Who knew it was possible to list so many different objects that are red and round? Division 2 was able to brainstorm over fifteen different objects that met those criteria. (Impressive, I know!!) The more we brainstormed, the more ideas we came up with! It made for a perfect discussion about why it is important to be specific when making observations in Science. Making observations involves senses (what we see, smell, and feel), so we put those senses to work when we looked at different objects (including parsley, a zipper, a branch, green tea, a Ritz cracker, a piece of string, a candy cane and a pine cone) and made several specific observations. This skill will come in handy when doing experiments later this term. An important goal that we will be working on this year is building our digital literacy skills. This week we learned that we don’t have the freedom to copy and paste images off of the Internet like we thought we did. Who knew!?! Instead we need to use photos from reliable websites such as Wikimedia Commons and Compfight to ensure that we are using images appropriately (following the creative commons licencing) and we need to give credit for images that we use. Sounds complicated, but we are a group of quick learners who learn best when we get to practise! One of the curricular competencies in the new Math curriculum involves implementing multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life situations. (For more information on the new curriculum, click this link: https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/home). We put that competency into practise this week when we had $25 to “spend” at a local pizza restaurant. Some students used calculators while others preferred using pencil/paper to add up their decimal numbers to determine the sum. We had to use logic and reasoning to make sure that we were making good choices and didn’t overspend. Not as easy as we expected! (When asked to use only a pencil and paper, the teacher in me was making sure students were lining up their decimals correctly and stepping in when needed). Our next task involved subtracting the cost of a pizza from our $25 budget. This was more challenging for many of us because using a pencil/paper while subtracting $21.99 from $25 involves “borrowing” so many needed a quick “brush up.” Several students even took on the challenge of also calculating the tax (which made for a great discussion about the HST vs. PST in restaurants). We certainly had a class filled with motivated students in Math this week! A great week of learning in division 2! What will next week bring?
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