Announcements:
- Congratulations to those students who participated in Badminton Divisionals!!!
- Jersey Day on Thursday, May 9th, 2019
- Remember to be mindful of the PATs being written in the GR. 6 & 9 hallways
- There is Choral Practice Friday for the spring concert on May 16th
Math:
We are learning to interpret and draw circle graphs. Through this process we are also reviewing how to convert fractions to percents and how to convert percents to degrees for drawing our circles.
Today we drew graphs about favorite sports and favorite cup cakes. Students practiced drawing circle graphs using protractors.We also learned about measures of central tendency including mean (average - add numbers together and divide by the number of numbers), median (put the numbers in order from least to greatest and find the middle number) and mode (the number that occurs most in the data set). Students practiced determining mean, median and mode for a variety of sets of numbers.
Khan Academy is a good place for extra practice.
Science:
Yesterday we continued exploring how to be effective consumers of online information with Ms. Baillargeon.Some of the Online Research Skills we acquired:
- Tips and Considerations for Online Research
- Analyzing Websites (fake vs. real)
How do we evaluate websites and online sources?
- who can edit?
- who wrote the website? (reputable source?)
- compare several sources to find similar information (check multiple sources)
- security (not secure? may be suspect?)
- a lot of banner adds (trying to sell things rather than educate)
Students visited six websites and determined whether they were true or fake sources of information.
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The poster below gives some hints of how to effectively evaluate websites.
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