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Engineering Science Quest!

2/10/2017

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Today we were lucky enough to have Engineering Science Quest visit us today to teach us all about "Rocking Rockets!"

We looked at the engineering design process, learned about the four forces of flight and how they act on a plane, and how those same four forces of flight work on a rocket.

Check it out!

Next the students had a very short time (about 15 minutes) to prepare bottle rockets for launching, using the constraints of: a single bottle, a single piece of cardboard, and two strips of tape. They were trying to make their bottle to most aerodynamic.

​Check out some of our experiences here!
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Dear You Art Project #4

12/5/2016

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Last week the students completed the fourth in a series of art activities based on a character they created. Some students created fictional characters, selected favourite fictional characters from books, or used a real life person as their character (e.g., musicians, professional athletes, etc.). After drawing their character, they designed or created their house, and then the environment where their home may be located, and finally a vehicle that their character may use. Check out a slideshow of our vehicle artworks HERE!
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Dear You Art Project Exchange #3

12/4/2016

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The students were creating a day and nighttime setting on opposite sides of the same sheet of paper, for the character and their homes that we created inthe first two assignments. After creating daytime and nighttime images, students then cut them into spirals. Check out a few of our works.
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Dear You Art Project Exchange #2

12/4/2016

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For our second art exchange project, we completed etchings create with oil pastels and layers of black paint overtop. Once the black paint dried, students etched off some of the paint to create a picture. Check out the process in the following slide show.
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Experiences of Canadians in Profile

12/3/2016

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Students received packages of information on Canadians and they examined how they experienced conflict. Some examples include Josiah Henson, Mary Murakami and Chief Poundmaker. What lessons can be learned from the experiences of people before us?
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Games, Learning Opportunities, or Both?

12/3/2016

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Most days we would have an opportunity to play a game that gave us a firsthand chance to experience conflict and develop skills that would help to resolve the conflict created in the game.

On one of the first days, without looking at each other (facing directly out away from the rest of the class) students were provided with a rope and given instructions to form a specific shape with the the rope and themselves... sounds easy? Not in actuality, but practice does provide an opportunity to improve our skills!
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In the picture above, you can actually see one of the corners we created as part of a rectangle.  This was one of our later attempts as students realized that they need to listen to one another and by designating a few students as "corners" it made it easier for other students to know where to move... still a challenge, but doable! 
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In the picture to the left, the class was divided into two different groups that communicate using different hand symbols, but still were given the task of trading coloured shapes...

What would this look like with different groups of people that actually had different customs and spoke different languages? What would you need to take into account?

In the photos below, the students worked in groups with their "gravity sticks" to lower or raise them to or from the ground. Different parameters made the challenge different each time (e.g., eyes all closed, not speaking, etc.)
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Personal Crests

12/3/2016

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After examining symbols of Canada, the students created their own crests related to their personal identity, their heritage, their community, and Canada. Here are a few pieces of student work.
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What would be included in your personal crest? Let us know, we'd love to hear about it!
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TREE - The Ripple Effect Education

12/3/2016

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The Ripple Effect Education (TREE) is based out of Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo. TREE is an educational initiative run through the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement at Grebel, in its inaugural year of programming.

This fall we learned about Canadian heritage and identity through activities infused with social justice and conflict resolution skills. Students were encouraged to learn about their own heritage, and that of their peers.

The next few posts will be about our learning and activities that we did as a class to deepen our understanding of social justice and acceptance towards the differences in others, as well as understanding how to resolve conflict when it occurs.

One of our first lessons examined symbols that are associated with Canada. Check out some of the images as we talked and disucssed out thoughts on these images.

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Electricity Game Fair

11/4/2016

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After a month or so of hard and challenging work, students were able to share their Electricity Games that they created with other grade 5 and 6 students at the school. It was an exciting and memorable time for all of the students, and many parents and grandparents were able to make it out to the school to check out the student's hard work.
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Electricity Game Construction

11/4/2016

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As their project in their Electricity Unit, students worked in partners or individually to create a game that required some sort of electricity to operate (e.g., a battery operated light, buzzer, or motor). Check out the "under construction" pictures!
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