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Swimming Reflection

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in PE G7 on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 6:55 PM - (0 Comments)

Water Safety

      I honestly didn’t know a lot about water safety before this unit, of course I pretty much knew that drowning was not desirable, that we should not attempt to dive into the water to save someone frantically thrashing about in fear that we might end up being dragged down, that it is generally not a good idea to spend too much in the sun, and that it is rarely a good idea to go swimming without a life guard. But besides from that, I was pretty clueless when it came to such things.

      So now I am proud to say that I can use several words to indicate the consciousness of people who are drowning, as well as a couple ways how not to save them. And some ways to, naturally. It is also not recommended to swim through a thunderstorm, which is a fact I already know, but a point I will stress nonetheless. Because I want to.

Swimming Strokes

      I’m not sure what strokes I’m good at, precisely, but I do know that the stroke I’m most comfortable with is breaststroke. I know, of course, that I was not born able to swim breaststroke, but I can’t remember where I learned it. Possibly somewhere with a pool.

       There are many strokes I am not very good at. I can imitate them well enough, but I have never really had proper instruction on any of them. To name a few: Butterfly. Dolphin. I’m okay with freestyle but have always felt like I was doing something wrong. It just didn’t feel as right when I did it.

      I really worked on the freestyle after I received a new lesson on how to do it. It turns out my arms have been a little off for ages. You have to bring your elbow way back and cut across the body in the water. 

       I finished the unit at a level 3, though the instruction sheet either wasn’t very clear or I wasn’t very good at understanding the terminology. It did take me a while to figure out that the scissor kick is neither a floppy jellyfish-like flutter, nor the breaststroke kick. Also, the front crawl is apparently not a synonym for doggy paddle. I thought it was just a more formal way of putting it, but it turns out there really is a difference, though I can’t entirely remember what.

      I really enjoyed being in the water, though the non-participation work seemed to vary with every teacher and every day, and it was quite hard to see the computer screen in the blaring light of the sun. Also, the photography work we had to do was rather hard for someone who doesn’t own, say, an iPhone. The assessment task was not really the most suitable work for a group, especially since the iMovie is only accessible from one persons laptop and the rest of us hover rather uselessly about while the other person is editing. It is also quite hard to try and finish the work on the iMovie when group members cannot find eachother during the scheduled times of work and have a remarkable knack for disappearing when the guilt kicks in. Which it does quite often. Just a reminder: Selene is a rock star.

Criteria

To obtain the highest level for each of the following criteria you will need to do the following:

Criteria

Level

Descriptors

Indicators

Criterion A

0

The student does not reach the standard described by any of the descriptors below.

The student does not reach a standard described by any of the indicators below.

Use

of

Knowledge

1 – 2

The student shows Limited knowledge and understanding of the vocabulary & key points in the unit being studied. Rarely uses this knowledge to solve simple problems in familiar situations.

Rarely shows knowledge and understanding of skills, strategies and rules.

The student has difficulty analysing and solving problems during game situations.

3 – 4

The student shows basic knowledge and understanding of the vocabulary & key points in the unit being studied. Sometimes uses this knowledge to solve simple problems in familiar situations.

Sometimes shows knowledge and understanding of skills, strategies and rules.
The student sometimes experiences difficulty analysing and solving problems during familiar game situations.

5 – 6

The student shows good knowledge and understanding of the vocabulary & key points in the unit being studied. Sometimes uses this knowledge to solve simple problems in unfamiliar situations.

Usually shows knowledge and understanding of skills, strategies and rules.
The student can analyse and solve problems in familiar game situations most of the time.

7 – 8

The student shows thorough knowledge and understanding of the vocabulary & key points in the unit being studied. Usually uses this knowledge to solve simple problems in unfamiliar situations.

Always shows knowledge and understanding of skills, strategies and rules.
The student has no problem analysing and solving problems in familiar game situations.

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Math Stairs

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in Uncategorized on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 11:17 AM - (0 Comments)

1st ladder

x:25, y:17

 

2nd ladder

x:31, y:16

3rd ladder

x:35, y:16

4th ladder

x:30, y: 16

5th ladder

x:28, y:17

6th ladder

x:29, y:29

 

All stairs

Steepest to shallowest

Ladder 3

Ladder 4

Ladder 1

Ladder 5

Ladder 6


Rise

Run

17

25

16

31

15

35

16

30

17

28

20

29

 

 

Tsunami

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in Humanities G7 on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 11:14 AM - (0 Comments)

1) What is an Tsunami?

2) Explain how they are formed.

3) Where do they usually occur?

4) What are the warning signs of a Tsunami?

5) How are they detected?

6) What can you do if you suspect a Tsunami is coming?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/tsunami2.htm

A tsunami is a huge wave around 5-10 or more meter tall which usually travels at a really high speed rate and destroys cities. Tsunamis are created because one of the crustal plates shift upwards which creates a huge wave of water going towards in directions at very high speeds. Tsunamis occur in deep sea waters or mostly in seas. Some tsunami warning signs are that the tides will become more shallow and that the warning beacon will tell that there is a tsunami. People can detect them by using seismograph underwater to know if the tsunami is working. To be saved from an upcoming tsunami, we can move ourself to higher grounds like hill or mountains.

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Natural Disasters Map – Ring of Fire

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in Humanities G7 on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 8:51 PM - (0 Comments)

The Ring Of Fire has lots of volcanoes and earthquakes occurring, the ring of fire is in the Pacific Ocean plate and it is called the ring of fire because it is shaped like a ring and it is filled with active volcanoes so as some disastrous earthquakes in the ring of fire area.

Most of the crustal plates move into each other and create mountains or sometimes when the crust moves down again to the earth creating CO2 or carbon dioxide which makes an explosion and creating volcanoes, some volcanoes may be active or passive.

Some major volcanoes like Vesuvius may not be near the earth plates, there might be other little plates which creates the volcanoes, there are lots of major earthquakes which doesn’t occur in the crustal plates.

There are earthquakes which occur near or on the crustal plate like the earthquakes in Syria and two of them in Chile, some crust may be moving apart or onto each other which makes earthquakes because the crustal plates can crash to each other or get stuck and are trying to pull each other.

Some earthquakes can cause mountains or volcano because the plates may crash together and may form mountains. Not all of the volcanoes and occurring earthquakes are in the middle or near the crustal plates, there are also some of them in the plates but not all.

The highest is the Himalaya mountain range, the highest of all is the Everest mountain which elevates to 8.000 and up m of elevation. Not all the mountain ranges are in the crustal plates, some of the location of these mountain.

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DT Create Movie

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in DT G7 on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 11:22 AM - (0 Comments)

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Egg Earthquake simulation

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in Humanities G7 on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 at 2:22 PM - (0 Comments)

 

This simulation was about how nature is unstable, and we have too drop the egg from certain heights pretending it was a earthquake. The egg represented as the earth, the white part of the egg is the mantle,  the yolk is the core, the shell is the crust of the earth. We had to draw a house, the house was represented as our house in the earth. The candy was represented as the money we have to pay to the land owner.

When we passed the egg to the right or left hand side of us, it represents how we don’t have control over nature. Passing the egg made me feel how worried I am about my house because it will crack when we drop it. The situation was out of control because when other people drops the egg, they may try to drop the egg unmeaningly.

When my egg dropped on the first, second, and third try I was very lucky because the egg had little or almost no cracks. My home was quite damage at the final drop. I had chose to moe my house to another area near the top of the egg. Although, I still got hit a lot of times at the top, I finally decided to repair it because I had no money left to move my house.

Natural disasters affect development because it can disrupt the economy of the country. The insurance or the government will lend money to the one’s house that have been damaged in the natural disaster. This will automatically make the government lose some money.

I think it is fair that our we pay our home being destroyed by a natural disaster, because life is unfair and that no one is responsible for the loss of the house. Natural disasters also affect our economy because the government and insurance gives lend money to us and some of the money will be loss in the government.

If we know natural disasters are going to occur in that area why do we still live there, it is because some people have no money to move and if we move we have to find a new job, house, and friends/family.

If people could chose to move to live in another part of the Earth that doesn’t have natural disasters, I think they would because it will be much safer and that we will have nothing to worry about like an earthquake or tsunami destroying their home.

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Natural Disasrter

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in Humanities G7 on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 at 2:08 PM - (0 Comments)

 

 Natural Disasters

 

Unit Question: How do forces of nature affect development in both positive and negative ways?

 

Key Concept: Places we live can be dangerous.

 

AOI: Environments: The geography of volcanoes and earthquakes impact human settlements as well as geological and technological developments.

 

Forces of nature act negative for us in some ways like they could destroy our homes, kill families, and cause lots of tragedy for us and others, there are also other positive ways it can work for example is volcanoes can enrich the ground around the volcano because of the magma they could also give out carbon dioxide so the earth is warm and cool and not too cold. Some examples of these natural disasters are floods, tsunamis, hurricane, typhoon, tornado, earthquake, volcano eruption, landslides, and more.

Here are some pictures of Natural Disasters.

 

First Picture from: http://jorgesantosphoto.photoshelter.com/image/I0000OmGJ0I9ObuI

Second Picture from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/9116636/Japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-factbox.html

Why do Earthquakes occur? They occur because of the tectonic plate in the sea/land moving either pulling itself or pushing itself inside. This causes the other parts to move too with the tectonic plates, making the land shake. Sometimes the result of the earthquake can make the mountain range bigger or maybe make some cracks in the land.

Why do volcano occur?

There are two ways of how volcanoes occur the first way is that the plates pull apart and the magma/lava bursts out. The second one is the magma makes it’s way through the mantle and bursts out of the land and sprout magma and it releases a thing called carbon dioxide which fuels the plants and other living things.

Why are Volcanoes essential for life?

They release things like Carbon Dioxide to make the plants absorb it and release oxygen which helps most animals and humans live. The first primitive bacteria also eat from volcano sulphur.

 

Pi Rap

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in Math G7 | Portfolio 2013 on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 at 10:51 AM - (0 Comments)

Pi Rap

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Personel Statement

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in Uncategorized on Friday, April 5th, 2013 at 10:54 AM - (0 Comments)

How have grade 7 has gone this year

-I am happy about myself in school and not that happy about my reports

 

My memorial moment is when all the grade 7 went to Telunas and helping the community school with making pipes.

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I did

 

 

Non Fiction genre study reflection

Posted by Ezra Sadikin in English G7 on Monday, April 1st, 2013 at 7:44 PM - (0 Comments)

How did I grow as a reader and writer?

I did not really grow much as a reader but I grew a lot as a writer because I wrote many things about Confucius. My inquiry question was “What Confucius thought life was about” and I did a lot of research on it about his philosophy his early life what he thought. What I need to improve is to get organized.

What did you like best about exploring your inquiry question?

What I liked about this was I get to research about what he thought and what he teaches people in ancient China, He was a good teacher and he got a lot of students. He thought that if there is no fighting the world wont be the same as today.

What would you like to do differently next time? How can you make your eBook better?

What I want differently to do next time in our Ebook is make a book about what we are interested about or something about our daily live. What I could do better on my Ebook is to put more effort to it and make more extensive research about why did he think that if there is no fighting the world wont be the same as today.

 

 

 

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