December+6th,+2011

1. STSE -Ideas for upcoming class 2. Bring in questions about COS - Resource Binder 3.STSE Issues – in groups Review features of different Canadian Environments – Ecology – and then…
 * Activity/Assessment…Design…
 * __Creation of Puppet__ //– Creature (using paper bag) *// Connection to DI/and Equity and Diversity Week. Discussion of habitat and creatures…Diversity of Life** Write down student learning goals **Create a creature – (pick out an environment that is challenged with respect to water – i.e.,** dessert/or flooding (connection to last class**…**
 * Create features for the creature and explain your adaptation**…
 * //On the front the creature have the features – and then on the back; have the features outlined…//
 * //__Create a script with your puppets__// //– what are the features of the environment – and what the adaptive features to allow for the selective advantage (survival of the fittest)//
 * //Using the __Achievement Chart (next class)__ – Create a rubric to assess your puppet/script. (post on the wikisite) - HOMEFUN//
 * //Type of script and photo of puppet (onto wikisite – homework). (HOMEFUN//
 * //Perform this in class (2-3 minutes) only…//

Below Attach your script and photo of your puppet:

Link ecosystem - to Canadian Ecosystem (you can link to any concept in the Grade 9 Science Curriculum. Note - you are creating a script that is 'fiction' - nonfiction. The characters are not real and the situation or storyline is not real ... but the creature and the ecosystem has to be factual.

Group 1 Ecopuppet - Saralyn, Aliya, Sam, Stephanie, Anu

Group 2 Ecopuppet - Silvia, Sasha, Katie, Lauren

Group 3 Ecopuppet - Janny, Zohara, David, Megan

Group 4 Ecopuppet - Erin, Jasmine, Mike, Sandeep

Group 5 Ecopuppet- Ioana, Erion, Rinkal, Teresa

Group 6 Ecopuppet