I didn’t do too much this week. I worked on the science 8 learning guide, and I did some Currents4Kids and News4Youth. I also started Unit 6 in math, and I finished the Unit 3-4 test and got 100%, which I’m happy about. And I started the Send-in Assignment for math as well. I also started volunteering at taekwondo at 3:30 for the 5-8 year olds! It was pretty good, but kind of annoying, because they don’t listen. π
It was about cells, bacteria, and viruses.
Hi Ethan,
How exciting to start volunteering with a taekwondo class! I hope the kids do at least a little listening; I’m sure some kids in the class are very keen to hear what you have to say, and others are keen too but have a hard time focusing because they’re young. I’m sure you have a lot of tips to share with them, and that you’ll feel more confident helping the group with some practice. What did you like most about helping in the class?
Congratulations on another 100% on your math! It sounds like you’re continuing to do good work on the science too. A section on viruses is timely. After learning more about viruses, do you have further questions about them? There’s a section in the Learning Experience Library called Microbe Mania that has some virus resources, and there’s also a Covid-19 topic page in the library too.
The Brilliant puzzles sound like fun. I’d love to hear an example of one you were pleased to solve recently.
The human pressures are a major force driving evolution in many types of organisms (like hunting of elephants for tusks causing increased prevalence of genes for tusklessness, as you read about, or trophy hunting of bighorn sheep causing increased prevalence of genes for small horns, or many, many other examples). I think it’s an important topic to learn about, and am glad you learned about it in Currents 4 Kids. I wonder what questions you had after reading the article, and what thoughts you had about it.
Thank you for your Observing for Learning.
Best,
Shannon
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