Sunday, 16 February 2014

Project Learning Goals, Reflection and Self-Assessment

Task

Format: 1+ paragraphs (5 or more sentences).
Topic: Explain how you met your learning goal that you choose from Socials or Science in your project. Each partner needs to submit his or her own paragraph.
Audience: This paragraph will be give to Beth to help assess if you pass the Socials or Science goal. It will be passed on to your Socials and Science teacher so she can also see you met the learning goal. This mark will be added to your course mark for Socials or Science.

Please write a paragraph describing how you met your learning goal that you choose from Socials or Science. This was the list you chose from.

Socials
1.     Discuss how societies preserve identity
2.     Discuss how societies pass on their culture or display their culture worldwide
3.     Discuss how societies deal with change
4.     Understand the tension between individual rights and the responsibilities of citizens
5.     Describe the impact of new technology and science on a culture
6.     Look at the changes to how people work in cities and the country

Science
1.       Demonstrate ethical, responsible, cooperative behaviour
2.       Look at the relationship between scientific principles and technology
3.       Perform experiments using the scientific method
4.       Use graphs to represent information
5.       Demonstrate scientific literacy by being able to comprehend and evaluate science-related material
6.       Demonstrate scientific literacy by being able to explain how science and technology affect individuals, society, and the environment

Some students have not met the learning goal yet and need to develop this too! If you are unsure if you met the learning goal, please see Beth. Please hand in your paragraph. Your paragraph and my assessment will be give to your socials or science teacher so they can add it to their marks for you.

After we are done presentations...

Please complete and hand in this handout.


Thursday, 23 January 2014

Step-by-Step Guide to a Successful Investigation

If you are doing an experiment, please follow this. Thanks Mr. Chase for giving it to us.


Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Example of Product Proposal

Product Proposal
1.      What will you make to apply your learning?  Describe how you will set up or create your product.  Reminder: Please work on transforming your research into something that answers your one big question. This is not just a summary of all your research.
I am doing a project on manatees. My one big question is why are manatees endangered? I will build a working model of a manatee habitat where I show all the different environmental pollutants and dangers for the manatee. I will have a boat, a factory, a sun for global warming, red water for red tide, fish hooks and a crab net.  I will make a script explaining each part.  I will then film it. My film will show each part that is a danger to manatees and I will talk overtop about what the danger is and why.  I will include a pie graph about the percent of manatees killed by different things and a bar graph about the number of manatees at different years. I will film this. I will take all my video clips and put them on Movie Maker. I will edit my film so it has a title and credits. I want to post my movie to Youtube so other people can learn about it.

2.      I need these materials to create my product (include specific computer programs if needed). Please list where you will get each item. Items brought from home should be at school for each day where you are set to work on your product.

From Home
School
A fishtank for the manatee habitat
X

Clay to make the manatee and other objects in scene
X

A toy boat
X

Coloured paper, glue, and string to make objects in the scene
X

My script

X
A video camera

X
A computer with Movie Maker to edit movie

X
Microsoft Excell to make my graph on the computer

X
Beth can provide: cardboard, white paper, computer use (may be in groups), coloured pencils and markers.


3.      I will show my science or socials learning goal in this way:

I am making a pie graphs on Microsoft Excel for the percentage of manatees that die in each way and a bar graph to show how many manatees are in the wild every decade for the last 50 years. 

Monday, 6 January 2014

Round 2 of Grade 8 Projects!!

Here are some of the second round of the Grade 8 Exploration Projects. Such interesting work! Well done class!


Student-created website on Schizophrenia


autumnnilsen.wix.com/schizophrenia

How Music Affects Your Brain


 The Life of a Peacock



How cameras have evolved over time


 Scouts


 The Environmental Damage of Engines and Batteries


 How Much Sleep do We Need?



World War Two Powerpoint

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uaiju5p1g3b09pm/WORLDWAR2.pptx

Snowmobiles Powerpoint

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oqq47rj5aby06l0/Bombardier.pptx2.pptx127%20-%20Copy.pptx


Other studies soon to be posted:

How to play volleyball
Mule deer vs white-tailed deer
An experiment in tastebuds
Muscle memory website and experiment

And many more!