Friday, November 29, 2019

Digital Storytelling Assignment

Students were given their digital storytelling assignment today.  I have included the steps her incase they misplace their original copy. Please chat with your child about the story they are thinking they will be sharing on Tuesday (first step).

Digital Storytelling  Assignment 
Name:
Date

You will be required to share a personal narrative using digital literacy.  You will choose a story to share with your teacher and classmates. It can be about you, a friend, family member, an event, really anything you want. You will write a script and create a minimum 2 minute-maximum 4 minute video using iMovie to share your story. As you are working through the process you will be reflecting on each step involved. 

Steps Involved 

1-Share Story in Circle 
As a class we will go around in a circle and share a story that will be used to create your digital story. 

2-Write Script
After sharing, you will write your narrative which will then be used as your script. 

3-Gather pictures 
As you write your script begin thinking about the pictures that would represent the story 
you are telling. You can include personal pictures or use photos from online. 

Steps ⅘ may be done at the same time. 

4- Organize pictures in IMOVIE 
Once you have found your photos, you will need to organize them into iMovie.  

5-Record voice on iMovie
You will record your narrative (script) on iMovie. 

6-Edit movie
You will want to edit your video to make sure your voice and pictures work together as you envisioned telling your story. You may decide to add music and transitions to help the sharing of your story.

7. Presentation Day!  
Sharing your story and listen to others. 


8. Write a reflection on about each step of the process. You can use the following information to guide your writing. 

-How did you feel completing each step? 
-Was one step more difficult compared to another? 
-Did telling your story bring up certain emotions? 
-What was it like to have others watch your story? 
-What was it like watching other students stories? 


Monday, November 25, 2019

Math Quiz - Coordinate Pairs on Coordinate Grids

Thursday, November 28th students will have a quiz on Coordinate Pairs on Coordinate Grids
They need to be able to demonstrate they can:
  • accurately plot coordinate pairs 
  • label the coordinates of a given point on a Coordinate Grid
We have been working on Coordinate Grids and Pairs for the last 3 weeks and playing Battleship at Student Led Conferences and in class has been a great review. The CoordinArt pictures students have been working on are also essential to cementing this knowledge.

CoordinArt and Sudoku due Thursday/Monday

The CoordinArt booklet students were given many weeks ago was supposed to be due last Friday but, given that was a non-school day and many students were away at Band Camp, the new due date will be:
Thursday (Nov 28) 3 of the 5 CoordinArt pictures
Monday (Dec 2) The remaining 2 CoordinArt pictures and the Sudoku page

Plant Quiz Wednesday, Nov 27

We will be having a quiz on Wednesday on:
  • The Parts of a Flower and the Function of each Part
  • The Steps in Reproduction following Pollination
We did activities with these at Student Led Conferences and students have this information in their Science notebooks. Those who missed the activities did them in class today. As well, they were given a short crossword for review.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Osmosis, Diffusion, Transpiration, Photosynthesis

Osmosis, Diffusion, Transpiration, and Photosynthesis

Here are some links you can use for your Scientific Diagrams. Please remember to use pencil, use a ruler for all lines, lines for labelling run horizontal, double check spelling and accuracy:

Osmosis: https://www.senecalearning.com/definitions/osmosis/
Diffusion in a liquid: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diffusion_in_a_liquid.JPG
Transpiration: https://www.aplustopper.com/transpiration-icse-solutions-class-10-biology/
Photosynthesis: https://www.alamy.com/photosynthesis-explanation-science-diagram-illustration-image206909024.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=23A20AF7-7BE3-47D4-B089-BA1EA79A7CEF&p=307080&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dphotosynthesis%2520diagram%26qt_raw%3dphotosynthesis%2520diagram%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d0%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0%26pl%3d

Friday, November 15, 2019

New France/13 Colonies

New France/13 Colonies assignments will be due at the end of class on Monday. On Tuesday they will have their unit test on these topics. Students should use their notes and assignments to help them review for this test. If they have any questions they should be prepared to ask me on Monday.

Thursday, November 14, 2019

New France/ 13 Colonies Test

Tuesday November 19th will be the "unit test" on these three places. Below has some guiding questions that can help students review for this test. They also have their pervious test and their notes they can utilize to help.


Study Guide

Vocabulary to Know

Imperialism (think of diagram)
Monopoly
Dowry
Mercantilism (think of diagram)
Colony
Home Country
Sovereign Council (roles and responsibilities)


Important Information

1.     What were the differences between New France, 13 Colonies and Rupert’s Land
2.     What are some reasons colonist moved to North America?
3.     Who were some of the important French figures?
4.     Who were some of the important British figures?
5.   Purpose of at least one British Atlantic settlement. 

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Plant Reproduction and Breeding Skits - Due Thursday!

Selective Breeding, Vegetative Reproduction, Cones, Flowers, Self-Pollination, Cross-Pollination, Seed Dispersal (6 ways), Germination, Genetic Modification, and the Parts of a Flower. Read pages 115-130 from the first link. These key ideas you need to know. After our brief notes in groups, you will create skits/performances/dramatizations in groups of 3 or 4. These are due to present to the class on Thursday, Nov. 14th.
Reminders:
- Skits are to be between 2 and 5 minutes long
- You are the experts on the process/information you are presenting to the class. Teach them as though they no nothing about it.
- Rehearse your lines and use clear voices (you can sing/rap or speak)
- You may use props/signs that you make or bring. Ensure they are easy for your audience to see/read
- If you choose to use costumes, please make sure they are appropriate and make sense
- Have fun with this and make it funny, if you like but, avoid giggling, mumbling, and side comments
- Make use of at least one other website than the one you took notes from

Here are some good links for more information:

Plants For Food and Fibre: https://rsf-gsacrd-ab-ca.webguide-forschools.ca/eteacher_download/1550/77511

Seed Dispersal: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/103-seed-dispersal

http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/seed.html

Parts of a Flower: https://sciencing.com/search?google_kw=parts%20of%20a%20flower

Cones: https://sciencing.com/search?google_kw=cones

Genetic Modification: https://www.livescience.com/search?searchTerm=genetic+modification

https://www.yourgenome.org/topic/animals-and-plants

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/7128622/Scientists-create-GM-tomatoes-which-stay-fresh-for-a-month-longer-than-usual.html

Artificial Selection/Selective Breeding: https://kids.kiddle.co/Artificial_selection
https://www.yourgenome.org/topic/animals-and-plants

Vegetative Reproduction/Asexual reproduction: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/vegetative-reproduction?s=t

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/resource-library/?q=asexual%20reproduction&page=1&per_page=25

Pollination: https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/What_is_Pollination/

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-biology2/chapter/self-pollination-and-cross-pollination/

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2q1mho

Other:
https://www.gardeningchannel.com/

https://biologydictionary.net/





New France Vocabulary Quiz

Students will be bringing home their New France Vocabulary quiz today. Please look it over with them. If they would like to improve their mark, I will be allowing students to come in for re-test Friday morning at 800am.

Please keep this quiz to help them study for their "Unit Test" which will be next Tuesday November 19.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Student Led Conferences Nov 21 & 22 (Thursday and Friday)

Just a reminder that the Conferences November 21st and 22nd are Student Led so students must attend with parents in order to show parents the work being done in our classes. There will be activities for you to show what you know and how you know it!

Desperately Seeking Supplies

We are in need of supplies for our plants, building planters, and to help us with our cozy classroom. If you have any of the following kicking around home and you'd like to have less of it in your living space, we would happily take it off your hands.

  • Wood - bits and pieces, plywood, crates, pallets 
  • Plastic or rubber pipe/hose
  • Nails, hammers
  • Empty 4L milk jugs, 2 L pop bottles, ice cream buckets
  • Buckets, pails, large plastic bowl or Tupperware
  • Planters, pots, soil, grow lights
  • Watering can
  • Pillows (any type), cushions, blankets
  • Yoga mats


Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Math - Coordinate Grids

In Math students have been learning about Coordinate Grids:
- 2 intersecting number lines
- Coordinate pairs (x,y) tell the location of a point
- "What are your coordinates?" means "where are you?" - Video game/Movie reference.
- Ways to remember which axis is which and which coordinate comes first.
- What plotting points/finding locations, find the x coordinate first and then the y coordinate.
- Creating pictures from sets of coordinate pairs
- Students have notes in their booklets, examples in their graphing notebooks and 3 worksheets that were due Monday, Nov 4th.


Science in the News - Due Friday, November 8th

Current Event Research - Due Friday, Nov. 8th

  1. Find an interesting article published in the past year involving Science or Technology (Entomology, Zoology, Physiology, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Ecology....)
  2. Create a Google Do and share it with Ms. Woolfrey cawoolfrey@educbe.ca
  3. Answer the guiding questions and add any other information you believe is interesting and/or related. Think critically!
    1. What is the article called and where did you find it?
    2. How do you know it is true?
    3. What is the article about?
    4. What field of Science or Technology is it related to?
    5. What implications does this topic have for society?
    6. What did you already know about this topic before you read the article?
    7. What did you learn from the article?
    8. What further questions do you have now? What else do you wonder?
    9. Add 1-2 images related to the article.
  4. Make sure you are using reputable/reliable resources and include the links you used at the end of your presentation.
    1. NASA
    2. Discover Magazine
    3. Nature
    4. National Geographics