Red Lion Area Junior High: News from Unified Arts

7th Grade Family & Consumer Science

Family & Consumer Science has completed their Cultural Unit. The students focused on ways we can celebrate someone’s culture specifically through culinary arts (The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared). We studied Chinese, Mexican, and African-American culture. Each of the food labs were based off of these three cultures.

For example, the students had an opportunity to make green tea with fresh mint and lemon. They also made a soul food dessert, which was banana pudding. Yummy!

The students are now moving onto the Challenge Lab Unit. For each lab, four teams compete. Their challenge is to take 3 random ingredients and turn them into a dish that is judged on their creativity, presentation, taste, group dynamics, and organization with minimal time to plan and execute.

Physical Education News

STRONGER, FASTER, HIGHER!

In Physical Education, Mrs. Downs’ classes are continuing to practice and improve our fitness levels. We have been practicing at 16 circuit stations to prepare for the Presidential fitness testing standards. Can you do 2 pull-ups? Touch your toes? Do 45 curl-ups in one minute? Run a mile in less than 9 minutes? These are some fitness goals we are striving to achieve. Every Junior High student should be actively moving for one hour EVERY day to improve flexibility, agilty, muscular strength and endurance.

8th Grade Tech. Ed.

Mr. Grothey’s 8th grade Technology Education classes have just completed their prototypes they have been working on. Everyone did an outstanding job building their products. Next, we will be looking at the next design challenge, which will allow students to use an assembly line building process to make a second product they can keep. We will explore reusing materials to decrease the cost of the materials needed to build the product. Check out some of the final product designs below:

8th Grade Art

Our realistic food drawings are complete! Students chose 2 different drawing materials and used various shading and blending techniques to create the strong values and details that make these artworks look good enough to eat!

(Instructions on how to see more images of these artworks can be found on your student’s Art EdLine page)

Students are currently up to their elbows in clay while working on creating their Animated Vessels. We’ve discussed the process that a piece of pottery goes through, what skills and techniques are used to create a piece of pottery, and the fascinating history of face jugs. Below are some projects as they progress from just coils to a smoothed vessel.

As students complete their vessels, their next challenge is to bring them to life by adding silly or scary faces, or turning them into a creature.

We will be wrapping up art class over the next 2 cycles with a final weaving project, and by completing our Animated Vessels with a layer of colorful glaze.

7th Grade Music

Students just finished up their music style presentations. Groups picked a style of music to research and then taught their classmates about it and how to identify it through various elements of music. Here are some slides from a presentation from Team L on Heavy Metal:

Now that presentations are over, classes are spending some time learning more about the keyboards!

8th Grade Family Consumer Science

In 8th Grade FCS we are Going Green while working on our final projects. We are taking a regular T-Shirt and turning it into a drawstring backpack utilizing the different stitches on the sewing machines to create a durable bag.

Here you see the T-Shirt cut to the size we want. The next step is to create the casing for the strings and then sew up the sides and the bottom. Below is the completed project. Ask to see your son or daughters!

7th Grade Tech. Ed.

Seventh grade students are working hard to complete their projects. The individual project allows for a wide range of creativity. Jenna K’s project shows that she is obviously a New Orleans Saints fan.

Library Class

In library students have begun a research project in which they will be using Glogster to create a multimedia project. The research will focus on the internet safety topics we’ve talked about so far this year – identity theft, digital footprints, online predators, and cyberbullying. In the pictures below, students are excitedly working on the layout of their glogs.