Ma/Sci Stations

We will work through these again tomorrow...you could pep them up tonight or pep them up this weekend.

Math & Science Update

Please complete questions 17,18,19, 22, 24 on p. 377 of Mathlinks.

Please be looking at all the light theory that you have been working through in the last few...we need to do a lab tomorrow...too much sitting & working :)

Enjoy your evening...

Math & Science Update

Please make the scissor cuts for your foldable and have it ready to fill in tomorrow.  You don't have to fill in any sections but it needs to be ready to start tomorrow.

Please complete questions #5-7 for 10.1 in MathLinks p. 376.

Math & Science Update

Hi Everybody,

Hope you are all having a great weekend so far.

For Monday please complete the following:

1.  Your vocab sheet for Light & Optics.

2.  Your composite volume handout.

Remember that I am away on Monday on a field trip with the grade 9s.

The Outsiders - Visual Journal

You are doing a wonderful job displaying your understanding of theme in your visual journals!  There will be one more period for you to work on Monday and they are due on Tuesday.

I look forward to seeing you and your parents at interviews tonight or tomorrow!

Journals

Science & math journals need to be organized for tomorrow please.  Ensure there are no loose papers and all your daily work is organized.

Math & Science update

I am really enjoying some quiet time with each group to pore over your trifolds and hear about your invention process...again, I am so proud of you!

Please finish up that book work for the start of the Light Unit... I know it feels like a slog but we need to hit the vocab & theory hard before we can get into all the labs!!!

Please spend some time with your journal getting them ship shape for your adults to look through at conferences.

Remember we have a guest speaker tomorrow afternoon for our awesome Kananaskis field trip in early June!

Math & Science Update

Wow...we are so proud of you!!  What an amazing showcase on Thursday!!  Your projects looked fantastic & reflected much hard work, teamwork, & ingenuity!  So great to hear such positive feedback...I hope you all are proud of yourselves & each other.  Thanks to all the adults that were able to attend our celebration.

Hope your Math analysis went well on Thursday.

You will be presenting your I cubed projects to our class on Tuesday.  Your assessments for I cubed Math/Sci/Hum components will happen on Tuesday as well starting in Hum (I will come down & join Hum class) & continuing into Ma/Sci.

Please ensure that your journals are pulled together & organized for conferences and for the end of the year.  I know I cubed is always chaotic (that's the good work you are doing) so please catch your breath & get yourselves organized for the start of the end of the year...wow!

Please ensure that you are ready to go on Monday.  Remember I am away  at meetings all day so it will be a book heavy work period.  Thanks.

Can you please check at home for any textbooks that need to be returned & please please please ensure that you have a calculator for Math (that seems silly to say out loud doesn't it :) )

Enjoy your weekend...I am proud of you.

Invitation to adults

The grade 8s would like to extend an invitation to all of their adults to celebrate with us at the Invention Convention showcase in our school library.

This event will take place this Thursday, April 16th in the library from 10:15-11:45 am.  Sure hope you can join us.

I cubed...bring a glue stick or white glue from home if possible

I-Cubed - Tri-fold Guidelines

Tri-Fold Guidelines

Using your reflections in Google DOCS, you must summarize your information to be displayed on your Trifold.  You must discuss the following:

·          Name of Product

·          Your products slogan

·          Problem statement

·          Paragraph(s) including the possible solutions to the problem and the evolution of your final product design.   You should include an analysis of why you chose the materials you did to make your product, the production costs.

·          Summary of strengths and weakness of design/materials

·          Survey questions and results displayed graphically. 

·          Labelled diagrams of your various designs and final product.

·          Concluding paragraph describing the evolution of your idea from problem to product with suggestions for possible improvements.  

I-Cubed Blogging: Please make sure the following sections are complete...

Building Process

Besides answering the following questions, you could also include photographs at each of the stages of your build to include in your blog and final tri-fold presentation

1.       How is your group working together so far (communication, power, participation, etc)

2.     What did you accomplish today? Who did what?

3.      Did you encounter any challenges when building your design?

4.     Did you modify/change anything from your original plan?

5.     Did you make any decisions? What are they? How do you and your group come to these decisions?

6.     What do you need to do next?

7.     Outline your group’s plan for the building phase?

8.     What jobs need to be done? By whom? By when

The Testing Process

1.      Explain the procedure that your group developed to test your product (or part of your product).  What were you testing?  Why did you choose this feature to test?  What were your controlled variables?  What was your responding variable?  What was your manipulated variable?

2.     Does your invention work?

3.     Do you need to modify it to make it better?

4.     What changes could you make?

5.     Did you modify/change anything from your original plan? 

Marketing Process

1.      Do you have a catchy name for your product?

2.     Do you have a slogan for your product?

3.     What did it cost to produce?  What are the individual unit costs for each part?

4.     What price would you sell it for?

5.     Who is your target market for your product?

6.     What colors would attract consumers to buy your product?

7.     What was life like before your product existed?  What is life like with your product?

I cubed crunch time...

Hi Everybody,

It is I cubed glue stick chaos crunch time.  Projects are being presented on Thursday in the library 10:15-11:45 am.  Trifold guidelines are on your I cubed reflective writing list on google docs & the rubric has been posted on D2L.

Bringing a glue stick is a good idea!!!

I cubed ongoing....

So very much to do.  Groups are in all different places so I can't mention specifics.  The I cubed rubric is posted on D2L...please take a look & make a plan.

I cubed ongoing...

Lots of items to work through:
-I cubed reflective writing in google docs....lots of pepping up needing to happen here!!  Please read my comments & make adjustments asap.  This work needs to be best work/edited to stave off the chaos of next week when you start to put together your trifolds.  Most groups need to take their writing to the next level please....!
-Excel tutorial...get into D2L for the monthly items tab that was missed somehow in the original document
-Create survey questions
-Diagram of invention
-Testing procedure & actual testing needs to happen & be documented
There is no time for off task behaviour at all :)

Math & Science Update

Phew...lots of things on the go.

Priority #1 is your take home Surface Area & Volume Performance Based Assessment...this is due Tuesday please.  Best work, organized, neat, please pay attention to units...assignment can be found in D2L if you have lost yours.

Priority #2 please get into google docs and continue with your reflective writing

Excel graphing mini intro assignment will be worked on on Tuesday (you will have 4 classes to work on I cubed details)...this is probably best left at school to work on digitally together in your group.

Have a great Easter weekend.

Math & Science

I am excited to hear how your first day of building went today.  I hope that you were able to start your reflective writing today and that it is shared out via google docs to everybody that needs to be invited...myself & Ms Young-Davis included.

There is no Math quiz tomorrow as was announced at the end of class on Tuesday.

Hope your Math is done for tomorrow:
p.250 #1, 3-13
OR
p. 250 #3,4,10-17