Jones Gap Preparation

We spent today preparing by doing some review and covering expectations.  Students can continue to practice the must-know terms at this link.  We also looked at water quality tests we will conduct at the park, layers of the forest, and life cycles of some of the macro-invertebrates we hope to find.

We focused heavily on our M^3 Math today as we embarked on Chapter 2 and graphing. Students will be collecting survey data and learning to represent it in various way.  Today we interpreted bar graphs and double bar graphs and our math discussions focused on writing quality questions that use and compare the data shown.  

 Students facing off in "Can It or Can't It"...be answered by the graph.

Feel free to use some of these websites as a fun follow-up to our lesson. 
Interpreting Data

Data Bank Research

Bar Charts

Bar Charts 2

IXL

Create your Own

We also wrapped up our investigation from last week on mountain lion hunting and its effects of erosion.