- Daily weather observations
- Review weather tools
- Read "Naming Hurricanes"
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Working in the computer lab
- Finish Reports
- Work on Problem, Hypothesis, Material, variables, and Procedure
Thursday, December 15, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Discuss Weather Forecasts
- Weather Tools
- Homework: Come to class on Monday with a weather forecast. Printed or copied
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Discussion "Things That Fall From the Sky"
- Watch and Discuss "Hurricanes"
Monday, December 12, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- finish up on science puzzles (10 min.)
- Weather introduction
- Weather quick write
- Wonders of Weather
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Check on crystal candy canes
- draw a crystal in science notebooks
- video: crystal growth
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Research in Computer Lab
- Finish Background Research Plans (due tomorrow)
- Start collecting resources and working on list
- Reports
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Cars and Loads Data
- Finish Data Tables and Graph
- Answer Questions
- Propose new experiment with the electronic dot car
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Scientific Method
- Look at Thermal Conduction Experiment
- Developing Questions
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Go Over Science Fair Packets
- Assignments and Deadlines, Parent Packets
- Science Fair Components details
Monday, November 28, 2011
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Reading: "The Other Great Race" p. 36, "The Making of a Dotcar" p. 41
- Cars and Loads Lab
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Begin Work on Science Fair
- District Science Fair will be in Sheridan on Feb. 8, 2012
- Need to have a project idea by Monday
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
8th science 2/6th science
Today's Agenda:
- video "Mythbusters- Gelatin Fiber Optics"
- 6 facts and 6 questions
Monday, November 21, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Flight log sheets
- Develop working drawings of foss plane
- Plan new experiment with foss planes
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Review Results of Dotcar experiment
- Read "Faster and Faster"
- X car and Z car sheet
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Read: "Airplane Basics" p. 15-17
- Answer questions on p. 17
- Read: "Experimental Designs" p. 18-20
- Have Paper Airplanes ready to go for tomorrow
Friday, November 4, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Response Sheet: Representing Motion
- Read: Boston Treasure Hunt, Answer questions (p.20-26)
- Motion Stories
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Math Extension Problem of the Week
- Plane Sense: Investigating variables of paper airplanes
7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Road Trip Problem and Graph
- Response Sheet: Representing Motion
- Read: Boston Treasure Hunt
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Present Conclusions to the class
- Discuss Changes with the group
- Read "What Scientist Do"
- Answer questions
Monday, October 24, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Lifeboat Experiments in the lab
- Analyze Results
- Draw Conclusions
- Make Changes
- Retest
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
6th/7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Into the Ocean video
Thursday, October 6, 2011
7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Photo Finish
- Boat Races
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Correct Speed and Distance Practice Sheets
- Set Up for "Speeding Down Slopes
Friday, September 16, 2011
7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Watching Video: "Monster ToothPaste"
- 10 interesting facts from the video
- Homework: Speed and Distance Practice" Due Monday
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Reading "First in Flight"
- Complete Speed Practice sheets
- Homework: finish Speed Practice
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Wrap up Mass experiment
- Begin string length experiment
- Conduct String Length experiment
7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Bellringer
- Review Time Travel
- Read: "First in Flight"
- Speed Practice p. 18-19
Monday, September 12, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Review Mass Experiment
- Graph mass vs. swing data
- Conclude Mass Experiment
- Prepare String Length Experiment
7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Review "Who Got There First?"
- Work on Problem 3
- Read "First in Flight"
- Time Travel
Thursday, September 8, 2011
7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Correct Tests
- Who Got There First?
- Homework: Who Got there First wksheet
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Release Height wrap up
- Begin Mass experiment
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda
- Discuss Flights
- Correct Flight Distance Wksheets
- Graph Data
- Homework: Road Races A
Thursday, September 1, 2011
8th science 2
Today's Agenda
- Do Flight Distances worksheet
- Discuss Flights from Yesterday
- Graphing Data
- Homework: Road Races A
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Flight Data
- Write about Trials
- Discuss
- Correct Flight Distances
- Graph Results
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Calculating Distance with the distance formula
- Paper Airplanes
- Discuss paper airplane movement
- Flight distances homework
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
7th/science
Today's Agenda:
- Quick Review
- Construct airplanes
- Explore flight
- Homework: Flight Distances Worksheet
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Motion Quickwrite
- Define science and scientific method
- Plan air trolley construction
- Plan air trolley experiment
Monday, August 29, 2011
6th Tech
Welcome Back and Welcome to Middle School
- Introductions
- Classroom Expectations
- What is Technology
Thursday, May 12, 2011
7th/8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Watching "Challenges of Life"
- Looking for big limiting factors shown
- Quiz
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- MWB Reproductive Potential
- MWB, Limited
- MWB Hatching Investigation pt. 1 and 2
Monday, May 9, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Working on Western Hemisphere Projects in Computer Lab
- Climate and Population Density
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Reading "The Water Planet"
- Review Water Cycle
- Water Cycle Game Round 2
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Exam
- Energy and Producers
- Read "Where Does Food Come From?"
- Human Food Chain
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Review Mono Lake interactions
- Mono Lake Food Web
- Notes
- Rework Response Sheets
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Discuss Water Cycle Game Results
- Discuss Water Cycle
- Watch "Water Works"
- Read "Water Planet" p. 45
Monday, May 2, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
8th science 2
Today's Agenda:
- Finish Mono Lake Video
- Thoughts on Mono Lake
- Mono Lake Feeding Relationships
- Mono Lake Response Sheets: Homework!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
8th science 2
Today's Agenda:
- Vocab quiz
- MWB Habitat discussion
- Mono Lake video field trip
- Mono Lake thoughts
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- view "Among the Wild Chimpanzees" video
- Complete the question set
- Discussion
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Weather Observation
- Review
- Work on p. 31: Relative Humidity
- Homework: Water Vapor in the Air
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Observe sprouts and record changes
- Watch "Secret Garden"
- Finish video guides
- Test on Thursday over seeds and roots
Thursday, April 7, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Something Cool
- Weather Observations
- Discuss Relative Humidity
- Water in the air Response sheet
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Conduct wet/dry thermometer investigation
- record results
- Share results with the class
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- warmup
- something cool
- check sprouters and record observations
- view "Secret Garden"
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup: Seeds of Life Response Sheet Quiz
- Read: "Seeds and Roots"
- Test postponed until tomorrow
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Bellringer
- Review seed parts and functions
- Discuss Germination
- Setup Minisprouters
Monday, April 4, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Weather Observations
- Share Condensation Challenges
- Start Evaporation and Humidity
Friday, April 1, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Something Cool
- Weather Observations
- Condensation Challenge Writeups
- Present
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Something Cool
- Observe Seedlings and record observations
- make rood tip slides and view with microscopes
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Finish Procedure for Water Vapor Inquiry
- Conduct Demonstration
- Record what happened in science notebooks
8th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup: Seed Quiz
- Observe Seedlings and record differences in Roots and Shoots
- Finish Secret Garden and video guide sheet
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
8th science 1/2
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup: Graphing Skills
- Sprouting monocots and dicots
- Record information on Roots and Shoots p. 31
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup: Graphing skills
- View "Unknown World"
- Answer questions on video guide
Monday, March 28, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- warmup
- collect weather data (next 8 days)
- view convection chambers
- Finish lab sheets
8th science 2
Today's Agenda:
- Discuss seed parts and their functions
- Introduce Germination
- Observe sprouts and plants in the lab
8th science 1
Today's Agenda:
- Discuss Friday's seed dissection
- know 3 main parts of a seed
- germination
- prepare to plant seeds
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Bellringer- Robert Bunsen Birthday
- Present Animal Classification Projects
- Begin "Unknown World" video and video guide
Thursday, March 24, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Convection Chamber Demonstration
- Complete Convection Chamber lab sheet
- Mid-summative exam 5
8th science 2
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Lima bean observations
- Finish seed dissection sheets
- Culture brine shrimp
7th science
Today's Agenda:
If you finish today, practice, practice, and practice some more!
- Animal Classification workday
- We will give presentations on Monday
If you finish today, practice, practice, and practice some more!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
8th science 2
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Continue PAWS Practice and discussion
- Seeds of Life (Lima Bean Dissection)
- PAWS Tomorrow!
8th science1
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- PAWS practice and discussion
- Prepare for Lima bean dissection
- PAWS tomorrow!
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Bellringer
- Million Dots
- Graphing Exponential Growth
- Finish Graph for homework
Monday, March 21, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
8th science 1
Today's Agenda:
- Read "Kingdoms of Life" p. 65-70
- Write a 1 page summary in science notebooks
- Discussion
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Layering Liquids Lab
- Complete the challenge of layering 3 liquids in a vial
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
6th science
Today's agenda:
- Continue Density Lab
- calculate density of the four liquids
- complete lab sheets
Friday, March 11, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Human Body Systems Presentations
- Animal Classification System work in the comp. lab
Thursday, March 10, 2011
8th science 1
Today's Agenda:
- Bacteria Observations
- Animal Classification Project (Computer Lab)
- Presentations Tomorrow
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Midsummative Exam 4
Monday, March 7, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Review Experiments
- Discuss Heating of Atmosphere
- Read: Heating of Earth's Atmosphere
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Review Experiments
- Discuss Heating of Atmosphere
- Read: Heating of Earth's Atmosphere
8th science 2
Today's Agenda:
- Bacteria Observations
- Exponential Times Video
- Arithmetic Of Exponents video
- How Big is 7 billion?
Thursday, March 3, 2011
8th science 1
Today's Agenda:
- Bacteria Observations (fill in observation sheet)
- Exponential Growth Activity
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
8th science 1
Today's Agenda:
- Observing Bacteria and Fungi
- notes and discussion
- Exponential Growth Activity
Monday, February 28, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
7th science
Welcome Back!
Today's Agenda:
Today's Agenda:
- Something Pretty Cool
- Finish Reports - Due Today end of class
- Begin Presentations
Monday, February 21, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Analyze Graphs & answer questions
- notes- solar heating, radiant energy, differential heating
- reading: Thermometers
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Analyze Temperature Data
- Graph Results
- Consider Solar Energy and Heating
- Notes and Discussion
8th 1 Science
Today's Agenda:
- Pop quiz over kingdoms
- Classifying Critters activity
- Finish Classification Presentation and notes
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Human Body System Project Workday
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
8th 2 science
Today's Agenda:
- Quiz
- Classifying Critters activity
- Classification of Living Things Presentation and notes
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Human Body Systems Project Workday
Monday, February 14, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Human Body Systems Project Workday
Friday, February 11, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Human Body Systems Workday
- Collaborate on Research Notes Document
- Organize notes into an outline with Inspiration
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Pop Quiz
- Cycles/Seasons lab simulation
- Homework-Seasons and Sun Response Sheet
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
8th science 1
Today's Agenda:
- Levels of Organization in Living Things
- map school organization
- map organization of humans
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Study for test
- muscles test (anterior)
- Levels of Organization discussion and notes
- Science Fair Notebooks due tomorrow
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
8th science 1
Today's Agenda:
- Review and Study Posterior Muscles
- Posterior muscles test
- Practice PAWS items
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
8th 1 science
Today's Agenda:
- Warm up
- Watch Lily win video
- Review Levers (Locomotion)
- Muscles of the human body
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Weather observations
- Quick review of weather tools
- "Where's the Air? lab
8th 1 science
Today's Agenda:
- Warm-up
- Study for Bones Test
- Take Bones Test
- Bones and muscles as levers
- Finish Worksheet for homework
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
7th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warm-up
- Science Fair discussion
- data analysis
- drawing conclusions
- project notebook
- display boards
Thursday, January 6, 2011
6th science
Today's Agenda:
- Warmup
- Think of Weather Related Questions to ask a naval meteorologist
- Guest Speaker (Bryan Norris)
- Weather Tools
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
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