7th & 8th Grade General Science: Today in science students began a new unit on chemistry and matter. The initial focus is how scientists can classify matter based upon its physical properties. In today's lab students observed properties of five unknown fluids. They wrote observations for each and then made predictions of what each substance was.
Homework: none
7th Grade Math: In 7th grade math students finished an 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 corrected section 3.1 practice. We then reviewed how to solve distributive property expressions and introduced how to solve equations with parentheses (distributive property of multiplication).
Homework: Review Homework #2 (due Wednesday)