Thursday, January 20, 2011

Thursday January 20th

8th Grade Math: Today students continued their division workshop.  Today's lesson focused on dividing with decimals and word problems with division.  Students then continued working with solving percent problems by setting them up as a proportion and then cross multiplying to solve for "x".  
Homework: none

 
7th Grade Math: In 7th grade math students completed a lab activity where they collected numerical and categorical data.  They worked with this data to help illustrate how to chose which type of graph to use when given a certain set of data (bar graphs compared to line graphs).
Homework: 

none

7th/8th Grade Science:
Today students watched a National Geographic video on volcanoes and answered questions relating to the video. 
Homework:
At the start of class on Friday students need to have a rough draft of the writing (not the picture yet...) for their volcano postcards project