View the video:
Hobbies Now and Then from Mandy Flora on Vimeo.
Then comment with your responses below.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Glass Town: Ceredo
Who:
What:
Home to three glass factories:
Ceredo Glass Works who made bottles and flasks. (1860-1861)
Click here for an article about the Pike's Peak flask.
Sinclair Glass who made auto lenses, novelties, and giftware. (1938-1966)
Pilgrim Glass Corporation who made tableware, cameo glass, art glass, and novelties. (1948-2001)
Home to three glass factories:
Ceredo Glass Works who made bottles and flasks. (1860-1861)
Click here for an article about the Pike's Peak flask.
Sinclair Glass who made auto lenses, novelties, and giftware. (1938-1966)
Pilgrim Glass Corporation who made tableware, cameo glass, art glass, and novelties. (1948-2001)
Click here for an article about Pilgrim Glass.
Click here for a video about Cameo glass, made by Pilgrim Glass Corporation.
Click here for a video about Cameo glass, made by Pilgrim Glass Corporation.
When:
Glass factories were in operation from 1860-2001.
Where:
Ceredo is a small town on the Ohio River.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Wonder Tic-Tac-Toe
What is very fragile, see-through and comes in all the colors of the rainbow?
Head on over to wonderopolis to see! Once you watch the video (as many times as needed) comment on this blog post with a paragraph using three words from this chart. Choose three words that create a tic-tac-toe.
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Chemist
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Compound
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Delicate
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Furnace
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COLOR
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Experimentation
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Molten
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Fragile
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Cullet
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Glass Blowing Explored
Many of you were confused when we studied Jamestown glass as to what glassblowing was. I added two videos to help clear up this confusion.
Watch this video, then comment with three things it makes you wonder.
Glass Blowing Explored from Ken G. Stewart on Vimeo.
I WONDER if any of your WONDERINGS from the first video could be answered with this video?
Instructional Glass Blowing - Glass Blowing 101 from Michael L. Mann on Vimeo.
Watch this video, then comment with three things it makes you wonder.
Glass Blowing Explored from Ken G. Stewart on Vimeo.
I WONDER if any of your WONDERINGS from the first video could be answered with this video?
Instructional Glass Blowing - Glass Blowing 101 from Michael L. Mann on Vimeo.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Glass and Jamestown
Follow these directions:
1. Do a SEE-THINK-WONDER with this image. Come back AFTER your see-think-wonder is complete to follow the rest of the directions.
2. On an iPad, record on audioboo your "I think _______ because ______." statement. I will upload them to this blog to share your response with the class.
3. Use the text on this website (click here) to answer the following questions:
a. What was "one of the Jamestown colonists’ first attempts at industrialization and manufacturing in America"?
b. Based on our study of Jamestown so far, why do you believe that the "attempts were not successful" to bring in glass blowers?
c. How do we know today that there were glasshouses in Jamestown?
d. Think back to our DIG article about the discovery of Jamestown fort... What job/occupation did the people who found the glasshouses have?
e. Read about the image here. Write your "From my reading I now know that _____________." statement.
I think statements from classmates:
Monday, April 8, 2013
Expectations
Expectations
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How will I meet this expectation?
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How have I met this expectation?
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Integrate technology into your blog posts
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Blog use in your classroom
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
See-think-wonder
What do you see/observe?
What do you think it's purpose is?
What does it make you wonder?
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