May 16 and 17

So, Monday we spent the science block researching our biomes. I hope you all have a good start at it. Today, we devised an idea of what adaptation is. Please have the adaptation worksheets (the one with the very cute water vole on it) ready to hand in on Thursday. It's for marks!!!! Thursday, you will have a double block of library and computer time to research your project. You will be given enough time, I believe, to finish at least the climagraph and the food chain for your biome. They will be due by the end of the school day (general managers job) and they will be marked. Your pre-activity managers have a rubric for how I will be marking them. If you can, you should try to get some of the other things done as well, like the food web and the energy pyramid. I haven't told you yet but you will also have to produce profiles on two of your biome animals indicating how they have adapted to live in your biome. Just like the homework sheet.

Friday, you will be given another double block to work on your project. You will be making your puppets this day!!!! Bring socks, buttons, needle, sewing string, and anything else you want to use to doll up your puppet. You will also be given time to do the food web and the pyramid, which will be due by the end of Friday.

You should be thinking about doing some work as a group outside of school. I'm only giving one more project block next week. After that, we'll have to talk about a marking rubric for the presentation and the presentations themselves.

Some silencers have not emailed me yet. Your group is getting marks for this as it's part of your project. Email me soon.
Cheers
MrJay