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//**Eighth Grade Scope and Sequence:**//
=== //**Math'**// === === Science ===

We meet every Thursday!

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==The Science and Math Activities will be separate and connected. Students will build hot air balloons with the science teachers. They will also learn about density and experiment with densities of different things. In the math classrooms students will learn about the tangent ratio in a right triangle. They will measure and draw angles and right triangles then they will discover the tangent ratio. They will then make a clinometer to measure angles of elevation. The culminating activity of this project is that students will launch thier hot air balloons and they will use the clinonmeters they have made and the skills they have attained to estimate the height of thier hot air balloon.==

http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/hotairballoon.html

Resources:

Hot Air Balloons : Density Students engage in several investigations related to the density of liquids, solids, and gases. They apply new understanding about density to the design and construction of hot air balloons. They make informed predictions about the variables that may affect the launch of their homemade hot air balloons and test them. The finale is the “Got Gas?” rally where students display their balloons and use multimedia presentations to demonstrate the principles of density used in the construction of their hot air balloons.

[|Building Height] Students will use a clinometer (a measuring device built from a protractor) and isosceles right triangles to find the height of a building. The class will compare measurements, talk about the variation in their results, and select the best measure of central tendency to report the most accurate height. = = = = = =

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