Next, we each chose a species that was interesting to us and researched how it interacts with its ecosystem. Below is Danielle's project on the beaver and Jayden's project on the blue jay.
We have spent a lot of time learning about the role of organisms in an ecosystem. For example, we learned about how the salmon is a part of a population, a community, and an ecosystem. It depends on other species (including decomposers) and abiotic elements like water and light. Next, we each chose a species that was interesting to us and researched how it interacts with its ecosystem. Below is Danielle's project on the beaver and Jayden's project on the blue jay.
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In Social Studies, we have been learning about democracy in Ancient Greece and comparing it to our modern-day democracy in Canada. After doing some research and creating a comparison table, we had to present a short speech on which democracy we thought was better. Mme. Bunker gave us feedback to help guide our learning - for example, what was our criteria for "better" or "fair" - and we had an opportunity to record a second improved version of our speech. Below are a few examples. Enjoy! We have started our unit on ecosystems! We have been learning about levels of organization in nature: populations, communities, and ecosystems. Today, we were all assigned a species and we modelled a food web. We quickly realized that scavengers are very resourceful and that decomposers are necessary for all forms of life. Mme. Bunker came in as a human destructing the forest to build residential developments; we discussed a few other ways that humans can have a negative impact on ecosystems. We've just finished up our projects on circles and area, and they look great! We had to design a water park that had specific features as well as something special that we created ourselves. We practiced showing our work and applying the formulas we've been learning about in class. They turned out pretty well! Thanks to Danielle, Johnathan, and Kelly for sharing their pro |
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