Busy Week

Good Evening everyone,

We have an extremely busy week ahead! Remember to bring in all your materials for the art bot work period tomorrow. 

Monday- Art Bot work period #1 -with our in school engineer Sue

Tuesday- Jump Rope for Heart – Block 2 & 3

Wednesday- Big Kid Entertainment – Hansel & Gretel @9:30 a.m.

Friday- OELC trip

Math- Probability – We will be working on probability this week – Students have also been practicing common terms from all the different math strands to help prepare them for the EQAO assessment

Literacy- We will be continuing to focus on the writing forms -students will be completing writing on demand pieces for each writing form

Science- Electricity – we will be focusing on conservation of energy this week

Health- This week students will be receiving a letter outlining our growth and development unit – coming soon!

Art Bot Materials Needed

We are about to begin an exciting project for our electricity unit (See below). We have started the brainstorming phase today and have come up with a list of supplies that we need to build the "Art Bot". Students will be given some time tomorrow to experiment with the motors. First production day will be on Monday :)

Supplies needed:
Elastics
Toilet paper rolls
Paper towel rolls
cups
sponges
string
hot glue gun & glue
pringle lids
CDs
paint rollers

Grade 6 S.T.E.A.M. ArtBot Project

Purpose: To create a self-propelled, moving device (“robot”) that will “draw” on paper, creating art.

Curriculum Connections:

• Science (Matter & Energy 2.1): follow established safety procedures for working with electricity
• Science (Matter & Energy 2.5): use technological problem-solving skills to design, build, and test a device that transforms electrical energy into another form of energy in order to perform a function (e.g., a device that makes a sound, that moves, that lights up)
• Science (Matter & Energy 2.6): use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including current, battery, circuit, transform, static, electrostatic, and energy, in oral and written communication
• Language (Writing 2.7): use a variety of forms (e.g., oral, written, graphic, multimedia) to communicate with different audiences and for a variety of purposes
• Language (Writing 2.1): write longer and more complex texts using a wide range of forms
• Language (Writing 3.8): produce pieces of published work to meet identified criteria based on the expectations

Requirements:

• You will work with a partner.
• Your bot must move on its own and somehow incorporate the motor provided
• Moving might mean rolling, wobbling, bouncing, sliding, twirling, shaking ... you get the idea.
• It must somehow leave marks on the paper “floor” (that’s why it’s called an ARTbot).
• You may use any salvaged, repurposed, dismantled, or super cheap materials you can find. No kits! You do not need to spend money to do this.
• You will submit a report outlining your process and explaining your final product.
• You will present your ArtBot on the due date with the rest of the class, and we will create an AWESOME piece of collective ArtBot art.

Report Outline

Your report will resemble a scientific report, in that it will have sections and headings as follows:

Title: You may want to name your ArtBot

Student Engineers:  Your names here

Objective: What is the purpose of your creation?  What are  you trying to do/accomplish?

Plan and Rationale: How are you planning on accomplishing your objective?  What method are you going to use to make your Bot move?  Why?

Materials: List all the materials and the quantity of each that you are using for your ArtBot.

Procedure: Provide step-by-step instructions for creating and operating your ArtBot

Observations:  What happened along the way?  What worked?  Why?  What didn’t work?  Why? What did you do to fix it?  Why?

Outcome:  Describe your final product.  Does it meet your objective?  Are you satisfied with the result?  Why?

Conclusions:  What have you learned from this project?  What scientific or technological or engineering or math or art concepts/principles are demonstrated by your ArtBot?  What did you learn about how things work?  Can you think of other ways that you could apply what you have learned?

Weekly Update

Math- Today we started our algebra unit - This is a very short unit ,so we will be having a quiz on Monday, May 1st

Literacy- We started presenting our debates - We have one more to go tomorrow. We then will be reviewing the writing forms

Social Studies- Students are working on their inquiry projects- presentations will begin next week

Science- We will begin our electricity unit this week


Agenda:
- French Carnival has been rescheduled to Wednesday, April 26th
-Hands ON science - electricity program is taking place on April 27th
-OELC forms - please sign and return

Daily Challenge: Solve each equation

Weekly Update & Math review

Weekly Update

Math- We will be having a math quiz on Friday, April 21st. It will be on ratios, unit rates and BEDMAS. Please see the review below and have it completed for Thursday
-Please sign and send back the fraction math test

Literacy- We have been preparing for our debates - Students will be give two more prep days and the first debate will be on Thursday  

Social Studies-We are working away on our inquiry projects. Students independently will be exploring a topic that interests them under the topic "Canada Past and Present" - students will be preparing a presentation to share with their peers


Agenda items:
Hands on Electricity Program - April 27th
Shave for the Brave - April 21st
Spring Carnival - April 25th
Jump Rope for Heart forms coming home today

***Important dates -The grade 6 students will be writing the EQAO assessment on May 30th, May 31st and June 1st ****

Math Review

A.

B.
Decide which is the better value based on the unit prices

. a) $25.00 for concert tickets for 2 people or $36.00 for concert tickets for 3 people.

b) $380 for a bus for 32 people or $420 for a bus for 38 people.

c) $4.25 for 4 L of milk or $2.55 for 2 L of milk.

d) 35 g of mixed nuts for $0.99 or 50 g of mixed nuts for $1.49.

 e) inline skate rentals at $30.00 for 4 hours or $54.00 for 7 hours.

 f) 1 L of pop for $0.90 or a case of 24 cans of 355 mL of pop for $4.25.

g) 500 sheets of paper for $9.45 or 4500 sheets of paper for $49.00.

h) 25 L of gas for $21.50 or 35 L of gas for $40.00.


C. Complete the equation below. Show all your work. Remember to follow BEDMAS

MEGA CHALLENGE

Make your own B.E.D.M.A.S. question using the numbers 1-9 and all the operations in B.E.D.M.A.S. The answer also has to be 7. 

Daily Challenge - BEDMAS

Weekly Update& Daily Challenge

Math- We will be looking at ratios and unit rates this week. We will also be focusing on BEDMAS.

Literacy- We will be finishing our novel "Wenjack"
-This week we will be working on our debates - this assignment will consist of both a written and oral component- Students will be put on a debate team and will randomly select a topic and position - The debates will be presented in a specific format and will follow a set of success criteria

Social Studies- This week we will be starting our inquiry projects- Students can choose a topic that falls under the umbrella of Canada Past and Present
Topic we have explored:
- Immigration to Canada
-Canadian Identity
-Refugees
-Civil Rights
-First Nations and Europeans
-First contact
-Residential Schools
-Chinese Canadians
-Japanese Canadians
-French
-Irish immigration
-Scottish immigration

Agenda Items:
Thank you for all the donations of batteries :)
Please bring back the hands on science form and $
Please send any milk bags & pop cans



Daily Challenge

 

Weekly Update

Math- We will be writing our fraction and decimal test on Wednesday, April 5th. Part 1 & 2 of the blog review has been posted and we have been reviewing in class as well. For the remainder of the week, we will be focusing on word problems involving fractions and decimals. In our next unit, we will be focusing on ratios and unit rate. 

Literacy- Students should have their draft copies of their persuasive writing completed for Wednesday. On Wednesday, students will be working through a peer assessment. Good copies will be due on Friday, April 7th. 

Social Studies- We will be focusing on the impact that Europeans had on the Aboriginal Communities.One issue that we will touch on this week, is residential schools. We will be watching a video called " The Secret Path" by Gord Downie. Later in the week, students will be exploring different communities in Canada focusing on push/pull factors and different challenges that they faced when arriving to Canada

Agenda:

-Any donations of AA batteries would be appreciated for our Artbot project (coming soon)

- Permission form for scientist in schools is coming home tonight (permission form and payment due on April 14th)