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Learning Opportunities for Grade 8 Prime Week of May 11th School Vision: Motivating, Compassionate, Successful
School Mission: Making a difference….Committed to learning….Supporting each other
Do the best you can! Focus on life skills, physical activity, mental well-being, creative expression, social responsibility and
social connections. Stay healthy and safe!
Try to work on the learning opportunities for 1 hour each day.
Math Learning Opportunities Choose from these tasks for a total of 30 minutes a day.
This week is all about Operations with Fractions and Mixed Numbers! If you get stuck, feel free to contact your teacher. Once you feel you have a good understanding of the material, try out the escape room. Can you beat the clock and escape?!?! Maybe phone a friend and try it together. Have fun! [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Learn about mechanics math. Your teacher was right! There’s lots of math all around you! Even in the garage!
Create your own Fraction Quilts from the templates or create your own. Calculate the fraction of each colour of your quilt design.
What do those lines on a measuring tape represent? How do you read a measuring tape? Measure and build something.
Check out more tape measure math. Try adding and subtracting using a tape measure. Use a tape measure or ruler to measure the length and width of doors, walls, your house, and even yourself!
Choose a recipe to make. Practice measuring with fractions. How would the measurements change if you doubled the recipe? Rewrite the measurements for the recipe when it’s doubled ( ¾ + ¾ = 6/4 = 1 ½ What if you tripled the recipe or divided it in ½ ?
Go to Tony's Fraction's Pizza Shop Make the pizzas customers order using fractions.
Find some other fraction games online to try out!
This week’s escape room deals with operations with fractions. Be sure to practice these skills before tackling the escape room. These videos will help remind you how to: add and subtract fractions with like denominators, add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators, multiply fractions, and dividing fractions
These songs may help you out too! Multiplin' Fractions and Dividin' Fractions Check them out!
Math Practice Questions Want to try out some practice questions until you get the hang of it. The link below will take you to some practice pages you can try. We have included the answers for you but remember to try the questions before looking at the answers!! https://mcsmckinley.weebly.com/covid-19-learning-opportunities.html
Online Escape Room STAR TREK - AMBUSH AT NEW MERATOR Help save the enterprise before your enemies capture you. https://platform.breakoutedu.com/game/play/star-trek-new-merator-a-fractions-escape-room-175083
Fractions, Decimals, Percent Look at calendar. What fraction of the calendar are weekend days? What percent of the days have a 1 in the tens place? Ones place? What fraction of the months make up summer? What fraction of the year do we go to school? What’s that as a decimal? What percent of the school year are March and Christmas Breaks? What is the decimal value for the days of the week that have an s in them?
Language Arts Learning Opportunities Choose from these tasks for a total of 45 minutes per day
+30 minutes per day of Reading [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Reading Scholastic articles
Read the following article about whether people should travel to Mars: https://upfront.scholastic.com/issues/2019-20/111819/should-humans-go-to-mars.html#1030L OR
Read the article about our own planet Earth having a role in Star Wars: https://math.scholastic.com/issues/2019-20/121619/far-away.html#1060L
Reading Epic!
Mrs. Elliott has signed everyone up for Epic! This is a great website for reading. https://www.getepic.com/sign-in
Once you have reached the site, go to student login and use class code: iej3195
Log/Journal
Keep a daily log/journal of what is happening in your life, your community, your country, or around the world.
Keeping a journal not only helps your writing, but can be very therapeutic
Spelling & Word Work Practice discovering the difference between antonyms (words that mean the opposite) and synonyms (words that mean the same): https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/synonyms/synonym-or-antonym.html Practice parts of speech-singular and plural pronouns https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/parts-of-speech/pronoun-proper-singular-plural.html
Practice contractions: https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/contractions/pick-the-correct-contraction.html
Writing Prompts Space Writing Prompts
1. We always dream about the possibility of life on other planets. Can
you imagine, however, what we must look like to aliens who may be
watching us? Write a story from the point of view of an alien who is
observing the people of Earth.
2. Weigh the risks and rewards of space flight by explaining why you
would or would not like to be a passenger on the Space Shuttle.
3. Make up a new planet. Describe the important features of the
landscape, what the climate is like, and what lives there. Write from
the viewpoint of the first visitor to this planet.
4. There is an argument that it is a waste to spend money on a space
program when there is so much need right here on Earth. Do you think
it would be wiser to take the billions spent on NASA and instead try to
fix the world’s problems, or do you think that exploration in space is
just as important and may eventually solve some of Earth’s problems
when we are able to colonize another planet?
5. Do you believe there is life on other planets? Reading Comprehension Read about why the moon is full of craters at the following site,
and answer the comprehension questions : https://www.readworks.org/article/Why-Is-the-Moon-So-Scarred-with-Craters/e5956a39-e00e-4bf6-91e5-f54af49ec65c#!articleTab:content/
Science Learning Opportunities Choose from these tasks for a total of 30 minutes a day.
This week we focus on Space. “Space: The Final Frontier!”. Pick any of the activities you’d like to try. There are several links within the document to help you out. Remember that science is all about discovery and trying to find out how and why things work. Don’t be afraid to make your observations by taking pictures or videos. Have fun! [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Space: The Final Frontier
Keep a journal of the phases of the moon over the next few weeks by drawing what the moon looks like every night or every couple of nights.
What do you notice? Add a little fun with a tasty way to represent what you’ve learned! Try to replicate the moon phases using Oreo cookies Yum! Get your groove on with phases of the moon or moon phases.
What do you think it would be like living in the International Space Station? How would you brush your teeth, wash your hair, sleep, or exercise? Look up some other things that make you
curious.
Head to the Canadian Space Agency to check out what’s new there. Learn about Canadian astronauts, their missions and accomplishments.
From the Lunar Roving Vehicle and Canadarm, to the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope, check out what has been going on in the field of space exploration. Check out NASA or The Canadian Space
Agency to learn more.
Have you ever wondered about some inventions? Click here to see what space travel has done for you! Space inventions have made their way into our everyday lives in ways we probably never knew. Check out these cool everyday inventions that were invented for space.
Calling all Inventors!! Build your own invention! Perhaps it’s a rocket design or a new tool for astronauts. Let your imagination go wild! Use any materials you can find to build your prototype or draw your product idea!
Build your own Balloon Rocket! Turn it into an experiment by testing different variables. Have a blast!
Don’t forget to check out these events coming up in the night sky!
Social Studies
Choose from the activities below for a total of 1-2 hours a week. Remember that Social Studies is all about the world around us. Watch the news, visit a museum or research some Canadian history.
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Daily News CNN 10 in 10 is a current events/news broadcast made especially for students. The shows are ten minutes long and show one major news story, a human interest story and trivia. There are five shows a week Monday- Friday.
Explore a Virtual Museum This week we following the theme of space exploration. This week’s virtual museums are the Canadian Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and NASA.
They can be watched on YouTube or the CNN Ten in Ten website. Previous shows are viewable as well. Pick at least one day to view and reflect on the chart below or watch every day!
CNN Student News 1. Write a reflection on what you learned
List 5 things that you learned.
In the Canadian Air and Space Museum, located in Ottawa, Canada, you can view pictures of current exhibits and learn about landmarks in Canadian Space and Flight. Use the drop down menu, “What’s On” to play aviation games. In the multimedia gallery, you can scroll over pictures and click to find out more information about each object. https://ingeniumcanada.org/casm
Can’t visit NASA right now? Of course you can! Use this link to take you on virtual guided tours of NASA, complete with narrated audio. You can even take a virtual tour of the International Space station! https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-at-home-virtual-tours-and-augmented-reality Another wonderful museum dedicated to air and space in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. This on-line virtual exhibit has seventeen choices! You can learn what is like to walk and float in space, the history of the last fifty year of space flight and there is even a STAR WARS exhibition called “The Magic of Myth.” – PS – Lots of fun for you Star Wars fans! https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/online
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Get to know one of our most famous and FUN astronauts! You may have seen him on our Covid 19 Canada Stay at Home commercials, so you may already recognize him. Check out some of his great videos! How does he sleep? https://youtu.be/UyFYgeE32f0 Brushing your teeth in space! https://youtu.be/3bCoGC532p8 Eating in space - https://youtu.be/AZx0RIV0wss Yes! You need to wash your hands even in space! https://youtu.be/9Z2KNDGNnlc Return to earth - https://youtu.be/KxOp_Rd8_cA He also sings! Check out the song Space Oddity by David Bowie. PS – after you are done compare it to the original by the late, great David Bowie. https://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo -Chris Hadfield version https://youtu.be/8LVC9eW9Q4E - David Bowie live version
Space Exploration TimeLine
How much do you know about the history of space exploration? Using the links below, create a timeline of the most important events in the history of space travel. You must include at least ten events -five of them must be connected to Canada (example – the Canada Space Arm). You may add as many events to your timeline as you like. Here are some links to help you as well as some online blank timelines if you wish to use them.
Space Kids Space Exploration Timeline Spaceopedia Canadian Space Agency Canada's contribution to Space Exploration
Blank online timeline – Timeline template
Physical Education at home Week of May 11-15 [email protected]
I hope that everyone is getting outside and enjoying the spring weather. All types of activity outside is great and if you are outside walking, running, catching and throwing then all those activities are beneficial. I have included a link for the May calendar of the Canadian Olympic School Resource and included in that calendar are many different activities. Check it out this week! Check out the link to access this May 2020 Olympic Activity Calendar
