Students have studied some of the basic rules of photography.  Check out the assignment observed in class.

15.03.24 7 rules of photography assignment 2

There are many such as…

• The rule of thirds
• leading lines
• balanced elements
• symmetry
• patterns
• viewpoint
• background simplicity
• framing
• cropping
• positive and negative space
• colour usage
• texture
• dominant eye
• depth
• …and many more possible guidelines

Check out these online resources for help in understanding the basic rules of photography.

websites:

http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules

http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/3372/18-composition-rules-for-photos-that-shine/

youtube videos:

Check out some of the photography projects shared by students…

1 rule of composition

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5 Rules of composition riley

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Five rules of Photography

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Montana The 5 photo rules compostion

TJ The Art of Composing Pictures

brandon The Art of composing pictures(editer)

More to come in the next few days.

Your assignment is to watch the newscast below and to select one of the stories to represent.  Your task is to represent all the major facts of the news story.  Students are encouraged to engage in many different forms of presenting the news article they have chosen.

Possible ways to represent the news story:

Poster showing the main facts

Point-form list of the facts

Power-point presentation sharing all the different facts

Dramatic representation – recreate the scene, a panel of “experts”, fake interviews, and more…

an in-person news report or oral presentation (example)

A short video that explains the news story

paper slide video (example)

Musical – create a song, wrap, or dance (example)

an animation

write-up summary

a short story about the news story showing a point of view

whiteboard animation/drawing video showing the news story idea (example)

suggest an alternative (get creative)

(see the transcript of the news report)

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Download the rubric below to see how you will be marked on this assignment.

15.04.16 global wrap rubric

See the news report below to choose a story

Check out some examples of student projects in action

Today we discussed how lightning works as part of our studies of static electricity.  Students are to explain how lightning works.

The Assignment: Explain how lightning works using key words, pictures, and a written explanation in proper paragraph format.

Download the powerpoint below to help you with this:

11.03.03 Lightning

Watch the Video below:

Here is a whiteboard video where Mr. E explains how lighting works

Today students started studying perimeter.  They are to complete the assignment below.

15.04.28 perimeter assignment

Today students are being introduced to the flood of population that happened in Canada during the later part of the 1800s.  This is covered in chapter 5 of our Social Studies textbook.  Students are completing the assignment that identifies new vocabulary in ch. 5 of our textbook.

Download a copy of the assignment here:

15.04.28 vocabulary ch 5

Download a copy of chapter 5 here:

15.04.28 ch. 5

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/health/how-child-bullying-victims-face-long-term-hits-to-mental-health-1.3051255

Today we are studying induction; where students engage in experimenting with moving electrons in an objects without actually touching it.  The students observed an experiment in class and followed along by filling out the lab linked to below.

Induction Lab Assignment:

15.04.15 induction lab 1

Students are to complete the ELA Skills assignment linked below. After completing the assignment they are to write a paragraph on a separate piece of paper that represents their outline on the final page.
week 10 – elaborate ideas

On Friday, May 1 Grade 6-7E will be having a test on all that they have studied on static electricity.  To help students study for the test Mr. Ewert has made a jeopardy game to study with.  Check out the power point below to help you brush up on basic static concepts.

15.04.22 2 – static electricity

Play the jeopardy game to help you study.

15.04.22 Jeopardy – Static Electricity

How can I make the greatest possible static response?  This is the question we are answering today in our student inquiry science lab.  Students have been studying static electricity over the past two weeks and now it is time for them to practice their knowledge but attempting to create the greatest static response.  To do this we are going to use proper science lab notation.  We will design experiments to create static responses and then changes one variable at a time in order to make controlled experiments showing how greater static responses can be created.

Download a copy of the lab format below.  Students are to download a copy, fill in with their own lab information, and then submit digitally on Edsby.

 15.04.17 static lab – student created inquiry

http://mrewert.pbworks.com/w/page/35892544/Science%20Gr%209%20spring%202011