A message in a bottle!

We read this article:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/17/i-hope-we-can-keep-in-correspondence-nova-scotians-letter-in-a-bottle-washes-up-in-croatia-28-years-later/

and looked at Google maps to see the distance:


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What kind of a journey would that be?
We tried to speculate / simulate what the journey might be:
(not even sure if this will work!)




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What would you send as a message in a bottle?

Exploring 3D figures

First day back from Christmas vacation and we dove right into creating 3D figures using marshmallows, toothpicks & straws.

Here are some pictures of our progress:

I think the class would agree; it was a great way to ease our way back into things!

Drawing 3D figures and Exploring Volume

Remember that 3D means that the figure has 3 dimensions: length, width, height (or depth).
To find volume we multiply these dimensions:

volume = length x width x height

Here's tonight's homework, based on what we did in class today:

 If you need to review the online drawing we did in class today, you can click here.