10/1/18
Monday, October 1st, was a very active day for Quest Humanities and Quest science. In Quest Humanities, we started a new geography project. This project was a creative way to make a geographic 3-D island out of paper. The highest points are the mountains, lowest points are the flat lands and intermediate points of the island were hills. This helped us express our creativity and knowledge for geography. In Quest Science, we took a quiz on our knowledge for the important lab tools and the metric system. After the quiz, we spent time expanding on the metric system, in a fun way. By doing a smile lab, we measured our smiles in centimeters and millimeters, to get familiar using the traditional metric system in science, and to see who has the biggest smile in the class. – Moses
10/2/18
Tuesday, October 2nd, was an extension of what we did on Monday. In Quest Humanities, we focused on adding more detail to our islands. Creating cities, transportation ports/roads, recreation, and choosing the location of our islands. This added more depth to our islands and gave us the opportunity to express our uniqueness and creativity. In Quest Science, we stuck with the metric system and worked on a pretty lengthy packet. This helped our class a lot get used to using the metric system. – Moses
10/3/18
In Quest Humanities on Wednesday, October 3rd, we started working on our Island narrative. We have an assignment that is due next week on Tuesday where we start to build a story about a day in the life of one of our island residents. The story is supposed to give details about the island, following up on the physical islands we created in class on Monday and Tuesday. The story is supposed to follow a person who lives on the island and show detail about their everyday life,
including specific details about the island geography, culture and climate. It is supposed to help us think about the details of our island and put them into a story format. – Skyla
10/4/18
Today in quest humanities we had time to work on our island narrative. The island narrative is making a character and making a story about everyday life on your island. You would also use the geography, culture, and climate to create the life of your character on your island. You would have to write this story either from a child or adult perspective. You would also have to include the geographical features of your island in your story. Students have already created their islands and they are currently working on these stories – Nicholas
10/5/18
In science today we got to finish our gummy bear lab. The gummy bear lab was when we measured the length, width, thickness, volume, mass, and density of the gummy bear. We then put the gummy bear in the water for a few hours overnight. Mrs. Bruvik then drained the water surrounding the gummy bears. We then took the gummy bear out of the cup and recorded the measurements of the length, width, thickness, volume, mass, and density. This practices our knowledge of the metric system that we are going to use all year in science. – Nicholas
