Friday, April 1, 2016
3:30 - 4:30; 120 min.
Photography:
Nikon camera -
I showed Paige how to use her new Nikon camera. After a tour of the buttons on the camera, I showed her how to control the focus control, so she could take photo with the subject off center if she chose. We then discussed how to change the f-stop to widen or narrow the frame to isolate a subject in the field of vision. Finally we discussed how to change the aperture to capture movement in a photo. Paige has a keen interest in photography, so we discussed the different kinds of professional photographers there are, and examined the work of some of the best.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
2:30 - 3:30; 120 min.
Science:
Bioaccumulation -
Paige and Kelly worked together to work a bioaccumulation lab. We used test tubes to examine the movement of toxins, which are in direct opposite progression as energy in the food chain. We used food color to represent plastic beads floating in the ocean, and (let’s say) one tiny fish consumes one bead each, while feeding on the algae that is attracted to the buoyant bead. As an anchovy moves through and eats the tiny fish, and several beads, then a herring comes along and eats up several anchovies and the beads accumulate. A tuna arrives and eats many herring. The girls were asked how many tuna they have eaten in their lives.
- We worked on past reflexive verbs and examples.
-We worked on translations from English to French and French to English.
-We worked on reflexive pronouns.
-We worked on direct and indirect object agreements with reflexive pronouns.
-We practiced conversation.
-We reviewed conjugations to be, to have, and to go.
- We worked on sentence construction in near future, past, and present.
-We worked on conversation "Au Restaurant".
- We worked on il y a ( there is, there are) y --> replacement of place as in "there".
-List of irregular verbs that take to have, but have irregular past participles
-Construction of reflexive verbs, their equivalence in English.
-Past Tense with reflexive verbs.
-Past tense quiz...
-Completing missing verbs conjugated in the past tense and deciding whether they will take to be or to have...
-Conversation using the past and new vocabulary...
-The difference between IL y a as "there is, there are", and IL y a in the past as "ago"...
-List of verbs that take "être" with their respective past participle...
-Construction of paragraph "What have you done yesterday?"
-Differences in same verb usage according to context... for instance, PASSER ( as pass by or to spend) and ARRIVER ( as to arrive or to what happened)...
-Construction of sentences that take "to be", keeping in mind the gender and number agreement...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
9:00 - 12:00; 180 min.
Biology:
Dolphin Survey -
Paige participated in a scientific survey of dolphins along the oceanic coast of Palm Beach County. The Survey started at the Jupiter Inlet, and was directed south with the Palm Beach inlet as the terminal destination. Dolphins were encountered within 15 minutes and they were approached directly. Each dolphin was photographed and the group was monitored for several hours. The group started as four, and grew to about 25 when we decided it was time to leave them and head back to the Jupiter Inlet. Paige helped collect data, keeping notes on the behavior and swim direction the dolphins were exhibiting. She also collected Video of the dolphin behavior. She was given instruction on the natural history and biology of bottlenose dolphins and the marine environment in south Florida. Paige was asked to submit a video and a short written report about her experience on the dolphin survey.
Assignment
Submit video and a ahort, written report about your experience on the dolphin survey.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
3:30 - 4:30; 60 min.
Science:
Continental Shift -
Paige completed an activity provided by her teacher in Ohio. She identified species found on each of five continents, 300 million years ago, and determined the level of continental shift that had occurred. She repeated the process for time periods 200 and 100 million years ago. She then drew maps of the southern hemisphere, showing how the continents have moved, based on the number of species each continent has in common.
