There's a science quiz tomorrow, which students should have written in their agendas. I just got an email asking me for the link to the website we used to investigate cells and thought I'd recommend them in general:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
While this might be a useful tool for reviewing for the test, they also have different videos and web apps to explore that we didn't really have time to investigate in class. I keep discovering new ones.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Happy New Year
First of all, I wanted to thank everyone who brought food or presents for the class or various school drives. Personally, I felt very blessed this holiday season. I hope that everyone has had a restful and fun holiday break. I know I did.
Starting the year off with some good memories from December:
And looking forward to new challenges.
January looks like a busy month. We have the concert on the 20th, where 305 will be performing some of our Banethi movements. We have two trips (one on the 21st to look at Climate Change and one on the 3rd of February to look at the history of bookmaking). I'm coaching Girls Volleyball for a tourney on the 26th.
And we also have Brigitte Berman coming in to work with us on developing our our short films.
Among my favourite presents this year was a videocamera, which I hope to use with the class. If you have any video equipment you wouldn't mind sharing or any time to come in yourselves on the days Brigitte will be here (see Calendar), we'd love to have your help and your equipment. It's always good to have as many hands on deck as possible during filming and we promise to take very good care of any equipment. The MACbooks our school has recently acquired should help nicely with editing as well.
See you all on Monday!
Starting the year off with some good memories from December:
And looking forward to new challenges.
January looks like a busy month. We have the concert on the 20th, where 305 will be performing some of our Banethi movements. We have two trips (one on the 21st to look at Climate Change and one on the 3rd of February to look at the history of bookmaking). I'm coaching Girls Volleyball for a tourney on the 26th.
And we also have Brigitte Berman coming in to work with us on developing our our short films.
Among my favourite presents this year was a videocamera, which I hope to use with the class. If you have any video equipment you wouldn't mind sharing or any time to come in yourselves on the days Brigitte will be here (see Calendar), we'd love to have your help and your equipment. It's always good to have as many hands on deck as possible during filming and we promise to take very good care of any equipment. The MACbooks our school has recently acquired should help nicely with editing as well.
See you all on Monday!
Monday, December 13, 2010
Given the math test on Wednesday, I thought this comic was timely.
For those of you interested in exploring the world issues sites we've been looking at, here are two links as well:
www.gapminder.org
and
http://storyofstuff.com/
I think it's really interesting to contrast how both sites use data to support their hypotheses.
See you in class tomorrow!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
science links
Today we reviewed some cool online animations of cell features and talked more about how different kinds of cells might respond to signals. If you want to see these again or fill out your response form with more detail, go here:
Inside a Cell
and here:
Dropping Signals
I also like this cool tool, showing relative sizes of very small things:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/signals/
Inside a Cell
and here:
Dropping Signals
I also like this cool tool, showing relative sizes of very small things:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/signals/
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Trip Announcement
Just wanted you all to know that the forms went home tonight for the NFB trip on December 9th. I'd love to have parent volunteers and am hoping that we'll have a lovely day together.
On another note, I'm still without a primary computer, so I'm sorry if emails are taking me longer to answer than they otherwise would. I hope to have the situation resolved very soon.
On another note, I'm still without a primary computer, so I'm sorry if emails are taking me longer to answer than they otherwise would. I hope to have the situation resolved very soon.
Friday, November 26, 2010
No Computer This Weekend
It's been a rough week for me and the laptop. First it had a virus and needed some time to recover from that. Now it's off in the shop having a new power supply attached. What this means is that I'll be very limited in my online presence this weekend and won't have a chance to check or respond to emails.
I have managed to check in with all the project groups between today and yesterday and think most students are just putting finishing touches on their projects to be ready after the weekend. We'll see what Monday brings in any case.
On Monday also, we will be welcoming back Ms. B to our classroom and looking forward to several weeks with her as we move towards the winter break. After the fall crunch, expect somewhat of a break in projects as we focus in on classroom goals. Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Ms. G
I have managed to check in with all the project groups between today and yesterday and think most students are just putting finishing touches on their projects to be ready after the weekend. We'll see what Monday brings in any case.
On Monday also, we will be welcoming back Ms. B to our classroom and looking forward to several weeks with her as we move towards the winter break. After the fall crunch, expect somewhat of a break in projects as we focus in on classroom goals. Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Ms. G
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Two Links For You Today
We looked a bit at these two websites today in class.
The class beginning to plan double portaits based on Frida Kahlo's painting, The Two Fridas. Everyone has more than one side to their personality and I'm hoping that these paintings will let us see some of those hidden depths.
Your two links:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/life/index.html: has some paintings by Kahlo and a little more background information about her life and perspective.
http://www.bartnagel.com/asymmetrical/index.html: In this specific collection, the photographer is playing with symmetry, how one side of the face can tell a different story from the other, and sometimes layering mirror images on top of each other to create interesting effects.
The class beginning to plan double portaits based on Frida Kahlo's painting, The Two Fridas. Everyone has more than one side to their personality and I'm hoping that these paintings will let us see some of those hidden depths.
Your two links:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/life/index.html: has some paintings by Kahlo and a little more background information about her life and perspective.
http://www.bartnagel.com/asymmetrical/index.html: In this specific collection, the photographer is playing with symmetry, how one side of the face can tell a different story from the other, and sometimes layering mirror images on top of each other to create interesting effects.
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