Thursday, November 21, 2013

Nov 21 Pre-Al

Which is easier for you, multiplying or dividing variables?

Nov 21 Science

Topic:  Project

Question:  What was one project you learned about yesterday that you liked?

Nov 21 Inv. Math

What do you think the quiz average was?

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Nov 20 Inv. Math

Write an expression.

25 less than y

Nov 20 Pre-Al

Simplify.

Write with a fraction bar.


Write without a fraction bar.



Nov 20 Science

Topic:  MB Trip

Question:  Guess a word that was turned in.






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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Nov 19 Inv. Math

Write and solve an EQUATION.

You save $5 every week.  How many weeks will it take you to save 250?

Monday, November 18, 2013

Nov 19 Pre-Al

What happened 150 years ago today?

Nov 19 Science

Topic:  Test

Question:  Your family uses ALL detergent, but wants to try Tide.  

Identify the following:
Control Group:
Experimental Group:
Manipulated Variable:  
Responding Variable:

Nov 18 Inv. Math

Use the wm-up sheet from last week.

Last Friday Trevor had $29.  Over the weekend, he received some money for cleaning the attic.  He now has $41.  Write an EQUATION that shows how much money Trevor earned. 

Nov 18 Science

Grab a wm-up sheet.

Page 57

Topic:  SM 

Question:  On a scale of 1-10, how confident are you about taking the SM test tomorrow?
1 = least confident
10 = most confident

Nov 18 Pre-Al

Use the wm-up from last week.

Simplify the following:



Friday, November 15, 2013

Nov 18 Science

Grab a wm-up sheet.

Page 57

Topic:  SM

Question  One day you and a friend decide to have some popcorn while you do your homework.  You put the bag of popcorn in the microwave, punch in the time, and wait.  The microwave sounds like it is working, but after a couple of minutes, it is clear the popcorn didn't pop.

Make a list of some reasons why the popcorn didn't pop.  Work with your pod areas.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Oct 14 Pre-Al

On a scale of 1-10, how comfortable are you with using rational numbers?  (What you worked on yesterday)

Oct 14 Inv. Math

Write an equation for the following.

After paying $6 for a salad, Julie has $32.  How much money did she have before buying the salad?

Nov 14 Science

Topic:  SM

Question:  What step of the SM do you think is the most important and why?
1.  Question
2.  Hypothesis
3.  Procedure
4.  Results
5.  Conclustion

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Nov 12 Pre-Al

Solve the following:



Nov 12 Inv. Math

Write a variable expression for the following:

twelve less than x








x - 12

Nove 12 Science

Topic:  MB Trip

Question:  How many miles do you think we gained?












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Monday, November 11, 2013

Nov 11 Science

Wm-up sheet is page 53

Topic:  MB episode

Question: Do you think plants will grow better when they are around talking?

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Nov 7 Pre-Al

How comfortable do you feel solving for GCF?  Use the scale of 1-10.

Nov 7 Inv. Math

How confident are you about taking the test today?  
Use scale 1-10
10 being very confident
1 being least confident 

Nov 7 Science

Topic:  L to J Quiz

Question:  How many do you think you'll get correct?

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Nov 6 Science

Topic:  6th vocab

Question:  Find ONE word you remember from the new sheet of paper (gold paper from last week).  Write down the word and be ready to explain it to your partner.

Nov 6 Inv. Math

When do you need to use the reciprocal of a fraction?

Nov 6 Pre-Al

What would you like to use:  the cake method OR prime factorization to find GCF

Nov 5 Pre-Al

What does GCF stand for?

Nov 5 Inv. Math

Look at your Prac WS from yesterday.  On a scale of 1-10, how difficult was it for you? 
1 being very easy
10 being very difficult

Nov 5 Science



Topic:  MB Trip

Question:  Do you think we crossed over from Utah to Nevada?




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Monday, November 4, 2013

Nov 4 Science

Grab a wm-up sheet.

Page 49

Topic:  SM project

Question:  Do you have an idea for your at home experiment?  If so, write it down.

If you don't have an idea, think of something you could try (look back at notes and WS for ideas).

Nov 4 Science

Grab a wm-up sheet.

Page 49

Topic:  MB Trip

Question:  How many miles do you think we gained.

Nov 4 Inv. Math

Use the wm-up from last week!

Explain how to simplify the following

 1 + 3
 2   4

Nov 4 Pre-Al

Use the wm-up from last week!

Explain how to tell if 1,053 is divisible by 3.