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Your task is to complete an investigation into three drugs and record the long and short term effects of these drugs on the body template on page 53 in your ‘Journey of a Lifetime’ Booklet. You must do cigarettes and alcohol as the first two drugs and you may choose the third drug to research. Here is a page of useful websites.

Hi Group 3 – if you’ve been away from school, you’ve missed out on meeting student teacher Miss Wiffen who is working with our class. She is taking the class until the end of term. We are working on a project which requires you (the students) to become the teachers. As a group of four you will choose an environmental issue that effects our catchments or oceans and teach a 30 min. lesson about your issue to the rest of the class. here is a journal to help you work through this assignment Workshop Journal.

On Tuesday of this week we watched a video in class titled ‘The Water Cycle’. Once you have completed the Video Questions Worksheet post a comment on this blog telling me two facts or interesting things that you can recall from the video.

Hi group 3 if you have missed class this week you can have a go at this web quest at home. Read the instructions in the coloured boxes and complete the activities in the word document, save it and email to me when it is completed. Australian Environments Web Quest

Since beginning the water unit we have learnt about catchments and drainage basins in Victoria. Last week we completed a puzzle of all the drainage basins in Victoria. We have just finished creating Overlay Maps of the Corangamite Catchment (Geelong is a part of this catchment area). If you were absent instructions on how to complete the overlay map are here: Instructions 

Yes we have began a new topic in MESH! This enviromentally focused unit of ‘Healthy Catchments – Healthy Oceans’ began on Monday. We got into an environmental mindset by watching the Dr. Seuss cartoon ‘The Lorax’ and discussed the enviromental issues that the story addressed. I then got each member of the class to complete What do you know about water?. Complete this sheet and bring it to class if you have been away.

Hi Group 3. Your essays are due tomorrow – Thursday 18th. Yesterday I introduced the class to the Matrix, a grid of activities from which you must choose any two to complete. Get the matrix here Matrix Sheet. You  have the remainder of this week and next week to complete your two matrix tasks. Have fun, this is your chance to use your creativity!

Hi Group 3. If you missed the last couple of classes before the holidays, you missed learning about essay writing. We are currently writing essays on the topic ‘Where would I rather live Ancient Greece/China or modern day Australia?’.  We took some notes on the basic structure of an essayWhiteboard Notes – Essay writing, then planned essays using the program Inspiration here are the instructions Using Inspiration to plan your essay. The next step is to transfer the details from your plan into ‘Word’ and write your good copy of your essay. Here is a rough exampleSample Essay.