Friday, September 29, 2017

Rotation 4 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To assess the understanding of the first unit.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What part of an experiment is your predicted explanation of your problem?
- Unit 1 Assessment
- Unit 2 Vocab - there are a lot of words, so start now

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Rotation 4 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To review the unit of life.

Agenda: 
- Daily Journal: What is the term for a group of organisms of the same species in an area?
- Any gizmos to hand in?
- Review Sheet
- Assessment tomorrow

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Rotation 4 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To start reviewing unit 1.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a controlled variable?
- Any vocab for me to check?
- Quizlet Live
- Vocab Quiz
- finish Gizmo

Monday, September 25, 2017

Rotation 3 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To begin reviewing life - cycles.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are two terms we would find in the water cycle?
- Grab a chromebook. Log onto Google Classroom

  • FIRST: follow directions to join our Gizmo class
  • some of you have lab safety quizzes to do
  • some of you might still have Vocabulary
  • Use the directions to join the Quizlet class
- Vocab quiz tomorrow

Friday, September 22, 2017

Rotation 3 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To use microscopes to see if we caught water bears.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are three characteristics of life?
- Microscope tutorial
- Find Water bears

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Rotation 3 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To go hunting and discuss cycles and characteristics.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: If you couldn't be human, what kind of organism would you want to be? Why?
- Hunting Bears
- Finish talking about Characteristics of Life
- Unit 1 Vocab

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Rotation 2 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To continue discussing life.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What happens at a transform boundary?
- Finish up Snack Tectonics handout
- Notes
- Vocab - due Monday - glossary is on Google Classroom

Monday, September 18, 2017

Rotation 2 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To model plate boundaries.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What land features can be caused by convergent boundaries?
- Finish questions for Balloon Activity (5 minutes)
- Snack Tectonics
- Tomorrow... 

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Rotation 2 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To simulate the Big Bang.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are the four layers of the earth called?
- Big Bang Activity
- Make up any lab safety exams with Mrs. Hennings
- FYI - zeros will be put in for any incomplete work in Genesis gradebook from now on

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Rotation 1 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To illustrate the Big Bang

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: According to the Big Bang Theory, how old is the universe?
- Discuss the Doppler Effect
- Big Bang Activity

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Rotation 1 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To start talking about science.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: In your own words, what is one lab safety rule discussed during last class?
- Ch 1 notes - Big Bang and Doppler Effect
- Lab safety quiz tomorrow

Friday, September 8, 2017

Rotation 1 - Day 1

Today's goal: To go over lab safety.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Describe one way that you interacted with another living thing this week. 
- Lab Safety Presentation... quiz on Day 3
- Brain Break - This or that
- Save Sammy
- Google Classroom


  • Finish paragraph
  • Back to school survey
  • Rotating schedule if not done

Rotation 8 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look into the anatomy of vertebrates. Agenda: - Daily Journal: What do you know about frogs? - Frog Dissection