This Week on the Island 11/28-12/02

Dates to Remember:

• Charity Fair - 12/07 @ 5:00 p.m.
• Holiday Break - 12/19 - 01/03

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Charity Fair Project Website

Classroom News

  5^th Science

This week we continue to study the sky and the celestial bodies. We will take a look at how the moon affects the tides, and discover just how solar and lunar eclipses are possible. On Wednesday we will take a brief detour to work on your instructable for the Charity Fair. Remember to bring your pictures, materials list and instructions. Together we will work on formatting them in a sensible way to add them to your Charity Fair Board. Instructable Template

6^th Science 

We are knee deep in our Heredity unit. We will discuss different ways to figure out dominance and develop ways to figure out the probability of passing traits using Punnett squares. On Wednesday we will take a brief detour to work on your instructable for the Charity Fair. Remember to bring your pictures, materials list and instructions. Together we will work on formatting them in a sensible way to add them to your Charity Fair Board. Instructable Template

7th Science

This week is all about your superhero concept. You will work to research and develop your superhero, paying particular attention to the structures that need to change in your superhero that will allow him/her to have superpowers. Do not forget to write down the needed information and add it to its portfolio. On Wednesday we will take a brief detour to work on your instructable for the Charity Fair. Remember to bring your pictures, materials list and instructions. Together we will work on formatting them in a sensible way to add them to your Charity Fair Board. Instructable Template

7^th  Engineering

Our priority this week is your board for the Charity Fair. It is important for you to have available all the different components, ready to be added to your boards.

• Product Name, Members Names, Company Name
• Picture or Drawing of Product
• Information about Charity (short paragraph or bullet points)
• Statistics about Charity 
• Instructable 
• Product Cost & Profit Document

Depending on what you have with you, we may also start on the Thermos Challenge.

8^th  Engineering

Our priority this week is your board for the Charity Fair. It is important for you to have available all the different components, ready to be added to your boards.

• Product Name, Members Names, Company Name
• Picture or Drawing of Product
• Information about Charity (short paragraph or bullet points)
• Statistics about Charity 
• Instructable 
• Product Cost & Profit Document

Depending on what you have with you, you may also continue with your Exploravision project, taking a close look at compiling your work and drafting your web pages.