April Eureka Masters

April Eureka Masters

Study/Learn

Read the Second half of The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensgerger  from 125-end.

Read about the history of soap, here.

And the science of soap, here.

Know/Understand

Come prepared to teach one principle taught in the book.  Make it fun!

We are going to make soap together!  Please bring a container for a mold, so you can take your soap home!  It can be any shallow container that will hold a thick liquid, such as a shoebox, tupperware container, etc.  Line your container with wax paper.

Become/ Serve

Write a note to someone you appreciate, outside your family.  When your soap is done curing (don't worry, we'll talk about all the details), I invite you to take a piece (wrapped nicely, of course) to that person along with your note.  Afterall, who doesn't like homemade soap for a gift??

April Eureka Apprentice

April Eureka Apprentice

Study/Learn

1.  You have all been Rocking your multiplication!  Good job with your practice.  Once you know your times tables from 0-10, learning the TEENS becomes easy. Watch this video for some GREAT teaching tips!  

Now try using his methods.  Here is a worksheet please print it out for practice, and complete it.  We will be trying this in class, so come prepared!

For some extra entertainment, watch his Mathemagician Ted Talk!  Super Cool!

2.  Abacus Work: Watch this video (7:48) on using hundreds on your abacus.  Have your abacus ready as you watch, so you can work along with the video

Click on this google doc link

Print out 2 worksheets, and complete them.  

Choose your level:
Easier: print worksheets: 20 and 24
More Challenging: print worksheets 30 and 33

Watch this video of other kids doing abacus math.

Learning to "think fast" mathematically is a super useful skill.  The abacus is a great way to get there, but not the only way.  Hopefully your skills to think mathematically have grown this school year, either through the abacus or otherwise.

3. Go to universalmodel.com and scroll down to where it says:

UM Discoveries

There are 8 there.  Read each little snippet of information for each discovery.  I know you don't have access to the whole book, but the point of this activity is to show you that science is NOT a "hard and fast" subject.  New ideas are being brought to light, and refuting long held beliefs.  Are these claims true?  I'm not saying either way.  However, these are MODERN discoveries that throw into question long held beliefs, and Universal Model is getting slammed by a lot of modern scientists for proposing these ideas.  New ideas are hard to swallow sometimes.

Your question:  Who from the past, ran into opposition for their new scientific or mathematical ideas?  We've studied several of these from our science book this year.  Come to class with at least 2 names per family.

4. Watch THIS VIDEO on Hezekiah's tunnel.

5. Watch THIS VIDEO on the dead sea scolls

6. Watch THIS VIDEO on the dead Sea Scrolls.

7. Make these note cards:

Hezekiah's tunnel

Dead Sea Scrolls

How to multiply by teens

Know/Understand

1. Read  THIS ARTICLE, and come prepared for a discussion:  Should our church accept the dead sea scrolls as scripture.  Why or why not?

2.  Solve this Krypto:  Here are 5 numbers:

3, 5, 2, 8, 9

Your Target number is....45

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

Hezekiah's Tunnel was built for a time of emergency.  We have been asked to be prepared for times of emergency as well.  What have you and your family done to be ready for whatever is to come?

Spiritually?
Physically?

Journal in your commonplace book about how you can/have prepare/prepared for an emergency.

JOURNEYMAN

EUREKA Journeyman


SOOOOO... For this weeks journeyman i want anybody that didn't read about Mars last month from Exploring Creation with Astronomy to read it, its lesson 7. Now i want you to look at this website
 that tells you about the Mars expedition here.
What would you take with you if you went to mars?

Now i want all of you to find 5 facts about all of the planets and moon(s) that we've learned about so far.

Take a look at this weeks sky.
try going outside when is clear and look at the sky and get familiar with the constellations you can look at this website to read and learn about the constellations.. your going to have to keep track of where you left off if you guys want to keep reading about them. :D

March Eureka Masters

March Eureka Master Class

Study/Learn

Read the first half of The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensgerger  to page 122.

Know/Understand

As you read, come up with 10 trivia questions from the material in the book.  We will play a game with them in class.

Tips on your trivia questions:

*They can be tricky, but not irrelevant
*Make sure they are answerable
*Make sure they are specific, NOT vague
*Ask yourself if the answer to your trivia question is worth knowing...if it is, it's a good one!

Become/Serve

All this knowledge is great.  It will serve us well.  IF we do WHAT with it?

Read this Ensign Article:

March Eureka Apprentice

Eureka Apprentice

I'm so excited for class!  We will be battling with our brains, making with our hands, teaching with our ideas, and watching some exploding with our eyes.  It should be SENSE ational!

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,and 10's.  This will concentrate your facts to ones you need more practice on to WIN!

OR

Use your favorite way to practice your times tables.

Come Prepared to Battle!

2.  Abacus Work: Watch this video (3 minutes) on Subtraction.  It will be very helpful in filling out your next worksheet.  You will NOT be using numbers this big, but it will give you the idea of what it looks like.

Complete worksheet #6 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 #6 for a treat.

We will have an abacus competition in class!

3. Review Chapter 27, and read chapter 28 in The Story of Science.  

4. . Read THIS short article on the 4 Great Inventions of China.

5. Watch THIS VIDEO on how "homemade" paper is made. (5 min)

6. Watch THIS VIDEO on how "commercial" paper is made. (4 min)

7. And if you LOVE Mr. Rogers, watch THIS VIDEO on how construction paper is made. (6 min)

Know/Understand

2.  Solve this Krypto:  Here are 5 numbers:

                    2, 4, 7, 5, 9

Your Target number is....27

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

A few thought questions:

Why has anyone invented anything?

What purpose do new inventions serve?

We have so many conveniences.  What else could possible be invented?

What are your top 5 talents and/or interests?

Do you think God will help you develop those talents into strengths that could bless your life and the lives of others?

Using the questions above as a guide, come up with a new invention.  ANY Invention.  

Come Prepared to describe it to the class.

You may: write about it, draw out plans, bring a drawing, or actually make one and bring it to show the class.

With your invention, answer the question: What problem does my invention solve?

I'm excited to see what you come up with!

Journeyman

This week if you can.. sorry for the late post, could not access the blogger.  :(

If you can please read the chapter on Mars in Exploring creation with astronomy, I want to keep you guys caught up :D..

Anyway its a field trip this week so we will have to discuss Mars and the next chapter next month.. Or during the time were back at the Browns :)
                  

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.