Tuesday, April 14, 2015

History, Science, & Crash Course on Khanacademy.org!

Students! As we head into the final stretch, we turn our attention to history and science. In both of these, you will be bringing along your mad reading, writing and math skills, so make sure you pack those! Of course you will have your books, but there are other ways to do history and science. Decide, if you will, to become historians and scientists for the next couple of months!

History is not in the past; we live it every day. We MAKE it every day! We will be looking at all history through a lens of of representation and power. What were these like in Mohenjo Daro? Pre-Columbian-Spain? England in 1215? 2015 in Los Angeles?

In science, there is a lot in the news about the drought. Let's look at earth, life, and physical science through the lens of water! What is our water "footprint?" How is water used to make energy? What is our energy footprint? How do we measure? Where is ground water? What is desalination? How could we make "grey water" systems?

[Oh, before I end this, please, please, please, please, please ALWAYS bring a notebook to take notes for your appointments. Thank you! :^)]

Finalmente, big shout out to Rudy for discovering the presence of John and Hank Green's Crash Course on khanacademy. It's fun, it's solid, you will learn from these guys! In khanacademy.org, you can get to the CC History by going to Subjects, then Arts and Humanities, then History, then scroll to the bottom! You can get to CC Science by going to Subjects, then Science, then Biology, then scroll to the bottom. You can get to Crash Course by going to Subjects, then Partner Content, then Crash Course.

Here is the first in John Green's Crash Course History. (P.S. It's okay to binge watch these!)


    The Agricultural Revolution: In which John Green investigates the dawn of human civilization. John looks into how people gave up hunting and gathering to become agriculturalists, and how that change has influenced the world we live in today. Also, there are some jokes about cheeseburgers.




Saturday, March 14, 2015

PI-MAGEDDON!

It's hard to find videos better than Vi Hart's, but here's a link to a site with some special Pi facts!

Enjoy your irrational day!

Friday, March 13, 2015

The Super Fun Trip to LACMA 2/27/15


I'm still trying to load our super cool animations from our Frame X Frame Workshop, so please bear with me. In the meantime, here are some photos of our trip to LACMA. If you bring in a thumb dive, I can easily transfer the animations onto it so you can play them at home.

Our wonderful teaching artist, Javier Barbosa, leads us through the museum to the workshop.
Javier shows film clips Salvador Dali made for Walt Disney! (That project never got off the ground.)

Storyboarding




Javier helps shoot cells

In the galleries


Talk about TEXTURE!

Javier holding actual can of Spam in front of "Actual Size," a painting of a can of Spam, by Ed Ruscha. 

Yes, I kissed a rock! Why not? 

Preparing for Pi Day! 3.1415 … 3/14/15

Why, Vi, why you no like Pi?

Vi Hart Mania!

We are big Vi Hart fans in our class--here's a cool interview with Vi where we see how she makes her amazing videos!

Friday, March 6, 2015

Eastside Arts Festival: March 7 @ Eagle Rock HS

Come enjoy free arts performances, workshops, films and exhibits by student artists! (Featuring the animation work of our own class who attended the LACMA Animation Workshop)
Saturday, March 7
9-3
Eagle Rock High School
1750 Yosemite Drive