Friday, 17 December, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from hands on activities and classroom discussions to
-describe phase changes.
-describe the tranfer of heat energy from one object to another.

Students did an FCAT transparency as their do now.

Students then did the heat transfer lab activity, by making ice cream. You can find the handout to the activity, along with the directions for making the ice cream mix, at the top of this blog.

The home learning for the holidays is to complete the Winter Package for Science on Scientific Method.

Have a Safe and Blessed Christmas and I pray all of God's choice blessings for the coming New Year for you!

Thursday, 16 December, 2010

This is HL #9. Turn in one copy to me. Place the other completed copy in your interactive notebook.

Students will be able to:
use information from hands-on activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

The do now was an FCAT transparency about the theory of continental drift.

Students received home learning 9, which can be found at the top of this blog.

Students took notes on the Theory of Continental Drift and the Theory of Plate Tectonics, using past home learnings. These notes can be used to aid in answering the questions for home learning 9. If you were absent, review home learning 5, which has the necessary information to take notes AND to complete tonight's home learning.

Students wrote Costa's leveled questions based on the notes and wrote a summary of the main ideas of the notes using the Cornell notes format.

Tuesday, 14 December and Wednesday, 15 December, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from the interim assessment exam and the CPS clicker sytem to
-review the interim assessment exam and exam 5.

Students used the clicker system to review the fall interim assessment. Students were placed on teams and asked to discuss and then answer the questions. The team with the most points win a free home learning pass!

There was no home learning on either day.

Monday, 13 December, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from notes, past lessons, and classroom discussion to
-take an exam on Earth Structures.

Students took Exam 5 using the clickers.

There was no home learning.

Friday, 10 December, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

Students worked on the Building Pangaea GIZMO found at www.explorelearning.com. If you wish to access the lab, use the username and password supplied to you. If you've forgotten your username/password, email me for them.

Other classes began a density lab, which related density to the plunging dense oceanic crusts under the less dense continental crusts. You can get the lab paper in class.

Home learning is to complete Exam 5 and bring to class for entering answers on the clickers.

If you lose your copy, you can obtain another in class on Monday.

Thursday, 9 December, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

Students worked on the Building Pangaea GIZMO found at www.explorelearning.com. If you wish to access the lab, use the username and password supplied to you. If you've forgotten your username/password, email me for them.

Other classes worked at making models of Pangaea, from the American Museum of Natural History site. You can find the activity and the handouts at:
http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/pdf/dinos_plate_tectonics.pdf

There was no home learning.

Wednesday, 8 December, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

Students took the third mini assessment.

Students worked on the Building Pangaea GIZMO found at www.explorelearning.com. If you wish to access the lab, use the username and password supplied to you. If you've forgotten your username/password, email me for them.

There was no home learning, but there will be a mini assessment tomorrow (postponed from today).

Tuesday, 8 December, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

The do now was an FCAT transparency.

Those students that needed to complete the plate tectonics/notes activity did so by clicking the link found at Dr. Gayden's Science Zone (drgcdms.podomatic.com) located under Monday, 6 December, 2010 For Seventh Graders. You can also cut and past the following URL address to access the site: http://www.as.uky.edu/academics/departments_programs/EarthEnvironmentalSciences/EarthEnvironmentalSciences/Educational%20Materials/Documents/elearning/module04swf.swf

Be sure to record the names of ALL the plates AND write at least one sentence to explain EACH boundary/plate activity. For instance: When oceanic and continental plates converge or meet, the more dense oceanic plate subducts under the less dense continental plate, forming an accretionary wedge.

Do this for EACH of the plate types.

There was no home learning, but there will be a mini assessment tomorrow (postponed from today).

Monday, 6 December, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

The do now was an FCAT transparency.

Students used Discovery Education sites to learn about Continental Drift theory. To access the site, visit Dr. Gayden's Science Zone for today's date (Tuesday, 30 November, 2010). Click the link to enter the Discovery Site. Your user name is :
miami_youridnumber
The password is:
idnumber_miamai.

Click the third tab, assessment resources to find the activity Prove They Move. Complete the handout using the online exploration. If you complete this activity, begin the Dance of the Plates activity on the same site.

Those classes that finished began the online activity about plate tectonics found by visiting and clicking the link at Dr. Gayden's Science Zone (drgcdms.podomatic.com).

There was no home learning, but there will be a mini assessment tomorrow.

Thursday, 2 and Friday, 3 December, 2010

This is HL 8. Do both on the same sheet of loose leaf paper.

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

The do now on Thursday was an FCAT transparency.
The do now on Friday was a quiz on Plate Tectonics.

Students submitted and reviewed home learning 7. Home learning 8 can be found at the top of this blog.

Students used Discovery Education sites to learn about Continental Drift theory. To access the site, visit Dr. Gayden's Science Zone for today's date (Tuesday, 30 November, 2010). Click the link to enter the Discovery Site. Your user name is :
miami_youridnumber
The password is:
idnumber_miamai.

Click the third tab, assessment resources to find the activity Prove They Move. Complete the handout using the online exploration. If you complete this activity, begin the Dance of the Plates activity on the same site.

Those classes that finished began the vocabulary search lesson.

Wednesday, 1 December, 2010

This is HL 7. Do both on the same sheet of loose leaf paper.

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

The do now was an FCAT transparency.

Students submitted and reviewed home learning 6. Home learning 7 can be found at the top of this blog.

Students used Discovery Education sites to learn about Continental Drift theory. To access the site, visit Dr. Gayden's Science Zone for today's date (Tuesday, 30 November, 2010). Click the link to enter the Discovery Site. Your user name is :
miami_youridnumber
The password is:
idnumber_miamai.

Click the third tab, assessment resources to find the activity Prove They Move. Complete the handout using the online exploration. If you complete this activity, begin the Dance of the Plates activity on the same site.

Tuesday, 30 November, 2010

This is HL 6. Do both on the same sheet of loose leaf paper.

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

The do now was an FCAT transparency.

Students submitted and reviewed home learning 5. Home learning 6 can be found at the top of this blog.

Students used Discovery Education sites to learn about Continental Drift theory. To access the site, visit Dr. Gayden's Science Zone for today's date (Tuesday, 30 November, 2010). Click the link to enter the Discovery Site. Your user name is :
miami_youridnumber
The password is:
idnumber_miamai.

Click the third tab, assessment resources to find the activity Prove They Move. Complete the handout using the online exploration.

Monday, 29 November, 2010

This is HL #5. Do on the same sheet of loose leaf notebook paper. Follow all directions.

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-investigate and explain Alfred Wegener's hypothesis.
-show Pangaea's movement over geological time.

Students received HL #5, which can be found at the top of this blog.

Students visited online sites to learn about plate tectonics. They visited Dr. Gayden's Science Zone for a link to a BBC activity. Students also visited the site Plate Tectonics Activity, found at the site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics

THe do now was an FCAT transparency question on energy.

Monday, 22 November through Wednesday, 24 November, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-describe how rocks change from one type to another.
-share the findings from science fair projects.

The do now for all days will be FCAT transparencies.

On Monday, students watched a BrainPop movie on the Rock Cycle. Students then were paired to read and draw the rock cycle, from the Pearson site http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?wcprefix=cfp&wcsuffix=1056&fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&x=16&y=15

Students should write the definition of the rock cycle and include the drawing which shows each change. Student should also write sentences to explain how each rock type forms.

Students should reconsider the homework information page about Roger, the metamorphic rock, adding the needed information. The assignment should be ready to submit on the 29th of this month.

Friday, 19 November, 2010

This is your home learning assignment. You MUST bring this sheet to class on Monday! Be sure to follow all written directions. Choose the type of assignment you will do and follow the directions.

Students will be able to:
use information from hands-on activities and classroom discussions to
-compare and contrast the layers of the earth.
-use models to represent the earth's layers.
-present science fair projects.

Students completed an FCAT transparency question on the Nature of Matter as their do now.

Students then took a review quiz on the parts of the earth, using the CPS clicker system.

Students spent the remainder of the class period defending science fair presentations.

The home learning assignment can be found at the top of this blog.

Monday, 15 November Through Wednesday, 17 November, 2010

HL 4 is due on Wednesday.


HL 3 is due on Monday.



These are the lab sheets for class.

Students will be able to:
use information from hands-on activities and classroom discussions to
-compare and contrast the layers of the earth.
-use models to represent the earth's layers.

The do now for each day is an FCAT transparency question.

Students are working on completing the weathering laboratory.

Home learnings are shared at the top, along with the lab write-up.

Wednesday, 10 November and Friday, 12 November, 2010

This is HL 2. Follow directions.

Students will be able to:
use information from supplementary texts and classroom discussions to
-classify layers of the earth as solid or liquid.
-compare and contrast the composition of the structural layers of Earth's interior.
-construct a data table to compare and contrast the thickness of each layer and determine the overall depth of the Earth.

Both days used FCAT transparencies as bell ringers.

HL #2 can be found at the top of this post.

Students spent the remainder of the periods reading and taking notes (table, Venn diagram on the parts of the earth. They also made word wall posters of the vocabulary.

Monday, 8 November and Tuesday, 9 November, 2010

Please do both sheets, in the proper order, on ONE sheet of loose leaf paper, properly headed. Follow all written directions.

Students will be able to:
use information from internet access and classroom discussions to
-determine how light and patterns create images that can be deceptive or misleading to our brains.
-determine how material affects the speed of waves.

Due to quarterly assessment testing by the District, classes met on alternating schedules.

The do now for either day was an FCAT transparency, although they questions were different, they all dealt with The Nature of Science.

Students completed Cornell notes on light from the website from Friday, including the three Costa leveled questions with color, and the summary.

Some of the proposed questions were:

Level 1:
What is light?
How fast does light travel?
How can light be controlled?

Level 2:
Contrast reflection and refraction.
Compare reflection and refraction.
Distinguish between the methods that light can be controlled.

Level 3:
Predict what would happen to the angle of light as it passes from a less dense to a more dense medium.
Experiment to discover how the angle of reflections changes as the angle of incidence increases.

Home learning 1 can be found at the top of the blog. Follow directions carefully, and do all listed questions. Use blue/black ink or pencil, and head your loose leaf paper correctly.

Wednesday, 3 November through Friday, 5 November, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from internet access and classroom discussions to
-determine how light and patterns create images that can be deceptive or misleading to our brains.

The do now on Wednesday was to review mini assessment two.
The do now on Thursday was to review mini assessment one in preparation for the interim assessment next week.
The do now on Friday was to make a KWL chart on optical illusions.

Those classes that needed to view the BrainPops on color, light, and refraction/diffraction did so.

Those classes that needed to demonstrate transverse waves with the mini slinkys did so.

Students took notes on light and how light can be changed by going to Dr. Gayden's Science Zone and clicking the 7th grade link for Wednesday, 3 November, 2010. Basically, the notes should include that:

Light:
-is a form of energy.
-is part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see.
-travels in a straight line or path called light rays.
-travels at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second).
Light can be controlled by:
-blocking it with something to create a shadow.
-reflecting it by changing its path with a mirror.
-bending it by changing its direction by making it pass into another transparent material of different density, like glass or water, called refraction.

Students read about optical illusions and created their own.

Since Science Fair projects are due on Friday, there was no nightly home learning assigned.

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Wednesday, 27 October - Friday, 29 October, 2010

Print these sheets out and use to make up the lab on Wave Speed.

Students will be able to:
use information from laboratory experiments and classroom discussions to
-compare the speeds of two different waves.
-determine that wave speed affects the speed of ships.

Students watched a clip from the show The Deadliest Catch, showing the action of rogue waves.

Students did the wave speed lab. If you were absent, go to the website listed, and use the data on the page as your own.
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/waves/u10l2d.cfm

The handouts can be found at the top of this blog.

Because Thursday is an early release day, all classes will not be seen. Those classes that meet will work on completing the lab.

On Friday, all classes reviewed the mini assessment in science except period 2, which had assembly.

All classes completed the lab write up and submitted it.