Monday:    Homework Time, TEKS Objective 10

Tuesday:    EARLY RELEASE DAY!    Homework Time, TEKS Objective 8

Wednesday:    Homework Time, TEKS Objective 9

Thursday:    Homework Time, TEKS Objective 9/10

Friday:    Homework Time, Math Games

Monday:    STAAR Coach Lessons 7 – 9

Tuesday:    STAAR Review Lessons 10 – 12

Wednesday:    STAAR Review Lessons 13 – 15, Test 1

Thursday:    STAAR Review Lessons 16 – 18

Friday:    STAAR Review Lessons 19 – 21, Test 2

Monday:   Customary Conversions/ 3-D Figures

Tuesday:    Coordinate Plane (Review)

Wednesday:    Coordinate Plane Pictures (wksts)

Thursday:    Sample Space (wkst)

Friday:    STAAR Review

Monday:    MineCraft Presentations

Tuesday:    MineCraft Presentations

Wednesday:    MineCraft Presentations

Thursday:    Converting Metric Units

Friday:    Review 3-D Figures

Monday:    Continue building on MineCraft

Tuesday:    Probability Mini-Lesson, Continue building on MineCraft, receive Presentation Rubric

Wednesday:    Last day to build on MineCraft, work on presentations

Thursday – Work on presentations using Rubric provided

Friday – Finish presentation and draw for presentation times. (1st round of presentation will begin on Monday)

Monday:    Minecraft, Volume Mini Lesson

Tuesday:    Practice STAAR (Math)

Wednesday:    Practice STAAR (Reading)

Thursday:    Minecraft

Friday:    Minecraft, Volume Quiz

This is the project we are working on for the next two weeks.  Remember: We have a half day on Wednesday, and we will take a QUIZ  that day as well!

Can we re-craft a city in our mines?

Driving question – how can we apply math in creating a city in minecraft that can be shared with other school districts?

TEKS: 6.1C, 6.4H, 6.8B, 6.8C, 6.11

Products

designated server for the game

www.minecraftedu.com

Netbooks for each student

student blogs for journaling

create a presentation of how you learned perimeter, area, measurement, volume, probability in your city

Audience

business men in community, Area school, staff and fellow students

Project minimum requirements

NEED To know board – constantly changing as you have questions.

6 structures(houses, churches, stores…etc)

1 barn w/pen for animals

-must show perimeter, area, measurement for each structures.

(measurement each cube = 1 ft and also 10 cm)

a water or sand pit with the volume calculated

Journal daily on blogs what you did that day on project. More detail the better!!

There will be assessment every couple of days to check for understanding of the concepts as well as possible mini lessons for understanding.

Presentation will be done over what you did – each person must have a part in the presentation

This is the project we are working on for the next three weeks.  Remember, WE DON’T HAVE SCHOOL MONDAY!!!!!

Can we re-craft a city in our mines?

Driving question – how can we apply math in creating a city in minecraft that can be shared with other school districts?

TEKS: 6.1C, 6.4H, 6.8B, 6.8C, 6.11

Products

designated server for the game

www.minecraftedu.com

Netbooks for each student

student blogs for journaling

create a presentation of how you learned perimeter, area, measurement, volume, probability in your city

Audience

business men in community, Area school, staff and fellow students

Project minimum requirements

NEED To know board – constantly changing as you have questions.

6 structures(houses, churches, stores…etc)

1 barn w/pen for animals

-must show perimeter, area, measurement for each structures.

(measurement each cube = 1 ft and also 10 cm)

a water or sand pit with the volume calculated

Journal daily on blogs what you did that day on project. More detail the better!!

There will be assessment every couple of days to check for understanding of the concepts as well as possible mini lessons for understanding.

Presentation will be done over what you did – each person must have a part in the presentation

Monday:    Area of Parallelograms (D-54)

Tuesday:    Area of Triangles (D-55)

Wednesday:    Area of Trapezoids (D-58)

Thursday:    6 weeks Review

Friday:    6 Weeks Test

Monday:    NO SCHOOL!!!!!!   MLK Day

Tuesday:    Geometry Basics (R8-1)

Wednesday:    Classifying and Measuring Angles (P8-2)

Thursday:    Complementary and Supplementary Angles (R8-3)

Friday:    Extra Angle Practice (PZ D-27)