Tuesday 4/6/2010
7th & 8th Grade General Science: Today in science students spent the first 25 minutes of class finishing up the vitamin and mineral activity from yesterday. Then, the next and final project from our human biology unit was introduced. Students were broken into groups of three and each group was assigned a specific vitamin to research. Each group will be responsible to produce a final product, either a board game or producing a live skit to be performed in front of the class. They were given a worksheet detailing the essential questions they will need to answer concerning their assigned vitamin or mineral, and a scoring guide to help them along the way. On Wednesday, 8th grade students will spend their morning completing the science SBA test, while 7th grade students will spend their morning with their social studies teacher in a block period.Homework: None
7th Grade Math: Today in math, students began class by working with their flashmasters for the first five minutes of class. Students then worked on the section 6.5 worksheet for most of the hour practicing their skills on dividing integers. Near the end of class, we went over specific examples and covered any questions students had concerning those problems.
Homework: Review Homework #10 is due Wednesday.
8th Grade Math: Today in math, students began class by completing quiz number one on sections 6.1 through 6.4. After the quiz, we began a probability activity, where students created a spinner board by drawing a circle, dividing it into four equal parts, coloring each part red, blue, yellow and white, used a paper clip as a spinner and began an activity to practice experimental probability. We will continue the activity tomorrow.
Homework: Review #10 is due Wednesday.
