WEEK THIRTY NINE Monday 5/27 - Shake table and finish Keynote presentations. Steps 6-8 due on the day of your final! Tuesday 5/28 - finals Wednesday 5/29 - finals Thursday 5/30 - finals Friday 5/31 - finals. last day of school _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THIRTY EIGHT Monday 5/20 - Building Tuesday 5/21 - Building Wednesday 5/22 - Building Thursday 5/23 - Building. Short day due to graduation Friday 5/24 - Building ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THIRTY SEVEN Monday 5/13 - Earthquake Unit Exam. Start research on Seismically Safe Building Challenge. Complete Step 2 as homework. Packet here. Tuesday 5/14 - Return exams. Individual Research and blueprints due Wednesday Wednesday 5/15 - Divide into groups of three and share research and blueprints. Finalize building blueprint and being building. Thursday 5/16 - Building day. Friday 5/17 - DAY OF PLAY _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THIRTY SIX Monday 5/6 - The Mercalli Scale KWAT radio show to complete an isoseismal map Tuesday 5/7 & Wednesday 5/8 - Magnitude vs. Intensity. Quiz on waves in Socrative. How to find the epicenter of an earthquake using triangulation. Video here on triangulation to find the epicenter of an earthquake. HW: Reading "How to Measure an Earthquake" available in Google Classroom. Thursday 5/9 - Physical effects of an earthquake. If you were absent, please go to Google Classroom for the PowerPoint Study guide handed out here -- due Monday. Unit test on earthquakes in Monday! Friday 5/10- Review day. See PowerPoint in Google Classroom inf you were absent. Also chart of how waves move here to help with studying. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THIRTY FIVE Monday 4/29 - Unit exam on plate tectonics. Acrostic earthquakes. Tuesday 4/30 - Setting up the wave machine Wednesday 5/1 - wave machine investigation. If you were absent, watch this video clip. Thursday 5/2 - Powerpoint How to Measure an Earthquake. Go to Google Classroom for the powerpoint. Add vocabulary to your ISN. There is also a reading posted in Google Classroom "Earthquakes and Seismic Waves. Complete the reading and fill in the activities embedded in the reading. Friday 5/3 - Powerpoint How to Measure an Earthquake. Concept map completed and glued into ISNs. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
WEEK THIRTY FOUR Monday 4/22- table of three boundaries know it by heart! Study it! It's the key to your unit exam : ) Unit exam next Monday. Study guides due Friday. Tuesday 4/23 & Wednesday 4/24 - Pangea Puzzle here and vocab from PowerPoint. Reading "Continents Change Position Over TIme: here and foldable here. IF YOU WERE ABSENT, GO TO GOOGLE CLASSROOM AND GO THROUGH THE POWERPOINT POSTED UNDER TODAY'S DATE! Thursday 4/25 - Finish PowerPoint "Evidence". Look at in Google Classroom if you were absent. Study guides due tomorrow, Friday 4/26. Extended response questions (here) handed out in class and due Monday -- these are the questions that will be on the exam. Unit final Monday 4/29. Study guides and extended response questions will be collected before exam. Friday 4/26 - Review Day. KEY to table with three types of convergent boundaries here.PowerPoint with practice questions in Google Classroom. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THIRTY THREE Monday 4/15 - Review divergent plate boundaries land/sea. Vocab ISNs. Watch this video and this video on divergent plate boundaries. Read about airports and Earth's magnetic reversals here. Complete a 3-2-1 due Wednesday.IF YOU WERE ABSENT, please go to Google Classroom and go through the PowerPoint "Divergent Plate Boundaries" - -a notification was created with the link for you Tuesday 4/16 - Read about magnetic reversals. Study guide. Quiz yourself using Annaberg Learning site -- 30 questions. Wednesday 4/17 - Study guide (except questions #8-10) here. Google Classroom for an online practice quiz. Thursday 4/18 - NO SCHOOL Friday 4/19 - NO SCHOOL
WEEK THIRTY TWO Monday 4/8 - Review day questions 1-7, revisit strato vs. shield diagram, reading SF Peaks and questions after. Quiz and questions to reading due on extended day. You will find the the questions and reading/worksheet on San Francisco Peaks at the end of this packet here. Tuesday 4/9 & Wednesday 4/10 - Quiz! Convergent plate boundaries that result in subduction reading and Venn diagram. Nepal investigation to learn about convergent plate boundaries that don't result in subduction. If you were absent, please see powerpoint posted in Google Classroom. Thursday 4/11 - Three types of convergent plate boundaries. If you were absent, go to Google Classroom and go through powerpoint. Pop quiz on Socrative. Reading "Plates Move Apart" here and questions here based on reading.. Friday 4/12- investigation magnetic reversals in the ocean floor. Reworked SF Peaks reading and questions due Monday. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THIRTY ONE Monday 4/1 - AZMerits testing Tuesday 4/2 - AZMerits testing Wednesday 4/3 - AZMerits testing Thursday 4/4 - Japan investigation and learning about strato volcanoes. If you are absent, please go to Google Classroom to go through powerpoint posted there. Friday 4/5- Japan finish investigation. If you were absent today, please go to Google Classroom and work your way though the PowerPoint posted there. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THIRTY Monday 3/25 - Viscosity Races. Finish lab questions due next class period. Tuesday 3/26 & Wednesday 3/27 - define viscosity and apply to different igneous rock. Viscosity foldable due Thursday. Hawaii extra credit dress up Thursday Thursday 3/28 - Quiz over viscosity and silica content. Hawaii investigation Friday 3/29 - review Hawaii lab. Vocabulary. IF ABSENT see powerpoint posted in Google Classroom. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ SPRING BREAK
WEEK TWENTY NINE Monday 3/11 - Earth's Layers Reading and making foldable. HW: finish the inside of the foldable. Tuesday 3/12 & Wednesday 3/13 - Earth's layer quiz using the foldable. How deep have human's dug into the crust? Videos here and here. Geologic time scale with 3- 5- and 7-minute models. How the Grand Canyon was formed here. How vast is geologic time - see video here. Thursday 3/14 - CALIFORNIA! Looking at the San Adreas fault. Friday 3/15 - Plotting earthquakes. Transform boundaries - start foldable. Contest or climate action challenge. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWENTY EIGHT Monday 3/4 - mineral webquest here. Due Tuesday for a homework check and quiz on Socrative. Tuesday 3/5 - identifying minerals lab Wednesday 3/6 - minerals in our daily lives glue in and vocabulary. Brain pop minerals. Rock cycle webquest here for live links. Thursday 3/7 - Work on rock webquest. Quiz minerals on Socrative. Friday 3/8 -Quiz rocks classification and the rock cycle.. Quiz rock classification and rock cycle. Reading: Journey to the Center of the Earth reading here and questions at end of reading here. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWENTY SEVEN Monday 2/25 - Work on climate action plan presentations Tuesday2/26 & Wednesday 2/27 - presentations and implementation Thursday 2/28 - .revise Google Slides Friday 3/1 - .revise Google Slides and submit for final grade. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWENTY SIX Monday 2/18 - President's day holiday NO SCHOOL Tuesday 2/19 - Washing Post article here. Work on climate action plans Wednesday 2/20 - work on climate action plans. Rubric and slide directions here. Thursday 2/21 - SNOW DAY Friday 2/22 - SNOW DAY __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWENTY FIVE Monday 2/11 - work day. Upload written portion of project to Google Classroom. Have presentation/visual ready for Tues/Wed during your extended period. Tuesday 2/12 & Wednesday 2/13 - Presentations. Thursday 2/14 - come up with a school wide or community wide climate action in your group. Steps 1-4 toolkit due Friday. Friday 2/15 - Work on community wide project. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWENTY FOUR Monday 2/4 - ACE video. Find out how many Earth's you use here. Can you get down to using only one Earth? Get help with a parent or guardian. Tuesday 2/5 - How many Earths did you use? Human impact and solutions ppt. Ways to reduce. What is zero waste video here. What is Earth Overshoot Day video here. Top ten single use plastic waste here. How one person reduced her garbage to one small jar for the year here. What will you do? Do One Thing (DOT) project is Wednesday.for presentation. Wednesday 2/6 - SNOW DAY Thursday 2/7 - DOT presentations. Paper towel video changing habits to lower waste. A Solution to Global Warming Design Challenge here -- rough draft two paragraphs typed and printed out due tomorrow. Friday 2/8- peer review of rough draft. Working period. Don't forget final draft and project/presentations are due Tuesday! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWENTY THREE Monday 1/28 - Feedback loops. Watch this video here. Tuesday 1/29 & Wednesday 1/30 - pop quiz feedback loops. How We Know What We Know About Climate Change project in Google Slides. due Thursday. Thursday 1/31 - Presentations. Friday 2/1 - When finished, watch all ten mini videos here for each of the ten key indicators of climate change.Arizona here and Flagstaff here. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWENTY TWO Monday 1/21 - MLK day no school Tuesday 1/23 - Go over What is Carbon? What is the carbon cycle? Carbon cycle game to illustrate carbon sinks and carbon sources. Wednesday 1/24 - Albedo - what is it? Earth's albedo. Pop quiz carbon cycle. Extended response greenhouse effects worksheet due Thursday here. Thursday 1/25 - sub. reading "On the Hunt" ScienceWorld. Reading and worksheets here. Friday 1/26 - What is albedo? Putting it all together - Feedback loops. Watch video here. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- WEEK TWENTY ONE Monday 1/14 - Work on Adobe Spark Video presentations group work. Presentation on extended day! Tuesday 1/15 & Wednesday 1/16 - Presentations via stations lab. Open notes quiz on Socrative. Nearpod presentation on the greenhouse effect illustration. Log onto presentation via Google Classroom if you were absent and go through presentation. Class code is in comment box. Bring earbuds. Thursday 1/17 - sub; Nearpod presentation "What is Carbon?". Log onto presentation via Google Classroom if you were absent. Class code is in comment box. .Bring earbuds. Friday 1/18 - sub; Nearpod presentation "What is Carbon". Log onto presentation via Google Classroom if you were absent. Class code is in comment box. Bring earbuds. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWENTY Monday 1/7 - Return finals and go over. Finish up discussion on wolves. Tuesday 1/8 - pre-test climate change. Video clip Newsweek here. Video clip weather vs climate here. Video trend vs. variation here. Take notes/vocabulary in ISNs. Wednesday 1/9 - Lab Greenhouse Effect. HW: questions from lab due Thursday. Thursday 1/10 - Go over lab. Watch Brainpop on Greenhouse Effect. Glue in illustration and vocabulary. Assigned groups for Greenhouse Gas/Pollutants Adobe Spark Video project. Friday 1/11 - Adobe Spark Video project.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINTER BREAK _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK NINETEEN Monday 12/17 - Review lab with key here. Tuesday 12/18 - Review lab. How paper towel is made here. The science behind absorbancy here. Wednesday 12/19 - Finals Thursday 12/20 - Finals Friday 12/21- Finals _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK EIGHTEEN Monday 12/11 - review day Tuesday 12/12 & Wednesday 12/13 - Ecology final/hand in study guides. Reading and questions Rachel Carson and Wolves packet due Thursday here. Thursday 12/14 - Wolves. Rachel Carson Brain pop. Oh Deer and Beyond powerpoint. Video human population. Go over questions on worksheet. Friday 12/15 - Finish Oh Deer & Beyond powerpoint Return graded work. Test corrections. Human population video here. Human population graph - what number are you? here. Human population video analogy here. Live population count here. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK SEVENTEEN Monday 12/3 - Go over Oh Deer lab and look at data collected after wolves were introduced in Yellowstone. Vocab limiting factors and carrying capacity. Video reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone here. Extra credit opportunity here. Tuesday 12/4- Video Hare&Lynx here. Hare&Lynx paper lab here. Wednesday 12/5 - Walking with Ghosts. Take notes on video & answer these questions. Notes/questions due tomorrow. Thursday 12/6 - Go over Hare&Lynx lab using powerpoint. If absent, see powerpoint in Google Classroom. Pop Quiz: interpreting a graph predator-prey relationship. Friday 12/7 - What are invasive species? How do invasive species impact an ecosystem? Watch video one and video two about invasive species. Invasive species projects due. Lionfish reading/worksheet. Handout with practice questions for final here - due Monday! Ecology exam Tuesday/Wednesday. . ____________________________________________________________________________________________- WEEK SIXTEEN Monday 11/26 - Folder cleanse, review major players in a food web and how consumers are categorized. Energy pyramid foldable here due next class. Tuesday 11/27 & Wednesday 11/28 - Go over energy pyramid foldable and question. Glue in and add vocab to ISNs. Study guide due Friday 12/7 here. Invasive species unwanted poster due Monday 12/3. See last Friday entry for assignment handout. Thursday 11/29 - grading rubric invasive species project here. Project due Tuesday Dec 4th at the start of class. Oh Deer Here Come the Wolves paper lab. Friday 11/20 - snow day ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THANKSGIVING 11/19 - 11/23 no school _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK FIFTEEN Monday 11/12 - NO SCHOOL VETERANS DAY Tuesday 11/13 & Wednesday 11/14 - Slippery Sleuths activity virtually sampling maroinvertebrates. Brain Pop Critical Reasoning. Claims Evidence Reasoning (CER) assignment rough draft using graphic organizer due Thursday - handout here. Thursday 11/15 - pair-share graphic organizer, Type final CER and upload to Google Classroom. Work on art contest. Friday 11/16 -CER due and contest art due. Invasive species unwanted poster due 12/3 here. Make sure to sign up for the species you want to research so that you have a unique on from your classmates! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK FOURTEEN Monday 11/5 - shark presentations. reading "Mapping Mangroves" here and complete both sides of worksheet here. Tuesday 11/6 - finish shark presentations. collect homework. how to read a dichotomous key review, exercise and practice with macroinvertebrates Wednesday 11/7- leaf pack dissection with Morgan Ford USGS Thursday 11/8 - leaf pack analysis. Citizen science clip here. Leaf Pack Network clip here. Friday 11/9 - Go over Mapping Mangroves. Pick one of the following contest. Completed contest forms due Thursday 11/15 plant mash-up assignment here and official form here. NOAA Marine Debris calendar contest link here. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK ELEVEN - WEEK THIRTEEN Shark Packet -- daily assignments in packet due November 1st. Shark Security Force packet available in Google Classroom. Final presentation due Monday November 5th. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TEN Monday 10/8 - Food chain vs. food web, producers, consumers & decomposers Tuesday 10/9 - Owl math, food chain and food webs, Wednesday 10/10 - Interpreting a food web worksheet. What happens to energy as it flows through the ecosystem? Thursday 10/11 - Fall Holiday Friday 10/12 - Fall Holiday _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK NINE Monday 10/1 - Classification posters due. Ecology powerpoint available in Google Classroom if you were absent. Tuesday 10/2 & Wednesday 10/3 - Level of organization in an ecosystem card sort and vocabulary. Drawing in ISN. Study guide here for quiz Thursday 10/4. Thursday 10/4 - Quiz. Eating for Energy food web exercise. Friday 10/5 - Dissecting owl pellets _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK EIGHT Monday 9/24 - Present graphed data and Hisser Investigation. Presentations tomorrow to class on findings. Procedures due in Google Classroom today by 3:15. Revised conclusions for Drops of Water on a Penny lab due today. Tuesday 9/25 - presentations Hisser investigation Wednesday 9/26 - type conclusions and upload to Google Classroom. Hissers in research video. Ask more questions about Hissers, look up answers, Thursday 9/27 - organizing organisms card sort. Friday 9/28 - Classification poster due Monday October 1st at the start of class. Assignment here and rubric here. Example here. Powerpoint is available in Google Classroom if you were absent. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK SEVEN Monday 9/17 - Return Drops of Water on a Penny Lab with graded graphs. Sketch out Hisser experiment and determine materials needed in order to conduct experiment on Thursday. Tuesday 9/18 & Wednesday 9/19 - Student direction here. Peanut Butter Sandwich procedures here. How to wrtet a procedure here. Data table directions here. Type a procedure in Google Classroom for the Hisser lab using the experimental design sketched in class on Monday. Revise conclusions to Drops of Water on a Penny lab and resubmit in Google Classroom. Be ready to conduct Hisser experiment on Thursday. HW: Print out a copy of your procedures for class on Thursday. Thursday 9/21 - Hisser experiment using and revising procedures. HW: revise and print out your procedures. Friday 9/22 - Set up Hisser lab and set out your procedures. Go to a different lab station and run a different investigation using the procedures provided. Make comments/suggestions on procedures and rate it. HW: Revise your Hisser procedures based on feedback and upload final copy to Google Classroom. This is a mastery assignment. If you have not uploaded a revised Drops of Water on a Penny lab conclusion, this is also due Monday in Google Classroom. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK SIX Monday 9/10 - Drops of water on a penny lab Tuesday 9/11 - Go over lab and graph using whole class data. DRY MIX. Wednesday 9/12 - Examples of DRY MIX into ISNs. TAILS acronym for graphing. Steps to a formal conclusion activity and glue in ISN. HW: write a formal conclusion using classroom data and upload conclusion to Google Classroom due Friday by 3:15. Thursday 9/13 - qualitative vs. quantitative observations using hissers Friday 9/14 - Come up with an experiment to answer about the Hissers. Partner up and type out a set of procedures. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK FIVE Monday 9/3 - Labor Day NO SCHOOL Tuesday 9/4 & Wednesday 9/5 - Review writing a hypothesis -- practice one or two examples. Pop quiz on warm up to check format! Reading on control variables "The Teachers Institute of Action Research" study.. What are control variables? Revisit the Great Fakesperiment. HW: write hypothesis for two of the Great Fakesperiments. Thursday 9/6 - Song variables. Quiz variables. Tomatosphere experiment -- seeds from space vs. seeds on Earth rate of germination. Friday 9/7 - Drops of water on a penny lab. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK FOUR Monday8/27 - Quiz IV or DV. Go over how to write a hypothesis worksheet and practice in pairs. More practice writing hypotheses. Tuesday 8/28- Pretest Science Wednesday 8/29 - Analyzing graphs Thursday 8/30 - Check hypothesis packet, Formula for writing a hypothesis in ISNs. Friday 8/31 - Writing hypothesis match up exercise. Formula for writing a formalized hypothesis. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THREE Monday 8/20 - Go over Webquest, Ms. Brown Who Am I? ppt, formatting comp books. Pages numbered both sides due Tues/Wed. Tuesday 8/21 & Wednesday 8/22 - PPT on ISNs (Interactive Science Notebooks). Format ISNs, add vocabulary and review variables. Worksheet on variables due Thursday here. Thursday 8/23 - The Great Fakesperiment: practicing picking out the IVs and DVs Friday 8/24 - Check the Great Fake. Writing a hypothesis tying IVs to DVs practice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK TWO Monday 8/13 - puzzle piece presentations. Think Like a Scientist reading and graphic organizer here due Tuesday. Tuesday 8/14 - Go over reading. Whole class sort. What is this object: practicing observations and inferences. A Deadly Killer Lurks Among Us Part I worksheet here due Wednesday. Wednesday 8/15 - Website: http://www.dhmo.org/ A Deadly Killer Lurks Among Us Part II here. Google Classroom sign in and questions assignment due Thursday. Thursday 8/16 - Quiz inference or observations. Trouble shoot Google Classroom. Start Weebly Webquest in pairs. Friday 8/17.- Weebly Webquest learn your way around my website! Do you see how "Weebly Webquest" is highlighted? That means there is a link to that assignment there. This is due Monday August 20. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK ONE Wednesday 8/8- First day of school. Get contracts signed due 8/13. Class materials are due next Friday 8/17 Thursday 8/9 - Go over classroom protocol. HW: log into Google Docs using your password/email from last year. Friday 8/10 - Puzzle piece assignment due Monday. Assignment here.