Growing Squares and Atomic Comics

Announcements:

• Parent Teacher Interviews March 14th - Forms with more detail about booking interviews were sent home today
• "Atomic Comic" Science Project due Monday
• Please complete Heat Stories ASAP if you haven't already handed them in

Math:

After writing the Integers Unit Assessment we practiced order of operations problems. Students had the opportunity to create a game to make practicing BEDMAS problems more interesting. One game involved writing out the templates in the picture and using dice to determine the numbers. This seemed to motivate students to focus a little bit more when solving these complex problems.

We began the Patterns and Linear Relations Unit today with the Growing Squares challenge.

Students drew squares with increasing side lengths and calculated the perimeter and area of each of the 10 squares. The made data tables and observed patterns in the number sets. Some students had enough time to graph the side length to perimeter and the side length to area.

Students who are interested in learning more about patterns could go to Khan Academy and watch the following video and try a few practice questions.

Science:

In Science we continued exploring Particle Theory. Students created an "Atomic Comic" to creatively display their understanding of the Particle Model of Matter. These projects have four frames that imaginatively demonstrate understanding of the following concepts:

• All matter is made up of tiny particles
• Particles have space between them
• Particles are always moving
• Adding heat makes the particles move faster

Atomic Comics due Monday, March 4th, 2019.

Have a great long weekend!!!