6th Grade Earth Science

Jan. 4 - 8

Monday - Teacher Workday

Tuesday - Rock cycle game

Wednesday - Rock cycle game cartoons

Thursday - Vocabulary for renewable and nonrenewable

resources.

Friday - Outline on renewable and nonreneable resources

Parent signatures for science projects due

Students should be writing in their project log books

Procedures due

January 11-15

Monday - Check outlines in class and talk about different types of energies

Tuesday - Comparing the different costs of appliances and the energy used by each.

Wednesday - Lab on renewable and nonrenewable resources

Thursday - Continuation of the lab

Friday - Completion of the lab and graphs

January 18 - 22

Monday - MLK Day

Tuesday - Continuation of the renewabean activity.

Wednesday - Dominos to simulate chain reactions and nuclear fission. Questions to go with the activity

Thursday - Acid Rain lab - the effects of acid on a penny (observe for 5 days)

Friday - What is acid rain? Powerpoint on acid rain. Parent signature and rough drafts for chart and graphs due for Science project

January 25 -29

Monday - Check science fair notebooks. Worksheet on "What is acid rain?" Start the Effects of acid on metal lab.

Tuesday - Acid rain picture - label, identify parts and color code

Wednesday - Map of the United States color code the different areaas of the country where acid rain effects are the felt and answer questions as to why.

Thursday - Review for the test on natural resources and completion of the acid rain lab.

Friday - Test on natural resources

February 1 - 5

Students will be giving their oral reports for their science projects. The reports should be between 3 and 5 minutes long. They should practice at home and be able to completely explain their project ( the purpose, the hypothesis, the experimentation and their results). They should be able to answer any questions that their classmates ask them about their projects.

The following is a schedule of presentation times:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
JT Eppright	anna	Wyatt	Brett P.	Braden Hevle
carter,tiesman	Ellie	Cody Jeffcote	Matthew b.	tyler s
brandon	reagan	Maryn C.	john	Katie C.
Matthew Nobbe	Elijah schmidt	dylan POLITO	ty	Justin Salamone
		Aaron J.	Eric R.
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Justin Moore	luke oller	Brady Lochte!	Julie Stracke	George B
Collin Zuercher	Rylie Jouett	Mitchell!!!!	Rachel Shoemake	rhett pavelka
nathan flores	Sasha Hester	Ginger	austin walker	dillon scherer
Kyle	Emily Chaffin	Allison Ngo	Kaitlyn Willingham
Kate McKeehan	hannah james	Tori Jenks	Rachel Mcgavern
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
hannah avila	Trenton King	Vanessa Toomer	alyssa trevino	eric akins
Alex Jackowski	Bryndon Mcnaspy	allie seldenrust	Elizabeth Hunter	Tyler Pratt
Ashlyn Ellis!!	noelle hall	Taylor Marx	erika roller	Richard Rowe
Bailey cresswell	madison faulise	michelle privette	Kori Weeks	Colton johnson
Ronald Esman			jennifer sump

February 8 - 15

Monday - Students will be setting up their projects in the FLC. They will be able to view all of the projects at that time and vote on the project they think is the best project.

Tuesday - Students will complete the acid rain lab and do the vocabulary for chapter 6

Wednesday - Students will get the notes on how to identify what is happening in the layers of the earth's strata.

Thursday - Students will complete geochronology samples. Identifying faults, folds, tilts, and intrusions in sedimentary rock layers.

Friday - teacher resources, text 146-150. Information on the different ways fossils are preserved

February 22 - 26

Monday - Completion of the dinosaur drawings and explanation of each

Tuesday - Start of the Owl Pellet Lab. Students will work with a partner to identify the skeleton of an animal found in an owl pellet. They must construct the skeleton and identify the animal;

Wednesday - Continuation of Owl Pellet Lab

Thursday - Continuation of Owl Pellet Lab

Friday - Completion of lab and write a story about footprints found.

March 1 - 5

Monday - Finish working on the owl pellets and putting together their animal skeletons

Tuesday - Completion of fossils with writing a story about footprints found.

Wednesday - Adaptations - worksheet on the adaptations of the horse.

Thursday - Activity outside on adaptations using colored toothpicks

Friday - Answer questions and graph the results of the adaptation activity.

March 8 - 12

Monday - Vocabulary and notes for Plate Tectonics

Tuesday - Completion of notes

Wednesday - Activity on finding plate boundaries based on information from earthquakes and volcanoes.

Thursday - Field Trip

Friday - Completion of plate boundary activity

April 5 - 9

Monday - Happy Easter

Tuesday - Discuss Continental Drift. Start activity on Pangea

Wednesday - Pangea - can get extra credit by finding evidence and putting it on the Pangea map.

Thursday - Completion of Pangea

Friday - Review for test

April 12 = 16

Monday - Review for test on Plate Tectonics, Ocean floor spreading and Pangea

Tuesday - Test

Wednesday - Vocabularu puzzle on Earthquakes

Thursday = Notes on earthquakes and video on earthquake safety.

Friday - Demonstrate seismic waves and notes combination worksheet on the different types of waves.

April 19 - 23

Monday - notes from powerpoint on earthquakes and video on earthquake safety.

Tuesday - Demonstration of the different kinds of earthquake waves and a worksheet as a follow up on the different waves.

Wednesday - P and S wave graphs. Each student will construct a graph of the P and S wave times and interpret the information.

Thursday - Students will use data to find the epicenter of an earthquake, using compasses to measure the arc of a circle given information from 3 different seismic stations.

Friday - Continuation from Thursday - finding the epicenter of an earthquake.

April 26 - 30

Monday - Completion of "Finding the epicenter of an earthquake" - Worksheet on finding the epicenter

Tuesday - Test on Earthquakes - volcano vocabulary puzzle

Wednesday - Volcano packet on the different types of volcanoes

Thursday - Video on volcanoes

Friday - Video completion and questions

May 3 - 8

Monday - Staff meetings - no school

Tuesday - Volcano packets on Mt St Helens (readings and activities and questions to complete)

Wednesday - Completion of packets

Thursday - Notes on the different types of volcanoes and the different types of lava.

Friday - Field Day

May 10 - 14

Monday - Lab on predicting the eruption of a volcano. Students will time the eruption of their volcanoes twice and average their results. They will record their data and graph the data from the class.

Tuesday - Continuation and completion of the lab

Wednesday - Notes on the different types of volcanoes and lava.

Thursday - Practice for the Spring Musical. If not all day some classes will do a worksheet on the different types of lava.

Friday - Lab on the different viscosities of lava. Using different substances and measuring how fast they flow, then comparing them to the different types of lava. Also does the temperature of the lava affect its viscosity.

May 17 - 21

Monday - Friday

Students will be taking their final exam this week. On Monday we will organize their folders so they will have everything in order for the test as it is an open notebook test. Some of the students will be gone on Monday and some on Wednesday so we will work around the schedule changes. The students will have the entire week to complete the test and there will be study sessions after school starting Tuesday for about 30 minutes. Students can ask questions about anything they did not understand on the test from that day, they may take notes to ask their questions. Some students must finish their volcano labs and notes on volcanoes and lava (before testing).

May 24 - 28

Monday - Completion of some tests. Completion of volcano lab for the afternoon classes. Go over final with morning class and start lab on viscosity. Collect books

Tuesday - Pool Party

Wednesday - Lab on Lava viscosity.

Thursday - Morning class has carnival. Afternoon classes will complete their lab.

Friday - End of school - Have a great summer and we will see you in the Fall.