Trevor Ellis

Teacher grade 7-8 Cosburn Middle School

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship

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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person

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I have no requirements for a style of architecture

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@realJ_Mitchell I created min, q1, median, q3, and max data. just can't figure out how to create the whisker and box charts like yours!

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@realJ_Mitchell This is fantastic! Simple data but very engaging.
I'm excited to try this with grade 7-8 tomorrow and next week.
I've gone ahead and created the data in sheet. Histogram was easy. How do you create the horizontal box plots?

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Thin-sliced questions worked extremely well this AM as we practised prime factoring in 7/8 FI. #buildingthinkingclassrooms @CosburnMS

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@AvilaBallard Nice! Is the ecosystems work a project?

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@cossettej This looks great! I did your inquiry cubes with my students last year and loved it. I’m curious, do you ever teach the scientific method with lower year students and if what kinds of experiments do you have them do?
If others want to chime in pls do!

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@MarcusLuther6 Will do! I worked on it at home. This week I will set it up in class. I teach grade 7-8 and will tweak it…I am thinking “support” instead of “affirming” for example.

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@MarcusLuther6 I have essentially copied this (and translated to French) for my class. Thank you very much Marcus! I am excited to put it into action. Last year I had "class verbs" which were posted and I tried to refer back to but I like this system better : )

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@mrccheney @PavWander @BeaumondeBHJMS Chey, could you please share this document? I’m hoping to translate it to French and I really like the template you made. Really enjoyed the podcast episode! [email protected]

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@MissSciYoshi This is great! What did the students neutralize? Orange juice?

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@mrccheney @PavWander @BeaumondeBHJMS Never mind, I’ll listen to the podcast :)

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@mrccheney @PavWander @BeaumondeBHJMS Very interesting! Is this something you end up displaying? Or kept for reference and conversation with the individual students?

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@MichaelSingh94 Should Hernandez or Manning be communicating a bit more with fans? Explaining to any extent the vision which (I hope) they have?

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@tombogert Just spoke to him on Thursday at a tfc event. He didn’t give any hints about this!
From a Toronto perspective, is this necessary to make room for Laryea?

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@MrAndrewSousa @SFX_TCDSB Cool! Was it with different amounts of water and food dye?

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@AlexSharenko @MattDoyle76 In person in Toronto I thought he was really good. Seems like I’m missing how he plays week in week out?

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Do any #ThinkingClassroom teachers have experience with grade 7 and 8 geometry? Specifically related to angles and triangles?
I’m trying to wrap my head around what thin spliced questions would look like.