G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio

1. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Student Name: Laura A. Enos

2. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Welcome to our Virtual Wiki-Classroom Visit us anytime at www.gate2learning.pbworks.com

3. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Explain in your own words what happens on the classroom Wiki-workspace. In the classroom Wiki-workspace one of the things we do is share are Blogs and Discussion portals and everybody can share what they did in Gate today. It is also a place were we can go to other websites that are required in the work that day.

4. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio I use Performance Based Objectives in GATE. PBOs are important because we can show who is doing well and who is having trouble. In conclusion how was your “performance”.

5. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio I use Language Based Objectives in GATE. LBOs are important because we can use proper language and grammar so when someone reads are work they don’t have to ask the questions “What does that say?” or “Does that make sense?” so we can actually grade or look over other peoples work

6. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio What is Red Light Thinking? Red light thinking is just gathering facts and evidence. Example bellow. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. It is 483 million miles from the sun. That's more than five times Earth's distance from the sun. Jupiter, the largest planet, was named after the king of the Roman gods. It is larger across than eleven Earths! Jupiter has at least 27 moons. One of Jupiter's moons is larger than the planet Mercury!

7. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio What is Yellow Light Thinking? Yellow Light Thinking is looking over our facts or evidence and we ask questions and draw cunclusions. • Example bellow. 2. According to scientists, why might Uranus be spinning on its side? They think that an earth size object must have crashed in to Uranus.

8. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio What is Green Light Thinking? Green Light thinking is simply going beyond asking “What if this happened?” or “What if that…” Just thinking out of the box. • Example on side. Pretend you are an astronaut and you have been told to go explore Jupiter. What would some of the problems be? What would you need to take with you? I would need a space suit with a rocket because the planet is made of gas. I would need food and water and a space ship. The problems I would run in to are that the rocket stopped working and we ran out of food and water.

9. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Why is our GATE Student Checklist important? Our Gate student Checklist is important because it tells you what you have to do in what order and in what order and you don’t have to wait for any body else or you don’t feel like you have to rush to catch up with everybody else.

10. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio This shape I created trying to copy the actual shape it turned to something else. To me it looks like mountains.

11. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio GATE Student Journal An accomplishment I have been accomplishing is cleaning my room more often. Something I’m proud to share that I did over the weekend is doing my track meet and I got 3rd in 500 meter dash, 2nd in 100 meter dash, and 1st in relay race. One more thing I’m still doing well in my academic and personal goals. This is one of my journal entrys. It was one of my entrys that I did on what I was doing outside of class

12. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Solar Systems Name the eight planets in order. Post a graphic of your favorite planets. These are pictures of my two favorite planets: Mars and Earth.

13. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Solar Systems These are some facts I learned when we were doing are solar system unit.

14. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets

15. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets

16. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Weather report Good Morning this is Laura with Kgun9 with your morning weather forecast. I will be telling you about the weather in Tucson, AZ & Detroit, MI. First I will tell you the weather of Tucson. The high temperature range is in the 70s,80s,& 90s. Between 79*- 91*. the low temperature range is in the 40s & 50s between 47* & 53*. It will be very sunny in Tucson so it will be a good week to go out and play. Now for Detroit the high temperature range will be in the 40s,50s, & 60s between 47* & 66*. T he low temperature range is in the 30s & 40s between 30* & 46* and towards the end of the week it will be very stormy so be prepared.

17. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Weather Report What is a cold front? When cold air moves forward warm air is pushed upward. What is a warm front? A warm front marks the area were warm are traveled What is a stationary front? Stationary front are a micture of cold and warm air.

18. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Hurricane Facts • In the hurricane there is the eye of the storm were the weather is perfectly calm. • Hurricanes can be very destructive even to the point of washing houses away. • Hurricanes usually form in the sea and move in to the land.

19. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Tornado Facts • The United States has the most tornadoes that touch down then in any other country. • When a tornado forms over land it is called a waterspout. • Some knives and forks have been imbedded in the trunks of trees from tornadoes. • Every 3 out of 4 tornadoes happen in the United States.

20. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Introducing my GATE Teacher Mr. Lewis is my gate teacher. I think he does a great job and knows a lot about computers. Whenever I need help he always knows what to do.

21. G.A.T.E. Student Portfolio Why is GATE important to you? Gate is important to me because it helps me to think out of the box and go beyond what we would normally do in class.