Thursday, March 24, 2016

Thursday 3/24 Agenda

Bulletin

MATH

1. Review and collect Homework

2. Percents Post Quiz (go to my.hrw.com)

3. Mangahigh



SCIENCE

1. Finish Climate Change graphic organizer 

Presentation

2. Climate Change quiz (Google Classroom assignment)

  • You can use your notes!!

Click the link below to go to Newsela and sign up for the class if you haven't already done so. Then read any of the assigned articles and take the quiz.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Wednesday 3/23 Agenda

Bulletin

MATH

Essential Question: How do you use percents to solve problems?


1. Review Homework (p. 223)

2. Example 3 (page 221)

3. Solving Percent Problems (p. 53-54)

Homework: Study Guide p. 229 - Quiz Tomorrow (Thursday)



SCIENCE

Focus Questions: How do scientists investigate climate change? What are the causes of climate change?

1. Warm-Up

  • Write the Focus Questions in your science notebook
  • If you didn't do so yesterday, go to Google Classroom and complete the "Ticket Out" assignment.
  • Glue the "Carbon Cycle Diagram" and the CO2 Graph worksheet into your science notebook. You will be able to use your notebook for tomorrow's quiz.

2. Lesson: PowerPoint


3. Ticket Out: Complete the Climate Change Graphic Organizer


Extra Credit: 
Enter your CO2 data into a Google Sheet and create a line graph. Include a title and be sure to label your axes. Share it with me.

or

Click the link below to go to Newsela and sign up for the class if you haven't already done so. Then read any of the assigned articles and take the quiz.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Tuesday 3/22 Agenda

Bulletin

MATH

Essential Question: How do you use percents to solve problems?


1. Warm Up: Animated Math 8.3

2. Q of the Day: 90 students took a math quiz. 10% of them answered every question correctly. How many students got 100% on the quiz?

3. Examples 2 and 3, Guided Practice 4-6

4. Ticket Out: Turn in Online Assignment 8.3

Homework: Independent Practice p.223 problems 17-28



SCIENCE

Focus Question: How do scientists measure changes in greenhouse gases over time? What does this data tell us?

1. Warm-Up: What is the main greenhouse gas? Where do greenhouse gases come from?

2. Lesson: How greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are measured (powerpoint)

3. Graphing Activity

4. How do we know the climate is changing?

5. Ticket Out: (Google Classroom Assignment) How do scientists measure changes in greenhouse gases over time? What does your graph show?


Extra Credit: 
Enter your CO2 data into a Google Sheet and create a line graph. Include a title and be sure to label your axes. Share it with me.

or

Click the link below to go to Newsela and sign up for the class if you haven't already done so. Then read any of the assigned articles and take the quiz.

Monday, March 21, 2016

Monday 3/21 Agenda

Lakeview Video Bulletin

MATH

Essential Question: How do you use percents to solve problems? 


1. Review Homework

2. Q of the Day: What is 50% of 80?

3. Example 1: Finding a Percent of a Number (p. 218-219) 

4. Example 2: Finding a Percent Given a Part and a Whole 

5. Ticket Out: Guided Practice Questions 1-4

Homework: Independent Practice Questions 7-16



SCIENCE

Focus Question: Where do greenhouse gases come from? 

1. Question of the Day: What happens inside a closed car on a sunny day?

2. Greenhouse Effect Animation

3. Carbon Cycle Video

4. Complete the Carbon Cycle Diagram

5. Ticket Out: What is the main greenhouse gas? Why are greenhouse gases important for life on Earth?

Homework: Finish the Carbon Cycle Diagram and glue it into your science notebook.
Extra Credit: Click the link below to go to Newsela and sign up for the class if you haven't already done so. Then read any of the assigned articles and take the quiz.










Thursday, March 17, 2016

Friday 3/18 Agenda


MATH

Essential Question: How do you use percents to solve problems? 


1. Review Homework

2. Q of the Day: What is the total price of a pair of shoes that cost $50 if the sales tax is 8%?

3. Explore Activity: Modeling a Percent Problem (p. 217)

4. Answer Reflect questions 1 and 2 on page 218


5. Ticket Out: Go to my.hrw.com and complete the Lesson 8.2 Assignment

Homework: Lesson 8-2 worksheet p. 52, Percents, Fractions, and Decimals



SCIENCE


1. Quizlet Vocabulary Quiz

2. Final Assessment for Weather and Wind unit: Classroom Assignment: Weather and Climate study questions 

3. Extra Credit: Click the link below to go to Newsela and sign up for the class. Then read the article about plastic eating bacteria.









Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Thursday 3/17 Agenda


MATH

Learning Goal: Be able to write equivalent percents, fractions, and decimals.


1. Q of the Day: Write 35% as a decimal and as a fraction in simplest form. How can you check your answer?

2. Lesson: Writing fractions as a decimal and a percent (p. 213, Example 2)

3. Your Turn 8-9 (p. 214)

4. Question: Why can you write a percent as a fraction and a decimal?

Homework: Guided and Independent Practice p. 214: problems 4-6 and p. 215: problems 13-19



SCIENCE

1. Work on the Quizlet and flashcards: Quiz Tomorrow!

Quizlet in spanish/english

Quizlet in english only

2. EdPuzzle video on climate change basics

3. Work on Weather Study Questions (Google Classroom)



Wednesday 3/16 Agenda


MATH

Learning Goal: Be able to use write equivalent percents, fractions, and decimals.


1. Q of the Day: What is a better deal? Half off or 50% off? Explain your reasoning to your table partner.

2. Lesson: Writing a percent as a fraction and a decimal (p. 211, Example 1)

3. Your Turn 1-6 (p. 211)

4. Explore Activity (p. 212)

4. Ticket Out: Lesson Quiz

Homework: pp. 214-215, problems 1, 2. 3. and 7-12



SCIENCE
Goal: What causes weather? What is severe weather?

1. Warm up: Quizlet/Flashcards


Use our Quizlet study set to create a flashcard for each missed term. Each flashcard must include:
  • the term
  • definition
  • illustration
  • usage sentence

2. Read pp. 274-276 in packet

3. Work on Google Classroom Assignment: Weather and Climate study questions 

Homework: In your science notebook, draw the three diagrams on pages 274 and 275 from the packet. Be sure to label the different air masses, front, and movement direction on each diagram. If you don't have the packet, draw a diagram of a weather front and label all the parts.






Monday, March 14, 2016

Tuesday 3/15 Agenda


MATH

Learning Goal: Be able to use benchmark percents to write other percents and to estimate fractions.


1. Warm-Up: Use a percent bar model to show 1/5 and it's equivalent percent. Then show 80% on the model.

2. Lesson: Using Benchmarks and Proportional Reasoning (Example 1)

3. Guided Practice (p. 208)

4. Ticket Out: Lesson Quiz

Homework: Practice and Skills Fluency Workbook p. 49-50



SCIENCE
Goal: What causes weather? What is severe weather?

1. Warm up: Quizlet/Flashcards


Use our Quizlet study set to create a flashcard for each missed term. Each flashcard must include:
  • the term
  • definition
  • illustration
  • usage sentence


2. Q of the Day? What is the difference between weather and climate?

3. Brain Pop Weather

4. Read pp. 274-276

5. Work on Google Classroom Assignment: Weather and Climate study questions 





Sunday, March 13, 2016

Monday 3/14 Agenda


MATH

Essential Question: How can you write a ratio as a percent

Today we are starting our new unit on Percents using the GoMath curriculum.

1. Go to my.hrw.com and log in with your username and password (5 min)

2. Take the Module 8 Percents Pre-Test (15 min)

3. When you finish the pre-test, do pg. 202 in the GoMath book. (10 min)

4. Explore Activities 1 and 2 (15 min)

5. Guided Practice 1 and 2 (10 min)

Homework: Independent Practice p. 209-10: 8-11, 15-16







SCIENCE
Goal: What causes weather? What is severe weather?

1. Warm up: Quizlet/Flashcards


Use our Quizlet study set to create a flashcard for each missed term. Each flashcard must include:
  • the term
  • definition
  • illustration
  • usage sentence


2. Q of the Day? What is the difference between weather and climate?

3. Brain Pop Weather

4. Read pp. 274-276

5. Work on Google Classroom Assignment: Weather and Climate study questions 









Friday, March 11, 2016

Friday 3/11 Agenda


MATH

1. Collect Homework

2. Ratios Quiz


3. Mangahigh or Quizlet

SCIENCE
Goal: Practice weather vocabulary

1. Warm up: Quizlet

2. Weather vocabulary practice quiz

3. Use our Quizlet study set to create a flashcard for each missed term. Each flashcard must include:

  • the term
  • definition
  • illustration
  • usage sentence


3. Practice with flashcards/Quizlet








Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Thursday 3/10 Agenda


MATH
Goal: Today’s lesson is comparing and graphing ratios.


1. Warm Up (Dynamic Classroom): Answer Warm Up questions. (Collect homework)


2. Example 1 (5 minutes)
Comparing Ratios using ratio tables.
·         On Your Own Question 1. Then have neighbors check each other’s work.


3. Example 2 (10 minutes)
Comparing Unit Rates how to solve a problem using ratio tables.
·        On Your Own Question 2.


4. Example 3 (10 minutes)
Graphing Values from Ratio Tables.
This example illustrates how to complete a ratio table and transfer that information to a graph.
·         Use colored pencils to draw the graphs.
·         Work independently to answer On Your Own Question 3.


5. Assess (10 minutes)
Closure (as time allows)
Complete the "Writing Prompt" that is in the Teaching Edition (p. T213).
Homework Assignment (set up page)

·         Textbook pp. 214-215: 1, 2, 5–15 odd, 16, 17



SCIENCE
Focus Questions: How do clouds form?

1. Demonstration

2. Read pp. 271-272

3. TedEd Video: Cloud Naming

4. Cloud types mini poster activity










Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Wednesday 3/9 Agenda


MATH
Essential Question: How can you compare two ratios?

1. Warm Up (Dynamic Classroom) (5 minutes): Answer Warm Up questions in your math notebook. (Collect homework)

2. Activity 1 (10 minutes)
Comparing Ratio Tables
Work with your table partner to complete parts (a) and (b). Review answers.
Work with your table partner to complete part (c).

3. Activity 2 (10 minutes)
Graphing from a Ratio Table
Work with your partner and use the information in Activity 1 to answer parts (a)–(c).

4. Activity 3 (5 minutes)
Comparing Graphs from Ratio Tables
Whole class: answer parts (a)–(d).

5. Assess (5 minutes)
Closure Question
Teaching Edition (p. T211) scenario about mixing red and blue food coloring.
Homework Assignment (set up page)
·         Textbook pp. 214-215: Practice and Problem Solving Exercises 3 and 4 and Fair Game Review 19–22



SCIENCE
Focus Questions: How does water in the air affect the weather?

1. Review questions 1-4 on p. 267

2. Read pp. 268-269

3. Ticket Out