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PERIOD 4 AGENDA

 Date
Activity
Homework/Graded Assignments
Mon 9/4

Review class policies and procedures

NBPTS permission slip

HP and ISTE permission slip

Safety contract slip

Standards slip

Student survey

Signed parent slips - due 9/7
9/5
Bouncing Ball Lab
9/6

Class notes - rules for collecting data and graph drawing

Draw graph for ball lab

9/7
Mass and volume relationship lab
Signed parent slips - due today
Mon 9/10

Complete - graph from 9/7 lab.

Class notes - Graphs, data, conclusions

9/11

Measuring cubes lab.

Complete all unfinished work

Book check
9/12

Calculation of the cubes' density

Floating and sinking

Practice conclusion writing

9/13

Review conclusion

Calculating density

Class notes - Finding volume by displacement

Start Does the amount and/or size of a substance affect its' density?

 
9/14

Living in the NW project: pre-assesment

Review hypothesis

 
Mon 9/17  
9/18
Review of hypothesis and conclusions
 
9/19

Class notes - floating and sinking

Lab - shape/volume and floating

 
9/20

Discussion of labs

Review of density, amount and floating and sinking

Mythbusters video - floating

9/21

Mythbusters video - density

Start work on POW2 in class

Mon 9/24

Continue with POW2

Review POW2

Start Sand and volume lab

Book check
9/25
Living in the NW project - initial ideas
Homework: POW3 due Friday
9/26  
9/27
9/28
Mon 10/1

Density and temperature lab

States of matter video

10/2

Finish video

Class notes - Teacher analysis of Fri and Mon labs

Test on Thursday - Review - you may use your notes

10/3
10/4

Test

Complete Living in the NW project - initial ideas

10/5
Lava Lamp project - review and start
Mon 10/8
Continue to work on project
10/9
Density computer simulations and assessments
 
10/10
Complete project work
Book check
10/11

Graph from lab

10/11
Guest teacher - notes on solids liquids and gasses from video
Mon 10/15  
10/16  
10/17
Complete all questions from the labs done Mon - Wed
10/18

Review of wax and phase change labs - with board notes

Class notes - How are solids, liquids and gasses linked

 
10/19
Class notes - Solids, liquids and gasses
 
Mon 10/22
Living in the NW project - writing questions
 
10/23

Charles Law lab

Review of Charles and Boyles Law

 
10/24  
10/25
Guest teacher - read and make notes on p88-90 (gas laws) and p100 (plasma), then complete the review sheet.
 
10/26

Class notes - Pressure

Complete and turn in review sheet

Mythbusters - Air Cylinder Rocket

Homework - go to gradechecker, review your grade and missing assignment list.  Get missing assignments from my webpage, do them and turn them in on Tuesday Oct. 30th
Mon 10/29
Guest teacher - Video: "Changes in Properties of Matter"; DVD - Mythbusters "Steam Cannon"
 
10/30  
10/31
Early release: Starbucks senario - start writing and planning (class notes)
Hypothesis
11/1
Starbucks senario - finish writing and planning, start lab work

Data table

Conclusion

11/2  
Mon 11/5

Starbucks senario follow-up: What other factors could affect how fast sugar dissolves?

Class notes - instructions

 
11/6

Starbucks senario follow-up: What other factors could affect how fast sugar dissolves? - finish hypothesis and write procedures

Class notes - example procedures

11/7
Starbucks senario follow-up: What other factors could affect how fast sugar dissolves? - start lab work
11/8
Starbucks senario follow-up: What other factors could affect how fast sugar dissolves? - finish lab work as required, write data table and conclusion

Completed Starbucks senario follow-up write up

Study for test

11/9
States of Matter - open note test
Mon 11/12
No school - Verterans day
11/13
LIN - planning for experiments, page one only
LIN phaase 4 p1
11/14

Teacher led review of Starbucks investigation data

Class notes - data, example reviews

11/15
Review graph and conclusion
11/16
Class notes - dissolving theory then apply this to our sugar investigations
 
Mon 11/19

Class notes - solubility

Complete poster activity

Work on late assignments

 
11/20

Kool-aid lab

Discuss concentration notes with respect to lab

11/21
Early release
 
11/22
No school
 
11/23
No school
 

Mon 11/26

LIN 4 - posting experiments
 
11/27
Introduction to the periodic table - Finding Uncle Bob
 
11/28

Review Uncle Bob - link to formation of Periodic Table

Class notes - Periodic Table

Class notes - Coloring activity

Periodic Table

 
11/29

Complete yesterdays coloring activity

 
11/30

Class notes - atoms and their parts

Class notes - p, n, e activity

Template for activity

 
Mon 12/3

Complete Fridays' activities

Peridic Table Quiz

 
12/4
Watch Noble gasses video
 
12/5
Guest teacher: Small group work on Element poster
 
12/6
Continue with small group work on Element poster
 
12/7
Finish LIN part 4 postings.
 
Mon 12/10

Class notes packet - Av. Atomic mass and Isotopes, electrons, Lewis Dot diagrams handout, Look at how to identify ions

Draw electron diagrams for elements 1 -18

Read notes packet
12/11

Class notes - Reading formulas

Activity - Counting atoms

Counting Atoms
12/12  
12/13
Xmas science
 
12/14
Guest teacher - Notes from Chapter 6, sections 1 and 2, on chemical reactions
 
Mon 12/17
Conclusion writing
 
12/18
Conservation of mass lab1 and lab 2
 
12/19
Half day - Xmas break
 
Thur 1/3
LIN phase 5 worksheet
1/4

Class notes - What is a chemical reaction?

Mythbusters - Biscuit Bullet

Mon 1/7
Intro to acids and bases and indicators lab activity
Data table and conclusion
1/8
1/9
LIN 5 - procedure activity
1/10

LIN 5 - procedure activity

Alien Juice Bar

Study for finals - review sheet
1/11
Marble chip WASL Investigation

Homework - Marble chip WASL Investigation due Thur Jan 17th

Study for finals - review sheet

Mon 1/14
Marble chip WASL Investigation

Homework - Marble chip WASL Investigation due Thur Jan 17th

Study for finals - review sheet

1/15
Marble chip WASL Investigation

Homework - Marble chip WASL Investigation due Thur Jan 17th

Study for finals - review sheet

1/16
Marble chip WASL Investigation

Homework - Marble chip WASL Investigation due Thur Jan 17th

Study for finals - review sheet

1/17
Finals - silent study day, teacher Q&A

Study for finals - review sheet

1/18
 Study for finals - review sheet
Mon 1/21
No school
Study for finals - review sheet
1/22

Homework - Star Book Project due Wed Jan 23th

Study for finals - review sheet

1/23
Study for finals - review sheet
1/24
Finals - Half day
Study for finals - review sheet
1/25
Finals - Half day