Group Video Project, Continued (Day 168)

Today is the last day that I'm devoting to the group video project in Ethnostats. The official due date isn't until Monday, but today's the last day that I'll give the students any time in class.

I also end up covering classes both yesterday and today for the science teacher -- yesterday it was fifth period Chemistry, and this year it's sixth period Physics. You read that right -- I subbed for fifth period science, even though I already had a fifth period Trig class. Well, that's how short-staffed we are! But fortunately, the Chemistry and Trig classes had only three students each (which is most likely why they chose me to cover both classes).

The Trig class yesterday was on proving trig identities -- Section 5.1 of the text. Recall that I already wrote the final exam, and that 5.1 is the last section that appears on it, so I officially reached my goal. The Chemistry students had their own assignment where they had to read and answer questions.

I'm not sure why the science teacher was out yesterday -- I think it was for some meeting. But I definitely know the reason he was out today -- he took some (apparently not all) Physics students on a field trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain. After all, rollercoasters definitely work on physical principles.

Yet the Physics assignment that the ones left behind are working on isn't mechanics, but Ohm's Law (in other words, electromagnetism). This isn't an AP Physics class, but if this class is anything like the AP class that I took as a high school senior, then mechanics would have been first semester. At that time, we were still wary of COVID, so no one was going on any rollercoaster field trips in the fall.

Some of the field trip participants are also in my Ethnostats classes second and fourth period. Fortunately, the groups with at least one student involved with the trip all finished their projects yesterday.

The remaining students all work hard on their videos and Google Slides projects. One girl who was absent for much of the week returns to class today. She joins what is now a group of three. (And because she's a Korean-American, I tell her about Stacey Park Milbern, the late disability rights activist who appeared on yesterday's Google Doodle.)

Notice that only the Ethnostats projects are due this week. The Calculus students have another full week to finish their own projects. As it turns out, one of the two groups already finished their Google Slides work yesterday anyway.

Today is Fourday on the Eleven Calendar:

Resolution #4: We remember how to use a calculator like riding a bike.

Unfortunately, I don't have much opportunity to demonstrate this today. I don't actively teach a lesson today, so unless a group needs a calculator to complete their project, this resolution can't be upheld.

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