Monday, November 16, 2009

Monday November 16th

7th & 8th Grade General Science: Today in science students completed a self evaluation of their deer study write up. Any students who were not finished were reminded that their work was late and they had to work on it in Mr. Kovach's room. Students who finished on time were given the chance to earn extra credit by watching a "Mythbusters" episode and completing a worksheet to identify the question being studied, the variables being tested, the methods used to complete the experiment, the results and conclusions.
Homework: none


7th Grade Math: In 7th grade math students completed another activity to practice finding the mean, median, and mode of a data set. The data they worked with today was the age of each President upon their inauguration.
Homework: Review Homework #16 (Due Wednesday)

8th Grade Math: Today 8th graders reviewed how to solve one step equations. We then launched into section 3.1 (chapter 3) and learned how to solve two step equations.
Homework:
  • Finish section 3.1 practice odds (due tomorrow)
  • Review Homework #2 (due Wednesday)