Let's finish 3rd Quarter strongly:
Tonight's Homework: Act. 41 Lab Report
It's due on Friday, but I want to see how far you can get tomorrow.  DO NOT come in with nothing done on this!  Homework is going to be intense this week.  Here is planned (tentative) homework for the next week:

• Tuesday: Municipal Water Treatment – Reading and Answering questions 
• Wed.: Acids, Bases and the pH scale – reading and answering questions
• Thurs: Write Lab Report  - Final copy due on Friday
  
• Fri (yes, seriously!): pt 2 of Water Unit Study Guide 
• Monday:  study Water Unit Study Guide 

Homework tonight: If you are in Period 2 or 6, write a Problem in your science notebook based on Activity 41 (Testing Water Quality), which you can see online using the SEPUP/Lab-Aids e-book Link at: SEPUP e-book new sign in page (rms21, mgoldsmith). Period 1 should have a Problem and a Hypothesis written in your science notebook. 

Late post: your homework tonight is to work on your Water Unit Study Guide part 1.  All classes should answer all questions on page 1, but my period 1 class should answer all questions on page 2.

No homework tonight!  But if you owe me something, this would be a good night to work on it.

Homework tonight:
For homework tonight: from the blog, copy vocab words to notes, copy words + definitions to vocab section. Be sure to the note at the bottom of this post!

Variable - Any factor that can change the outcome of an experiment.

Controlled variable - A variable in an investigation or experiment that is held constant.

Dependent variable - The observed phenomenon that is being measured; the result that you measure at the end.

Dissolve - To break down into smaller particles using a solvent. A solute (like sugar) dissolves into a solvent (like water) to form a solution.

Independent variable - the variable that an experimenter chooses to change or manipulate, or play with.

Physical change - (you should already have this definition) Change that does not alter the composition of a material. Ex: change of state; breaking up a piece of material into smaller pieces.

Saturated, saturation - When the maximum amount of a substance (a solute) has dissolved in a solvent.

Soluble, insoluble - A substance that is able to dissolve in a solvent (liquid or gas).

Solubility - how well a substance can dissolve in a certain solvent such as water; solubility can be measured and varies from substance to substance.

Solute/solvent - the solute is a substance that dissolves in the solvent. Ex: sugar in water

Solution- The mixture that results when one substance, the solute, dissolves in the solvent, another substance - usually a liquid such as water.

If you already copied all of these vocab words, then please prepare a word wall vocab card using one of these words and their definitions.   Word wall cards must be on a regular size (81/2 x 11 inch) piece of paper or half a sheet.  Make it colorful and creative, make the defined word large and its definition small. 

Go Raptors! See the report on the efforts of Rippowam students and Ms. Gibson to raise funds for Jesse's playground at
http://stamford.itsrelevant.com/content/17880/weekly-wrap-up-march-21

Frayer diagram (4 words) due at next class
For tomorrow's Field Trip, go to your 1st block class on a B day, and at 8:25, then:

• Period 1 class goes to Mr. Miller
• Period 2 class goes to Ms. Diedrickson
• Period 5 class stays with me
• Period 6 class goes to Ms. Jacobs

3/17/14- Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!
All classes:  make sure you get your Revised Permission Slips signed for our Soundwaters field trip to the Cove on Thursday. 

Periods 2 and 5: Write a Reflection on what you learned in class today about science.Make sure you write 5 good sentences.

Periods 6 and 1, copy the following vocabulary into your science notebooks: 
The vocab words go in your notes, the words + definitions go in your vocab section!
gas - substance that has no definite shape or volume; gas particles spread far apart.

liquid - substance with definite volume but no definite shape; particles in a liquid spread far apart enough to flow or pour and take.

particles - characteristic smaller pieces or parts, such as atoms or molecules, that all substances are made of. Ex: Water is a compound made of identical water molecules; element gold is made of identical gold atoms.

phase - a homogeneous state of matter - gas, liquid, or solid. During phase change, the particles do not change, the only change is arrangement & distance between particles.

physical change - difference in appearance that does not change the make up of the particles. Ex: break or tear material into smaller pieces; during a phase change from solid to liquid (melting), liquid to gas (boiling, evaporating), solid to gas (sublimation), gas to liquid (condensing), or liquid to solid (freezing).

physical properties - A characteristic of a substance or material, such as color, density, flexibility, hardness. These properties help identify pure substances and don't change if the sample is large or very small. They are intrinsic properties.

quantitative data - measurements, such as volume or mass

qualitative - characteristics people can perceive without making measurements.

Complete the Activity 33 organizer/worksheet.
Periods 5 and 6 should complete the Current Event on water use. 

Complete the Activity 33 organizer/worksheet
(though 1st period class is only required to complete through paragraph 2).

Homework:
Period 6 : Using the Activity 33 organizer/worksheet, write out at least the first paragraph of your letter to the London Health Department.
Period 1: Answer AQs 1-2 on p. C-20.
Period 2:
Period 5: 

Homework for the Period 5 and 6 classes is to answer Analysis Questions 1-3, p. C-20.  Link through the links to the right SEPUP e-book new sign in page.

Periods 1 and 2 have no homework tonight.  : ) from Raul

Extra credit: watch an episode of Cosmos and write a 5 sentence reflection about what you learned from the show in your science notebook. 10 pm tonight on National Geographic channel (don't stay up that late - use your DVR: next episode on Fox on Sunday night 9 pm).

Homework tonight: read "The Periodic Table Expands Once Again" and answer the 4 Common Core questions.  Be sure to R.A.C.E. the answers!  
R = Restate the question;
A = Answer the question;
C = Cite evidence; and
E = Explain how the evidence that you cited supports your answer.
For this activity, check your work against the R.A.C.E. rubric to get your best possible result. No Fail areas are:
1) Restate the question - Remove the 'W' word and Question mark, move the verb (ex: are) so the statement makes sense; and then
       2)  Cite Evidence - signal that you're bringing in information from the text by starting your sentence with something like: "The text says...", "It says in paragraph __ that...", "Evidence includes....", "I know this because ......" "The author states.....", or "I read that......".

Tonight's homework:
Answer questions for "Women Bear the Weight of Water" in complete sentences on a separate piece of paper.

Sorry for the late post.
Homework tonight: Periods 1 and 2 have a current event on contaminated well water in Stamford, and periods 5 and 6 have analysis questions from today's lesson, Willow Grove's Troubled Waters (Activity 31- see page C-10).

hAPPY mONDAY!!!!

Homework for tonight is write a Reflection: 3 sentences minimum about what you learned in science class about water.   Remember: a Reflection is written well, written on the back of  the notes (Left hand page).