Happy Halloween

For all of you who celebrate Halloween, have fun this weekend. There is a new poll to the right in regards to how you will be spending your evening! I will be dressed up as a knight with my son who will be playing the dragon! Be safe. See you on Monday. Remember, if you need help with anything, I am here at 7:30 AM on Monday.

Miss you!

I miss you all !!!! I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Mr. Torsch sent me you HW, so here it is.
Student conferences are coming up.  What elements from this class will you use to show what you've learned and how you have improved in MST?  List some goals for yourself this coming term in MST.

E day! Eureka

The words for this week are:
mineral
element
natural resource
product
quotient
divisor

Hope you enjoyed Eureka today. Can you solve the problem that was given? If you folded a piece of paper over onto itself fifty times, how thick would the paper be? How did you solve the problem? How do you know you are right?

Terrific Timeline

The timeline looks WONDERFUL. It is filled with artifacts and evidence from each time period. Come check it out! We will be returning to math tasks on Monday, so get some popcorn and watch some movies to review fractions, decimals and percents this weekend!

Percents Brain Pop Movie
Fractions Brain Pop Movie
Decimals Brain Pop Movie

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Password:Science

Printing

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Project Timeline

I can't wait to see your artifacts and hear your presentations tomorrow!

Read and Respond- Fossils

Please read the following and write three paragraphs in response. Issues, Evidence and YOU!
Fossils and Rocks

Fossil Succession

Tomorrow will be your last day to work on Project Timeline with your partner in class. You will have 1 hour. Your items will be added to the class timeline on Friday. Remember you can have at most six- 6" x6" x 6" items. You do not have to have six items as long as the items you do have address the areas on the rubric.

1. Animal and/or plant life during the period
2. Index fossils for the period
3. The condition and makeup of the atmosphere during the period
4. The surface of the Earth and tectonics, include maps

Can't wait to see what you create!!!

Math Tasks and Project Timeline: READ ME

As we move towards the end of term one and throughout the end of the year, we will be expecting more and more independent thought and work from our students. Today, all MST students were given a packet with ten tasks that will be completed over the course of the next three weeks. The tasks require students to use their knowledge of decimals, percents, and fractions to solve problems. In their packet, the students were given a checklist for each task and a rubric explaining the level of thought and quality expected for their completed task. We expect that the students not only arrive at an appropriate solution to each task using mathematical models and problem solving strategies, but that they are also able to defend and justify their thought process and solution.

Some students who felt confident in their prior knowledge of decimals, fractions, and percents began task one today. Mrs. Cannon gave a mimi-lesson on decimals, fractions, and percents for those students who did not feel comfortable with task one. They will begin task one on Thursday or Friday of this week depending on their level of comfort.

If you want to review how to represent fractions, decimals, and percents on a number line, please review the following links:


Decimals on a Number Line

Fractions on a Number Line

Identify Fractions on a Number Line

Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

Check your knowledge. Do you get it?


Homework tonight is aid memory. You can just tell me something that you learned from one of the above links or tell me something that you learned about your time period!

Reminder: Project Timeline is due on FRIDAY. You will have about 45 minutes on Thursday to complete your project with your partner. Make sure you are ready!

Expand Vocabulary

Hope you had a thoughtful experience on the field trip today, but you still have HW. Your words are: sedimentary rock, nonconformity,superposition, and common denominator.

Project Timeline

Students began their timeline projects today in class. Their mission should they choose to accept it (by the way you have to!) is to research their assigned period from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic or Cenozoic Era with their partner and then create items to add to our class timeline. The objects must be able to fit within a 6"x6"x6" cube and should be as creative as possible. All students received a copy of the rubric for the project. It is due on Friday, 10/23!

We also took an assessment in math that covered GCF, LCM, prime factorization and reducing fractions to their lowest terms. Overall, I was impressed with the knowledge that students showed on the assessment.



Bonus: Find possessive pronoun in the today's blog post.

EARTH JOURNALs are BACK

I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend. Now, it's back to work on a new unit! We are moving into Fractions, Decimals, and Precents in Math and Rocks and Minerals in Science.

Homework for tonight:
Expand Vocabulary:
equivalent fractions
relative age
absolute age
numerator
denominator

Fraction Video- Review- WATCH ME

Reminders

If your PPT hasn't been posted yet, please email it to me at scannon@atlantachartermiddle.com.

If you need to revise work or just want help with something we are working on, I am available on Mondays and Fridays starting at 7:30AM.

Remember to bring in your storyboards and source information tomorrow. They will be a part of your project grade.

Thank you!

Tsunamis by Hunter

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Great Presentations from Today

Excellent Work!!!

F Conner And Z Spencer

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Rose S. Tsunami

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Coty And Kynedi Awsome Slide Show

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It has begun...

The presentations are off to an EXCELLENT start. Today, we learned about trenches, tsunamis, and mid-ocean ridges. Below, you can see Asa's presentation on trenches. I will get the rest up ASAP.

This week we are working on remediation and or enrichment of the skills we have been working on for the past several weeks. Therefore, there is no specific HW, but I do expect each of you to spend some time working on your areas of remediation using the websites I have posted over the last few weeks. Everyone can practice long division! You can also use this week to enrich your knowledge of the topics we have been working on by doing further research or study.

Trenches by Asa

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Presentations Start Monday

Be ready to present your project to the class on Monday. Who wants to go first?

NPR and GOOGLE Docs

Listen to the Earthquake Story on NPR
Students, please ask your parents if you can set up a gmail account. The account will be used primarily as an access to Google Docs. This will allow you to upload documents that you work on school, so that you can work on them at home as well. It also allows you to share documents that you are working on with a partner. See the info about Google Docs below.


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