How to use the class website

Start the work

A useful routine makes the next step clear and leaves evidence.

1. Read the definitions and the roles of the class website, myPLTW, and Schoology.
2. Open your course and today’s page if available. Otherwise use P1 and write Practice page used.
3. Find the goal, resource, full steps, and turn-in directions. Record them in the hunt fields.
4. Read P2. State your choice, what you keep, and what you report.
5. Check your answers against the page you named. Keep the full response together.
6. Submit when the assignment is available and check the preview. If access fails, save the work and report the barrier.

Open your materials

Use the reading, word guide, and worked example below. Keep your answers on paper or in one document.

Printable lesson and response record (PDF). This packet contains the same required reading and work.

Question: How do I find my next step when access fails?

P1 and P2: practice page and access situation

P1 is an original practice page. Course: Biomedical Innovations. Lesson: How to use the class website.

P1 goal: Find today’s goal, a resource, the required steps, and the turn-in directions.

P1 materials: this printed or saved lesson, plus paper and a pencil or an editable document. P1 resource: the practice page P1 supplied here.

P1 full steps, under Start the work: read the goal, find the resource, complete the hunt, and answer P2.

P1 turn-in directions: keep the hunt and P2 response together. Use the Schoology assignment named on the actual day page. If access fails, save the work and tell the teacher.

P2 is an invented situation: your completed hunt is saved, but Schoology will not load. Choose whether to save and report, claim upload success, or wait without reporting.

P1 can replace a live page for this practice. Using P1 does not count as opening the real website. Today has no numbered PLTW activity.

Try the decision

A different case from P2: your paper exit ticket is finished, but the scanner is down, so you cannot make a PDF. What next?

• Keep the paper ticket, tell the teacher the scanner is down, and upload once a scan works.
• Say the Schoology upload succeeded because the paper ticket is finished.
• Wait to decide what to do until the scanner works, without reporting the barrier.

Explain your choice using the reading. Discuss it or say it to yourself. This practice does not add another submission.

Your response record

Use these labels on paper or in your document. The space below also works when this page is printed.

Check your product

• I named the page I used and its goal.
• I named where to find the plan and where to submit work.
• I claimed a live visit only if I opened the real page.
• My answers match the page I used.
• I kept my work and reported any blocked upload.
• I named a specific resource and submission location.

These practice examples contain no measured results from a classroom or patient. They cannot prove that a method works or that an upload succeeded.

Turn in your work

Wk1 Exit ticket: How to use the class website

Open the linked BI Schoology assignment. Save one readable PDF, follow its posted directions, upload it and check the preview. Check that Schoology shows Submitted.

If the assignment or upload will not open, keep your paper or saved file. Tell Mr. Mendoza the lesson title and what is blocked.

Connection to PLTW

Original classroom preparation. Follow the work and turn-in directions on this page.

These references locate related course material. Complete only the official work and stopping point your teacher assigns. This local preparation does not establish completion of an online activity.

Optional practice and examples

Use these resources to practice related skills. Follow the required work and evidence limits above. A simulation does not authorize a live experiment or add another submission.

Open the worked example. Compare the method with your own work; retain your assigned records and product.

• The Glove That Failed

Slides and optional notes

The response record above is your required work. Guided notes are optional and do not add a second submission.

Keep going

If you were absent or lost your place, read the word guide and reading first. Try the example, then complete the first unfinished response.

No partner is required. Read your response aloud to yourself and check it against the product checklist.

Take home: Read the plan, do the work, then check the submission.

Use a cue, recall, check, and revise. Which cue will help you recall the reading before checking your notes?