Wednesday, March 2, 2016

March Eureka

Write out the terms and definitions from The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy on your notecards.

    • lisImage result for meteorites
    • Atmospheric cycle
    • air quality index
    • atmosphere
    • atmospheric pressure
    • aurora borealis
    • barometer
    • cell
    • climate
    • front
    • global warming
    • greenhouse effect
    • inversion, layer
    • ionosphere
    • jet stream
    • land breeze
    • lithosphere
    • meteor
    • meteorites
    • meteorology
    • microclimate
    • ozone hole
    • prevailing westerlies
    • rainbow
    • relative humidity
    • renewable resources
    • sea breeze
    • smog
    • solar energy
    • stratosphere
    • troposphere
    • Van Allen Belt
    • weather
    • weather map
  • Play a game of checkers
  • Play a game of chess
  • Write out your Mad Scientist Pan
    • We talked about this in class.  I want you to come up with an experiment.  Using the Scientific Method write down what you experiment will be.  Bring me your plan.
  • Get to stage 3 of how to solve the Rubix Cube
  • Master your Multiplication! I want you to do 5 drills for 5 days.  If you started late, just get caught up. multiplication drills   Click start than select multiplication and whichever numbers you are still working on or select all the numbers. 

Geography- Africa and Northern Asia
  • Memorize where the countries are now.  There are many fun ways to do this.  You Tube has songs, there are many apps.  Share what you find with the others.  Help each other to make this enjoyable.  

Journeyman

  • Read Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe  the first half of Chapter 5.  This is a really long chapter.  We will do the last half next month   I do not expect you to read everything.  I would like you to spend  at least an hour in this half of the  chapter.  Do the art and bring it.  I want to see it.  Get out your paper, pencil, straightedge, and compass.  Create the shapes you will be learning about.  I want this to broaden your mind, to help you see the world a little differently.  Think of this as art not just reading.

  • Solve this Sudoku puzzle


Masters

  • Read  4 different Essays in Asimov on Numbers.  Choose the ones that interest you.  
  • Read the first half of Mathmaticians Are People Too.
  • Come ready to present what is in your favorite Asimov essay or  more about a  Mathematician you read about.  Make these interesting!  DON'T BORE ME!





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