January 13 -Last day! pictures, thank-you cards, memories and clean-up -Thank you all for a wonderful semester.
January 12 -Final projects and presentations
January 11 -Work on final science project-planning, construction, painting
Homework: -Mental health journals
Looking ahead: -Last day Wednesday at noon!
January 8 -Work on final science project -Cleaning class and gear to storage -Prepping birch bark for cards
Homework: -Complete assignment for off-grid model, start thinking about how you will build your model
Looking ahead: -Final science presentations Tuesday afternoon -Last day of school Wednesday next week!
January 7 Learning: -Work period final science project -Skiing at Mt. Mac -Gathering Birch Bark
Homework: -
Looking Ahead: -Thank you cards tomorrow, last day of the semester is next Wednesday
January 6 Learning: -Trip plan presentations continued -Charlottetown conference work period -Science final project overview -Charlottetown conference presentations -Science final project work period
Homework: -
Looking Ahead: -XC skiing tomorrow
January 5 Learning: -Trip plan presentations -Lead-up to confederation -What are colonies? -What was North America like before Canada confederated? -Examining perspectives of colonies that formed Canada -Preparing for speeches for Charlottetown Conference
Homework: -
Looking Ahead: -Skiing with Kevin Embacher's class Thursday-Bring your ski gear! We'll be at Mount Mac most of the day.
January 4 Learning: -Catching up with everyone after a good break! -Final ODED trip planning project -CHAOS 10 presentation from Chris Hobbis -Continued work on trip plan-area information, gear plan, meal plan, emergency plan, route, map, itinerary
Homework: -Trip plan presentation tomorrow
Looking ahead: -Skiing with Kevin Embacher's class Thursday-Bring your gear!
December 16-18 Learning: -Ski Trip! -Quinzee making -Setting lines for burbot -Ta'an Kwachan land claims history
December 15 Learning: -Electricity Review -Electricity Unit Test -Indian act parts 2 and 3 -Inuit Games -Prep for Ski Trip
Homework: -Get ready for tomorrow! Ski Trip!
Looking ahead: -Christmas break starts Saturday
December 14 Learning: -Parallel and series circuits (Labs 7 and 8) -Calculating resistance -Watts -The Indian Act -Inuit Games
Homework: -prep for ski trip
Looking ahead: -Ski Trip this week Wednesday-Friday
December 11 Learning: -Presentation Practice -Socials presentations for character, answering question of whether to rename or keep the names Miles Canyon and Schwatka Lake -Electricity Lab 6 -Sewing -Ultimate
Homework: -Electricity House Inventory
Looking ahead: -Ski Trip next week Wed-Friday, secret Santa Wednesday evening on trip
December 10 Learning: -Ohm's Law Lab -Socials work period-presentations, wood cookies etc. -Sewing -Ultimate
Homework: -Prep for presentation tomorrow
Looking ahead: -Ski Trip next week Wed-Fri.
December 9 Learning: Homework: Looking ahead:
-Circuit notes and battery review -Drawing circuits practice -Electricity Lab-Measuring current -Socials work period -Class clean-up -Electromuscular stimulation -Sewing
Homework: -Prep for Socials presentation Friday
Looking ahead: -Ski trip next week -Cell phones now locked in drawer other than at lunch.
December 8 Learning: -Reviewing Static tests -Build a battery-battery components (electrodes, electrolyte, terminals) -Socials work period -Stick pull (Inuit game) -Ultimate
Homework: None
Looking ahead: -Socials presentations Friday -Ski Trip Wednesday-Friday next week
December 7 Learning: -Ohm's Law. -Socials-Dramatis Personae Prep -Work period for Socials bios -Snowball Ultimate -Sewing-basic skills (knot tying, whip stitch, locking stitch)
Homework: None Looking ahead: -Dramatis Personae Presentation on Friday -Ski Trip Wednesday-Friday next week.
December 4 Learning: -Static Electricity review and quiz -Skiing at Mount Mac -Birch tree uses -Risk preparedness
Homework: - Looking ahead: -Socials presentations in-class next week
December 3 Learning: -Human sexuality review -Healthy sexual relationships -Static-Induction vs. conduction notes -Induction Lab -Socials work period -Snow snake
Homework: -Bring ski gear for tomorrow
Looking ahead: -Socials presentations next week
December 2 Learning: -Electricity notes-conductors and insulators -Electricity lab-Testing conductors -Geoguesser-geography of Canada -Human Sexuality
Homework:
Looking ahead: -Skiing at mount mac Friday
December 1 Learning: -Electricity Notes-Static -Electricity Lab 1 -Socials project work-map, timeline -Self-evaluation -Sovereign Soil film and sustainability
Homework: -Self-evaluation
Looking ahead: -Skiing Friday at mount mac
November 30 Learning: -Chemistry test -Socials bio/timeline creation -Socials character map creation -Tarp Shelter building
Homework: -Freeze food you bought and save it for two weeks from now!
Looking ahead: -Ski trip canceled due to warm weather. Rescheduled for December 16-18.
November 26 Learning: -Chemistry-ionic and covalent compounds, naming compounds -Meal planning and gear planning for ski trip -Cross country skiing, double poling -Clothing swap
Homework: -Prep gear and food for ski trip next week
Looking Ahead: -No school tomorrow (comp day for parent teacher interviews) -Ski Trip Wednesday-Friday next week. November 25 Learning: -Chemistry-Ionic and Covalent Compounds -Kohklux and Davidson's meeting, solar eclipses, the Kohklux Map, impacts of contact. -Changes in earth's sphere's from summer to winter
Homework: -Bring clothing and/or gear for a clothing swap tomorrow.
Looking Ahead: -Ski Trip next week Wednesday to Thursday
November 24 Learning: -Mental Health Journal Entry -Chemistry assignment review -Hidden History revisiting (Muhammed Ali clip) -Ski lessons for Takhini Grade 4 students
Homework: -Get clothing together for clothing swap on Thursday!
November 23 Learning: -Hidden History Society of the Yukon -Why is some history hidden? -Why does representation and perspective matter? -Planning ski games for tomorrow -Practicing ski games at mount McIntyre
Homework: -If not complete, finish Hidden History assignment
Looking Ahead: -Ski lessons with grade 4 Takhini class tomorrow -Ski Trip next week
November 19 Learning: -Aquilibrium tower (water supply systems) -Water and Sewer tour with City of Whitehorse -Water treatment, transport and management
Homework: -Bring skate ski gear monday morning for Monday and Tuesday skiing
Looking Ahead: -Skiing Monday and Tuesday next week -Clothing swap next Thursday
November 18 Learning: -10 minute meditation -Chemistry Lab-Chemical reactions -Work period for Socials -How to teach skiing to grade 4 class (for next week)
Homework: -Chem reactions lab
Looking Ahead: -Municipal Services Tour tomorrow -PD day Friday
November 17 Learning: -Robert Campbell's fur trading troubles -Hudson's Bay Company -Finding evidence and inferring perspective from primary sources -Paragraph written about Robert Campbell's perspective -Water cycle -Groundwater and water contamination (talk by Katy Bosma and Scott)
Homework: -Water cycle and map of locations visited. -Survival Trip Journal
Looking Ahead: -Municipal water supply tour Thursday -PD day Friday
November 16 Learning: -Periodic table practice -Common Compounds -Element properties -Map making using Google Earth -XC Skiing
Homework: -Survival Trip Journal
Looking Ahead: -Municipal Water Tour Thursday -PD day Friday
November 13 Learning: -Periodic table practice -Element cue cards -Impacts of Russian and Hudson's Bay Company trade on the Gwich'in -Mental health journal -XC ski waxing and skiing
Homework: -Survival trip journal
Looking Ahead: -Skiing from FH next week -Municipal Services tour next Thursday -No school next Friday (PD day)
November 12 Learning: -Timeline creation for socials -Map making for character journey -Survival trip journal work -Fort Yukon, John Bell and Alexander Hunter Murray -Earth's spheres near Yukon River
Homework: -Survival trip journal
Looking Ahead: -Classic skiing tomorrow from the school
November 10 Learning: -Product lifecycles -Supply chains -Where our waste goes -Landfill impacts on Earth's 4 spheres -Cross country skiing introduction
Homework: -Complete Survival Trip Journal
Looking Ahead: -Day off tomorrow for remembrance day
November 9 Learning: -Gear pack-up -Champagne area timeline -Chemistry: periodic table organization -Survival trip debrief and self-assessment
Homework: -Bring xc ski gear for tomorrow and be prepared to be outside and walking through snow
Looking Ahead: -No school Wednesday
November 3 Learning: -Presentation by Mary Gamberg and Pascal Savage -Mercury poisoning -Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification -Fish Dissections and lab -Trip Prep
Homework: -Final Survival Trip Prep
Looking Ahead: -Survival Trip Wednesday to Friday
November 2 Learning: -Almost Snow Day! -Quinzee Building -Pulk Prep -DARTS -Survival Kit Prep -Sledding
Homework: -Pack food, gear and survival kit
Looking ahead: -Survival Trip Wednesday-Friday this week
October 30 Learning: -Survival trip prep -Cree hunters of Mistassini -Fire building and snare setting -Touring Raven Recycling (considerations for reducing our environmental footprint) -Gear for survival trip
Homework: -Complete HEED online if not finished -Start compiling survival trip gear, food and kit
Looking ahead: -Survival trip next week November 4-6
October 29 Learning: -HEED course in-person -Using hunting regulations -Ethical hunting -Considerations while hunting
Homework: -Complete HEED online if not finished
Looking ahead: -Survival trip next week November 4-6
October 28 Learning: -Snare making -Alexander Baranov and found art scene -Socials presentations of characters -Sun salutations and steal the gold outside
Homework: -HEED Course
Looking ahead: -HEED must be done by tonight -Survival trip is next week November 4-6
October 27 Learning: -Completion of climate graphs -Mental Health Journal Updates -Introduce your character-socials -Valence electrons and molecules
Homework: -HEED Course
Looking ahead: -HEED must be done by Wednesday night -Survival trip is next week November 4-6.
October 26 Learning: -Kwaday Dan Ts'inch'i reading, notes and writing -Climate change lesson -Carbon emissions, population growth, graphing
Homework: -HEED Course -Kwaday Dan Ts'inch'i writing
Looking ahead: -HEED must be done by Wednesday night -Survival trip is next week November 4-6.
October 23 -More-than-human observations and climate adaptations -Start on HEED course -Public library use -Local history (paddle wheelers, residential schools, whisky flats) -Circuit Training
Homework -Work on HEED Course
Looking ahead: -School pictures Morning -HEED test Thursday afternoon
October 22 -Spider plant climate adaptations -Spider plant blog update -Mental Health Journal Introduction -DARTS -Survival trip considerations for shelter building and fire building
October 21 -Socials work period -Climate change lesson-weather vs. climate -Climate change experiment-understanding the effect of greenhouse gasses -Greenhouse gas quiz -Running Technique analysis -10 minute running test
Homework: -If you were away sick complete the homework package I sent -If you were cold today, bring and wear more clothes
Looking forward: -Emma Dobson will be helping teach the next two days. -DART tests are tomorrow afternoon
October 20 Learning: -Observation, sketching, climbing -Finding resources for social studies -Climate Change introduction -Sex ed-internal fertilization and male genitalia -Chemistry elements, models and quiz -Intro to mental health journal
Homework: -If you were away sick complete the homework package I sent -If you were cold today, bring and wear more clothes
Looking ahead: -DARTS Thursday afternoon -Walk to library to look for resources Friday afternoon -Running most days this week
October 19 Learning: -Observation, sketching -What should be included in a Biography? -Subatomic particles and atom structure -Pacing in running and video analysis
Looking ahead: -DARTS Thursday afternoon -Walk to library to look for resources Friday afternoon -Running most days this week
October 12 Thanks everyone who helped make last week's canoe trip a memorable one last week. Getting car sick on the south canol, meeting the Teslin Game Guardians, cooking over fires, seeing moose and hundreds of swans, creating salmon lifecycle presentations and portaging an oxbow of the river are all highlights to me. Have a wonderful thanksgiving and week off. Pictures are uploaded on the site, see you October 19th.
October 1 Learning: -food prep Nisutlin -Trip overview-traditional territories, logistics, route -Time to work on trip journals -Gear organization -Fly fishing and fishing ethics
September 30-Yukon River-Egg Island Canoe Trip Learning: -Canoe trip overnight -Riverboat travel -Surficial geology-sediments -Succession of plants -Lining boats and paddling upstream -Fire starting -Cranberry picking -Fire cooking
September 28 Learning: -Fire starter -Gear prep and distribution -Different types of resources for research (overviews to create timelines, detailed accounts to flesh them out) -Work on Spider Plant Blogs -Presentation Criteria: What makes a good presentation? What content do you need? How should you speak? -Spider plant blog presentations and feedback
Homework: -Final gear/food prep for trip -Finish/update more-than human blog -Bring planners to school
Looking ahead: -Egg Island overnight trip Tomorrow-Wednesday. -Nisutlin Trip Prep Thursday Homework -More-than-human and Spider Plant blog posts (by next Monday) -Buy: Whistle, Lighters, Planner, Rubber dish gloves for paddling -Food for overnight canoe trip Monday -Gear for overnight canoe trip Monday September 25 Learning: -Loading and unloading canoes independently -Front ferries -Pivots -Eddy turns -Group travel downstream
Homework -More-than-human and Spider Plant blog posts (by next Monday) -Buy: Whistle, Lighters, Planner, Rubber dish gloves for paddling -Food for overnight canoe trip Monday -Gear for overnight canoe trip Monday September 24 Learning: -Blog posts for spider plants and more-than human -Start to research individual historical character (find 3-5 resources to use as key references) -Sanding tree cookies for timelines -Ropes for canoe-tie-ins -Meal planning for canoe trip -Gear reminders and itinerary for canoe trip -Disc golf common throws
Homework: -More-than-human and Spider Plant blog posts (by next Monday) -Buy: Whistle, Lighters, Planner, Rubber dish gloves for paddling Looking ahead: -Full day canoe training tomorrow-moving water from McRae to Schwatka Lake
September 23 Learning: -Parts of a paddle and canoe -Canoe set-up (tie-in strategies, gear) -Paddle signals -Loading/unloading boats -Rescues -Draining boats -Cleaning boats
Homework: Bring the following tomorrow! -Whistle -Planner -Lighter -Any outstanding assignments
Looking ahead: -In class tomorrow prepping for overnight trip next week -Blog updates tomorrow
September 22 Learning: -Work period for previous assignments -Set up folders for finished work -Mark Hypothermia and Bear Safety assignments -Dramatis Personae selection of characters -Canoe prep-study and sketch of currents at intake -Cold water rescue article (chadburn) -Cold Water Bootcamp -Bowline Practice
Homework: Bring the following tomorrow! -Whistle -Change of clothes -shorts/t-shirt (minimal clothes to dunk in Chadburn Lake) -Lighter -Paddling gear of your own CLEARLY LABELED if you want to use it (PFD, Paddle, Dry Bags)
Any outstanding assignments - Looking ahead: -Canoe Training at Chadburn tomorrow and Friday -Canoe trip next week Sept. 29-30
September 21 Learning: -Food Waste -Class organization and work period for unfinished assignments -Start on sanding wood cookies for timeline project -Re-establish locations for more-than-human blog and make observations -Start blog entries for spider plants and more-than-human
Homework: Unfinished assignments to date
Looking ahead:
September 15-18, 2020 Bike Trip Learning: Day 1: -land designations (crown, FN-A, FN-B) -White Pass and Yukon Route -Tree Species -Group travel on bikes -Place Names
Day 2: -Visit to Sheila Alexandrovich's Farm -Animal husbandry -Nutrient cycles -Circular growing -Compost -Living small -Harvesting Potatoes -Sustainable Living -te Day 3: -Permaculture garden tour with Agnes Seitz -Plant Guilds -Cold Compost -Permaculture -Water use and sustainable off-grid living -Food storage -Human inclusion in growing cycles -Reframing weeds as useful plants -Glass insulators along train tracks -Place names
Day 4: -Geology of copper belt (copper ore, intrusive igneous (granite), extrusive igneous (basalt)) -Mining and effects of surface area on waste rock -Groundwater -Tree species (balsam poplar, Trembling Aspen, alder (N2 fixer)) -Copper belt history (Valerie headframe, Pueblo cave-in, Whitehorse Copper tailings waste)
September 14, 2020 Learning: -Permaculture introduction -Permaculture movie (the man who planted trees) -Paragraph response to film -Potting spider plants -Starting Weebly blogs -Choosing subject for more-than-human blog -Prep for bike trip tomorrow
Homework: -Final gear prep -Make sure you bring journals from home Looking ahead: -Bike trip tomorrow!
September 11, 2020 Learning: -Bike cleaning/lubrication -Schwatka journal entry -Journal evaluation -Equipment for bike trip -Biking in afternoon, surprise visit with Bob Sharp on Chadburn Lake Road
Homework: -Prep food for Monday morning -Prep gear for Monday morning
Looking ahead: -Bike trip 15th-18th September (next week)
September 10, 2020 Learning: -Clean-up Routines -Full day of biking -Riding in mud! -Off-grid systems with Barrett Horne (power generation, storage, redundancy)
Homework: -Shop by Friday -Gear for biking tomorrow -Food and gear in class by Monday
Looking ahead: -Bike trip next week September 15-18
September 9, 2020 Learning: -Finished meal plans -"Off-grid" movie, questions and presentations -Questions for Barrett Horne tomorrow -Changing a bike tube -Biking as a group on trails.
Homework: -Bring yellow field notes book and journal -Bring tire and bike repair kit if you have one -Shop for bike trip food by Friday
Looking ahead: -Visit to Barrett Horne's off-grid set-up on Long Lake road tomorrow -Bike trip is next week Tuesday-Friday
September 8, 2020 Learning: -Meal plans for Bike Trip -Bike trip overview -Work on Schwatka Assignment -Bike Skills -Riding as a group
Homework -Bring yellow field notes book and journal tomorrow -Bring tire and bike repair kit if you have one
Looking Ahead -Half day biking tomorrow -Complete shopping by Friday -Full day biking Thursday (bring lunch, water, extra clothes, yellow journal)
September 4, 2020 Hiking trip is complete! Learning: -Geology of Grey Mountain -Plant and Fungi species -Pacing, nutrition, group travel -Camp cooking -Significance of Canyon City, Schwatka Lake and the Whitehorse Dam -Map reading and navigation -Self-reflection
Homework -Complete trip journal entries for Tuesday morning -Bring a bike, helmet, lock and repair kit if you have them on Tuesday
Looking ahead -Bike training next week, starting bike maintenance -Meal planning and preparation for bike trip -Double entry journal for Schwatka Reading next week
August 31, 2020 Gear organization Frederick Schwatka Intro and assignment Spider plants lab Orienteering Work period
Homework All gear and food needs to be in the class tomorrow!
Looking ahead: Hiking trip Wednesday-Thursday
August 28, 2020 Using Bear Barrels Tea break! Hiking up Haeckel Hill Silent observations Fire Making
Homework Dehydrate, pack and bring all trip food for Monday Pack all clothing and personal gear-use your packing/gear list. Bring Monday! If you have lost your lighter, buy another one or three.
Looking Ahead Hiking Trip Wednesday to Friday next week
August 27, 2020
Outline Gear checklist and overview Discussion and assessment of Bear Safety worksheet Treatment of hypothermia patients Practice treating hypothermia patients Orienteering (cut short-one group went the wrong way and we regrouped at the school) Leadership styles
Homework Shopping for hiking trip Dehydrating food Start getting clothing and gear together (use gear list)
Looking ahead Full day hike tomorrow up Haeckel Hill Forecast for tomorrow is rain, bring warm clothes and a rain jacket
August 26, 2020
Outline Risk assessment for day Introductions for Emma and Kat Hike up Knuckle Ridge Map reading practice Place names Pooping in the woods! Leadership of groups Plant collection
Homework Buy food for trip Cook and start dehydrating food for hiking trip
Looking Ahead Assessing/going over work done yesterday Hypothermia scenarios Orienteering Hiking Friday all day
Homework Buy food for trip by Friday Bring the following for tomorrow: -footwear you will use for hiking trip -backpack you will use for hiking trip -rain jacket/pants and warm clothes -packed lunch and water
Looking Ahead Hiking tomorrow and Friday Presenting and assessing work on Thursday Orienteering Thursday afternoon.
August 24, 2020
Outline Fruit leather clean up and testing Nutrition lesson Groups for hiking trip Meal planning Backpacking meal demo Tent set-up demo More meal planning Orienteering lesson
Homework None
Looking ahead Finalize meal plans tomorrow Full day hikes Wednesday and Friday
August 21, 2020 Outline Fruit Leather and trangias part 2 Dehydrators Knot intro-bowlines
Homework Come prepared to hike for 2.5 hours on Monday afternoon! -Rain jacket -Backpack you want to use for our overnight trip -Water Bottle -Snacks
Looking Ahead Lots of hiking next week, meal preparation, introductions to socials and science.
August 20, 2020
Outline AM OPES Contract, codes of conduct Labeling things Introductions-name origins and ancestry Questions about problems, songs, skills and gratitude
PM Berry picking on Bert Law Island Games at Robert Service campground river safety intro Trangia demo and practice
Homework Ask about origins of your name and ancestry Bus form-Only fill out IF you don't need to take the school bus.
Looking Ahead Fruit leather, fitting backpacks and orienteering tomorrow!