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January 2008

 

Week of 1/28 - 2/1

Monday (1/28)

  • No School

Tuesday (1/29)

  • Team Task
    Why is it important the air you breathe, the water you drink and even parts of your are all solutions?

Daily Assignment

  • What is a solution?
  • Create a fodable using a piece of printer paper, fold the paper (hamburger bun style) in 1/2
  • Fold three equal sections/ cut flaps
  • Label sections - solid solutions, liquid solutions, gaseous solutions
  • As you read organize your information as follows
    > Vocabulary on the back
    > Write the important information in the middle
    > Sort the specific information onto the tab labeled for each of the solutions
    Section questions 1 - 5 ~ write complete sentences

Wednesday (1/30)

  • Hot Rocks: Risky Rocks
    How can geologist find evidence in our surroundings to support geological activity
  • Record 20 facts from the movie

Thursday (1/31)

  • Classifying solutions

Friday (2/1)

  • Faces of the Earth

Week of 1/14 - 1/18

Monday (1/14)

  • DVD

Tuesday (1/15)

Wednesday (1/16)

  • Changes of Matter Pictorial

Thursday (1/17)

  • Changes of Matter online investigation

Friday (1/18)

Week of 1/7 - 1/11

Monday (1/7)

Tuesday (1/8)

  • Elements - Disocvery

Wednesday (1/9)

Thursday (1/10)

Friday (1/11)

  • Living in the Northwest (LIN)
  • Writing procedures

Week of 12/31 - 1/04

Monday (12/31)

  • No School

Tuesday (1/1)

  • Happy New Years Day
  • No School

Wednesday (1/2)

  • No School

Thursday (1/3)

Friday (1/4)

Matter... Matters!

   Atoms: 2.1 (pgs 32 - 37) Reading from the book

  • Outline: change the topic headings to questions Use the important information from the section being read to answer the question.
    Example: "Atoms" would be restated as:
    What are atoms?
    - building blocks of matter
    - combine to form different types of matter
    - different atom combinations form the different properties of matter
  • The bulleted information should be short statements from the reading that answer the question as shown in the example.

   Combinations of atoms: 2.2 (pgs 38 - 42) Reading from the book

  • Outline: Change the topic heading to questions
  • Complete atom handout (complete both sides after reading both sections)