Fun,Fun, Not Fun

Go to the link and do the "fun activity."

http://library.thinkquest.org/J003358F/fun.html

Exponential Battles

Go to this site and battle your opponent. You'll need a calculator and you need to know how to enter exponents.

http://www.quia.com/ba/1000.html

Week 1 Economics

Welcome to Economics. Your're going to learn all about money in this unit. First of all here are some terms for you to look up: (keep in mind that you need to define these terms in the context of money)

1. Asset - 2. Interest -3. Income Tax - 4. Expenses - 5. Entrepreneur - 6. Real Estate - 7. Debt - 8. Discount - 9. Sole Proprietor -
10. Stock -

After you've defined the words please go to the website below and do ALL of the activities under the earnings tab.

http://www.themint.org/earning/index.php


After you've completed the activities on The MINT website please research and complete the paper on your educational and career choice.(Due on Thursday)

Week 8 Social Studies

Go to this site and take the Consitution IQ challenge:
http://www.constitutionfacts.com/quiz.htm


This week's words:
Accusation
Impartial
Committed
Informed
Controversy
Confronted
Compulsory
Obtaining
Preserved
Posterity
Numerous
Dissolve

Week 7 Social Studies

Please read the following article and answer these questions:
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=11641

Explain what the Speaker of the House is.

What is Speaker Pelosi's top priority?

What two people does Pelosi credit for her success?

Week 5 Social Studies

A couple of important items:
You need to be working on your historical fiction report and your brochure. The quarter ends on March 30.

Please read the article and comment on the question at the end.
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=11574

Transform It!!!

Go to the site below and go through the tutorial.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/transformations.html

Week 4 Social Studies

Please read this article and comment on the following:

Who is Joe Lieberman? Summarize what he says about the war in Iraq.


http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009715

Here are this week's words:
1. Establishment—
2. Prohibiting—
3. Abridging—
4. Press—
5. Assemble—
6. Petition—
7. Redress—
8. Grievances—
9. Regulated—
10. Infringed—

Week 3 Social Studies

Pleases read the following article and comment on the following:
1. Explain what "Brown vs. The Board of Education" case was and how it affected our country.

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,636640,00.html

Here are this weeks words (taken from the US Bill of Rights):

Vested, Numerous, Apportioned, Vacancies, Impeachment, Composed, Vacated, Resignation, Inhabitant, Presides, Candid, Posterity

Week 2 Social Studies

Please complete the news quiz on this site:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/index.html

Who is Rudolph Guiliani and what did he do, according to the article?

Here are this week's words:
Justice Union Ordain Posterity Defense Tranquility Domestics Blessings Welfare Secure

Rotational symmetry

Working in pairs please go through this tutorial on rotational symmetry:
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/learningmath/geometry/session7/part_b/index.html

Math Online

Here's a site where you can take math courses online:
http://math.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/Links.phtml?cat=3

Week 1 Social Studies

Every week we'll have vocabulary words that are taken from American Historical documents. On Monday the words will be on the board. Make a vocab. folder on your desktop. Look up the words on your laptops.

On Tuesdays we'll go over the words and you'll be expected to have the correct meanings.

On Wednesdays we'll have a crossword puzzle as a review.

On Fridays we'll have a quiz.

On Mondays we'll also have a news activity. Throughout the week you'll be expected to review the week's news stories and there will be a couple of questions on the week's quiz.

We will also be studying historical documents starting with the Declaration of Independence. (We will also be studying the US Constitution with an emphasis on the Bill of Rights) There will be a question or two about the documents on the weekly quiz.

Here is the first news activity: (Read the article and answer the question)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245528,00.html

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, announced that she is taking an initial step in a bid for the presidency in 2008 by filing papers to form an exploratory committee. The former First Lady made her announcement on her Web site. Summarize what she said.

Fractions/Decimals/Percents

Choose a partner and play jeopardy!

http://www.quia.com/cb/34887.html

New New Activities

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_282_g_3_t_3.html?open=activities

New Activities

Here is a great page with some awesome links.

http://www.boston.k12.ma.us/teach/technology/select/index.html?http://www.boston.k12.ma.us/teach/technology/select/grade8/units/lfp.html