Week 9 (8 in the new calendar): Materials: Glass and Wood

Objectives

At the end of the week students will have

• given an oral presentations on Glass and Wood
• completed activities to show their understanding of the oral presentations
• taken a quiz on Wood

Monday & Wednesday

Oral Presentations

**Note:*: you can open a page for each topic

1. Oral presentation on Wood

2. Oral Presentation on Glass

3. After the presentations do the following activities:

Wood

Pre-viewing activities for Wood:

• Read the text in this link
• View the Performance of Wood video (scroll down the page until you find it).
• Check this glossary about wood

Post-viewing activities for Wood:

• View the video again to take notes using notepad
• Get together, in Yahoo Messenger,with 1 or 2 classmates, share your notes to complete the information from the video. Save the chatlog in a word document and upload it to your wiki (Wood & Glass page).
• for more information about Wood, check this text
• Individually, write a summary, and write it on your Wood & Glass page
• Copy unfamiliar vocabulary from the video in the glossary in Moodle

Glass

Glass & Steel video

1. After listening to the presentation about Glass, you can check:

• this text on Glass which also has links to other resources, and
• Structural glass. Make sure to check the online portfolio link.

2. Write a paragraph, on your wiki "Wood & Glass" page, about the use of glass in architecture and urban planning in Caracas

Quiz 2

Complete Quiz 2 on Wood