Some of the Juice Box Projects that have been turned in early.

Gordon Sievers May 3rd, 2013

Students have been applying the skills they learned about geometric constructions with a compass & straight edge along with what we have learned about three-dimensional solids and the nets that fold to make those solids. The juice box project required them to come up with a design for a juice box. They had to construct the net for the solids that they incorporated into their design. The design requirements included:
1. Name of the “juice”
2. Ingredients listing
3. UPC barcode
4. Any other decoration they wanted
5. Neat assembly/construction of final object(s)
Here are some of the projects that have been turned in early.
The official due date is Monday, May 6th.

Examples from the Juice Box Project

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Construction Links

Gordon Sievers April 24th, 2013

Perpendicular Bisector
Angle Bisector
Perpendicular Line through a Endpoint
Construct Parallel Line through a Point
Perpendicular Line through a point
Construct Equilateral Triangle
Construct Incenter of Triangle using Angle Bisectors
Construct Circumcenter of Triangle using Perpendicular Bisectors

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Math

Gordon Sievers March 1st, 2013

Friday and Monday, students will be working on IXL Math – 7th Grade skills P17 through P23.
They can log in from home over the weekend if they want to work on some of the problems. They should work them in order and not move on to another skill until they have reached the 100 SmartScore for that skill.

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Hero Myth Creative Writing Assignment

Gordon Sievers February 28th, 2013

After having read from the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Hero’s Journey, students have started working on their own Hero Myth.

Project Timeline:

Read the Hero’s Journey Packet (Friday, Feb 22)
Choose the Hero, Setting, Gift, and Theme for the story (Friday, Feb 22)
Fill in the web with the main ideas of “Hero’s Journey” (Friday, Feb 22 & Monday, Feb 25)
Work in class on the handwritten rough draft (Monday, Feb 25 & Tuesday, Feb 26 & Wed Feb 27)
Work together with someone (read each others myth, review, revise) (Thursday, Feb 28)
Computer time in library to type final draft in google docs (Friday, Mar 1 & Monday, Mar 4)

Hero Myth will be due on Thursday, March 7th at beginning of class.

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Math

Gordon Sievers February 27th, 2013

Students are working on the surface area problems from the Perimeter and Area packet (Lessons 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, & 8.9). They will continue working on those Thursday. Homework is to watch the help videos if possible from home.

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Help Videos for Surface Area and Volume Problems

Gordon Sievers February 27th, 2013

These videos refer to the formulas given in the Oregon OAKS Resource Formula Sheet.
Allowed OAKS testing resource sheet: Geometry Formula Sheet

Surface Area Problems:
Surface Area of a Rectangular Prism
Surface Area of a Triangular Prism
Surface Area of a Pyramid
Surface Area of a Cylinder
Surface Area of a Cone
Surface Area of a Sphere

Volume Problems:
Volume of a Rectangular Prism
Volume of a Pyramid
Volume of a Cylinder
Volume of a Cone
Volume of a Sphere

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Math

Gordon Sievers February 26th, 2013

Students learned where the formula for the area of a parallelogram and the area of a trapezoid came from. Students worked on the perimeter and area packet in class. They should be done with lessons 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, & 8.5 from the perimeter and area packet.

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Math

Gordon Sievers February 25th, 2013

Students worked on the KIM Vocab Packet for Book 3, Surface Area and Volume – Block 1.
They will get more in class time tomorrow to finish it up.

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Geometry work in Math

Gordon Sievers February 22nd, 2013

We have started into the third Oregon Focus on Math book: “Surface Area and Volume”.

See links for Oregon Focus on Math – Online Textbook on the left menu for an extra resource on what we will be covering.

We will be working on using geometry formulas to solve perimeter, area, and volume problems.

Students received a packet titled “Perimeter and Area”. Their only homework was to finish what they could from page 77 & 78 of the packet (Check What You Know).

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