12/2/24 to 12/6/24 Week at a Glance

Math: Chapter 5 - Add and Subtract Decimals (one lesson per day) 

  • Monday - Chapter 5, Lesson 1 - Round Decimals (learning objective: learn how to round decimals)
  • Tuesday - Chapter 5, Lesson 2 - Estimate sums and differences (learning objective: estimating sums and differences by rounding)
  • Wednesday- Check My Progress thus far in class
  • Thursday - Chapter 5, Lesson 5 - Add decimals using models (learning objective: explore adding decimals using models)
  • Friday - Chapter 5, Lesson 6- Add Decimals (learning objective: adding decimals)

Science: Chapter 2 - Forces and Motion (one lesson per week)

  • Chapter 2 - Lesson 3 = Answering the essential question: How are forces combined?
    • Learning Objective: 
      • Students will use math to add forces and will engage in an argument from the evidence that a body will not start moving if the forces acting on it are balanced.
  • Key Vocabulary this week: balanced, combined force, and net force
  • Wednesday - Force & Motion packet
  • Thursday - Newton’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Law of Motion packet
  • Friday - Lesson 3 Quiz Check

Social Studies: Finishing “The Bombing of Hiroshima”….

  • Monday - Hiroshima & Nagasaki packet
  • Tuesday - Cause of WWII packet
  • Wednesday - Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima Webquest
  • Thursday - Hiroshima & Nagasaki Escape Room fun
  • Friday - Brain Pop assignment on Hiroshima

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the ethics of the US government's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 
  • Consider how the world's attitude toward nuclear weapons has changed since this story was published in 1946.

*Please note that The Week at a Glance is very broad. Please check my nightly Edlio posts to read about what we did in class that day.*