Week of January 5 - 9, 2015

Friday HW:
There is no formal homework today, but students should be making efforts to find out information about how the object they chose for the "Story of Stuff" is made.  A complete listing of the activity guidelines is included in the Changes in Matter booklet in which we do our in class work.  There is also an organizer in that booklet.  Students have seen a video outlining the process and have seen several examples of what a finished product looks like:  five short paragraphs, a heading and some hand drawn pictures on an 18 x 24 piece of manila paper.

Thursday HW
1.  Story of Stuff research should continue.  Focus on the extraction phase.
2.  Write three rough sentences for your citizen profile in the Create-a- Country activity.
3.  MMS lesson 5.5

Wednesday HW
1.  Story of Stuff research should continue.  You should have a list of the raw materials your object is made from for tomorrow.  Record this list in your agenda.
2.  A "Create a country"  in-class assignment was introduced today.  This is a partner project but each member has specific parts of the assignment and each will be marked independently.  The work is creative rather than research based so it can be done using ideas introduced in the unit.  We are looking at being done by January 22.  Tonight students should come up with three ideas about the leading citizen they invented.

Tuesday HW:
1.  Start "Story of Stuff" research.  Topics were selected today and we watched a Story of Stuff video.  You can view it to for some background.  It is widely available on Youtube.
2.  MMS, Lesson 5.4.

Monday HW:
Welcome back and happy new year!
1.  Choose three topics you would consider researching for our "Story of Stuff" report in science which we introduced today.  Remember what goes into making a good topic.  A car or computer are not suitable choices because they have too many different pieces. Also remember that we are looking at making a class book of 30 unique things, so I will not permit repeat topics.