November 1, 2009
· Filed under 8th grade math
Monday: Surface Area
Learning Targets: Students will find the surface area of 3-d shapes.
- How do you make a net?
- Students will review nets
- How do you find surface area? (Interactive Chalkboard)
- This net will have measurements on it
- Students will have to transfer the measurements to the net
- Find the area of a complex figure
- How do you find surface area of different shapes?
- Class Practice
Tuesday: Surface Area Continued with review for assessment
Learning Targets: Students will find the surface area of 3-d shapes.
- How do you find the surface area of a 3-D shape?
- Class Problems for practice
- Review for Weekly Assessment 20 minutes per station
- Group 1: Correcting last weeks assessment
- Group 2: Isometric Dot drawings of 3-D Shapes
- Group 3: ????
Wednesday: Weekly Assessment 8
Learning Targets Covered;
- Students will find the circumference and area of circles
- Students will find the area of complex figures
- Students will identify 3-d shapes and list vertices, edges, and faces.
- Students will create 3-d shapes using isometric dot paper.
- Students will create nets of 3-d figures
- Problem of the Week
Thursday: Volume of a 3-D Figure
Learning Target: Students will find the volume of a 3-d solid.
- 5-Minute Check over Surface Area
- What is Volume?
- Space taken up by a 3-d shape
- How do you find volume?
- Prisms
- Pyramids
- Other Shapes
- Class Practice
Friday: New class students
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November 1, 2009
· Filed under Algebra
Monday: AIA Project Slope-Intercept Form
Learning Target: You will understand how to recognize and write different forms of Linear Equations.
- Treasure Hunt follow-up
- How do you use slope?
- How do you find the slope of a line?
- How do arithmetic sequences relate to linear equations?
- What is slope?
- Where can you find the other number?
- AIA Project “Slope-Intercept Form”
- Find Enemy Camps by following the slope path.
- Write the roads in and out of the camps using slope intercept form.
Tuesday: Final Assessment Review Day
Learning Targets: All targets for the assessment this week.
- AIA Project “Slope-Intercept Form” Q&A
- What roadblocks in your project have given you trouble or you cannot pass?
- What tips can we gather from other classmates?
- Review for final assessment of the term.
- 20 minute rotations
- Group 1: Correct last week’s assessment and ask questions.
- Group 2: Computer review of Learning Target.
- Group 3: Worksheet on Transformations and Arithmetic Sequence.
Wednesday: Weekly Assessment 8
Learning Targets Covered;
- Chapter 3 Online Test for practice
- Students will manipulate formulas and equations to solve for a variable.
- Extra Practice in Text Chapter 3 Lesson 8
- Students will find ratios and proportions
- Extra Practice in Text Chapter 3 Lessons 6 & 7
- Students will graph points and transform figures on a coordinate plane.
- Students will Find rules for Arithmetic Sequences
- AIA Project Work Time
Thursday: Thursday: Graphing & Writing Linear Equations
Learning Target: You will understand how to recognize and write different forms of Linear Equations.
- How do arithmetic sequences relate to linear equations?
- What is slope?
- Where can you find the other number?
- Slope-Intercept Form Warm-up (Textbook Lesson 5-3 & 5-4)
- Write an Equations to a Line containing points (3, -2) & (6, 4)
- What should the equations look like?
- What do we need to write the equations?
- How can we find them?
- Where do they go once we find them?
- Graph to Check
- Class Practice with different givens
- Two Points
- One point and the slope
- Two intercepts
- Direct Variation (Textbook Lesson 5-2)
- Y=KX
- Suppose y varies directly as x, if y = -18 when x = 6, find x when y = 6.
- Pg 266 for example 4.
- How can we use Ratios to solve?
- Class Practice
Friday: Forms of Linear Equations
Learning Target: Students will recognize and write different forms of linear equations.
- What is slope intercept form?
- How do you write it?
- How do you graph it?
- What other forms of linear equations are there?
- Standard Form
- Point-Slope Form
- How do you write it?
- How do you graph it?
- AIA Project Work Time
October 26, 2009
· Filed under 8th grade math
Monday: Nets
Learning Target: Students will display a 3-d figure as a 2-d net.
- What are nets?
- How many nets can a cube make?
- Students will find all ways to display a cube as a net.
- What will other 3-d shapes look like when they are made into nets?
- Students will take several shapes and deconstruct them to make nest.
Tuesday: Surface Area
Learning Targets: Students will find the surface area of 3-d shapes.
- How do you make a net?
- Students will review nets
- How do you find surface area?
- This net will have measurements on it
- Students will have to transfer the measurements to the net
- Find the area of a complex figure
- How do you find surface area of different shapes?
- Class Practice
Wednesday: Weekly Assessment 6
Learning Targets Covered;
- Students can recognize and perform transformations.
- Students will find the area of triangles and quadrilaterals
- Students will find the circumference and area of circles
- Students will find the area of complex figures
- Students will identify 3-d shapes and list vertices, edges, and faces.
- Students will create 3-d shapes using isometric dot paper.
- Students will create nets of 3-d figures
- Problem of the Week
Thursday & Friday: No School
October 26, 2009
· Filed under Algebra
Monday: AIA Relations Project
Learning Target: Finding patterns and Rules in Arithmetic Sequences.
- AIA Relations – Finish in Groups
- Part 1 – Find the Rule
- Part 1b – Use the rule to find more points
- Part 2 Extension
- Plot points on a graph
- Look for Patterns
- Find a rule for the patterns
- Make connections to other types of graphing
Tuesday: Graphing & Writing Linear Equations
Learning Target: You will understand how to recognize and write different forms of Linear Equations.
- How do arithmetic sequences relate to linear equations?
- What is slope?
- Where can you find the other number?
- Slope-Intercept Form Warm-up (Textbook Lesson 5-3 & 5-4)
- Write an Equations to a Line containing points (3, -2) & (6, 4)
- What should the equations look like?
- What do we need to write the equations?
- How can we find them?
- Where do they go once we find them?
- Graph to Check
- Class Practice with different givens
- Two Points
- One point and the slope
- Two intercepts
- Direct Variation (Textbook Lesson 5-2)
- Y=KX
- Suppose y varies directly as x, if y = -18 when x = 6, find x when y = 6.
- Pg 266 for example 4.
- How can we use Ratios to solve?
- Class Practice
Wednesday: Weekly Assessment 7
Learning Targets Covered;
- Students will manipulate formulas and equations to solve for a variable.
- Extra Practice in Text Chapter 3 Lesson 8
- Students will find ratios and proportions
- Extra Practice in Text Chapter 3 Lessons 6 & 7
- Students will graph points and transform figures on a coordinate plane.
- Extra Practice in Text Chapter 4 Lessons 1 & 2.
- Students will Find rules for Arithmetic Sequences
- Extra Practice in Text Chapter 4 Lessons 7 & 8
- Problem of the Week
Thursday & Friday: No School
