Math
This week in math will begin with a lesson on creating and solving inequalities from word problems. Students spent last week solving and graphing one and multi-step inequalities, and they have also created multi-step equations from word problems, so this will be a lesson with multiple familiar components. On Tuesday, students will take an ungraded benchmark assessment that covers all of the standards that will be on next month's TN Ready test. An item analysis of the test will determine which standards we will be spending the most time on. From Wednesday until March 8, students will be reviewing all of the skills they have learned this school year in preparation for TN Ready. Science This week in science, students will be learning about continental drift (know the name Alfred Wegener), the three main layers of the earth (crust, mantle, core), and also the rate at which tectonic plates move per year (centimeters). VSVS will be teaching lessons on Tuesday and Wednesday, and students will be assessed on the aforementioned content on Friday/Monday of next week.
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Math
This week in math we will be focusing on solving and graphing inequalities. The procedure for solving them closely mimics what students have been doing with one and two-step equations, with only a few differences (namely having to reverse the inequality sign when multiplying or dividing with a negative number). Students will be graphing their solutions on number lines as well as replacing variables with numbers to check their answers. The tentative assessment date is Thursday, although it might be Friday depending on whether the classes need an extra day of practice. This lesson is covered in Volume 2 of the textbook on pp. 497-519 Science This week in science we will be starting our unit on Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes. The first lesson will be on the theory of continental drift, Pangaea, and tectonic plate movement. This information can be found on pp. 300-316 in the textbook. All vocabulary terms in each chapter should be defined in their science notebooks. A multiple-choice quiz on plate tectonics will be given at the end of the week. |
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