Please find the two docs that we reviewed in class below. These can also be found in the grade 6 weekly schedule in the science section. Good luck, and a reminder that your parachute build and questions are due for Monday March 30th before class begins.
Hello grade 6, please watch the video below and then answer the questions at the bottom of the post in a google doc. Please share your doc with me j.ray@theojcs.ca and have your answers with you when we meet during Monday’s live session. I hope everyone is doing well, and there is no baby update except that our bags are packed and ready at any point!
My apologies for the sound level in the video, you may need to watch with headphones if they are too quiet for you.
Properties of Air –
Before you answer the following questions, please create a folder in your google drive called ‘Science’ to put all of your docs/resources for Science in one spot and keep you organized.
Questions – share #1-6 with me
1.List the 4 Properties of Air discussed in the video (you may have to go back to the videos and find them!)
2. Define the following terms from the videos
a) flight b) compress c) insulate
3. What is in the 2L bottle?
4. What did you observe when the bottle was held in hot water? Why do you think this happened?
5. What did you observe when the bottle was held in cold water? Why do you think this happened?
6. Give an example of hot air rising, and explain why this happens. Use the words density and molecules in your answer.
Congratulations to the middle school students for successfully accomplishing their projects this year! I heard so many positive and amazing comments from parents, teachers, and this year’s judges. They were impressed with the level of research, the creative engineering, and imaginative presentations that YOU designed and created. Outstanding effort, I am very proud of the work you put into those projects! Here are the results from Innovation Day judging as well as the video we saw as part of the assembly. I can only imagine what creative projects you will dream up for next year. Well done!
Genius Hour Project Winners
Grade 6
1. Samara S. – indestructible dog toy
2. Maya S. – Magical illusions
3. Rebecca G. – Nail glue
Grade 7
1. Maayan S. – The perfect environment for horses
2. Sarah K. – A dollar makes a difference
3. Yamaya N. – Eco-friendly housing
Grade 8
1. Jayson R. – Braille Rubik’s cube
2. Zoe N. – Eco-friendly dill
3. Max P. – Music Production
STEAM Project Winners
Grade 8
1. Talia C. and Jesse A. – Clean Machine
Grade 7
1. Abby T. – Music and Memory
2. Sarah N. and Jordana W. – Mint Blast
3. Talia L. and Sasha S. – Sleep-Inn
Innovation Day is finally upon us! It feels like forever ago when students began thinking about their passions, ideating different topics, creating pitches, and starting the journey of their personalized learning. As the teacher, I can’t tell you how excited I am to see all of the hard work put into researching their topics, the creative problem solving needed to engineer products, and the creative story they will tell, all come together for next week’s presentations.
Here is a schedule for both students and parents to look over to see how the set up, parent visitation, judging, and final awards ceremony is scheduled.
Wednesday, March 4th
2:25 – 3:05 Set up for grade 6, 7, and 8 (gym)
3:05 – 4:00 Open to parents to visit grades 6 to 8 projects (gym)
Thursday, March 5th
9:00 – 10:50 Judging of Grade 6, 7 and 8 STEAM and Genius Hour Projects (by external judges)
8:45 – 9:30 Open to parents and classes to visit grades K to 5 Projects in their classes.
10:50 – 11:10 Tefillah for grade 6 to 8 students.
11:10 – 11:25 Snack break in regularly scheduled class with teacher for grade 6 to 8 classes followed by class as usual
11:05 – 1:05 Grade 6 to 8 projects left up in the gym for K – 5 classes to visit with their teacher
1:45 – 2:25 Clean-up of grades 6 to 8 Projects in gym
3:15 Whole School assembly to announce the grade 7 and 8 bronze, silver, and gold medalists
Goose Chase P.D. session challenge: use Spark Post to create a visual featuring a strategy line. Add it to your blog and then upload a pic for points. Check
Welcome to Genius Hour! This is a project that encourages students to follow their passions as they develop their research and inquiry skills by learning about a topic of their choice, making, designing, or building a product based on their learning, and then presenting what they have learned and made.
While students will continue to practice the timeless skills of researching, testing, analyzing, and presenting to an audience like a traditional Science fair project, Genius Hour opens the door to amplify student learning. Along with the previously mentioned skills, students will also be practicing digital citizenship, heutagogy or self-directed learning as they work towards short and long term goals, media literacies, network literacies, and divergent thinking as they think creatively to generate innovative ideas, products, or solutions to problems that interest them.
As students make their own thinking visible by sharing their process, they will also be documenting for others to learn from, and practice metacognitive techniques as they document and reflect on their own process. The autonomy, and self-directed learning that genius hour encourages is student-centered, personalized, curiosity driven, and builds skills that are relevant in today’s rapidly changing world.
Passion driven projects like genius hour provide learners the challenge to be creative, to design and build, to follow their interests, and to give their work a sense of purpose. Every teacher should strive to create students who are lifelong learners and Genius Hour is a big step in that direction!
Students learned how to source in-text citations properly, how to create bibliography citations using online aids like easybib, and then practiced their skills researching the history of the microwave.
They were tasked with taking notes in their own words, writing paragraphs that contain in-text citations, and creating a bibliography, all on the history of the microwave.
You will read or watch three of the sources provided. As you read/listen, make notes in your own words. Then write a short half page summary on the history of the microwave. Use in-text citation and create a bibliography. In the end, you will hand in;
your page of notes
your half-page on microwave history which includes in-text citation
bibliography page
Easier-to-read articles on the topic found through kiddle.co search engine
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