Thursday 9/9/10

Today we took bell work quiz # 2 and a quiz on converting metrics.  See Ms. Sanders to schedule a time to make up these quizzes.

We also did an activity called Seeing Beyond the Obvious, during which we had to think creatively about an ordinary object.  We were shown a simple, woven basket and asked to answer the following questions about it:

1. How could you modify this object so that it is useful to pets?
2. How is the average four year old like this object?
3. How could this object be used to illustrate some math concept?

This is an example of the kinds of higher order thinking skills we are expected to use in biology class, in life, and in the development of our science fair projects.