Month: February 2024

New Unit: The Way We Move

Hello Everyone,

We are in the process of finishing up our last unit projects, so now we will begin a new inquiry unit called The Way We Move!

Unit Focus Statement: Migration is a response to challenges, risks, survival, and a natural need to explore.

Concepts: EXPLORATION, IDENTITY

Core Competency Focus: Positive Personal & Cultural Identity

Areas of Inquiry:

  • The nature of exploration
  • The reasons people move throughout the world
  • Human migration and its impact on Canada, indigenous cultures, and the world
  • The similarities between humanity and other animals as related to migration
  • Our own personal and cultural identity as a result of migration
  • Geography and maps
  • Multiplicative Thinking & Tiny House Math Projects (Area, Perimeter, Multiplication, Division) related to how a home can represent what is most important to us

We look forward to….

  • Doing exploration of our identity, of our outside spaces, and more through the use of careful observation and documentation skills
  • Studying migratory birds and other animals and tracking their journeys
  • Presenting our personal TED Talks about our passions and continuing our language arts work on paragraphing, using descriptive vocabulary, and writing clear sentences
  • Creating a class map of our own family’s migration paths
  • Interviewing community members about immigration stories
  • Doing a group research timeline on how we all came to be in Canada, then writing mini monologues to present some of the key figures and events from our history
  • Making a Quilt of Belonging piece representative of our Cultural Background/Identity
  • Reading and analyzing books/stories related to immigration and refugees
  • Discussing immigration policies in Canada, and then making our own immigration policy for a made-up location
  • Doing activities and games related to multiplication, division, and geometry

Plans may change depending on time. We will do as much as we can in February and early March, and finish this unit before we go to Spring Break.

Next unit will be on NEEDS and WANTS, talking about resources, geology, economics, trade, and more.

Our independent project research and work will start now and be ongoing from now until June.

More to come!

Ms. D

E-Port: Multiplicative Thinking

This e-port will help do an assessment check-in for our work on multiplicative thinking and the You Do the Math Skyscraper math material.

Please post ONE picture with all of your work on a page for this e-port. Thank you!

Title:  Math Check In January 2024

Questions:

What are vertices and faces on three-dimensional shapes?

How many faces does a sphere have, and why?

If I write the coordinates (3,5), how will I know where to find that point on a grid or map?

What is the area of a rectangle that is 3 feet wide and 6 feet long? What is the perimeter?

Which earthquake was the largest on the Richter Scale — 5.02, 5.20, 5.215, or 5.100? How do you know?

What is multiplication? What kinds of math vocabulary would you use to explain it to an alien that doesn’t know about our Earth math?

What is the difference between a factor and a multiple?

What is the difference between a prime and a composite number?

What are the factors of 36? Use a factor tree to figure this out and post a picture of your tree with this post.

How do you know if a number is divisible by three? What is this called (there was a special vocabulary word we used)?

What is a square root?

What does it mean to square a number?

What is the least or lowest common multiple of 3, 4, and 5? Show your work in the picture you post to this e-port.

Maggie, Juan, and Miya are all volunteering at the local hospital. Maggie works every 2 days, Juan works every 4 days, and Miya works every 5 days. When do Maggie and Juan work together (every how many days)? When do Maggie and Miya work together? When do Juan and Miya work together?

What is the greatest common factor of 24, 40, and 64? Use factor trees to show your thinking and find the answers. Show this in the picture you add to the e-port.

 

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