1. Learning Goal: I can interview a tablemate in a thoughtful and respectful manner and create a dictionary definition of them to share with the class. ET #1 (Entry Task #1/90) Homework 1.Safety Contract- Signed (10 pts due 9/8-9) 2.Course Expectations-Signed (10 pts due 9/8-9) 3.Get Mechanical Pencil or Sharpener (10 pts due 9/8-9) 4.Start About Me PPT-(due 9/10-11) AGENDA: 9/1-2/15 1.Assign Seats-Nick Names? 2.What is 10 th Science? 3.Student Questionnaire 4.Intro. Tablemate 5.About Me PPT 6.Exit Task ENTRY QUESTIONS 1.What was one fun thing you did over summer break? What is your favorite dessert?

2. Learning Goal: I can critically analyze scientific investigations and determine which will produce valid results. Entry Task #2 Homework 1. Safety Contract- Signed (10 pts due 9/8-9) 2.Course Expectations-Signed (10 pts due 9/8-9) 3.Get Mechanical Pencil or Sharpener (10 pts due 9/8-9) 4.Start About Me PPT-(due 9/10-11) AGENDA: 9/3-4/15 1.A Clean Design-pg.10 2b,3a,b, R+C 1,2,3 2. Small Problem pg.14 2,3a,b,c 4c, 5-class ENTRY QUESTION 1.What is one piece of important information that you remember from last class? 2.What do you know about hand washing? (how do you know if your hands are “clean”? Why is it even important?)

3. Learning Goal: : I can work collaboratively with my groupmates using the TSAR method to design a scientific investigation to explore the world of bacteria through inquiry. Entry Task #3 Homework 1.Finish About Me PPT (due next class) AGENDA: 9/8-9/15 1. Small Problem pg.14 2,3a,b,c 4c, 5-class 2. Question-Choose One 1.Explain how scientific questions are different from other questions?

4. The How to Get an A in 10 th grade science class PPT slide. 1.Come to class with a positive attitude. (we all have off days. Flush those down the toilet before walking through the awesome door of science) 2.Your journal is always neat and up to date. 3.You do not have zero's in the gradebook. (seems like a no-brainer. No late work will be accepted so…..) 4.If you miss a day, you make up the assignment immediately. (don’t let stuff snowball or turn into a zero. I will not warn you that something is going to turn into a zero. It just will. Magically.) 5.You actually use my website as a resource. 6.You put in the time to learn the material, however much time that takes.(the tests are very hard) 7.You are “tuned in” the overwhelming majority of the time you are in class. 8.You act like an adult 95% of the time you are in class. 100% of the time during labs. 9.You do the best work the first time you produce something. (there are no redo’s in this class)e EXIT TASK #3

5. Learning Goal: I can complete my designing of a scientific investigation to explore the world of bacteria through inquiry. E.T. #4 Homework 1.??? AGENDA: 9/10-11/15 1.Choose Guiding Question 2.Turn In-Present 10-15 PPT’s 3.Complete Lab Rough Draft Determine Bacteria Test Sites 1.When choosing our focus question today, what are two pieces of information we probably need to pay attention to? 2.How do we determine which of our questions from last class are testable?

6. Learning Goal: I can complete my designing of a scientific investigation to explore the world of bacteria through inquiry. E.T. #5 Homework 1.Look up info from exit task. AGENDA: 9/14-15/15 1.Present 10-15 PPT’s 2.Determine Bacteria Test Sites 3.Design Time-pg.16 3a-i,4 4.Start/Complete Lab Rough Draft 1.Write the name and 1 interesting fact about each of the nine students who have already presented. 2.Write down as many key features of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD as you can remember with your tablemates.

7. Learning Goal: I can complete my designing of a scientific investigation to explore the world of bacteria through inquiry. E.T. #6 Homework 1.Look up info from exit task. 1pg. Handwritten in journals AGENDA: 9/16-17/15 1.Determine Bacteria Test Sites 2.Design Time-pg.16 3a-i,4, S+T 1-3 3.Start/Complete Lab Rough Draft? 1.Expand on question 2 from the previous class. Lets pretend I know nothing about the S.M. I want to know everything about the big 5. 1.Question…2.Hypothesis…3.Procedure…4.Data…5.Conclusion… (ex. Hypothesis-written in If. Then. Because format because it forces you to try to show a cause and effect relationship between a manipulated variable and the response that you record.)

8. Learning Goal: : I can complete my designing of and then carrying out my scientific investigation to explore the world of bacteria through inquiry. E.T.#7 Homework 1.None AGENDA: 9/18-21/15 1.Design Time-Complete Rough Draft. Teacher Sign Off. 2.Carry Out Experiments 3.Start Final Draft 1.What is the control in our experiment and why do you think we even do one?

9. Learning Goal: I can analyze and share my lab results in a clear and effective manner. #8 Homework 1.Complete Final Lab Write- Up (due Thursday) AGENDA: 9/22/15 1.Bacteria Lab Results-Discuss 2.Work on/Finish Write Ups. 3.Pictures 1:55/Book Fair 1.How will our data table be different that a traditional good scientific one? (differences) T-Chart? Venn? 2.What do you think I might want to see if you have turned in a quality write-up. 3.Get your plates and count your colonies. Make 3 good qualitative (descriptive) observations about your results. Be prepared to share.