{"id":4287,"date":"2019-09-09T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T23:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T23:36:01","slug":"our-first-unit-all-about-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/2019\/09\/09\/our-first-unit-all-about-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Our First Unit! All About SYSTEMS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Now posted on our classroom wall is unit #1 about SYSTEMS!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unit Focus Statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our personal choices play a role in how the interconnected system of the human body works.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concept Guiding the Unit:<\/strong> &nbsp;SYSTEMS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Core Competency Focus Areas:<\/strong> Personal Awareness &amp; Critical Thinking<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Inquiry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The nature of systems and how we participate in them<\/li>\n<li>The systems of the body and how they work together<\/li>\n<li>Diseases and how the body defends against them<\/li>\n<li>Choices and personal awareness that contribute to our overall well being<\/li>\n<li>How we gather, organize, and interpret data to make healthy choices<\/li>\n<li>Environmental impacts on our health<\/li>\n<li>Indigenous and world perspectives on health<\/li>\n<li>How art and mindfulness practices are related to mental and physical wellness<\/li>\n<li>French vocabulary and basic expressions about the human body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Learning Activities Coming Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discussions about Universal Systems found everywhere through activities such as Roller Coaster Making and Scrappy Circuits<\/li>\n<li>Investigations about body systems through rotating learning stations<\/li>\n<li>Field Trip on Oct. 11th to Science World to see stage show on Digestion, as well as IMAX movie &#8220;Human Body&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Research on a body system of choice and writing a letter to the Human Body Corporation about why your system is the most important to the body<\/li>\n<li>Gathering measurement data about ourselves and graphing it<\/li>\n<li>Math from the book&nbsp;<em>Math on the Job:Keeping us Healthy<\/em>, practicing math used by health practitioners<\/li>\n<li>Math games around data and probability, as well as lessons on mean, mode, and median.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Discussions and labs related to DNA\/Genetics (Strawberry DNA extraction), Brain Science, Immunity, and Blood Types (not with real blood!)<\/li>\n<li>A walking field trip and activities in Central Park<\/li>\n<li>Art activities related to personal exploration and mindfulness such as zentangling, black ink group art, and hive art.<\/li>\n<li>Research on a Disease of our choice and presenting using PPT<\/li>\n<li>And more to come&#8230;..!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Stay tuned on Twitter<\/strong> as I give daily pictures when possible related to our unit work.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <strong>please be aware of the many notices going home this week<\/strong> and return them to school the day after you receive them if possible. If you have any questions, as always, please email me!<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the next month! <strong>Ms. Boroumand, our student teacher,<\/strong> will be joining us next week on Sept. 17 and 18, and then she will begin her formal practicum in our classroom on Sept. 22nd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parent Conferences are on Sept. 18 and 19.<\/strong> Please note these are conferences for parent and teacher to talk. The meetings are also very brief and back to back, so I will do my best to stay on time. I apologize in advance for using a timer during our meetings to help me stay on track! I look forward to speaking with all of you, and a notice for signing up will come out Sept. 10th, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kindly,<\/p>\n<p>Ms. D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone! Now posted on our classroom wall is unit #1 about SYSTEMS!&nbsp; Unit Focus Statement: Our personal choices play a role in how the interconnected system of the human body works.&nbsp; Concept Guiding the Unit: &nbsp;SYSTEMS Core Competency Focus Areas: Personal Awareness &amp; Critical Thinking Areas of Inquiry: The nature of systems and how we participate in them The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}