PB&J

The PB&J Experiment!

The 7th Grade Tech class learned about the kind of detail and specificity needed to program a computer by writing the directions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They soon learned that "put the jelly on the bread" was not going to work. We followed the first set of directions exactly and that is what happened!

The class went back to work to give very clear directions and went from 3-4 steps to 28! We got the bread, jelly and peanut butter open, the slices laid out, and so on. This was a lot of fun and we ate it all!

New Year at BUSD!

Lowell Junior High School Tech Classes

The 7th Grade curriculum includes keyboarding, CyberSmart lessons, Word and PowerPoint, as well as videos and hands-on projects about microprocessors from Intel.

This Quarter the 8th Graders learned to use Excel to create spreadsheets, charts and graphs and chose from a number of topics to survey people. There was a contest to see which set of partners got the most respondents to their survey. THE WINNERS, with 380 were the two girls shown here who chose as their prize giant chocolate bars!

Hands-on Switches and Circuits!

Technology students in the Junior High General Technology class had the opportunity build real circuits and attach switches to learn about the on/off, ones and zeros that are the basic foundation code behind computers. They used a kit provided as part of the Intel curriculum we have been using in class this Quarter. They view a video each week and then practice what they have learned.