Work for week of November 2 - 6, 2009
Monday: homework bundles handed back with comments, test review game for Stretching and Shrinking unit test (coming up tomorrow), test will focus on mathematical similarity, scale factor, equivalent ratios, finding missing measurements using scale factor or ratio, and making figures on a coordinate grid
Tuesday: Stretching and Shrinking unit test
Wednesday: tests handed back and discussed, each student presents their grid figure project
Thursday: ADI #3, therefore no math class
Friday: complete self evaluation since today is final day of trimester #1, finish grid figure presentations, turn in Stretching and Shrinking book, receive Comparing and Scaling book
RoShamBo 3.0 - Integrated (earth science)
Monday: final day for Natural Hazards Cafe group work [presentations are TOMORROW], students must download their power point presentations on to my computer, practice complete "cooking show" including power point, working model, and detailed explanation of natural hazard with group
Tuesday: Natural Hazards Cafe - students bring hurricanes, tornadoes, hailstorms, thunder/lightening, avalanches, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes into the room through their "cooking show" format presentations, audience takes two column notes focused on the essential elements needed for each natural hazard to occur, examples of actual events, and emergency procedures
Wednesday: shift to geology focus!! students do introductory rock identification activity, make "tour guides" of the rock layers we will be hiking through in Eldorado Canyon tomorrow
Thursday: ADI#3!! students need to bring a sack lunch, science journal, writing utensil, digital camera (if possible), and dress appropriately for hiking, we will spend the day in Eldorado Canyon State Park traveling back in time by hiking through and observing the rock layers and types, students will document their findings with notes and digital pictures, parent drivers will pick us up at 3pm and we will return at the end of the school day
Friday: share rock discoveries, continue geology activities within the context or our analysis of the rock layers/types we discovered on the field trip, discuss the idea of "time travel" by hiking through specific rock layers
NOTE: STUDENTS SHOULD BE COLLECTING ITEMS FOR THE "REALITY ART" PART OF THEIR LTP (SEE "PROJECTS" ON CHOICE WEBSITE), FINAL WRITTEN PORTION OF LTP (PERSUASIVE PAPER AND REAL DATA IN FINAL FORMAT) IS DUE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10