Becoming Medical Researchers! Sept. 22nd Update

Hello Everyone!

What a great week! It was nice to meet with everyone’s parents, and I hope you all have a great three-day weekend!

Ms. D is headed to an exciting conference on Saturday — TEDEdX West Vancouver! I hope to hear tons of awesome ideas about teaching and meet up with many exciting, innovative educators in the Lower Mainland!

Today, we each agreed to become medical specialists and do research on a particular organ. We must prove to the HUMAN BODY CORPORATION (as the company may be laying off employees soon) that we are indeed essential to the human body! Each of us will write a business letter to the Corporation explaining how our organ works with other members of its system, as well as the other body systems, and why it is important. We will have lots of time next week for research, but if anyone wants to get started now, you are welcome. It is not required. Please take notes as you go and cite where you find your information.

**If you have not yet finished the Body Systems Packet, there won’t be any more time in class, so please finish it for Tuesday. Most of you are done already!

We will need this specialized information on the body so we can diagnose some mystery diseases as a group in the future. I look forward to seeing the Human Body IMAX movie at Science World next week, which should provide everyone with great information about how the systems work together as a team. Field Trip on Thursday, September 28th! 

In Math today, we talked about why people need fractions, how fractions are used in probability, and what people would do to double recipes using fractions. We will keep practicing these things, so don’t worry if some of what we did was difficult. We are currently working on handouts to further our understanding of data management, reading graphs, making tallies, and organizing data. This will help us as we gather data about germs and bacteria in the school!

**Don’t forget to get your notices in! Here’s everything that should be returned:

  • Young Peoples’ Concerts Pink Form — due Sept. 29
  • Blue Mature Reads Form from Ms. Ho, our librarian at Suncrest – due Wed
  • Student Permission & Information Blue/Pink/Green/Yellow forms in a packet – due ASAP please so they don’t get lost

Thank you for your help with all the forms!

Have a great weekend!

Ms. D