Monday, March 23rd: Bird Beak Buffet Reflection Questions, IXL Skills (Perimeter and Area Assessment
Today students in science were met with a re-vamp of a favorite science lab. In groups of 3, they chose a beak (toothpick, clothes pin,...
Tuesday, March 16th: Reflection Sheet for Floor Plan Project, IXL, and Features/Traits Packet
We had our final day of building in math class, and most students glued every floor pannel and wall into place to create scale models of...
Wednesday, March 11th: Complete Mammal Madness Brackets and 30+ min of IXL Skills
After finishing their Individual Assessment for the National Parks Ecoscenario Project, students spent time in science going over major...
Tuesday, March 10th: Mammal March Madness and Dream House Design
Today, students began filling out their brackets for "Mammal March Madness", our battle royale that serves as the reason and the hook for...
Tuesday, February 24th:
To continue our review of fraction operations, the students worked in groups to find how many Low-Tide Pizzas they could make from, say,...
Monday, February 23: Yellowstone Food Web, Sandy's Bakery Problem Set
To welcome the students back, I set up a series of problems to be solved in groups of three, in which the students needed to calculate...
Wednesday, February 4th: Dividing Fractions with Whole Numbers - Word Problems and pg. 55-57 #1-10
Students have been working hard to understand and build skills around dividing fractions. We started by dividing whole numbers by...
Monday, January 12th: 3 Homework Groups for Math, Finish Conclusions (Period 5 Sci)
Today was a day where things seemed to click pretty well. In math, students began with a warm-up and spend some time explaining...
Thursday, January 8th: Multiplying Fractions and Finding Fraction of a Number, Conclusion & Hypothes
Today, students continued to design and carry out scientific experiments on the dissolving M&M's, and went through two assessments in...
Tuesday, January 6th: Design 2-Part Games by Multiplying Probabilities
I introduced students to the world of probablity today by tricking them with an unfair card game. We explored the connection between...
