Welcome Students and Families!
Administrative Links for Students
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Function Machines
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Find Transformation
License Name: Philly SD YHMYGU Authorization Code: 4FFB7769
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ClipArt ETC
ClipArt ETC is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse and is produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Techno
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Hour of Code: Hour 1
Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies!
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Dropbox Signup
Mr.Rupertus' referrel
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HR 21 CSI Intro to Matter Test 1
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Brain Pop
Go to the website, Enter the Code Mr. Rupertus gave you for your class
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Triple-Beam Balance Tutorial
Interactive tool from Ohaus on how to properly use the triple beam balance
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Eagle Hill Math Portfolio
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Scatter Plots
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Smart investing
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Google Apps For Education
School District of Philadelphia GAFE page
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Ninja Program: Learn to Use your Google Account
Students compete to learn Google Apps for Education
A. 7th Grade
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Dropbox Signup
Mr.Rupertus' referrel
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Going to WIldwood!
Decimals Webquest
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Order It All!
Shopping decimals webquest
Decimals
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Baseball - Adding Decimals
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Basketball - subtracting decimals
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Basketball - Adding decimals
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Decimals Jeopardy Game
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Decimals Football
Change your level if it's too easy!
Integers & Absolute Value
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Absolute Value Boxes
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire?!: Integers and Absolute Value
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Number Balls!: Absolute Value
Order from Least to Greatest
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Integers Webquest
History of and Methods for operations webquest
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Intro to Integers Video
Study jams intro to integers and absolute value
Financial Literacy
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How to Write A Check
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Filling out a Check Register (Balancing your Checking Account)
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How to Fill Out Deposit Slips
+ Other bank forms
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Vacation Time (and others!)
Middle Years Webquest
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SmartStocks
Virtual Stock Market
Vacation Time!
Equations, Inequalities, Graphing (PreAlg)
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GraphSketch: Online Graphing Tool
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Onling Graphing and Scientific Calculator
Mr. Rupertus' favorite
Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (incl. Proportions)
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Writing Decimals: Can You Handle It?
No Answers
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Thinking Blocks!
Model Word Problems and Fractions
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GCF Divisibility Rules song
Study jams song about divisibility roles
Geology
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How the Oceans Formed - Where did Earths Water Come From?
Video
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The King of Tides
Explore the relationship between the moon and the tides
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A Journey Through Time
Webquest on geologic time
Geometry
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Baseball & Basketball Geometry Games
Shapes, Area, Volume
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Colorful, Engaging Geometry Overview
Lots of pictures!
Area and 2D Shapes
Circles
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Illuminations Circle Tool
Click on "Problems" for a fun game with goats!
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Circle Jeopardy: Two Player Game
Compete with a friend to see who is the circle champion!
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Area of Shaded Regions that involve Circles
A Circle within a Circle?!? That's craaaazzzzy!
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Basketball Geometry - Circumference
Find the circumference, shoot the ball.
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Basketball Geometry - Area of a Circle
You're raining pi ALL DAY!
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Circumference: Scholastic Study Jams
Volume and 3D Shapes
Graphs: Cirlce, Double Bar, Histograms, etc.
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Kids'Zone Create A Graph
Great site for kids from the NCES
Leadership, Goals, & Social Skills
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Social and Emotional Curriculum: Self-Mastery
By Randy Taran
Life Science
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Best Online Dissections
From About.com
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Endangered Species Webquest
Hundreds of Species are dying out each year...
Math
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Math in the REAL WORLD!
"Math in Daily Life" is inspired by programs from For All Practical Purposes
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Math Vocabulary Cards
Great review for PSSA prep
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Architecture Projects for Students
eHow page for Middle Schoolers
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PBS Math At the Core
Great videos and hands on lessons
Measurment: Metric, Customary, incl. Unit Conversion
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Metric and Customary (British) Conversions
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STEM Award Winning Interactive Measurement Game
Excellent enrichment activity
Parents/ Family Resources
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Mr. Rupertus' 7th-Grade Blog
Our Classes Homepage
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SDP Grades 4-8 Marking Guidelines
See how your student's grades are determined.
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School District of Philadelphia
SDP Home page
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Power of Bache-Martin
Bache-Martin Home & School Association
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Bache-Martin Home page
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Low-cost Comcast internet for lower income households
If your child receives free school lunch you might qualify for $9.95/month internet
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School District of Philadelphia Login
See student attendance record, test scores, and access textbooks and online lessons.
Probability
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Math is Fun: Probability
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What Are the Odds? (GAME)
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Greedy Pig!
Dice game for exploring probability
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Greedy Pig!
Simulator
Three Act Math
PSSA
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PA Dept. of Ed. Standards Alligned System
Past PSSA tests, test preperation resources
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PSSA Description of Levels
Advanced, Proficient, Basic, Below Basic
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PSSA Tests from Previous Years
Science
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The Happy Scientist
Fun, Easy Experiments
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Science Fair PPT Template
Powerpoint Presentation Template
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Animal/ Plant Report Template
Powerpoint Presentation Template
Thursday: 8th Absolute Value and 7th Decimals
Pythagorean Theorem Unit
Intro Lesson
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Station 1: The Theorem of Pythagoras
Read top 2 paragraphs, then complete "Investigate" #1-6
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Video: Pythagorean Theorem; Algebraic thinking
Watch video until 2:50 mark
Virtual Manipulatives
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
AWESOME SITE!
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Explore Learning Online Demonstrations
Great site, Free trial, Costs $$
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Mr. Wolfe's Interactive Whiteboard Page
Great Resources!
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Mr. Nussbaum's Math Games
All different levels.
Word Problems
Architecture
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Architecture Project
Use Google Sketchup to create a detailed design to present to your client for approval. Include an interior floor plan view and
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PBS: Building Big
Math and Science behind large structures
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A Plan for Teaching About Architecture
Six Weeks of Lessons for Grades 6 - 12
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SketchUp
Free 3D design program
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"You Are An Architect"
Middle Years Webquest
Coding & Computer Science
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Women Who Code
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Gird Develop It
Philadelphia chapter of National Organization
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Black Girls Code
Coding organization focused on African-American girls (Black Boys Code Coming soon!)
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Code.org's Learn page
8.G.A.3
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M.C. Escher Prints
For Transformation Exploration Lesson
CS in Science Module 1: Introduction to Computer Modeling an