Week 24 - Linear Equations Continued....

March 2, 2015

Math 9

We will continue with Linear Equations this week!  We will continue the hand outs until Wednesday, write a Test for Practice on Thursday and a test on Friday!

Students have been fine-tuning their skills on http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-9 through quizzes and practice.

Students can also study through worksheets produced on  http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/linear_equations.php

YouTube videos to review Outcome P9.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmMX3-nTWbE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAerID24QJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DopnmxeMt-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn-GbH2S0Dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUEk9fn2Vs


Science 7 & 8 - SCIENCE FAIR ON MARCH 19!!
TIMELINE: 

MARCH 3 (8’s) & 4 (7’s)

•EXPERIMENT PROGRESS

MARCH 9 (8’s) & 10 (7’s)

•DISPLAY IDEAS – POSTER, VIDEO, ETC

MARCH 17 & 18

•DISPLAY AND EXPERIMENT RESULTS DUE

MARCH 19

•SCIENCE FAIR

** If students are following behind in timelines, I will have them stay in for lunch to work on assignment.

WHAT HAS TO BE HANDED IN:

1.  Log book:  a science fair journal used to keep track of all research, ideas, questions, and action taken during your project.  The log book is a binder where documents can be easily added.

2.  Project Summary:  A report that is approximately 3-6 pages long that describes the scientific method that you went through to complete your project.  It contains a number of things outlined later in the page.

3.  Backboard and Display:  A backboard made of coroplast or wood must be constructed to display a shortened version of your project summary.  A backboard must be eye catching but not distracting!  Other important aspects of your project can be brought to display at your table.

4.  Presentation:  When being judged or viewed by members of the public, you must have a presentation ready.  A presentation is a verbal explanation of your project.  Do not read directly off of your backboard, but use it as a guide.  Some people use cue cards!  

PROJECT SUMMARY IS MADE UP OF:

A project summary will outline the scientific method:

1) Title Page:  It is a good idea to have a catchy title that will attract someone to your project.  Underneath your catchy title should be a scientific title of your project.  The title page should also display your name, grade, and school.

2) Introduction:  A section that outlines how or why you decided to do the project.  The introduction usually contains basic information about the topic or some common beliefs about the topic.

3) Purpose:  This is the initial question you thought of.  A purpose is always worded in the form of a question.  The rest of your project is based on trying to answer this question!

4) Hypothesis:  Before any experimentation is done you must hypothesize (or guess) what the answer to your question might be.  Make this guess based on what you already know or what you think.

5) Background Information:  This is also known as research.  You must research all the different aspects of your project in order to make sure you are familiar with the topic.  For a study, this will make up the majority of your project.

6) Materials:  A list of everything you may need to use during your experiment or innovation.  A list of materials is not needed for a study.

7) Procedure:  A step-by-step process of all the steps you go through during your experiment or the building, use, and testing of your innovation.  A procedure is not usually needed for a study.

8) Data and Observations:  During your project you must record all the results.  If you do an experiment, you are going to have to record all the data for all the different variables you test.  Data is usually recorded in a chart and best displayed in charts, pictures, graphs, etc. 

9) Conclusion:  After all the tests are done, you must decide on what the answer to your question is based on all the evidence you collected.  A conclusion will contain your answer and how that answer compared with your hypothesis.

10) Sources of Error:  During a science project, there is a possibility that something might contribute to inaccurate results.  This is a list of any of those things.

11) Significance:  Every project you do will have some significance to society and the world we live in.  You project will probably have a direct significance to you.  This section is a discussion on how your project is significant or how the findings could be significant.

12) Future Directions:  No project is ever complete.  There is always a way that you could keep your project going by doing more or further testing or changing it slightly to involve other variables.  This section describes those possibilities.

13) Acknowledgments:  During a project you may have to talk to professionals or get help from someone.  This section is a list of all the people that made your project possible.

14) Bibliography:  It is very important that you source all the places where you got information.  This includes books, magazines, the internet, people, and others.  The bibliography must be done in APA style.