name’ workshop begins with an introduction to sprite animation. The previous project ‘About Me’...   Read More

‘Find the Bugs – Be a Program Exterminator’

In today’s Scratch coding class, we arrived at an important part of the programming process known as ‘debugging’. Debugging is the process of analyzing...   Read More

Life through VR

In recent years, technology has moved beyond the flat images on a screen, to a more interactive and immersive form of world known as...   Read More

You Are What You Eat

“You are what you eat” is a saying we are all familiar with. In keeping with our theme of mental health, the students worked in...   Read More

How to Use Empathy to Tell Your Story

“Collaboration” is a word that the STEAM students hear very often in my lessons. Some of the best works are made when great minds...   Read More

Toy Car

At some point, the student must become the teacher. With this in mind, the students’ objective was to model a toy car all by...   Read More

Interior Design

Gearing up for their larger stop-motion project, the students have been experimenting with creating interiors and props. For this two-week project, students will create a...   Read More

Tiny Dancers: Homopolar Motor

Last week, the students at Jamaica SDA had a chance to experiment with harnessing the power of energy to create tiny dancing figurines. Using simple...   Read More

We Are…A Work in Progress!

Our 6th-8th  students are still busy working on their “Who Am I?”  Wall Hanging/Banners with the theme of exploring and defining identity. This past week...   Read More

Christmas in November

With Christmas just around the corner, the students were tasked with creating a Christmas card using Adobe Photoshop. Having spent the last few weeks learning the...   Read More

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