Rory continued to work on the Chrome Heart symbol using the pen tool process.

Rory and I worked on coming up with an idea for his official logo that would be placed on the student website. I made a suggestion of integrating a logo from one of his favorite companies, Chrome Heart. I had Rory create a template, import the image and follow the process of recreating the symbol.

Rory continued to work on his musical note pen tool project. Once he was able to complete the musical note, I walked him through adding text to the logo and adding effects like gradients and bevels.

Rory was instructed to open a 8"x11" template, choose another musical note, and use the pen tool to recreate the musical note.

Rory was instructed to open Photoshop, create a 8.5"x11" template, go online to find a musical note that he would like to recreate, and import the image into the template. I showed Rory how to turn down the opacity of the image and lock the layer that it was on. I walked Rory through the using the pen tool to create a path, select the path, and fill in the path. I also walked Rory through using the fx tool to add a bevel and gradient to his newly filled in image.

In this activity, Rory Solved quadratic equations by factoring and extracting square roots. He is still working on quadratics where a=1.

In this session, Rory solved both linear and quadratic equations using the factoring method. In our first session today he didn't miss one linear equation.

In this session, Rory solved quadratic and linear equations. Quadratics were solved using the factoring method. He has become proficient at solving both types of equations. The factoring he is working on is a=1.

Wednesday, November 06, 2019
09:00 - 11:00; 120 min. -
Environmental Science:
R and K Strategies -
Rory and I reviewed the concept of the carrying capacity and how they maintain the sustainability of an ecosystem. We then moved on to explore R and K strategies for reproduction. Every organism is directed by their genetic code to reproduce their genes. Some species create thousands of gametes every year, releasing them to fend for themselves, trusting that a few will survive to maturity and reproduce. This is the R-strategy. Other organisms produce only a few gametes over their lifetime, investing time and energy into protecting these offspring until they are mature and can reproduce. These are the K-strategy populations. Rory and I conducted a Lab on R and K strategies. We blew 30 bubbles and timed how long they survived, before hitting a surface and popping Rory recorded our data on data sheets. We then blew bubbles, and this time he did whatever he could to keep them from popping (blowing them upward or fanning them away from the wall.). We recorded the amount of time the bubbles survived. We then graphed our data to show the survivorship from each strategy.

Monday, November 04, 2019
12:30 - 1:30; 60 min. -
Environmental Science:
Carrying Capacity -
Rory was challenged with completing an activity about limiting factors and carrying capacity. We explored how limiting factors preclude the size of any population within an ecosystem; this number is the carrying capacity for that population. Rory wrote the definitions of these terms in his science notebook, and gave me examples of each. We then explored how population growth in an ecosystem is graphed; with the line moving steadily upward to show unlimited growth before limiting factors come into play. Once the population size exceeds the carrying capacity, the line takes a turn downward. It oscillates around the carrying capacity from that point onward.