Learning Never Stops

“They gave Pandora a box. Prometheus begged her not to open it. She opened it. Every evil to which human flesh is heir came out of it. The last thing to come out of the box was hope. It flew away.” ―  Kurt Vonnegut Central Idea :  Access to medical care around the world varies and can influence how diseases are spread. Focus Key Concepts:  ​ Form ​ Change Reflection Provocation We started the unit off by playing the board game PANDEMIC Central Idea: Access to medical care around the world varies and can influence how diseases are spread.  We just started off the unit on diseases. We thought of a title we could give the unit that was slightly more inspiring than"Diseases" and came up with "Dying to Live!" just for fun. It seems quite an apt one considering there is a continuous battle between our determined yet frustrated scientists and the pathogens that mock them by constantly evolving. In the meantime, we poor p...

We have began our research on different pathogens. Being a science unit, our research has been very hands-on as. The science strand ' Living Things" helps us focus on the following: The study of the characteristics, systems, and behaviours of humans and other animals (including pathogens) ; their interactions and relationships between and among them, and their environment. They key words that stood out  for us was "behaviour", "interaction" and "relationship." Our big question was: under what conditions do micro organisms like bacteria/fungi thrive? In order to find out how microorganism, behave and interact with their environment, we made some food for our classroom guests, the metaphorical white elephants -millions of them in 6B. We made some very tasty pasty dough using white flour and water. We then weighed the dough... Then, We needed to use our estimation skills! We finally adjusted the dough after weighing ea...