All Categories - What's going on in Mr. Solarz' Class?

21st Century Skills

3/16/2018

Evidence For Meeting Common Core Standards

2/27/2018

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

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

Text-to-Text Connection:
In what ways are The Kindness Club and Junie B. Jones series 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.

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

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

Responding to a Challenge:
How did Chloe respond to the challenge of Monroe being angry with her?

The 2018 Inventor's Challenge!

2/22/2018

My video got messed up and would not upload.

Leadership Day 2018

2/7/2018

Before leadership Day

After leadership day

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

If you could make more changes to your poster board, what would you do? Why?
What aspect of your poster board are you most proud of? Why?
How did your speech improve once you had given it several times?
In your opinion, why did it improve?
What do you hope people learned from your poster board and presentation?
What did you do to try to ensure that they learned those things?
What things were surprisingly easy for you today that you thought might have been harder?
What things were difficult today. Why were they hard for you?
What comments were people telling you about your message? What did they say that was meaningful?

I would not have used cool design scissors because it doesn't look that great. I also would have taken the titles on one of the sides and put them on the same piece of paper.
I am most proud of our title because there is a ribbon on it which makes it pop out and there is also a great picture that looks very nice on there.
I stuttered a lot less because I knew what I had to talk about and what to do.
In my opinion it got better because I knew what I was talking about and what to do better.
I hope they learned how leadership works not just in our classroom, but in our school. I also hope they learned how we show student leadership.
I tried to focus on those the most. I did that so they would really understand.
Looking people in the eye was what I thought would be harder and was pretty easy.
I think that it was the hardest to remember what to talk about at first because it was new to me talking in front of people.
They said I was very good at talking and explaining things. They said that it was meaningful that I looked them in the eyes the whole time.

Global School Play Day 2018

2/7/2018

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

Why does Peter Gray feel that children need more experience playing games without adult interference? (Remember: All answers need follow-up sentences! Your answer is always better by the 2nd and 3rd sentences!)
How did you improve your creativity, improvisation, teamwork, and initiative skills today? If you don't know what some of these skills are, please ask me!
Why should other teachers do Global School Play Day in their classrooms?

He feels that way because not many kids know what to do during their free time. They usually ask their parent what to do instead of playing with their creativity. If they don't ask a parent what to do they just most likely play on electronics but, a long time ago kids didn't have electronics so they were more creative and, would play made up games and now kids don't usually use there creativity they just ask someone what to do or play on electronics.
I just kind of made up rules that were kind of different and, I wouldn't have thought about making them before to make the game more fun. I improved my teamwork by taking everyone's ideas in to account and adding onto them or improving them sometimes to make them better.
They should have it in their classrooms because it can teach their kids to be more creative and even help them to improve their creativity and teamwork. They should also do it to teach them that electronics are not life or they could because it is fun.

The Supplies I Get to Take With Me to Mars! By: Kya

1/30/2018

Properties of Gases By: Kya

1/25/2018

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!

I learned that air has weight. I also learned that air takes up space, and that has everywhere not just down.
Well, we did this expirement that proved air takes up space, where we put a cup with paper on the bottom face down into a bucket of water and the paper stayed dry because there was no more room in cup.
There is another expirement where we put balloons on a stick and popped one and the side with the full balloon rose up higher than the other.
Maybe because it looked kind of like 1 of us pushed it up or down.

If the World were a Village By: Kya

1/12/2018

population:
32 countries have more than 40 million people
11 countries have more than 100 billion people
china has over 1 million-three hundred people people
of a hundred people with real stastistics
60 from Asia
15 from africa
11 from Europe
8 from from south America and Mexico central America
1 from Occeania
5 from Canada and the united states
langauge:
21 speak Chinese
9 speak Hindi
9 speak english
7 speak spanish
4 speak Bengali
4 speak aribic
3 speak Portuguese
3 speak Russian
ages:
1\5 of the villige are children
9 are children under 5
10 are between 5-9
18 are between 10 -19
17 are between 20-29
15 30-39
12 40-49
9 50-59
6 60-69
3 70-79
1 is over 79
religion:
33 are Christians
22 muslims
15 non-religious
14 hindus
9 practice shamanism, animism
5 buddhists
2 belong to other global religions
animals\food:
31 sheep and goats
23 cows oxen and bulls
15 pigs
3 camels
2 horses
700 chickens
47% of people in the world do not have food securtiy
30% do not have a reliable food source
17% are under nurished
water and air that are clean
87% have access to clean water
13% do not have access water
62% have to adequate sanitation
38% doesn't have proper sanitation
68% breathe clean air
32% breathe air that is unhealthy because of polution
schooling/work
36 kids only 30 kids got to school 1 teacher for the 30 kids
6 kids work instead of go to school
3 of them work around the house
3 are child laborers
of the people that are old enough to read 14 are illiterate
money/possesions
the 10 richest people have 85% of the worlds wealth
the poorest 10% of people make less then $2 a day
the other 80 people have something in between
half of the people make $6 a day
50 radios
45 televisions
103 telephones
28 computers
10% own automobiles
20% own bikes
2% own trucks
76% have electricity
24% do not
73% of the worlds energy comes from fossil fuel
17% comes from nuclear power plants
10% comes from a renewable sources such as wind and water
Health
41% of people live in an area that is invested with malaria
6% of people contract malaria
80 people in the village get the right shots
the global village has been growing
in 2150 there will be 250 people in the global village and sientests think that, that will be the maximum capacity the earth can hold and we might have to occupy another planet

Something that surprised me was that in 2150 the world will not have enough room for us and we will have to occupy another planet! Something else that was surprising was that 60% of our population is from Asia. But it was upsetting that 17% of our population is under nourished. Something I wish were different is that I wish money was spread out more evenly. I thought this needed some improving because it is unfair that some people make less than $5 a day. I could help by, raising a chairity to give money to the poor and that could improve the problem.

Properties of Matter By: Kya

1/11/2018

Solids

particles in solids don't move around and don't fill the space there in
solids can always be seen except for those that are to small or transparent for the naked eye
Has a definite shape

Liquids

particles in liquids flow and fill the space they're in, following the rules of gravity
liquids can always be seen except for those that are to small or transparent, or soaked into a solid
Assuming good health conditions, that you are trying to feel it, that we can always feel liquids

Has a definite volume

Gases

particles in gases flow and fill the space they're in, ignoring the rules of gravity
we can rarely see gases except for when the particles are big enough like steam or our breath in the winter
Has a indefinite shape and volume

Solid: book

hard
not malleable
light in weight
colorful
pages are bendable
pages are able to rip

Liquid: water

transparent
indefinite shape
reflective

Gas: air

transparent
warm

What unique properties can be used to identify a material as a solid?
What unique properties can be used to identify a material as a liquid?
What unique properties can be used to identify a material as a gas?
Do you think most solids we can see such as wood, rice, and flour could be divided into smaller and smaller pieces?
Based on this information, what do you think solid matter is made up of?
What do you think liquids and gases are made up of?

One unique property of a solid is having a definite shape. Another unique property is that all of the particles in a solid don't move around.
Liquids have the unique property of that they are fluid. It can also turn into a solid or a gas.
One Unique property is that gases ignore the rules of gravity and they also are rarely seen.
Yes, because if you smashed all of those tings with a hammer they would turn into smaller pieces.
I think they are made up of molecules and atoms they are firmly and tightly packed together to make up a solid.
More atoms and molecules that move and sway around.

What is Matter? By: Kya

12/14/2017

Solids

Table
Chair
Bookshelf
Pencil

Liquids

Water
Pepsi
Sparkling water
Ink

Gases

Oxygen
Carbon dioxide
Helium
Argon

What is YOUR definition of matter?
Explain how you came up with that definition.
Scientists define matter as...

My definition of matter is that Matter is a bunch of tiny particals put together. Matter makes up everything including YOU!
How I came up with this definition: I thought about what we learned and made my definition from there.
Scientists define matter as: "physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy."