2018 School Year
1/14/19
1. Complete the guided reading worksheet from Friday: Rocks and the Rock Cycle pg. 670-675
2. Go to the following website
https://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/rockdiagram/
a. Label the entire diagram on the worksheet
b. Define the terms using the interactive simulation on the website
3. Begin your AVID 1-pager using the rubric provided
11/5/18
Monday:
1. Guided Reading pg. 100-105 - Use your textbook located under your desk to find the answers to the questions.
2. Bill Nye Atoms - Watch the program and write 7 interesting facts from the video. Record in your notebook. Will be checked on Thursday.
11/6/18
Tuesday:
1. View the Powerpoint: Atoms and take Cornell Notes over all of the slides. These notes will be graded when I return.
2. WS: Calculating Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons - Complete the worksheet and turn in to the substitute.
11/7/18
Wednesday:
1. WS: Bohr Models - Complete the worksheet and turn into the sub before you leave.
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Day 1: 9/4/18
Day 2: 9/5/18
Day 3: 9/6/18
2 - areas to improve
1 - big lesson learned
Day 4: 9/7/18 Student example of Cornell notes
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Day 5: 9/10/18
Day 6: 9/11/18
Day 7: 9/12/18
Sample Foldable: Mass
Day 8: 9/13/18
Day 9: 9/14/18
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Day 10: 9/16/18
----------------------2017 School Year
Day 1: 9/5/17
Day 5: 9/11
Day 10: 9/18
Day 15: 9/25
Day 20: 10/2
Day 25: 10/8 Day 26: 10/9
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Day 29: 10/16 Day 30: 10/17
Day 34: 10/23
Day 39: 10/30
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Day 43: 11/6 Day 44: 11/7
Day 48: 11/13
Forces and Motion - Assignment - The substitute has a copy of this assignment and will hand out to class. You will need the following to complete your work for the day.
Day 51: 11/16
Day 53: 11/20
Day 55: 11/27 - Chapter 15 Energy
Chemical Energy, Electrical Energy, Electromagnetic Energy, Nuclear Energy (Due Wed. 11/29)
Day 56: 11/28 - Egg Drop Engineering Lab Due
Day 60: 12/4 Day 61: 12/5
Day 65: 12/11 Chapter 17: Unit Waves
Day 69: 12/17
Day 74: 1/2 (Happy New Year!)
1/14/19
1. Complete the guided reading worksheet from Friday: Rocks and the Rock Cycle pg. 670-675
2. Go to the following website
https://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/rockdiagram/
a. Label the entire diagram on the worksheet
b. Define the terms using the interactive simulation on the website
3. Begin your AVID 1-pager using the rubric provided
11/5/18
Monday:
1. Guided Reading pg. 100-105 - Use your textbook located under your desk to find the answers to the questions.
2. Bill Nye Atoms - Watch the program and write 7 interesting facts from the video. Record in your notebook. Will be checked on Thursday.
11/6/18
Tuesday:
1. View the Powerpoint: Atoms and take Cornell Notes over all of the slides. These notes will be graded when I return.
2. WS: Calculating Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons - Complete the worksheet and turn in to the substitute.
11/7/18
Wednesday:
1. WS: Bohr Models - Complete the worksheet and turn into the sub before you leave.
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Day 1: 9/4/18
- Welcome to Physical Science
- Student Information Card
- Syllabus
Day 2: 9/5/18
- Collect signed papers
- Classroom Procedures
- Symbols Activity (Due Friday 9/7)
Day 3: 9/6/18
- Collect signed papers
- Presentation: "What does collaboration look like in science?"
- Marble Run Activity
- 3-2-1 Reflection
2 - areas to improve
1 - big lesson learned
Day 4: 9/7/18 Student example of Cornell notes
- Set up interactive notebook
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Day 5: 9/10/18
- Safety Video - Students will use their interactive notebook to take notes during the video
- Lab Safety scavenger hunt
- Lab Safety guided reading
Day 6: 9/11/18
- Debrief safety rules
- Safety Quiz
Day 7: 9/12/18
- Foldable Measurement Graphic Organizer: Mass, Length
Sample Foldable: Mass
- Video Clip: Proper Metric Measurement (8 minute video clip) - Watch how to measure length and mass only
- Lab - practice measuring length and mass
Day 8: 9/13/18
- Bell-ringer vocabulary: Match-it practice at board
- Foldable Measurement Graphic Organizer: Volume
- Video Clip: Proper Metric Measurement (2 minute video clip) - Watch how to measure volume only
- Lab - Practice measuring volume
Day 9: 9/14/18
- Foldable Measurement Graphic Organizer: Density
- Literacy Activity: Annotating a text
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Day 10: 9/16/18
- Debrief Annotating Text activity
- Interactive Demo (coke cans) - Write a Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) paper
----------------------2017 School Year
Day 1: 9/5/17
- Syllabus
- Expectations and Classroom Procedures
- Safety Contract and Discussion of Science Safety Rules
- Safety Video: Accident at Jefferson High
- Safety Scenario Worksheet
- Review Safety Scenario WS as a class
- Safety Test
- Cornell Notes: Measurement (Metric and SI System)
- Review&Reflect Cornell Notes: Measurement
- Video: How to properly use the tools of science (Take Cornell Notes)
- Marshmallow Design Challenge
Day 5: 9/11
- Notes Converting Metrics - Ladder Method AND Dimensional Analysis Method
- Practice Problems - Finish for homework
- Lab: Measuring Length, Volume, Mass, Time, Temperature
- Review homework problems as a class
- Lab: Measuring Length, Volume, Mass, Time, Temperature (finish)
- Notes: Density
- Lab: Measuring the density of water
- Homework: Guided Reading - Graphing, Bring in 500mL plastic water bottles
- Density column demo/starter
- Guided Reading WS 1.4 Presenting Data in Graphs - Go over answers
- Set up a graph x/y axis as notes
- WS: Interpreting Charts and Graphs
- Graphing Data from Water Density Lab (Finish for Homework)
- Create a foldable describing the organization of matter
- Video Clip: Matter
Day 10: 9/18
- Unit 1: Group reflection
- Unit 1: Study guide for Test on Tuesday
- Unit 1: Test
- Density Inquiry Lab; Water, Oil, and Alkaseltzer
- Funniest Graph Contest Ends
- Cornell Notes: Organization of matter
- Graphic Organizer
- The "nuts and bolts of matter" activity
- Finish foldable extending the "nuts and bolts" analogy of matter
- Cornell Notes: Physical properties of matter
- Lab: Physical properties of matter
- Graphic Organizer/ Foldable - 9 common physical properties of matter (a vocabulary review)
Day 15: 9/25
- Cornell Notes: Chemical properties/changes of matter
- 2-corners "take a stand" activity: Physical vs. Chemical Change
- Lab: Chemical properties of matter
- Cornell Notes: States of Matter/Phase Change
- Video Clip: Phase Change Graph
- Video Clip: From Bill Nye (Start @ 6:00min - 9:00 minutes)
- Interactive Demo In Notebooks: Crushing a Pop Can - Kinetic Molecular Theory and Molecular Modeling (Before/During/After)
- Cornell Notes: Density
- Density Cube Lab
- WS: Density Calculations
- Unit Test
- National Geographic Video Clip - Secrets of the Viking Sword- Video Clip
Day 20: 10/2
- Notes: History of Atomic Theory: notes_atomic-models.ppt
- Rutherford Scattering with Marbles Activity
- Notes: Structure of the Atom/Calculating p,n,e
- Worksheet: Determining Protons, Neutrons, Electrons
- Phet Computer Simulation
- Elements Quiz
- Cornell Notes: Modern Atomic Model/Statistical Model - In notebook
- Lab: Flame Test - Understanding the behavior of electrons - Complete in notebook
Day 25: 10/8 Day 26: 10/9
- Cornell Notes: Atomic Mass, Atomic Number and Reading the Periodic Table
- Periodic Table - Label the metals, metalloids, nonmetals (use colored pencils)
- Periodic Table - Label the groups of elements (use colored pencils)
- Lab Activity - Metals, metalloids, nonmetals
- Cornell Notes: Groups of elements - Trends in valence electrons
- Groups of Elements Project - Introduce project and begin research
- Groups of Elements Project Work Time
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Day 29: 10/16 Day 30: 10/17
- Unit 3 Test - Atoms and Periodic Trends
- Density and Periodic Trends Summative Challenge - Introduce - Set up Lab Notebook
- Density and Periodic Trends Summative Challenge - Complete Lab Summative
- Cornell Notes: Ionic Bonding/Ionic Compounds
- Practice Problems
- Activity
- Naming Ionic Compounds
- Practice Naming Ionic Compounds
Day 34: 10/23
- Review Ionic Compounds - Quick write as many facts as you can about ionic compounds (2 min) Hi-light what the group shared was on your list
- Cornell Notes: Covalent Compounds Notes
- Graphic Organizer Ionic vs. Covalent Compounds
- Review Covalent Compounds - Quick write as many facts as you can
- Cornell Notes: Chem Rxns and balancing
- How are chemical equations like recipes? Quick Write (done during notes slide 5)
- WS Balancing Chem. EQ
- Cornell Notes: Types of Reactions
- Types of Rxns Cartoons
- Quizlet practice
- Types of rxns - Project Work Time: Cartoons
- Quizlet practice: https://quizlet.com/9153818/flashcards
- View Density Lab Report Exemplars from our own class - Discuss what qualities we see in those exemplars.
- Types of reactions Lab (from textbook pg. 298) - All work must be done in notebook - Follow standard lab report format: Problem, Hypothesis, Experiment (materials and methods), Results, Conclusion
- Focus Discussion - how does the data gathered in lab "support" or "reject" your hypothesis.
Day 39: 10/30
- Midterm Exam Study Guide (Goal - to finish the first page)
- Check key and discuss the correct answers
- Midterm Exam Study Guide (Goal - to finish the second page)
- If finished study guide: Watch the end of HUNTING THE ELEMENTS
- Check key and discuss the correct answers
- Review final questions on midterm exam review
- Quizlet - Identifying Types of Chemical Reactions - PRACTICE
- Cornell Notes: Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions: Exothermic and Endothermic reactions
- Mini-Lab: Making hot and cold packs - Chemistry and Sports Medicine Connections
- Midterm Exam - Multiple Choice and Free Response
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Day 43: 11/6 Day 44: 11/7
- Cornell Notes: Graphing Velocity - Guess and Graph Motion Activity
- Motion Lab
- Cornell Notes: Acceleration
- WS: Acceleration Problems
- Video Clip: Motion and Sports: Understanding the science of velocity and acceleration in NFL Football
- Quiz: Motion
- Complete Acceleration lab write up
Day 48: 11/13
- Cornell Notes: Forces
- Pictionary vocabulary activity cards
- Bill Nye: Forces
- Bell Ringer: Pictionary practice with a partner
- Cornell Notes: Friction
- Mini-activity - Friction
Forces and Motion - Assignment - The substitute has a copy of this assignment and will hand out to class. You will need the following to complete your work for the day.
- Cornell Notes: Newton's 1st Law of Motion
- Activity
- Bill Nye Friction - Sub will show this to the class. Take notes on the green Cornell Notes Paper that you already used today.
Day 51: 11/16
- Cornell Notes: Newton's 2nd Law of Motion
- Demo: The Egg demo: Use observation sheet to reflect on what forces are acting on this system
- Worksheet: F = ma
- Cornell Notes: Newton's 3rd Law of Motion
- Reflection: Science vs. Play
- Egg Drop Engineering lab
Day 53: 11/20
- Egg Drop: Gather data and perform calculations (in lab notebook)
- Study Guide: for Unit Test on Motion and Forces
- Unit Test: Motion and Forces
- Work time: Egg Drop Engineering Lab (assessment is due on Tuesday 11/28)
Day 55: 11/27 - Chapter 15 Energy
- Mini Inquiry Activity - How Can Energy Change Form - Pg. 455 in the book - Turn in Chart @ end of class
- Ch15 Vocabulary: Create a foldable that has the following: Term, Definition, Picture - include each of the following words:
Chemical Energy, Electrical Energy, Electromagnetic Energy, Nuclear Energy (Due Wed. 11/29)
Day 56: 11/28 - Egg Drop Engineering Lab Due
- Cornell Notes KE and GPE
- Calculations KE and GPE - Check key before turning in. Watch units!
- Finish Vocabulary Foldable for Ch15
- Lab Activity - Calculating KE and PE - Turn in lab handout @ end of class
- Cornell Notes: Energy Conversion and Conservation
- WS - Homework
- Cornell Notes: Nonrenewable energy resources (coal, oil, natural gas)
- Types of Energy Research Project (choose an energy resource - renewable or nonrenewable)
- Renewable Energy Bell Ringer Activity
Day 60: 12/4 Day 61: 12/5
- Renewable Energy Resources - Presentations
- Cornell Notes: Thermal Energy and Matter - Textbook 16.1
- WS: Homework practice problems - Heat vs. Temperature
- Cornell Notes: Heat and Thermodynamics - Textbook 16.2
- Solar Oven Project Testing Day!
- Test Review: Chapters 15, 16 - Energy, Energy Resources, and Thermal Energy and Heat
- Unit Test: Energy, Energy Resources, and Thermal Energy and Heat
Day 65: 12/11 Chapter 17: Unit Waves
- Cornell Notes: Mechanical Waves (17.1 - Pg. 500)
- Wave Vocabulary: Foldable
- mechanical wave
- transverse wave
- longitudinal (compressional) wave
- surface wave
- medium
- crest
- trough
- compression
- rarefaction
- Cornell Notes: Longitudinal (compressional) waves and surface waves
- Wave Practice Problems
- Video Clip: Sound
- Review answers to "wave practice problems"
- Cornell Notes: Calculating Wave speed, frequency, and period
- Practice Problems and calculations
- Lab Activity
- Wave Demo
- EM radiation drawings and notes
- Video Clip: EM spectrum and light
Day 69: 12/17
- Begin Earth Science
- Layers of the earth foldable with characteristics of each major section of Earth's interior
- Cornell Notes: Minerals
- Mineral Lab Activity - Identify 8 common minerals using physical properties
- Mineral video clip
- Cornell Notes: Rock Cycle
- Guided Reading: Rock Cycle
- Video Clip (with notes): Theory of Continental Drift vs. Theory of Plate Tectonics - what data existed/exists to support each of these?
- Rock Lab Activity - Identify 9 common rocks by how they were formed: (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic)
- Ice Cream Lab: Why do we salt our roads? Convection currents and heat transfer.
Day 74: 1/2 (Happy New Year!)
- Cornell Notes: Water Cycle
- Water Cycle Simulation (need FLASH on a PC to play):
- Classwork: Answer the water cycle questions during the simulation
- Finish water cycle vocabulary - debrief simulation
- Water cycle simulation: project work time
- Video Clip and Notes: What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
- Chalk Talk: Weathering vs. erosion - include essential vocabulary and processes
- Guided Reading: Weathering and erosion
- Study Guide: Earth's interior Ch22 & Earth's Surface Ch23 - finish for homework - Test Monday