Mr. Seland's School Stuff

Friday, May 25, 2007

Science 8S
Assignment: p. 367 #1, 2, 3

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: We started volume of prisms today.

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Succession. Assignment: Topic 6 reader's workshop - due Tuesday.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: angles in isosceles and equilateral triangles. Assignment: p. 391 #1

Video Game Design
Students worked on their games.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Grade 8 photo; trebuchet self-evaluation

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: We finally had our perimter, area and surface area test!

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: We finished up bioaccumaltion and watched a short video on ecological succession.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Sum of angles in a triangle, complementary angles, supplementary angles

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Indoor soccer

Video Game Design
Students worked on their games

Friday, May 18, 2007

Science 8S
Today we had the Great CLMS Trebuchet Toss! Science text next Wednesday.

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Test review. Test next Thursday.

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Food chains, food webs, pyramid of numbers

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: Students worked on projects.

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: Students worked on projects.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Test Review. Assignment: Review for test.

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: How organisms interact.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Test review and DPA. Assignment: Study for test.

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Run run run run.

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: Google SketchUp

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: Google SketchUp

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: We fine-tuned our trebuchets today. Excellent work!. Assignment: p. 340 #1, 2; p. 351 #1-6, 13, 15, 16 - due: Tuesday; Study for topics 4-8 test

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Practice perimter, area, surface area test Assignment: study for test

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Food chains and food webs. Assignment: none

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Test review. Assignment: finish booklet

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

Friday, May 11, 2007


Math 8S
Today's Lesson: We continued surface area. Assignment: text p. 447 #6; bring tests back signed

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Reduce, reuse, recycle. Assignment: Study for Topic 1-3 quiz on Tuesday

Math 7X
Assignment: p. 233 #4-10

PE 8S
Today's Activity: singles badminton tourney

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: students continued working on putting themselves into other pictures

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: Students continued working on their Pretty Pets websites

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: How a steam engine works.

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Surface area. Assignment: p.422 #4, 8, 10

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Range, upper and lower quartiles. Assignment: handout #4, 6

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: Using the rubber stamp tool

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: The students started the Pretty Pets website.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Combining systems. Assignment: Topic 5 handout due Thursday.

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Lower Your Impact. Assignment: Topic 1 sheets due Thursday

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: mode and mdeian. Assignment: p. 227 #4, 5 (a, b), 7

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Hydraulics and Pneumatics. Assignment: topic 5 worksheet

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Finding complex shaded areas. Assignment: p. 165 # 8, 9; p. 166 # 1,2,3,5,6

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Topic 2 - Human Impact on Ecosystems. Assignment: "Now and Then" Chart

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Finding the median. Assignment: p. 220 #4-7, 12, 14, 15

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

Friday, May 04, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: Pressure and Pascal's Law. Assignment: p. 312 #1,2,3,4,6

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Circumference and Area of Circles. Assignment: handout p. 164 - all

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: Ecological Footprint.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Circle Graphs

PE 8S
Today's Activity: Badminton

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

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: The students wrote their topics 1, 2, and 3 test.

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: We continued with finding area and perimeter of quadrilaterals and triangles. Assignment: p. 162 #1, 4, 5, 7; p. 163 #8, 10

Science 7X
Today's Lesson: We marked our test from yesterday, and looked at our Engineering Disasters test.

Math 7X
Today's Lesson: Types of Graphs. Assignment: p. 205 #3, 5, 6 (a-c), 8, 9, 11

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

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Science 8S
Today's Lesson: We talked about complex machines, linkages and transmissions. Assignment: study for Topics 1 - 3 quiz on Thursday (pink sheet)

Math 8S
Today's Lesson: Area of triangles. Assignment: handout p. 155, p. 157 (triangles only), p. 161 # 2, 3, 4.

Math 7X
Assignment: Monte Carlo Simulation poster assignment

Digital Image Creation
Today's Lesson: We started the "Putting You In The Picture" assignment.

Web Page Design
Today's Lesson: We started the Tentacles website.