Atmospheric Cleaner Design

Today we will begin the next design project of an atmospheric cleaning machine after checking some sentences from part 6 in your textbooks. I will show you some examples before we begin. This is a good opportunity to take advantage of practicing design and explanation! Who knows, maybe you will invent something like this in the future and will become the next Edison or Einstein!

Actually, it is perfect timing because Ama sensei and Emi are coming from University of Montana next Wednesday, and will observe our class. It will be great if we can do poster presentations in groups of 7-8 people, based on the atmosphere unit. All groups will present at the same time, and Ama sensei, Emi, and I will walk from group to group to hear you. Today we will begin to prepare, and you can finish for homework.

I will provide B4 size paper for you to use for your posters. Please try your best to make them in color. I will also provide you with an example of your explanation for use in the class next week.

Thank you for your effort!

The Atmoshphere

Thank you for your participation last week. We started to practice presenting in the previous class. In this week's class we will work on the next topic which we started briefly last week: the atmosphere. Your homework was to read the passage and then to write the meanings of the vocabulary words in both Japanese and English. We all know how important the atmosphere is, right? Without the air we would not be able to breathe, act, eat, or live. It's amazing that although we can't see or touch air, it is still something incredibly important. When small particles contaminate the air, however, the air turns a brown color, which is what we call 'smog' in English. Today we will hopefully be able to finish sentences, move on to listening, and may even get writing answers to questions.

When we reach the end of this unit you will can put your design skills to work again for designing and explaining atmosphere and air cleaning machines, some of which are available on the market today. They are real machines that engineers and scientists have designed for the purpose of cleaning air. Your own cleansing designs will be equally important, so please try your best!

That's all, see you in the next class.

Presenting Ideas 1

This week in Science English class began our first presentations. It was the first presentation day, so I showed you how to have good eye contact, how to relieve stress of presenting and how to show your designs appropriately. You all seemed to get the hang of it and did quite well. We will do more of this in weeks to come, you can rest assured! Now we are writing your thoughts on the air in Kumamoto which will help lead us into Unit 2: The Atmosphere.

During the last week in May, we will have a class observer who works at a University in America. He will come to visit PUK. He will observe our SE class, and I think it is a good idea to present something for him. I am still considering it, but perhaps if we can present these ideas or ideas from Unit 2 to him, it would be a great experience.

The next unit is Unit 2, The Atmosphere. Here, we will learn about the air and atmosphere and will consider the air quality and how to cleanse the air in Kumamoto, Aso, and surrounding regions. That's it for today.