Welcome to the Middle School Gateway to Technology course that will develop your technology skills for successful transition to High School, and encourage individual design skills. There is a recommended training video (9 min) on Student use of Google Classroom, for Students and Parents. It is designed to help students and parents get set up, see how to navigate in GC, upload assignments and become successful in enhancing the Google Classroom course experience. This is the first thing to do for GTT.

Google Classroom Tutorial Next there are 4 Design assignments (instructions) below - CHOOSE ONLY TWO to complete for this week. Upload a picture of your design project, or a video of how it worked:

Rocket Design at Home from NASA/JPL - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-a-straw-rocket/ Astronaut Lander Design from NASA/JPL - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-an-astronaut-lander/ Drop on Target design NASA/JPL - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-an-astronaut-lander/ Make a cardboard Rover - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-a-cardboard-rover/ Watch and summarize the "Mars in a minute Videos" (13 videos). You can summarize the content on a google document and submit it to this Google Class.

Mars in a Minute Links: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/tag/search/Mars+in+a+Minute