Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Friday, October 20, 2017
Monday, August 21, 2017
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Metric Measurements
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
Friday, March 31, 2017
Industrial Revolution - The Good...The Bad...The Ugly
For thousands of years, goods were made by hand. But around 250 years ago, a new machine was invented in England. It was called the Spinning Jenny. The Jenny was created to speed up the way yarn was made. One machine, the Spinning Jenny, could spin as fast as 8 workers. There were soon machines for weaving as well. These machines ran on running water. They had to be located near a stream to use them. Then the steam engine was invented. And everything changed. The steam engine could run other machines anywhere. Suddenly, there were so many new inventions! The use of machines spread to other industries besides spinning and weaving. The use of machines spread to other countries as well. There was an explosion of new machines and new ways of doing things. This time period in history is called the Industrial Revolution. There were many good things and many bad things about the Industrial Revolution.
The Good: Manufactured goods could be made more cheaply by machine than by hand. This allowed people to buy goods they could never afford before. Many of the comforts we enjoy today are dependant upon machines, for example machines that generate electricity.
The Bad: Many people were put out of work and replaced with machines. Most people who still had jobs could no longer, for the most part, work at home. They had to work in a factory and oversee the machines, machines that did not allow for creatively. Poorly built factories sprang up quickly, and tenement houses were built near them or attached to them for the workers.
The Ugly: The tenements were over crowded. Many were fire traps. Some adults complained and refused to work under these conditions. Rather than change the conditions, factory owners began to hire children, sometimes very young children, some as young as four years old. It was cheaper than hiring adults. Children worked 12-14 hours a day under dangerous conditions. Some were mistreated or whipped if they fell behind in their work.
Almost everything we have had to be invented. Some inventions are very old like the wheel or the bow and arrow. Sometimes two inventors invented the same thing at the same time. Almost every invention is improved over and over until sometimes it evolves into a different invention entirely! So there is nothing new about invention. What was new or different about the time period in history that we call "The Industrial Revolution" was that a whole bunch of new inventions were built at about the same time with a common goal - that being to replace a large number of workers with a machine so that goods could be made more rapidly.
Very few people would wish to return to the way things were before the Industrial Revolution, but many new laws had to be enacted and enforced to remove the bad and the ugly, and leave the good. That took time.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Math Review for Unit 4 Decimals....
Powers of Ten
Power of Ten
Powers of Ten
Khan Video
Comparing Decimals
Comparing Decimals with Fruits
Ordering Decimals with Balloons
Rounding Decimals
Rounding and Making Money with the Newspaper Boy
Word Problems
Multiplication and Division Word Problems Video and Problems
What Operation is Needed Word Problems?
Multiplying Decimals
3 different websites
Dividing with Decimals
1 website will walk you through the problem...the other 2 will show you how
Power of Ten
Powers of Ten
Khan Video
Comparing Decimals
Comparing Decimals with Fruits
Ordering Decimals with Balloons
Rounding Decimals
Rounding and Making Money with the Newspaper Boy
Word Problems
Multiplication and Division Word Problems Video and Problems
What Operation is Needed Word Problems?
Multiplying Decimals
3 different websites
Dividing with Decimals
1 website will walk you through the problem...the other 2 will show you how
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Friday, March 3, 2017
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Dr. Seuss Week!!!!
Monday
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Fox in Socks
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Wear “crazy socks”
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Tuesday
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Hooray for Diffendoofer Day
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“Hooray for BTWE!” Wear purple!
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Wednesday
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Cat in the Hat
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Wear Red and White for Dr. Seuss’s birthday
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Thursday
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
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Hat Day
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Friday
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All day celebration of reading!
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Dress as your favorite book character!
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
Multiplication War
Multiplication
War
The object of the
game is to win the most cards by stating the product of the numbers before your
partner does.
Materials:
-
Two
decks of playing cards
Directions:
1.
Give
each partner a deck of cards and remove the jokers, jacks, queens, and kings
from each deck.
2.
Shuffle
the deck of cards.
3.
Each
player will turn over one card at a time.
4.
The
first person to correctly say the product of the two cards wins the cards and
will add them to his/her pile. You must state the number sentence (ex. 9x2=18).
5.
If
there is a tie while saying the product, “war” begins. Each player will place
two cards face down, then turn a third card face up on top of the pile. The
player who correctly states the product of the two face-up cards wins both
piles.
6.
The
winner is the player with the most cards at the end of the game.
Note: Ace= 1
Challenge: Keep the Jokers,Jacks, Queens, and Kings in the deck and use the
following values: Joker= 0, Jack= 11,
Queen= 12, and King= 13
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Monday, February 6, 2017
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Order of Operations and Graphing
Order of Operations
The Knight Saves the Kingdom
Hard Order of Operations
Coordinate Grids
Math Race Coordinate Grids
Find the Aliens
Feed the Gophers
The Knight Saves the Kingdom
Hard Order of Operations
Coordinate Grids
Math Race Coordinate Grids
Find the Aliens
Feed the Gophers
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
Research Websites
http://school.eb.com/levels/elementary for biographies and events (if password needed at home:
For biographies about authors: www.teachingbooks.net
www.pebblegonext.com for biographies (username: btwashington password: school)
Friday, January 20, 2017
Math Games
You must play the Dividing Fractions Game First
You get to choose whether or not to use a calculator.
Dividing Fractions
Multiplying Fractions
You get to choose whether or not to use a calculator.
Dividing Fractions
Multiplying Fractions
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Adding and Subtracting Fractions Review
You and a partner will work on this together. Make sure you both have a calculator...you will need it.
http://www.mathnook.com/math/geniusdefenderfractions.html
http://www.mathnook.com/math/geniusdefenderfractions.html
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