Bridge Testing and Presentation, Great Canadian Energy Essay and Plotting Linear Equation

1. Paper Homes - Students have almost completed the first phase of their paper homes. As a next step,  students will check how much thermal energy is lost from their paper homes. For their second phase, students will insulate their homes so that they can reduce the lost of thermal energy from their homes. Today, the students were handed over the rubric for paper homes. The link to the actual assignment can be found here.

2. Bridge Testing - This Friday, students will test their bridges against 20N force applied. Students will also present their bridge models in their respective groups. Students are expected to be able to explain their bridge model, based on following criteria:
- How the force is balanced throughout the structure?
- What are the anticipated stress on the bridge?
- Different kind of loads that are expected on the bridge? Live and Static Load
- What is centre of gravity? Why is it important to know the centre of gravity of a structure?

3. Great Canadian Energy Essay - As a first step, students are asked to collect 10 facts about their choice of Energy source. The students have a choice of selecting more than 1 energy source as their best. They can use maximum 2 more energy sources that would be used along with the main source of energy as a co-generation.

4. Fables - Today, most of the students have shared their fables to the whole class. We discussed about the moral of the Fable and also evaluated if each of the plot supports their respective moral. Students provided feedback to each other with respect to the plot, conflict, characters chosen and the theme or moral.

5. Plotting Linear Equations - Students are learning to write the linear equation in terms of input and output table and then graphing the data from the table. We talked about Input (values for x) will be independent and Output (values for y) would be dependent on the value of x in the following linear equation relation:

Linear Equation Relation: mx + b = y
where, m is slope, b is y-intercept, x and y are variables.