Tuesday, October 14th: Comparing Fractions & A Rainforest in Your Gut!
- luntma
- Oct 14, 2014
- 1 min read
Today students learned 4 different strategies for comparing fractions and tried them out on pairs of fractions of varying difficulty. This was after a bit of counting by fractional pieces in order to set a common language for talking and thinking about fractions in the future. Over the next few weeks, students will be taking a few different pre-assessments and working on skills that suit their backround in the subject. Independent or small group skill work will be balanced with problem solving activities that involve the same skills. Tonight, the homework is to compare the size of two fractions. Students must finish one set organized into 4 groups by strategy, and another page of 14 problems of varying difficulty.
In Science, we took a look into Ecosystems by looking into our own GUT! Students were introduced to the concepts of resources, limiting factors, predator/prey, symbiosis, and competition through a lecture on the community of microbes in the human gut. We filled in a comic strip together throughout the lecture as a way for them to start taking notes, and tomorrow they will give advice to a single-celled mom thinking of moving to the lower intestines.
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