This week in humanities, students spent most of their class periods working on the Ms. Moneybags project--a final assessment for our topic "Alberta: A Sense of the Land" before we move on to looking at the "The Stories, Histories and Peoples of Alberta." The project criteria and evaluation rubric is below. If students were not finished their writing by the end of the week, then they were expected to take it home this weekend to finish up for Monday. Ms. Moneybanks will be in on Monday to hear why she should leave her money to the Royal Terrell museum!!
Have a great weekend! —Ms. Jagger
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Websites Below you will find some key websites/links to help you complete your research. Question 1: To learn more about what paleontology is, click on the following links for information. Don’t forget to take jot notes and record key information for your presentation. http://www.dinosaursforkids.com/paleontology.html https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/paleontology/353591 https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/paleontology/what-s-the-big-idea-about-paleontology2 Question 2: The links below will give you more information about the history of dinosaurs in Alberta and fossil discoveries that took place. https://www.dinosaurvalley.com/stories-from-the-past http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/exhibits/alberta_fossil_trail.htm http://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/best-dinosaur-fossil-ever-discovered-in-alberta Question 3: The films and links below will help you to learn about Joseph Tyrrell, the namesake for the Royal Tyrrell Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m_4Gc4AYaI http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/about/the_naming_of.htm http://engagingstudents.blackgold.ca/index.php/division-ii/soc-d2/social-4/4-2-the-stories-histories-and-the-people-of-alberta/let-s-bring-alberta-s-history-to-life/builders-of-alberta/tyrell/ Questions 4 & 5: Below you will find links giving you information about Royal Tyrrell Museum. These will help you to learn about the museum. http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/research/collections.htm http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/research/fossils_law.htm http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/programs.htm http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/royal-tyrrell-museum-of-palaeontology/ These are NOT the only resources that you can do. You can search up your own information to add to your questions for Ms. Moneybags. This week in humanities, we continued learning about Alberta’s fossil heritage. We viewed on a map of our province where many different fossils have been found, including small sea creatures, ammonite (fossilized shells), amber (ancient tree sap), dinosaur tracks, and fossilized bones. Petrified wood is also a fossil and is the provincial stone of Alberta! We discussed how Joseph Tyrrell found the bones of a huge, meat-eating dinosaur in 1884 when he was looking for coal in the badlands. This discovery made Alberta famous and many more people rushed here to look for more fossil finds. Over the years, many thousands of fossils were discovered and shipped away from Alberta. In fact, before 1978, anyone could collect fossils in Alberta. That changed in 1978 when Alberta passed a law to protect its fossil heritage. The province now owns all fossils that are found here—people are allowed to collect fossils lying on the ground, but must report anything they find. In some areas, only paleontologists are allowed to dig for fossils with a special permit, and anything they find is sent to museums where they are preserved & studied. Students were engaged in the discussion and shared their own point of view about whether they thought this law was a positive or negative for Alberta. Some students even brought in their own fossils to share with the class!
Students also typed up a good copy of their dinosaur paragraph which they researched last week. They worked on creating a replica of their dinosaur’s skeleton to complement their writing. The students did a wonderful job and they look great on the bulletin board. We also read chapter five of our novel study “Owls in the Family” in which Billy taught Wol & Weeps to fly with mixed results! Students are continuing to work on & improve in their chapter response questions by writing in complete sentences, adding in specific details & vocabulary, and editing their work when done. Stay warm this weekend! (please read the flyer below about the 2018-19 yearbooks!) —Ms. Jagger Try out the multiplication games below to practice your basic facts:
https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games https://www.free-training-tutorial.com/times-tables-games.html Happy New Year! It was great catching up with students about their holidays, and continuing on with our humanities topics. This week, students started learning about Alberta’s fossil heritage. Students learned that fossils are the remains or shapes of ancient plants & animals that have turned to stone. We’re very lucky in Alberta as we have an abundance of fossils predominantly found in the badlands. Students learned a bit about the prehistory of Alberta and how it was once at the bottom of the ocean which is why we often find fossils of coral, shells and other sea life. Students were able to look closer at and handle fossils in class. These fossils included petrified wood, shells, coral, and plant life. Students learned that scientists who study fossils to learn about very old forms of life are called paleontologists. Although the work of paleontologists is rewarding, it is also extremely time-consuming and tedious, requiring precise work. Each student tried out being a paleontologist by unearthing fossilized specimens using chocolate chip cookies. They were given two cookies and weren’t allowed to move them once placed in front of them. For one cookie, they had to extract the “fossils” (chips) from the “land” (cookie) with just their fingers. On the other cookie, they were given a toothpick to help extract their “fossils.” When finished, students agreed that the toothpick worked best as it was quicker, they could be more precise, and they could go deeper into the “land.” Paleontologists need to work carefully to make sure the fossil stays intact as they might be one of a kind, and they also give us valuable information about our history. We concluded that paleontology tools, such as shovels, wheelbarrows, picks, chisels, hammers, sifters/screens, brushes of all sizes, buckets, containers, microscopes, research books/maps, etc., are invaluable to their job and help them retrieve these important artifacts that tell a story about our land, & the plants and animals that once lived here. Many of our fossil discoveries in Alberta are of dinosaurs and so students also learned about these creatures that once inhabited Alberta. Students learned that dinosaurs roamed the earth for more than 150 million years during the Mesozoic era stretching from 248 to 65 million years ago. It was divided into three time periods when dinosaurs lived: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. We viewed some of the dinosaurs that once lived here including Ankylosaurus, Centrosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Triceratops, and our famous Albertosaurus to name a few. The Albertosaurus, named after our province, was discovered in 1884 by Joseph Tyrrell which made our province famous around the world. Students chose one of the dinosaurs that once lived in Alberta and/or Canada and independently researched various facts about it. Today in class, they took their research and turned it into a short paragraph to present their information. They were given a choice on how they wanted to write it, either from first or third person. Some students even wrote it from a paleontologist’s point of view! If their rough copy wasn’t finished today, they were required to take it home to finish and edit as we will be typing up a good copy in class on Tuesday. We will also be working on an art component to complement their writing next week. We also continued with our novel study, “Owls in the Family” by reading chapter four. We were introduced to a new owl named Weeps, who we are very happy will be keeping Wol company! We’ll continue on with the adventures of Billy, Wol and Weeps next week.
Enjoy your long weekend! —Ms. Jagger Pick one of the dinosaurs that once roamed Alberta and/or Canada from the website below to research.
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June 2019
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