Each class VI student at Nobles (7th grade) chooses an invention in September. Numerous G license students at Nobles contribute to the web pages and web production.

Students do research in their Geography class with Ms. Carlson and Mr. Hollister, finding out where the invention was made, by whom and when. We call this first base.

Students do expository writing about their invention in their English class with Mr. Carey and Mrs. Snyder. We call this second base.

Students draw a graphic in their journal of their invention in Visual Arts with Mrs. Snyder. We call this left field.

Students make a 16 second video commmercial with Ms. McElroy. We call this center field.

Students draw a computer graphic of their invention in Computer Proficiency I with Mr. Bergen in addition to learning how to make web pages. We call this right field.

Students do creative writing about their invention in their English class with Mr. Carey and Mrs. Snyder. We call this third base.

Students make animated HyperStudio stacks about plate tectonics and the locations of their inventors with Ms. Bowles in Science class. We call this shortstop.

Students do calculations and estimations about how many of their inventions will fit into the Middle School Forum with Mr. Toubman and Ms. Lucenta. We call this home plate.

update 5/17/28: there are several G license students working on these web pages (Rachel, Alissa, Daniella, Marisha, Garrett, Marlon, Mike, Ray)

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CP1 Web Pages: Fall, Winter, Spring of 97-98 Year

• Fall 97 CP1 Class produced "game of sticks" web pages and caricatures
• Winter 97-98 CP1 Class produced penpal web pages with Boston Home and caricatures
• Spring 98 CP1 Class will be producing web pages and caricatures
• Meet the class of 2002 with their first base entries and web pages on inventions!

Mr. Toubman's Section, May 12th

• Prior to this day, we will have calculated the volume of the Grand Canyon.
• Refer back to your calculations from Day 1 about the dimensions of a box containing your invention(s).
• How many of these rectangular boxes will fit into the Grand Canyon? You may have to do some conversions!
• Determine how many of your inventions will fit into the Grand Canyon. (Your answer here may be the same as to the previous question, but not if you put two or more inventions in one box). Compare this to your original guess.
• Write a clear paragraph, that an outside web surfer would understand, explaining what process you used to arrive at your calculations. Your paragraph should also state your assumptions, calculations, results, and compare the results to your original guess. Assume that an outsider knows nothing about the project.
• After you have finished writing this brand new paragraph, send copies of today's paragraph via Noblesnet to Steve Toubman, Steve Bergen, and to the CP I Noteboard. The subject of your e-mail should be: your invention-Grand Canyon.

Graphic of Grand Canyon
Info about the Grand Canyon from the web site
www.glue.umd.edu/~apinun/w-trip/gc/index070.html
by Jeff Sousa

THE CANYON                                   THE RIVER
Length:    approx 277 miles                  Length: 1450 miles
           (from Lees Ferry in the east              (Rocky Mt. to the gulf
            to the Grand Wash in the west             of California in Mexico)

Width:     average 10 miles                  Width:  varies: 76 - 300 feet
           (direct rim-to-rim)

Elevation: South rim avg. 7000 feet above    Depth:  average 35 feet.
           sea level.  North rim avg. 8000           Some places are as deep as
                                                     100 feet

           The rims are approx 5000 feet     Drop:   > 11000 feet between
           above the river.                          the source to the mouth.
                                                     (it drops 2200 feet during
Time:      approx 6 million years for the             its 277 miles through the
           canyon.                                    canyon.)

Each student will have to calculate the volume of her/his invention and figure out how many of those inventions would fit into the Grand Canyon and Middle School Forum. For simplicity, we might put each invention into a rectangular box of dimensions x by y by z. The "Grand Canyon" space is defined as the square footage of the Grand Canyon going upwards into a one mile high bubble that will be constructed by Mr. Chamberlin after he finishes the new Nobles athletic building. Here are the "guesstimates" of the 48 students in class VI written on tiny pieces of paper!

Other Info and Resources that we have been using in this project

• Experimental web pages on Plate Tectonics for Ms. Bowles
• Experimental HS Stack (b/w) ... requires Hyperstudio Plug in
• Experimental HS Stack (color) ... requires Hyperstudio Plug in
• Experimental HS Stack (color) ... requires Hyperstudio Plug in
• Roger Wagner ... provides FREE Hyperstudio Plug in for Macs or Windows which you can download and install within your plug-ins folder
• Template by Ray Lam ... experimental template
• The Pros and Cons of TV ... article by Liz Press from the Tufts Newspaper, The Observer
• CP1 Spring 97 ... invention web pages and sounding off to Staz!