Lizzie's P.P. - Acro

Acrobatics is an ancient sport and art form, Lizzie enjoys doing acro and wanted to learn more about it for her personal project. 

Thomas' P.P. - Can he raise carnivorous plants!?

Carnivorous plants don't typically grow in our climate, so Thomas needed to put them in a terrarium. Over the weeks of his project, a lot of interesting things happened, one of his Venus fly traps split into two plants!

Capitalism Debates and rebuttals

Industriers

Cotton Factories

District 12

 Steam Engines 1

Steam Engines 2

Rebuttals

 Seth's Rebuttal

Lucas' Rebuttal

Brady's P.P. Scoville Heat Units

Brady presented his powerpoint on Scoville Heat Units, these a measurements to determine how spicy a food is.

Flip a Gram presentations for goals!!

 Ashton's stop motion style Flip a Gram

 Seth's goals poster

 Journey's Flip a Gram

 Jacob's speedy Flip a gram

Lucas' patriotic Flip a gram

Annabelle's 9/11 Presentation

Ashton's Creative Club presentation on his home made chat bot program

Grayson and his presentatioin on Oswald the lucky rabbit

Crazy, World War Two Coat That Is Really Cool, Post, Goes To…. Ashton!!!

Lili's Art

The Amazing Guitar Solo That Blew Our Minds, Post, Goes To….. Thomas!!!

Digital Citizenship Project

Thomas, Matt, and Ashton presented their Digital Citizenship project. They did a Google Slides presentation on Twitter. 

Here, Thomas is talking about the history of Twitter.

Matt, Ashton, and Thomas

Altogether the presentation was very informative and interesting, they did a good job. 

Buddies

We've gotten to spend some time with buddies from the younger classes, first we were with the 4-6 group and we taught them to use Prezi, and then we were with the grades 1-3 group and we read with them. Some of the kids are amazing readers, they read like they're in grade four! Altogether we had a great time, see the photos below.

Charlie and her buddy

Zach and Thomas reading with their buddies

Amanda and her buddy

Lili, Journey, and Charlie's Digital Citizenship Project

Lili, Charli, and I did our Digital Citizenship project on Instagram. We covered the basics of Instagram in our Prezi. A fun fact about Instagram that we learned was that it was created originally by only thirteen people!

Us giving our presentation

Cameo by Abraham Lincoln!

Zachee's Personal Project

Zach did a personal project on Captain Philips! It was very informative and interesting; he talked about the story of the Captain and whether he was a hero or not.

Somalian pirates 

Zach doing his Prezi Presentation

Journey's personal Project

Journey's Personal Project on Space Nebula 

Journey did a project on Space Nebula which included different Nebula formations. Some notable Nebula's from the project being the Medusa and Red Spider Nebula (pictures down below).

Seths creative club

Seth's Creative Club.

Seth made a robot for his Halloween costume made of boxes and aluminum foil and tubes.

Jacks Batarang

Jacks Batarang made at home it was fully metal and was able to go a quarter way into a fence.

Lili's personal project

Lili's personal project

Lili's personal project was on the Northern lights and its lore with the natives. 

The Innovations 9: Hot dog sale

On Saturday, the Innovations 9 group sold hot dogs, pop and chips at Art Knapps Plantland, in Surrey.  Despite the rain and wind, many people came up to support the group.  One gentlemen showed up at the table 5 times!

Rheagan, Caly and Miss H

We will have another hot dog sale in the next couple months!

Earth Worm Dissection Oct 22nd

Mr. Young, the vice principal, was subbing for the day and so he brought in earthworms to dissect in the afternoon. The worms to most smelt like a batch of chemicals but in all it was enjoyable.

Thanks to Mr. Young once again!

Rubric for "The Big Question"

Hi all,

I receive many questions about the "Big Question". I confess, this is a new concept to me.  I heard about this a few years ago when piloting our Innovations class.  I received a book called,

Essential Questions by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins

Though the "Big Question" does not receive a lot of marks in student projects,  it is what drives the project.

Here is a rubric that I use:

Essential Question Rubric

An essential question should be about the problem to be solved and the information needed to solve the problem.

Exceeds Expectation - achieves 5 characteristics I have thoroughly identified an essential question.

Meets Expectation - achieves 3-4 characteristics I have substantially identified an essential question.

Approaches Expectation - achieves 1-2 characteristics I have partially identified an essential question.

Does not meet Expectation - does not achieve any characteristics Your question is a topical question that can be answered with facts I have difficulty identifying an essential question.

Essential questions are:  (Five Characteristics)

1.       Open-ended with no right or wrong answer, cannot be answered with a list of facts but requires research.  Answers to essential questions cannot be found.  They must be invented.

2.        Thought-provoking or controversial requiring finding different points of view,

3.       May start with:  Which one? How? Should? Why?     

4.       Cast old ideas in a new light, lead to discovery, engender deeper interest in the subject, and are provocative.

5.       Involve higher-order thinking skills such as analyze, evaluate, create l
 

Examples of good essential questions:

1.       Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant?

2.       How do the arts shape, as well as reflect, a culture?

3.       What makes objects move the way they do?

4.       How can I express myself when I don’t know the words?

5.       How does where you live influence how you live?

6.       Why did the Soviet Union collapse?

7.       What should we eat to prevent diseases?

If you are interested in project-based or inquiry-based learning, I highly recommend the book.  Thanks.

The Personal Project Criteria

Personal Project presentations are happening in the next month.  Every project is out of 50 marks. What's the criteria?  Please see below:

Personal Projects:

1.  The Big Question          /05
2.  Research                       /10
3.  Presentation                  /15
4.  Bibliography                 /10
5.  Oral Presentation          /05

Total:                                 /50

If there are any questions, please ask me. I will add a separate post for the "Big Question".

Thanks,
Miss Harold

Brady's "Expert Period" Project

Brady is hoping that TLA families will join him in writing a story. All they need to do is write 15 words and pass it onto another TLA family

Here is a brief interview with Brady on what to do when you receive the package.

If you are part of the TLA family and would like to participate, please leave a comment below. Thanks.

Show & Tell: Rheagan's rabbits

Rheagan presented her rabbits on Thursday for Show and Tell.

         Rheagan's rabbit's Daisy(White) and Charly(Brown) are 2 1/2 years old