Students will be bringing home their crystals Monday! We made these with sugar and water and therefore they are edible - I will let your families decide if you would like to eat them or not!
Students will think about why some crystals grew better than others. We will discuss the variables that were in play. On THURSDAY we will be making ice-cream!!! Students are invited to bring their ONE favorite "mix-in" to include in this activity. We will make review the scientific method and complete the DELICIOUS activity. Our Grade 9 buddies helped us learn about chemical and physical changes. So far in chemistry we have also talked about:
- acids and bases and how to test for them - how to separate solids/solid, liquids/liquids, and solids/liquids - creation of different crystals Students wrote their science quiz on Tuesday. It has been marked, returned, and the marks are on PowerSchool. Next week, we will be moving onto classroom chemistry. Students can expect to do lots of hands on experiments and inquiries.
Students worked together to design, test and build alarm systems. Here are some pictures of the learning process.
Students are testing the different configurations that allow for a lightbulb to light up using a battery, a wire and a lightbulb. We talked about the importance of making predictions and testing our predictions to draw conclusions and prove theories. WEEK 2: We are back from spring break and are in full force in our electricity unit. Students explored naturally occurring and human produced forms of electricity. We reviewed some of the safety aspects from before break. We will begin exploring the electricity kits this week too! Students will engage in lots of hands on activities.
Here are a couple links to videos we watched in class about static electricity and naturally occurring electricity (especially in fish/sea animals). Link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=naturally+occurring+electricity+animals+ Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2-363MIQs Students completed a cover page that highlighted their knowledge so far (safety aspects, naturally occurring and human produced). WEEK 1: Prior to spring break students worked through some important safety aspects around electricity - dos and don'ts to keep ourselves safe. WEEK 6: We took a deeper look into clouds and finished up a "Missing Cloud" or "Cloud Crime" Report to demonstrate our knowledge and understanding of clouds. WEEK 5: This week Mr. Arvaluk introduced us to some of the big ideas around clouds. We will continue to build on this understanding together as a class. Parents and guardians, you can expect to see some science marks on PowerSchool shortly. WEEK 4: Today we designed wind tracking devices and shared them with the class and received feedback from our peers. WEEK 3: Here are a couple pictures from a PowerPoint we are working through as a class. This week students will create an analogy to help them remember how wind is created. Students were excited about this mini-assignment, and what a great way for them to focus on their understanding as well as writing! WEEK 2: This week we created mini weather reports. Students were able to demonstrate their ability to predict the weather based on the previous days events. We had a good conversation about if it is -16 on day, chances are it won't be 35 the next. Students were very creative in their presentations. We also talked about air temperatures, and students conducted an experiment in the classroom to test hypothesis' made. Students did a great job and are working on using scientific vocabulary to justify their reasoning.
WEEK 1: This week we talked about using strong vocabulary to describe different weather phenomenons. We wrote short creative writing pieces to help describe a weather event without actually saying what it was. |
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