Friday November 9, 2012

We didn't have a normal class today.  The studetns were in assigned rooms taking the math benchmarks.  It was also an early out at the school.

Thursday November 8, 2012

Today the students took their Science benchmarks.  I only saw my 6th, 7th, and 8th period classes today.  Those classes took the sedimentary rock notes that the earlier classes had already taken.
You can find the link to those notes on an earlier blog.

Coal and Oil Formation Animation

Coal and Oil Formation Animation

The above link is an animation showing how coal and oil are formed.  It is vital that the students understand this.  I will be showing my classes this animation a number of times to hopefully drive home the point of how each is formed.

Wednesday November 7, 2012

Today the students took the fossil fuel vocabulary quiz.  I will have those graded and input into the grade book as soon as possible.  The classes also finished up the power point over sedimentary rock.

Tuesday November 6, 2012

Happy Election Day!!!

Today I was only here for half of the day.  I had the students the second half of the day study for their vocabulary quiz tomorrow during class as well as finish up the section review on pg. C47 of their textbooks.

Here is a look at what the quiz will look like tomorrow during class.

Sedimentary Power Point

You can find the notes we are going ot be going over at this link: Sedimentary Rocks Notes

Monday Novemebr 5, 2012

The studetns were given 7 vocabulary terms they needed to write down in their spiral and define.  The words are: Sediment, fossil fuels, Coal, oil (petroleum), natural gas, cementation, and compaction.
The students will be having a vocabulary quiz over these 7 terms Wednesday.

Science Symbaloo

Here is the link to the class symbaloo that has lots of help relating to the topics we will be covering in class.  Science Class Symbaloo

Web link to Info

Sedimentary Rocks Website Information

The above link is to a website that the students are going to be using ot gather information on sedimerntary rocks answering questions about how they form etc.

Thursday November 1, 2012

Today the kids got to work with rocks seeing how sediments are formed.  We discussed it as a class and they wrote descriptions and drew pictures of what they looked like before and after in their science notebooks.