Students in Mr. Meyer's pre algebra classes are working on a Thanksgiving Dinner project. For a warmup, students wrote about some of their Thanksgiving Day traditions.
As part of an informational text unit, Mrs. Payseur's class will be using coupon inserts to purchase canned goods to donate to the school's food drive. Students are asked to bring coupon inserts and grocery sales papers from Sunday's newspapers. We will use these coupons and match them up with local grocery store sale items to see how much we can purchase for the least amount of money. We also welcome coupons printed at home! If you are unable to bring coupon inserts or a grocery sales paper, please consider donating non-perishable food items to your homeroom class. The class with the most cans donated will receive Chick-fil-A biscuits! All students received a yellow Impact Aid Form this morning. It is very important that every parent complete this form and return it to the school as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please feel free to call the school at (803) 691-6851.
Come and join Muller Road Middle School's PTO in the first C.O.P.S. Night at Muller Road! The community outreach event will be on November 19, 2015 from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM. Students are welcome to attend; however, some sessions will be for Adults only. To accommodate this some of Muller Road's faculty will be assisting by offering child care services during adult only sessions. Below is the official press release from Muller Road's PTO.
This week, Mrs. Lewis and Mr. Meyer's STEM classes looked at the reaction that occurs when Alka Seltzer tablets are dropped into a mixture of water and corn starch. This reaction, when combined with a small volume cylinder made for a fun experiment for our students. Students started out by using a quarter of an Alka Seltzer tablet and varying amounts of corn starch and water. Below is a video of what many of the first attempts looked like. After a few attempts and experimenting with the amounts of their materials, students found a combination that produced very exciting results. There is a very good chance that you have heard your student talk about Kahoot! at some point, but have they ever been able to explain Kahoot!? What is Kahoot!? Kahoot! is a review resource that many teachers at Muller Road use to help students review content, prepare for a test, or to check for understanding. Why do students like Kahoot so much? Students love Kahoot! for a number of reasons. The first is that Kahoot! is a competition that rewards students points based on how many answers they get correct, and how fast they lock in an answer. Kahoot is also a fun way to review the material. What does Kahoot! look like in the classroom? Kahoot starts with a question that is asked on the teacher's computer, which is displayed on the TV screen. Students can read the question, or the teacher can read it aloud to the class. Students then are shown answer choices on the screen. They correspond with a color / shape. On the student's device they only see the shape / color options. Students are given time to answer the question. After all of the students answer, or the time expires, the results of the question are shown. Students will know if they got it right or wrong by the color of their screen. The class will see a bar graph on the teacher's screen / TV that shows the number of students who selected each answer. After each question, students are shown a leaderboard of the top 5 scores. This is usually their favorite part of the activity. Students in Mr. Meyer and Mrs. Lewis' 4th period STEM class have been working on the design elements of bridges. Students started the quarter by building bridges out of paper and glue. Designs progressed to popcicle sticks and truss bridges. The final project was a toothpick bridge that students created. Below is the winning design created by Krislyn Martain and Kenadi Smith. The two used an arch bridge design supported by square-based support towers. The group's bridge held all 20 of our spring scale weights which comes out to a little over 10.5lbs!
On Monday, students in Mr. Meyer's pre algebra classes worked on plotting numbers on a number line and ordering values from least to greatest / greatest to least. Students tasted 10 flavors of Jelly Beans and plotted them on a number line, assigning the flavor a value from -10 to 10.
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