What We Learned Today...October 16th

Dissection Time!

What a great day we had today! This morning as soon as everyone arrived in our classroom we started our anonymous fish dissection. Our dissection was a little different than past dissections at Deshaye because the students were not informed what type of fish they were dissecting.  Instead, students will be responsible for figuring this out afterwards using previous knowledge, inferences they draw from the dissection as well as research.  As you will notice from the pictures below, the students had the opportunity to dissect the head, the tongue, the eyes, the stomach, sex organs and the fins.  I was very impressed not only how great of a job everyone did today but also how well they were able to draw conclusions about their specimen based off what they saw and touched.  Well done everyone!

After lunch we had Religion and the students continued to research their Human Rights Activist for their presentation.  In Grade 8 Math we started 3.4 which looks at applying the Pythagorean Relationship to solve problems for the missing Leg or Hypotemoose Hypotenuse.  During the last hour of the day we had an extra Science class and the students began to work on their Lab Report for the dissection. This lab report will focus on each part of the fish that was dissected and the students will need to write about what they saw and what they felt as they dissected as well as a drawing for each part.  

Here's some more pictures from today:

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:
3.3 Handout is due tomorrow, October 17th

ELA:

Diagon Alley Assignments due on Monday, October 21st

Genius Hour:
Work on driving question if not yet approved.

Reminders:

-French Quiz Tomorrow

-Bring a small mirror if you have on at home for our Science Challenge!