Aim: How does a person, business, or organization adequately describe themselves in a 3.5 x 2 inch space? Lesson 1 has the student writing and designing their own business card. In Lesson 2 the student must create the business card for their Atchitectural company (assigned by the teacher). Lesson 1: Create Your Own Business Card You may wish to place one or more of these restrictions on student business cards. Do caution students about the use, exchange, and safekeeping of personal information. First names only, or First name and Initial. Use a fake address or use the school address. Use a fake phone number or the school phone number. Do not allow students to use a photograph of themselves on the card. Lesson 2: Create A … [Read more...]
Vertex and Maximum/Minimum Notes
Aim: How can we use a graph of a quadratic to determine the vertex and if it is a maximum or minimum? [gview file="https://www.whsad.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/vertminmax.pdf"] … [Read more...]
Midterm review for this Monday and Tuesday 3/23-3/24
If you missed the review for Monday's Midterm exam, click on the file below and take a look. Midterm Review Semester 2 … [Read more...]
Term 2 Midterm!!
Thursday and Friday is the Algebra 1 mid term. Thursday is multiple choice and Friday is short answer. The topics are: -Factoring -Linear equations -Systems of inequalities -Functions -Exponential Functions Please review your notes and study!! … [Read more...]
Factor Completely Without a GCF 3/16
Aim: How do we factor a trinomial if a doesn't equal 1 and there is no gcf? [gview file="https://www.whsad.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/factorcompnogcf.pdf"] Video- Factoring Trinomials with Leading Coefficient not 1 (fast way) … [Read more...]
Factor Completely With a GCF
Aim: How do we factor trinomials where a does not equal 1 but there is a gcf? [gview file="https://www.whsad.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/factorcompgcf.pdf"] … [Read more...]
WHSAD Students Win the Gold at the SkillsUSA Regional Conference
Our SkillsUSA WHSAD chapter participated in five competitions at the 4th annual NYC SkillsUSA regional conference. In all, we won 12 medals. Our students took home the gold in the following five competitions: Architectural Drafting- Luis Barrera 1st place & George Mocete 2nd place Prepared Speech Competition- Autumn Gonzalez 1st place Job Interview Competition- Wilson Caceres 1st place Action Skills (Job Demonstration)- Nicholas Cruz 1st place Opening and Closing Ceremonies; a team of 7 (Presentation of our SkillsUSA Emblem)- Steven Maradiaga, Dara Hutchinson, Ashly Cabrera, Joselin Flores, Xavier Flowers, Selena Davis, and Oumardat Basdewa 1st place … [Read more...]
Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code is a club which started at WHSAD in the Spring, 2014 semester and will be meeting every Friday afternoon. Taught by programmers from Tumblr, it provides an introduction to computer programming. As part of this program, we will be learning to create to create apps and games. Most of us are currently working with a program called Scratch, which was developed by MIT. It is a basic program which introduces the logic and building blocks of more complicated programming languages. Check back, as wee will soon share some media with you. … [Read more...]
Electrical Class
Electrical Installation class is in full swing. We are currently working on traditional house wiring circuits, using different cables and raceways such as non-metallic sheath cable, armored cable and electrical metallic tubing.In the coming weeks we will be working on bell circuits, electrical mathematical formulas and conduit bending. … [Read more...]