October 17, Day 2

WS/ I wore a uniform but many kids in the school did not. This was a day of protest against the monopoly held by a single company. Class was a waste.

PW/ Inquiry boxes. I used several empty boxes as "controls" and allowed the students to investigate them freely. When they got the inquiry boxes interest was a bit low. MBR wanted to get one right as fast as possible and stop. RPD figured out the ball one right away and drew it on the board. RH sat quietly in the back and figured out almost all of them. He failed to get the zig-zag and the sphere. The zig-zag proved to be the hardest. Few of them used paper to draw it out but a few communicated their ideas. AH used his sense of touch to feel out the vibrations caused by the rolling marbles.

WS/ Math units to Volume. Good segway of distance, area, volume and notations along with phrasing "cubic metre and metre cubed". Discussion of units. Checkpoint 5. Dice demonstration as cubes. Drawing lesson with present = volume cube. Stoners showed up and did the checkpoint real quick. RM transfered out of the program as well as CLM.