Wednesday 9/30 Agenda

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh (homework check)


Learning Goals: Be able to find the greatest common factor (GCF) of two natural numbers. Be able to find the least common multiple (LCM) of two numbers.

Classwork

• Workbook pp. 12

Homework: Skill Builder 5, p. 30

Learning Goals: Describe matter and the different phases of matter.

Task 1: Turn in Homework

Task 2: Question of the Day (in your science notebook)

• What is matter?

Task 3: Bill Nye: Phases of Matter

On the next blank right side page in your science notebook, add the heading "Bill Nye: Phases of Matter" and today's date.

Answer the following questions in complete sentences in your science notebook:

1. Describe matter based on what you learned from the movie.
2. What are the three states of matter? 
3. Draw a model of each of the three states of matter.
4. What has to happen for matter to change state?
5. What happens to atoms and molecules as temperature changes?

If you finish early, study the  Water Cycle Quizlet.

Tuesday 9/29 Agenda

Warm-Up:  Workbook p. 10 (homework check)


Learning Goals: Be able to find the greatest common factor (GCF) of two natural numbers. Be able to find the least common multiple (LCM) of two numbers.

Classwork

• Review Workbook pp. 9-10
• Workbook pp. 11

Homework: Skill Builder 4, p. 29

Learning Goals: Understand the vocabulary used to describe the basic processes of the water cycle.

Warm-Up: Finish your mini poster from yesterday. If you're already finished, Study the Water Cycle Quizlet.

Task 1: Watch Brain Pop Weather and take the quiz.

Task 2: Watch Brain Pop Humidity and complete the activity worksheet with your partner. Tape it into your notebook as a flippy (we'll talk about how to do that).


Homework: Finish the Humidity activity worksheet.

Monday 9/28 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges 10 min


Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Classwork

• Go over Friday's Workbook Quiz

• Workbook pp. 8-9

Homework: Finish workbook p. 9

Learning Goals: Understand the vocabulary used to describe the basic processes of the water cycle.

Task 1: Turn to the next blank right side page in your Science Notebook. Write today's date and Learning Goal.

Task 2: On the left side page of your notebook, draw a detailed, labeled, color diagram of the Water Cycle.



Task 3: Click on the Water Cycle Interactive Diagram to research your assigned word with your partner and create a mini poster. Include the word, a definition in your own words, and a drawing that helps explain its importance to the water cycle.

If you finish early, you can study the Water Cycle Quizlet.

Friday 9/25 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges 10 min (homework check)


Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Classwork

• Workbook Quiz

• Mental Math

Homework: None!

Learning Goals: Understand the basic processes of the water cycle.

Click on the Water Cycle Interactive Diagram to research your assigned word with your partner and create a mini poster. Include the word, a definition in your own words, and a drawing that helps explain its importance to the water cycle.

Earned Free Time!! 

Thursday 9/24 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges 10 min (homework check)


Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Classwork

• Workbook pp. 7-9

• Homework: Skill Builder 3 p. 28

Learning Goals: Understand the basic processes of the water cycle.


Question of the Day: What did you notice about the difference between the number of drops of water that fit on the clean penny vs. the soap coated penny?

Task 1: Finish the penny lab. Enter your results on the shared Google Sheet (click on the correct period):

• Period 2 Data
• Period 6 Data

Task 2 - Compare your results with the class results and use this information to help you answer the Part C questions on your lab worksheet.

Task 3: Turn in your lab sheet.

Wednesday 9/23 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges 5 min (homework check)


Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Classwork

• Review Factor Trees: workbook p. 5
• Factors Chart: p. 6

Homework: Finish Factors Chart, p. 6

Learning Goals: Understand surface tension and practice the scientific process.


Question of the Day: Why didn't the water spill from the cup sooner as we added paper clips yesterday?

Task 1  - Drops on a Penny Lab: Follow the directions on your handout to complete Part B of the lab.

Task 2 - While one partner cleans up and puts away lab supplies, the other partner should enter results on the shared Google Sheet (click on the correct period):

• Period 2 Data
• Period 6 Data

Task 3 - Compare your results with the class results and use this information to help you answer the Part C questions on your lab worksheet.

Ticket Out: Turn in your completed lab worksheet.

Tuesday 9/22 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges 15 min (homework check)
(If you didn't finish your science quiz on Friday, do it now!)

Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Classwork

• Factor Trees: workbook p. 5

Homework: Finish workbook p. 5 (Factor Trees)

Learning Goals: Understand surface tension and practice the scientific process.


Question of the Day: What does cohesive mean?

Task 1 - Notes: Cohesion and Surface Tension (glue in to next blank right side page in your notebook).

Task 2 - Predict: How many paperclips can we fit into the glass before the water runs over?

Task 3 - Drops on a Penny Lab: Follow the directions on your handout to complete Part A and Part B of the lab.

Task 4 - While one partner cleans up and puts away lab supplies, the other partner should enter your results on the shared Google Sheet for your class:

• Period 2 Data
• Period 6 Data

Task 5 - Compare your results with the class results and use this information to help you answer the Part C questions on your lab worksheet.

Ticket Out: Turn in your completed lab worksheet.

Monday 9/21 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges 10 min (homework check)
(If you didn't finish your science quiz on Friday, do it now!)

Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Classwork

• Go over Quizzes from Booklet 1
• finish pp. 2-4

Homework: Quiz Corrections: Correct all mistakes by re-writing problems on lined paper, explain what you did wrong. Staple corrections to your quiz and they will be collected Tuesday. THIS IS REQUIRED, NOT OPTIONAL!!

Learning Goals: Understand the basic processes of the water cycle.


Question of the Day: What is the Water Cycle?

The Water Cycle Video

Water Cycle Presentation/Notes

Ticket Out: Revisit Anticipatory Guide

Click on the Water Cycle Interactive Diagram to research your assigned word with your partner and create a mini poster. Include the word, a definition in your own words, and a drawing that helps explain its importance to the water cycle.

Friday 9/18 Agenda

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Free Time 10 min (homework check)

Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Discuss Building Rectangles group project/Sort Posters

Workbook pp. 2-4

Homework: None!

Learning Goals: Describe how energy moves through an ecosystem and the effects of human activities.

Question of the Day: Mystery Pics (number 1 – 5 in your notebook)

Click for the Student Edition


Ecosystems Quiz (you can use your student workbook and any notes in your science notebook)

Ticket out: Turn in your completed workbook and quiz.

Thursday 9/17 Agenda

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges 10 min (homework check)

Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Finish Building Rectangles group project

Workbook pp. 2-4

Homework: Skill Builder 2, p. 27

Learning Goals: Describe how human consumption of resources can affect an ecosystem.

Question of the Day: Where can you find the information to complete the table on p. 9 of your Student Workbook?

Click for the Student Edition


Part 1 With your partner, complete the chart on Human Practices and Natural Systems: Part 1, Timber Harvesting (pp. 9 in your workbook).

Part 2 You and your partner will be assigned reading about Gravel Mining, Mineral Mining, or Rice Farming, then answer the table on pp. 10-11 in your workbook. 

Ticket out: Turn in your completed workbook. We will have a quiz tomorrow on Energy in Ecosystems.

Wednesday 9/16 Agenda

Warm-Up:  Build a rectangle with an area of 12 (Homework Check p. 1)

Learning Goals: Understand what it means to find factors and multiples of numbers.

Building Rectangles group project

Homework: Skill Builder 1, p. 26

Learning Goals: Describe how human consumption of resources can affect an ecosystem.

Warm Up: Examples p. 8 of Student Workbook

Click for the Student Edition


Part 1 With your partner, complete the chart on Human Practices and Natural Systems: Part 1, Timber Harvesting (pp. 8-11 in your workbook).

Part 2 You and your partner will be assigned reading about Gravel Mining, Mineral Mining, or Rice Farming, then answer the table on pp. 10-11 in your workbook. 

Ticket out: Turn in your completed workbook. We will have a quiz tomorrow on Energy in Ecosystems.

Tuesday 9/15 Agenda

Turn in your workbooks and multiplication/division packets.

Workbook Test Today!!

When you finish, go on Mangahigh and work on challenges.

Homework: New workbook p. 1

Warm Up: What is a byproduct? Are they useful or harmful?

Learning Goals: Describe how human consumption of resources can affect an ecosystem.

Part 1 Examples: Human Practices and Natural Systems: Part 1, Timber Harvesting (pp. 8-9 in your workbook).

Refer to Timber Harvesting (pp. 11-12 in your Student Edition) to help you answer the questions on pp. 8-9 of your student workbook.

Click for the Student Edition

With your partner, complete the chart on Human Practices and Natural Systems: Part 1, Timber Harvesting (pp. 8-11 in your workbook).

Part 2 You and your partner will be assigned reading about Gravel Mining, Mineral Mining, or Rice Farming, then answer the table on pp. 10-11 in your workbook. 

Ticket out: Turn in your completed workbook. We will have a quiz tomorrow on Energy in Ecosystems.

Monday 9/14 Agenda

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges (Get out your booklet and turn to p. 33 for homework check)


Learning Goals: Review different ways to solve multiplication and division problems.

Classwork: Review p. 33, Whiteboard practice.

Workbook Test will be Tomorrow!!




Homework: Finish any unfinished workbook pages (booklets will be collected tomorrow), study for test.

Warm Up: Finish your Human Practices group Poster: Each group will create a poster to teach about how a human practice might affect the food web in the Wolverine's ecosystem. Your poster must be clearly written, illustrated, and colorful.

Learning Goals: Describe how human consumption of resources can affect an ecosystem.

In your science notebook, write the Questions of the Day: What is "consumption" of resources? What resources to humans consume? What about you?

With your partner, read about Timber Harvesting (pp. 11-12 in your Student Edition).
Click for the Student Edition

With your partner, complete the chart on Human Practices and Natural Systems: Part 1, Timber Harvesting (pp. 8-11 in your workbook).

Friday 9/11 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Warm-Up:  Mangahigh Challenges (homework check, pp. 17 and 19)

Learning Goals: Review standard multiplication and division algorithms.

Classwork: Workbook pp. 20-21

Workbook Test will be on Tuesday of next week!!



Homework: Workbook p. 33 (show all your work on scratch paper, and keep it in your workbook so I can check it). Packet (stapled multiplication and division practice worksheets) needs to be complete by Monday.

Learning Goals: Describe how human practices can affect a food web.

Warm-Up: Mystery Pictures (number 1 to 5 in your notebook)

With your group, take turns reading the Human Practices cards. Discuss how each practice could change the Wolverine's food web. Each member of the will record their answers on pp. 6-7 of the student workbook. 

Poster: Each group will create a poster to teach about how a human practice might affect the food web in the Wolverine's ecosystem. Your poster must be clearly written, illustrated, and colorful.

Thursday 9/10 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

MATH

Warm-Up:  Vocabulary Quizlet (10 minutes) homework check, p. 17 in workbook, and packet

Learning Goals: Review standard multiplication and division algorithms.

Workbook pp. 18

Homework: Workbook p. 19: Multiplication Practice, Packet needs to be complete by Monday.


SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Describe how human practices can affect a food web.

Questions of the Day (discuss with your partner, and take notes in your science notebook): What are some of the human activities that may have contributed to reducing the Wolverine population in California?

Click for the Student Edition

With your group, take turns reading the Human Practices cards. Discuss how each practice could change the Wolverine's food web. Each member of the will record their answers on pp. 6-7 of the student workbook. 

Exit Ticket: You need to have at least four of the sections of the table on pp. 6-7 filled out.

Wednesday 9/9 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

MATH

Warm-Up:  Vocabulary Quizlet (10 minutes)

Learning Goals: Review standard multiplication and division algorithms.

Packet example problems

Homework: Finish packet


SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Describe the effects of human activities on the transfer of matter in an ecosystem.

Finish Reading: What Happened to California's Wolverines? pp. 4-5. You can read quietly with your partner, or silently by yourself.

Click for the Student Edition

Be sure that you have completed the Wolverine Predictions assignment.

Bill Nye Food Webs (4 square notes in science notebook)

Tuesday 9/8 Agenda

Remember: I will be out at a math training today. Please be helpful, get all your work completed, and do your best. I am looking forward to getting a good report from the guest teacher!

MATH
Warm-Up: Manghigh New Challenges (20 minutes)

Learning Goals: Review standard multiplication and division algorithms.

Math Packet: Put your first and last name on the front. Get as far as you can during class, then finish as homework. If you finish early, turn in your packet and go back to Mangahigh.

Homework: Finish packet

SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Describe the effects of human activities on the transfer of matter in an ecosystem.

Finish Reading: What Happened to California's Wolverines? pp. 4-5. You can read quietly with your partner, or silently by yourself.

Click for the Student Edition

Exit Ticket: Go to Google Classroom and complete the Wolverine Predictions assignment.

Friday 9/4 Agenda

MATH
Warm-Up: Manghigh New Challenges (Homework Check)

Learning Goals: Learn strategies for finding quotients of whole numbers. Use division vocabulary.

Workbook pp. 15-16

Homework: Workbook p. 17

SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Describe the effects of human activities on the transfer of matter in an ecosystem.

Warm-Up: 10 min review of Quizlet 

Vocabulary Quiz

Numbered Heads Reading: What Happened to California's Wolverines? pp. 4-5  
REMEMBER, when doing "numbered heads":

• Answer questions in complete sentences, using academic language.
• Listen actively to others while they are speaking.

Exit Ticket: Go to Google Classroom and complete the Wolverine Predictions assignment.

Thursday 9/3 Agenda

MATH
Warm-Up: Manghigh New Challenges (Homework Check) Workbook p. 24, Skill Builder 4 (MUST BE FINISHED OR YOU MUST STAY IN AT BREAK TODAY (PER 1) OR FRIDAY (PER 5) TO FINISH)

Learning Goals: Learn strategies for finding quotients of whole numbers. Use division vocabulary.

Workbook pp. 14-15

Homework: Finish p. 15

SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Describe the effects of human activities on the transfer of matter in an ecosystem.

Warm-Up: Gallery Walk (post its)

Wolverine Ecosystem Food Web discussion

• What would happen if you removed deer from the food web?
• What would happen if you removed wolverines from the food web?
• What would happen if one species of small mammal, such as a squirrel, were removed from the food web?
• What would happen if shrubs were removed from the food web?

• What other factors might effect the survival of species in this food web?

Numbered Heads Reading: What Happened to California's Wolverines? pp. 4-5

Exit Ticket: Go to Google Classroom and complete the Wolverine Predictions assignment.

Homework: Study the Quizlet  (Vocabulary Quiz TOMORROW)

Wednesday 9/2 Agenda

MATH
Warm-Up: Manghigh New Challenges (Homework Check)

Learning Goals: Learn strategies for finding quotients of whole numbers. Use division vocabulary.

Review Division (new algorithm)

Homework: Workbook p. 26, Skill Builder 4 (MUST BE FINISHED OR YOU MUST STAY IN AT BREAK ON THURSDAY TO FINISH)

SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Describe the effects of human activities on the transfer of matter in an ecosystem.

Warm-Up: Study the Quizlet  (Vocabulary Quiz on FRIDAY)

Finish Food Web Group Activity

Put your poster up on the wall.

Tuesday 9/1 Agenda

MATH
Warm-Up-Question of the Day: Roberto is shopping in a large department store with many floors. He enters the store on the middle floor from a skyway, and immediately he goes up three floors to the housewares department. Then he goes down five floors to the children’s department. Then he goes up six floors to the TV department. Finally he goes down ten floors to the main entrance, which is on the first floor. How many floors does the department store have? (draw a diagram to help you solve the problem, and explain how you got your answer) (Homework Check)

Learning Goals: Learn strategies for finding quotients of whole numbers. Use division vocabulary.

Workbook pp. 13 Review 

Homework: Workbook p. 26, Skill Builder 4

SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Describe the effects of human activities on the transfer of matter in an ecosystem.

Warm-Up: Study the Quizlet  (Vocabulary Quiz on Thursday)

Questions of the Day (you can use your Student Edition and Student Workbook - Answer in complete sentences on the next page in your science notebook)

• About what percentage of the sunlight energy taken in by a producer is available to the primary consumer that eats it?
• What happened to the rest of the energy that was not passed to the next trophic level?

Food Web Group Activity

• What would happen if you removed deer from the food web?
• What would happen if you removed wolverines from the food web?
• What would happen if one species of small mammal, such as a squirrel, were removed from the food web?
• What would happen if shrubs were removed from the food web?

• What other factors might effect the survival of species in this food web?