Friday, February 28, 2014

Friday 2/28/14

Today the students took a notes quiz over the information from the food web power point we did yesterday.  they also took a spiral quiz.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Spiral Quiz Preview

Click the link below to get a preview of the spiral quiz we are having Friday in class.

SPIRAL QUIZ

Tuesday and Wednesday February 25 and 26, 2014

Students had benchmarks on these days.   We will continue with regular classes Thursday.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Monday February 24, 2014

Today the students took notes over Ecological Interactions.  We then watched a video that we discussed how that organism interacted with the living and nonliving things in its environment.

Click the link below for the notes

ECOSYSTEM NOTES

Friday, February 21, 2014

Friday February 21, 2014

Today the students had an early release.  We took the ecosystem vocabulary quiz as well.  Those will count as the first grade for the next six weeks.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Tuesday February 18, 2014

Today we continued our blog over the ecosystem vocabulary.  This will be our only day in the computer lab whatever the students do not finish will have to be finished by this Friday.

Monday February 17, 2014

Today we took the Earth, Sun, and Moon Systems Test.  They were graded and entered into the grade book.

We also started a blog over the next unit vocabulary.

The students are taking the following words and making a blog about them with definitions and pictures.

THE BLOG IS DUE BY THIS FRIDAY

mutation
offspring
adaptations
natural selection
community
cycle
ecosystem 
energy pyramid
habitat
niche
population
producer
consumer
decomposer
food chain
herbivore
carnivore
photosynthesis

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Extra credit for exam Monday

If you get your parents to sign the review somewhere I can see it and turn it in before your exam, I will give you 10 extra points for the exam

Thursday February 13, 2014

Today we graded the textbook review and played a review game for the exam Monday.

Tomorrow we are having reading benchmarks 

Wednesday February 12, 2014

Today the students completed a textbook review over the material we have been covering.  They then received an exam review for the exam Monday.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Tuesday February 11, 2014

Today we finished up our notes on the characteristics of the earth.  We will be going over the Earth's seasons and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky tomorrow in class.  
We also watched Bill Nye's episode over the earth's seasons.  If you want to watch the video over again I have posted it below.




Monday, February 10, 2014

Monday February 10, 2014

Today we went over the moon's characteristics and watched a video by Bill Nye over the moon.

If you want the notes we have gone over for the past two class periods and the notes for class tomorrow click the link below.

EARTH, MOON, AND SUN NOTES

Here is the video we watched today just in case you wanted to watch it again.


Thursday, February 6, 2014

Thursday and Friday February 7th and 8th

Today and tomorrow we are doing math and english language arts benchmarks.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Wednesday February 5, 2014

Today the students and I started notes over the sun, moon and earth.  We just completed the notes over the sun and then watched a video over the sun giving the students a visual demonstration of what we talked about in the notes.  I then handed out a notes quiz over the sun based on the notes and video.  I have put the notes quiz questions below, they were given as homework and will be due tomorrow.

1.       How does the sun compare to the Earth, in terms of size, location, composition, and temperature?
2.       Why are some layers of the sun hotter than others?
3.       What events take place on the surface and in the atmosphere of the sun?
4.       What forms of technology do scientists use to study the sun?





Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Sun, Moon, Earth Rap! (with lyrics)





Watch the music video above and write down the lyrics.  Bring them in to me for extra credit. 

Monday February 3, 2014

Today we began a two day assignment.  The requirement was to: Create a Blog over your object (Moon, Earth or Sun) Showing and discussing the similarities and differences in the physical characteristics of it compared to the other two objects.
Must have 3-5 images showing the similarities and differences in the three objects.
Must have 3-5 descriptions that explain the similarities and differences in the three objects.

It will be due Wednesday

TEST CORRECTIONS ARE DUE TO ME TOMORROW AS WELL.