Today, the students were engaged in a lab activity on rockets. This activity explained Newton's 3rd Law of Motion. Tomorrow, each students have been told to bring 2 different 2-Liter diet cola (any brand). This activity will involve mentos and diet cola.
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today, the classes will be engaged in mini-lab activities for the next three days. Each student will need to bring 2-2liter diet coke products. The soda must be diet and dark colored. Each student can bring an extra soda if he or she wishes. The diet drink will be needed for the Mentos Geyser lab. The lab for today abd tomorrow will involve build a rocket and demonstrate how rocket liftoff is an application of Newton"s Third Law of Motion.
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Today, the classes will complete the lab activity involving the Baby Diaper Secret Inquiry. The completed lab activity will be turned in today. There will no be any homework.
Considering: Since many students did not do well on the Scientific Method -Integrating Skills handout there is a good chance that this assignment will not be added to I Parent, It was listed earlier as one of the last graded to be added for this 9 weeks. This is an area where the students still struggle with understanding the steps and how to properly incorporate these steps the formulation of a scientific inquiry or investigation.
Don't forget to bring 2-2liter diet coke by Monday, 5/18/09.
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Today, the classes were engaged in a lab activity, "Baby Diaper Secret Inquiry."" The classes finished part 1 and will complete part 2 tomorow. The write up for this activity will be due at the end of the class period. The activity is one of the assignment that will be part of this 9 weeks grade.
Each student has been asked to bring 2-2liter diet coke to school by Monday, 5/18/09, for the lab activity for next week. The drink can be any brand as long as it is diet.
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Since, we are fast approaching the end of the school year, here is a list of activites that will be collected and graded. Today, there will be a review of the scientific method (the steps) followed by a discussion of the handouts given last week. Each student was given the handout ( A scientific Mehtod Hunt) to be discussed as a small group activity. The other handout (The Scientific Method, Integrating Skills) was a homework assignment to be graded separate. Additionally, each student was given the EQ to be completed by 5/12/09.
Graded assignments:
The Scientific Mehtod (Integrating Skills) due 5/9/09 (reassigned for 5/11/09)
Essential Question due 5/11/09
Lab - Baby Diaper Secret Inquiry (2 days) due 5/12-13/09
Lab - Plop! Plop! Fizz! Fizz! - Liftoff (1 day) 5/18/09
Lab - Mentos Geyser (1 day) 5/19/09
Final Exam 5/21 or 22/09
Be sure to complete study guide for unit test. The test will be tomorrow (3/31/09).
Study! Study!
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Today, the students were engaged in a mini-lab activity involving lens and mirrors. This activity involve the cooperation and participation of all students in a small groups. This activity will alsoinvolve a discussion of types of mirrors and lens. Practice sheet #28 was issued to each student and is due tomorrow (3/27/09). Each student will receive a study guide tomorrow.
Assignments due date.
Practice sheet # 28 3/27/09
Study guide 3/30/09
Unit test (light--lens and mirrors) 3/31/09
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Today, the students were engaged in a station labs activity. The completion of this lab will occur over the next three days. It has been stressed the importance of staying on target for the next couple of weeks in an effort to be where we would like to be before spring break.
Homework: The vocabulary review handout is due tomorrow, 2/24/09. This handout was given on Friday, 2/13/09. Otherwise, there is no more homework.
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Today, the classes identified components and their functions of the electromagnetic spectrum. A discussion of the human eye and those components necessary for human to detect colors. Additionally, explored by certain humans are color blind. and what are some reasons for color blindness. We reviewed the homework assignment (concept map of the electromagnetic spectrum). No homework.
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Today, we began a new unit. The classes will describe features of the electromagnetic spectrum. The classes will complete page 51 of the Cornell notes. At the completion of the notes, each student must complete the back of page 51 for homework using the notes taken earlier. Following the Cornell notes, students will watch a video, "Electromagnetic Spectrum" from Brain Pop and answer the questions provided on handout given.
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