January+9th,+2012

Homework: Finish any incomplete earthquake work.

Today in class:

Math: We worked on using percentages. Students examined data from Yao Ming and Shaq and determined their averages from the free throw line.

We began focus groups today.

Earthquake Competition: Students participated in the final earthquake competition today. They were using the observation skill in the scientific method to determine which structures survived and made predictions about why they were successful.

Mod 8: Today they had time to finalize their lab sheets and begin a final write-up about the earthquake competition.