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A Large Range of Questions

fedleym — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:26:53 +0000

Today, we are continuing on with statistics. The areas of range, mean, median and mode will be explored. Questions to be completed are Ex 12.02 Q 3-8 pm Page 411/412

Grade 6 Science – Our Next Few Lessons

fedleym — Wed, 08 May 2013 01:58:58 +0000

In the next few lessons – we will complete the following 3 activities:

Complete your experiment
Make a Blog Post About Ueno Zoo
Complete Study Guide for Upcoming Test

Instructions for Blog Post

Today, we will also be completing a blog post which I want some detail in your answers. Complete the following questions and include some pictures if possible. You may change how the questions are written on your Blog Post

Describe what you did at Ueno Zoo. Have a heading of “What We Did”.
Describe the general living environment of the different animals you visited. Was the enclosure large/small, did it look natural or man made, were the a lot of animals or few animals in the enclosure. Include pictures if you have some
Did the animals look happy? Explain and include pictures if you have them
Why do you think we have zoos? Explain why
If you were an animal at the zoo, do you think you would be happy living there?
What do you think the zoo could do to improve the lives of the animals at the zoo?
Should we have zoos, or should we visit zoos? What do you think and explain why.
Any other comments that you think would be interesting to the readers.

Study Guide Questions

Answer the following questions

Describe what a habitat is, giving one example
What is an ecosystem? Give an example
Describe the seven main living processes (MRSGREN) Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, Nutrition.
Be able to describe different physical features of an animal which helps it live in it’s environment
Be able to describe different behavioral features of an animal which helps it live in it’s environment
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain? Give examples.
Be able to draw a simple food web or food chain for different living organisms
Describe and identify living organisms which are producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, top predator or carnivore, herbivores and omnivores
What is a diagnostic key? How can we use a diagnostic key to classify different things?
How do animals produce their first cell? Give basic information.
What is the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction in animals? How are they different?
Explain how most cells reproduce and give examples in both plants and animals

Supporting PPTs are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE HERE and HERE

Your Experiment

Your experiment instructions can be found HERE. The Write Up Sheet can be downloaded HERE

Cumulative Frequency

fedleym — Tue, 07 May 2013 04:33:45 +0000

For today, we will be looking at cumulative frequency tables. It’s just a normal frequency table, but you add the total number of outcomes for that specific number (we will talk about this in class). Today’s work is below:

Ex 12.01 Q 4, 5, 7 & 9 on Page 407-409

It’s Probably The Last Time We Do This!!

fedleym — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:26:38 +0000

It’s A Friday! It’s Period 8 ! So what exciting activity are we completing? Pop Quiz??? No…. Test??? No…. Textbook Work? Umm yeah – your really going to do that now!! What about playing cards under the guise of working on probability?? Umm – it’s probable we might do that…

So – get into groups of 3 or 4 students. Then go to THIS DOCUMENT and choose one person from your group to speak to me. This person will be called THE CHOSEN ONE!!

This person will be given instructions to follow. Each group will play 21 a total 20 times. Write down in the document who wins how many times. There needs to be a total of 20 wins.

Once finished – answer the following questions:

Which person won the most? Was there a pattern to this?
What rule did you follow to try and win the most? Did it work most of the time? Yes or no and explain why….
Is 21 a game of skill or luck? Explain why you think this way….

Some Extra Tree Diagram Questions

fedleym — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:09:51 +0000

Below are some revision questions for tree diagrams since there are not many questions in the revision packet.

Q1) There are 5 Blue Sweets, 2 Green Sweets and 1 Orange sweet in a packet. If you remove one sweet, it will not be replaced.

a. Draw a tree diagram for the above if two sweets are removed.

b. Find the probability for the following if 2 sweets are removed:

P (Getting 2 blue sweets)

P (Getting an Orange Sweet)

P (Getting 2 Orange sweets)

P (Getting 2 Sweets of the same color)

What is the change of getting 3 blue sweets if 3 sweets were removed?

2) You have 2 dice with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. They are both rolled at the same time.

a. Draw a tree diagram to show the different options when rolling two dice.

b. Show the probability of getting the following: when rolling two dice

P (rolling one 6)

P (rolling two 3′s)

P (total score is 9)

P (rolling a 3 but not a 5 or 6)

Grade 6 Ueno Zoo Brochure & Blog Post

fedleym — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:54:42 +0000

Over the next few weeks, we will be completing a brochure from our trip to the Zoo along with a corresponding blog post. Instructions are below and criteria are HERE

Brochure Instructions

Page 1

Name Your Animal
Include a picture of your animal
Name the origin of your animal
State “Current Residence is Ueno Zoo”
State “Brochure Made By Your Name”

Page 2

Answer Question “What has been done at the zoo to re-create the animals natural environment?”
Answer Question “How could the zoo improve the man-made environment to meet the animals needs? Was this done well/not well?

Page 3

State basic information about animal. This might include it’s size, the conditions the animal likes to live in, basic food chain, what plants and animals normally live near the animal etc
Include a glossary with key words and their meaning for your animal

Page 4/5

Complete a Venn Diagram that compares the man-made environment, natural environment and similarities
Analyse how well you think the zoo has met the needs of the animal
Describe how the animal is fed in the zoo/natural environment
What Science has been used to meet the animals needs?
Where does the animal sleep at the zoo and in it’s natural environment

Page 6

Complete a bibliography using MLA format

Our Blog Post

Describe what you did at Ueno Zoo. Have a heading of “What We Did”.
Describe the general living environment of the different animals you visited. Was the enclosure large/small, did it look natural or man made, were the a lot of animals or few animals in the enclosure. Include pictures if you have some
Did the animals look happy? Explain and include pictures if you have them
Why do you think we have zoos? Explain why
If you were an animal at the zoo, do you think you would be happy living there?
What do you think the zoo could do to improve the lives of the animals at the zoo?
Should we have zoos, or should we visit zoos? What do you think and explain why.
Any other comments that you think would be interesting to the readers.

Please include pictures if you have them, along with general comments. I do expect this to be posted on your blog soon.

Tree Diagrams

fedleym — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:46:00 +0000

For todays lesson, we will be completing some tree diagrams and collating the probability of certain events occuring. Instructions on what to do is below.

Neil likes dice. So, he decides to roll 3 of his 3 sided dice. Construct a tree diagram which shows the different options he might roll.

What is the probability of rolling at least two 6′s?
If Neil was to add all of the possible dice combinations together, which number will be the highest probability of rolling?
What is the probability of rolling one 1?
What is the probability of rolling one 2 and one 3?
What is the probability of rolling a 3 and not a 2? Explain.

2)Claude loves to use his awesome magical skills to amaze, confuse and humble his fellow classmates. His main trick uses 4 face card from a deck of cards (1, 2, 3, 4). His trick involves you picking three cards and him telling you what the total of your cards will equal

Construct a tree diagram showing the different outcomes from the 6 cards available if we take a total of 3 cards. Remember that the cards are not replaced?
Which number will be the most common? What probability do we have of getting this number?
Which score/s is the least likely to be chosen by any specific student.
If you were Claude’s enemy and you wanted to find out his trick to this awesome piece of magic (aka probability), what would be your rule?
Akari was really annoyed with Claude as he did not say hi to her as he walked past her this morning. As such, Akari used her own magic by replacing every card with the exact identical card taken out by Claude. Contruct a new tree diagram that shows the different options for choosing three cards which are now replaced (1,2,3,4).
What is the most common score? What probability is there of getting this score?
How does this change the probability of Claude choosing the correct answer? Explain using the data you have collected.

It’s Probably Fun Activity

fedleym — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:07:44 +0000

For today, we will be looking at some generalized experimental probability through the classic game of 21. We will also complete the students favorite activity – textbook work!! General instructions are below:

21 Activity

For this activity, you need to get into groups of 3 or 4 students. We will be collecting some results and looking at the data to interpret the probability of winning a game.
First, complete the following questions in your notebook.

Which number do you think will be the most common winner in the game of 21? Explain why.
Do you think the game of 21 is fair or not fair? Explain why
Is 21 a game of skill or a game which requires skill and knowledge. Explain

Once every student in your group has finished, then I want you to play the game of 21 a total of 15 TIMES. Please remember record the winning number in THIS DOCUMENT on Page 1. Don’t worry – the statistics part of this game will automatically be completed for you. We will learn this in your next topic after your exam.
We will have to wait for all groups to finish the game. As such, you can finish the work from last lesson - Ex 4.02 Q 3-5 on Page 102
When all groups have finished, then complete the following questions…..

Did the games of 21 you played seem fair? Explain why.
Which number was the most common? Was this different than what you were expecting?
Do you think there is an easy way to work out the probability of winning this game? Explain the best you can.
Is the game of 21 a combined event or independent event? Explain why

Once you have completed this – you can start the fun work of working from a textbook. Complete Ex 4.03 Q 5-9 on Page 108. Remember to always show the probability using the probability of an event equation:

P(E) = n(E) / n(S)

E = Number of ways the event can occur

S = Number of ways all events can occur

Remember that P(E) will always be 1 or under

Probability Introduction

fedleym — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:43:50 +0000

For today, we will be completing two small activities. Instructions are below:

Go to the following website HERE. Try these games (4 of them) and tell us in your notebook if the game is fair or not and why. 1 or 2 sentences per game should be enough
Complete some really fun questions from Ex 4.02 Q 3-5 on Page 102.

Remember the simple general rule for probability…

Experimental Probability = Number of times the event occurred / total number in sample

In time, we will also complete some small activities which DO NOT use the textbook or coins/dice.

Our general skills we will learn for this activity include:

Calculate the probability of simple combined events using probability diagrams.
Construct and use tree diagrams with and without replacement.

As you can see, it’s quite a short unit and A LOT easier than what you have completed previously. I expect there to be limited homework for this unit which should give you time to revise for your upcoming exam.

Grade 6 Holidays Blog

fedleym — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:05:53 +0000

As always, we will write what we did for the holidays. The good, the bad and the ugly. Please complete the instructions below:

Make a new blog post and give it a heading of your choice. “My Holiday’s” is fine.
What I Did: For this part – tell us what you did for the holidays. Where did you go? What did you do?
The Best Thing About Holidays: In this section, tell us the best thing that happened to you or you did during holidays. Try and include some detail.
The Worst Thing About Holidays: In this section, tell us what you least enjoyed (hated) about the holidays that you had to do or did not like. Try and include some detail.
Something strange: Tell a small story about something weird or strange that happened to you on holidays. Be truthful but you can be creative.
Post
Read other peoples blog posts and make comments. Other peoples blogs can be found HERE