Friday, April 10, 2015

Dynamic Dialogue 4/10/15

Good afternoon, Dynamic Team!

Upcoming Events:   Apr. 10th – Term 5 grades mailed
                       Apr. 10th – Hixson Student Trivia, 3:30 – 5:15


Important Information:
   

Information about Hixson’s Summer Enrichment Program can be found here.

After school help sessions are on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  If you need to come in before school, you will need to make an appointment with the teacher.



English –


Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org


Math- 


Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org

Science –
In Dynamic Science this week the students continued to develop the concepts to be able to draw conclusions from cause and effect relationships concerning: parent traits and probability of offspring traits, interactions between plants and animals and the probability of successful reproduction, and humans altering genetic outcomes!  One of the activities this week was a simulation where they were able to analyze and interpret the relationships among the amount of grass, rabbits, and wolves in a forest. They were able to change factors to determine the cause and effect relationships!
Ask your students about some of the factors which determine flower reproduction or predator/prey relationships, and grass/rabbits/wolves. Below are the cross-cutting concepts the students are developing.
    • Investigating and explaining causal relationships may predict & explain events.
    • Defining systems and system models are ways to understand & test ideas.
    • For natural & built systems, conditions of stability and/or rates of change are critical.

If you have any questions or comments please let me know.

Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org

314-918-4603


Social Studies –

Students have been furthering their exploration of Medieval Europe.  Last week they took on feudalism, and this week they have been looking at the role of the church in Medieval Life.  They completed a vocabulary activity and took a quick vocabulary test on Friday.  We will continue with medieval life next week.

After school help is available in my room every Thursday until 4:00
 


Dynamic Social Studies Course Website:

Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602

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