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April 30, 2009
Week 34 - May 4 - 8, 2009
6th grade Earth Science will be researching a topic of their choice, preferrably a space topic. They will write a research 2 page (double space) paper and create a power point presentation about their topic. They will work on this project in class Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Some students will be out for various field trips and they may need to work some at home to be finished in time to present on Monday, May 11.
7th grade Life Science will be researching a disease of their choice. They will write a 2 page double spaced research paper and create a power point presentation about their disease choice. They will work on this project in class Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Some students will be out for various field trips and they may need to work on the project at home some to be finished in time to present on Monday, May 11.
8th grade Physical Science
Monday - create paper airplanes, fly them and collect time and distance data.
Tuesday - puzzle packet
Wednesday - graph airplane data
Thursday - Friday: Design and build balloon powered cars.
April 24, 2009
Week 33 - April 27 - May 1, 2009
Well, we made it through the science CRCT ... but the year is NOT over.
6th grade Earth Science
Monday - Video (When we left earth)
Tuesday and Wednesday- Create a scale model of our solar system (if the weather permits). We started this project earlier and will now complete it.
Thursday - Stars - Read p. 582 - 588 and discuss stars. Video - stars.
Friday - Create poster of the Life of Stars (p. 590 - 595)
7th grade life science
Monday - Video Body's defense against disease.
Tuesday - Read and discuss p. 710-713. Create disease prevention pamphlet.
Wednesday - Read p. 714 - 720 and discuss body defenses. Diagram the defense against virus p. 716-717.
Thursday - Antibodies to the Rescue - p. 799
Friday - Video (Human health issues)
8th Physical Science
Monday - Video (Operation Junkyard Catapult)
Tuesday - Wednesday: eDesign, build and fire marshmallow catapults.
Thursday - Graph catapult results
Friday - Intro to Bernoulli's principles. Lab.
April 17, 2009
Week 32 - April 20-24
CRCT begins Tuesday - April 21. The tests will begin promptly at 9:15. Students will go directly from bus to homeroom for breakfast and then move on to their testing locations if it is not their homeroom. Reading is Tuesday, English Language Arts Wednesday, Math Thursday, Science Friday and Social Studies Monday April 27. All students must be present for each test session. Please do not arrange appointments for your students during the morning on these days. Make-ups will be scheduled Tuesday April 28 and continue that week but it will not be as good of an environment as the real thing. Be here! Also, if a student is absent during CRCT they cannot participate in field day.
6th grade Earth Science
Monday - Review the test we took. Figure out what we still need to study.
Tuesday - Puzzle on rocks. Review with Versa Tiles.
Wednesday - Puzzle about plate tectonics. Review with Versa Tiles.
Thursday - Puzzle about ocean movement. Review with Versa Tiles.
Friday - Movie about space exploration.
7th grade Life Science
Monday - Review the test we took. Figure out what we still need to study.
Tuesday - Puzzle about organ systems. Review with Versa Tiles.
Wednesday - Puzzle about cells. Review with Versa Tiles.
Thursday - Puzzle about biomes. Review with Versa Tiles.
Friday - Movie about ecosystems.
8th grade Physical Science
Monday - Thursday: Complete the review project list of tasks.
Friday: Movie about toys as we prepare for toy unit.
April 16, 2009
Week 31 April 13 - 17
I hope each of you had a good spring vacation. Now it is time to do some last minute review and preparation for the CRCT.
Classes in each grade level will be working through the CRCT study packet and then take a test over the standards. The test will be Friday for 1st - 5th period and Thursday for 6th and 7th period.
Friday April 17 is the end of 4 1/2 weeks and progress reports will be distributed next week.
March 20, 2009
Week 29 - March 23 - 27, 2009
Reminder about Rainforest T-shirt sales - All money must be collected and turned in to the safe by Friday, March 27th. The coupons for size and type of T-shirt must be turned in to Dr. Cearfoss. A great big thank you to all you parents who have done an outstanding job helping to save a few acres of rainforest in Madagascar!
6th grade Earth Science
Monday - Cornell notes p. 644 - 647 and section review on page 647. Notes: astronomical unit, light year, light hour, light minutes, When were different planets discovered?, characteristics of inner planets, characteristics of outer planets.
Tuesday - We will watch a video about inner planets and complete a graphic organizer about each planet. We will find the size, surface, atmospheric features, distance to the sun, and ability to support life for each planet.
Wednesday - We will finish our graphic organizer after watching a video about the outer planets.
Thursday - We will create scale models of the solar system. BRING A CALCULATOR!
Friday - Cornell notes on comets, meteors, meteorites, meteroroids, asteroids, dwarf planets.
7th grade Life Science
Monday - Chapter Review p. 186-189
Tuesday - Battle of the Beaks - exercise to determine the effectiveness of certain mutations on natural selection and survival of species.
Wednesday - Chapter 7 test on Evollution
Thursday - Cornell notes p. 194 - 199 and Section Review on page 199. Notes include: fossil, how fossils form, relative dating, absolute dating, geologic time scale, extinct, mass extinction, and age of reptiles.
Friday - We will create a geologic time line. (See page 197)
8th grade physical Science
Monday - Chapter 21 quiz on sound
Tuesday - Make a joyful noise - play instruments and write essays.
Wednesday - Complete study guide for sound and light unit exam.
Thursday - Sound and light exam
Friday - Metric conversions review worksheet. (This is the start of our review for CRCT).
March 16, 2009
Week 28 - March 16 - 20, 2009 (First Week of 4th Qtr)
Report cards will be distributed Thursday March 19th.
6th Grade Earth Science
Monday - Video on the Big Bang Theory of the start of the universe. Cornell notes p. 600-603. Section Review p. 603.
Tuesday - How did our solar system form? Creat a poster from p. 616 on the formation of our solar system.
Wednesday - Our sun - create a powerpoint about our sun -features, structure and how it uses fusion to produce energy.
Thursday - Benchmark testing.
Friday - Cornell notes - Kepler's laws, measuring ellipses, moon's orbit, universal law of gravitation.
7th Grade Life Science
Monday - Video on adaptation and Cornell notes p. 174 - 179.
Tuesday - Ecosystem changing game and graphing activity.
Wednesday - Cornell notes p. 180-183 natural selection and changes in population. Section review p. 183
Thursday - Benchmark testing
Friday - Socratic seminar (debate/discussion) on "If people are as much a part of the environment as trees and birds are, are people's actions just parts of natural processes?" in response to articles about endangered and extinct species due to overhunting or habitat degradation.
8th Grade Physical Science
Monday - Video on sound. Cornell notes on interactions of sound. Section Review p. 617
Tuesday - Decibel level bar graph.
Wednesday - Cornell notes p. 618 - 621. Section Review p. 621. Optional assignment - brochure of musical instruments or power point.
Thursday - Benchmark testing
Friday - Resonance lab p. 742 - 743
March 08, 2009
Week 27 (again) March 9 - 13, 2009
This is the last week of the third nine weeks.
6th grade Earth Science:
Monday - Chapter Review p. 510-511 and CRCT practice p. 476-477 and 512-513.
Tuesday - Weather Test
Wednesday - Cornell notes on history of astonomy.
Thursday - Cornell notes p. 564-570 (mapping the stars) and section review p. 570
Friday - Brochure on galaxies.
7th grade Life Science:
Monday - Complete DNA Model
Tuesday - Chapter Review p. 158-161
Wednesday - DNA Test over Chapter 6
Thursday - Video and inquiry activity on natural selection.
Friday - Cornell notes p. 166 - 172. Section Review p. 173.
8th Grade physical science
Monday - Sound Inquiry lab activity.
Tuesday - Cornell notes p. 600-605. Section Review p. 605
Wednesday - Light and Sound activity from phet.colorado.edu/simulations
Thursday - Cornell notes p. 606 - 611 and Section Review p. 611
Friday - Read articles about noise pollution and dangers of earbuds. Respond by creating poster warning others of the danger and how to protect hearing.
March 06, 2009
Notice about empty gradebook
The scheduling department had to change the codes on my classes in our online (ICUE/IPARENT) gradebook. In the process, all of my students grades were deleted with the old class codes. I will be putting the grades back in today and tomorrow. I apologize for the inconvenience of not being able to see your student's grades at this vital time of our grading period.
February 28, 2009
Week 27 - March 2 - 6, 2009
Tuesday, March 3 is an Early Release Day. Students are dismissed at 2:15 pm. We are in the last 10 days of the third nine weeks.
6th Grade Earth Science (Students need to bring metal cans and glass jars with lids for Friday's lab)
Monday - We will complete a lab to find dew point.
Tuesday - Cornell notes p. 490 - 495. Air mass, cold air mass, warm air mass, front, cold front, warm front, occluded front, stationary front, cyclone, anticyclone. Create a foldable (flip book) showing four types of fronts from p. 492-493.
Wednesday - Learning centers on severe weather. Students will gather information about thunderstorms, tornados, and hurricanes. Then they will answer questions about each type of severe weather.
Thursday - Cornell notes p. 504-507. Thermometer, barometer, anemometer, weater map station model (fig 4). Then complete skills practice lab from p. 748-749.
Friday - We will make weather measurement instrumentation.
7th grade life science
Monday - Test over chapter 5 - genetics
Tuesday - Video on DNA and then vocabulary worksheet
Wednesday - Cornell notes p. 144 - 147.DNA, nucleotide, four nucleotides (adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine), Chargaff’s ruels, Franklin’s discovery, Watson and Crick’s model, DNA’s double structure, double helix, making copies of DNA, replicate, complementary strands (how and when). Section Review p. 147
Thursday - Cornell notes p. 148 - 154. Unraveling DNA (list steps from fig. 1), explain how sets of bases form amino acids and strings of amino acids form proteins, what is the connection between proteins and traits, RNA, what is function of RNA, messenger RNA, ribosome, transfer RNA, mutations, consequences of mutations, mutagen, how do mutations happen, genetic engineering, genetic identification. Section Review p. 155.
Friday - Create models of DNA.
8th Grade Physical Science
Monday - Cornell notes p. 652-656. transmission, absorption, what determines the color you see, primar colors of light, color addition, secondary colors of light, pigment, color subtraction, primary pigments. Create a foldable showing primary colors of light (fig 5 p. 655), primary colors of pigment (fig 6, p. 656) and reflection of light as color (fig 3 p. 654)
Tuesday - Lens activity - investigating convex and concave lenses.
Wednesday - Cornel notes p. 668 - 673.Ray, plane mirror, fig 3 how images are formed in plane mirrors, concave mirror, real image, virtual image, fig 5 real image and virtual image, convex mirror, fig 6 convex mirror diagram, lens, convex lens, concave lens, virtual and real image formed by convex lens (fig 8), concave lens virtual image (fig 9).Section Review p. 673
Thursday - Cornell notes p. 674-677. List steps of how your eye works from fig 1, nearsightedness, farsightedness, how are concave and convex lenses used to correct vision, color deficiency, surgical eye correction, risks of eye surgery.Section Review p. 677
Friday - Quiz on waves, properties of waves, electomagnetic spectrum, and light.
February 23, 2009
Week 26 February 23 - 27, 2009
Humanitarian Awards - Thursday 9:15 - 11:00.
6th grade Earth Science
Monday - We will be completing a lab to explore the affect the tilt of the earth has on temperatures in northern and southern hemispheres.
Tuesday - We will be exploring air, the mass of air, the affect of temperature on air pressure and just getting a general understanding of the air around us.
Wednesday - Cornell notes p. 482 - 489. Include weather, humidity, relative humidity, phychrometer, condensation, dew point, cloud and the various types of clouds, precipitation, rain, sleet, snow, and hail. Include a diagram of the types of clouds from fig. 6 p. 487.
Thursday and Friday - We will be working through several weather related lab stations.
7th grade Life Science
Monday and possible Tuesday: Finding genotypes and phenotypes activity and worksheet. We will be working to discover the probability of a particular trait being inherited and then the actual occurance and how those relate.
Tuesday - finish up the worksheet from Monday and then complete expected and observed results study guide worksheet.
Wednesday - Variations of the human face activity. Students will create a being from genotypes and chance. They will then draw a picture of the offspring.
Thursday - We will take the offspring from Wednesday and see what type of offspring they would produce through chance and genetics.
Friday - Quiz over genetics. (If we aren't quite ready we will extend our learning with "Pedigrees of the Rich and Famous)
8th Grade Physical Science
Monday - Cornell notes p. 584 - 589. Section Review p. 589. Notes include refraction, reflection, dispersed, diffraction, interference, diagrams of constructive and destructive interference, standing waves, resonance.
Tuesday - Electromagnetic Spectrum diagram with examples and the visible light spectrum shown in color.
Wednesday - Activities with translucent, transparent, opaque objects, Observations with prisms and spectroscopes.
Thursday - We will make periscopes using mirrors and boxes.
Friday - Cornell notes p. 644 - 650. Reflection, Law of Reflection, regular reflection, diffuse reflection, luminous, illuminated, absorption, scattering, refraction, optical illusions, color separation, diffraction, interference, constructive interference, destructive interference. Section Review p. 651
