February Eureka Apprentice...Field Trip

February Eureka

Eureka Apprentice

Field Trip Day!  Everyone can come for the day.  Pack a Sack Lunch! We've made some changes so that everyone will be able to make it.  We are meeting at Crandall Printing Museum (275 E Center Street, Provo) at 9:25 am!  Our tour starts at 9:30. From there we will go to the 12:00 planetarium show at BYU, which is on the 4th floor of the Eyring Science Center.  I will bring details about parking.  We will eat lunch in the cars on the way from the museum to the planetarium.

We will meet back at the Brown's after our show, around 1:30.  We will then spend the remainder of the day discussing and doing eureka stuff.  We will be done at our normal time of 3:30.

*If you children need a ride, please contact me soon, so we can figure out car seating.

Thanks, all!  I'm excited!

Remember, do the Eureka work!!!

Study/Learn

1.  Play multiplication war with a sibling or a parent at least 10 times!  2 players. Use a regular deck of cards (or any other number cards).  Aces are 11, face cards are 10.  Each of you flip a card, and the one who says the "product" (answer of a multiplication problem) of the two cards first, wins the cards.  Play until all cards are out.  The one who takes the most cards wins.

**The first 5 games you play, you may keep all the cards.

**The next 5 games you play, remove all face cards,10s, and aces (1s).

OR

Use your favorite way to practice your times tables.

Come Prepared to Battle!

2.  Abacus Work: If you need a review on how to "carry", watch this video, it's the same one as last time.

Complete worksheet #5 on this pdf link

If you work for about 5-10 min a day for a week, you should be able to complete it.  Bring me your finished worksheet #5 for a treat.

We will have an abacus competition in class!

3. Read Chapter 27 in The Story of Science.  

4.  Read one of these 2 items: 

Ink on His Fingers by Louise A. Vernon (I understand that this was not on the reading list at the beginning of the year.  It's a last minute addition, and much easier than the following book.  It will be a great prep for our field trip to the printing museum.  You can get it on your kindle instantly for only $4, here is the link.

OR

Any article on Guttenburg,  so you can come to the museum with some fore knowledge of what he did, and get more out of the day.  Here is a good one, or you can find one of your own.

5. Dictionary of Cultural Literacy Cards:

Guttenburg

Black Death

Marco Polo

6.  Watch this Studio C....if you want. :)

Know/Understand

2.  Solve this Krypto:  Here are 5 numbers:

                    2, 4, 7, 5, 9

Your Target number is....28

Rules: Using each of the 5 numbers ONLY ONCE, you may use any combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division to manipulate the 5 numbers in any order to reach the target number.

Example: if you had the 5 numbers: "8,4,1,6,3", you could reach the target number of 11 by doing: 3 x 4 + 1 - (8 - 6) 

There is always a way, usually more than 1, to reach the target number.

Use your commonplace book to record your trial and error. Record your equation and bring it to class!

Become/Serve

If you could invent any invention, what would it be?  Bring a short description or drawing.