Questions For Students Weeks 1-2

Math


Estimation using miles biked a week. 12 miles mon, 17 miles wed, 18 miles friday. Estimate miles for the week.

Use rounding when averaging up push ups. Can't have r2 push ups round down to nearest whole number.

Associative property question. We ran 2 miles a day for 4 weeks. How many for 6 months? 2x6x4= (2x6)=12x4=48 must show work

Division 20 students, 4 teams. How many on each?

Estimation problems perimeter estimation. Perimeter of grass and blacktop. Round up and down.

Science

Measure length- blacktop, field

Measure mass- have students weigh themselves

Measure volume- ?

Measure time and distance- 25 yard dash(we need stop watches)

Measure temp- shade vs sun vs blacktop

States of matter and effect of temp on that matter. Sit and reach cold muscle and warmed up muscle.

Using Fantasy Football To Learn About Math

This week we are starting a fantasy football league. The goal is to teach the students about math skills and to use the numbers in a rational way to help them make decisions. We will be discussing how to identify the trends of the players and evaluating player performance. This will be a precursor to learning about the stock market.

Fitness Bucks

Students will receive fitness bucks for completing homework and classwork. Denominations will be in  pennies, nickles, quarters and dollars. Students will be able to choose what to purchase such as toys, free days, healthy snacks, etc. More to come....

Find The Square Footage Of The Blacktop

Today's journal entry and ticket to play was to find the square footage for the blacktop. Students were given the dimensions of the blacktop. Students have to show work.
Next we will figure out how many gallons of black paint to repaint the black surface. From the Home Depot calculator 1 gallon of paint covers 350 square feet of surface.

How Many Laps Equals A Mile?

This week we asked the question, "How far are we jogging when we do laps around the field?" First I asked the students to find out how many feet in 1 mile? The next day we measured the perimeter of the field. We now know that one lap = 550 feet. We then asked the question how many laps would we have to complete to equal one mile. On our field the answer is 9.6 rounded up to 10 laps. For grades 2-5 we are asking the students to give us the total feet traveled if we complete x amount of laps. Grades 2-3 the students are using addition. Grades 4-5 are using multiplication.

Using Pedometers

We have introduced pedometers for grades 2-5. Our peds only show number of steps. We showed the students how to attach the peds to either their hip or their shoe. We then logged the steps after warm ups, after running drills and after they completed their sport play. For the upper grades, 4th and 5th, we will compare number of steps after 6 minutes of each- warm ups, running and sport playing to compare/contrast which type of exercise yields more steps. In the coming weeks we will convert steps to feet and feet to miles. We will compare how many steps a student takes compared with a classroom teacher, office worker and PE teacher.

Baseball Instructional videos

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