In yesterday's class we played with the concept of charging objects using friction and seeing how they affected/behaved around an electroscope. To prepare ourselves to charge objects in real life, we started off by watching a short demo by Bill Nye, and then playing with a virtual lab to see what happens when two objects are charged using friction (rubbing two things together). 

Click on the link below to experiment with the virtual lab for yourself, using friction from the sweater to charge the balloon(s) in various ways. 

https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/balloons-and-static-electricity/latest/balloons-and-static-electricity_en.html_

Bill Nye's demo:

Today in Science we watched a short video about the history of the Atomic Model. This is a student-made video that helps students to visualize their own commercials and/or trading cards. 

Using our Universal Design for Learning model of learning, we are given many choices and are asked to make choices that help us to learn best. 

Students are currently working in partners on the following assignment. Details for Assignment #1 can be found on gvcscience10.weebly.com by clicking on Trading Cards or Commercial respectively. 

Over the past 2 days in Science, we spent a bit of time discussing our past experiences with Science, and we found out that while most of us have some positive memories of Science, many of us have also had some negative experiences as well! So we wondered: maybe Science is not really hard; maybe we just haven't been learning it in the most effective ways for each individual person!

Each student filled out a survey to let me know about their interactions with Science. They wrote down some of what they liked/disliked, their hopes for our Science class this year, as well as words that they thought relate to Science. 

Here are the words we came up with:

We noticed a few things:
1. Many of the words are conflicting, but as a class we seem to have pretty similar hopes for our semester. 

2. We were all able to find something positive as well as something negative about our time in Science, and we have big hopes for the semester ahead! (Explosions?!)   

3. Experiments was the biggest word that didn't have to do with how we FEEL about Science. I guess we are really hoping to do experiments this year! 

So while we all know that Science can be full of formulas and sometimes hard, hopefully we can also make sure that our time in Science is hands-on, fun, and awesome as well!! 

I'm really looking forward to learning with all of you this semester! 

- Mrs. Urichuk

Throughout the semester, you will have an opportunity to work with a wide variety of activities. We want to know how you learn best in order to match you up with the activities.

Please complete this quiz, and at the end of the test you will get a code that you will need to record. 

Copy the code and paste it onto a sticky on our Padlet for today to share it with Mrs. Urichuk:

http://padlet.com/melanie_urichuk/science10F
(You can also attach a screenshot if you prefer/know how)

For the 2015 - 2016 school year, we will be using an app called "Remind" that allows me to text reminders to all students while maintaining privacy of students' & staff's phone numbers. When assignment due dates, tests, or field trips are coming up, I will send out a message with details to remind students of these things. Life gets busy. Let's work together to stay organized!

Instructions for signing up for reminder texts can be found below, but you can also find this image on your child's course outline.  

Questions? Feel free to email me @ melanie.urichuk@gvsd.ca OR call the school and ask to speak with me at (204) 325-8008.