Humanities Greek unit

These past three and half weeks Team Sirius has been learning about Ancient Greek mytholagy and how they lived back then. We started with a project on an greek gods where we learned about them and wrote a couple paragraphs on what they're like. 

Next we started learing about actual Greek times and what their lifestyle was like. We started a project on either and event, a person, or a place in ancient greek times. Next week we are going to be having a Greek walk in our core classes with costumes, food, projects, and some different plays about Ancient Greece.

Team Sirius Playing with Dry Ice!

On Friday December, 11th team Sirius got to play with dry ice in science class. Mr. Rosenburg showed us what happened when we put dry ice in water and in soap water. We learned that dry ice is frozen CO2. We also learned that when a solid, like dry ice, turns in to a gas without being a liquid first its called sublimation. The picture below is dry ice in water.

CC v.s. ML Science Lab

In science class we recently finished a lab called CC v.s ML (cubic centimeters v.s. milliliters.) In this lab we tested the relationship between liquids and solids.  We used a graduated clinider and filled it with water at different levels (different milliliters). Then we would drop a little 1 by 1 cubic centimeter block into the water and see how much the water rose by. After many trials and recording our data, we concluded that every time we added 1 block the water rose by 1 centemeter.

PLP movie

Mr Maquire's SST made a movie on the PLP. We watched this film during the all team meeting. The students who helped make this film are as follows: Jason Tomasi, Davis Hart, Ben Gambill, Lillian Winters, Olivia Henessey, Juna Nagle, Bella Parento, Evan Rohan, Lila Markow, Azwala Taylor, Anja Sampsom, Emmett Kolber, Lily Gingold, and Milo Zeankowski-Giffin. This is a proccess which all middle school student will be doing.

Science unit: global warming

       In science we have started a new unit. This unit is be about global warming and the effects it has on our planit.  Our world is going through a serious problem that will impact us all globally.  Global warming is basicly when us humans pollute the air and the atmosphere gets thick with CO2. Then the earth can not radiate the heat and then the the earth warms up. 

8th grade Algebra Studies

In Team Sirius Algebra Classes, taught by Mr. Scott,  we are learning how to solve for X by undoing expressions. We are learning this by taking problems like 5-5(x=+2)/ -9 + 22=27. We are also learning to undo problems. By learning these two key math concepts we will be able to excel at geometry, the PSAT's, and SAT's.

Aris Editor S. S. T.

In one of the student support time class periods you could be grouped in the aris editor programming S.S.T with Mr. Rosenberg. Aris is a online programming system. On Aris you can create games, choose your own adventures and even story walks. In the S.S.T you create your own. When your Aris is finished anyone can play. Aris can be used to to give information in museams or just to have fun on a weekend story walk.

PLP

The Sirius students in Mr. Maguire's SST are hard at work making a video all about PLPs. In a quick interview with Lila Markow, she informed me that this video is being made to help students, teachers, and parents understand the PLP and how we are going about applying them in curriculum more often in classes. She said that they are trying to make an informational movie that entertains everyone in their audience. Olivia Hennessey told me that their process was first to decide on a theme. They went with

the now popular TV show The Office. In the movie you will hear The Office theme song playing and some of the interviews will be themed like the office for comedy relief. The interviewees are 8th graders in Team Sirius and Summit, asking what they know about the PLPs, what they like or dislike, and how they want the PLPs to change. Mr. Maguire's SST is now editing the video in Imovie and I personally can not wait to see the final product.

Mythical God, hero and monster poster

 Past week or two team sirius has been studying greek mythology in humanities class. One of our assignments was to read a greek myth about a god, hero or monster after that we wrote a paragraph that rewrote and told the story in our own words. After we had done that we drew a picture of the hero, god or monster we chose and then we drew a picture and made a poster of the two. here are some examples

Rocket Launch

Sirus seventh and eigth graders recently made and launched homemade bottle rockets. We were put into groups of three or four people, we had a few class times to plan and make our rockets. The rockets were made out of 1 and 2 liter plastic bottles, constrution paper and mylar. The design and overall structure was up to the group to decide. Next we went and launched our rockets. We launched them with 1/2 full of water, 1/4 full, 3/4, and all the way full. We collected the data to see which made the rockets go further. We figured out that having the water filled up half way made the rockets go the furthest. what a great time.