Exciting things have been happening in grade six over the past several days. In science, students are hard at work creating dichotomous key classification systems to categorize 16 imaginary aliens. This is a fun application of classification skills that we have been learning about in our unit on biodiversity.
Students have to work extremely carefully to split up the aliens, always using two different options each time. Different groups have decided to divide the aliens in unique ways, and it is interesting to see their creative ideas!
Students have to work extremely carefully to split up the aliens, always using two different options each time. Different groups have decided to divide the aliens in unique ways, and it is interesting to see their creative ideas!
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In math, we are continuing our graphing unit. Last Friday, the students collected their own data to graph by performing an experiment. Working as a team, they had to try to get as many pennies as possible into a small container. The catch? They had to carry the pennies between their knees! It was a fun way to collect data that could be displayed in a line graph.
One final note. Although we have been working on these activities in December, the marks for the dichotomous keys and the math graphing activities will be part of term two report cards.