Week of 4-22 to 4-26

6th-We will be working on designing and building balloon powered race cars in the beginning of the week. These cars will be designed to travel a short distance the quickest, or the farthest distance possible. We will then work on discussing the Mayan calander and creating our own glyphs. 7th-We will be working on creating earth day skits that we will be presenting to the second graders. The skits will focus on ways to protect our earth and natural resources by reducing, reusing, and recycling. We will then be working on reviewing lessons previously discussed this year through the use of online assessments provided by the book. 8th-We will be beginning our earth conservation project this week. This project will be completed in groups and will focus on choosing either a future society that has conserved resources and functions in a self sufficient way, with an abundance of nature and wildlife that flourishes or a society that has "trashed" the planet, making it almost uninhabitable. Their goal will be to create a series of laws, stories about how it has come to be this way today, models, and sketches. We will also be reviewing for the upcoming NJ ASK test as well this week by revisiting chapters from earlier this year, as well as previous years.