Thursday, May 9, 2024. Day 4

Homeroom

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  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.


Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.


CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH: Virtual Scavenger Hunt

  • SCIENCE: 

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS: Quiz Today

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: Topic goals Tomorrow

  • Algebra:

Do Now:

Homework:

Today’s Agenda:

  • Grade 8 Science and Technology MCAS Today

Complete the “Bridges Research Slide Presentation” assignment in GC

  • Due Friday

  • Peer edit with at least three others.

  • How can you improve the:

    • visual appeal?

    • clarity of information?

    • Ease of access to readers?

  • Are your slides free of ALL errors?

    Turn it In!

Finish and turn in the Bridge Challenge.



Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Day 3

Homeroom

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  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.


Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.


CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: 

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH:

  • Algebra:

Do Now:

Homework:

Today’s Agenda:

  • Grade 8 Science and Technology MCAS Today

Complete the “Bridges Research Slide Presentation” assignment in GC

  • Due Friday

Finish Yesterday’s classwork as needed and turn it in.


Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Day 2

Homeroom

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  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.


Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.


CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: Bridge research due tonight NLT Midnight

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: Topic Goals due Friday. math test corrections due tomorrow.

  • Algebra:

Do Now:

Complete this short problem!

Homework:

Bridges Research due Wednesday before school.

Today’s Agenda:

  • MCAS Tomorrow

  • charged chromebook

  • Bring charging cord

  • appropiate snacks for self

  • you will have R/A.

  • The test requires the use of a calculator. You may bring your own. (NOT phone)

    Review Do Now

  • Review BrainPOP Bridges in Google Classroom.

  • Follow all instructions carefully.

  • Challenge Activity Answer Key

  • Quiz Results

Debrief Paper Bridge Challenge

  • What failed.

  • What do all of the succesful designs have in common?



Monday, May6, 2024. Day 1

Homeroom

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  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.


Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.


CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: Bridge research due tonight NLT Midnight

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH:

  • Algebra:

Do Now:


Homework:

  1. Bridges Research due Wednesday before school.

  2. Today’s Agenda:


Debrief Paper Bridge Challenge

What failed.

What do all of the succesful designs have in common?



Friday, May 3, 2024. Day 6

Homeroom

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  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.

Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: 

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS: Quiz Friday, Mock Trial

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: Topic goals due Sunday

  • Algebra: Performance Task due tomorrow

Do Now:

Open up your BrainPOP Skyscrapers

Homework:

None

Today’s Agenda:

Review BRainPOP Skyscrapers Challenge activites

  • in GC

Take the comprehension check

Paper Bridge Challenge

Thursday, May 2, 2024. Day 5

Homeroom

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  • Sign out with the time and destination.

Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: 

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS: Quiz Friday, Mock Trial

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: Topic goals due Sunday

  • Algebra: Performance Task due tomorrow

Do Now:

Review Do Now?

Homework:

None

Today’s Agenda:

Finish Forces and Structures - Slide Presentation

  • Students to annotate note-taking packet.

  • Class identification of examples

BrainPOP SkyScrapers

Watch Video

Complete Challenge Activites

Building Big

Explore the website. focus of these topics

  • bridges

  • skyscrapers

  • dams

  • tunnels

For each:

  1. Click on the “Basics” link (e.g. Bridges Basics, Skyscraper Basics, etc.)

  2. Read the short history of each.

  3. Click the link in the text to “See the Forces…”

  4. Sketch the diagram and forces acting on each topic in color.

    • sketch on paper

Be sure you finished this:

BrainPOP Building Basics:

Bridge Types and Forces

Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Day 4

Homeroom

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Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH: Selfie Project

  • SCIENCE: Bridge Sketches due!

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS: Quiz Friday, Mock Trial

  • SCITECH: Graph and Questions. Ed Puzzle

  • MATH: Topic goals due Sunday

  • Algebra: Performance Task due Friday

Do Now:

Get out your sketches.

complete the questions passed out at the dooor.

Homework:

None

Today’s Agenda:

Forces and Structures - Slide Presentation

  • Students to annotate note-taking packet.

Building Big

Explore the website. focus of these topics

  • bridges

  • skyscrapers

  • dams

  • tunnels

For each:

  1. Click on the “Basics” link (e.g. Bridges Basics, Skyscraper Basics, etc.)

  2. Read the short history of each.

  3. Click the link in the text to “See the Forces…”

  4. Sketch the diagram and forces acting on each topic in color.

    • sketch on paper

Be sure you finished this:

BrainPOP Building Basics:

Bridge Types and Forces

Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Day 3

Homeroom

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  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.

Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: BrainPOP Overdue

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS: GC Assignment due this AM Mock Trial

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: .

Do Now:

Sketch and label diagrams of these five forces:

  • tension

  • compression

  • flexure

  • torsion

  • shear

Draw a vector representing a force of 250N to the right.

Homework:

Building Big due tomorrow as HW

Today’s Agenda:

Notes Check

  • Drawing Forces - Vectors

    • magnitude

    • scaling

    • direction

    • practice

  • Balanced and Unbalanced forced.

    • analyzing a diagram.

    • finding net force

    • stability

BrainPOP Building Basics:

Building Big

Explore the website. focus of these topics

  • bridges

  • skyscrapers

  • dams

  • tunnels

For each:

  1. Click on the “Basics” link (e.g. Bridges Basics, Skyscraper Basics, etc.)

  2. Read the short history of each.

  3. Click the link in the text to “See the Forces…”

  4. Sketch the diagram and forces acting on each topic in color.

    • sketch on paper

Bridge Types and Forces

Monday, April 29, 2024. Day 2

Homeroom

Community Service Due This Week!

Bring me completed sheets.

Total up your service.

If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: All Notes of Forces and Structures due before class.

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: .

Do Now:

Homework:

BrainPOP Building Basics - due NLT Midnight as HW

Today’s Agenda:

Pass back quiz today, Review.

Review forces and Structures notetaking

Slides 12 - 15

use the Forces and Structures Slides

Please use paper in your notebook

  1. Diagrams of forces - sketching forces

    • tension

    • compression

    • torsion

    • flexure

    • shear

  2. force measurement Units

    • English

    • SI Syatem (metric)

  3. Drawing Forces - Vectors

    • magnitude

    • scaling

    • direction

    • practice

  4. Balanced and Unbalanced forced.

    • analyzing a diagram.

    • finding net force

    • stability

BrainPOP Building Basics - due NLT Midnight as HW

Bridge Types and Forces