Date: 8/12/13 2 Hour Delay Schedule

Date: 8/12/13 2 Hour Delay Schedule
WSBW FM 18 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 8/12/13 2 Hour Delay Schedule Homework: No homework / Bring 1.5 inch three ring binder to organize Science materials Startup/warm-up: Not one today / Explanation of Screen for future use as students enter the classroom Activities: - Alphabetical seating chart activity - It is okay to be incorrect “Be bold” - Stay engaged and always double check / take responsibility

Date: 8/13/13 Regular Schedule
WSBW FM 18 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 8/13/13 Regular Schedule Homework: Bring one and one half inch three ring binder to organize Science materials. Go to Textbook on-line using the instructions from class to see if you can get there. Startup/warm-up: Sit in your seats alphabetically from the front table right as instructed from yesterday’s activity. Activities: Assign textbooks, go over classroom packet for binder, Airzooka if time allows

WSBW FM 18 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 8/14/13 Regular Schedule Homework: Bring one and one half inch three ring binder to organize Science materials. Go to Textbook on-line using the instructions from class to see if you can get there. Startup/warm-up: Take a bubble sheet from the front table. Then: Try to complete a circuit from the materials in the package on you table. Get the light bulb to turn on. Activities: SLO Pretest Science 7th Grade Air pressure demo if time allows

WSBW FM 18 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 8/15/13 Regular Schedule Homework: Go to Textbook on-line using the instructions from class to see if you can get there. Unit 1 Nature of Science – Lesson 1 Scientific Knowledge - Read pages 4-5 answer questions 1 - 3 Startup/warm-up: Take a Science World only from the front table and read pages 2 – 7. After you have read these pages, return the magazine. Now take the 10 question quiz paper from the front table, back to your seat, and take the quiz. This is not for grade!! Activities: Put together tabs for Science Binder Take home grade point averages Air pressure demo if time allows

WSBW FM 18 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind
Date: 8/16/13 ECA Schedule Homework: … from the Beginning and Not a Theory It’s a Law Read Pages 6 – 9 ; answer questions Journal – What I accomplished and learned in the first week of 7th Grade Science Class Startup/warm-up: Take a Unit One Pretest and bubble sheet from the front table and begin taking the Test NOT For GRADE. When finished Return them to the table. Work on or double check Student (A), (B), (C) GPA (grade point average) from the paper provided to you yesterday. Have that paper out and ready to go. Activities: Unit 1 Pre-test. Not for Grade / Grade Point Average check / Air pressure demo’s / Show how to get homework for class on School Website if time remains

Homework: What’s your evidence? The Debate continues Read pages 10 – 13 questions Date: 8/19/13 Startup/warm-up: On a separate piece of paper: Describe a person who is a scientist. QOTD: What does Science tell us? How do Scientific theories differ from Laws? Activities: QOTD check / Homework coverage/ Journal check-discussion Show how to get homework for class on School Website/ New Air Pressure Demo / Rubber band experiment explained

Homework: Visual Summary page 14 #’s 18 – 22 and Lesson Review page15 #’s 1 – 6 Quiz Lesson 1 pgs. 4 – 15 Tomorrow Date: 8/20/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a Science World only from the front table and read pages 2 – 7. After you have read these pages, return the magazine. Now take the 10 question quiz paper from the front table, back to your seat, and take the quiz. This is not for grade!! QOTD: Where do scientists get their evidence? / How do scientific ideas change? Activities: QOTD check / Homework coverage Rubber Band Activity

Homework: Lesson 2 Scientific Investigations page 18 – 19 #’s 1 -3
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Lesson 2 Scientific Investigations page 18 – 19 #’s 1 -3 Date: 8/21/13 Quiz Unit 1 Lesson 1 Startup/warm-up: Take a Journal paper from the front desk and place it at the beginning of your “journal section” in your binder; then: Work the Lesson Review Page 15; #’s 7 – 11; Then prepare for Quiz QOTD: No question of the day - Quiz Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Group Review / Quiz / Homework check Rubber Band Activity

Homework: Detective Story – Read pages 20 – 21; #’s 5 - 7
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Detective Story – Read pages 20 – 21; #’s 5 - 7 Date: 8/22/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a plastic bag of rubber bands and microscope (may have to share) from the front table an use the hand held microscope to begin observing any features you could not see without the aid of the microscope QOTD: Essential Question Lesson 2 Unit 1: How are scientific investigations conducted? Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Return Quiz / How to write specific investigative questions/ Rubber Band Activity

Homework: Read pages 22 – 25; answer #’s 8 - 10
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Read pages 22 – 25; answer #’s Date: 8/23/13 Startup/warm-up: On a lined piece of paper in your Lab Report section of your binder, write some step by step procedures (instructions) for doing an experiment testing the three types of rubber bands QOTD: What are some types of scientific investigations? Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: How to write specific investigative procedures/ QOTD / Rubber Band Activity (Data collection)

Homework: Read pages 26 – 29; answer #’s 12 – 17 / Quiz lesson 2, Wed.
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 8/26/13 Startup/warm-up: Take an “Extended Response “ paper from the front table And begin filling out the answers ( you may use the textbook) QOTD: What are some of the parts of scientific investigations? / What are some scientific methods? Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Data Tables / Scientific Method Shuffle / Independent and Dependent Variables / / Rubber Band Wrap-up

WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind
Homework: Visual Summary page 30 #’s 19 – 24 Lesson Review page 31 #’s 1 – 5 Quiz lesson 2, Wed. Date: 8/27/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a school paper towel and microscope from the front table and observe, then begin to form some questions on the “Paper Towel Dilemma” paper found in the Lab section. QOTD: How does the process of scientific investigation work? / What are some characteristics of good scientific investigation?/ How is repetition different from replication?/ How can you evaluate the quality of scientific investigation? Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Check Extended Response paper/ Group work / (Repetition Replication) / Paper Towel Dilemma activity

Homework: Lesson 3 Unit 1 “Representing Data” pages 32 – 33; #’s 1 - 3
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Lesson 3 Unit 1 “Representing Data” pages 32 – 33; #’s 1 - 3 Date: 8/28/13 Startup/warm-up: Work #’s 6 – 10 page 31 Then: Prepare For Lesson 2 Unit 1 Quiz “Scientific Investigations” QOTD: No question of the Day – Quiz Lesson 2 “Scientific Investigations” Unit 1 Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Group Study & Homework Check / Quiz Lesson 2 / Paper Towel Dilemma activity

Homework: “Get Organized” and “Circle Up” Pages 34 – 37 #’s 5 - 12
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: “Get Organized” and “Circle Up” Pages 34 – 37 #’s Date: 8/29/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a paper from the front table and read carefully After reading determine if you would be willing to sign a Petition from a letter that I will draft to our Congressman and Senator’s to ban this environment epidemic? QOTD: Essential question Lesson 3 Unit 1: How do scientists organize, analyze, and present data? Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Make-up quiz and Homework Check / Paper Towel Dilemma Lab

Homework: “Test drive the New Model” and “On Target” pages 38 – 41; #’s 13 – 16 & 18 Date: 8/30/13 Startup/warm-up: Go over your “Paper Towel Dilemma” paper in your Binder. Provide as much information as we have covered so far. QOTD: How do scientists make sense of data? / What do graphs show? Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Lab safety / Paper Towel Dilemma Lab

Homework: Visual Summary page 42; #’s 19 – 22 Lesson Review page 43; #’s 1 – 5 / Quiz Tomorrow lesson 3 ****Unit 1 Post-Test for grade Thursday**** Date: 9/3/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a Garden Paper from the front table and read; then: Go to the Paper Towel Dilemma paper and continue filling in As many details as possible QOTD: How do Scientist evaluate models?/ What principles do scientists use when measuring experimental results? Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Garden explanation / Paper Towel Dilemma Lab

Homework: Fill out in your Textbook the I-Step+ Review pages 46 – 50 (#’s 1 – 10)****Unit 1 Post-Test for grade Thursday**** Date: 9/4/13 Startup/warm-up: Finish the Lesson Review page 43 #’s 6 - 9 QOTD: No Question of the day – Quiz 3 Lesson 3 Unit 1 Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Garden explanation / Quiz Lesson 3 Unit 1 / Paper Towel Dilemma Lab Wrap-up

Homework: ****Unit 1 Post-Test for grade Friday****
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/5/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a Science World magazine from the front table and read pages 2 – 7. After you have read these pages, return the magazine. After you have returned the magazine take the 10 question quiz paper to your desk and answer the questions. When you are finished turn your paper over and use your good time management skills. This quiz is not for grade!! QOTD: No Question of the day Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Garden explanation / Reading Comprehension Science World/ Grade homework (I-Step+ review)

Homework: No Homework Yea!!!!!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/6/13 Startup/warm-up: Study for Unit 1 Test QOTD: No Question of the day Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Quick Review Unit 1 / Test Unit 1/ Pre-test Unit 2 “Energy”

Date: 9/9/13 Garden Resumes’ Due
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Lesson 1 Unit 2 “Forces and Motion” Read pages 54 – 57 answer #’s 1-3 and 5-7 Date: 9/9/13 Garden Resumes’ Due Startup/warm-up: Take a bubble sheet and Unit 2 Pre-test from the front of the table and begin work. I am a “beanhead” And gave you the wrong Pre-test on Friday QOTD: Unit 2 “Forces and Motion” Essential Question: How are distance, time, and speed related? Standards Unit One: Nature of Science NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Turn in Garden Resume’/ Pre-test Unit 2 “Forces and Motion”/ return Post-test Unit 1/ Introduction of Shadow Data Project

Date: 9/10/13 Garden Tomorrow come prepared!!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/10/13 Garden Tomorrow come prepared!!! Homework: Read pages 58 – 61 “Move it!” and Speed it up! Answer questions # 8, 9, 11, & 12 Journal Writing ( word documented ) – Unit 1 (dates Aug.15th – Sept. 6th) Due Monday Sept. 16th. Startup/warm-up: Take a Unit 2 – Motion and Forces Questions of the Day (QOTD’s) from the front desk And place it in your binder QOTD: How can you describe the location of an object? Standards Unit two: 7.1.7 Activities: Turn in Garden Resume’/ return Post-test Unit 1/ Introduction of Shadow Data Project (Compasses)

Homework: Read pages 62 – 64 #’s 13 – 16 “Fast Graphs” Journal Writing – Unit 1 (dates Aug.15th – Sept. 6th) Due Monday Sept. 16th. Date: 9/11/13 Garden Day!!!! Startup/warm-up: Take a Science World Magazine from the front and read Pages 8 – 11 “Going Ape Over Apps” QOTD: What is motion? / What is speed? / What is average speed? How is average speed calculated? Standards Unit two: 7.1.7 Activities: Science world activity / Garden work

Shadow Data Day!!!!!! Date: 9/12/13
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Read page 65 “Follow Directions” Answer # 17 Journal Writing – Unit 1 (dates Aug.15th – Sept. 6th) Due Monday Sept. 16th. Date: 9/12/13 Shadow Data Day!!!!!! Startup/warm-up: Check the board left and try and determine what is happening to an object from what you can observe happening in each graph (A, B & C). Then take an “Average Speed Problems paper from the front and work the problems given – calculators are available (share) QOTD: How is constant speed graphed? / How are changing speeds graphed? Standards Unit two: 7.1.7 Activities: Math and science/ QOTD /shadow data demonstration

Date: 9/13/13 Shadow Data Day Again!!!!!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/13/13 Shadow Data Day Again!!!!!! Homework: Visual Summary page 66; #’s 18 – 23 Lesson Review page 67; #’s 1 – 6; Quiz Monday Lesson 1 Unit 2 Journal Writing – Unit 1 (dates Aug.15th – Sept. 6th) Due Monday Sept. 16th. Startup/warm-up: Work on Homework for Monday QOTD: What is velocity? Standards Unit two: 7.1.7 Activities: Math and science/ QOTD / Second shadow data demonstration

Homework: Interpreting Graphs pages 68 – 69 Read and answer #’s 1 - 4
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/16/13 Quiz Lesson 1; Pages 54 – 67 Homework: Interpreting Graphs pages 68 – 69 Read and answer #’s 1 - 4 Startup/warm-up: Lesson review page 67; #’s Standard Unit two: 7.1.7 QOTD: No QOTD – Quiz Lesson 1 Unit 2 Activities: Group study/ Homework check/ Quiz lesson 1 Unit 2 Collect Journal papers /Shadow data teams

Date: 9/17/13 Garden Tomorrow!!!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/17/13 Garden Tomorrow!!!! Homework: Lesson 2 Unit 2 Acceleration “Getting Up to Speed” read pages 70 – 73 answer #’s 1-3; 5 – 8 Startup/warm-up: Go to M&M Meltdown activity in your Lab Report section Read through and get an idea for what it is about. QOTD: Essential Question Unit 2 lesson 2 How does motion change? Standard Unit two: 7.1.7 Check out the board under the TV Activities: Go over graph homework/ /Shadow data teams check/ Explanation of “M&M Meltdown” activity

Homework: Read pages 74 -75 “What a Drag” Answer #’s 9 - 11
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/18/13 Garden Day – Yea!!!!! Sorry Rained out Homework: Read pages “What a Drag” Answer #’s Startup/warm-up: Take a piece of computer paper from the front desk And fold it into three columns – then label the paper like The board on the left. Standard Unit two: 7.1.7 Check out the board under the TV QOTD: How do we measure changing velocity?/ How is average acceleration calculated? Activities: Video “Motion” KWL paper

Homework: Visual Summary Questions page 76 #’s 12 – 16 Lesson 2 Review page 77 #’s 1 – 8 Quiz Friday Lesson 2 Date: 9/19/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a speed and acceleration worksheet from the front and begin working the problems found there. Calculators are available from the from blue tub Standard Unit two: 7.1.7 Check out the board under the TV QOTD: How can accelerating objects change velocity? Activities: Startup/warm-up problems/ M&M Meltdown activity

Homework: Quiz Monday Lesson 2
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Quiz Monday Lesson 2 Date: 9/20/13 Startup/warm-up: Get ready for the M&M Meltdown Write down a few Procedures to share with team about how The M&M Meltdown should work Standard Unit two: 7.1.7 Check out the board under the TV QOTD: NO questions – Quiz Monday Activities: M&M Meltdown activity

Date: 9/23/13 Fall Equinox / End of Summer/ Quiz Homework: Lesson 3 Unit 2 “Forces” pages 78 – 79 #’s 1 – 3 “Nature of Forces” pages 80 – 81 #’s 5 - 8 Startup/warm-up: Prepare for the Quiz Standard Unit two: 7.1.5; 7.1.6; 7.17 QOTD: Essential Question: What causes motion? Activities: Quiz and homework check /M&M Meltdown activity Return Journal papers

Homework: “In the balance” pages 82 – 83; #’s (9, 10)
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/24/13 Fall Equinox past/ Shadow Data Day Homework: “In the balance” pages 82 – 83; #’s (9, 10) Startup/warm-up: Look at last years Shadow Data and make a prediction for today and your meter stick shadow, pole shadow, and compass reading Standard Unit two: 7.1.5; 7.1.6; 7.17 check board Under TV QOTD: What is a Force? / How can forces act? Activities: Quiz graded /Shadow Data (All teams) / M&M Meltdown activity

Homework: “In the balance” pages 82 – 83; #’s (9, 10)
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/24/13 Shadow Data Thurs./ Outdoor Lab observation Friday Homework: “In the balance” pages 82 – 83; #’s (9, 10) Startup/warm-up: Look at last years Shadow Data and make a prediction for today and your meter stick shadow, pole shadow, and compass reading –cancelled for today Standard Unit two: 7.1.5; 7.1.6; 7.17 check board Under TV QOTD: What is a Force? / How can forces act? Activities: Quiz graded /Shadow Data (All teams) Cancelled/ M&M Meltdown activity

Homework: “Hitting the Brakes” pages 84 – 86; #’s (11 -14)
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/25/13 Garden Day / Weather permitting Shadow Data tomorrow Homework: “Hitting the Brakes” pages 84 – 86; #’s (11 -14) Startup/warm-up: Take a Science World Magazine and browse any article Not the “Gardanians” Standard Unit two: 7.1.5; 7.1.6; 7.17 check board Under TV QOTD: How do multiple forces interact? Activities: /Garden Day weather permitting / Alternative: poster presentations of M&M Meltdown activity/ Science World Activity

Homework: “A Wearable Robot” / “A Matching Pair” pages 87-89; #’s 15 – 20 Date: 9/26/13 Shadow Data Today / All teams!! Startup/warm-up: Take a look at the previous years of Shadow Data for the dates around this time of year. From that data, make a prediction of the shadow data and compass that we will be collecting today in your class. QOTD: How do forces act on objects? 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Shadow Data discussion and measurement - All teams / Return Quiz - Lesson 2 / Discussion of QOTD’s for Lesson 3/ M&M Presentation finish

Outdoor Lab Observation Day!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 9/27/13 Outdoor Lab Observation Day!! Homework: Visual Summary page 90 #’s 21 – 25 Lesson Review page 91 #’s 1 – 5 Quiz Monday Startup/warm-up: Go to the Outdoor Lab section of your binder and fill out the first observation sheet for today. Time of Day is the time for the beginning of the class. QOTD: How do force pairs act? 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Outdoor Lab to the Nature trail.

Date: 9/30/13 Quiz Lesson 3 pages 78 – 91 NO GARDEN this WEEK Homework: Read pages 92 – 93 “People in Science” Write Names and a brief summary of what they do. Permission Form to Mr. Wambach in Science class Startup/warm-up: Lesson Review page 91; #’s 6 - 9 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV QOTD: No QOTD’s Quiz lesson 3 Unit 2 Activities: Field Trip talk / Group study and homework check/ Quiz Lesson 3 / Finish M&M presentations

Homework: Lesson 4 Unit 2 “Types of Forces” Pages 94 – 95; #’s Permission Form to Mr. Wambach in Science class Date: 10/1/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a Science World magazine from the front table and read pages 2 – 7. After you have read these pages, return the magazine. After you have returned the magazine take the 10 question quiz paper to your desk and answer the questions. When you are finished turn your paper over and use your good “time management” skills. This quiz is not for grade!! Standard’s Unit 2 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV QOTD: No QOTD today – start of a new lesson Activities: Science World Reading Comprehension / Grade Quiz M&M Presentation work / Collect Permission forms

Homework: Lesson 4 Unit 2; “3, 2, 1 Contact” and “From a Distance” Pages 96 – 99; #’s Date: 10/2/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a cup, penny and index card and demonstrate Newton’s First Law of Motion (Inertia) QOTD: Essential Lesson 4 Unit 2 question; What are some types of Forces? 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Inertia Demonstration/ Practice questions A, B, C & D / M&M Presentation work

Homework: “Down to Earth” pages ; #’s 11 – 12 Permission Form to Mr. Wambach in Science class Date: 10/3/13 Wear T-shirts tomorrow!!!! Startup/warm-up: Create the cluster diagram on the board – left. Fill in the circles And give examples for the text. QOTD: What are some contact forces? What are some non-contact forces? 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Startup/warm-up / Review of QOTD / M&M Presentation work

Homework: “A Weighty Issue” pages 102 – 103 (#’s 13 – 16) / Unit Test Thurs. Permission Form to Mr. Wambach in Science class Date: 10/4/13 Shadow Data Day!!! Postponed Startup/warm-up: Take a “Light Pole Shadow Data Math” paper from the front table and look it over thoroughly. QOTD: What are gravities effects? 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Gravity demo/ presentation review/ shadow data

Date: 10/7/13 Field Trip Friday – wear your shirts!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 10/7/13 Field Trip Friday – wear your shirts!! Homework: Visual Summary page 104; #’s 17 – 21 Lesson 4 Review page 105 #’s ** Quiz lesson 4 tomorrow – Unit Test Thursday ** Permission Form to Mr. Wambach in Science class Startup/warm-up: Take a computer paper and fold it like the example on the table QOTD: What determines the force of gravity? 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Gravity demo and talk/ video Gravity

Date: 10/8/13 Field Trip Friday – wear your shirts!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 10/8/13 Field Trip Friday – wear your shirts!! Shadow Data Day !!  Homework: ** Quiz lesson 4 “Types of Forces” tomorrow – Unit Test Thursday ** Permission Form to Mr. Wambach in Science class ISTEP+ Review pages 109 – 111 #’s 1 – 11. Startup/warm-up: Lesson Review #’s 8 – 11 page 105 Make Predictions for the shadow from previous years QOTD: What effects the force of gravity? 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Gravity demo and talk/ Another Video about Gravity/ Shadow Data

Homework: ** Unit Test tomorrow **
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 10/9/13 Garden Day!!! Field Trip Friday – wear your shirts!! Homework: ** Unit Test tomorrow ** Startup/warm-up: Includes GARDAINIANS! Take a Quiz paper from the front. Put your name, date and period at the top. DO NOT take the quiz yet. Turn the paper over, put your name on this side then number down the left side (1 – 10) only. Put the answers you have from the ISTEP+ Review from your book to the backside of the paper. QOTD: Study the QOTD’s for the Unit Test 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Quiz Lesson 4 Unit 2 / Grade ISTEP+ Review Review for Unit Test

Homework: **No homework – End of Grading Period**
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 10/10/13 Field Trip tomorrow – wear your Blue Team shirts!! Homework: **No homework – End of Grading Period** Startup/warm-up: Take a bubble sheet from the front and put your name, date and period. Then, Continue study of Unit 2 for the Unit Test today QOTD: Study the QOTD’s for the Unit Test 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV Activities: Turn in quizzes from yesterday / Unit 2 Test / Discussion of Field Trip expectations / Garden Visit (time permitting)

Homework: **No homework – End of Grading Period**
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 10/11/13 Field Trip Homework: **No homework – End of Grading Period** Startup/warm-up: Field Trip 7.1.5; 7.1.6; check board under TV QOTD: Study the QOTD’s for the Unit Test Activities: Howell Wetland and Wesselman Wood Preserve comparisons

Date: 10/14/13 New Grading period
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Go to and take the survey to determine an area of science that you might be interested in. Date: 10/14/13 New Grading period Startup/warm-up: Take a Science World Magazine from the front. On Pages 2 and 3 identify the Title, Problem or Purpose and Hypothesis. Then try and determine what background research was used to help with the understanding of the experiment. QOTD: No questions till start new unit Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Startup Warm-up / sciencebuddies website/ Intro to science fair work

Homework: Go to take the survey. Find project Ideas or come up with several on your own for Tues. Oct.22nd computer room 208. Science Journaling Due October Friday 25th (see board right) – Isaac Newton biography due Thursday the 24th Date: 10/15/13 Startup/warm-up: Take a “Sir Isaac Newton the Gravity of Genius” paper From the front table AND “When Searching for Science Fair Projects” paper QOTD: No questions till start new unit Tuesday Oct. 22nd Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Biography explanation / sciencebuddies website/ Journal writing

Homework: Go to take the survey. Find project Ideas or come up with several on your own for Tues. Oct.22nd computer room 208. Science Journaling Due October Friday 25th (see board right) – Isaac Newton biography due Thursday the 24th Date: 10/16/13 Startup/warm-up: Work on writing assignments QOTD: No questions till start new unit Tuesday Oct. 22nd Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Video “Biography of Sir Isaac Newton”

Homework: Go to take the survey. Find project Ideas or come up with several on your own for Tues. Oct.22nd computer room 502. Science Journaling Due October Friday 25th (see board right) – Isaac Newton biography due Thursday the 24th Date: 10/17/13 Startup/warm-up: Work on writing assignments QOTD: No questions till start new unit Tuesday Oct. 22nd Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Video “Biography of Sir Isaac Newton”

Date: 10/ /13 Homework: Go to take the survey. Find project Ideas or come up with several on your own for Tues. Oct.22nd computer room 502. Science Journaling Due October Friday 25th (see board right) – Isaac Newton biography due Thursday the 24th Tues – pages 116 – 117 #’s 1 – 3 Wed. – pages 118 – 119 #’s 5 & 6 Thurs. – pages #’s 7 – 9 Fri. – pages 122 – 123 #’s Startup/warm-up: Computer Room 502 – Computer skills for Science Fair QOTD: What is work? / How is work calculated?/ How are work and energy related?/ what is power?/ How is power calculated? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11 Activities: Computer skills and intro to getting started on the Science Fair

Computer Room 502 – Computer skills for Science Fair
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: Week of 10/28 – 11/1 Homework: Monday Oct. 28th - Visual Summary page 124 #’s 14 – 19 AND Lesson Review page 125 #’s 1 – 5. Tuesday Oct. 29th – Take home quiz Lesson 1 Unit 3 – Begin Lesson 2 “Conservation of Energy” pages 126 – 127 #’s 1 – 3. Turn in Top Three Ideas Wednesday Oct. 30th - “Perfect Form” pages 128 – 129 #’s 5 and 7. Turn in Top Three Ideas. Thursday Oct. 31st – “Transformers” pages 130 – 131 #’s 8 – 11. Turn in Top Three Ideas. Friday Nov. 1st – “ Energy In = Energy Out” pages 132 – 133 #’s 12 – 15. Vocabulary : Energy transformation, law of conservation of energy, efficiency Turn in “Three Ideas” paper for Science Fair Projects Startup/warm-up: Computer Room 502 – Computer skills for Science Fair QOTD: What are some forms of energy?; What is energy transformation?; How does mechanical energy transform?; What is conservation of energy?; How is energy conserved? How is efficiency measured? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Computer skills and intro to getting started on your Science Fair Project

Homework: Efficiency Expert pages 134 – 135; #’s 16 and 17 Quiz Wednesday Lesson 2 pages Date: 11/4/13 Startup/warm-up: Write down or be able to explain if there is a difference between The “Law of Conservation of Energy” and “Energy Conservation” QOTD: What are some forms of energy?; What is energy transformation?; How does mechanical energy transform?; What is conservation of energy?; How is energy conserved? How is efficiency measured? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Tweaking “Science Fair Ideas” / Video “Energy”

Homework: Visual Summary page 136 #’s 18 – 25 Lesson Review page 137 #’s Quiz Wednesday Lesson 2 pages Date: 11/5/13 Startup/warm-up: Take an ENTRY Form paper from the front desk then: Answer Questions 6 – 8 page 137 Lesson Review QOTD: What are some forms of energy?; What is energy transformation?; How does mechanical energy transform?; What is conservation of energy?; How is energy conserved? How is efficiency measured? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Energy transfer demo / Tweaking “Science Fair Ideas” / Science Fair “Entry” Form /Group Review Lesson 2

Homework: Lesson 3 Unit3 “Thermal Energy and Heat” pages 140 – 141 #’s 1 – 3; Turn in “Entry Form” Date: 11/6/13 Startup/warm-up: Study material for the upcoming Lesson 2 Quiz QOTD: Essential question: How does thermal energy move from Place to Place Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Tweaking “Science Fair Ideas” / Group Review Lesson 2 / Homework Check Lesson’s 1 & 2 / Quiz Lesson 2

Date: 11/7/13 Shadow Data Tomorrow
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where “Chance favors the Prepared” Mind Homework: Thermal… Under Where?” Pages 142 – 143 #’s 5 & 6 Turn in “Entry Form” Date: 11/7/13 Shadow Data Tomorrow Startup/warm-up: Take a Science World magazine from the front and read The Science in the News section pages 2 – 7. 9th period only – place yourselves in 12 groups of 3 QOTD: What is thermal energy? / what is the difference between thermal energy and temperature? Standards: ; 7.1.2; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Tweaking “Science Fair Ideas” / Return Quizes/ Science World reading / Thermal vs. Temperature / 9th period Terrarium

Homework: Heat it Up! pages 144 – 146; #’s 7 - 11 Turn in “Entry Form”
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Heat it Up! pages 144 – 146; #’s Turn in “Entry Form” Date: 11/8/13 Shadow Data Day! Startup/warm-up: Make predictions for today’s shadow – remember we have gone off Daylight Savings time from last week. Use past years data for help. QOTD: What is thermal energy? / what is the difference between thermal energy and temperature? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Tweaking “Science Fair Ideas” / Thermal vs. Temperature / Shadow Data analysis / Sun, Shadow, Thermal Heat discussion

Date: 11/11/13 Veteran’s Day!!! Special Schedule
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: “Move It Around” pages 147 – 148 #’s 12 – 14 Turn in “Entry Form” / Quiz Thurs. Lesson 3 pages Date: 11/11/13 Veteran’s Day!!! Special Schedule Startup/warm-up: Convert ( using the formula on your Outdoor Lab papers ) the following Celsius Temperatures to Fahrenheit. 5, 21, 100, 0 and 15. Calculators in the blue tub. QOTD: What is heat? / How is heat measured? / How is heat related to thermal energy? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up numbers / Thermal vs. Temperature / Thermal Heat discussion / Thermometer usage/ Explanation of Tentative schedule/ Scoring sheets

Homework: Practical uses of Radiation page 149 Visual Summary page 150 #’s Lesson Review page 151 #’s 1 – 6 “Turn in “Entry Form” Quiz Thurs. Lesson 3 pages Date: 11/12/13 Startup/warm-up: Convert ( using the formula on you Outdoor Lab papers ) the following Celsius Temperatures to Fahrenheit. 7, 11, 17, 23 and 35. Plug in the formula – SHOW THE WORK QOTD: How can heat affect the state of an object? / How does heat move? / What is conduction? / What is convection? ? What is radiation? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up numbers / Thermal vs. Temperature / Thermal Heat discussion / Thermometer usage / Heat Demonstrations

Homework: Quiz Tomorrow. Lesson 3 pages 140 – 151 “Turn in “Entry Form” for the Science Fair Date: 11/13/13 Startup/warm-up: Make a foldable from the computer paper provided for the vocabulary for this lesson. See Mr. Wambach’s example on the front table QOTD: How can heat affect the state of an object? / How does heat move? / What is conduction? / What is convection? ? What is radiation? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up foldable / video “Changes in Properties of Matter”

Date: 11/14/13 Quiz Lesson 3 Unit 3
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 11/14/13 Quiz Lesson 3 Unit 3 Homework: Lesson 4 “Waves and Energy” pages 152 – 153 #’s Turn in “Entry Form” for the Science Fair Startup/warm-up: Answer numbers 7 – 9 page 151 / Study for Quiz / continue “Foldable” if needed Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 QOTD: None today due to Quiz Activities: Startup/warm-up / Quiz Lesson 3 Unit 3/ Vocabulary “charades”

Date: 11/15/13 Outdoor Lab – Observation #2
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 11/15/13 Outdoor Lab – Observation #2 Homework: Read pages 154 – 157 #’s 5 – 12 “Riding the Wave” and “Different Waves to Transfer Energy” “Turn in “Entry Form” for the Science Fair Startup/warm-up: Get out your Outdoor Lab paper and fill out for Observation #2 – then go over Observation #1 from last time and read the observations for comparison to this one,. QOTD: Essential Question Lesson 4 Unit 3: How do waves transfer energy? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Outdoor Lab – Observation #2

Homework: Read pages 158 – 159 #13 only “Making Waves” “Turn in “Entry Form” for the Science Fair Date: 11/18/13 Startup/warm-up: Finish foldable for Lesson 3. Complete homework for pages 154 – 157 #’s 5 – 12; vocabulary, and QOTD’s QOTD: Essential Question Lesson 4 Unit 3: What are Waves? /How do waves transfer energy? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Waves explanation / Return Quizzes

Date: 11/19/13 Shadow Data Day!!!!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 11/19/13 Shadow Data Day!!!!! Homework: Read pages #’s “Amp it up” “Turn in “Entry Form” for the Science Fair Startup/warm-up: Take a paper from the front table and make predictions For the shadow based on the years before data, then Finish vocabulary “Foldable” Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 QOTD: What are some types of waves? Activities: Startup/warm-up / Shadow Graphing practice / Shadow Data

Date: 11/20/13 Homework: Read pages #’s “A Happy Medium” “Turn in “Entry Form” for the Science Fair Startup/warm-up: Have your foldable ready to be turned in for grade. Continue work on Shadow Graph from yesterday. QOTD: How can you describe a wave? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Wave explanations / Shadow Data graphing

Date: 11/21/13 Homework: Visual Summary pg. 164 #’s 21 – 26 Lesson 4 Review pg. 165 #’s 1 – 8; Quiz tomorrow Lesson 4 “Turn in “Entry Form” for the Science Fair Startup/warm-up: Work on graphing skills, and any homework not completed. QOTD: What determines the speed of a wave? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Wave explanations / Shadow Data graphing

Homework: NO homework!!!!!!!! Yea!!!!!! “Turn in “Entry Form” for the Science Fair Date: 11/22/13 Startup/warm-up: Lesson Review page 165, #’s 9 – 13 Then prepare for the Quiz lesson 4 Unit 3 pages QOTD: No questions of the day! Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / homework check / Quiz Lesson 4 Unit3

Date: 11/25/13 Science Fair Entry Form Due today!!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 11/25/13 Science Fair Entry Form Due today!!! Homework: Pages 168 – 169 Lesson 5 Unit 3 #’s 1 – 3 “Interaction of Waves and Matter” Startup/warm-up: Use the vocabulary words “medium and amplitude” and Make an “Acrostic” - see example on the board – remember words used must be related to the meaning of the word QOTD: Essential Question Lesson 5: How do waves interact with matter? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Science Fair discussion / “October Sky” Movie Review / 9th period only – Terrarium check

Homework: Science Fair Data Collected / Read pages 172 – 173 “Shedding Light on the Matter” #’s 8, 10, & 11 ***Also Read pages 166 – 167 and do #’s 1 & 2 Mean, Median, Mode Date: 12/2/13 Startup/warm-up: Read pages 170 – 171 and answer #’s 5 & 6 QOTD: How do sound waves interact with matter? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Science Fair discussion / Video on Sound

Homework: Science Fair Data Collected / Read pages 176 – 177 “Where is It?” #’s Date: 12/3/13 Startup/warm-up: Read pages 174 – 175 and answer #’s 12 & 13/ Then take a Science World Magazine and a “Review the Article” paper then read the article “The Big Melt” Pages 14 – 17 and do a review. QOTD: How can matter interact w/ light? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Science fair discussion / Video “Color and Light”

Homework: Science Fair Data Collected / Journal Writing Visual Summary page 178 #’s Lesson Review page 179 #’s 1 – 6 Homework check and Quiz lesson 5 tomorrow Date: 12/4/13 Startup/warm-up: Begin working on Journal Writing – See sections on the board left - Due Friday December 13th QOTD: What determines the color of objects we see? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / / Video “Light”

Date: 12/5/13 Quiz Lesson 5 Unit 3
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 12/5/13 Quiz Lesson 5 Unit 3 Homework: Science Fair Data Collected / Journal Writing Lesson 6 “Effects of Energy Transfer” pages #’s 1-3 Snow homework : read pages 188 – 191 #’s Startup/warm-up: Work #’s 7 – 11 Lesson Review page 179 then: Prepare for Lesson 5 Unit 3 Quiz then: continue work on Journal Writing – See sections on the board right - Due Friday December 13th QOTD: How do people use energy? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Homework check / Quiz Lesson 5 Unit 3

Date: 12/11/13 Three prior snow days Homework: Science Fair Data Collected / Journal Writing Lesson 6 “Natures Storehouse” pages #’s 12 – 15 ***Change Journal Writing – Due Monday December 16th Begin studying for Unit 3 test – Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Monday Dec. 16th Startup/warm-up: Work On any homework for Lesson 6 “Effects of Energy Transfer” continue work on Journal Writing – Due Monday December 16th QOTD: How do people use energy? / What are sources of energy? / What are fossil fuels? / What transformation do fossil fuels undergo? / What are some alternative sources of energy? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Discussion of Science fair / “Jenga” game analogy

Date: 12/12/13 Homework: Science Fair Data Collected / Journal Writing Visual Summary page 192, #’s 19 – 22 Lesson Review page 193, #’s Journal Writing – Due Monday December 16th Begin studying for Unit 3 test – Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Monday Dec. 16th Startup/warm-up: Work On any homework for Lesson 6 “Effects of Energy Transfer” continue work on Journal Writing – Due Monday December 16th QOTD: How do people use energy? / What are sources of energy? / What are fossil fuels? / What transformation do fossil fuels undergo? / What are some alternative sources of energy? Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Discussion of Science fair / QOTD Unit 3 Review / Jenga Game analogy

Date: 12/13/13 Homework: Science Fair Data Collected / Journal Writing Journal Writing – Due Monday December 16th Study for Unit 3 test – Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Monday Dec. 16th Startup/warm-up: Complete the ISTEP+ Review pages 197 – 201 #’s 1 -14 In your textbook Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 QOTD: No questions of the day – Quiz Lesson 6 Activities: Startup/warm-up / Quiz and homework check / If time “Jenga” Game

Date: 12/16/13 Homework: NO Homework!!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 12/16/13 Homework: NO Homework!!! Startup/warm-up: Get your Journal paper ready to be turned in - then: Prepare for Unit 3 “Energy” post-test Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 QOTD: No questions of the day – end of semester Activities: Startup/warm-up / Unit 3 “Energy” post-test/ If time: Video “Preparing a Science Fair Project”

Homework: NO Homework!!! Final Tomorrow
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: NO Homework!!! Final Tomorrow Date: 12/17/13 Shadow Data Day!!! Startup/warm-up: Make predictions for the Shadow based on past years then: Just relax and enjoy the seasonal feelings. Stay very, very quiet. QOTD: No questions of the day – end of semester Standards: NOS 7.1 – 7.11; 7.1.1; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.4.3 Activities: Shadow Data Jenga competition – environmental lessons

Date: 12/18/13 Homework: NO Homework!!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: NO Homework!!! Date: 12/18/13 Startup/warm-up: Just relax and enjoy the seasonal feelings. Stay very, very quiet. QOTD: No questions of the day – end of semester Standards: Half way through Activities: Final First Semester Exam

Homework: Minerals pages 206 – 207 #’s 1 – 3 Science Fair Work / Power Point Presentation Date: 1/2/14 Happy New Year!!! Startup/warm-up: Sit where you want – new seating arrangement then: Take the Four (4) sheets from the front table QOTD: “Minerals” / Essential question: What are minerals, how do they form, and how can they be identified? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Pre – test Unit 4 “Earth’s Structure”

Homework: Pages 208 – 209 “Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?” #’s 5 & 6 Science Fair Work / Power Point Presentation Date: 1/3/14 Happy New Year!!! Startup/warm-up: Prepare any questions you may have concerning The Science Fair presentation or other parts QOTD: “Minerals” / Essential question: What are minerals, how do they form, and how can they be identified? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Return Pre-tests / Make up Pre-tests / 9th period Terrariums check Science Fair Discussion and Presentation activities

Date: 1/8 - 10/14 Two Snow Days and Power Points
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 1/8 - 10/14 Two Snow Days and Power Points Homework: Monday – pages 210 – 211; #’s 7 & 8 Tues. – pages 212 – 213; #’s 10 – 12 Wed. – pages ; #’s 13 – 17 Thurs. – pages 218 – 219; Visual Summary #’s 20 – 24 and Lesson Review #’s 1 – 5 Friday – Take Home Quiz Lesson 1 and Lesson Review page 219 #’s 6 - 8 Startup/warm-up: Science fair presentations in computer room 208 QOTD: What do minerals have in common? How are minerals formed? How are minerals classified? What properties can be used to identify minerals? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Computer Room 208 – Power Point Presentations Science Fair

Date: 1/15/14 Mr. Mullen’s Power Point talk
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 1/15/14 Mr. Mullen’s Power Point talk Homework: Lesson 2 “The Rock Cycle” pages 222 – 225 #’s 1 -3; and 5 & 7 Startup/warm-up: Take a paper from the front showing a drawing o how to put together a board display QOTD: What is Rock? / What processes Change rocks? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Power Point – Mr. Mullen

Date: 1/16/14 Homework: Lesson 2 “Classified Information” pages 226 – 229 #’s 8; Startup/warm-up: Catch up on any homework in science for this lesson QOTD: What are the classes of rocks? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Lesson Review pages 218 and 219 Groups / Quiz check / Power Point explanations

Homework: Pages 230 – 233 #’s 15, 16 – 18 & 19 Rock & Roll
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 1/17/14 Homework: Pages 230 – 233 #’s 15, 16 – 18 & 19 Rock & Roll Startup/warm-up: Catch up on any homework in science for this lesson QOTD: What is the Rock Cycle?/ How do tectonic Plate motions affect the Rock Cycle? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Standard deviation demonstration (Apple mummification)

Homework: Visual Summary page 234 #’s 23 – 26 Lesson 2 Review page 235 #’s Graphs and Data table check for tomorrow Quiz Tomorrow Lesson 2 Date: 1/20/14 Startup/warm-up: In your Journal section, describe the demonstration we used in class Friday and the reasons it was used if you haven’t already. QOTD: What is the Rock Cycle?/ How do tectonic plate motions affect the Rock Cycle? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Type in Title and name on spreadsheet Lesson 2 review / Video “Rocks and Minerals”

Date: 1/22/14 Graph and Data Table/ Snow day yesterday
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 1/22/14 Graph and Data Table/ Snow day yesterday Shadow Data tomorrow – dress appropriately Homework: Lesson 3 “Processes that Shape the Land” read pages 236 – 237 #’s 1 – 3 Read pages “Run of a River” #’s 6 - 8 Startup/warm-up: Get your Data table and Graph ready for inspection / Prepare for the Quiz lesson 2 “The Rock Cycle” Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 QOTD: Essential Q. Lesson 3: How do water and ice change Earth’s surface? Activities: Graph and Data table check / Homework check / Quiz

Date: 1/23/14 Shadow Data Day / postponed due to wind
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 1/23/14 Shadow Data Day / postponed due to wind Chill below 0 degrees (F) Homework: Lesson 3 “Waterworks” read pages 240 – 241 #’s 9 -11/ Data Table and Graphs Startup/warm-up: Make predictions of what you think the shadows will average today? Use the previous years to help you determine. We will use that data to form numbers for today due to the weather QOTD: What landforms can streams create?/ What Landforms are made by groundwater erosion? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Shadow data / Rock Cycle video

Homework: Lesson 3 “Groovy Glaciers” read pages 242 – 244 #’s / Rough Draft of Results and Conclusions for Monday Date: 1/24/14 Startup/warm-up: Attempt a short story on how a rock might go through several cycles of the rock cycle. Start with magma and work your way through several situations that may occur based on how rocks change. An example might be: igneous to sedimentary to metamorphic to igneous . QOTD: What landforms can streams create?/ What Landforms are made by groundwater erosion? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Rough draft results and conclusions / Enter Titles and names in spreadsheet / Check Final draft of Data table and Graphs

Homework: Quiz tomorrow Lesson 3 w/ homework check Visual Summary page 246 #’s Lesson Review page 247 #’s 1-8 Date: 1/27/14 Startup/warm-up: Get out the Rough Draft of your Results and Conclusions then: Write down your Purpose statement and Hypothesis statement on a separate sheet of paper. QOTD: What kinds of ice shape Earth? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 Activities: Rough draft results and conclusions / Enter Titles and names in spreadsheet / Eyewitness video “Weathering & Erosion”

Homework: Read pages 248 – 249 #’s 1 – 3 Soil Formation
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Read pages 248 – 249 #’s 1 – 3 Soil Formation Date: 1/28/14 Startup/warm-up: Get out the Rough Draft of your Abstract then: Answer Page 247 #’s QOTD: Essential Question Lesson 4 Unit 4: How does Soil Form? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Rough draft Abstract / homework check and Quiz / Eyewitness video “Ponds and Rivers”

Homework: Read pages 250 – 252 #’s 5 – 9 The Dirt on Soil / Thick Tops, Rocky Bottoms Date: 1/29/14 Startup/warm-up: Take a school paper towel from the front along w/ a magnifying glass And wait quietly for further instructions following attendance Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5 QOTD: How does Soil Form? / What determines how long it takes for soil to form? Activities: Soil Sample Observations / Eyewitness video “Ponds and Rivers”

Homework: Read pages 253 # 10 Thick Tops, Rocky Bottoms
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 1/30/14 Startup/warm-up: Take out final draft of the Results and Conclusions for inspection then: Take a Science World magazine from the front and read pages 2 – 7. When you have finished write down Five things you remember from that reading without looking at the articles. Also take a tiny sliver of paper and put your full name on it. Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 QOTD: What is a soil horizon? Activities: Final draft check Results and Conclusions / Science World Magazine activities / Sinkholes

Homework: Read pages 254 - 257 #,s 11,12, 14 -16 All about Soils
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Read pages #,s 11,12, All about Soils Date: 1/31/14 Startup/warm-up: Take out final draft of your Abstract for inspection then: Take a Science World magazine from the front and re-read the article on Sinkholes. When you have finished re-reading, come up and take the two work sheets and begin working on them. You may refer to the article. QOTD: What are some soil characteristics? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Final draft check Abstract / Science World Magazine activities / groups work Sinkholes

Date: 2/3/14 Two hour delay / special schedule Homework: Finishing touches for Science Fair Visual Summary page 258 #’s 17 – 20 Lesson Review page 259 #’s 1 – 7 Quiz tomorrow Lesson 4 “Soil Formation” Startup/warm-up: Take a 3” by 5” index card from the front and prepare To fill out the information on the board left. Do not begin until instructions have been given QOTD: What are some soil characteristics? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Index cards / Science fair set-up review pictures / Group study for Quiz

Date: 2/4/14 Quiz Lesson 4 “Soil Formation” Homework: Finishing touches for Science Fair Pages 260 – 261 #’s 1-3 Lesson 5 Earth’s Layers2 Wed., Thurs., Friday Homework: read pages 262 – 267 #’s 6 – 10 Visual summary 266 #’s 11 – 15 Lesson Review page 267 #’s 1 - 6 Startup/warm-up: Work on Lesson Review page 259 #’s Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 QOTD: No QODT’s due to Quiz Activities: Index cards / Science Fair catch-up / Homework check / Quiz Lesson 4

Date: 2/10/14 Snow days catch up/ 2 Hr Delay Homework: Finishing touches for Science Fair Pages 260 – 261 #’s 1-3 Lesson 5 Earth’s Layers Read pages 262 – 265 #’s 6 – 10 Visual summary 266 #’s 11 – 15 Lesson Review page 267 #’s 1 - 6 Startup/warm-up: Work on Homework from above / Quiz tomorrow lesson 5 8th and 9th periods Quiz ready and homework check QOTD: No QODT’s due to Quiz tomorrow Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Sci Fair checkup / Homework / Board Check/

Homework: No Homework / Science Fair Moratorium
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 2/11/14 Snow days catch up Homework: No Homework / Science Fair Moratorium Startup/warm-up: Prepare for Quiz lesson 5 / Lesson Review page 267 #’s 7 - 9 Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 QOTD: No QODT’s due to Quiz Activities: Sci Fair checkup / Quiz and Homework Check / Board Check

Date: 2/17/14 Snow day make-up/ Shadow Data tomorrow??? Homework: Lesson 6 “Plate Tectonics” read pages 268 – 269 #’s “Caves” Video Summary due Friday Feb. 21st 9th period and anyone else register USI Regional Fair Copy of Abstract turned in this week Startup/warm-up: Work on “Caves” paper or show your notes Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 QOTD: Essential Lesson 6 question: What is plate tectonics? Activities: Sci Fair wrap-up / Caves paper work/ 9th period user/password

Date: 2/18/14 2 Hr. Delay schedule/ Shadow tomorrow? Homework: Lesson 6 “Puzzling Evidence” read pages 270 – 271 #’s 5 & 6 “Caves” Video Summary due Friday Feb. 21st 9th period and anyone else register USI Regional Fair Copy of Abstract turned in this week Startup/warm-up: Work on “Caves” paper, show completed paper or show notes QOTD: What evidence suggests that continents move? What is Pangea? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Sci Fair wrap-up / Caves paper work/ 9th period register check/ 9th period terrarium check /

Date: 2/19/14 Shadow Data Day! Homework: Lesson 6 “Puzzling Evidence” and “Giant Jigsaw” read pages 272 – 275 #’s 7 – 9, 11 & 12 “Caves” Video Summary due Friday Feb. 21st / 9th period and anyone else register USI Regional Fair / Copy of Abstract turned in this week Startup/warm-up: Take a Prediction paper from the front and predict today’s shadow averages then: List Geologic evidence that supports continental drift then: Work on “Caves” paper, show completed paper or show notes QOTD: What discoveries support the idea of continental drift? / What is the theory of plate Tectonics? / What is plate tectonics? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Caves paper work/ 9th period register check/ Shadow Data

Homework: Lesson 6 “Boundaries” read pages 276 – 277 #’s “Caves” Video Summary due Friday Feb. 21st / 9th period and anyone else register USI Regional Fair / Copy of Abstract turned in this week Unit 4 “Earth Structure” Test Tues Feb. 25th Date: 2/20/14 Startup/warm-up: Draw the answer to today’s QOTD Take a computer paper from the front and draw all the examples. Under each example write an easy to understand explanation of what the drawing represents. You may use the colored pencils from the front QOTD: What are the three types of plate boundaries? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up /9th period register check/

Homework: Lesson 6 “Boundaries” read pages 278 – 279 #’s Unit 4 “Earth Structure” Test Wed. Feb. 25th Date: 2/21/14 Startup/warm-up: Continue Drawing the answer to yesterday’s QOTD. Then take a new sheet and draw the answer to today’s QOTD. Under each example write an easy to understand explanation of what the drawing represents. QOTD: What causes tectonic plates to move? Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up /9th period register check/

Homework: Lesson 6 – Visual Summary page 280 #’s 18 – 22 Lesson Review page 281 #’s 1 – 6 Quiz tomorrow Lesson 6 Date: 2/24/14 Startup/warm-up: On a place somewhere on one of your drawings, write down and answer All of the QOTD’s for this lesson 6 then finish your drawings if more time is needed. QOTD: No QOTD – Quiz tomorrow Lesson 6 Standards: 7.2.2, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up / Review Lesson 6 Plate tectonics

Homework: Lesson 7 “Mountain Building” Read pages 284 – 285 #’s 1 - 3
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Lesson 7 “Mountain Building” Read pages 284 – 285 #’s 1 - 3 Date: 2/25/14 Startup/warm-up: Answer Questions #’s 7 – 10 page 281 then: Prepare for Lesson 6 “Plate tectonics” Quiz QOTD: Lesson 7 “Mountain Building” essential Question: How do mountains form? Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up / Group work, Quiz and homework check

Homework: Lesson 7 “Stressed Out” pages 286 – 287 #’s 5, 6 & 8
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Lesson 7 “Stressed Out” pages 286 – 287 #’s 5, 6 & 8 Date: 2/26/14 Shadow Data Tomorrow (dress warm) Startup/warm-up: Take a Section of clay and work it around in your hands QOTD: Lesson 7 “Mountain Building” essential Question: How do mountains form? Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up / Make up Quiz / Unit 4 Standards / Mountain Video “Planet Earth

Homework: Lesson 7 “Stressed Out” pages 288 – 289 #’s; 9 & 10
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Lesson 7 “Stressed Out” pages 288 – 289 #’s; 9 & 10 Date: 2/27/14 Shadow Data Day!! (dress warm) Startup/warm-up: Science reading comprehension: Take a Science World Magazine and read pages 2 – 7. After you have read these pages, put up the magazine and take the Science in the news quiz from the front. Remember this is Not for grade. QOTD: How can tectonic plate motion cause deformation? / What are two kinds of folds? Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up / Shadow Data / Unit 4 Standards / Clay three-D models

Homework: Lesson 7 “Moving on UP” pages 290 – 291 #’s; 12 – 14 Unit 4 Test “Earth’s Structure” Wednesday March 5th Return USI Field Trip permission form and money. $5.00 Date: 2/28/14 Startup/warm-up: Take a USI field trip permission form From the front table and review. QOTD: What are the three kinds of faults? Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up explanation / Unit 4 Standards review / Clay three-D models

Date: 3/3/14 Snow Day! Homework: Lesson 7 “Visual Summary” page 292 #’s; Lesson Review page 293 #’s; 1 – 8 / Quiz tomorrow Lesson 7 Unit 4 Test “Earth’s Structure” Wednesday March 5th Return USI Field Trip permission form and money. $5.00 Startup/warm-up: Take the ISTEP+ Review found on pages 319 – 322 . Numbers 1 – 15. QOTD: What are the three kinds of mountains? Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up ISTEP+ review / Unit 4 Standards review

Date: 3/4/14 2 Hour delay Homework: Lesson 7 “Visual Summary” page 292 #’s; Lesson Review page 293 #’s; 1 – 8 / Quiz tomorrow Lesson 7 Unit 4 Test “Earth’s Structure” Thursday March 6th Return USI Field Trip permission form and money. $5.00 Startup/warm-up: Take the ISTEP+ Review found on pages 319 – 322 . Numbers 1 – 15. QOTD: What are the three kinds of mountains? Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Startup/ warm up ISTEP+ review / Unit 4 Standards review

Date: 3/5/14 Homework: No Homework – Study for Unit 4 test Unit 4 Test “Earth’s Structure” Thursday March 6th Return USI Field Trip permission form and money. $5.00 Startup/warm-up: Lesson Review page 293 #’s Prepare for Lesson 7 “Mountain Building” Quiz QOTD: No QOTD’s; Unit 4 Test Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Quiz lesson 7 / Homework check / Review questions A, B, C, & D

Date: 3/6/14 Homework: No Homework Those that need to: Return USI Field Trip permission form and money. $5.00 Startup/warm-up: Take a Bubble Sheet from the front and fill out the top portion then: Prepare for Unit 4 “Earth Structures” Test QOTD: No QOTD’s; Unit 4 Test Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Unit 4 Test / Science world reading

Date: 3/10/14 Outdoor Lab Thursday – check the weather ISTEP – special schedule Homework: Unit 5 “ The Changing Earth” Lesson 1 “Fossils and Changing Environments” pages 328 – 329 #’s ****Those that need to: Return USI Field Trip permission form and money. $5.00 Startup/warm-up: Take a bubble sheet from the front and fill out the top portion Pre-test Unit 5 “The Changing Earth” QOTD: Essential Question: What do fossils tell us About Earth’s hisory? Standards: 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.7; 7.2.6 Activities: Pre-test Unit 5 / “Rotor Promoter” activity introduction

Date: 3/11/14 Field Trip Friday USI
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 3/11/14 Field Trip Friday USI Outdoor Lab Thursday – check the weather ISTEP – special schedule Homework: Unit 5 “ The Changing Earth” Lesson 1 “Stuck In Time” pages 330 – 331 #’s 5 - 8 Startup/warm-up: Continue working on the Rotor Promoter Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 QOTD: How do organisms become preserved as fossils? Activities: Return Pre-test Unit 5 / “Rotor Promoter”

Date: 3/12/14 Field Trip Friday USI
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 3/12/14 Field Trip Friday USI Outdoor Lab Thursday – check the weather ISTEP – special schedule Homework: Unit 5 “ The Changing Earth” Lesson 1 “Stuck In Time” pages 332 – 333 #’s Startup/warm-up: Continue working on the Rotor Promoter Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 QOTD: What are trace fossils? / What do fossils tell us about Earth’s changing environment? Activities: “Rotor Promoter” teams and testing

Prepare Observation sheet # 3 for the Outdoor Lab
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 3/13/14 Field Trip Friday USI Happy Pre-Pi Day!! Homework: Unit 5 “ The Changing Earth” Lesson 1 visual summary page 334 #’s 13 – 16 Lesson Review page 335 #’s 1 - 6 Startup/warm-up: Prepare Observation sheet # 3 for the Outdoor Lab Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 QOTD: What are trace fossils? / What do fossils tell us about Earth’s changing environment? Activities: Outdoor Lab

Homeroom – buses – USI – Home
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 3/14/14 Field Trip USI Homework: Unit 5 “ The Changing Earth” Lesson 1 visual summary page 334 #’s 13 – 16 Lesson Review page 335 #’s 1 - 6 Startup/warm-up: Homeroom – buses – USI – Home Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 QOTD: What are trace fossils? / What do fossils tell us about Earth’s changing environment? Activities: Field Trip USI

Make a data table to test the alpha and beta models (ten trials each)
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 3/17/14 Happy St. Patrick’s Day Homework: Unit 5 “ The Changing Earth” Lesson 1 visual summary page 334 #’s 13 – 16 Lesson Review page 335 #’s Same as Friday! Startup/warm-up: Make a data table to test the alpha and beta models (ten trials each) Speed and accuracy QOTD: What are trace fossils? / What do fossils tell us about Earth’s changing environment? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Rotor Promoter

Homework: Lesson 2 Unit 5 “Relative and Absolute Dating” Pages 338 – 339 #’s 1 - 3 Date: 3/18/14 Shadow Data Day Tomorrow Startup/warm-up: Answer questions 7 – 10 page 335 Lesson Review: Then take the quiz from the front – you may use the book Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 QOTD: Essential Question Lesson 2 Unit 5: How do scientist’s measure the ages of rock? Activities: Quiz Lesson 1 “ Fossils and Changing Environment” Shadow Data / Rotor Promoter

Homework: Lesson 2 Unit 5 pages 340 – 341; #’s 6 & 7
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Lesson 2 Unit 5 pages 340 – 341; #’s 6 & 7 Date: 3/19/14 Shadow Data Day tomorrow Startup/warm-up: Write answers for the two Q’sOTD And as many vocab. for this section as you can Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 QOTD: What is relative dating?/ How are undisturbed rock layers dated? Activities: Rotor Promoter activity

Homework: Lesson 2 Unit 5 pages 342 – 343; #’s 8 - 10
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 3/20/14 Shadow Data Day Spring Equinox Homework: Lesson 2 Unit 5 pages 342 – 343; #’s Startup/warm-up: Write answers for the two Q’sOTD And as many vocab. for this section as you can Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 QOTD: How are sedimentary rock layers disturbed?/ How are rock layers ordered? Activities: Shadow Data / Rotor Promoter activity (Develop Proto Type) for competition after Spring Break

Homework: No homework – Enjoy your time off
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 3/21/14 Spring Equinox Spring Break!!! Yay!!!! Homework: No homework – Enjoy your time off Startup/warm-up: Get Rotor Promoter Proto-Types ready Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 QOTD: No questions Activities: Rotor Promoter activity (Develop Proto Type)

Homework: “So Far Away” read pages 344 – 345 #’s 11 - 13
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: “So Far Away” read pages 344 – 345 #’s Date: 3/31/14 Welcome Back – Finish Strong!! Startup/warm-up: Look through the reading on page 344 of your text. Underline a word or a list of words from the reading whose meaning might be unfamiliar to you. Then: Browse through the Past Shadow Project papers from past years QOTD: How are fossils used to determine relative ages of rocks? / How are geologic columns used to compare relative ages of rocks? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data project paper explanation / Rotor Promoter activity (Develop Proto Type) / 9th Period Terrarium observation

Homework: “It’s About Time” read pages 346 – 347 #’s 14 - 16
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 4/1/14 April Fools – be on guard!! Shadow Data Day – no kidding! Homework: “It’s About Time” read pages 346 – 347 #’s Startup/warm-up: Browse through another Shadow data project paper on your desk, especially read the essay on The Shadow Angle Graph Explanation QOTD: How can the absolute age of rock be determined? / What is the best rock for radiometric dating? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data / Rotor Promoter competition

Homework: “Showing Your Age” read pages 348 – 349 #’s 17 - 19
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: “Showing Your Age” read pages 348 – 349 #’s Date: 4/2/14 Startup/warm-up: Browse the Shadow Paper from your desk and read BOTH the Shadow Angle explanation and the Line Graph explanations. QOTD: How can fossils help to determine the age of sedimentary rock? / How are index fossils used? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data project paper explanation

Homework: “Showing Your Age” read pages 348 – 349 #’s 17 - 19
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: “Showing Your Age” read pages 348 – 349 #’s Date: 4/2/14 Startup/warm-up: Browse the Shadow Paper from your desk and read the Shadow Angle explanation and the Line Graph explanations. QOTD: How can fossils help to determine the age of sedimentary rock? / How are index fossils used? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data project paper explanation

Homework: Pages 350 – 351 Visual Summary #’s 20 – 23 page 350 Lesson Review #’s 1 – 8 page 351 Date: 4/3/14 Startup/warm-up: Science reading comprehension: Take a Science World Magazine and read pages 2 – 7. After you have read these pages, put up the magazine and take the Science in the news quiz from the front. Remember this is Not for grade. QOTD: No questions of the day – review questions Quiz tomorrow lesson 2 unit 5 Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data project / Science News Science World / homework

Date: 4/4/14 Quiz lesson 2 Homework: Lesson 3 Unit 5 “Geologic Change Over Time” pages 352 – 353 #’s 1 - 3 Startup/warm-up: Take a “Class Average Shadow Data Paper” from the front. Place in your Shadow Data section in your binder Then: Answer questions #’s 9 – 12 page 351. QOTD: Essential Question Lesson 3: How do we learn about Earth’s history? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data project / Quiz lesson 2 / Homework check

Homework: “Time is on Our Side” pages 354 – 357 #’s 5 – 8; 10 & 11 Unit 5 Test Next week on Monday April 14th Date: 4/7/14 Startup/warm-up: Define the vocabulary on page 353 in your binder. Then take a Science World Magazine and read pages 18 and 19 “The Primate Tracker” QOTD: What can fossils tell us? / How does sedimentary rock show earth’s history? / What do earth’s surface features tell us? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data project Check/ Vocabulary / Return quizzes

Homework: “Back to the Future” pages 358 – 359 #’s Unit 5 Test Next week on Monday April 14th Date: 4/8/14 Startup/warm-up: Take one of the sample shadow data papers and read The “Writing and Technology parts” then: Compare what you are suppose to write and determine if they followed directions well. QOTD: What other materials are used to study Earth’s Climate history? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data project Diagram page

Homework: “Back to the Future” pages 360 – 361 #’s Unit 5 Test Next week on Monday April 14th Date: 4/9/14 Shadow Data Day! Startup/warm-up: Turn to page R25 in your text - take a computer paper from the front, then draw and label the microscope found there on the computer paper QOTD: How is the geologic time scale organized? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data / Geologic Time / Microscope parts

Homework: Visual Summary page 362 #’s 18 – 22 Lesson Review page 363 #’s 1 – 7; Quiz tomorrow Lesson 3 Unit 5 Test Next week on Monday April 14th Date: 4/10/14 Startup/warm-up: Put the new data in with your “All Classes Data” from the board right Then: work on another part of the shadow data project QOTD: No questions of the day - Quiz and Unit test Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data / Geologic Time / Math and Science

Date: 4/11/14 Computer room 502 Monday!! Shadow Project Paper Begins!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 4/11/14 Computer room 502 Monday!! Shadow Project Paper Begins!! Homework: Unit 5 Test Next week on Tuesday April 15th Unit 5 Summary pages 366 – 370 (All questions) Startup/warm-up: Lesson Review page 363 #’s QOTD: No questions of the day - Unit test Tuesday Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Groups / Homework check / Quiz Lesson 3 Unit 5

Homework: Unit 5 Test Next week on Wed. April 16th
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Unit 5 Test Next week on Wed. April 16th Date: 14/14 and 15/14 Startup/warm-up: Computer room 502 Shadow Data Project QOTD: No questions of the day - Unit test Wednesday Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Computer work – Spreadsheets

Homework: Unit 5 Test Next week on Wed. April 16th
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Unit 5 Test Next week on Wed. April 16th Date: 4/14 and 15/14 Startup/warm-up: Computer room 502 Shadow Data Project QOTD: No questions of the day - Unit test Wednesday Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Computer work – Spreadsheets

Date: 4/16/14 Garden Day – first one of Spring!!
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 4/16/14 Garden Day – first one of Spring!! Homework: Unit 6 “The Cell”; Lesson 1 “The Characteristics of Cells” Pages 374 – 375 #’s 1 – 3 Shadow Project – Writing and Technology and Diagram pages Startup/warm-up: Prepare for Unit 5 Test – The Changing Earth QOTD: No Questions – Unit 5 Test Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data explanations /Review / Test/ Gardening

Date: 4/21/14 Special 7th grade Schedule / 65 minute class periods Homework: “Cell-ebrate” and “Cell Hall of Fame” Pages 376 – 379 #’s 5 – 8 & 10 Shadow Project – Writing and Technology and Diagram pages Startup/warm-up: Work on “Writing and Technology” page for Shadow Data Project QOTD: What is a cell? / Why are most cells small?/ What is the cell theory? Standards: 7.2.3; 7.2.8 Activities: Shadow Data explanations / Climates & Seasons video / Cell sizes activity

Date: 4/28/14 Special ISTEP Schedule / 80 minute class periods Homework: “Chemistry of Life” Lesson 2 Unit 6 Pages 384 – 385 #’s 1 - 3 Startup/warm-up: Work Lesson Review page 383 #’s 7 – 9 Then work on any part of The “Shadow Data Project” QOTD: Essential Question: What are the building blocks of organisms? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Cells and review/ Groups

Homework: “It’s Elementary” Lesson 2 Unit 6 Pages 386 – 387 #’s 5 - 7
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 4/29/14 Special ISTEP Schedule / 80 minute class periods Homework: “It’s Elementary” Lesson 2 Unit 6 Pages 386 – 387 #’s 5 - 7 Startup/warm-up: Quiz preparation Lesson 1 Unit 6 / Then work on any part of The “Shadow Data Project” QOTD: What are atoms and molecules? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Quiz & Homework check / Atom building activity

Homework: “Cell Fuel” Lesson 2 Unit 6 Pages 388 – 391 #’s 8 - 13
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 4/30/14 Garden Day !!!!! Homework: “Cell Fuel” Lesson 2 Unit 6 Pages 388 – 391 #’s Startup/warm-up: Take a QOTD paper from the front for Unit 6 “The Cell”, and put it in your binder. Work on anything from the Shadow Project QOTD: What are some of the important types of molecules in cells? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Atom video (K W L)

Homework: Visual Summary page 392 #’s 15 – 19 Lesson Review page 393 #’s 1 – 5 Shadow Data Date: 5/1/14 Last month of this school year!!! Startup/warm-up: Take a black box from the front table and create three model molecules Water, Oxygen, and Carbon dioxide QOTD: What are some of the important types of molecules in cells?/ What are Phospholipids?/ Why is water important? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Molecule activities

Homework: Lesson 3 “Cell Structure and Function” read pages 394 – 397 #’s 1 – 3 and and any Shadow Data Date: 5/2/14 Startup/warm-up: Fill out the last Outdoor Observation #4 and Read from the other three times outside for comparison then: Answer questions 6 – 9 page 393 QOTD: Essential question lesson 3: What are the different parts that make up a cell? / What are the characteristics of eukaryotic cells? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Quiz Lesson 2 / Homework check / Outdoor observation

Homework: Lesson 3 “Cell Structure and Function” read pages 398 – 399 #’s and any Shadow Data necessary Date: 5/5/14 Startup/warm-up: Take a bubble sheet from the front and fill out the top - Work on any Shadow Data till Pretest is passed out. QOTD: What organelles are found in the Plant and Animal cells? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Pretest – Unit 6 NOT FOR GRADE/ Video “The Magic of Cells” / Models of Lipids and Proteins – Other Organic Molecules

Homework: Animal and Plant Cells read pages 400 – 403 #’s 12 – 15; and any Shadow Data necessary Date: 5/6/14 Startup/warm-up: Take a computer paper from the front and label one side animal cell and the other side plant cell Portrait style QOTD: What additional parts are found in plant cells? / What additional parts are found in animal cells? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Model Drawings of typical animal and plant cells

Date: 5/7/14 No Garden today – Club Meeting In computer room 502 tomorrow and Friday Homework: Animal and Plant Cells Visual Summary page 404 #’s 20 – 26 Lesson Review page 405 #’s and any Shadow Data necessary Startup/warm-up: Continue Work on Plant and Animal cells QOTD: What additional parts are found in plant cells? / What additional parts are found in animal cells? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Explanation of Shadow Data Due Dates / Model Drawings of typical animal and plant cells

Homework: Lesson 4 “Homeostasis and Cell Processes pages 408 – 409 #’s 1 – 3 and any Shadow Data necessary Date: 5/ 8 & 9 /14 Startup/warm-up: Log on to the computer and finish shadow Data project QOTD: Essential Lesson Question: How do organisms maintain homeostasis? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Shadow Data

NO Questions – Quiz lesson 3 Group work / Quiz lesson 3 Unit 6
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: “Staying Alive” Read pages 410 – 411 #’s 5 – 8 **Shadow Data Project Graded Thurs. May 15th** Date: 5/ 12 /14 Startup/warm-up: Page 405 #’s QOTD: NO Questions – Quiz lesson 3 Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Group work / Quiz lesson 3 Unit 6

Homework: “Get Growing” Read pages #’s **Shadow Date Project Graded Thurs. May 15th** Date: 5/13/14 Startup/warm-up: Copy the chemical formulas from the board in your binder In the QOTD section QOTD: What is homeostasis? / How do cells get energy? / How do cells divide? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Photosynthesis and Respiration explanation / Video Photosynthesis

Date: 5/14/14 Garden Day!!! Take a computer paper from the front! Weather cancellation / Next week - last day Homework: “Round and Round” Read pages 413A – 413E; #’s **Shadow Date Project Graded Thurs. May 15th** Startup/warm-up: Get started on the Drawing “Mitosis pages 413D – 413E and homework for today QOTD: Why is the cell important? / What are the stages of the cell cycle? / What are the phases of Mitosis? Standards: through 7.3.7 Activities: Mitosis Drawings / Homework, definitions, QOTD

Homework: “Move It” Read pages 414 – 416; #’s 19 - 23
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 5/15/14 Homework: “Move It” Read pages 414 – 416; #’s Startup/warm-up: Have your Shadow Data Project paper out and ready for action Then: work on other science homework Standards: through 7.3.7 QOTD: How do cells exchange materials? Activities: Shadow Data Project Evaluation

Homework: “Move It” Read page 417; #’s 24 - 25
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Date: 5/16/14 Homework: “Move It” Read page 417; #’s Startup/warm-up: Take out your Shadow Project Paper for final evalutations Standards: through 7.3.7 QOTD: How do organisms maintain homeostasis? Activities: Microscopic view of plant and animal cells

Homework: Read pages 420 – 425 #’s 1 – 3; 5 -10/ wear T-shirts Take home Quiz – Lesson 4 “Cell Processes” Final Thursday 40 questions – Unit 6 “The Cell” test Friday Date: 5/19/14 T-Shirts tomorrow!!! Startup/warm-up: Diagram of Active and Passive Transport (back of Mitosis) Endocytosis and Exocytosis (with explanations) Visual summary #’s 26 – 30 page 418 Lesson Review #’s 1 – 6 page 419 Standards: through 7.3.7 QOTD: How do cells exchange materials? Activities: Microscopic view of plant and animal cells/ pond water tomorrow/ Diagrams / 9th period turn in Journals

Homework: Read pages 426 – 427 #’s Take home Quiz – Lesson 4 “Cell Processes” Final Thursday 40 questions – Unit 6 “The Cell” test Friday Date: 5/20/14 Startup/warm-up: Take a take-home quiz from the front / Work on ISTEP+ review #’s 1 – 12 pages Standards: through 7.3.7 QOTD: How are living things organized? Activities: Microscopic view of pond water

Date: 5/21/14 Garden Day! Homework: Read pages 428 – 429 #’s 17 – 19 “Systems at Work” Final tomorrow 40 questions – Unit 6 “The Cell” test Friday Startup/warm-up: 9th period get your terrariums from the window Visual summary page 430 #’s 20 – 24 Lesson Review page 431 #’s 1 - 8 Standards: through 7.3.7 QOTD: What tasks do systems perform to meet the needs of cells? Activities: Grade ISTEP+ review / Grade Quiz 4 Unit 6 “The Cell”

Homework: Unit 6 “The Cell” test tomorrow
WSLW FM 19 Your Paradise learning station Where Chance favors the Prepared Mind Homework: Unit 6 “The Cell” test tomorrow Date: 5/22/14 Startup/warm-up: Study for the final Standards: All QOTD: No more for this year!! Activities: Final 7th grade Science test

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