Wed., June 1st

- Info: Field trip forms (with teacher signatures, with money) due Thursday.
- 10 minutes to finish up Solar System Sort from yesterday & submit
- Overview of Astronomy Unit
     - find your assigned partner and begin station #1 (link to it here) !!!

Leo and Marissa - if you are reading this, you two are partners and will be working together for this unit so you can get started now if you have time in between rowing

Tues., May 31st

To Tristan...Happy Birthday to you!

Topics discussed:
We are all made of stardust...

Questions to ponder...
Where exactly are we?...

Activity: Solar System Sort (in groups of 3)

Your homework:

• Watch http://goo.gl/yxTVVl
• Questions to answer into your notes (point form):
• What is the 1st element to form after the Big Bang?
• What is the 2nd element?
• What is formed after a billion years?
• What is hydrogen dioxide and what does this allow to form?


• 13.7 billion years after the Big Bang, what forms?

Wed., May 25th

Canada Sum of Us research in the LC today!!!

Reminder - those wanting to rewrite their Physics Unit test will do so tomorrow (Thursday) at lunch in our Science lab.  Rewrite will be multiple choice and short answer and will replace your previous mark.

Tues., May 24th

LC time to work on your Canada Sum of Us project!

Reminder: 
- Marks are linked under the Science Marks tab above
- Final exam schedule is now posted (link here)
- Physics re-write test is this Thursday at lunch in the science lab.  If you choose to rewrite, that will be your mark!

Mon, May 16th

WOW!  That was a long one!!  I am looking forward to hearing your feedback about the format of the Physics unit test!

PS....

Fri., May 13th

 to Aydan and Jazmin tomorrow!!!

Today:
- reviewed kWxh and discusses power surges
- completed ch 7 & 8 quiz corrections (submitted these corrections)
- Review time & test questions prediction

Answer keys to review packages:
- Fill-in-the-blank review package
- Calculations package answer KEY

Reminder: Physics unit (ALL - ch 7, 8 & 9) test on Monday

Thurs., May 12th

Yes Hali!!!
Ivy and Blackberry bushes = 0
IGS 9 = 10
#Winning!

Tues., May 11th

- New seating plan
- return notesbooklet
- Notes: another unit for energy (kWxh) and calculating costs
- practise: questions in your notesbook
- WB p 137

Reminder: 
Physics unit test on Monday

Mon., May 10th

- Quick review of power calculations with WB p 136 (Answers in Assignments & Review tab above)

- Notes: Power ratings & energy consumption 

- WS: Electric Power & Energy (submit by end of class)

- Submit notes booklet (for me to mark)

- bring your parents BC Hydro bill to class tomorrow (Wednesday)

- Review (options: Calculations handout, WB, textbook p 336 - 339)

Reminder:

- Farm Thursday 

- Physics test next Monday

While Neufeld's away the IGS 9er's will ... work on their Sum of Us

Hello Team, 

Just some encouragement to keep picking away at your big Sum of Us project. The LC has been booked on Wednesday, May 18th (one side), Tuesday, May 24th and Thursday, May 26th. I would like you to have at least a rough draft of events up through the American Revolution ready for me to look at by the 18th. 

Here's it is, in case you need it: 

Canada

The Sum of Us – IGS 9

We have spent most of this semester looking at how Canada ended up being what it is today. We’ve looking at early ^1/First Nations societies (especially the Iroquois Confederacy, ^2/French Colonization, 3/ British Colonization and then ultimately a war between the ^4/French and the British on the Plains of Abraham.

We will also study the ^5/American Revolution and how it affected us both in terms of the arrival of the ^6/United Empire Loyalists and the idea of representative government. This is not the end of the influences that made us who we are today so …

As well as the above-mentioned influences, take a look at the following moments in history as you try to come up with your version of how we ended up the Sum of Us:

^7/ The Magna Carta … essentially a myth that became an argument for governance:

The political myth of Magna Carta and its protection of ancient personal liberties persisted after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 until well into the 19th century. It influenced the early American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies and the formation of the American Constitution in 1789, which became the supreme law of the land in the new republic of the United States.

^8/The English Civil War

Round heads and Cavaliers and an unpopular King called Charles

^9/The French Revolution

The Declaration of the Rights of Man was a great charter … too bad about the guillotine.

And, the ^10/War of 1812

Canada Wins! Wait … were we even Canada?

^11/How do all of these moments in Canadian and European history contribute your understand of Canada today?

Finally, what does all of this mean for a ^12/Canada that is moving forward? How do we participate in leading our country into a future that includes the scientific certainly of a changing climate (including no snow for the first time) and, on the positive side, the indigenous observational science that has worked sustainably for as many as 13,000 years?

You will be asked to present a Gallery Display to show how each of these (10) moments in history. You will be marked out of 120 marks based on a rubric that will used as the evaluator walks around the displays looking at all of your presentations.

Fri., May 6th

- Complete the 4 worksheet-like pages that are in your notes booklet (up to Power notes)
- Notes: Power & practise in calculating power

If practise pages are not completed, it is homework (submit on Tuesday)

If you would like some extra practise on series vs parallel circuits, WB p. 130-133 (Answer Key in tab above)

Have a great weekend!

Thurs., May 5th

Happy Cinco de Mayo!!

In about a months time, I will be asking each of you to get your teachers to sign off that you are "in good standing" with their course.  This is us giving you permission to attend a field trip to UVic on June 7th.  Please ensure that you work hard over the next month to make sure you can go.

Today:
- quick review of ch 8
- discussion of Physics unit test (predicted to be on Monday, May 16th)
- Notes: How to calculate V, I & R in a series vs parallel circuit