Grade 6

Turkey Project

Synopsis

Students are involved in turkey processing day. Parent volunteers brought equipment and walked students through the process. The intention was to help them learn the anatomy of turkeys inside and out, note differences of males and females, understand the process from farm to plate, and note weight differences before and after processing to see how much of the animal is used. They also noted temperature effects throughout the process that tied in to their particle and temperature unit in science.

Alberta Outcomes:

Science:

investigate how particles of matter behave when heated or cooled and analyze effects on solids, liquids, and gases.
Expansion & Contraction
make a hypothesis
gather evidence

Math:

solve problems, using standard algorithms for addition and subtraction.

Language Arts:

Offer relevant information and logical reasoning to enhance collaborative dialogue.
Reflect on and share new, expanded, or adjusted learnings resulting from collaborative dialogue.
Revise or confirm predictions based on new or additional information and sources.
Write to inform, explain, describe, or report for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Charter:

demonstrate safe behavior around animals
identify human uses of animals in our barnyard: Basic understanding of where food comes from.

identify body parts of a turkey

Garden Harvest: Pumpkins

In the spring of grade 5, the current 6s planted pumpkins in the school garden. This fall, the grade 6s were tasked with harvesting and using the pumpkins that grew. The pumpkins were not ripe before the first frost, so we harvested them and put them in the greenhouse to ripen off the vine. By the time Halloween came, most of them were still green, but we carved them into Jack-O-Lanterns anyway. We roasted the seeds with different flavours and tried them all to choose our favourites. We saved one big orange pumpkin for cooking and baking. We worked in teams to make pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, and pumpkin cake all from scratch. Our puree was a bit watery, but Mr. Chambers taught us how to reduce it to a better consistency. We had a feast that day! Lastly, we saved one pumpkin for experiments. We watched (and smelled) our pumpkin decomposing in a glass jar, and will continue to watch it change over time. We are hoping the seeds sprout in the spring.

Alberta Outcomes:
Math:
* Measurement: weighing and ordering pumpkins from lightest to heaviest, using fractions in baking/cooking

Language Arts:
* Functional Writing: students wrote a review describing seed flavours
* Sequential Reading: following step by step instructions

Science:
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Charter Outcomes:
* understanding where food comes from and how it is processed

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