Team Meeting Slides

1. Think Tank
Open Team Meeting
April 12, 2012

2. SCIENCE
Mary Kelch Sobhani

3. Just Completed…
• Robotics Unit –
 Design Robots / LEGO Mindstorms
 Programming for Simple Tasks
• SMU’s Innovation Gymnasium
Field Trip

4. Just Completed…
• Physics Unit
 Simple Machines
 Newton’s Laws of Force and Motion
 Calculation of Speed & Acceleration
 Graphing Motion
 Quiz Tomorrow

5. Currently…
• Space Unit
 Rocketry Mini-Unit [video]
 Bodies in Our Solar System
 Space Exploration
 Skype with Scientist & Engineer from
Johns Hopkins University –
Applied Physics Lab “Fire & Ice”

6. To Come…
• Ecology Unit
 Abiotic Factors (non-living)
 Biotic Factors (living)
• Biology Unit

7. LANGUAGE ARTS
Amy Powers

8. Currently….
*Hoodwinked- Point-of-view
*The Phantom Tollbooth
*Book Groups
*DOL & Pronouns

9. STAAR Reading
• Tutorials continue
• In class review of test-taking strategies
for all students
• STAAR READING- Wednesday, April 25

10. Coming in May- Novel Study
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
 Overview of times of early 1800s.
Qualities of mystery & drama
Characterization
Poetry
-DOL Test/Quiz
-Greek & Latin Roots

11. Book Fair
April 30 – May 4
• Look for 7th grade summer reading
novels
Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark
Or
Peak by Roland Smith

12. MATH
Cindy Lapp

13. Placement Test
• May 15th
• during scheduled math period
• no preparation necessary
• 1 of the 3 criteria used for
recommendation of 7th grade Math
placement

14. Upcoming Topics
• STAAR preparation
• Multiplication/ Division of fractions
• Operations with integers

15. Regular Course Sequence
• Grade 7 7 7/8
Grade 8 8 Alg I
Grade 9 Alg I Geom
Grade 10 Geom Alg II
Grade 11 Alg II PreCal
Grade 12 PreCal Calculus

16. TAG Course Sequence
• Grade 7 8 Alg I
Grade 8 Alg I Geom
Grade 9 Geom Alg II
Grade 10 Alg II PreCal
Grade 11 PreCal Calculus
Grade 12 Calculus Statistics

17. WORLD STUDIES
Helen Demcko

18. Sequencing events
Making comparisons
Skills Refresher

19. World Studies
We are
here

21. A family of four can sleep under
an insecticide-treated bed net,
safe from malaria, for three
years. The benefits extend beyond
that family because the insecticide
woven into each net kills and repels
mosquitoes, so they can’t go on to
bite others who may not be pro-
tected by a net. Bed nets can
reduce malaria transmissions by 90
percent! According to the 2011
World Malaria Report, 96% of
people with access to a bed net,
use it !!

22. Celebrate
Earth Day
with Oscar!

23. World Studies
Next
we
will
visit

24. World Studies
Then
we’ll
travel
to

25. DARE
Graduation
Friday
May 4
(in the afternoon)

26. Thank you for sharing
the year with us!
Have a fine summer break!
(and, yes, 7th grade is survivable)