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Players in an Ecosystem

4/23/2018

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Food - Matter & Energy

4/16/2018

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On the human food label:

How do we find the energy (calories) per serving?
How do we find the matter (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals)?
Where can we locate the list of ingredients?

On the pet food label:

Where can we locate the list of ingredients?
How do we find the percentage of different types of matter in the food?

Answer the following questions while analyzing the Nutrition Labels:

As a result of looking at food labels, what did you learn about food?
Look at the ingredients of one human food label. Write down the food name. What ingredients came from animals?
What ingredients in the above food label came from plants?
What similarities and differences did you notice between the human food and pet food labels you looked at?
Choose an animal/insect from the ecosystem walk. What do you think it eats? Explain what you think it gets from its food.

On the human food label:

A) You find the "amount per serving" Category, and B) you look right below it to "Calories"
You look in the "% Daily Value*" section
Near the bottom, where it says "INGREDIENTS:"

On the pet food label:

On the top of the label, where it says "INGREDIENTS:"
At the bottom, where it says "GUARANTEED ANALYSIS:"

Answers:

I didn't learn anything about food from the labels. I did, however, learn about food from the lesson!
The food I chose was tomato soup. The ingredients that came from animals are: there are no ingredients that came from animals.
The ingredients that came from plants are: tomato puree and wheat flour.
The similarities I saw between the human food and pet food labels were: they both have lists of ingredients and they both have %s of things.
My animal is a worm. It eats the nutrients in the soil. It gets energy and matter from it's food.

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Skills 21 Reflection

4/12/2018

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What Is An Ecosystem?

3/22/2018

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Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Ducks Eat Bugs and plants
Bugs eat plants
Plants filter out microscopic organisms
Ducks eat fishies (fish :)
Ducks talk to ducks
Ducks swim with ducks
Microscopic organisms eat plants
Microscopic organisms eat fish

Between Living and non-living things

Ducks breathe air
Plants breathe air
Ducks move water
Water moves plants
Duck drinks water
Bugs drink water
Plants get energy from the sun
Ducks fly through the air
plant uses water
Microscopic organisms drink water

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Between Living and non-living things

Fish eat fish
Fish talk to fish
Fish eat plants
Fish eats algae
Fish eat microscopic organisms
Fish swim with fish

Fish breathes air
Fish moves water
Fish drinks water
Algae uses dirt to grow
Algae uses sun to grow
Plant breathes air
Plant uses water
Water moves plants
Microscopic organisms drink water

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

What kinds of living things (organisms) do you see in both pictures?
What other living things might be here, even if you can't see them in the photos?
Why might living things in these photos interact with each other?
Read the BIG IDEA below. How do these pictures depict an ecosystem?

Answers:

The living things (organisms) I see in both pictures is lake plants. there is nothing else I can see that they have in common, except for unliving things.
Other living things that might be here even if I can't see them in the photo are: Microscopic organisms

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21st Century Skills

3/22/2018

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#WorldPoetryDay

3/21/2018

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My Student-Led Conference

3/21/2018

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The Constitution of the Kingdom of Dustania

3/21/2018

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Answer the following reflection questions:

What was the hardest part of writing your preamble? Explain how you overcame that challenge.
What is your favorite part of your preamble? Why is that part powerful and important?
What is the purpose of a preamble in a constitution? What does it do?

Answers:

The hardest part of making our preamble was probably trying to make It sound good, like an actual preamble, while not repeating anything and making sure it made sense.
I think that the first part is the most important because 1, it says, "We The People." This shows that we are together and unified. 2, it says "aim for peace among ourselves."
The preamble in a constitution is the introduction to the constitution. It explains why we have a constitution, too.

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Properties Of Gases

3/4/2018

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Reflection questions:

What did you learn about air in this session (that took a couple periods)? Hopefully, you learned at least three BIG IDEAS!
What evidence do you have to explain the phenomenon that air takes up space (we didn't prove this in our video, but learned it in the first days of the lesson)?
What evidence do you have to explain the phenomenon that air has weight?
When Mr. Solarz watches your video, will he be able to find problems with your "proof" that air has weight? Remember when we watched videos together as a class he mentioned a few ways teachers could trick their students - make sure you didn't use any trickery!

Answers:

That air has to have weight -There are a lot of very good ways to prove that air has weight -That air can take any form it wants, and take up any amount of space it wants.
The evidence I have to explain the phenomenon that air takes up space Is that otherwise, (This is only true if you are indoors right now) you would be crushed to death. Air is kinda holding up your roof...
The evidence I have to explain the phenomenon that air has weight is that if air didn't have weight, then It wouldn't be matter (Also we probably wouldn't have an atmosphere :)
I don't think so. Me and Carmen made sure that what we said was true, and we did it out of our own thinking, so we didn't use trickery. There might be something, but most of the video should be good. If you watch our video, you can see that our way does work.

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Evidence For Meeting Common Core Standards

2/26/2018

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Character Comparison

How two characters are different from character
How two characters are alike

Character's Past

How a character changed
Evidence a character has changed

Text to Text Connections

How two books are alike

Character Trait

Try not to use "smart," "kind," and "funny"
Multiple pieces of evidence about what a character is like

Character Comparison:
How are Antonia and Harrison similar and different? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character's Past:
"How has Squirrel changed during the book?" What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Text-to-Text Connection:
In what ways are and similar? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character Trait:
What examples from the text are evidence that Chloe is kind? (A character is a specific personality trait)

Inference with Evidence:
I think Mrs. Gallegher told them about her husband because they were being nice to her. Here's all my evidence.

Prediction with Evidence: I think Mrs. Gallegher will be nicer to all kids now. Here's my evidence.

What's the theme?
Explain how specific moments in the text combine to create a moral or theme and describe that theme.

Responding to a Challenge:
How did Antonia respond to the challenge of getting grounded?

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Science Units & Resources:

STEM Investigations
Earth in Space
- Science Companion
- Mystery Science
- Mars Generation One
- Recap
- Weebly
Scientific Method (Science Fair)
Investigating Matter
Ecosystems

21st Century Skills:

Life Skills & Abilities (Skills21)
Digital Literacy (DQWorld)
Classroom Meetings
Mini-Lessons

Social Studies Units & Resources:

Revolutionary War
- history Alive Online (TCI)
- Recap
- Weebly
U.S. Constitution/Government
- iCivics
- EverFI
Geography

Social-Emotional Skills:

KinderPals (Peekapak)
Second Step
MindYeti

Reading Units (Schoolwide):

Launch
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Content Reading (Ecosystems)

Writing Units (WriteSteps):

Getting Ready
- WriteAbout
- PenPal Schools
True Stories (Narrative)
- Edji
Information/Explanatory
Opinion/Persuasive
Research/Expository

Spelling (Words Their Way):

Spelling City
Word Sorts
Sown to Grow (Goal-Setting)
Rotation Schedule

Math (Math in Focus):

Whole Numbers
1. Think Central
Multiplication & Division
Fractions & Mixed Numbers
Multiplication & Division
Algebra
1. Hands-On Algebra
Area
SKIP
Decimals
Multiplication & Division
Blah blah blah.
Graphs & Probability
1. Vault (EverFi)
2. PARCC Testing
3. Money Island (First America Bank)
Properties of Triangles & Quad's
Surface Area & Volume
Angles

Players in an Ecosystem

Food - Matter & Energy

Skills 21 Reflection

What Is An Ecosystem?

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

Answers:

21st Century Skills

#WorldPoetryDay

My Student-Led Conference

The Constitution of the Kingdom of Dustania

Properties Of Gases

Evidence For Meeting Common Core Standards

Character Comparison

Character's Past

Text to Text Connections

Character Trait

Character Comparison:
How are Antonia and Harrison similar and different? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character's Past:
"How has Squirrel changed during the book?" What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Text-to-Text Connection:
In what ways are and similar? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character Trait:
What examples from the text are evidence that Chloe is kind? (A character is a specific personality trait)

Inference with Evidence:
I think Mrs. Gallegher told them about her husband because they were being nice to her. Here's all my evidence.

Prediction with Evidence: I think Mrs. Gallegher will be nicer to all kids now. Here's my evidence.

What's the theme?
Explain how specific moments in the text combine to create a moral or theme and describe that theme.

Responding to a Challenge:
How did Antonia respond to the challenge of getting grounded?

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Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

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Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

Answers:

Character Comparison

Character's Past

Text to Text Connections

Character Trait

Character Comparison:How are Antonia and Harrison similar and different? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character's Past:"How has Squirrel changed during the book?" What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Text-to-Text Connection:In what ways are ____ and ____ similar? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

​Character Trait:What examples from the text are evidence that Chloe is kind? (A character is a specific personality trait)

​Inference with Evidence:I think Mrs. Gallegher told them about her husband because they were being nice to her. Here's all my evidence.

​Prediction with Evidence: I think Mrs. Gallegher will be nicer to all kids now. Here's my evidence.

​What's the theme?Explain how specific moments in the text combine to create a moral or theme and describe that theme.

​​Responding to a Challenge:How did Antonia respond to the challenge of getting grounded?

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Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Character Comparison:
How are Antonia and Harrison similar and different? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character's Past:
"How has Squirrel changed during the book?" What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Text-to-Text Connection:
In what ways are and similar? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character Trait:
What examples from the text are evidence that Chloe is kind? (A character is a specific personality trait)

Inference with Evidence:
I think Mrs. Gallegher told them about her husband because they were being nice to her. Here's all my evidence.

Prediction with Evidence: I think Mrs. Gallegher will be nicer to all kids now. Here's my evidence.

What's the theme?
Explain how specific moments in the text combine to create a moral or theme and describe that theme.

Responding to a Challenge:
How did Antonia respond to the challenge of getting grounded?