Monday, December 20, 2010

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Thursday, December 9, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Infosource Project "What Makes a Plant Grow?
  • Research in the computer lab

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Genetics: Albinism and Sickle Cell Anemia

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Identifying Babies and Criminals Using Blood Type

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Review for Quiz tomorrow
  • Cell Growth and Reproduction

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Spongebob genetics 3
  • Using Blood Tests to Identify Babies and Criminals

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell Process Review
  • Meeting Energy Needs
  • Growth and Reproduction

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • discuss graphing exercise
  • Junkyard wars
  • Finish Graphs

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Multiple Allele inheritance
  • Blood Types
  • Identifying Babies and Criminals

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Spongebob Genetics 2
  • Incomplete Dominance

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Review Cell Processes
  • Discuss Mitosis
  • notes

Monday, December 6, 2010

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Bikini Bottom Genetics 1
  • Bikini Bottom Genetics 2

Thursday, December 2, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Flipper experiment- finish collecting data
  • Analyze Data- input data in a spreadsheet and graph
  • Report conclusions

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Inheritance Notes
  • Genetics With Spongebob wksheet

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Inheritance notes

7th science

Today's Agenda:

  • evidence of Progress

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Scientific Method Notes
  • Sportsmanship Assembly
  • data table for new investigation

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Quick Review
  • Vocab
  • Heredity and Genetics notes
  • Punnett Squares

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Goals between now and Christmas
  • Lists
  • Procedure

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Transcription Process
  • Model
  • Code Makes a Product wksheet

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Research Papers
  • Son of Cite Machine
  • Variables and Hypothesis

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Monday, November 15, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • finish Junkyard Wars
  • Begin Flipper Investigation

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Review Growth and reproduction notes
  • mitosis
  • Modeling DNA

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Project Research Report Workday
  • Reports Due Friday

Friday, November 12, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Monday, November 8, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Continue with Foss Plane Trials

8th science2

Today's Agenda:
  • Reading: How do cells carry out life processes
  • How do cells grow and reproduce

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • What's in the Nucleus? lesson
  • hand in lab sheet when finished

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Science Fair
  • Science Buddies website
  • topic by Friday

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Foss Plane Build Off
Today you will be taking your design and making a new foss plane. We will be testing for distance.

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • What's Inside a Cell? Lab
  • Lab Sheet #3
  • Modeling a Cell Lab
  • Lab Sheet #4

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Presentations
  • Proteins and Appearances

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Presentations
  • 5 min. study time for the test
  • take the test
When finished with the test read until everyone has finished

Friday, October 29, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Junkyard Wars video
  • Costume Parade 2:00

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Proteins and Appearances Lab

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Give remaining Presentations
  • Brief History of Genetics
  • Proteins and Appearances

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell Analogy Presentations
  • Flashcards
  • Crossword
  • Study for Test on MONDAY!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish Variables Test for Foss Planes
  • Graph results

8th science2

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Homework
  • Proteins and Appearances Lab

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct paper part of the test
  • "How Do I Look?" Lesson
  • Homework: Family Member "How Do I Look?"

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell Analogy Project Workday
  • These are due tomorrow!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Analyze Foss Plane Data (Graphing)
  • Design New Test

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Test Today
Bring a reading book to class and read when you finish with your test.

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Give Cell Analogy Presentations
  • Cell Vocab Flashcards
  • Cell Crossword
  • Test Tomorrow

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell City Analogy
  • Plant City Analogy
  • Design your own Analogy Project

Monday, October 25, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Testing Mass Variable
  • record results and finish pt. 4 flight logs
  • analyze results (graph)
  • Design new test

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Analogy Presentations
  • Make Flashcards
  • Cell Crossword
  • Study for Test tomorrow

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell Analogy Project workday

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell City Analogy
  • research
  • Complete Cell City wksheet

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Plan to test a variable
  • Miss Teen Wyoming Assembly

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell Analogy work day
  • Due Tomorrow

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell City Analogy
  • Plant City Analogy
  • Design your own analogy

7th science

Today's Agenda:
What you don't finish today is homework!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Airplane Basics Reading Questions
  • Airplane Response sheets
  • Unfinished response sheets are to be done as homework

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Cell City Analogy
  • Design Your Own Analogy

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Cells: Group Project
  • Project Description
  • Get Started

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish Cells Lab
  • Notes

Monday, October 18, 2010

Thursday, October 14, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish Constructing Foss Planes
  • Discuss System
  • Exploration

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Inside the Cell
  • pretest
  • presentations 1-20
  • tutorial quizzes 1-3

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Inside the Cell program slides 1-20
  • Tutorials 1-3

7th science

Today's agenda:
  • Discuss homework
  • Cell Notes
  • Cell Lab

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Take Home Quiz
  • Read "Science in the Bathtub"
  • Read "Sink or Swim?

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Cells Lab
Today we will start our lab on cells. Make sure to read and understand all directions during the lab. Pay close attention to details of the lab and accurately describe your results.

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Continue Energy Transformation Video
  • Finish Wksheets

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Quizzes
  • Energy Transformations in Living things
  • Pretest
  • video
  • wksheets

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish Lifeboat Tests
  • Lifeboat Response Quiz

8th 2 science

Today's Agenda:
  • Cells: Basic Unit of Life
  • Notes
  • Lab

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Energy Transformations in Living things
  • Video
  • Video guide

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish Fats and Proteins lab
  • Correct analysis
  • Energy Transformations in living things

Monday, October 4, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Graphing Lifeboat Data
  • Predict and test other boats

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Assignment
  • Cells:
  • video

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Homework
  • Energy Transformations in Living Things
  • Video
  • wksheet

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Chemistry of Fats and Proteins Lab
  • Do Analysis for homework

Friday, October 1, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Lifeboats test: Testing Capacity vs. passengers

8th2 science

Today's Agenda:
  • Energy Conversion in Organisms
  • Video and Worksheets

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Carbohydrate Analysis
  • View Carbohydrate video
  • Chemistry of Fats and Proteins

8th1 science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish Fats and Proteins Lab
  • Do Analysis For Homework

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Ka
  • Lifeboat Exploration

8th science 1

Today's Agenda:
  • Review Carbohydrate notes
  • Chemistry of Carbohydrates Lab
  • Finish analysis for Homework

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Formulas and equations
  • Carbohydrate Notes

Monday, September 27, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Read: "What Scientists Do"
  • Read: "Swinging Through History"

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Carbohydrate Analysis
  • Carbohydrate video (notes)
  • Fats and Proteins

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Assignments
  • Review elements and formulas
  • Carbohydrate notes

Friday, September 24, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Two Coordinate Graph
  • Science Stories: "What Scientists Do"

8th science 2

Today's Agenda:
  • Chemistry of Carbohydrates Lab

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Lab
  • Element and formula Review
  • Chemistry of Carbohydrates

Thursday, September 23, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:

  • Response Sheet- Swingers
  • Review Conclusions from yesterday
  • Two-coordinate graphs

8th 2 science

Today's Agenda:

  • Review Chemical Formulas
  • Begin Chemistry of Carbohydrates Lab

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Homework
  • Solving a Problem with a Scientific Method

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Pendulum Lab (Swingers)

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Homework
  • Practice with exponents
  • Solving a Problem with the Scientific Method

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discovering Science Lab
  • Notebook entry

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Organizing Data Notebook entry
  • Scientific Notation
  • Practice with exponents

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discovering Science Lab
-Observe Safety rules
-Follow Directions
- Work well as a Team

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Organizing Data
  • Scientific Notation
  • Solving a Problem Using the Scientific Method

Monday, September 13, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Owl Pellet lab
- dissect owl pellets
-record observations in notebooks

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Using a light microscope lab
  • know parts of a microscope

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Friday, September 3, 2010

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Notebook Starter
  • Sketch a Pencil Activity
  • How a pencil is made

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Science Notebooks Presentation
  • Notebook activity
  • Microscope Lab

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

2010 Open House

Welcome Parents

What I expect from students...

What you can expect from me...

Communicating with me..

Take a peek at the science lab

Year in summary

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Weather report: Leslie
  • Station model
  • correct review
  • open book test

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Guppy Observation Lab
  • Initial Observation

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Weather observations- Matt S.
  • Making weather maps

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Rate(s) of Evolution
  • Variation and Adaptations
  • Video

Friday, May 7, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct and hand in homework
  • Thunderstorms
  • Reading a weather map

8th 2 science

Today's Agenda:
  • 12-1 Mechanisms of Evolution
  • Principles of Natural Selection
  • Homework: 2 wksheets

8th 1 science

Today's Agenda:
  • 13-1 Mechanisms of Evolution
  • Early Ideas
  • Darwin
  • Principles of Natural Selection
  • Homework

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss and hand in lab
  • Mechanisms of Natural Selection

Thursday, May 6, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Weather Report: Jake O.
  • Weather Patterns
  • Homework: Weather Patterns wksheet

8th 2 science

Today's Agenda:
  • Review environmental change and adaptations
  • hand in lab
  • Finish Mechanisms of Evolution
  • homework

7th/8th 1 science

Today's Agenda:
  • Quick Review
  • Natural Selection Exploration Activity

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Monday, May 3, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct "What Is Weather?" wksheet
  • Weather Patterns

8th 2 science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Tests
  • Camouflage Explore Activity
  • Mechanisms of Evolution

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Ch. 11 Review p. 330-331 1-21
  • test tomorrow

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Radioactive Decay review
  • Modeling Activity
  • ch. 11 assessment

Monday, April 26, 2010

Friday, April 23, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Manufacturing a homemade barometer
  • how it's used

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Extract Shells from plaster
  • write up on fossils
  • Relative Dating notes

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Weather Report: Dillon
  • Notes on Upper atmosphere
  • Assignment: section questions

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Fossilization Activity

Monday, April 19, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Violent Weather video
  • 12-1 Earth's Atmosphere

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • 10-3 Notes on Plate Tectonics
  • Theory of Plate Tectonics activity

Monday, April 12, 2010

8th 2 science

Today's Agenda:
  • Plate Tectonic Notes
  • Correct ch. 10 assessment
  • Plate Tectonic worksheets

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Seafloor Spreading Lab
  • Plate Tectonics Notes
  • Ch. Assessment

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

8th 2 science

Today's Agenda:
  • 10-2 Seafloor Spreading
  • Seafloor Spreading Rates

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish "Born of Fire"
  • 10-1 Continental Drift
  • Read, notes, discussion

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Review force, work, and mechanical advantage
  • Incline Plane lab

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Assignments
  • Volcano presentation
  • "Born of Fire"

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discovering Simple Machines
  • Pretest
  • video
  • video quiz
  • classes of levers

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Review Volcano Types
  • Volcano activity

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • 9-2 Types of Volcanoes
  • Locating Active Volcanoes activity

Friday, March 19, 2010

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Tsunami discussion and video
  • Chapter 8 review 1-18

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • "Building In Safety" p. 169
  • Calculate force on the body in a crash
  • Making a Paper Airplane lab

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish Earthquake Comparison
  • Begin "Whole Lot a Shakin' Goin' On"

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Newton's Laws
  • notes and discussion
  • questions

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Magnitude and Intensity
  • Comparing Two Earthquakes activity

Monday, March 15, 2010

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Calculating acceleration
  • Newton's Laws: notes and discussion

7th/8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • 8-1 "Forces inside the Earth"
  • Notes and discussion

Thursday, March 4, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • video: "The Physics of Motion"
  • Notes: Did you know report handed in at the end of the period

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish up chapter review
  • Correct

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • 23-4 Galaxies and the Universe
  • notes
  • video

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Friday, February 12, 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Temperature and Thermal Energy notes

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • 22-4 Other Objects In Space
  • Reading, Notes, Discussion, Questions

Monday, February 8, 2010

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • 22-3 "The Outer Planets"
  • Vocab, Reading, notes, questions

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Science Fair
  • Review 22-1 "Solar System"
  • 22-2 "Inner Planets"

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • correct assignments from yesterday- chapter 4 review
  • begin chapter 5 Energy

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • The Solar System 22-1
  • vocab, reading, notes

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • science fair until 9:30
  • The Solar System

Monday, February 1, 2010

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Correct Friday's Assignment
  • Begin 22-1 "The Solar System"

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Science Fair Projects due Thursday!
  • Correct Friday's Assignment

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • 4-1 Changes in Matter
  • States of Matter
  • Physical and chemical properties of matter

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Round Earth/Flat Earth Demonstration
  • Day and Night Demonstration

Monday, January 25, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Revisit Compounds and Mixtures
  • Correct papers
  • Chapter 3 questions

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • The Moon notes
  • Exploration of the Moon reading and notes

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Science Fair Discussions
  • The Earth- notes and discussion
  • The Moon- vocab, reading, questions

Thursday, January 21, 2010

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Astrolabe Discussion and assignment
  • The Earth (Notes, reading, questions)

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Finish Video
  • Space Missions questions

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • More about atomic structure
  • Periodic Table

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Make an astrolabe
  • Finding the North Star (Polaris)
  • The Earth (notes, discussion)

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Science Fair discussion
  • "In the Shadow of the Moon"
  • Discussion and assignment

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Recent and Future Space missions
  • Read and Questions
  • Video

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Quick Review of Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Telescope Lab

Monday, January 11, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Working on Edison PowerPoints
  • Rehearse Presentations
  • Finish presentations

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Review Early Space Missions
  • notes
  • Recent and Future Space Missions
  • Read, Questions, notes

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Review Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Homemade Telescope Lab

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Edison's Life and Inventions discussions
  • Plan final projects
  • Work on Final projects

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Refraction of light
  • Refracting telescope lab
  • Complete lab

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Discuss Science fair work
  • Work in the computer lab on writeups
  • Develop a detailed plan to attack your project

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

6th science

Today's agenda:
  • Researching Thomas Edison for webquest

This is the last research period you will get for this assignment. Use your time wisely in the lab. If you don't finish the research and notes, you will have to do some at home. Tomorrow morning we will be coming together into your groups of 4 and preparing your presentations. Your presentations will be geared toward answering the question from the webquest. "Did Thomas Edison's life events influence his inventions?

8th science

Today's Agenda:

Exploring Space Unit

  • Radiation from Space p.574 in Blue Book
  • Vocabulary
  • Read and discuss questions

In this unit, we will be learning about the great expanse of space. In this first chapter, you will learn about the electromagnetic spectrum, the differences between refracting and reflecting telescopes, and the differences between optical and radio telescopes.

7th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Science Fair work in the computer lab until 9:30
  • Begin Astronomy Unit.

Monday, January 4, 2010

6th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Thomas Edison Webquest Discussion
  • Start webquest

8th science

Today's Agenda:
  • Welcome Back
  • Force and Motion Final Test
  • Review what you have completed so far
  • Finish test

7th Science

Today's Agenda:
  • Science Fair Discussion
  • Begin