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Math:
We will begin the week by working on ordering benchmark fractions on a number line.Students will also practice converting fractions to percentages and decimals and placing these on a number line.
Tuesday students will have the opportunity to correct their percent word problem quizzes.
We will also work on estimating percentages.
We will end the week with practice adding, subtracting, and multiplying decimals.
Khanacademy.org has some excellent videos and practice questions that will support students in understanding and practicing decimal operations skills.
The videos below may be helpful:
Adding Decimals
Subtracting Decimals
Multiplying Decimals
Science:
This week we will continue to study the theory of Plate Tectonics. Monday and Tuesday we will be doing the Oreo Cookie Lab to understand what happens at plate boundaries in a hands on way. To better understand how the plates are moving watch this video.Key vocabulary for the Oreo Cookie Lab includes:
- Theory of Plate Tectonics
- Plates
- Crust
- Mantle
- Lithosphere
- Asthenosphere
- Diverging Boundary
- Converging Boundary
- Transform Boundary
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