Percents and the Engineering Design Process Day 3

Yea!  You came back!  Let's have some design fun!

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” - Newt Gingrich

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments." - Henry ward Beecher

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

            -Winston Churchill

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-Thomas Edison

“And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events, may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey.” -Lemony Snicket

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ~Bill Gates

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

~Henry Ford

Today's Schedule:

1. Advice from 6th Graders
2. Review the EDP.
3. Discuss Create, Try It Out, and Make It Better
4. How will we share our data?
5. Share It!
6. Scoring
7. Survey
8. Quote Visual

Percents and the Engineering Design Process Day 2

Welcome back!  I'm glad you've decided to join us again.

Let's Review what we learned yesterday.

Today's Schedule:

1. Video Discussion
2. Kahoot Review
3. Inch Worm Challenge 
1. What's the Problem?
2. Explore
1. Read about Newton's Laws of Motion
2. Videos on Newton's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Laws of Motion
3. Video on all 3 Laws of Motion 
4. Simulations on Newton's Laws of Motion
3. Design

Percents and the Engineering Design Process Day 1

Welcome to Mrs. Sopko's STEM Blog.  Let's begin our journey through the Engineering Design Process with a quick pre-test.  Go to Kahoot and join our game.

Today's Schedule:

1. Fuzzy Stick Challenge
2. What is a flipped classroom?
3.   
1. Watch Video
2. Raise your hand to get your work checked.
3. Complete the practice activity.
4. Decimals and Percents Center
1. Watch the Video
2. Raise your hand to get your work checked.
3. Complete the practice activity.
5. Fractions and Percents Center
1. Watch Video
2. Raise your hand to get your work checked.
3. Complete the practice activity.
6. Kahoot Review

Opposites

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

Despite what is said in the video, this is NOT an optional video.  Also, there is no need to complete the survey mentioned at the end of the video.

Summary: 

1. What are opposites?
2. How are opposites different from Absolute Value?
3. What happens if you have a number in parenthesis with a negative sign outside of the parenthesis? (ex. -(-3))

Distance Between Two Integers

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary:
1. How do you find the distance between two positive integers?
2. How do you find the distance between two negative integers?
3. How do you find the distance between a negative and a positive integer?
4. Copy and complete the following statement in the summary section of your EDN.

When finding the distance between two points, your answer will (always, sometimes, never) be positive.

Mean, Median, Mode, and Range Review

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

This video is NOT optional.  Please WSQ for this lesson.

Summary:
1. How do you find the mean of a set of data?
2. How do you find the mode of a set of data?
3. How do you find the median of a set of data?
4. How do you find the range of a set of data?

Solving Systems of Equations

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Constant Rate of Change and Direct Variation

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Converting to Slope-Intercept Form

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Identifying and Using Functions

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Percent Change

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary:

1. What is percent increase?
2. How do you find percent increase?
3. What is percent decrease?
4. How can you find percent decrease?

Work:  
Find the percent of change for each of the following:
1. Starting Value:  10   End Value: 15
2. Starting Value:  10   End Value: 8
3. Starting Value:  15   End Value: 32
4. Starting Value:  15   End Value: 14.9

Percent Proportions and Equations

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Dilations

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary:
1. What is a dilation?
2. How do you dilate a figure?
3. How are dilations related to similar figures?

Solutions to Work

Similar Figures and Indirect Measurement

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary:

1. What are similar figures?
2. How can you tell if two figures are similar?
3. How do you find missing parts of similar figures?
4. What is indirect measurement?
5. How can I use what I know about similar figures to find missing measurements?

Please excuse the moving of frames.  Screencast-O-Matic was not cooperating.  

Solutions to Work

Dimensional Analysis (Converting Units)

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary Questions:

1. How do you use unit rates to convert units?
2. What are the steps to converting units?
3. When will you use this in the real world?

Solutions to Work

Writing and Solving Proportions

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary:
1. What is a proportion?
2. How do you solve a proportion?

Solutions to Work:

Rates and Unit Rates

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

Summary:  

1. What is a rate?
2. How do you find unit rates?
3. How are unit costs different from unit speed?

Solutions to Work:

Pears:

Kroger = $0.21/Pear

Meijer = $0.22/Pear

Better Buy = Kroger

Kiwis:

Kroger = $0.24/Kiwi

Meijer = $0.24/Kiwi

Better Buy = Both

Operations with Fractions Practice (Drag and Drop)

Check out this great page for practice on using the "drag and drop" feature to compute with fractions.  Click HERE to practice using technology to solve fraction problems.

Solving and Graphing One-Step Inequalities

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary Questions:
1. How is solving inequalities similar to solving equations?
2. How is solving inequalities different from solving equations?
3. How do you graph inequalities?

You can watch the longer version of this lesson below:

Solving Equations with Missing Values on Both Sides

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

Watch as much of the video as you need to undetstand the skill, then solve the equations at the end in your notes.  Check your work below.

Summary Questions:

1. What is the process for solving multi-step equations?

2. How is this process similar to solving 2-step equations?

3. When might you use the properties of numbers to help solve equations?

Check your answers to the work below the video.  You MUST show work AND check your solutions.

Solutions to the Work for this Video

Solving Two-Step Equations

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary Questions:
1. How is the process for solving 2-step equations related to the Order of Operations?
2. What operation does the coefficient in the equation represent?
3. What operation does the constant represent in the equation?

If you need extra help with solving 2-step equations, please watch this video.

Equations and Their Solutions

Watch this video as many times as you need. WSQ in your notebooks.  

W = Work out any problems assigned during the video in your notes.

S = Summarize the video.  This can be done using bullets.  List at least 3 things you learned from this video or important things to remember about this lesson.

Q = Question you have or a question someone else might have about the information in the video. This can also be a question that sparks discussion or causes other to think about the topic more deeply.

Summary Questions;
1. What is a solution?
2. How can you determine whether a value is a solution to an equation?
3. Equations are commonly described as a balance.  Why is this a good description?