Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Tuesday February 24th

7th & 8th Grade General Science: Today in science students learned about different temperature scales and how to make conversions between them. The class also went over the initial rules for the Thermal Insulator Competition this week.
Homework:
  • Complete review worksheet 6-2 "The Nature Of Heat"
  • Begin gathering materials for the Thermal Insulator competition. Students will need a large coffee can sized tin can for their experiments.

7th Grade Math:
Today students continued learning applying scale factor of coordinate points to make two similar figures.
Homework: Finish making drawing and corresponding list of coordinate points for the figure.

8th Grade Math: In math students continued working on the personal finances unit. In today's class period they finished working with through the costs of buying a home that they found in the local paper. They then transitioned to part two of the assignment in which they investigated the costs of renting a house or apartment.
Homework: Work on real estate buying and renting worksheets.