7B+2014+-+2015

Jun 2 day 4 We sorted out the countries from most to least developed. We watched a documentary about Muiscas and Taironas. Absent: Carlos Adolfo

Jun 1 day 3 We watched the 60 minutes clip about Greg Mortensen and discussed ethics and the problems of primary evidence. We looked at how we measure the development of a country and found the indicators for the table, but didn't sort the countries from most to least developed.

May 28 day 1 We finished the questions about the Colombian cultures. If you did not finish you must do it at break time. We need to make the Muisca Tairona table in the next class. Absent: Carlos

May 27 day 6 We did the crossword of early American people and started to cut out the questions for the Colombian cultures.
 * Homework: Please cut and stick all the questions in your notebook and cut out the pictures so that you are ready to answer the questions in the next class. Start gathering pictures of the characteristics of civilizations from past and present so that we can make a poster in class next week on Thursday day 6.**

May 25 day 4 We worked on the essays. **They must be handed in on Monday**.

May 22 day 3 We went to the Republica de Israel school.

May 20 day 1 We started writing the essays.
 * Homework: Spend half an hour working on the essay.**

May 19 day 4 We saw the Africa presentation, did the peer evaluation and finished the table of the civilisations.

May 13 day 3 We did the atlas skills test. Absent: Luis Fernando, Laura S

May 11 day 1 We talked about the problem with the bag, got feedback and went over the tests and worked on our projects. Absent: Luis Fernando

May 7 day 6 We worked on the projects. Absent: Felicity, Sebastián, Juan Manuel

May 5 day 4 We worked on the Bring a Map to Life projects.

May 4 day 3 We did the Mesopotamia test. Absent: Laura S, Laura R

Apr 29 day 1 We finished the atlas skills and worked on the projects.

Apr 28 day 6 We started the projects.

Apr 24 day 4 No class due to Language Day

Apr 23 day 3 We did the atlas skills. Absent: Felicity

Apr 21 day 1 We finished the documentary.

Apr 20 day 6 We went over the answers to Hammurabi's Code, did the Mesopotamia Maths and started to watch the documentary. Absent: Julián

Apr 16 day 4 We did the work on Hammurabi's Code. Absent: Felicity, Sebastián, Gabriela, Carlos Adolfo

Apr 15 day 3 We did the Asia test, wrote the charateristics of a civilization and discussed Hammurabi's Code of Laws. Absent: Carlos Adolfo

Apr 13 day 1 We did the quiz of primary and secondary sources, finished the crosswords and did the cuneiform writing in clay. Absent: Carlos Adolfo

Apr 10 day 6 We wrote about secondary evidence, did the work on the b52´s song and finished the crossword. Absent: Daniel

Apr 8 day 4 We did the crossword about Mesopotamia and stuck in the map. We need to write about secondary evidence and finish the crossword in the next class.

Apr 7 day 3 We got back the Africa tests and stuck them in our notebooks. We wrote about primary evidence and finished the History Detectives work. Absent: Luis Fernando

Mar 24 day 6 We did the History Detectives work. Absent: María Camila, José Gabriel
 * Homework: Practise for Asia test and bring clay after the Easter break**

Mar 19 day 4 We finished the Asia maps and the writing about early humans. We looked at tthe artefacts that we drew to find out what they were for. Absent: Natalia

Mar 18 day 3 We did the Africa test and finished the primary evidence drawings. Absent: Daniel

Mar 16 day 1 We put the work in our portfolios and wrote the grades. We did the drawings and descriptions for the primary evidence activity. Absent: Gabriela

Mar 13 day 6 We went over the meaning of the national anthem. We got back our river projects with feedback and wrote the reflection. We wrote notes about early humans in our notebooks. We need to finish this. Absent: Carlos, Gabriela, Sofía, Julian

Mar 11 day 4 We did the pop quiz of the National Anthem. We wrote the unit information in our notebooks and saw a powerpoint presentation about Early Humans. Absent: Andrés

Mar 10 day 3 We finished all the maps. http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/
 * Homework: Learn the maps of Africa for a test next week**

Mar 6 day 1 We filled in the maps of Asia. Absent: Felicity, Daniel Sebastián

Mar 5 day 6 We filled in the maps of Africa. Absent: Felicity, Sebastián

Mar 3 day 4 We presented the river projects.

Mar 2 day 3 We presented the river projects.

Feb 26 day 1 We received the tests and got feedback about them. We organised portfolios and gave in the projects. Absent: Sofía

Feb 25 day 6 No class due to intercasas.

Feb 23 day 4 We started to look at ancient people and did some brainstorming in groups about what we know. Absent: Gabriela

Feb 20 day 3 We worked on the projects. Absent: Carlos Adolfo

Feb 18 day 1 No class due to Mass.

Feb 17 day 6 We worked on part 2.

Feb 13 day 4 We made a mountain to see how rivers form and carried on with our projects.

Feb 12 day 3 We did the rivers test. Absent: Natalia, Daniel, Sofía

Feb 10 day 1 We went over the answers to questions 3 and 4, then carried on with the research about the polluted rivers of Colombia and the world.
 * Homework: Study for the test: river vocabulary, describe each course, Cali and Colombia rivers, Colombia river system, world rivers, National Anthem**

Feb 6 day 6 We looked for the longest rivers in the world to put on the map. We discussed question 4, but we need to go over the answers to question 3 in the next class. We started to look for rivers in the world to investigate in groups. Absent: Gabriela

Feb 4 day 4 We were given time to finish 3 and 4.
 * Homework: Study for test next week.**

Feb 3 day 3 We worked on questions 3 and 4. Absent: Felicity

Jan 30 day 1 We worked on questions 1 and 2. Absent:
 * Homework: Finish these for the next class.**

Jan 29 day 6 We started describing the 3 courses of the river Cali for the project. Absent: Gabriela
 * Homework: Finish question 1 and start question 2**

Jan 27 day 4 We stuck in the map of the Cali rivers and wrote some information about the Colombia river system. We discussed points of view of different people involved in situations shown on photos. We were given the rubric for the River Cali project. Absent: Carlos Adolfo
 * Homework: Learn the National Anthem and check out the rio Cali website for next class. Bring a laptop or tablet for this project if possible.**

Jan 26 day 3 No class due to assembly.

Jan 22 day 1 We finished the river system worksheet. Absent: Natalia, Carlos Adolfo

Jan 21 day 6 We went over the attributes and our goals for this term. We talked about the best way to make notes. We started the work on the river system and we need to finish the second worksheet. Absent: Sofía
 * Homework: Rivers of Colombia map for Day 3**

Jan 19 day 4 We watched the video about the river journey. Absent: Gabriela

Jan 16 day 3 We changed seats, talked about the holidays and got feedback from the Decenber exams. We gave in the notes about the documentary. Absent: Juan Pablo
 * Homework: Bring in a photo of you on, in or near a river (if not by a lake or sea) for the beginning of next week. Put the name of the river.**

Dec 3 day 6 No class due to novena. Homework: Finish watching the documentary and writing the notes at home.

Dec 1 day 4 We watched the documentary.

Nov 28 day 3 We did the landforms quiz and talked about exam procedure.

Nov 26 day 1 We did the matching activity of landforms and watched the first ten minutes of the documentary. Absent: Laura S

Nov 25 day 6 We watched the video about tectonic plate movement and made the timeline of continental drift.

Nov 21 day 4 We drew the diagram of the inside of the earth and the rock, wind and rain cycles. We saw the videos about mountain formation and stuck in the information. Absent: Carlos Adolfo, Valentina, Luis Fernando

Nov 20 day 3 We went over the changing surface answers, gave out the books for the bookclub and wrote some information about climate and weather in our notebooks, but we didn't see the video. Absent: Carlos Adolfo, Valentina

Nov 18 day 1 We went over the landforms answers and worked on the changing surface questions. Absent: Carlos Adolfo

Nov 14 day 6 We did the landforms and Earth's changing surface work. Absent: Sebastián Ordoñez

Nov 12 day 4 We did the landforms and Earth's changing surface work. Absent: Sebastián Ordoñez

Nov 11 day 3 We did the Venn diagram activity about the Earth's spheres.
 * Homework: Do the landforms quiz in unit 2 websites and send me the screenshot of the results. For Day 3 Thursday 20th Nov**

Nov 7 day 1 We went over the pisos termicos homework. We went over the projects and organised the portfolios. We and wrote the table about Earth's layers.

Nov 6 day 6 No class due to storyteller.

Nov 4 day 4 We finished the time zones worksheet. We coloured the Earth's layers diagram.

Oct 31 day 3 No class due to Halloween.

Oct 29 day 1 We started the time zones worksheet which some people finished. we need to do the second part of the worksheet together.
 * Homework: Table about pisos térmicos for day 1 Nov 7th in notebook.**

Oct 28 day 6 We saw some videos about the season and wrote information in our notebooks. We saw a video about time zones and discussed it. We were given the time zones worksheets but we didn't start doing the work.

Oct 24 day 4 We finished the map makers work.

Oct 23 day 3 We learned about how ancient people measured place and time and how technology has changed through the ages and started the Map Makers work.

Oct 21 day 1 No class due to Consentidos work.

Oct 20 day 6 We got back our Unit 1 test and wrote a reflection about it. Last day to work on the project.
 * Hand in project on Friday 24th October**

Oct 16 day 4 We worked on Google Maps project. Absent: Carlos Adolfo, Sofía

Oct 15 day 3 We had 10 minutes to finish the mapping test. We looked at a Google Project with the rubric so that we could understand how they will evaluated. Absent:Carlos Adolfo, Sofía

Oct 3 day 1 No class due to St. Francis Day celebration.

Oct 2 day 6 We worked on the Google Maps project. Absent: Sebastián

Sep 30th day 4 We did the atlas and maps test. Absent: Daniel

Sep 29th day 3 We worked on the Google Maps projects.

Sep 25 day 1 We finished Google Earth and got the rubric and introduction to Google Maps project.
 * Homework: Study for test (next Tuesday) and start working on Google Maps Project.**

Sep 24 day 6 We fixed the answers on the scale activity that were wrong and did the Google Earth worksheet or Map Makers. We still need to finish these two. Please bring laptops or ipads.

Sep 22 day 4 We finished the scale activity and started the work on Map Makers.

Sep 19 day 3 We discussed St Francis day. We did an activity about scale that we need to finish.

Sep 17 day 1 We saw a story about space. We did a competition about the planets. We stuck some information into our notebooks and wrote about the solar system.

Sep 16 day 6 We finished the atlas race and did the first part of the Google Earth paper.

Sep 12 day 4 We finished the presidents quiz and started the atlas race worksheet.

Sep 11 day 3 We looked at the posters and finished the presentations. We discussed what makes a good presentation. We wrote the homework and filled in the map of Colombia..
 * Homework: Finish the map. Practise the countries and capitals of South America and the departments and capitals of Colombia using the links in unit 1 websites. Copy the final score page by using the snipping tool or the Imp/Pant key on the keyboard. Paste the 4 maps on a powerpoint slide and send to my email: fbedford@ccbcali.edu.co. For Day 3.**

Sep 9 day 1 We presented our homework of interesting facts about Earth and space. A few people still need to present and we need to look at the posters.

Sep 8 day 6 We did the worksheets about coordinates and started the presidents quiz but didn't finish.

Sep 4 day 4 We did an activity to find and mark our territory. We labelled a map with the lines of latitude and longitude in our notebooks. We practiced finding places using coordinates on the world map. We looked at where the sun rises and sets to find north.

Sep 3 day 3 We finished the maps and looked at what we find in the atlas. We wrote some definitions of parts of the atlas in our notebooks and drew the compass rose. We need to check again how to find N.

Sep 2 day 2 We got feedback about the homework, wrote some unit questions and filled in the maps of the Americas, physical and political. Absent: Natalia

Sep 1 day 1 We were given the new homework. We played a game in pairs to find departments of Colombia, and discussed what the posters we did about Colombia tell us about the country (only one group showed major cities, for example). We looked at how to organise our emails. We had a competition in teams to see who could do the Colombia departments jigsaw first.
 * Homework: Teach us one thing that you find interesting about the Earth in space or maps. Present it how you like in your own words (poster, oral presentation with pictures, labeled model etc). Do not spend more than 1 hour researching and making the presentation. For Day 1**

Aug 27 day 4 We gave in and discussed the homework and thought about interesting questions we could ask about the unit. We did a group activity to show on a diagram where we are located.

Aug 26 day 3 We finished discussing the questions about group work. We wrote 5 questions to ask our classmates and found out the answers. We discussed types of questions and what is a good question. We looked at the wiki to see how to enter the geography games and we did a quiz of departments with a few people.

Aug 25 day 2 We watched and discussed the world cup presentation. We voted for our favourite poster from all grade 7. We discussed the first 4 questions about group work and we need to finish the rest next time. Martín changed class.

Aug 22 day 1 We finished the posters and voted for the best one. We wrote the unit information in our notebooks and the homework. We played round the world with capitals of the world. Absent: Martín
 * Homework: Check you have a working printer at home. Visit the wiki and write a short paragraph in your notebook describing your impression of it - eg. will it be useful? do you like it? what do you think of the topics we will cover? Ask 5 people what you need to do to be successful in Bach - write their names and answers in your notebook. For Wednesday Day 4.**

Aug 19 day 4 We checked that everyone has something to write their homework on. We did a geography quiz of the world in pairs using the atlas and played round the world using the capitals of departments of Colombia. We were given the the address of the grade 7 wiki. We drew a poster showing Colombia in groups. We will have 5-10 minutes to finish it in the next class.

Aug 15 day 3 We talked about holidays and the different places we visited over the summer. We looked at the attributes, wrote each one on a paper and shared them out with the rest of the class depending on which attribute we thought each person showed most. We wrote one attribute that we think we should try to work on this year. Absent: Sofía, Carlos Adolfo

Aug 14 day 2 We got to know each other, looked at the classroom agreements and the grading policy, and shared some information about ourselves by asking questions. Absent: Sofía