Hello Everyone!<\/p>\n
Now that we have finished our first unit on SYSTEMS, we are moving on to discussing the concepts of CREATIVITY and CHANGE!<\/p>\n
UNIT TITLE: \u00a0<\/strong>Our Human Creations, Running Mid-November to Mid-January<\/p>\n CONCEPT: \u00a0<\/strong>Change and Creativity<\/p>\n Unit Focus Statement:\u00a0<\/strong>We use creativity and knowledge together to make innovations that change our world.<\/p>\n An Inquiry Into:<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of the Specific Topics Covered In:<\/strong><\/p>\n Subject to change or additions as we go, as needed!<\/em><\/p>\n Science:\u00a0<\/strong>Simple machines, Work, Center of Gravity, Technology, Early Indigenous Tools, Deciding which machine has had the greatest benefit\/use, making catapults, creating hydraulic devices, Rube Goldberg devices Hello Everyone! Now that we have finished our first unit on SYSTEMS, we are moving on to discussing the concepts of CREATIVITY and CHANGE! UNIT TITLE: \u00a0Our Human Creations, Running Mid-November to Mid-January CONCEPT: \u00a0Change and Creativity Unit Focus Statement:\u00a0We use creativity and knowledge together to make innovations that change our world. An Inquiry Into: Our learning and use of<\/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\/5762"}],"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=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nSocials: \u00a0<\/strong>Technology and Society \u2014 Positive and Negative Impacts, History of Technology, Timelines, Critical Thinking About Our Technology Use, Creation of a Timeline, Debate on Impact of Video Game Use on Children
\nMath:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Deeper Conversations around multiplication and division, Use of scientific formulas from physics around work and rate\/distance\/time, Basic Variables\/Algebra, Area\/Perimeter, Tiny House Creation, Math Used in Creating Buildings\/Skyscrapers through the book \u201cYou Do the Math: Skyscrapers\u201d
\nLanguage Arts:<\/strong> Creative Writing, Careful editing, use of non-fiction features in books to do research, organizing notes for research, using key words for internet searches
\nApplied Design:<\/strong> Design Process steps used in the creation of catapults, \u201cPerfect Square\u201d structures, as well as discussions around how creative thinking can be learned or measured.
\nFrench:<\/strong> Selection of one French-speaking country other than France and looking at history of how it came to have French-speaking peoples. Use of French Games. net for French Vocabulary on Greetings and Other Basics
\nArts: \u00a0<\/strong>Maker Projects, Spindle Whorls and Coast Salish Art Forms, Creative-Thinking Challenges, and continued talk about elements and principles of art.
\nPhysical Education and Health:<\/strong> Brainstorming together creative options for cooperative play on the playground. Creating our own games for outside play to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"