Thursday, October 25, 2012

6th Grade
a) Work on your Lab Reports due Friday.
b) On an SPP, Answer worksheet on "What is Air?" (2nd Period only).

8th Grade -
1. Answer Question 5, p. E-6 to finish answering your Analysis Questions for Forces and Motion Unit Activity 73, Choosing a Safe Vehicle. Tomorrow, turn in the article on Hybrid Cars.

2.  Ms. Devaney assigned you a Field Trip Reflection: "Write a half-page reflection  on Left hand page, about what you saw at the Aquarium and what the IMAX movie was about.  Due 10/26 for Extra Credit". As you know, it should be written on the left hand side page of your science notebook, and must use good mechanics (e.g., spelling, capital letters, punctuation, etc.).

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

6th Grade

2nd Period:
a) Work on your Lab Reports (due Friday, but may be checked or turned in tomorrow). 
b) On an SPP, Asnwer worksheet on "What is Air?"

3rd Period:
a) Work on your Lab Reports (due Friday, but may be checked or turned in tomorrow).


8th Grade - Answer Question 5, p. E-6 to finish answering your Analysis Questions for Forces and Motion Unit Activity 73, Choosing a Safe Vehicle. Tomorrow, turn in the article on Hybrid Cars. 

Monday, October 22, 2012

6th Grade
2nd Period: Air pressure is caused by the weight of 100 miles of air above us that presses down on us and everything around us!  Formula is: P= F/A.
Ex: if there is 60 pounds of force on an area of 60 square inches, then to find pressure:
P = F/A               
   = 600 lbs./60 in2   (hint: find the force -- it will be measured in pounds, for now.
   = 10 lbs./in.2          Divide it by the Area, measured in units of square inches)



On an SPP, solve the following problems, and be sure to write down units in your answers (here, lb./in.2 or pounds per square inch):

1. 10 lbs., 5 in.2                                          2. 15 lbs., 5 in.2 .

3. 25 lbs., 5 in.2 .                             4. 100lbs., 10 in.2 .                   5. 75lbs., 25 in.2 .

3rd Period: Answer the following questions (use RAVE - Restate question, Answer Question, use Vocabulary, Explain using Evidence or Examples):
1. Use your laboratory results to discuss the following questions: 
a. How can you describe air?
b. Is air always the same?
c. Look again at Student Sheet 63.1(Anticipation Guide: Air).  Would you change any of your answers? How?  
2. Do your observations from Part A provide evidence that air is a substance?  Why or Why not?
3. Look at your results from Part B. Is the air that comes out of your lungs the same as your classroom air? Explain.
4. Is air a substance or is it just empty space? Support your answer with evidence from this investigation.

8th Grade - Read the article on Hybrid Cars and on the T-chart write out 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of hybrid cars.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

6th Graders - Read Weather Forecasting worksheet and Answer Questions on the back.

8th Grade -- Finish reviewing your Study Guide for test on friday. Take another look at Activity 72 and figure out how to reduce energy usage for the homes modeled in the book and on your worksheet. Turn in your Unit Study Guide to class tomorrow to get credit for your work!

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

6th Graders - Work on your Water Cycle writing unless you've already finished it and turned it in.

8th Grade --  Review your Study Guide! Test on Thursday. Take another look at Activity 72 and figure out how to reduce energy usage for the homes modeled in the book and on your worksheet. Bring your Unit Study Guide to class so we can go over it tomorrow!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

8th Grade --  Review your Study Guide! Test on Thursday. Bring your Unit Study Guide to class so we can go over it tomorrow! 
Extra credit opportunity for turn in on Wednesday only: Research LED bulbs. Go on Amazon or google and see if you can find an LED bulb that replaces, or is equivalent to a 25-Watt incandescent bulb.  Record on an SPP the brand name & web site selling it. So we can fill out a data table like the one on p. D-77, also try to find and record one or more of the following characteristics: Efficiency, Rate of Energy use, average lifetime, cost of one bulb, cost of electricity over lifetime of bulb, and total cost per hour.

6th Grade - - Period 3- Write a Reflection (Left side page, good mechanics) about what you learned in class today about the Water Cycle.

Period 2 -  Answer Analysis Questions on p. E-65 on SPP: 
1. On Student Sheet 62.1, you drew the water cycle. IN your Science Notebook, re-draw your water cycle diagram and:
a. Use the following words to identify where water can be found in the picture:
  • atmosphere
  • groundwater
  • land
  • ocean
  • organisms
  • precipitation
 b. Draw at least six arrows showing the movement of water from one place to another.
 c. Label places where each of the following is occurring:
  • condensation
  • evaporation
  • freezing
  • melting
 d. What changes did you have to make from your student sheet?
2. The term “water cycle” is used to describe the movement of water on the earth. Do you think that your diagram on Student Sheet 62.1 is a good summary of the water cycle? Why or why not?
3. In this activity, you used cards and number cubes to model the water cycle. Do you think that this activity was a good model of the water cycle? Why or why not?
We'll work on this in class tomorrow:
4. Expand your notes from Student Sheet 62.2 into a story that describes the journey of your water molecules. Your story should follow your water through at least five places. Be as creative and
scientifically accurate as you can! Be sure to: 
• Describe or draw how your water molecules moved from one
 place to another.
 • Identify any changes in state (solid, liquid, gas) that occur.

Monday, October 15, 2012

6th graders: Fill and color your water cycle diagrams
8th graders: For any parents checking this blog, please reinforce this message: "Please get to class on time; this has been a continuing problem, as has the resistance to instruction - it should not have taken 25 minutes to complete the warm up and write 1 page of notes, and some people still did not finish until much later in the class.  This is noted on Engrade."

For homework, complete your Energy Unit Study Guide.  Test moved to Thursday.  Tuesday, we'll finish the Hot Bulbs lesson and the Household Energy Efficiency Lesson, and I hope we'll go over the answers to the Study Guide. Wednesday, we'll run Lesson 72,  Improving Energy Efficiency and complete any remaining answers to the Study Guide. Test on Thursday, new Unit on Friday.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

6th Graders: On the "Changing States of Water" packet, answer AQs 1-2 on p. E-57, and draw the final version of your Concept Map about water. 
 
8th Graders: Answer Questions 1-10 on your Energy Unit Study Guide, have them ready at start of class tomorrow.  

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Homework for tonight:
6th Graders: Write a Reflection (on a left-side page, on back of your notes from today) about Climate and Weather, at least 5 well-written sentences answering these questions:
1. What is climate?
2. How is climate different from weather?
3. Name at least 3 factors that influence or determine climate.

8th Graders:
Read activity 71 Household Energy Efficiency and answer the questions on an SPP.  When you're done with each section, ask yourself what you learned; if you can't remember, go back and review it. . RAVE your answers. Expect a homework quiz tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

HOMEWORK:
6th Graders: Read "The Causes of Climate" and answer questions. Turn it in tomorrow.
8th Graders: No homework assigned.  Test in 1 week.  Start studying/reviewing for test. More material will be presented later this week.

Friday, October 5, 2012

6th Graders: Homework is to finish coloring in your Ocean Temperature map if you have not already done so and have it ready to turn in on Tuesday. 
  • Extra Credit available: word wall words - we still need a card for Atmospheric Scientist , Currents and El Nino (coming up in Activity 57).
8th Graders: no homework! Enjoy your weekend! 
  • Extra Credit available: word wall words - we still need a card for Potential Energy, Transfer, Efficiency, Transform, Temperature, Forms of Energy (such as Thermal, Nuclear, Electromagnetic/light, Chemical, Gravitational, Elastic, Electric --static and current-- Motion and Sound), Law of Conservation of Energy, Conductor, Conduction, Refrigeration, Refrigeration cycle, Insulator, and Insulation.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

6th Grade  - Third period class: color in the rest of your ocean surface temperature map with colored pencils.  Due to photo day, I did not see my 2nd Period class, so I gave no homework to that class.  Finish:
  • your line graphs on heating the "swimming pools".  Your graph must have all 7 parts discussed in class and written in your science notebook; if you leave one or more parts off, you may be given a zero; and
  • finish the worksheet on "How is Earth's Surface Heated?" if you have not already turned that in. 
8th Grade - No homework was assigned today. Several students still have not turned in their lab reports from week before last. If you're one, work on the lab report and get it turned in tomorrow, whether its done or not.




Tuesday, October 2, 2012

6th Grade homework: Complete your Writing Frame for Heating Earth's Surface.
 
8th Grade homework: Answer Analysis Questions 1-4 p. D-35 on SPP.  If you haven't shared your data with other people in your team, then you can share information with team mates and answer Question 1 tomorrow at the beginning of class if:
  •  you get to class on time, and
  • you have answered the other questions for homework. 

Monday, October 1, 2012

6th Grade homework:Insert new data tables in NOTEBOOK please :-)
3rd period- Write a reflection on what errors you made during the lab - min 3 sentences. :-p
-D'Angelo X
8th Grade homework tonight :
Reflection (5-sent minimum, good sentences, in ISN - left side!!!- using 5 of our recent vocab terms and 4 forms of energy, not including potential or kinetic). 
Add this and fill in the blanks: Energy is never __________ or __________________.