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

When we began the school year in science, our class discussed the concept of "how we learn."

We realized that many of us learn differently, and in our lives we will all have to work cooperatively with people who think differently than we do. This doesn't make one of us smarter than the other, it simply means that everybody has different strengths, and we're all more successful when we help one another build and use our strengths.

Each student took a "multiple intelligences" quiz earlier in the year to help us determine what our strengths/preferences are in learning. This week we split up into 8 different groups based on those strengths and we brainstormed about how we like to learn (or don't like to learn!) as well as some jobs that people with our strengths might enjoy doing.  Each group made a reference poster with that information to help others in the class understand their learning styles.

Hopefully this will help us work productively and positively together throughout the year. Check out each of our 8 intelligences posters below!


1. Kinaesthetic

2. Musical

3. Naturalistic

4. Logical

5. Linguistic

6. Visual/Spatial

7. Interpersonal (relating to others)

8. Intrapersonal (Knowing yourself)

Throughout the semester, you will be 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/urichuk/results

Or follow this QR code: