Day: November 17, 2016

Reminders for Thursday, November 17th – Field Trip Tomorrow!

Hi Everyone!

Reminders for tonight:

  • Field Trip Tomorrow: You might want to read some of the nano articles found under the articles of interest under Structures, such as the Nanooze Magazine from Cornell University. Please do not bring valuables. Bring a lunch, water, and a snack. Bring a light jacket and very little else! No, sorry, there won’t be time to get White Spot, so please bring a lunch. We leave promptly at 9AM. Thank you to Michael’s Mom, Vaughn’s Mom, and Patricia’s Dad for accompanying us this time.
  • French for French Immersion Students: Continue to brainstorm your dialogue, in which you are pretending to arrive at a country that is not France for a two week vacation, and you meet a friend on the plane. You may need to do some research on your country and city so you have real things to talk about! Thank you for your great work today in partner groups. Due Wednesday for presentation. 
  • French for Beginners: Review Je French 3. Next Wednesday you will get a quick quiz with the nouns from that lesson listed, and you have to fill in the articles “a” or “the” — so you need to know the difference between the masculine (m) and the feminine (f) forms. You do not need to memorize the nouns. On Monday, you will get more time to work with your partner on your very brief dialogue that reviews what we have done so far. You can find additional words to say at BBC Primary Languages. Pronunciation is key, so practice phrases aloud.
  • Research: We will be getting class time for research, but you may want to look for book and internet resources on your own. The project description is found here. We will be working on this most of next week. If you want to use World Book Online at home, remember you just need the password. If you missed writing it down today, make sure you do that tomorrow.
  • Math Packet 2 Quiz Monday
  • Holiday Party: The student holiday party committee made a notice to send out to everyone today. Please return as soon as you can. When they are talking about donations, they mean only $2, which we talked about in class. Don’t donate if you are bringing something else to the party from the list. Thank you to the students for independently organizing this notice and the party, which is great leadership!

Thank you, everyone!

Researching STRUCTURE

We will be working on a mini research project about structure. Each of you has chosen a specific area to research, approved by Ms. D in class.

Step One:

Find out information about your topic related to FORM follows FUNCTION and the things we have been talking about in class. Use some of the research sites on the Articles of Interest page to get started.

Please record your resource. Use EasyBib if needed to help! 

You will need to use one encyclopaedia, 2 books, and at least 2 online sources.

Answer these questions, and make sure you record your notes to turn in!:

  • What is the form of your structure? (You will need specific details, a labeled diagram with all of the parts labeled.)
  • What is the purpose of your structure? 
  • Who is the structure for? Who does it benefit or who was it designed for?
  • How does it work? How is it built? How do the parts work together?
  • What works well with its design? What does not?
  • What would need to be changed to make the structure even better?
  • Is there anything else that is interesting about the topic you have chosen?
  • ONE QUESTION OF YOUR OWN: Make up a question and try to answer it.

Step Two:

Create a PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Prezi presentation with your research. You may not start on it until you show Ms. D your notes. If you have not done PowerPoint much before, then you should choose that one, as it is the easiest to work on.

Avoid putting too many colours. Choose a theme to work with so all slides look similar. Do not put too many words. Use visuals instead. Do not use pictures with any copyright symbols. Do not just use clip art. You will be presenting, so what you will say can be recorded on another sheet of paper as your script.

As you work on your presentation, make sure you save as you go. Name your file in this way without punctuation:

FIRST NAME     STRUCTURE Presentation    TOPIC    DATE (month, day, year – two digits)

For example:  Andrea Structure Presentation Skyscrapers 111516

Make a minimum of 10 slides, using this as your outline to share information from your notes. 

Slide 1:     Interesting Title of Presentation, Your Full Name, Date, Picture filling page
Slide 2:     Introduce the structure and where you would find it.
Slide 3:     Explain what the structure is for. Who uses it? What is its purpose?
Slide 4-6:  Explain how the structure works and how form follows function.
Slide 7:     Explain how the structure works well and how it does not work well.
Slide 8:     Explain how the structure could be improved or other design facts.
Slide 9:     Sum up all of your other slides, like a concluding sentence but in a slide!
Slide 10:   Thank your sources and list the Bibliography

Step Three:

Write a script for what you will say for each slide. Have a peer edit it. Then practice it so you can present it in front of the class. The whole presentation should not be more than 5 minutes long.