Adding / subtracting decimals

Community planning engineering challenge

Mrs. Munoz has a HUGE plot of land and she wants to build a community in it. There is one problem... It floods horribly! Your task is to plan the community and keep the buildings from being destroyed using human interventions. You must have houses and a school and at least 1 human intervention.

Group 1

Planning phase

We have a school and some houses. We have a dam to create a lake and we have a levee around the lake in case it floods. 

The dam and levees broke, but did their job and kept the flooding from reaching the houses and school.

Multiplication

Human interventions

Evidence from text

Battles of the civil war

Multiplication

Earthquake engineering challenge

1) we read an article about how nepal's buildings are being destroyed by earthquakes.

2) we asked the question, "how can we design buildings that can withstand earthquakes?"

3) in groups they imagined possible building designs.

4) in groups they created a plan

5) they then created buildings

6) the groups tested their buildings in an earthquake simulation.

They identified problems with their original structure and repeated the process to troubleshoot issues they encountered.

Maniac Magee---- mars bar traits

NBT3

Important people of the civil war

Summarizing

Point of view

Earth science mini lab write ups

NBT 2- powers of ten