Girls in a car

Cereal Box Challenge

Great job on the challenge every one!

Media - How do they get us to buy?

We are thinking critically about advertising in general, but we are focusing on the packaging of cereal. Here are resources to extend your learning beyond what we've done in class.

Don't buy it, get smart media
Branding children
Centre for Science in Public Interest

Co-operation videos

Trip to Forest Valley

At Forest Valley our inquiry question was how healthy is the water in the river? We tested samples from two different sites and we looked to see what creatures live in the water.

Language Assignment

Learning goal: We are learning to analyze elements of various media forms.

Watch these two films that are based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. Answer this question in a Google doc and share with me.
What choices do the film-makers make to take the story from something you read to something you view? Are the choices effective, how so? Focus on elements like

• music (follow the link to find descriptive words, only use words that you are comfortable with)
• graphics, animation, action
• narration (think about the volume, pitch, pace, tone)
• details of the story to omit/add/change
• transitions (how the story moves from scene to scene)

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Two Point Perspective

Writing task due Friday

March 8 was International Women's Day which celebrated women's achievement and called for greater equality with men. This week I want you to begin to explore this new inquiry question on your own.

How have things changed, and how have they remained the same for women?

Here are two pages to start your exploration.

Emily Murphy | Historica Canada
Nellie McClung

History sign-up sheet

I've posted the sign-up sheet on google docs. If you have a question, please leave it in the comment section in Google docs.

Volley Ball Drills

Pi (songs and docs)

Writing inquiry questions

We are learning to write good inquiry questions.

What makes a good inquiry question?
Maham says - it must be a question that makes you think deeply. 
Hafsa says - it is a question that has different steps that takes you to the answer.
Sofia says - There can be lots of different answers to the question.
Ashanti says - it's a question you really have to think about.

Here are some other points

Good inquiry questions:

• lead to new questions
• arise from curiosity and confusion about the world
• will lead to answers that are complex 
• will lead to answers that consider many aspects of an idea

Here are some examples of  inquiry questions

Is the school system fair?

What makes a good friend?

What is the best type of power?

What is well being?

What is diversity?

How do human settlement patterns impact the environment?

Your task today was to watch the video below and 

Work collaboratively through the following steps to try to create deep questions based on your thinking about the video.

1. Have a discussion about what you observe is happening and what you infer is happening.
2. Each person in the group should create 3-5 questions based on their curiosities arising from the video.
3. After everyone has a list of preliminary questions, collaborate to choose 3 of these initial questions to perfect them into deep inquiry questions.
4. For each of your ‘perfected’ questions, list 1-2 additional questions that arise from the ‘perfected’ questions.