Wednesday 3/3/2010
7th & 8th Grade General Science: Today in science students continued working on their cell analogy collage. Students should have finished building their analogies and comparing each part of a cell to a different component of their analogy. Thursday will be the final day of class time for students to work on their collage.Homework: Students can continue working on their cell analogy collage at home if they wish.
7th Grade Math: Today in math, students began class using and practicing skills on their Flashmasters. Students then took a quiz to show their mastery of finding the surface area and volume of rectangular prisms and circles. Next, students took part in a discussion on what the different terms are associated with three dimensional figures. Those terms are face, edge and vertex. Students went through a few different examples in class.
Homework: Review Homework #8 is due Friday.
8th Grade Math: Today in math, students began class with a quiz to show mastery of skills related to order of operations, prime factorization and the distributive property. Students were then introduced to the formulas for finding the surface area and volume of triangular prisms.
Homework: Review Homework #8 is due Friday.
