Curriculum Timeline

Varty Yeremian & Meredith Scheiner

MONDAY 03/11 8:30-10:00 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now: Assessment #8, Check your Readiness exercise (page 410 in textbook) Activity #2: Have students read http://www.nytimes.com/20 13/02/05/opinion/brooksthe-philosophy-ofdata.html?src=rechp&_r=0 and discuss the implications of the article for our unit of study. -Teach lesson 9-1: Measures of Central Tendency with a focus on outliers and deception -Exit ticket: Assessment #4, students are individually given data on their test grades and asked to provide the mean, median, mode, range, and outliers for that collection of numbers. Additionally, they are asked to choose the measure of central tendency that best

TUESDAY 03/12 8:30-10:00 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now: Assessment #2, Students ask 6 students their height. Individually each student then calculate the mean, median, and mode of the heights. Students then add an outlier and calculate the new central tendencies and answer 3 questions about the effect of the outlier and which measure of central tendency best describes the data) -Homework review (brief discussion) -Teach lesson 9-2: Frequency tables, line plots, and histograms. -Activity #10: Earthquake Waves. -Homework: Lesson 9-2 in workbook

WEDNESDAY 03/13 8:30-10:00 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now: Assessment #3, problems related to how intervals on a histogram effect how the graph conveys its message (problems #9-12 page 420 and #19 page 421 in textbook) -Homework review -Teach lesson 9-3 - Activity #9: Venn Diagrams & Properties of Minerals. -Exit ticket: Assessment #7, Problem 7 on page 425. -Homework: lesson 9-3 in workbook

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FRIDAY 03/15

8:15-9:15 8:30-10:00 8th Grade Team 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now: Class data Meeting collection Activity #5 on how they get to school. -Homework review -Teach lesson 9-4: Reading Graphs Critically. -Assessment #10: students use data on natural disasters in puerto rico to make two graphs (one telling the true story of the data, and another graph that is accurate, but hides the true message). -Exit ticket: Assessment #7, Checkpoint 1 Quiz covering lessons 1-4). -Homework: lesson 9-4 in workbook

represents the data and explain why he/she made that decision. -Homework: Assessment #1, using the data on the frequency of a natural disasters in puerto over the past 10 years. 9:15-10:45 702 (Meredith) 10:00-10:45 Prep (Varty) 9:15-10:45 702 (Meredith) 10:00-10:45 Prep (Varty) 9:15-10:45 702 (Meredith) 10:00-10:45 Prep (Varty) 9:15-10:45 702 (Meredith) 10:00-10:45 Prep (Varty) 9:15-10:45 702 (Meredith) 9:15-10:45 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now (Class Data Collection Activity #5 on number of texts) -Review checkpoint #1 quiz (in pairs and then as a class) Activity #11: Skills lab on page 191 of science textbook Some Go Pop, Some Do Not where students place given volcanoes on a gridded map and use information given about the volcanoes to make predictions about the crust of the earth in various places. -Exit ticket: Assessment #9 on cell phone plans

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MONDAY 03/18 8:30-10:00 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now (Class Data Collection Activity #5 on how many raisins they think are in a little box of raisins) -Teach lessons 9-5 and 96: Stem and Leaf Plots and Box-and-Whisker Plots - Activity # 6: raisins and stem-and-leaf plots and box and whisker plots -Homework: lesson 9-5 in workbook

TUESDAY 03/19 8:30-10:00 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now: Assessment #3, problems 6+7 on page 440 from textbook (show students how to use graphing calculators to make stem-and-leaf plots snd box-and-whisker plots page 442 in textbook) -Teach lesson 9-7: Making Predictions/ & Inferences from Scatter Plots. -Assessment #11: earthquakes and scatter plots -Homework: Plotting a Mystery worksheet on analyzing scatterplots to solve mysteries

WEDNESDAY 03/20 8:30-10:00 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now: Assessment #8, Checkpoint Quiz 2 449 -Homework review -Teach lesson 9-8: Circle Graphs -Independent practice: Graphing data using a spreadsheet activity #3 -Exit ticket: Assessment #6 on circle graphs Homework: Lesson 9-9 in workbook

THURSDAY 03/21

FRIDAY 03/22

8:15-9:15 8:30-10:00 Team Meeting 803/805 (Varty) -Do Now (Class Data Collection activity #5 on number of hours slept) -Homework review -Teach lesson 9-9: Choosing an Appropriate Graph. Activity #7: Think-PairShare. For every graphical representation (two per unit in textbook) of data in the science textbook, students will be expected to break apart into pairs and explain what the graph shows and how the choice of graph helps to explain the data to the reader. -Exit ticket: Assessment #5 on computers -Homework: Lesson 9-9 in workbook

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803/805 (Varty) Do Now: Read the project guidelines/rubric and prepare two clarifying questions to ask about the assignment. Class discussion on the final assignment 12. Culminating performance assessment: Students will work on their script for their video which they will present to their classmates in class on the following Friday. They will have the weekend to work on their videos if they do not have enough time to finish in class. Teacher will encourage students to work on editing their videos during that week in computer class. Homework: Chapter 9 test from book (take home and open book test).

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***The same lessons outlined in the first row of each week will be taught by Meredith and I throughout the day to the sections marked in bold. Note: All activities and assessments are numbered consistently throughout all curriculum documents.