Monday, January 4, 2021

Quote of the week:  "Shoot for the MOON, even if you miss, you'll land among the STARS"

                                                                                        -Les Brown


                                                      Week 20

Please use Schoology to submit theses assignments.  If you choose to use this webpage to work on these assignments, you will need to record your answers on a separate piece of paper.


 Tuesday-5

-"Monday Morning Meeting"

-Procedures!

Wednesday-6

Bellwork: Heat Review 

Heat Test

Thursday-7

Bellwork: Watch > The Water Cycle Song

*If you were absent yesterday, do this quick heat review  KAHOOT   PIN#01417077 

 -Then log on to Schoology in Wednesdays folder and take the Quiz

-Log into Schoology

    -Go to the GIZMO folder

        -Click on your class period

            -Select the Water Cycle GIZMO

                *If completing from home, print out or make a copy of this document and email it to me

-Fast finishers Watch > What is HYDROPONICS? , Hydroponic Agriculture

Friday-8

Bellwork: Turn in your Water Cycle GIZMO

-Bill Nye:  Water Cycle

- Online, or at home students, answer the questions on this link> Water Cycle worksheet  then email your answers to me.

Monday, December 14, 2020

 Quote of the week:  "The more you give away, the happier you become"

                                                                    -Anonymous


                                                      Week 19

Please use Schoology to submit theses assignments.  If you choose to use this webpage to work on these assignments, you will need to record your answers on a separate piece of paper.


Monday-14

Bellwork: Monday Meeting

-Day one

-Heat Transfer Ed Puzzle

-Soda Insulator Packet

 Tuesday-15

Bellwork : Get into your groups from yesterday, and find your packet from your journal.  Continue working on the first two pages of the packet, then move to the link below.

-Day 2

Wednesday-16

Bellwork:  

-Build your Ultimate Insulator!  

-Thermal energy

*Remember:  there cannot be any modifications made to your insulator after today.  The way you leave it, is the way it will be tested tomorrow!  :) 

Thursday-17

Bellwork:  Please send ONE person from your team to get your Ultimate Insulator from the Science Lab

-Get your packet out of your journal, flip to the THIRD page titled "Soda Insulator!"

-Ultimate Insulator Challenge!

Friday-18

Bellwork: Finish your packet from yesterday.

    -Make sure to discuss with your team 2 improvements you would make to your design, in order to make improvements for next time.

-We will hear from the winning team today!  They will share with us how they constructed their Ultimate Insulator and why they think they won!

Monday, December 7, 2020

December 7-11

 Quote of the week:  “We grow great by dreams"

                                                                      -Woodrow Wilson

                                                      Week 18

Please use Schoology to submit theses assignments.  If you choose to use this webpage to work on these assignments, you will need to record your answers on a separate piece of paper.


Monday-7

Bellwork: Monday Meeting

-Matter Mini Quests: If you are working from home, use this digital worksheet 

  -Task 1

  -Task 2

  -Task 3

  -Task 4

  -Task 5

Fast Finishers, click here >  

Plasma, The Most Common Phase of Matter in the Universe

How Do Plasma TVs Work?

Tuesday-8

Bellwork :Pull out your worksheet from yesterday, you do not need to finish it.

-Evidence of Learning Review

-Play this review game > KAHOOT use CODE: 02849333

-6.2.2 Evidence of Learning (Quiz)  In Schoology- Tuesday's Folder

-Fast finishers click here > Insulators vs Conductors, Cool Cold Weather Phenomenon

Wednesday-9

Bellwork:  Record your Quiz score in your Data Binder

*If you have not taken the Quiz yet, please log on to Schoology in the Tuesday folder and take it

-Heat Transfer & Matter Investigation Work Sheet

-Day one 6.2.3

-Melting Investigation

Thursday-10

Bellwork: Finish the front side of the worksheet from yesterday

-Please Read > The Difference Between Heat and Temperature 

    -Now answer:  What is the difference between temperature and heat?

Watch this > Heat vs Thermal Energy , Heat Temperature and Thermal Energy

Friday-11

Bellwork: Read > There are THREE types of Heat Transfer: 

CONDUCTION, 

CONVECTION

& RADIATION

Today, you will learn about all three.

- Use this video > Bill Nye Heat to fill in your study guide.

    -Hold on to your study guide, you will be gluing them into your journals on Monday!

*Fast Finishers!  

-Put your COMPLETED worksheet in your journal in the ENERGY pocket.


Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Dec. 1-4

 Quote of the week:  “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”  

                                                                      -Dr.  Martin Luther King Jr.

                                                      Week 17

Please use Schoology to submit theses assignments.  If you choose to use this webpage to work on these assignments, you will need to record your answers on a separate piece of paper.


Tuesday-2

Bellwork: Monday Meeting

-Phase Changes Gizmo in Schoology  (Gizmo Folder)

    -If you are working from home, open the assignment, then scroll down, and answer the questions below the assignment

Wednesday-3

Bellwork: Watch to the 4 minute mark only! >Watch This!

-Finish the Gizmo packet from yesterday

*Extras: 

Changes of Matter

Dry Ice

Thursday-4

Bellwork: Finish the Gizmo from Tuesday, then turn it in.

-Complete the "Thinklink Viewing Guide"  by clicking Here for your investigation!

Friday-5

Bellwork: Pick up a big sheet of paper as you walk in, put your name on it.

-If you are a fast finisher, click here > HOT! HOT!

-In class you will watch the heat energy transfer, and draw a model of the demonstration. 

    -Make sure to show me when the energy transfer happens, and what the molecules look like at           each phase. 

    -Remember: There are 3 different states of matter that you will be looking at!


Friday, November 13, 2020

Quote of the week:  “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”  

                                                                      -Dr.  Martin Luther King Jr.

                                                      Week 16

Please use Schoology to submit theses assignments.  If you choose to use this webpage to work on these assignments, you will need to record your answers on a separate piece of paper.

Monday-23

Bellwork: Please find your "I matter because.."  molecule.

-Monday Morning Meeting 

-Make our class body, and poster

    -Hang it

-Log on to Schoology- Monday: Nearpod

Tuesday-24

Bellwork: Please complete the:  Bill Nye Atoms Vocabulary page

-Bill Nye Atoms and Molecules Please fill in the Atoms and Molecules worksheet on the other side of the sheet. 

-6.1-6.2 Pear Deck Review



 Quote of the week: "We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."                                

                                                                                    -Albus Dumbledore


                                                                                                                       

    Week 15

Please use Schoology to submit theses assignments.  If you choose to use this webpage to work on these assignments, you will need to record your answers on a separate piece of paper.

Monday-16

Bellwork: Watch This: Non Newtonian Fluid

-Monday Morning Meeting 

    -No Changing Chromebook settings

    -New PBIS show your CARDS 

-Oobleck: Solid or Liquid? Use your VENN DIAGRAM that we filled out on Friday, to help you!

Tuesday-17

Bellwork: Please finish your Oobleck packet from yesterday.  (10 minutes) use this article > Non Newtonian Fluids

Click here> Thinkglink

watch> Real water molecules

watch>water molecules in motion

Thinglink worksheet

Wednesday-18

Bellwork Live Space Walk

Study Activity for the Energy and Matter Quiz 6.2.1

-6.2.1 Atoms and Molecules test in Schoology

Thursday-19

Bellwork: Log on to PowerSchool and fill in your testing information in your Data Binder on page 10.

Click on this link> -6.2.2 The Effects of Heat Energy on States of Matter and Energy

Friday-20

-Journals- Have them out and ready

-Finish this from yesterday> -6.2.2 The Effects of Heat Energy on States of Matter and Energy



Monday, November 9, 2020

 Quote of the week:  "The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

                                            -Mark Twain

                                                                                                                       

    Week 14

Please use Schoology to submit theses assignments.  If you choose to use this webpage to work on these assignments, you will need to record your answers on a separate piece of paper.

Monday-9

*If you did not take the Solar System Test on Friday, please let me know now!

Bellwork:  Journals!  New Pocket, New Folder!

    -Create a new Energy Affects Matter section in your Journal!

        -Glue in the pink pages

        -Then create your Energy Affects Matter "pocket"

-Check out this slide >Click here

    One of these images DOES NOT belong.  Which one and why?  Record your answers in your             journal.

-Click here > join.nearpod.com then wait for me to give you the code :)

 

Tuesday-10

Bellwork: Please log your Solar System Test score in your DATA BINDER 

-Fast Finishers, Please watch this clip > Just How Small is an Atom?

-Tuesday Morning Meeting

-Molecules Slides Day 1 

*If you are doing this assignment from home, please use Schoology, if you are in the classroom, please use the packet I have given you.*

Wednesday-11

Bellwork:  Please finish your Molecules packet from yesterday

-Look at this slide, then write your answer on the back of your packet > Slide 10

-Fast finishers may watch this >Just How Small is an Atom?   

-Molecules Slides Day 2

-Veteran's Day

Thursday-12 

Bellwork: Please finish your assignments from yesterday.  Log in through Schoology in order to submit properly.

-Molecules Slides Day 2

Friday-13

-Watch this > What is a SOLID, What is a LIQUID?

-Watch This >  SOLID or LIQUID


 

 

Monday, November 2, 2020

 Quote of the week:  "It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop."

                                                                                -Confucius

                                                                                                                       

    Week 13

Please use Schoology to submit theses assignments.  If you choose to use this webpage to work on these assignments, you will need to record your answers on a separate piece of paper.

Check out what you can see in the night's sky right now!  Click Here > Earth Sky

Monday-2

Bellwork: Finish the Earth assignment from yesterday and submit.  Fast finishers may read the extra articles from the Earth slides.

Monday Meeting

November Birthdays!

Click here > Mars!

Fast Finishers can click here > All About Mars and Mars 101

Tuesday-3

Bellwork:  Finish the Mars assignment from yesterday and submit.  Fast finishers may read the extra articles from the Mercury slides.

Click here > Jupiter!

Click here > Saturn!

Fast Finishers click here >  All About Jupiter  > All about Saturn 

Wednesday-4

Bellwork:  Finish the Jupiter and Saturn assignment from yesterday and submit.  Fast finishers may read the extra articles from the Jupiter and Saturn  slides.

 Click here > Uranus!

Click here > Neptune!

Fast Finishers click here > All About Uranus > All About Neptune

Thursday-5

Bellwork: Finish the Uranus and Neptune assignment from yesterday and submit.  Fast finishers may read the extra articles from the Uranus and Neptune slides, Then watch this video for the Wellness Room if you have not already watched it in Homeroom > Click here

Councilor Corner:  Learn How To Get Help > Click Here

Quiz Review for tomorrow:  Play this game on your own, to review how to read charts and graphs:

Click here > KAHOOT! Game PIN: 02529459

Fast Finishers Click here > Spaced Out

Wellness tours:

2p. 9:35

3p. 10:25

4p. 11:45

6p. 1:30

Review!

Friday-6

-Log on to Schoology in the FRIDAY folder and take the test.

-When you are finished, read or work on an assignment from another class.

NO COMPUTERS

NO TALKING

Monday, October 26, 2020

October 26-30

 Quote of the week:  "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

                                                        -Elinore Roosevelt

                                                                                                                       

    Week 12

Monday-26

Bellwork: Finish Gizmo from last week then watch this > Mercury 

Monday Meeting

Gizmo Review

Click here > Mercury!

Tuesday-27

Bellwork:  Finish the Mercury assignment from yesterday and submit.  Fast finishers may read the extra articles from the Mercury slides.

Click here > Venus!

Fast Finishers click here >  Venus Facts

Wednesday-28

Bellwork:  Finish the Venus assignment from yesterday and submit.  Fast finishers may read the extra articles from the Venus slides.

 Click here > Earth!

Fast Finishers click here > 10 Strange Things You Didn't Know About Earth

Thursday-29

Bellwork: Finish the Earth assignment from yesterday and submit.  Fast finishers may read the extra articles from the Earth slides.

Click here > Mars!

Friday-30  Finish the Mars assignment from yesterday and submit.  Fast finishers may read the extra articles from the Mars slides.

Bellwork:  Solar System Activity!

 

Monday, October 19, 2020

 

October 20-23


Quote of the week:  "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

                                                                            -Theodore Roosevelt

                                                                                                                       

    Week 11

Monday-19

No School!

Tuesday-20

"Tuesday Morning Meeting"

Bellwork: 

Solar System Cards

6.1.3 Scale of the Solar System Day1

Wednesday-21

Bellwork: Watch this

6.1.3 Scale of the Solar System Day2

Thursday-22

Bellwork: Finish your worksheet from yesterday INCLUDING  your 3 patterns you noticed written on the back. 

 If you are already finished, Watch this from yesterday  

6.1.3 Scale of the Solar System Day3

Friday-23

Bellwork: Finish the Gizmo from yesterday. 

 If you are already finished, please watch this.

Scale of the Solar System Study Jam


Friday, October 9, 2020

 

October 12-14

 Quote of the week: "Speak your truth, even if your voice shakes."

                                                                                                                        -Maggie Kuhn

    Week 10

Monday-12

Bellwork: Data Binders:  Record your Gravity and Inertia score on page 3 then graph it.

Monday Meeting

Bill Nye: Gravity - Fill in Worksheet

Tuesday-13

Bellwork: Check PowerSchool for any missing or incomplete assignments

Solar System Escape Room!

Wednesday-14

Bellwork: Watch this video

You are an engineer tasked to design new packaging for astronaut food!

    -Use this organizer to design your food packaging!



Monday, October 5, 2020

 

October 5-6

 Quote of the week: "Mistakes are proof that you are trying."

    Week 9

Monday-5

Bellwork: Schoology Monday Folder:  Slide 25 record answer in your journal

Monday Meeting

Monday Folder in SchoologyGravity and Inertia slide

Tuesday-6

Bellwork:  Phet Similator on slide 29 from yesterday.

    -Play with it and make some observations in your journal

Open Tuesdays Folder in Schoology and complete the GIZMO (scroll down and complete the quiz questions)

Open Monday's slide and pick an "Extras"  slide to watch and record answers in your journal

Wednesday-7

Data Binder:  Fill in the "Seasons"  Section on page 3

In Schoology, open the Wednesday Folder. 

    Scroll to slide 34

    Read the articles

    Fill out the "Claim, Evidence and Reasoning" sheet

        Use evidence from at least 3 different articles.

Thursday-8

Bellwork:  Read pages 29-32 in your text book, then In your journal, draw and label a model of an example of GRAVITY and INERTIA working together.

Hand in CER worksheet from yesterday

Gravity and Inertia Review

Game

Friday-9

Gravity and Inertia Quiz

5 min silent study-Any assignments, articles, text book etc

Bill Nye Gravity 

Worksheet


Sunday, September 27, 2020

Sept. 28- Oct. 2

 Quote of the week: "When nothing goes RIGHT, go LEFT."

    Week 8

Monday-28

put your SEASONS foldable in the pocket of your Solar System section of your journal.

Data Binder: Fill in pages 2  

Monday Meeting

Monday Folder in Schoology: Cyclical Patterns "Nearpod"

Tuesday-29

5 minutes quick study:  Seasons Foldable, Seasons Literacy Read p. 24,25

Tuesdays Folder in Schoology: SEASONS TEST

Wednesday-30

Please update your Data Binder with your results from the SEASONS quiz.

We will be watching a documentary today.

In your journal:

1. What is one thing you watched/heard/ that was surprising or new to you?

2. Come up with one "Stump the Class Question"

Parent Teacher Conferences: 3:00-6:30  A-K

Thursday-1

Journals:  Discuss with your tables:  Your observation and "Stump the class" question.

Thursdays Folder in Schoology: Day 2 Slides

Parent Teacher Conferences: 3:00-6:30 L-Z

Friday-2

Day 2 Slide show on Schoology