Mr. Seland's School Stuff

Friday, April 27, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Efficiency of simple machines. Assignment: handout p. 213, 214

Math 8S
Assignment: handout p. 159

Science 7X
Assignment: study for test on Monday

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: desinging Monte Carlo simulations

Video Game Design
Today's Lesson: Students worked on their own video games.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Gears, pulleys and ramps lab.

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Parallelograms and rhombus' continued. Assignment: p. 316 #4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Test review. Assignment: Assignment: p. 328 #1(a,b), 2, 4, 5; p. 340 #1, 2, 3; p. 341 #1, 4, 6. Due Friday. Topics 6 and 7 test Monday.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Theoretical Probabilities for Independent Events. Assignment: p. 186 # 6, 10, 13, 14, 15

Video Game Design
Today's Lesson: The students started their own games today.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Science 8S
Assignment: p. 284 #1-5. Trebuchet due May 14

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Perimeter and Area of Rectangles Quiz. Assignment: none.

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: We finished off our presentations and topic 7 notes. Assignment: p. 328 #1(a,b), 2, 4, 5; p. 340 #1, 2, 3; p. 341 #1, 4, 6. Due Thursday

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Theoretical probabilities of single events and two independent events. Assignment: p. 181 #6

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Badminton

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: Altering colors in images. Distorting images.

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: Javascript prompts.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: We watched a Bill Nye video about simple machines. Assignment: p. 284 #1-5. Trebuchet due May 14

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Area of parallelograms. Assignment: study for tomorrow's quiz on area and perimeter of rectangles

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: The students continued with their presentations on Engineering Disasters.

Math 7X
No math today.

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: Adding text to images, Filters

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: Javascript alerts and prompts.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Wheel and Axle. Assignment: p. 284 #1-5. Trebuchet due May 10

Math 8S
Assignment: p. 131 #11, 13, 14, 15, 17 ; Rectangle perimeter and area quiz Tuesday.

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: We started presenting the Engineering Disasters projects today. Assignment: p. 328 #1(a,b), 2, 4, 5; p. 340 #1, 2, 3; p. 341 #1, 4, 6

Math 7X
Assignment: p. 181 #6

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Badminton

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: Adding Text

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: More tables.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: What is Work? Inclined Plane activity. Assignment: Assignment: Build a trebuchet that will fling a marshmallow at least 2 m. Due May 4

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: more perimeter and area of rectangles Assignment: p. 310 # 4, 5

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: The students put multple choice questions into their Engineering Disasters presentations. Assignment: p. 328 #1(a,b), 2, 4, 5; p. 340 #1, 2, 3; p. 341 #1, 4, 6

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: We contined rolling die and flipping coins.

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Badminton!

Video Game Design
Today's Lesson: Monster Maze, Day 2

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: We researched trebuchet design on the internet. Assignment: Build a trebuchet that will fling a marshmall at least 2 m. Due May 4

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: More perimeter and area of rectangles. Assignment: p. 310 # 1, 2, 3

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: We discussed and took notes on stable designs.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: We learned about experimental probablity by flipping thumbtacks a whole bunch of times!

Video Game Design
Today's Lesson: We started a new game: Monster Maze

Monday, April 16, 2007

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: We started on perimeter and area of rectangles today. Assignment: none

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: We had our last class in the computer lab to work on the Engineering Disasters presentation. Assignment: presentation is due on Friday.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: We started Probality today. We played with flipping tacks and coins. Assignment: none.

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Soccer

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: Putting our images on a web page.

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: Tables - day 2

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Lever calculations.

Math 8S
No math today. Assignment: Study for tomorrow's unit test.

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: We worked on our Engineering Disasters powerpoints

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Reviewed for test. Assignment: Study for test.

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Mission Impossible - Day 2

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: Freaky Fruit!

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: The students finished up their Marsupials websites.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Announcements
Three more school days until Spring Break!

Science 8S
No science today - we had Taking Care of Business Awards.

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Percent Test Review. Assignment: Study for test!

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Longest Straw Bridge Building Contest

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Percent Test Review. Assignment: Study for test!

Video Game Design
Today's Lesson: We continued with Super Rainbow Reef

Monday, April 02, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Class 2 and 3 levers lab.

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Percent interest word problems. Assignment: p. 84 #1-5

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: We worked in the computer lab on our Engineering Disasters presentation. The students will be given 2 more class days to work on this.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Percent interest word problems. Assignment: p. 84 #1-5

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Mission Impossible!

Video Game Design
Today's Lesson: We finished off Galactic Mail and started Super Rainbow Reef