1. August 17, 2015
Summarize 5 class policies/procedures that you learned in class last week. Try to think of the ones that you feel are the most important.

2. August 18, 2015
Identify 5 lab safety techniques/strategies that you have learned in class.

3. August 19, 2015
Describe what is an observation and an inference.

4. August 20, 2015
Make 3 observations and 1 inference about the image.

5. August 21, 2015 Label the parts of the microscope. Arm7
August 21, 2015
Label the parts of the microscope. 1
Arm
High power objective lens
Coarse adjustment knob
Light
Body tube
Eyepiece
Base
Fine adjustment knob
Stage
Low power objective lens
Revolving nose piece
Diaphragm
Stage clips 2 8 9 3 10 4 11 5 6 12 13

6. August 24, 2015
Lemon trees receiving the most water produce the largest lemons.
1. The _______________ causes the ____________________ to change.
2.IV:_____________________
3. DV:____________________
An investigation was done to see if keeping the lights on for different amount of time each day affected the number of eggs the chicken lay.
1. The _______________ causes the ____________________ to change.
2.IV:____________________
3. DV:____________________

7. -THERE IS TO BE NO TALKING DURING THE BELL RINGER-
August 25, 2015
-THERE IS TO BE NO TALKING DURING THE BELL RINGER-
It is January and Haley, Sarah and Becky are tired of having cold feet while waiting for the school bus to come in the morning. They decide to design an experiment to test the effectiveness of wool, cotton and nylon as insulators. They fill identical bottles with 200 ml of water at 100C and place inside each sock. They take the temperature of the water after 20 minutes.
Independent Variable:
Dependent Variable:
Constants:

8. August 26, 2015
A group of middle school students were given a short course in speed-reading. The instructor was curious if a monetary incentive would influence performance on a reading test taken at the end of the course. Half the students were offered $5 for obtaining a certain level of performance on the test, the other half were not offered money.
Independent variable:
Dependent variable:
Control group:

9. There is absolutely NO TALKING during the quiz
When finished, place it on the blue filing cabinet
Get a ScienceWorld magazine from the counter
Choose one of the following stories to read and write a 1-2 paragraph summary of the story (a paragraph is 5-8 complete sentences in the 7th grade)
“Battling Bedbugs”
“More than a Toy”
“Super Sandbags”

10. August 27, 2015 Level 0 You will need your ISN today
Quizzes will be passed back at the end of class

11. August 28, 2015
Level O
You will be turning your Bell Ringers in today in your class’s “Turn In” tray.
Have your homework out on your desk.
Don’t panic if you struggled with #7! I will only be grading on #’s 1-6