Lesson Plans March 31st to April 4th

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We will be review a unit each day until our STAAR test on April 24th.  Students will have a notes review packet and ten questions for each until.  Below is which unit we will do each day.  If your student misses a day they need to come in before to get that unit review. Please email me with any questions.

Monday– The Real Number System, Ordering Numbers and Scientific Notation

Tuesday-Solving Equations and Writing Inequalities

Wednesday-Linear Relationships from a graph

Thursday-Linear Relationships from tables

Friday-Finish Benchmark packets

Lesson Plans March 17th – March 21st

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Monday-Happy St. Patrick’s Day-We will review simple interest

Tuesday-Review compound interest

Wednesday-Group work comparing simple and compound interest.  Also talking about the importance of cost of credit and credit score.

Thursday-Cost of credit quiz

Friday-Review most commonly missed Benchmarks questions.  We will do this for the next three Fridays.

 

Lesson Plans March 3rd – March 7th

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2nd Period is a little different since I missed three days with them last week.

Monday-Review for Unit 9 Test

Tuesday-Unit 9 Test

Wednesday-Speed Dating with Units 1-4 Review

Thursday- Math Benchmark

Friday- PI DAY!!

 

7th Grade Advanced and 8th Grade Afternoon classes

Monday-Speed Dating Units 1-3 Review

Tuesday-Speed Dating Units 4-6 Review

Wednesday-Speed Dating Units 7-9 Review

Thursday-Math Benchmark

Friday-PI DAY!!

We will pick back up in Unit 10 for all classes after Spring Break!  Enjoy!!

 

Lesson Plan February 24th to February 28th

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Monday-Intro to mean absolute deviation.

Unit 9 review will go home today and will be due next Monday.

Tuesday-Science benchmark

Wednesday-Social studies benchmark

Thursday-Students will continue mean absolute deviation using word problems.

Friday-Speed dating using white boards with unit 9 review.

Unit 9 test will be Tuesday

TEKS-8.5d, 8.9a, 8.11a, 8.11b, 8.11c

Lesson Plans February 17th to February 21st

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Monday-Holiday

Tuesday-I will be out.  Students will review how to find slope and y-intercept from graphs and tables.  Mr. Foulke will be there to help with any questions.

Wednesday

—Morning classes will take reading benchmark.

—Afternoon classes will look at scatter plots and predict trend line (they’ll already be drawn).  If I’m not at school, students will get lesson from a video or Mr. Foulke will be there to help teach.

Thursday-Writing an equation from trend lines.  We’ll look at verbal descriptions and word problems bringing back the predictions of where they are going.

Friday-Quiz Unit 9 scatter plots and trend lines (20 minutes)  We’ll use the rest of the time to cover an misconnects or make up work.

Unit 9 test will be next Friday

TEKS-8.4d, 8.4c, 8.5c, 8.5d, 8.9a, 8.11a, 8.11b, 8.11c

Lesson Plans February 11th to February 14th

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Monday-Teacher Work Day

Tuesday-Unit 8 Volume Test Review

Wednesday-Unit 8 Test Volume

Thursday-Introduction to Unit 9 Scatter Plots.  Students will start with outside boards to talk about prior knowledge.

Friday-Students will construct scatter plots and start to connect trend lines.

TEKS-8.7a, 8.5c, 8.5d, 8.11a, 8.11b, 8.11c

Lesson Plans February 3rd – February 7th

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Monday-Intro to volume of cylinders. Students will use prior knowledge of surface area to help them relate to the capacity of cylinders.

Tuesday-Volume of cones. Student will do a water lesson to help them relate why we use the volume of cones formula.

Wednesday-Applying volume of cylinders and cones to word problems.

Thursday-Volume quiz-Unit 8-This will only have cylinders and cones.  Students will also reciveve their study guide for our unit 8 test on Tuesday .

Friday-Volume of spheres

TEKS-8.7a

Lesson Plans January 27th – January 31th

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Monday-Unit 7 continued-Using surface area to solve word problems

Tuesday/Wednesday-Intro to surface area of cylinders.  Students will be able to apply surface area of cylinders to real world problems.

Thursday-Surface Area quiz-This will be over prisms and cylinders.

Friday-Stations with surface area review focusing on commonly missed problems on the quiz.

Unit 7 Test Surface Area will be on Tuesday the following week.

 

TEKS-8.7B

Lesson Plans January 20th – January 24th

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Monday-Holiday

Tuesday-Transformations Test Review (Unit 6)

Wednesday Transformations Test (Unit 6)

Thursday-Intro to surface area of rectangular prisms (Unit 7).  Students will use prior knowledge of surface area of nets to help them connect with the SA of prisms formula.

Friday-Surface area of triangular prisms (Unit 7).  Students will use prior knowledge of surface area of nets to help them connect with the SA of prisms formula.

Unit 6–8.3A, 8.3B, 8.3C, 8.10A, 8.10B, 8.10C and 8.10D

Unit 7–8.7B