093022 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

What's the coolest city in the world? New York, Paris, London, L.A.?

How about Dubai?

Read about it at:

Incredibly Expensive Things Can Only Be Found in Dubai | Investing Magazine

Leave a comment on Slack

Mr. DeMarco

092922 Warm Up

Today's GrokIt:

Happy Birthday! How old are you? Really? Are you sure?

Check out these age calculators:

http://www.mathcats.com/explore/agecalculator.html

http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/VirtualAge.php

http://www.obfocus.com/calculators/gender.htm

https://growyouthful.com/gettestinfo.php?testtype=quizb

Leave a comment!

Mr. DeMarco

092822 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

Winter is approaching--the Martian winter! Temperatures will drop as low as minus 238 Fahrenheit and the sun will sink below the horizon for three months.

What happening with the Phoenix rover?

Check it out @ http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/11/11/mars_lander_succumbs_to_the_winter/.

While you're at it, have a Mars adventure @ https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/play/

Leave a comment on Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

092722 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

Guess what NASA just did? Tried to redirect an asteroid!

Check it out @

NASA's DART spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test (phys.org)

NASA successfully hit an asteroid with a spacecraft to try to change its course : NPR

What happened and why did it work?

NASA spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid - ABC News (go.com)

Leave a comment on Slack.

Mr. DeMarco

92622 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

Ever been around the world?

You can go, right now--with Goggle Maps!

Look up the following locations and tell me what's there?

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. ...

Northern Lake Baikal, Russia. ...

Kuang Si Falls, Luang Prabang, Laos. ...

Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile. ...

Grand Prismatic Spring, Wyoming, USA. ...

Huacachina, Peru. ...

The Door to Hell, Turkmenistan.

Use the the little yellow man or photosphere to geolocate and reconnoiter.

Mr. DeMarco

092322 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

What is a graphic format? 

Check it out at:

JPEG, GIF, PNG? How to Pick the Best Graphic Formats (thesoftwarepro.com)

Graphic File Formats | Computerworld

Leave a comment on Slack.

Mr. DeMarco

092222Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

So you're creating icons. What do you need to think about?

Check it out @ 10 Tips for Designing Icons | Domestika

And how about Creating Great Icons: What to Consider When Designing (marketing4ecps.com)

Leave a comment!

Mr. DeMarco

092122 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

What is an icon?

Among many definitions:

a graphic symbol on a computer display screen that represents an app, an object (such as a file), or a function (such as the command to save)

Icons can represent people as well.

Find an example of an icon and post it on Slack

Mr. DeMarco

092022 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

Ever hear of the following towns?

Belchertown, Florida, Freetown, Halifax, Holland, Hubbardston, Monterey, Peru, Wales, Washington.

Believe it or not-they're all in Massachusetts!

Use Google maps @ http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl to find them. Then leave a note in Slack as to each town's location/general whereabouts.

Mr. DeMarco

091922 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

And NASA? Check it out @

NASA

NASA Artemis

Leave a comment on Slack.

Mr. DeMarco

091622 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

So, what's NASA up to these days? What does NASA even mean?

Check it out at Home | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids.

Leave a comment on Slack.

Mr. DeMarco

091522 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

Think you're smart? Mensa smart?

Go to this webpage https://www.mensa.org/public/mensa-iq-challenge and find out! 

Write a comment in Slack. 

Mr. DeMarco

091422 Warm Up

Today's GrokIt:

What are time zones? Why do we have them? Do we need them?

Check it out @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone.

Look at some neat sites @ http://www.worldtimezone.com/

and http://www.timezonecheck.com/

and http://www.worldtimeserver.com/

and http://24timezones.com/

What is the Greenwich meridian? Look it up @ http://wwp.greenwichmeridian.com/

What does it have to do with time zones?

Leave a comment in Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

091322 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

Yesterday, we watched videos about coding. But an essential component that we all take for granted is the power it takes to create and run the metaverse and the virtual world: electricity.

How is electricity made?

Check it out at:

https://justenergy.com/learning-center/electricity/

https://sciencing.com/how-is-hydropower-gathered-or-created-13660670.html

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/how-electricity-is-generated.php

Leave a comment on Slack

Mr. DeMarco

091222 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

Looking for the ultimate gift for you or your nerdy friend? 

Try http://www.alienware.com/ and http://www.digitalstormonline.com/pcworld.

These boxes are dirty!

Leave a comment.

Mr. DeMarco

09092022 WarmUp

Today's GrokIt:

Data storage has been growing exponentially over the past decade. Look up the following capacities on the Internet:

byte

kilobyte

megabyte

gigabyte

terabyte

petabyte

exabyte

zettabyte

yottabyte.

How big are they?

Give me an example of what can be stored with each capacity, i.e. Blue ray holds 500 GB of data. How  many movies is that?

Mr. DeMarco

090822 Warm Up

Today's GrokIt:

What's the capital of the United States? How about France? And Italy?

Bet you don't know which countries have these capitals: Riyadh, Ankara, Islamabad, Jakarta, Pyongyang, Warsaw, Brussels, Canberra, Wellington?

Look them up and leave a comment!

Mr. DeMarco

090722 WarmUp

 Today's GrokIt:

The title of this blog is GrokIt! You have been accessing the site since the beginning of school. But what does it mean?

Look up the definition. 

What's a Grok? When was it first used? By whom? And where?

How is it pronounced? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=grok+meaning&docid=607994862210398826&mid=566D5F5A1ED3937D37EA566D5F5A1ED3937D37EA&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

Which other famous (sort of) person has used the term?

What is Grokking Science?

Leave a comment in Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

090122 Warm-up

Today's GrokIt:

Let's take a look at a cool coding video to get you up to speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvyTEx1wyOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7Q33ysCwI

Leave a comment!

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