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Our classroom will have a STEM focus which will include Makerspace activities. To help keep our Makerspace going we are always looking for odds and ends! This may include, but not be limited to, small plastic containers (recycled), paper towel and or toilet paper rolls, old magazines, newspapers, masking tape, old tools you may not need or use any more, fabric scraps, thread, sewing needles, yarn, bubble wrap, styrofoam, cardboard and anything else you may want to donate to our Makerspace.
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Geography Resources:
Natural Resources flow chart from start to end for a single product of your choice. Be sure to include a world map as part of your finished product.
- http://www.eschooltoday.com/energy/non-renewable-energy/what-is-non-renewable-energy.html
- http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/energy/ecostats
- http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/fossil.htm (Video)
- http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/non-renewable-energy/?ar_a=1
Natural Resources flow chart from start to end for a single product of your choice. Be sure to include a world map as part of your finished product.
Ontario is encouraging more girls to enter the engineering and science streams...
Check out this website http://www.onwie.ca
Ontario Network of Women in Engineering
Check out this website http://www.onwie.ca
Ontario Network of Women in Engineering
Keep your Career Cruising Resume up-to-date.
Landform Regions of North American
Watch this video to help review and reinforce what we did in class.
If you get a chance...share this video with your parents! (on a side note, the speaker is British and they say Maths not Math)
Girls and STEM
take a look (it is a bit long but might put you on a different path)
Goldieblox is an interactive toy company for girls. GoldieBlox launched in 2012 and went from a prototype on Kickstarter to more than $1m of pre-orders placed in under a month. In just under two years, GoldieBlox has made its way to Toys "R" Us, Amazon, and more than 6,000 retailers worldwide, including Canada, Australia, and the UK. The company was founded by Debbie Sterling, a Stanford engineering graduate and entrepreneur, out of Oakland California.
7S has been having fun with Makey Makey...be sure you watch the tutorial
We are so excited to use our new 3D Doodler Pen!!
Please bring in old newspapers if you can. We need them for our math design challenges!
Language Arts - Novel Study, main idea and inferencing, guided reading, vocabulary building, multi-media works
Math - Number Sense
Science - Interactions Within Ecosystems
STEM/Makerspace - Introduction to the concept, inventors and inventions, tinkering
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