Scientific Observation vs. Inference

Room policies and procedures. Assess Weitz Website. Work on Namecard.

Assign textbook. Work on measuring activity.Find and update your science portfolio

Seating charts. Review room monitors, and classroom expectations and procedures.

. Review notetaking.Start Getting to Know tables games

Review Sections 1-3 and review notes. Finish Getting to Know tables games

Introduce "Keep It Hot" Lab and background research

Discuss lab safety. Conduct "Keep It Hot" Lab.

Review lab data. Copy materials and methods. Begin analysis.

Heat transfers. Review draft of graphs. Discuss lab format. Practice identifying heat transfers

Calculating heat gain/loss. Go over conclusion drafts. "Temperature" and "Temp vs. Heat"

Open-note Quiz on Ch.1 . Finish heat problems in class.

Eureka clip on "Molecules". Dyeing Water (Matter/Modeling Particle Motion)

Introduce PEAP project. Look at examples. Begin researching ideas.

Discuss PEAP topics. Go over heat problems. Begin Ch.2

Review sec. 1 ques. Video field trip "Ice in a Bag"/ "Save the Ice" / Begin planning device.

Review sec. 2 questions. Discuss PEAP proposal. Chemical change activity with chalk.

Got gas? Complete sec. 3 in class. Finish "Save the Ice" planning

Review sec. 3 questions. Endothermic vs Exothermic Return Ch. 1 Quiz/ review.

Test our Save the Ice Devices. Eureka clips. Work on paperwork (due tomorrow)

Ch. 2 and Heat Energy Quiz (35 pts)-bring a calculator Breakdown and recycle devices.

Turn in PEAP proposal. Review Sec 1 assessment questions. Bill Nye "Matter" - take notes

Arrangement and speed of molecules. Evaporation/Condensation. Ch. 3 Structured Notes

Endothermic change/salt in water. Review Ch. 3 homework. Video field trip-"The Bends"

Gas Laws activity. Eureka

"Expansion and Contraction" Ch. 3 Quiz (30 pts). Begin Ch. 4 Reading notes and section assessments.

Introduce atoms. Atoms video

Assess mind munchies #1-20 . Atomic Theory Notes. Carbon Lab

Video Field Trip. Review Sec. 2. Finish Carbon Lab and review.

Begin elemental flashcards in class. Oxygen Lab.

Review Ch. 3. Finish Oxygen Lab and review. Continue making flashcards.Elemental Memory.

Elemental Memory. Swimmin' Sodium. Reactivity of alkali metals

Brainiacs Alkali Metals. Penny Lab.

Introduce and begin "Getting to Know the Elements". Elemental Memory.

Review Sec. 3 and 4. Work on flashcards.

Flashcard "Quiz". Work on GTKTE or Elemental Memory.

Present GTKTE Round Robin format

Correct Flashcards Review. Continue notes packet. Elemental Memory

Review Sec. 5 Radioactive Elements. PowerPoint Elemental Memory

Continue reviewing notes packet. Elemental Memory

Eureka "Atoms" Finish notes packet. Return Ch. 3 Quiz and discuss.

Ch. 4 Exam "Period Table of Elements"

Return PEAP proposals and discuss topics.How can you strengthen your topic? Research/planning time

Introduce new unit. "Atoms and Bonding" Field Trip. Alien Periodic Table acitivty

Finish/Review Alien Periodic Table. What are the valence numbers of your 2 elements? Review sec. 1

Practice with Ionic Compounds.

Correct ionic compounds from homework. "Chemical Reactions" video

Review Sec. 3. Practice with Covalent Compounds

Review Sec. 4. More practice with compounds. Assess m.m. #21-45. Begin homework.

Review bonding types. Correct homework. Introduce and Discuss "How I Earned My Grade".

Polyatomic Ionic Bonds. Magic Water activity. Discuss homework and quiz.

Review homework. Turn in Chapter 5 paperwork. Take Ch. 5 Quiz

Graph "How I Earned My Grade Data" and write a Conclusion and Analysis paragraph.

Work on What's It Made Of?

Finish What's It Made Of? and/or get ahead on Ch. 6 reading notes.

Review Ch. 6 sec 1 and vocabulary. Got Gas? Lab

Review Ch. 6 sec. 2 and vocabulary. Review "Got Gas" lab. "Great Precipitate" lab

Review Great Preci. lab. Review balancing equations and assign homework.

"Reaction in a Bag" lab - Review Reaction Types

Assign "Cartoon Chemistry"

Share "Cartoon Chemistry" Rates of Reactions "Elephant's Toothpaste"

No school for Veterans' Day

Metals in Acids. Return Ch. 5 Quiz and discuss revisions.

Combustion Demo (Vapor Ramp) Mythbusters-Hindenburg

The Weitzenburg

Ch. 6 Test Turn in Ch. 6 Sec. 1-4 notes with S.A.Q. and "Chemical Equations" worksheet

P.E.A.P. Check-in. Return and discuss How I Earned My Grade with each student

Introduce Ch. 7. Video field trip. Start homework.

Review Sec. 1 and 2 "Concentrate on the Solution" lab

Review Sec. 3 Go over "Concentrate on the Solution" lab

Review Sec. 4 Create Cabbage Juice Indicator Scale with lab

Go over homework and acidosis. Review Cabbage Juice lab. Acid Base Neutralization

Review Ch. 7 and create study guide. Review the week in homework.

Ch. 7 Quiz

Introduce Ch. 8

Food Label Activity

Mythbusters

Review Ch.8 sec.2 Naming, drawing molecular structures

Continue naming, drawing molecular structures

Macromolecules and review

Ch. 8 Quiz (40 pts). Turn in Ch. 8 notes, Organic Structures packet..

"Venom: Nine Ways to Die."

Begin review of Ch.1-8

Discuss tomorrow's exam. Make "Flubber"

Ch.1-8 Comprehensive Semester Final (50 points)

Review Ch. 9 sec. 1 assessment. Bill Nye "Motion"

Cruisin' Speed Activity- Practice measuring, calculating speed

Review Speed Problems. "Speed Activity"

Review acceleration. "2,4,6,8 Let's Accelerate"

"Running is a Drag" activity

Mechanical Energy Lab. Finish "Speed Problems" #6-10.

Correct and review homework. Review Motion w/ Eureka.

Ch. 9 Quiz.

Flight video.

Discuss forces and Ch. 10 Sec. 1. Bill Nye video.

Building Airplanes Day 1.

Building Airplanes Day 2.

Building Airplanes Day 3.

Building Airplanes Day 4.

Building Airplanes Day 5.

Finish them. Assess and Decorate Airplanes

Fly Planes

Go over Ch 10 Review Questions #1-5. Work on Physical Cartoons.

Momentum video and discussion. Work on homework.

Review Ch 10 Review Questions #6-20 and discuss tomorrow's exam

Ch.10 Exam. Turn in Ch.10 homework.

Introduce pressure. Make Cartesian Divers.

Ship Shape- density and buoyancy.

Introduce Boat Building project and begin planning/working

Work on Boat Building project

Work on Boat Building project

Work on Boat Building project/ Test and grade boats

Work on Boat Building project/ Test and grade boats

Turn in boat project write-up. Explain Cartesian Diver. Plan Friday's party. Begin reviewing Ch.11

Finish Pressure and Buoyancy video review

Finish review. Bernoulli's Principle

Ch. 11 Test (50 pts)

Read Across America minute. 100 M.M. Party, Update portfolios, Make-up work, Peace Corps Day

Earth's rotation and revolution. "Seasons" video. Which direction is the sun "moving"?

Review Section 1 and begin "Moon" video

Escape velocity and finish Bill Nye "Moon"

'Moonth of Phases activty

Total Eclipses. Tides jigsaw activity using NOAA

Ch. 12 Quiz. Turn in "Tidal Jigsaw" work and Bill Nye video notes (Seasons and Moon)

What do you want to know about astronomy? - Free research day. Record 3 ?'s, answers and sources.

It IS Rocket Science! Making Match Rockets move forward using Newton's 3rd Law

Watch "When We Left Earth- Ordinary Supermen"- fill in note-taking guide

Finish "When We Left Earth- Ordinary Supermen"fill in note-taking guide. Gemini missions

"When We Left Earth"-Landing the Eagle

Vernal Equinox. Moon and Sky Obs. Handy Tool. Announce Astro Mag project

Work on magazine project

Work on magazine project

Work on finish magazine project. Due on Tuesday.

Handy measuring tool activity. Distance between Earth and Moon Lab

View and turn in astronomy magazines. Finish Distance between Earth and Moon.

Evolution of the Solar System Model lecture (Ch.14 sec. 1) Finish "Planets" video.

Tour of the Solar System

Finish Solar System tour. Introduce/begin your own solar system (partner in-class project)

Discuss stars classification. Continue working on solar system project (partner in-class project)

Distances in the Solar System. More class time to work on project.

Sign up for PEAP presentations, review Ch.13 and 14.

Ch.13 ("When We Left Earth" videos) and Ch.14 Exam (60 points)

"Rocket Booster Cam" - WWLE-Shuttle Missions

Present PEAP

Present PEAP

Present PEAP

Finish presenting PEAP

Finish presenting PEAP Some classes watch Symphony of Science

STAR practice and Ch.1-8 review

Review STAR practice and Ch.1-8 key

Science STAR Test / When We Left Earth -Shuttle

Mind-blowing astronomy scale video. Student Year activity

Go over Time Traveler questions. Red Hot, or Not? Look at the colors of light.

Star life-cycles

Discuss Rube-Goldberg Project (incredible machine). Eureka videos on levers, et

Ch.1-15 Final Exam (100 pts) 50 multiple-choice questions

Begin planning incredible machine. Meet with group, plan, etc.

Begin building the incredible machines (Rube Goldberg)

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Rube Goldberg building

Living classroom-garden visit

Rube Goldberg building

Memorial Day

Rube Goldberg Grading

Raging Waters!!

Rube Goldberg Machines on display / Classroom Clean-Up

Rube Goldberg Machines breakdown and clean-up

Finish clean-up/Last minute logistics

Discuss the Transit of Venus

Graduation