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Weekly Schedule for Middle School Science 2008 - 2009
Quarter 2:
WEEK 4 November 17 - 21, 2008
For all classes, Rough drafts due this Friday
7th grade:
M - We will talk about the rough draft, and hand out a checklist that will
help the students write it more clearly. Today we will read about the electron shells, and the make
up of the nucleus.
Tu - We will discuss the shape and layout of the periodic table. Students
will make am element book this week with 10 elements required. This is a combination art project,
and science project. While we are working, we will review how many protons, neutrons and electrons
are in certain elements, ions and isotopes.
W- We will continue our creation of the element books
Th - Books are due.
F - Small quiz over the number of atoms in atoms, ions and isotopes.
8th grade:
M - Today we will talk about the rough draft that is due in one week. We
will also look at a checklist to see what is expected for the paper, due Friday.
Tu - We will create a puzzle game for electricity terms.
W - Last day to work on the electricity puzzle
Th - Types of circuits (parallel and series), and electricity diagram symbols
F - Warm up draw, and individual quiz (5 points) using electricity symbols.
Week 3: November 10-14, 2008
All classes: The next part of the science project is the rough draft of the paper. This is due
November 21.
7th grade
M - Defining element, compound, solution, mixture, Physical change, chemical change, conservation
of mass, heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures.
T - The periodic table's history and how the table is arranged
W - What each square of the table tells you, and how to identify elements by their P,N, and E.
Th - Practice Identifying P(rotons), N(eutrons), and E(lectrons)
F - Warm Up draw (oral)
8th grade
M - What are conductors, insulators and resistors. Making "wires" for the next part of our
experiment.
T - Creating a complete circuit
W - Talking amps, volts, and ohms. What these mean, and creating an analogy using water.
Th - Ohm's Law
F - Warm up draw. (oral)
WEEK 2 November 3 - 7, 2008
All classes will have the experimental log due on Friday Nov. 7. We will
spend class time on Tuesday going over how to do this assignment. The
experiment does not need to be done for this assignment, but the students
will need to turn in both a data table of what they will be recording (or
have recorded) and a graph of that same data. The experimental log should
also have a qualitative data section as well.
7th grade:
M- Components of matter. Solids, liquids, gasses and plasmas. Transitional phrases
T - Bill Nye on States of matter
W - Gas laws and looking at states of matter.
Th - TBD.
F - Today students will give their warm ups orally. They will need to have their grade recorder sheet
complete before they are allowed to take this warm up. The sheet should be hand written and kept
in their binder.
8th Grade:
Bill Nye static electricity, and discussion of how static charges build up.
T - Class discussion about Experimental log (due Friday). We will look at some past examples.
W -Most electrifying student competition. Creating our own Leyden Jars to store electricity.
Th - Electricity in lightning, van de graff generator. -
F - Today students will give their warm ups orally. They will need to have their grade recorder sheet
complete before they are allowed to take this warm up. The sheet should be hand written and kept
in their binder.
And thus we begin Quarter 2:
Week 1:
Both classes will work on conversions and becoming familiar with lab equipment.
Lab project: The experimental Design is due this Friday. Class time will be given to talk about it and
look at examples on Tuesday.
7th and 8th grade:
M - Making sure the grades I have are right
T - Looking at the next part of the experiment, the experimental design
W - Using the cross-canceling method of unit conversion
Th- looking at lab equipment and making unit conversions
F - lots of practice with conversions
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Week 9: October 13 - 16, 2008
Notecards are due this Thursday
All Classes: We will spend Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday working on our notecards in class.
They will be collected on Thursday.
Thursday will also be the day that the warm up final will be conducted. This will involve drawing 3
cards from the bucket. Each question will be worth 5 points, and will not be eligible for redraw.
Partial credit will be given for partially correct answers.
Thursday is the last day for the 1st quarter.
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Week 8: October 6 - 10, 2008
Notecards due in two Thursdays (Oct. 16) Class time will be devoted to this next week, M-W.
7th Grade:
M - What are the types of clouds and what do they signal?
T - Clouds identification and "fastest matching competition."
W - Cloud bingo and weather symbol identification.
Th - Test review for the cloud atmosphere test Friday
F - Test over the atmosphere, weather symbols and clouds
8th grade:
M - Life cycle, and symbiosis notes.
T - Bill on Biodiversity and life cycles. Also, what are the different ways of really knowing something?
W - Review for the test, with a completely unique vision (spatial intel) of the all the cycles we have
studied this year.
Th - Exam over all the cycles we have studied this year.
F - Go outside if the weather is nice and the ground is dry.
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Week 7: September 29 - October 3, 2008
Al classes: next part of the project is the notecards. Sixteen note cards are due on October 16. We
will have classtime devoted to this on Monday, October 13 - Wednesday, October 15.
7th grade:
M - Weather symbols notes. These can be found at the website:
http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/dstreme/extras/wxsym2.html
T - Coloring a weather map based on isotherm readings
W - Bill Nye on the Atmosphere
Th - Clouds drawing and notes on the types of clouds.
F - Cloud bingo. Warm Up draw.
8th grade:
M - Photosynthesis and trophic level notes
T -Bill Nye notes on Respiration
W - Elodea experiment on photosynthesis rates. Lab will be written in class on Thursday and
collected Friday at the start of class.
Th - Writing lab report for elodea lab.
F- Elodea lab collected and Warm Up draw.
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Week 6: September 22 - 25, 2008
All Classes: Bibliographies are due this Thursday. This means that 8
resources will need to be presented in proper format, including no more than
2 internet and 2 encyclopedias. Mr. Willsea will make his library of science
books available for students on Tuesday (8th grade) and Wednesday (7th
grade. It is recommended saving your books, because the notecards will be
collected on October 16.
7th grade:
M - Debate over cloud seeding
T - 14 station rotation for how to write a bibliography. Review for the
weather test on Thursday.
W - Students are invited to bring in their books on Wednesday to write their
bibliographies using class time. Mr.Willsea will make his books available
for use at this time.
Th - Students will take a test on the 6 elements of weather, and will draw a
warm up question.
8th grade:
M - Groups will prepare to teach the 2nd graders about the water cycle.
Groups should prepare to teach groups of 5 students for about 30 minutes.
T - Students will work on writing bibliographies, and Mr. Willsea will make
his book available for students to use in class. Less than 20 minutes will
be allotted for work on the water cycle lesson.
W - Students will teach the water cycle to small groups of 2nd graders.
Th - We will work outside on our plots of land.
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Week 5: September 15 - 19, 2008
All Classes: Bibliographies are due in two Thursdays (Sept. 25). Don't
leave this to the last minute (I
know drivers don't like last minute drives to the library.) Midterm grades
are given out on Thursday,
and should be returned, signed on Friday or Monday.
7th grade:
M-W Outdoor ed.
Th -Seeding clouds court cases distributed in class. Students are to read
each court case, and decide
if how the court will rule on each example of the use of cloud seeding.
F - Students will come up with a defense for their court case answers. Test
on Weather will be given
Wednesday next week.
8th grade:
M - What are fertilizers. Looking at small sections of the "back yard" and
how various techniques
can be an alternative to fertilizers.
T - Testing our soil samples for nitrate, phosphorous, and potassium
W - Plotting regions and how we can test the success of multiple growing
techniques.
Th - Water cycle notes, discussing the project of teaching this cycle to the
2nd grade class (next
week)
F - Test on Nitrogen cycle, week 5 warm ups.
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Week 4: September 8 - 12, 2008
All classes: Science Project due this Friday. We will be taking the NWEA
tests this week as a another
tool to quantify the growth of our students. This will affect the schedule,
and will prevent each class
from having the same assignments on the same days. What follows is a
summary of what I hope to
cover by the end of the week.
7th: Notes on weather (short term conditions, including: temperature,
pressure, wind, humidity,
clouds and precipitation)
8th: Notes on the Nitrogen cycle.
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Week 3: September 2-5, 2008
7th grade:
T - Last year's climate exam. This will be ungraded, but will will give the
kids a chance to see what a
Willsea test is like. I will have the kids take this for the first 20
minutes of class.
W - We will work to compare locations and look at how their climates will be
similar or different
Th - Climographs will be compared, and students will make their own.
Collected for 10 points
F - Climate exam. This will be similar to last year's, but will not be
identical. Students should know
all terms from the notes taken last week (see document page). Warm up
questions will be drawn
during the test (see document page for all warm ups and answers). Anyone who
prints out the
questions and answers, and SILENTLY points to them before the test, will
receive full points on their
warm up.
8th grade:
T - Looking at sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks. Creating new ways
to separate rocks in
our dichotomous key. Mr. Willsea has put a copy of his key online, under
the documents tab.
W - Half of class will be spent doing a bodily/kinesthetic way of enacting
the rock cycle, and the
other half will be practice for Friday's quiz.
T - Stations with a practice exam for Friday
F - Rock cycle exam. This will include both written parts and
identification parts. The only notes
allowed are your dichotomous keys. Warm up questions will be drawn during
the test (see document
page for all warm ups and answers). Anyone who prints out the questions and
answers, and SILENTLY
points to them before the test, will receive full points on their warm up.
Week 2: August 25 - 29, 2008
7th grade:
M - Students will take notes on 5 major cases of climate
T - Lab on the difference between land and water heating
W - How to create a graph, graphing yesterday's data
Th - Climate quiz (ungraded) with atlases
F - Bill Nye climate!
8th grade:
M - Students will take picture notes on the Rock Cycle.
T - Using Multiple Intelligences to learn the rock cycle
W - Using Rock kits from the Colorado School of Mines to understand the rock
cycle
Th - Creating a dichotomous key for rocks, and how to identify them.
F - Bill Nye rocks!
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Week 1: August 18 - 22, 2008
7th Grade:
Mon- The science project explanation and due dates will be handed out today
(they are also on the
Documents page of this website). This project will run from August through
December, and will
require
students to research a project and conduct an experiment on their own. A
written report and oral
presentation to the class will be due in December.
Tues- Explaining the parts of a lab.
Wed - Conducting our first experiment together. The Rainbows in Milk Lab
will be done in class
today.
Thursday - We will write out all parts of the lab in class today and
tomorrow.
Friday - We will, hopefully, compete our lab write-up for the Rainbows in
Milk Experiment. They will
be collected when done, and given a grade out of 10 points.
8th Grade:
This week looks identical to the the 7th graders week, except we will be
conducting the Candle
Flicker
Lab on Wednesday, and writing its report on Thursday and Friday.
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Week 1/2 (August 14 - 15, 2008)
7th Grade:
Thursday - We will go over the class rules (found on the Documents page),
and learn how every student is intelligent using the multiple intelligences
theory of Howard Gardener(also on the documents page.
HOMEWORK: Students will need to put a checkmark next the statements that
describe them best (estimated competion time: 5 minutes, also found on the
documents page) Study for the small 8 point quiz tomorrow over the 8
intelligences, and how you can learn using each one (Example: Musical
Intelligence: You can study this way by creating a song from your notes.
Estimated completion time 20 minutes or less)
Friday - We will take 20 minutes to complete the Multiple Intelligences
quiz. Students will need to name each intelligence, and one way you can
study using that intelligence. We will take class pictures after the quiz.
8h grade:
Thursday and Friday are identical to the classes of the 7th grade, described
above.
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