I hope you have had a restful Fall Break! I am so excited to share our new curriculum with everyone! We are now working with the STEMScopes curriculum. While we experience it together for the first time, we will chunk information into more bite size pieces, while working towards a bigger question. This will also adjust the order in which we do things. So while I am excited to learn more about the ocean and weather, we are going to push that off just a little bit in order to investigate the following question. “What are the benefits and risks of building a pipeline through Yosemite Park?” In Math we will continue to expand on our understanding of proportion by beginning conversations on Ratios, Unit Rates, and Graphical representation of Proportions. This is Unit 2 of Illustrative Math. In addition, students should be working on their Khan Academy Assignments in class, but may be completing them at home as well. Remember that practice can be found on KhanAcademy in the Illustrative Math section!
Monday
No School for students!
Tuesday
Math Block
Thought Exercise: Number Line
Thought Exercise: Analyzing Algorithms
Studio: Proportional Thinking
Intervention focus: Exponents/Order of Operations
Wandering Wednesday
Science Block
We will begin our investigation into the following question. “What are the benefits and risks of building a pipeline through Yosemite Park?” Our investigation will begin with an understanding of competition among organisms and how invasive species exemplify the impacts of competition. We will be wandering tomorrow instead of today!
Thursday
Science Block
Students will spend the entire class working to create a public service announcement discussing “How have invasive species impacted our community?” We will be wandering outside today to identify invasive species for inclusion in our project. Please note that on Wandering Wednesdays (and THURSDAYS), as with every school outing, there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing choices! Unless severe weather is in the area, we will do our excursions, rain or shine.
FriYAY!
Students will begin to work on a new FriYAY project!
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