January 4th, 2022 Learning -Where your clothing comes from-researching work conditions and pay in different countries -Manufactured landscapes film-looking at hidden sides of production of products -Tour of Canadian Tire/Walmart loading and shipping areas -Snowshoe walk around Whitehorse Landfill perimeter Looking ahead -It's cold! dress warm!
December 17th, 2021 Learning -Final science project-last work period -Secret Santa -Gifts and cards for people who have helped with OPES -Sled prep for ski trip
Looking ahead -Any work missing is due first day back after break!
December 16th, 2021 Learning -Final Science project-cycles in our experiment -Snow cave building at black street stairs
Looking ahead -Christmas break starts tomorrow December 15th, 2021 Learning -Practice for Restorative Justice Circle-Nantuck Brothers -Restorative Justice Circle simulation with Calista McLeod -Final science project-macronutrients and analysis, graphs, soil analysis
December 14th, 2021 Learning -Graphs for Plant growth -Final ODED Project-trip planning -Work on restorative justice circle information and questions. -Science final project
Looking ahead -Outside Wednesday and Thursday afternoon building snow shelters.
December 13th, 2021 Learning -Bohr Diagrams for compounds -Diatomic elements -Final project for Socials-Nantuck Brother's roles and research.
Looking ahead -Half day Friday if done work
December 8th, 2021 Learning -Trangia Lab write-up -Restorative Justice Circle practice and introduction -Student work period for missing work -MAD winter show -Meal planning for ski trip
Looking ahead -Skiing tomorrow -No school Friday afternoon
December 7th, 2021 Learning -Chemistry Quiz -Nantuck Brothers Case overview and research -Phase changes, heat theory -Trangia Lab outside
Looking ahead -Skiing Thursday -No School Friday December 6th, 2021 Learning -Perspectives on the Klondike Gold Rush -Periodic Table -Atomic Theory -Bohr Diagrams
Looking ahead -Skiing Thursday
December 1st, 2021 Learning -Group flow charts about causes of Klondike Gold Rush -Types of electricity generation research project -Presentations on types of electricity generation -Inuit Games
November 30th, 2021 Learning -Electricity Review -Cause and Effect -Causes of the Gold Rush -Fitting and trying tele ski gear -Finishing stick pull sticks
Looking ahead -Skiing Thursday -School on Friday, no comp day
November 29th, 2021 Learning -Ohm's Law -Series and Parallel Circuits -Building a Battery -Working on stick pull-carving and sanding
To Do -Gear for skiing tomorrow
November 24th, 2021 Learning -Electricity Lab 3 Voltage and Current -XC Skiing, taking care of yourself during winter travel
To Do -Complete assignments that aren't complete! November 23rd, 2021 Learning -Aral Sea case study -Connections between the Sale of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush-Research and identifying events and people -Electricity lab 2-conductors and insulators -Research for Inuit Games and practice -Carving sticks for Dene stick pull
To Do -Complete assignments that aren't complete!
Looking ahead -Skiing all day Thursday, Comp Day Friday
November 23rd, 2021 Learning -Colorado River case study in sustainability -Circuits introduction -Creating circuits -Cross country skiing-ski hockey -Cross country skiing-collecting sticks for Dene Games stick pull
To Do -Complete assignments that aren't complete!
Looking ahead -Skiing all day Thursday, Comp Day Friday
November 22nd, 2021 Learning -BC Floods-case study in sustainability -Charlottetown conference review -Fur Trade Essay exemplars and reflection -Static Electricity Notes -Static Electricity Lab -Intro to Dene Games; finger pull -Intro to Arctic Sports; two foot high kick
To Do -Complete static lab if not done already
Looking Ahead -XC skiing tomorrow afternoon and all of Thursday at Mount Mac.
November 15th, 2021 Learning -Sustainability example-CFCs and the ozone layer -XC skiing at Jackson Lake -XC ski skills -Fire building in winter -Ice rescue
To Do -Mushroom lab due Thursday morning
Looking ahead -Student led conferences Thursday -Comp day Friday
November 15th, 2021 Learning -DDT Sustainability Example -Mushroom Lab -Essay edits -Charlottetown Conference -Fitting ski gear and waxing skis
To Do -Mushroom Lab -Essay revisions
Looking ahead -Student led conferences Thursday -Comp day Friday
November 10th, 2021 Learning -Sale of Alaska -Considerations when buying and selling something -Unintended consequences of purchases -Alaska in 1867 -Reasons for the Sale of Alaska -Perspectives on the sale of Alaska using primary sources
To Do -Mushroom Lab and Fur Trade Essay
Looking Ahead -Remembrance Day Thursday and PD day Friday
November 9th, 2021 Learning -Mushroom Lab Writing -Introduction -Methods -Results -Graphing -Model shelter building
To Do -Mushroom Lab and Fur Trade Essay
Looking Ahead -Remembrance Day Thursday and PD day Friday
November 3rd, 2021 Learning -Survival Kit Check -Revisiting Long Ago People's Place assignment -Fur Trade Essay final work period.
To Do -Survival Day tomorrow
Looking Ahead -Comp Day all of Friday.
November 2nd, 2021 Learning -Visit to Long Ago People's Place -Technologies of southern tutchone people pre-contact -Brush shelter making -Fire starting/water boiling -Snare setting for squirrels
To Do -Survival trip prep
Looking Ahead -Survival Day Thursday -Fur Trade Essay and Mushroom Lab due Thursday morning November 1st, 2021 Learning -Map Reading-Contours -Mushroom Lab -Fur Trade Essay -Snare Making -1 match fire starting -Survival Kit Requirements
To Do -Prepare for full day at long ago people's place tomorrow
Looking ahead -Survival Day Thursday -Fur Trade Essay and Mushroom Lab due Thursday morning
October 20th, 2021 Learning -Biology terms review-cue card creation and marking -Plant reproduction-asexual and sexual -Tree cores assignment, sketches of cones -Tree ring analysis and past climates
To Do -
Looking Ahead -PD Day Friday
October 19th, 2021 Learning -Cell structure and functions -Cell Diagram -Alexander Baranov and Kodiak Island Model -Russian Fur Trade in Alaska -Sea Otter ecological role and sustainability
To Do -
Looking Ahead -PD Day Friday
October 18th, 2021 Learning -Plant and mushroom observations -DNA Structure and notes -DNA model making -Kwaday Dan Tsinchi review and tie-ins to sustainability -Fish smoking-brining
To Do -Bring warm clothes to be outside for the rest of the week!
Looking Ahead -PD Day Friday
October 15th, 2021 Learning -Scientific process review -Scientific process quiz -Kwaday Dan Tsinchi questions -GPS navigation and plant identification
To Do -Complete Scientific process quiz and Kwaday Dan Tsinchi questions for Monday
Looking Ahead -Mostly in class next week, PD day next Friday
October 14th, 2021 Learning -Plant and mushroom experiment routines -Experimental design practice -Socials character introductions and choice -Socials character choice -Finding Martha Black's Grave -Camouflage
Looking ahead -In-class time for the next week. -PD day next Friday
September 30th, 2021 Learning -Packing for Nisutlin -Reasons for National Truth and Reconciliation Day -Participating in CYFN walk from healing totem to Kwanlin Dun centre -Class clean-up -Mushroom and plant observations for experiments
To Do -Pack!
Looking ahead -All gear and food in class tomorrow, we return Wednesday afternoon, dismissal around 4pm.
September 29th, 2021 Learning -Canoe ferries -Downstream paddling -Paddling as a group -Steering bow and stern
To Do -Pack!
Looking ahead -All gear and food in class tomorrow
September 28th, 2021 Learning -Canoe strokes (draw, pry, forward, back, pivots) -Cold water bootcamp -Cold water canoe rescues-T rescues -Loading and unloading canoes
Looking ahead -Canoe training days tomorrow and wednesday
September 24th, 2021 Learning -Personal project work -Mushroom care and data entry -Soil prep for planting -Soil observations -Preparing questions and hypotheses -Planting roots and harvesting seeds in class garden beds
To Do -Think about possible recipes for your ramen cook-off on the trip
Looking ahead -Canoe training Tuesday wednesday next week -School on Thursday, no holiday -Nisutlin next Friday
September 13th, 2021 Learning -Knot challenge to teach to Selkirk students -Map of Barrett Horne's place-Documenting flow of heat and electricity in his system -Biking up to Takhini school and teaching bike game lessons to grade 4/5 class
To Do -Bring all food and gear for bike trip tomorrow am.
Looking Ahead -Bike trip September 15th-19th
September 10th, 2021 Learning -Alpine butterfly knot -Biking out the long lake road and back -Visiting Barrett Horne's off-grid house looking at electrical systems and heating systems -Biking home
To Do -Shop and start packing gear this weekend
Looking Ahead -Bike trip September 15th-19th next week
September 9th, 2021 Learning -Horse Thief Knot -Putting away gear, cleaning -Map creation in journals -Place names in Whitehorse Valley -Changes since contact in Whitehorse -Group notes for guest speaker Jill Johnstone -Changing tires and fitting bikes
To Do -Bring helmet, biking gear, repair kit tomorrow am, stuff to berry pick with
Looking Ahead -Biking tomorrow, making jam as gifts for folks who help with OPES -Biking Friday to visit an off-grid house -Meal planning and trip prep Thursday
September 8th, 2021 Learning -Clove Hitch-different method -Putting away gear, cleaning -Map creation in journals -Place names in Whitehorse Valley -Changes since contact in Whitehorse -Group notes for guest speaker Jill Johnstone -Changing tires and fitting bikes
To Do -Bring helmet, biking gear, repair kit tomorrow am, stuff to berry pick with
Looking Ahead -Biking tomorrow, making jam as gifts for folks who help with OPES -Biking Friday to visit an off-grid house -Meal planning and trip prep Thursday
September 7th, 2021 Learning -Clove Hitch -Putting away gear, cleaning -Map creation in journals -Place names in Whitehorse Valley -Changes since contact in Whitehorse -Group notes for guest speaker Jill Johnstone -Changing tires and fitting bikes
To Do -Bring helmet, biking gear, repair kit tomorrow am, stuff to berry pick with
Looking Ahead -Biking tomorrow, making jam as gifts for folks who help with OPES -Biking Friday to visit an off-grid house -Meal planning and trip prep Thursday
August 31st-September 3rd Hiking Trip
August 25th, 2021 Learning -Trucker's Hitch -Finishing fruit leather -Intro to bear safety -Orienteering and leadership while hiking -Fitting backpacks -Plant identification and soil collection #2
To Do -If you are missing forms or payment, please bring them tomorrow
Looking Ahead -Meal prep tomorrow -School photos are Friday this week in the morning -Hiking after school pictures on Friday
August 24th, 2021 Learning -Using Trangias -Cooking with Trangias -Making Fruit Leather -Science-Starting question -Orienteering-symbols and course 1 -Clean up
To Do -Bring hiking boots and pack you will use for the trip tomorrow -If you are missing forms or payment, please bring them tomorrow
Looking Ahead -Full day hikes Wednesday and Friday this week, Hiking trip August 31st to September 3rd August 23rd, 2021 Learning -Intros -Hiking risk assessment -Leadership while hiking -Plant inventory, soil collection, berry picking -Respect for life -Keeping the class clean
To Do -Bring hiking boots and pack you will use for the trip tomorrow -If you are missing forms or payment, please bring them tomorrow
Looking Ahead -Full day hikes Wednesday and Friday this week, Hiking trip August 31st to September 3rd