Zebranie

For the week of:  Aug 30

Experiments this week!

Check specific areas for testing schedule this week!

Central Idea

People learn and solve problems in many ways.

Inquiry Into:

Learning Styles

Critical Thinking

Technical Design

Teacher Questions:

How does a person learn best?

What roles do we play within a learning community?

Review

Reflection Process Steps 1-5 (journals)

Learning Styles

   Group projects of European Nation using preferred learning style within a learning community with varied learning styles

Teaching

Critical Thinking-

   Connect Blooms Taxonomy to European Nation Project

      Focus on verbs/activities related to each of Blooms Taxonomy levels

           Connect verbs/activities with a preferred learning style

Independent Research project using Blooms Taxonomy

Scientific Method

   Endothermic and Exothermic Reaction Experiments

   Motion and Friction experiments

      Independent variable

      dependent variables

      operational definitions

      Data Analysis

          patterns and trends

          data support

              data manipulations

          Why?

               scientific principles

          Problems

               Oops!

               Truth in data reporting

                noise

          Improvements

                lightbulb moments

                Procedure/ Method

                Research cycle

                Questions (Types / Specific)

Reflect on Experiments Friday

Observe friends and family.  Create a specific question to research.  Conduct interviews. Create a piece of technology to solve an everyday problem you encounter at home or school. Provide sketches of technological designs for three problems.  Create a working model or prototype for one problem.  Remember your time and material constraints. 

Field Studies 

 Spelling

Homophones

Test Thursday

Wordly Wise

A Wrinkle in Time Test Monday

    20 words with a wordlist

       cloze procedure

Review of basic operations and problem-solving strategies 5th

6th chapter one test on equations and problem-solving

Algebraic expressions and equations

Chapter 2

A Wrinkle in Time Chapters 6-9 Discuss

Quiz chapters 5-8 Friday

Chapters 10-12 Read Due next Monday

Writing Skills Book 2 Pages 1-16 all

Capitalization and Punctuation 6th pages 1-8

Test Wednesday