Unit 1 (Technology and Design): Class and ICT Activities

Hi there! We are starting Unit 1 this week in some groups. This unit is about the nature of technology and the steps of the technological process. In order to gain some knowledge about these two main topics we will do the following activities:

• Class activities in the classroom and around the school: 3 sessions plus 1 extra at home.
• ICT activities in the computer room: 4 sessions.
• Workbook activities in the classroom and computer room: 3 sessions.
• Workshop activities, so you will have the opportunity of putting in practice the steps of the technological process to build a straw bridge: 3 sessions.
• The debrief session (including the revision of the unit with our digital devices): 1 session.
• The exam: 1 session.

Most of these activities are publish in my General website on Weebly. See you in class.

Unit 0: key information (presentation).

Hi everybody! Here you all have the activities we are going to do in the first 2 sessions:

• session 1: presentation. Go to TPR1 General Website, click on UNIT 0: KEY INFORMATION and watch the presentation I use to introduce our subject.
• The flipped classroom: do activity 01 at home and activities 02, 04 and with Kahoot at school (session 2).
• session 2: activities in pairs from TPR1 General Website. Do activities 02 and 04.
• session 2: activities with the smart phone or tablet. We will finish the session doing...

• extra at home: you can get your first extra points by doing activity 03. Remember enter your name using the model I showed you in class. The password is in your workbook.

 So, now you have things to do. See you in class.

Welcome to the school year 2017/18

Hi everybody! Hi new students of Technology, Programming and Robotics (TPR). This is our blog for the first grade of ESO, both program and section students. Here you will find the activities you all will do in class, in the computer room and in the workshop. And some extra activities too, so to keep track of what we are doing in class, come and read the blog every now and then. Have a nice starting. See you in class.

Final exam (extraordinary exam). September 2017

Hi! As you know students who didn’t pass in June, you will have another opportunity in September. You will need to take a global exam in which you will be asked to answer questions about the six units we have studied this year. You will need to get at least 5 out of 10 points in the exam to pass. In order to prepare the exam you can redo the IT Activities we have in our Virtual Classroom.
Here you have a selection of these activities:

• Unit 1 (Technology and Design): activities 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22; 
• Unit 2 (Graphical Communication): activities 04, 06,08, 09, 13, 14, 16 and 17.
• Unit 3 (Materials): activities 07, 08, CA1.
• Unit 4 (Electricity): activities 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 25, 26, 27 and 28.
• Unit 5 (Computers and the Internet): on-line exam.
• Unit 6 (Programming): activities 01_02, 04 and 07. 

Remember that those are only a selection of the activities you can practice with. You also have the solutions to those activities in each unit. Besides you can browser over the complete IT activities we have been working on and redo them. Finally, it would be a good idea to use the workbook to complete the activities (at least for unit 2). Good luck. 

Final exam. June 2017

Hi again! As you know, we will be doing our last exam next week (on Monday and Tuesday) according to the following observations:

• For those who did not pass two terms (evaluations) you will have to take a global exam. Do not forget your drawing tools. You have the solutions to the workbook for each unit in our virtual classroom.
• For those who got less than 3 points in the on-line exam we did last week, you will retake this exam.
• The rest of you will do extra activities in the Computer Room (Programming).
• Good luck everybody.

Unit 6 (Programming): IT Activities and Solutions to the Workbook.

It's so hot here!
We are finishing the IT Activities 1/2 for this Unit 6. We have been using Scratch to create programs that make the sprite get lost in a maze, draw polygons and flags, ask questions through quizzes, follow the mouse, etc.

If you want to keep practising, go to our virtual classroom and download the pdf file with the instructions to create new programs. You will also find the solutions to the workbook. Next week we will finish the course with extra activities and the final exam for those who failed some of the previous terms (evaluations). Let's hope it's less hot.

Unit 5 (Computers and the Internet): Solutions to the Workbook and Exam.

Hi! We will be doing an on-line exam for Unit 5 next week. The exam is posted in our Virtual Classroom. The exam consists of questions about the devices we need to connect to the Internet from home and about the Internet itself (mostly about the web). You will have to log in (enter) the Virtual Classroom using your username and password.
To prepare these questions you can redo de IT Activities and take a look at the Solutions to Unit 5 you can find in the Virtual Classroom. Good luck.

Unit 5 (Computers and the Internet): IT Activities at home.

Hi everybody! You now can do the IT Activities from home. Remember to enter in our virtual classroom using your username and your password. The activities are the same activities we have been doing in the computer room. As you know, due to the cyber attack, we are only devoting 4 sessions to these activities instead of the 6 we had planned. And so we are goint to start the activities for Unit 6 (Programming) soon. See you in class.

Unit 5 (Computers and the Internet): warm-up activity

Hi everybody! This week we are starting the unit devoted to the Internet and the first class activity is a warm-up activity: What is the Internet? It is a 2-session activity and you all have to bring your mobile phones (or a tablet) to the computer room.
The first activity is a review of electrical devices.You will also check how much you remember the properties of materials. So, let's get started.