7G+2017+-+2018

May 30 d3 We went over the exam and did portfolios

May 25 d6 We did the measuring development work. Absent: Juliana

May 22 d3 We finished writing about the weather and climate. We finished the wind and rock cycles. We saw a presentation about natural landscapes and discussed how we can measure the advancement of a nation today. We stuck information into our notebooks about measuring development. Absent: Catalina, Juan José, Miguel Ángel

May 18 d1 We went over the answers for the natural disasters video, finished and checked the time zones worksheet and drew diagrams of the wind and water cycles. We will do the rock cycle next time. Absent: Santiago, Natalia, Sebastián

May 17 d6 We watched the information about seasons and time zones, stuck in the information and started the time zones worksheet. NASA kids:[] Understanding time zones:[]
 * Time zones videos:**

Absent: Catalina, Santiago, Mariana, Natalia
 * Seasons**: []

May 11 d3 Watch the Eyewitness video and answer the questions - give in your worksheet at the end of class. You can decide with the teacher whether you will all watch together or each at their own device. You can use the subtitles to help you. media type="youtube" key="nU__h1qqO5Y" width="560" height="315"

//If this link does not work, please go to Youtube and search for **"Eyewitness Natural Disaster".** It is the first one that comes up.//

May 9 d1 We did the rivers worksheet. Absent: Natalia
 * Homework: Finish the worksheet for next week.**

May 8 d6 We presented the future cities.

May 3 d3 Watch the river Severn video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TwaEjAei4M Fill in the diagram of the river (label parts of the river). Use the internet to write the numbers of the longest rivers on the map. Find these in Unit 3 classroom materials.
 * This work is to be done at home as there is no school. Also, catch up with anything else you missed.**

Apr 30 d1 We did the civilization project evaluation. Absent: Santiago, Juan José

Apr 27 d6 We went over the answers for the landforms homework and played a game to practise. We saw the information about erosion and mountain formation and stuck the information in our notebooks. We started the continents timeline, which should be finished for homework. [] [] Absent: Catalina, Nicolás C, Daniel, Sebastián, Miguel Ángel, Alejandro, Santiago, Mariana, Nicolás R, Juan José, Massimo
 * Billy Blue Hair erosion explanation:**
 * Billy Blue Hair mountain explanation:**
 * What is a mountain?** //Short video with diagrams and photos of mountains//:[]
 * Homework: Finish timeline**

Apr 24 d3 No class - MAP tests

Apr 20 d1 No class - language day activity.

Apr 19 d6 We drew a picture to show the 4 spheres, saw Felix Baumgartner's stratosphere jump and wrote information about the atmosphere. We started the landscapes vocabulary, which must be finished for homework.

Apr 16 d3 We checked that we had all the Unit 2 information in our notebooks. We wrote the Unit 3 information, discussed what we know about the Earth and its formation/changes, coloured and labelled a diagram of Earth´s spheres and made a table to go with it.

Apr 12 d1 We checked one project against the rubric to see what grade it would get, then we organised who needed to finish what in the group. There will be no more class time to work on the project. There will be an evaluation of the content and work process before the presentation on __//**Tuesday 24 April, Day 3.**//__ Absent: Catalina, Mariana
 * Homework: Finish the project and grade it against the rubric to ensure that you have included everything.**

Apr 11 d6 We worked on the projects. Absent: Felicity, Alejandro, Miguel Ángel

Apr 6 d3 We worked on the projects. Absent: Felicity

Apr 4 d1 We worked on the projects. Absent: Felicity

Apr 3 d6 We worked on the projects. Absent: Felicity

Mar 20 d3 No class - Spanish trip.

Mar 16 d3 We worked on the civilization project. Absent: Anna, Nicolás, Alejandro, Semira

Mar 14 d1 We worked on the table.

Mar 13 d6 We did portfolios. Homework: Have the table ready with information for the Sumerians for next class.

Mar 6 d1 No class - convivencia

Mar 5 d6 We looked at primary and secondary sources, we changed groups and saw th rubric for the summative assessment. Each group should have made an online document to do the research, which is shared with me. Absent: Alejandro

Feb 28 d3 We went over the grades in the notebook. We stuck in information about the other river valley civilizations. Absent: Sebastían, Emilia, Juan José, Mariana

Feb 26 d1 We went over the answers for the Mesopotamia video and stuck in a map of the region. Absent: Mariana

Feb 23 d6 We wrote about the primary sources activity. Absent: Nicolás C

Feb 20 d3 We did the primary sources activity, but we did not find out what all the objects were.

Feb 16 d1 We filled in the political and physical maps of Africa. They must be finished for homework. Absent: Felicity, Sofía

Feb 15 d6 We watched the video about Mesopotamia and filled in the worksheet.

Feb 9 d3 We showed the presentations of the Unit words. Absent: Alejandro
 * Homework: Please print the prehistory project.**

Feb 7 d1 We wrote the meaning of BC, AD etc in notebooks and researched some of the unit words.

Feb 6 d6 We finished the prehistory eras activity. Absent: Nicolás

Feb 1 d3 We started the prehistory eras activity. Absent: Catalina, Juan José

Jan 30 d1 We showed the presentations and wrote a reflection about the group work. Absent: Emilia

Jan 29 d6 We finished making the presentations. Absent: Sebastián

Jan 24 d3 We researched the question and went over the rubric. We will have one class to finish making the presentation. Absent: Nicolás C, Miguel Ángel
 * Homework: Research your question.**

Jan 22 d1 We wrote out and corrected the grammar of 5 better and 3 bad research questions on another paper. We decided which of the 5 questions we would research during the next class. Absent: Anna
 * Homework: Do some preliminary research for your question so that you come to class prepared with some information.**

Jan 19 d6 We wrote our questions on a shared paper, discussed and wrote a description of a good research question, made a tally of the question words we used and analysed the questions that we have. Absent: Catalina, Vanessa, Isabella, Miguel Ángel

Jan 15 d3 We went over the exam and sorted portfolios. Absent: Vanessa, Natalia

Jan 12 d1 We took notes from a PowerPoint about early history and wrote questions that we would like to ask from watching the first 3 parts of the Human Prehistory 101 animated video. You should have your 5 questions ready for the next class. The link for the first part is here, then the next parts follow automatically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-IxK1GrYE Absent: Gabriela, Miguel Angel, Mariana

Jan 11 d6 We wrote the unit information and did some welcome back activities. Absent: Sebastián, Emilia, Mariana, Massimo

Dec 7 EXAM

Dec 4 d3 We finished the poster and went over what will be in the exam. Absent: Catalina, Nicolás

Nov 29 d1 We discussed what was the definition of pre-history and history and then made a poster to show pre and recorded history that we need to finish in the next class. Absent: Gabriela, Miguel Ángel

Nov 28 d6 We sorted portfolios and wrote in notebooks our own definitions of history and pre-history. Absent: Catalina, Gabriela

Nov 23 d3 We sorted portfolios. Absent: Catalina, Natalia

Nov 21 d1 We finished the atlas workshop and wrote reflections about our project grades. Absent: Natalia

Nov 20 d6 We did the atlas workshop. Absent: Anna, Natalia

Nov 15 d3 We did an evaluation of the group work. Absent: Felicity, Catalina, Vanessa, Gabriela, Isabella, Emilia, Natalia

Nov 10 d1 We presented the projects. Absent: Nicolás C, Gabriela, Miguel Ángel

Nov 9 d6 We worked on presentations and 1 group presented. We talked about the importance of making work in a shared online document so that everyone has access to it even if someone is away. Absent: Gabriela, Isabella, Mariana

Nov 3 d3 We worked on our presentations. Absent: Daniel, Isabella, Emilia, Mariana, Juliana, Miguel Angel, Alejandro
 * Homework: Finish the survey conclusions and start making the presentation, which will be presented next week.**

Nov 1 d1 We wrote conclusions about the surveys and organised the presentations. Absent: Daniel, Gabriela, Isabella, Emilia, Juliana, Semira, Juan José

Oct 31 d6 All groups finished making their survey questions. We worked on the research questions for 1 to 4 and we should now start to think about how we will present our findings. Absent: Nicolás C, Daniel, Isabella, Emilia, Mariana, Juliana
 * Homework: Finish research for 1 to 5**

Oct 26 d3 We worked on the research for questions 1 - 4 and made the survey questions.

Oct 24 d1 We wrote a reflection for the test and filled in the grading sheet. We worked on questions 1 to 5 for the traffic survey. Some groups did the questions for the survey with Felicity. Absent: Anna

Oct 23 d6 No class - MUN simulation.

Oct 18 d3 No class, pyschology workshop. Absent: Felicity, Catalina
 * Homework: Finish up to question 3**

Oct 6 d1 No class - Manual de Convivencia

Oct 5 d6 We worked on the project and finished the test. Absent: Anna, Gabriela, Emilia, Semira

Oct 2 d3 We did the mapping test.

Sep 28 d1 We went over the answers of the crossword and organised groups with a shared Google Doc for the traffic project. Absent: Alejandro

Sep 27 d6 No class - MAP tests.

Sep 22 d3 We finished the mapmaking questions and started the crossword. Absent: Juliana
 * Homework: Finish the crossword**

Sep 20 d1 We worked on the mapmaking questions. A few people need to finish. Absent: Juliana, Catalina

Sep 19 d6 We read the history of map-making text and started to answer the questions. Absent: Juliana, Catalina

Sep 14 d3 We finished the atlas worksheet and saw a presentation about the history of map making.

Sep 12 d1 We finished writing about the atlas and we did the atlas race worksheet, which some people need to finish.

Sep 11 d6 We did the worksheet about coordinates and started to write information in our notebooks about the atlas. Absent: Miguel Angel, Juan José

Sep 6 d3 We checked the maps were complete and wrote information in our notebooks on how to read maps.

Sep 4 d1 We filled in the maps of South America. Absent: Felicity
 * Homework: Practise the countries and capitals using the online games in Unit 1 websites.**

Sep 1 d6 We did a treasure map activity. Absent: Ana Sofía

Aug 29 d3 We learned how to make graphs in Excel and shared some of the graphs we had made, discussing any problems we had with the questions. We watched a part of the documentary Cosmic Voyage to look at the scale of the universe, which you can watch at home if you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEdpSgz8KU4
 * Homework: print and stick or draw graph in notebook for Friday 1st d6**

Aug 25 d1 We wrote the unit information and reasons why we travel. We made a question about journeys and asked the class to make a tally chart. This should be finished before next class if you did not have time to finish in class. Next class we will learn how to make a graph in Excel so please bring a laptop.

Aug 24 d6 We organised seating and notebooks, went over classroom procedures, looked at the wiki and practised some geography games using the links. Absent: Natalia

Aug 18 d3 We did getting to know you activities. Absent: Emilia