7th Grade Summer School - Fractions

Let's watch this tutorial on fractions, then you can try it yourself:
http://www.nutshellmath.com/textbooks_glossary_demos/demos_content/prealg_operations_with_fractions.html

If you ever want to watch another tutorial like this one, you can find them here:
http://www.algebra.com/tutors/lessons-by-tutor.mpl?tutor=nutshellmath


Next, please try one of these websites with a partner. Take turns and see who does better.

http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/ff/index.asp

http://www.quia.com/cm/102047.html?AP_rand=91316619

7th Grade Summerschool - Area & Perimeter

In this webquest, you and a partner will be working with a landscaping company to restore a house. You will be painting the outside, putting down new grass, putting up a fence, and filling the pool with water.
http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/geggie/delmain/webquests/purplecomicsans/intro.html

When you are finished, try this game:
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/AreaExplorer/?version=1.6.0_11&browser=Mozilla&vendor=Sun_Microsystems_Inc.

7/7/09 - Junior High Summer School Math - Division

Let's get warmed up with a division game:

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/long-division.php


Ok, now you're ready for a multiplication and division game that you can play with a partner:

http://www.quia.com/cb/147595.html

Now, let's get back to order of operations. This website will help explain PEMDAS, and give us some practice using it: http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol7/order_operations.html


Then, try to uncover the hidden picture using the order of operations to solve problems:
http://www.dositey.com/2008/addsub/Mystery11.htm#s

And blast the answers to these exponent questions:
http://www.mathdork.com/games/asteroidsexp3/asteroidsexp3.html

Or keep the aliens from landing by clicking on the correct answer:
http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Exponents.html

6/2/09 - 6th Grade - Decomposers

Mrs. Sheffie left us a link to Access Kids Corner. We are going to read up on decomposers, and see how they fit into the food web. Lets read through this page together, and when we're ready we can test our knowledge with a game.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/decomposers.htm

5/21/09 - Weather - 5th Grade -

Today we are going to look at weather.

Let's start with this activity about weather patterns:

http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm


Once we have some knowledge about weather let's check out this activity:http://www.scholastic.com/kids/weather/

We can also check out the Weather Channel for Kids Website:
http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com/

With this activity we will try to cover the 2nd national standard listed below:
National Science Standards
Investigation and Experimentation
Earth Sciences
Grade 5:
1. Water moves in the air from one place to another in the form of clouds or fog, which are tiny droplets of water or ice, and falls to the Earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
2. How to use weather maps and weather forecasts to predict local weather, and that prediction depends on many changing variables.

5/18/09 - 6th Grade Plate Tectonics

Today we are going to explore plate tectonics (the cause of earthquakes and volcanoes).

Vocab:
Ridge -
Plate -
Convection -
Ring of Fire -
Pangea -

Slide 1 of this presentation explains plate movement as convection:http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/people/seth/107/t9conclude.htm

This interactive activity explains plate tectonics: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/#

Sites:

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

5/12/09 - 6th Grade - Heat Transfer

Here are a couple of interactive websites on heat transfer:

See if you can make the heat in the beakers equal in 5 minutes, using one of the materials (glass, aluminum, copper, or steel). Which one works the fastest? What does this mean?

http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspView&ResourceID=388

Try this experiment, to heat up the water, using different metals:
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/sections/projectfolder/flashfiles/thermochem/heat_metal.swf

What is more important? - Is it the mass of the metal, or the material you chose?


If you have come up with some questions, after these activities, do a little research on heat energy:

http://www.physics4kids.com/files/thermo_intro.html