Need: Carboard cereal boxes/ takeout boxes/other materials to cut for windmill blades!

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Monday/Tuesday:

• Retest windmills- See how many volts you can produce using: different blade lengths/shapes/materials
• Model Windmill Experiment # 2 (We will use this paper several times)

Wednesday:

• Requiz-- name 5 parts of the scientific method and explain each & calculate force.
• Learn how a generator works =)

Monday (Lokahi)/ Tuesday (Pono):

• Partnership with MEDB in the tech park building Windmills: Model Windmill Experiment (Due next day!)
• You and your partner will have the option of creating a windmill with or without gears.
• Pictures to help you build Kidwind Windmill Kit Set-up (print in color if you can before class-- this will help your team A LOT!)

Wednesday:

• Assessment on: explaining at least 3 steps of the scientific method, and given a mass, how to calculate the Force of an object being pulled down by gravity using Newtons first law: Force = Mass * acceleration.
• With a group, plan an experiments to test on the windmills using: Model Windmill Experiment

Needed: Cardboard from cereal boxes!!!  (You can design really cool windmill blades with these and test them!!!!)

Monday:

http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=198

• Convert fractions to decimals
• Compare fractions to greater than/less than a whole
• Color and cut fraction strips

• Extensions:

  http://www.learn-with-math-games.com/fraction-number-line.html

  http://jamit.com.au/htmlFolder/app1005.html

• Homwork: IXL D.1Compare rational numbers (6th grade)

Tuesday:

• Converting decimal to fractions
• Ordering mixed decimals and fractions
• Extension:  http://jamit.com.au/htmlFolder/app1005.html
• Homework: IXL C.13 Put assorted decimals, fractions, and mixed numbers in order (5th grade)

Wednesday:

• Adding like denominators with mixed and improper fractions and word problems
• Extension:

  http://www.fekids.com/kln/games/bugsplat/

• Homework: Add and subtract fractions with like denominators: word problems (5th grade)

Thursday:

• Subtracting like denominators with mixed and improper fractions and word problems
• Extension: http://jamit.com.au/htmlFolder/app1007.html

                               http://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_sub.html

• Homework: Finish the both sides of the fraction worksheets given in class.  Make sure to show work and estimation.
• (If you were absent on Thursday, do 45 minutes of Khan Academy with parent signature since you did not get the worksheet)

   

Monday:

• Classwork: Simplifying Fractions:
• Extension: http://www.math-play.com/simplifying-fractions-game/simplifying-fractions-game.html
• Homework: ixl T.3 Simplifying Fractions

Tuesday:

• Review of prime, composite, factor trees, GCF, LCM, What a fraction is, mixed numbers, improper fractions, simplifying fractions
• Classwork: coverting fractions, and simplifying fractions worksheets
• Homework: Review all ixls we have done in January!

Wednesday: Math challenge Assessment over Review Topics.

• Homework: Spend 45 minutes on Khan Academy over the weekend on any section.  Have parent sign a sheet that you write saying: "I spent 45 minutes on Khan Academy and mastered the section(s) called: ________________ " (due Monday!)

Monday or Tuesday (Due the next day):

• Students will use their ideas from last week to: Design Your Own Pinwheel Experiment
• Students will practice using the formulas: Force=mass * acceleration and Work = distance * time
• Next week we will work with real windmill models (we are partnering with MEDB and will be traveling to the tech park!)

Wednesday: no science, this is our flex day (Math, Garden, Pool, Tech, Elective)