Mr. McCormack

Welcome Back!!!

2010-09-02T11:25:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, and welcome back to DSS for another great year. I hope we all have fantastic school year and make sure you get involved at DSS with all our activities.

To all the 2011 Wilderness Trail Blazers out there, here we go and I hope you are as ready and excited as I am for WTB. See you on the trails.

Final Summative Projects!!

2010-06-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

Students will be finishing up their final summatives projects over the next week and due dates have been set for each of the classes.

CGC1D - Friday, June 11th, 2010

CGC1P - Monday, June 14th, 2010

Happy Belated Earth Day!!

2010-04-29T09:42:00.000-07:00

Happy Earth Day!!

CGC1D - Completing your Alternative Energy report, which is due Wed. May 5th

CGC1P - Started Population unit

CGC1PR - Started Population unit

Marks will be updated as of today at fc.gedsb.net/~mark.mccormack

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Parks Canada poster contest for Ontario students. They had 992 entries and we had two posters recognized ( one poster was 3rd place overall and the other was given an honourable mention. Both posters will be on the Parks Canada website in the near future. I am very proud of both students.

National Parks Assignment!!!

2010-03-24T08:03:00.000-07:00

CGC 1D - Marks have been updated as of March 22, 2010. They can be checked at fc.gedsb.net/~mark.mccormack, then click on your class (CGC 1D) and look for your code name.

We started the National Parks of Canada assignment today and students will have 3-4 computer days over the next two weeks to complete their work. All students will present their assignment to the class. Due date for the assignment is Thurs. April 8th, 2010.

Students as a bonus assignment are creating posters of their national parks for the Parks Canada poster contest. These have to be completed by Monday, March 29th.

CGC 1P - Marks have been updated as of March 22, 2010. They can be checked at fc.gedsb.net/~mark.mccormack, then click on your class (CGC1P) and look for your code name.

We started the National Parks of Canada assignment today and students will have 3 computer days to complete their work. Due date for the assignment is Tues. Apr. 6th, 2010.

CGC 1PR - We have started studying ecozones in this class and will be completing a National Parks of Canada webquest and assignment.

Parks Canada website: http://www.pc.gc.ca - Excellent information and review previous poster contest winners.

Final Projects, Exams and Marks

2010-01-15T08:01:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I am not very good at this blog thing but I am trying, I guess. We are in the final stretch of the semester and I hope everyone is working hard on their final projects, studying for exams and getting all their work completed.

You can check out your updated marks at the correct site: fc.gedsb.net/~mark.mccormack

CGC1D - Final Projects are due Tues. Jan. 19th and your exam is on Thurs. Jan. 28th.

CGG30 - Final Projects are due Wed. Jan. 20th and your exam is on Wed. Jan. 27th

SNC2P - Final Projects are due Wed. Jan. 20th and your exam is on Mon. Jan. 25th

Good luck everyone and make sure you study and complete your projects!!!!

Updates finally!!!

2009-11-02T06:44:00.000-08:00

All marks will be posted at the following website: fc.gedsb/~mark.mccormack , after going to the website look for your class, click on it and find your code name.

SNC2P - In science, we have started the chemistry unit and have done some successful and unsuccessful labs. We have a few more labs to try out over the next week or two and will be completing this unit with a multi-day lab.

CGC1D - In geography, we will be starting our projects on National Parks of Canada. The students will have 2 days on the computers and be given a detailed outline on the expectations for this project. They will have to present their final product to the class at the end of next week.

CGG30 - In travel and tourism, we have made it to Europe, where we will be looking at common and uncommon tourist attractions. As well, we have just finished our Europe map.

Sept. 22/09

2009-09-22T07:51:00.000-07:00

SNC 2P - We will be starting our Species At Risk project this week. Students will choose a species at risk and have 2 computers days to research for a report and poster. Due date for the SAR project will be Oct. 2/09. The ecology quiz has been handed back from last week.

CGG 30 - We are continuing are study of World Attractions and will be doing a poster project and presentation on a specific attraction. The due date for the project will be Oct. 6/09. Also, we had our first quiz on Sept. 21st and most did well, it will be returned on Wednesday.

CGC1D - In the grade nine geography class we have been studying cartography skills including latitude, longitude, grid reference, contour lines, vertical exaggeration which will all be used in a final project for the unit. The project will start on Thurs. Sept. 24th and the due date for this project will be on Oct. 7th/09.

Good luck everybody, Mr. McCormack

Welcome Back!!!

2009-09-03T11:23:00.000-07:00

I cannot believe that summer break is coming to an end and we are back to school. I must say I am really excited to be back to school and I am ready to go. This semester I am teaching grade 10 applied science, grade 11 geography - travel and tourism and grade 9 academic geography. Hopefully, we have a great year and I am looking forward to meeting all of you on Sept. 8th.

See you later, Mr. McCormack