October 7 - 10 2019
October 7 - 10 2019
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Cole is our guest blogger this week. Welcome Cole!
Cole is our guest blogger this week. Welcome Cole!
October 10
October 10
Perfect Rectangles Update
Perfect Rectangles Update
Eden and Hailey have a solution to the perfect rectangles problem! They were VERY excited to be the first to solve the problem.
Edwin Computers
Edwin Computers
Today we got our new chromebooks with the Edwin learning software.
We've been waiting for them for a while. They are really useful and easy to use and we will use them basically every day. They are loads of fun and we get to bring them home next Tuesday. I can't wait!
Class Business Venture Update
Class Business Venture Update
We are still in the brainstorming stage of our business venture planning. But we have some amazing support from our partners.
Today, the leaders from the iHub will be here to help us narrow down our business venture ideas.
The grade 12 business leadership students from EL Crossley will be at Glynn A Green on October 22 to help us do market research on our ideas.
In November the experiential learning coordinators from Brock University will be here to help guide us through the process of writing business plans.
In December, we will be attending the pitch presentation competition at EL Crossley to help us learn how to create our own pitch presentations for our business.
October 9
October 9
Perfect Rectangles Geometry Challenge
Perfect Rectangles Geometry Challenge
A perfect rectangle is made up of squares of different sizes. We'll keep coming back to this challenge until we can figure out a way to solve it.
Burger Experiment Procedure
Burger Experiment Procedure
We used the skills we developed writing procedural instructions for the Food Separator Challenge to write the procedure for our experiment on fast food burgers. We read an article from the Toronto Star about a person who had saved a McDonald's burger on her coffee table and it didn't rot in 142 days. The question we want to investigate is whether other fast food burgers would mould.
October 8
October 8
Cartesian Plane
Cartesian Plane
Today we learned about why the x axis is also called y=0. That's because whenever a point is on the x axis, the y coordinate is zero because it's not leaving the x axis. The y axis is also called x=0 because the x coordinate is always equal to zero because you're not moving to the left or right.
October 7
October 7
Understanding how we can be influenced by Media
Understanding how we can be influenced by Media
Today we started an investigation into how the perspective of news articles (especially on social media) can influence how we think about an issue. We read a series of fictional social media posts that imagined a scenario where a solar panel manufacturing company was applying to build their factory on our soccer field. Some people read mostly "positive" articles and some read mostly "negative" articles. It was interesting to see how everyone voted after reading the articles.
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