Getting Your Patent and Funding

Getting a Patent and Funding for Your Invention!

 

Now that you’ve come up with your amazing invention to replace plastic toothbrushes, it’s time to apply for your patent and to get funding so that you can manufacture (make) and market/promote your product.

 

With your group, you need to create a powerpoint presentation about your invention. During your presentation, you need to be sure you explain how your invention meets the success criteria for getting a patent. You also need to answer and/or complete the following in your powerpoint:

 

1. What is your invention? Describe it completely. Be sure to tell us if there are similar inventions.
2. Who is your target audience (Who will be using it?)
3. Why is it a more environmentally-friendly option than plastic toothbrushes?
4. How will your invention be made/manufactured? For example, will your factory use solar power, wind power, or other sources of energy that are renewable and Earth-friendly?
5. Charts/graphs and other visuals should be used in your presentation to show the problem with plastic toothbrushes or plastics pollution and/or your projected sales.
6. Your prototype must be built before your presentation and a company name and/or a name for your invention needs to be made. Be creative!

Your presentation will be due on Tuesday, April 26th. Our success criteria for oral presentations/debates will be used to assess the presentation portion.

Plastic in Our Oceans- Prototype Planning

2. In a few sentences, briefly describe your prototype. Tell us how it will help to solve the problem of plastic pollution from disposable toothbrushes.

3. List the materials you will need to build your prototype (remember this is just the model). Make a plan with your partner to collect these for next week. Use recycled materials only, please.

4. Create a diagram of your prototype on a separate piece of blank paper. This should look like a Scientific Diagram in terms of labeling, etc.

 

 

Plastics in Our Oceans

You’re doing a great job on your STEM investigation into the damage disposable toothbrushes and other plastics that end up in our oceans are doing to the environment. Please click on the links below to find some data in charts and graphs that relates to this.

1. Discuss the data with a partner. What do you notice? How is the data arranged (ie circle graph, broken line graph, scatter plot)?

 

2. Open a Google Doc. Be sure to title it Plastics in Our Oceans. Answer the following:

a) What are some conclusions you can draw from the data? Be specific and use evidence from the graphs/charts.

b) What are some facts you learned from the graphs? Are there similarities between the graphs? Any differences?

c) What is the big idea or enduring understanding that you think the group or person that created the graph/chart wanted to communicate?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STEM- Updates and Climate Change Articles

The lab safety posters are rolling in and they’re amazing! Don’t forget to fill out the success criteria sheet with your self-evaluation and submit them both.

http://www.upworthy.com/trying-to-follow-what-is-going-on-in-syria-and-why-this-comic-will-get-you-there-in-5-minutes

STEM Science Lab Safety Poster and Safety Video Assignment

This week we’ll be reviewing our lab safety rules together. Your assignment will then be to create either a poster (individually) or a lab safety video (group). Please see the attached level four safety posters that won last year. The success criteria for both the posters and the videos can be found below.
Success Criteria Science Safety Lab Poster 5/4 Level 4

a sentence or phrase that clearly states the lab rule
carefully drawn and detailed pictures that show the rule
labeled with at least two of our science vocabulary words

Self-Assessment

Level 1 ___ Level 2 ____ Level 3 _____ Level 4 _____

What I could improve on:

____________________________________________________

Success Criteria Science Safety Lab Poster 6/7/8 Level 4

a sentence or phrase that clearly communicates the lab rule
carefully drawn and detailed illustration that demonstrates the rule and increases your audience’s understanding of the rule
labeled with at least four of our science vocabulary words

Self-Assessment

Level 1 ___ Level 2 ____ Level 3 _____ Level 4 _____

What I could improve on:

____________________________________________________

STEM- Grades 4/5, 5/6 and 7/8 Lab Safety Videos

Welcome Back!

September 9, 2015

Dear Room 324 Students and Parents/Guardians,

Welcome to Room 324. My name is Jennifer Payne and I will be your HSP teacher this year. A warm welcome back to many of you, and I look forward to hearing about your summer holidays and working together to achieve your academic goals this year.

Our classroom is a place where everyone’s unique strengths and needs are respected and celebrated. Everyone of us can learn, though we may not do it in the same way or on the same day. That’s where your IEP (Individual Education Plan) comes in. It gives you the tools you need to achieve your goals. We’ll be developing this together over the next month, and I will be sitting down and talking to each of you about your learning style, areas you feel are a strength, and things you feel you need to continue to work at. As well, a letter will be sent home to parents and guardians asking for your input into the development of your child’s IEP.

As our classroom and school is a place where we respect and celebrate the diversity and potential of everyone, the Nelson Mandela Park Code of Conduct will be reviewed regularly and used for progressive discipline. We’ll also be rewarding students who are Caught Caring and celebrating our Room 324 Student of the Month. This year you will be able to earn points toward this when homework checks are done, and with our Math Problem of the Week. Students who are late to class or do not have their homework and/or assignments complete will be expected to attend detention either in the morning before class or after school. A reminder that we are a uniform school and you should be attending class dressed appropriately with your Nelson Mandela Park shirt.

Agendas and locks will be available for purchase the first week of school. All students must have an agenda and these will be filled out in class. Students are expected to right every evening for at least 30 minutes, and will have other homework. Every week a differentiated Math problem will be given on Monday for students to complete and submit by Friday.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me via the school at 416 393 1620 or by email at jennifer.payne@tdsb.on.ca. We also have our class and STEM blog at https://mjenniferpayne00.wordpress.com. This blog is important as assignments and online resources for students to access will often be posted here along with fun updates on what’s happening in both Room 324 and our STEM classes.

Looking forward to an amazing year!

Warm regards,

Mary Jennifer Payne
HSP Int./STEM Teacher
Nelson Mandela Park PS

Solar Oven Challenge

Watch out! The Grades 6/5 classes will be designing their own solar ovens, and harnessing the energy from the sun to find an environmentally-friendly way to cook eggs.

Site to use for research on solar ovens and renewable energy:
http://www.re-energy.ca/solar-oven-challenge

Websites- Data for Carding/Stop and Search/Stop and Frisk

Toronto Star
http://www.scribd.com/doc/235025545/Preliminary-Toronto-Star-analysis-of-updated-Toronto-Police-Service-carding-data?secret_password=mGZM52gxriFAzd8invDe

1. What racial group makes up the largest percentage of Toronto’s population in 2013? Which is the smallest?

2. What groups are missing that may self-identify or be identified as other?

3. What percentage of Toronto’s population self-identified themselves as Black on the 2013 census?

4. If you compare the percentages of the population in 2013 to the percentages of each group that was carded, what do you notice? (Use the data to support your answers)

5. What similarities do you notice between the New York and Toronto data? What differences are there? Do you see any patterns?

6. Do you have any predictions about the Stop and Search data for London? Why?

New York Data-
http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data

Circle Graph site: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/CircleGraph/

London- Stop and Search
Stop and Search Statistics Lewisham Borough of London March 2015 http://www.met.police.uk/foi/pdfs/priorities_and_how_we_are_doing/borough/lewisham_stop_search_mon_report_march2015.pdf

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jan/14/stop-search-racial-profiling-police

Website for Solar System and Sundials

Read through the entire website with your group, and then use the information you found to answer the questions you’ve been assigned to present.

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/