I used www.sciencespot.net density Science Starter as a formative assessment for the previous days lesson.
Our new topic - skills Scientists need including: estimation, significant figures, central tendency, accuracy & precision, anomalous data and percent error. Students filled out the following notes in their notebooks:
We practiced each skill:
Estimating populations of fish, calculating mean, median, mode and range, working a percent error problem, watching Brain Pop Precision and Accuracy, and correcting the answer to the Science starter for significant figures.
Next: Graphing