Monday, March 4, 2013

MATH: 

Business Day:
ALL TEAMS: Begin to research (jot notes)  the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child / AIP / Water Sanitization Issues / Gender Issues & Education / MDG
MARKETING: continue to brainstorm potential company names; create the following pages - logo designs / slogans / jingles / radio commercial
RESEARCH: lead the research listed in the ALL TEAMS section
ACCOUNTANT: search templates for tracking finances; create your own or use a pre-formatted ledger sheet in microsoft excel 
MANAGER: support in leading the research listed in the ALL TEAMS section
Teams have their business product/service concepts approved... it is now yours to make it real !   Own it !!!

PAST DUE:
Prominent Leaders in Canada.  View the video in Voicethread and respond to the Big Idea question (respond in your own words, do not plagiarize).

Friday, March 1, 2013


Prominent Leaders in Canada.  View the video in Voicethread and consider the Big Idea question due Monday March 4th (respond in your own words, do not plagiarize).
Identify the achievements and contributions of a prominent leader/figure in the Black community.  How did their achievements and contributions influence modern day society and young Canadians?


Business Day:
ALL TEAMS: Begin to research (jot notes)  the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child / AIP / Water Sanitization Issues / Gender Issues & Education / MDG
MARKETING: thank you for leading the survey/graph analysis and meeting today's submission deadline
create a 'company name' page and begin to brainstorm potential company names
RESEARCH: thank you for leading the related businesses research and meeting today's submission deadline
lead the research listed in the ALL TEAMS section
ACCOUNTANT: continue to lead discussions/research on 'gist' words related to investment
MANAGER: continue to lead research/discussions on business mission statement
Congratulations to all of you for coming in prepared today for our Business Day meeting.  Teams who have their potential business idea approved... it is now yours to make it real!   Own it!!!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Prominent Leaders in Canada.  View the video in Voicethread and consider the Big Idea question due Monday March 4th (respond in your own words, do not plagiarize).
  • Identify the achievements and contributions of a prominent leader/figure in the Black community.  How did their achievements and contributions influence modern day society and young Canadians? 
SOCIAL STUDIES:  Continuity and Change google docs group discussion in-class and complete questions at-home due Friday March 1st.

MATH: Entrance Pass due tomorrow, focussing on surface area of a triangular prism


  • Create a mission statement page
  • Each member of the team will research their favourite company and browse through their website-find their mission statement and paste into your wiki (also hyperlink the company website to your wiki page)
Business Day due Friday:
  • further research what your roles/responsibilities are as a leader
  • finalize: customer survey analysis
  • finalize: research on related businesses and business contacts

SCIENCE: Scientists in the School (SIS) guest Sandy joined us today and engaged students in a variety of experiments focussing on electricity (simple/series/parallel circuits).
 

 

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Prominent Leaders in Canada.  View the video in Voicethread and consider the Big Idea question due Monday March 4th (respond in your own words, do not plagiarize).

  • Identify the achievements and contributions of a prominent leader/figure in the Black community.  How did their achievements and contributions influence modern day society and young Canadians? 
SOCIAL STUDIES:  Continuity and Change google docs group discussion in-class and complete questions at-home due Friday March 1st.

  • Create a mission statement page
  • Each member of the team will research their favourite company and browse through their website-find their mission statement and paste into your wiki (also hyperlink the company website to your wiki page)
Business Day due Friday:
  • further research what your roles/responsibilities are as a leader
  • finalize: customer survey analysis
  • finalize: research on related businesses and business contacts
PAST DUE: 
  • Heritage & Citizenship Wiki in your research, examine the positive and negative effects of interactions between Europeans and First Nation Peoples (focussing on your assigned perspective: religion / trade / food / education / medicine / natural resources / government needs / social needs / physical needs).
  • Social Studies: view the videos on the Social Studies Blog and respond to the guiding question (one original response and comment on another students response).

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Prominent Leaders in Canada.  View the video in Voicethread and consider the Big Idea question due Monday March 4th (respond in your own words, do not plagiarize).
  • Identify the achievements and contributions of a prominent leader/figure in the Black community.  How did their achievements and contributions influence modern day society and young Canadians? 
SOCIAL STUDIES:  Continuity and Change google docs group discussion in-class and complete questions at-home due Friday March 1st.


  




MATH: 
  • Entrance Pass: using the knowledge co-constructed in the measurement blog and the discussions in class today, complete the Chocolongo Bar challenge on your own for tomorrow; 
  • In your measurement blog cycle 2-reflect on process leading up to the Performance Task (collaborating on the blog, placemat activity, and math talk in class) and how it helped you to extend and analyze the question.

  • further research what your roles/responsibilities are as a leader
  • finalize: customer survey analysis
  • finalize: research on related businesses and business contacts
PAST DUE: 
  • Heritage & Citizenship Wiki in your research, examine the positive and negative effects of interactions between Europeans and First Nation Peoples (focussing on your assigned perspective: religion / trade / food / education / medicine / natural resources / government needs / social needs / physical needs).
  • Social Studies: view the videos on the Social Studies Blog and respond to the guiding question (one original response and comment on another students response).


Monday, February 25, 2013

"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our students of tomorrow"  John Dewey

Read the above quote.  This will be our discussion opener for tomorrow morning  :o)
SOCIAL STUDIES: 
  • Heritage & Citizenship Wiki in your research, examine the positive and negative effects of interactions between Europeans and First Nation Peoples (focussing on your assigned perspective: religion / trade / food / education / medicine / natural resources / government needs / social needs / physical needs).
  • Social Studies: view the videos on the Social Studies Blog and respond to the guiding question (one original response and comment on another students response).
MATH: 
  • Entrance Pass: surface area, wallpapering a bedroom use feedback from discussion today to review and revise your math thinking

  • further research what your roles/responsibilities are as a leader (include links)
  • finalize: customer survey analysis
  • finalize: research on related businesses and business contacts