Jun 9 Update
- Science exam Kahoot review - game pin 08514161
Jun 2 Update
- Science 9 exam review
- Plan for Monday
- We are doing review in period 1
- We are hiking after the review session
- We will be going to Coast Mountain Sports to purchase our dinners for our hiking trip
- We will be cleaning out our lockers ***Plan to bring a bag home
- Reminders
- Complete your World War I perspective written piece by Tuesday
- Bring in donations of clothing for our thrift shop
- Pack/ prepare for our trip next week - equipment list, parent letter
- Work on your science 9 exam cheat sheet
- Food for our trip next week works as follows: bring packages of instant oats for breakfast (pack your own flavours/ quantities), make your own lunches (key - lightweight, compact, variety, include protein/ fat), we will be purchasing our dinners on Monday at Coast Mountain Sports following our hike
Jun 1 Update
May 31 Update
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
LINKS
LINKS
- Section A - no links, tap your prior knowledge
- Section B - The Territorial Evolution of the US
- Section C - look up any terms you don't know using a search engine
- Section D
- Blacks in Canada podcasts
- Know Nonsense podcasts...working on it
- Section E - 1619, Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- McDade away
- P1 climbing
- P2 social studies readings/ activities in your trip journal (pages 42-64)
- P3 & P4 - work period to complete avy savy, significant person project and practice naming/ writing formulas for compounds (see links below)
- You have some work periods tomorrow but your significant person project is due on Friday and so are your avy savy questions.
- Prep for your chem quiz on Friday
- Social studies readings and questions from your trip journal are due on Monday (pages 62-64)
- McDade away tomorrow
- Sima tele ski day on Thursday
- Avi skills training trip in the White Pass next week ***Get your forms in and get packing/ prepping your food
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Chemistry compound formula/ naming practice - group activity, kahoot game
- Tent check and ski wax removal
- Afternoon skate ski introduction at Mount Mac
- You have some work periods tomorrow but your significant person project is due on Friday and so are your avy savy questions.
- Prep for your chem quiz on Friday
- Social studies readings and questions from your trip journal are due on Monday (pages 62-64)
- McDade away tomorrow
- Sima tele ski day on Thursday
- Avi skills training trip in the White Pass next week ***Get your forms in and get packing/ prepping your food
Monday, March 27, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- March break check-in
- Birds - weeks 6 and 7 review and quiz
- Avi skills - Cherry Bowl video, avalanche forecast for White Pass, Avy Savy questions on companion rescue together as a class and working to complete the rest independently
- Chemistry review - naming/ writing formulas for ionic and covalent compounds
- Work on your significant person project - due on March 29th (Wednesday of this week)
Friday, March 10, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Mount Sima ski day
- Work on your significant person project - due on March 29th
Thursday, March 9, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Cross-country ski day @ Mount Lorne
- Work on your significant person project - due on March 29th
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Bouldering
- Arctic sports
- Birds - review and quiz on weeks 6 and 7
- Social studies significant person project
- Complete social studies notes if not yet done
- Work on your significant person project - due on March 29th
- Cross-country ski day tomorrow - we will delay departure until the temperatures warm up. Bring warm layers, a lunch, water and a pack for all of your stuff.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds! Week 7
- Finish notes on the American Revolution and the War of 1812
- Arctic Sports
- Afternoon cross-country ski @ Mount Mac
- Complete social studies notes
- @ PCSS tomorrow, xc skiing Thursday, downhill skiing Friday
Friday, March 3, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Snowshoe day at Skyline Trail on Mount McIntyre
- Teaching activities on cells, cell division (mitosis) and DNA
- Nothing new
- Monday is a comp day
- Various activities next week
Thursday, March 2, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Mount Sima telemark ski day!
- Nothing new
- We are snowshoeing all day tomorrow. Students need to come dressed for the weather including winter boots. They also need water and food in a backpack.
- A reminder that next Monday is a comp day and SASE students have no school
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Bouldering - period 1
- Watch our trip video!
- Birds review and formative quiz
- Worlds collide, the story of us video, notes and quiz
- Readings and worksheet on the American Revolution and the War of 1812
- Nothing new
- Telemark ski day @ Mount Sima tomorrow ***wear appropriate clothing for the weather, a helmet and goggles if you have them, snacks, water and a lunch; you may bring money to purchase food if you want
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds week 6
- Trip debrief
- Trip journal completion - Ta'an First Nations readings and questions, mapping activities
- For students who are absent, complete your journals
- All-day outings on Thursday and Friday this week
Tuesday, February 21 to Thursday February 23, 2023
- Winter camping trip @ Tàa'an Män
Monday, February 20, 2023
- Trip prep
Friday, February 17, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds review and quiz
- Gear update - who needs to get/ do what
- Topographic maps - notes and practice map reading
- Chili making for trip
- Prepare food and gear for next week's trip
- We are @ PCSS on Monday
- Our winter camping trip is next week Tuesday-Thursday
- Next Friday is a holiday - Heritage Day
- Next Monday is a compensation day for SASE trip - SASE students do not have school
Thursday, February 16, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds review and formative quiz
- Chemistry blitz - naming and writing formulae for ionic compounds (simple, multivalent metals, polyatomic ions) and covalent compounds
- Bring your packed duffel bags to school tomorrow in preparation for next week's trip
- We are around the school tomorrow. We may go for a walk so come dressed for that.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
OUTLING
OUTLING
- Bouldering - period 1
- Trip meal planning - working with trip partners to plan meals for trip
- Trip gear preparation - sorting, counting and preparing some gear
- Trip partner work - risk assessment
- Chemistry compound - simple ionic compounds
- Nothing new for academics
- Bring duffel bag packed by Friday
- @ school tomorrow
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- All-day cross-country ski and sauna outing @ Mount McIntyre
- Valentine's Day chemistry activity @ Harvey's Hut :)
- Nothing new
- @ PCSS for the next few days prepping for our upcoming trip and working on academics
- Wear comfy clothing for climbing tomorrow
Monday, February 13, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Week at a glance
- Birds week 5birds_week_5.pptx
- Geography/ geology - notes and videos (Earth's layers, tectonic plates, earthquakes, volcanoes)
- Significant geologic event presentations - event causes, event consequences
- Chemistry - compounds partying video, making ionic compounds as a class, predicting possible ionic compounds using the periodic table, naming ionic compounds from formulas
- Workout period 4
- Nothing new
- All-day cross-country ski outing @ Mount Mac tomorrow (***this is a new addition to our calendar); come with a backpack, water, lunch, appropriate clothing for the weather and extra layers as needed
Friday, February 10, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds quiz - weeks 3 and 4
- Reflection activity from yesterday's field trip (traditional Southern Tutchone culture brainstorm, individual venn diagrams comparing/ contrasting traditional Southern Tutchone culture with our cultures, paragraph writing on one venn diagram point)
- Library time
- Complete a map of North America according to the regional geography assignment
- Current events assignment
- Regional geography/ climbing assignment from Wednesday
- P4 free time
- Map of North America, current events, regional geography/ climbing (3 assignments above from library session)
- Workout on Monday - come prepared with appropriate clothing and footwear
Thursday, February 9, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Day outing at Kwaday Dan Kenji (The Long Ago Peoples Place)
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds review - formative quiz and gyrfalcon video
- Bouldering
- Trip journals - overview entire document, staying warm in winter (discussion, fill in blanks), quinzhee construction (discussion, fill in blanks and make drawings for each step)
- Regional geography and climbing activity work with trip partner
- Nothing new
- We are on an all-day outing tomorrow to the Long Ago Peoples Place. COME TO SCHOOL ON TIME!!! Lunch is provided. Bring snacks, water and warm clothes as we are outside for the day.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds review
- Frostbite quiz
- Trip introduction - journals and food in the winter
- Afternoon xc ski @ Mount Mac
- Nothing new
- @ PCSS tomorrow; wear comfy clothes for climbing
- Outing all day Thursday to Long Ago Peoples Place
Monday, February 6, 2023
OULTINE
OULTINE
- Frostbite presentation with Josianne Gauthier
- Birds! - week 4
- Elements matching activity - name/ symbol connections
- Leave No Trace 7 principles workshop with the WILD class
- Workout - resistance training circuit
- Complete Leave No Trace worksheet if not done in class
- Cross-country skiing @ Mount Mac tomorrow afternoon
Friday, February 3, 2023
- Telemark skiing @ Mount Sima
Thursday, February 2, 2023
- All-day snowshoe outing to Chadburn Lake
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Bouldering session
- Birds review and formative quiz
- Chemistry - mapping out the periodic table and elements matching game
- Orienteering challenge with the WILD class
- Snowshoe full-day outing tomorrow ***Bring a backpack, lunch, water, hot drink (optional but recommended), winter boots, appropriate clothing layers, fire kits
- Nothing new
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds week 3 review and order/ family check
- Chemistry - revisit yesterday's bohr diagrams and explore periodic table trends, alkali metals in water videos (lithium, sodium, potassium, cesium), ion formation and ion diagrams, workbook pages 72-80 (ignore question 22 on p. 80)
- Cross country ski - ~5km tour on Copper trail at Mount Mac
- Bouldering tomorrow morning and orienteering around PCSS in the afternoon
- Catch up on any missed work and come prepared for tomorrow with appropriate clothing and footwear
- Today's science workbook section is not for homework
Monday, January 30, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds week 3 and biosphere deep dive (TED-Ed video on origins of life, presentation)
- Social studies 9 key events between 170-1919
- Research assignment - significance and cause/ consequences
- Theme brainstorm for 1750-1919 key events
- Chemistry
- Videos: scale of matter video, atomic size
- Activities: Subatomic particles, drawing Bohr diagrams
- Videos: scale of matter video, atomic size
- Cross-country skiing tomorrow afternoon @ Mount Mac
- Social studies research assignment if not completed in class
- Bring appropriate clothing for tomorrow's cross-country ski outing
Friday, January 27, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Revisit yesterday's outing - learning, observations
- Birds quiz - weeks 1 and 2
- Trangia stove introductions and use
- Trangia science lab
- We are @ PCSS on Monday; bring clothes to work out during P4
- Trangia science labs if not completed in class
Thursday, January 26, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Full day outing @ Grey Mountain (The May)
- Telemark ski skill development
- Hone fire making skills
- Geology of The May
- Learn about Earth's 4 spheres (biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere)
- We are @ PCSS tomorrow
- Nothing new assigned
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds practice quiz - weeks 1 and 2
- Bouldering
- Chemistry - notes on physical change language vs. chemical change evidence; complete workbook pages viii, ix, x, xi, 46, 47, 50 (skip matching section), 51, 52, 53
- Chemistry - periodic table introduction, elements #1-15 - individual research and presentations using template
- Knots - double overhand, double figure of 8 on a bight, half hitch, trucker's hitch
- Full day outing tomorrow - telemark ski tour and fire making on Grey Mountain Road
- Bring backpack, clothing (wind proof outer layer, insulation and base layers), mitts/ gloves, hat, lunch, snacks, water, fire kit, optional hot tea/ soup in a thermos
- Prepare for tomorrow's outing
- Catch up on any outstanding assignments
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds week 2 review and practice quiz
- Tele skis - size up new boots, label everything and find gaps
- Chemistry - WHMIS symbols, matter flowchart, physical and chemical properies of matter ***readings, notes, workbook pages viii, ix, x, xi, 47
- XC ski prep and outing - Mount Mac for skill development session (snowplow stop, snowplow turns, forward movement with poles, balance on one ski) and short tour on Dog Trail
- Bouldering tomorrow morning - wear comfy clothes
- Orienteering tomorrow afternoon - bring appropriate outdoor clothing and footwear
- Catch up on any outstanding assignments
Monday, January 23, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds week 2
- Hand in homework - risk assessments, 2D maps of Whitehorse
- Week at a glance
- Telemark ski troubleshooting
- Assessment trackers
- Science lab - clothing materials and water absorption
- Where have I been assignment and timeline sketch
- Period 4 workout
- Cross-country skiing tomorrow afternoon
- All-day outing Thursday
- Complete any outstanding assignments from last week (maps, risk assessment)
- Finish science lab from today and social studies assignment/ timeline
Friday, January 20, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds - week 1 quiz
- Meditation/ chemistry introduction
- Mapping activity - places we've been class brainstorm, 3D Whitehorse maps in small groups, individual 2D maps of Whitehorse with significant places
- Telemark ski test drive
Thursday, January 19, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Birds soft start and practice quiz
- Assessment - enter yesterday's climbing and cross-country self-assessments in tracker
- Heat loss - learn about 4 mechanisms of heat loss and group skits to demonstrate learning
- Risk - presentation/ assignment on risk
- Fire-making introduction - presentation, worksheet, video 1
- Fire kit construction
- Survival fire making - Wolf Creek
- Risk assignment - complete 10 hazards/ risk calculations ***Hand in by Monday
- Telemark skiing tomorrow - come dressed to be outside
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Climbing wall intro session - mat set up, wall structure, safety, spotting, routes, mat take-down
- Team building - paper stack challenge
- Birds! - project introduction and week 1 birds
- Cross-country ski prep - waxing classic skis
- Cross-country ski outing @ Mount Mac - intro skills, drills and games
- Come prepared for tomorrow's outing
- Snowshoe outing tomorrow afternoon
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Introductions and SASE 9 overview - presentation and notes
- Student information profiles
- Code of conduct
- Course outlines
- Labelling all of the things - lockers, name tag, popsicle sticks, assessment folder, social studies final project duotang, trip journal duotant, trip journal bag
- Outfit cross-country and telemark ski gear
- Come prepared for tomorrow's outing
- Tomorrow morning - climbing introduction @ PCSS wall during period 1; wear comfy clothes
- Cross-country skiing @ Mount Mac - dress in winter layers (shell jacket, snow pants, mitts/ gloves, toque)
Monday, January 16, 2023
No school - PD Day
No school - PD Day