Friday 12/18 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Collect and organize numerical data. Be able to find mean, median and mode of a data set.

1. Review Quiz

2. Whiteboard practice

3. Ticket Out: Solve mean, median, mode problem

Learning Goals:  Describe how plastic affects ocean food webs.

1. Bill Nye: Pollution Solutions

2. Ticket Out: Go back to your notebook and read this week's Focus Question. Draw a line below your response, then write a new response based on what you learned this week.

Have a Great Winter Break! See you in 2016!!

Thursday 12/17 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Collect and organize numerical data. Find measures of center and spread for a data set. Understand how outliers affect center.

1. Review Homework, Workbook p. 5

2. Homework Quiz

3. Mangahigh Challenges

Learning Goals:  Describe how plastic affects ocean food webs.

1. Review "Plastics in the Ocean" worksheet

2. Plastics in the Ocean Quiz

3. Go back to your notebook and read the Focus Question. Draw a line below your response, then write a new response based on what you learned this week.

Wednesday 12/16 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Collect and organize numerical data. Find measures of center and spread for a data set. Understand how outliers affect center.

1. Warm-Up: Mangahigh (homework check)

2. Workbook pp. 3-4, Name Scores

Homework: Workbook p. 5
(if everyone completes it, I'll bring in brownies!!)

Learning Goals:  Describe how plastic affects ocean food webs.

1. Plastics and Ocean Pollution Quizlet (quiz will be on Thursday)

The end of the grading period is this Friday. Make sure don't have any zeros or "m"s in school loop. If you do, check last Thursday's blog for directions.

Tuesday 12/15 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Collect and organize numerical data. Find measures of center and spread for a data set. Understand how outliers affect center.

1. Warm-Up: Mangahigh (homework check)

2. Workbook pp. 2-4, Name Scores

Homework: Workbook p. 30, Focus on Vocabulary
(if everyone completes it, I'll bring in brownies!!)

Learning Goals:  Describe how plastic affects ocean food webs.

1. Focus Question: Where can you find plastic in the water column and how might it affect the animals that live there? (read what you wrote about this in your notebook yesterday and add any more thoughts)

2. Synthetic Sea Video

• Define the following words: minute, prolific, ingested, decade, century.
• What is something new you learned about how plastic can affect ocean life? Share with your group.

3. Ocean Feeders activity

4. Complete the back side of the Plastics in the Water Column worksheet.

5. Go back to your notebook and read the Focus Question. Draw a line below your response, then write a new response based on what you learned today.

If you finish early, work on the Plastics and Ocean Pollution Quizlet (quiz will be on Thursday)

The end of the grading period is this Friday. Make sure don't have any zeros or "m"s in school loop. If you do, check last Thursday's blog for directions.

Monday 12/14 Agenda

Lakeview Video Bulletin

Written Bulletin

Learning Goals: Collect and organize numerical data. Find measures of center and spread for a data set. Understand how outliers affect center.

1. Return Booklet 4 Quiz and review

• Quiz Retakes and Quiz Corrections

2. Homework Check: Skill Builder 1

3. Workbook pp. 2-4, Name Scores activity

Homework: Workbook p. 24, Skill Builder 2
(if everyone completes it, I'll bring in brownies!!)

Learning Goals:  Describe how the density of plastic affects its location in the ocean water column.

1. Focus Question: Where can you find plastic in the water column and how might it affect the animals that live there? (write down the question, discuss it with your table group, then write some ideas about this in your notebook)

2. Plastics Density and Buoyancy Activity

• Be sure to record your prediction about whether each object will sink or float before you test it.

3. Answer the questions in part 2 of the Plastics in the Water Column worksheet.

4. Ticket Out: Each group will share one example from their findings.

If you finish early, work on the Plastics and Ocean Pollution Quizlet (quiz will be on Thursday)

The end of the grading period is this Friday. Make sure don't have any zeros or "m"s in school loop. If you do, check last Thursday's blog for directions.

Friday 12/11 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Introduction to data and statistics.

1. Warm-Up (15 minutes): Mangahigh Challenges 

2. Workbook p. 1-3 

Homework: Be sure that Skill Builder 1 is finished by Monday (if everyone completes it, I'll bring in brownies!!)

Learning Goals:  Understand plastics and pollution vocabulary, practice the basics of writing code.

1. Warm-Up (15 min): Plastics and Ocean Pollution Quizlet

2. Mystery Pics

3.  Hour of Code: Choose any lesson to work on.
 https://studio.code.org/join 

• Period 2 Class Code: LCJIEX

• Period 6 Class Code: GULCYO

The end of the grading period is next Friday. Make sure don't have any zeros or "m"s in school loop. If you do, check yesterday's blog for directions.

Thursday 12/10 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Introduction to data and statistics.

1. Warm-Up (15 minutes): Mangahigh Challenges (there are some new ones now!)

2. Workbook p. 0 (green pg, back side of cover): Use your white resource booklet to find definitions and examples of vocabulary terms. You can work with your table partners.

3. Homework: Workbook p 23. Skill Builder 1

Learning Goals:  Understand plastics and pollution vocabulary, practice the basics of writing code.

1. Warm-Up (15 min): Plastics and Pollution Quizlet

2.  Hour of Code: Go to https://studio.code.org/join and complete the Minecraft lesson. You will be graded on completion of the Minecraft lesson. Be sure to log in and enter the class code to get credit for completing the lesson. 

• Period 2 Class Code: LCJIEX

• Period 6 Class Code: GULCYO

3. When you finish Minecraft, you can choose any of the other lessons to work on. 

The end of the grading period is next Friday. Make sure don't have any zeros or "m"s in school loop. If you do, check yesterday's blog for directions.

Wednesday 12/9 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Represent and compare fractions, decimals and percents.

Booklet 4 Quiz

Learning Goals:  Learn the basics of coding.

1. Question of the Day: What does "coding" mean?

2. Hour of Code video

3. Go to https://studio.code.org/join and enter the code to join the class:

• Period 2: LCJIEX

• Period 6: GULCYO

The end of the grading period is next Friday. Make sure you have finished the following Google Classroom Assignments:

1. Part 3 of the Pacific Garbage Patch assignment.

• Video - The Pacific Garbage Patch
• Article Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2. Rivers for Life assignment

• Watch the "Rivers for Life" presentation (Google Classroom)

• Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

3. Rivers Vocabulary quiz re-take or corrections

• Quizlet Link

Tuesday 12/8 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Represent and compare fractions, decimals and percents.

Warm-Up: Mangahigh Challenges

Review p. 16
Selected Response p. 27

Homework: Workbook p. 28

Workbook 4 Test Tomorrow (Wednesday)

Learning Goals:  Be able to identify different types of plastics. Understand that plastics are made from a non-renewable resource.

1. Warm-Up: Plastics and Pollution Quizlet

2.  Re-use or Recycle Presentation

4. Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

Ticket Out: Return to the focus question and write a paragraph (at least three sentences) response.


The end of the grading period is next Friday. Make sure yohave finished the following Google Classroom Assignments:

1. Part 3 of the Pacific Garbage Patch assignment.

• Video - The Pacific Garbage Patch
• Article Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2. Rivers for Life assignment

• Watch the "Rivers for Life" presentation (Google Classroom)

• Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

3. Rivers Vocabulary quiz re-take or corrections

• Quizlet Link

Monday 12/7 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Renaming fractions as decimals and percents.

Warm-Up: Self Evaluation

Garden Problems pp. 15-16

Homework: Workbook p. 16

Learning Goals:  Be able to identify different types of plastics. Understand that plastics are made from a non-renewable resource.

1. Warm-Up: Plastics and Pollution Quizlet

2. Plastic Containers sort

3. Re-use or Recycle Presentation

4. Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

Ticket Out: Return to the focus question and write a paragraph (at least three sentences) response.

Homework:

Finish any of the following unfinished assignments:

1. Part 3 of the Pacific Garbage Patch assignment.

• Video - The Pacific Garbage Patch
• Article Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2. Rivers for Life assignment

• Watch the "Rivers for Life" presentation (Google Classroom)

• Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

3. Rivers Vocabulary quiz re-take or corrections

• Quizlet Link

Friday 12/4 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Renaming fractions as decimals and percents.

Warm-Up: Skill Builder 6

Garden Problems pp. 14-15

Homework: Skill Builder 7

Learning Goals:  Be able to identify different types of plastics. Understand that plastics are made from a non-renewable resource.

Warm-Up: Write the Focus Question in your notebook: 

• How do we use plastics? Are there better or worse uses of plastics?

Write a few sentences to answer the questions.

2. How We Use Plastics card sort (6th period only)

3. Plastic Containers sort

4. Re-use or Recycle Presentation

5. Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

Ticket Out: Return to the focus question and write a paragraph (at least three sentences) response.

Homework:

Finish any of the following unfinished assignments:

1. Part 3 of the Pacific Garbage Patch assignment.

• Video - The Pacific Garbage Patch
• Article Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2. Rivers for Life assignment

• Watch the "Rivers for Life" presentation (Google Classroom)

• Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

3. Rivers Vocabulary quiz re-take or corrections

• Quizlet Link

Thursday 12/3 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Multiplying and dividing fractions.

Warm-Up: Homework Review

Benchmark Task

When you finish the Task, turn it in and work on Mangahigh Challenges

Homework: None

Learning Goals:  Be able to identify different types of plastics. Understand that plastics are made from a non-renewable resource.

Warm-Up: You have 30 seconds to write down everything in the room made of plastics. 

• What kinds of objects are made of plastic? 
• How are they used? Are they used multiple times or only once?
•  Does the plastic all look the same? Feel the same? 
• How many of the items in the room are made of plastic compared to other materials (wood, metal, glass)?

1. Write the Focus Question in your notebook: 

• How do we use plastics? Are there better or worse uses of plastics?

2. How We Use Plastics card sort

3. Plastic Containers sort

4. Re-use or Recycle Presentation

5. Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

Homework:

Finish any of the following unfinished assignments:

1. Part 3 of the Pacific Garbage Patch assignment.

• Video - The Pacific Garbage Patch
• Article Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2. Rivers for Life assignment

• Watch the "Rivers for Life" presentation (Google Classroom)

• Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

3. Rivers Vocabulary quiz re-take or corrections

• Quizlet Link

Wednesday 12/2 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Multiplying and dividing fractions.

Warm-Up: Homework Review

Brownie Problem


Homework: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions worksheet

Learning Goals:  What are some problems and solutions related to ocean pollution?

Trash Pickup/Data Collection

Finish any of the following unfinished assignments:

1. Part 3 of the Pacific Garbage Patch assignment.

• Video - The Pacific Garbage Patch
• Article Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2. Rivers for Life assignment

• Watch the "Rivers for Life" presentation (Google Classroom)

• Complete the Google Classroom Assignment

3. Rivers Vocabulary quiz re-take or corrections

• Quizlet Link

Tuesday 12/1 Agenda

Lakeview Bulletin

Learning Goals: Multiplying and dividing fractions.

Warm-Up: Mangahigh (homework check)

Group Brownie Problems


Homework: Workbook p. 14

Learning Goals:  What are some problems and solutions related to ocean pollution?

Warm-Up
Read: How plentiful is plankton in our world’s oceans? VERY. It is the primary source of food for the organisms living in the ocean. Scientists report that in some samples of water from The Pacific Garbage Patch, there were 6 times more plastics than plankton!

Challenge question: If there are 6,384 pieces of plastic debris in one liter of sea water collected from The Garbage Patch, how many plankton were in the sample?

1. Go to Google Classroom and complete Part 1 and Part 2 of the Pacific Garbage Patch assignment.

2. Video: The Pacific Garbage Patch

3. Complete Part 3 of the Pacific Garbage Patch assignment.

4. Click the link to read about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Homework Due Friday 12/4 (if you didn't finish it last week)

• Watch the "Rivers for Life" presentation

• Complete the Google Classroom Assignment (we did the first part yesterday, now do the second part using the information from the presentation)