{"id":3189,"date":"2017-02-14T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2017-04-06T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:14:52","slug":"3rd-grade-valentine-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"3rd Grade Valentine Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=3191\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3191\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture2-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture2.png 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Third graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about simple machines in Science (SOL3.2) and adding and subtracting money in Math (SOL3.8). Today students in Ms. Whittaker&#8217;s class created their own Valentine machines with a money math problem for their classmates to solve. First I made a copy of a blank Google slideshow for each student in Google classroom. I showed them how to click the Background button and choose a background color. Next we moved the &#8220;Title&#8221; textbox to the top of the page, and the students typed a title for their machine. We moved the &#8220;Subtitle&#8221; textbox to the bottom of the page, and the students typed in a money math problem about their machine (adding two amounts together or calculating change). We did the written part first because that was the most important part, and I wanted to make sure it was finished. I showed them how to change the font, size, and color of their text. Then it was time to draw the machine. I demonstrated how to use the Shapes Tool to create a machine that would deliver Valentines. It could be just one simple machine, or it could be a compound machine, made of several simple machines. After the students drew their machines, they labeled the machine parts with text boxes. Finally we published them to the web (File > Publish to the web) and pasted the links to Google classroom, so we could solve each others&#8217; problems. You can see them all <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1QEbPF1Vrx5CT3IZjeKvLdUXwtqWQxIgoEUs7zY5LZg8\/pub\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about simple machines in Science (SOL3.2) and adding and subtracting money in Math (SOL3.8). Today students in Ms. Whittaker&#8217;s class created their own Valentine machines with a money math problem for their classmates to solve. First I made a copy of a blank Google slideshow for each&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3189\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,12],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd","category-math","category-science","tag-googledocs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}