7th and 8th Math and Science
Week of December 1, 2008
7th and 8th Math and Science
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends to celebrate the abundant blessings God has given so graciously to us. It is sometimes the trials in our lives that bring the most blessing when we have persevered. Praise God in the joyful circumstances and difficult ones of our lives.
Invite your family and friends to the Christmas program this Tuesday, December 2 at 7:00 at Stonebrook Church. It will be a wonderful time of celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior! We are encouraging people to bring non-perishable food items to the program.
Science 7th and 8th
Monday, Dec. 1- Program practice, no science class.
Tuesday 2: We will go over the science quest students took on Wednesday and finish looking at our packet. Students will also conduct a quick lab to help us understand the core of the earth...which is the first lesson in our next unit.
ASSIGNMENT: none
Wednesday 3: We will study the earth's core in more detail and learn how scientists have been able to understand something we can not see.
ASSIGNMENT: Read pgs 76-78. Answer questions 1-3 on pg 78. Due Thursday.
Thursday 4: We will go over the questions from yesterday. We will spend time learning about the mantle and how it is changing and moving.
Friday 5: Students will complete an outline sheet from their reading on pgs 82-85 on the crust.
Math 7th and 8th
Monday, Dec. 1: No class due to program practice.
Tuesday, 2
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7th: We will learn how to do proportions today by using cross products to solve the unknown value.
ASSIGNMENT: PS 39 (pg 235) a-f,1-5, 15-28 Due Thursday -
8th: We will briefly go over the problem solving activity that students worked on prior to Thanksgiving. I will give some time to finish this work. We will also complete a worksheet on overall average.
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Keyboarding today.
Wednesday 3
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7th: We will learn lesson 40 as we discover the sum of angle measures in a triangle. No additional lesson will be given. Complete PS 39 homework.
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8th: Lesson 46 teaches students about exponents and roots. Students will need to solve these roots within an order of operation problem.
ASSIGNMENT: PS 46 (pg 134) a-f, 1-29 (odd) and 16 Due Thursday.
Thursday 4
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7th: Students will apply what we learned yesterday in Lesson 40.
ASSIGNMENT: PS 40 (pg 242) a-e, 1,5,12,13, 15-29 (odd) -
8th:We will continue to work on roots and powers. I will also teach lesson 48 (temporarily skipping 47) as it uses order of operations with fractions. No additional assignment...Complete PS 46.
Friday 5
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7th: We will learn how to make a stem and leaf plot and may work on box and whisker plots. No assignment.
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8th: Students will work on lesson 48 today.
Assignment: PS 48: (pg 140) 9-25
