Science Agenda
1/30
Monday
Periods 1-6
Paramecium and other single cell organisms Lab
1/31
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Estimate the size of something in microscope lab
2/1
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Estimate the size of something in microscope lab
Periods 1-2
The Amazing Paramecium reading with questions
2/2
Thursday
2/3
Friday
Periods 6-1
Cell Parts and Function Paramecium cell parts
Elodea lab
1/23
Monday
Periods 1-6
Quiz
1/24
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Introduction to microscopes
1/25
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Introduction to microscopes
Periods 1-2
Microscope lab
1/26
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Microscope lab
1/17
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Finish Characteristics of Life Poster
1/18
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Finish Characteristics of Life Poster
Periods 1-2
Is it Alive Lab?
1/12
Thursday
1/13
Friday
Periods 6-1
Mystery Lab
1/10
Tuesday
Periods 1-6
New Notebook setup
What is life?
1/11
Wednesday
Periods 1-4
Is it Alive?
Living vs Non-Living Sort Card sort activity
1/12
Thursday
Periods 5-6
Is it Alive?
Living vs Non-Living Sort
Periods 1-2
Is anything Alive in Here lab
1/13
Friday
Periods 3-6
Is anything Alive in Here lab
12/19
Monday
Periods 1-6
Final Project Weather & Water Encyclopedia
Homework: Work on Final Project!!!
12/20
Tuesday
Periods 4-6
Final Project Weather & Water Encyclopedia
Homework: Work on Final Project!!!
12/21
Wednesday
Periods 2,1,&3 (In that order)
Final Project Weather & Water Encyclopedia
Homework: Work on Final Project!!!
12/22
Thursday
Periods 1-6
Turn in Final Project Weather & Water Encyclopedia
12/12
Monday
Periods 1-6
Cloud Formation
12/13
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Water Cycle simulation
water cycle game link You will have to login to Clever using your school login info.
Create a list of the 10 places you went on your water journey on the water cycle game.
Write a paragraph about you as the water drop on your journey. Think personification from ELA class.
12/14
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Water Cycle simulation
water cycle game link You will have to login to Clever using your school login info.
Create a list of the 10 places you went on your water journey on the water cycle game.
Write a paragraph about you as the water drop on your journey. Think personification from ELA class.
Periods 1-2
Test Review
Weather Test
12/15
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Test Review
Weather Test
12/16
Friday
12/5
Monday
Periods 1-6
Share insulation data from lab
Wind video https://youtu.be/LQCLUEXYvz0
12/6
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Water in the Air? Lab
12/7
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Water in the Air? Lab
Periods 1-2
Evaporation & Condensation
Cloud Formation
12/8
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Evaporation & Condensation
Cloud Formation
12/9
Friday
Periods 6-1
Water Cycle Simulation (You are a water droplet)
11/28
Monday
Periods 1-6
Catch Up day
11/29
Tuesday
11/30
Wednesday
12/1
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Global Winds
Drawing sheet Do this after the reading
12/2
Friday
Periods 6-1
Water in the Air? Lab
11/21
Monday
11/22
Tuesday
Periods 6-1
Quiz on Heat Transfer (Posted on Tuesday morning.)
11/23-25
Thanksgiving Break
11/14
Monday
11/15
Tuesday
11/16
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Periods 1-2
FOOD DRIVE PLEASE!
Insulation Lab
If absent watch this video and describe how insulation helps reduce the transfer of thermal energy.
11/17
Thursday
Periods 3-6
FOOD DRIVE PLEASE!
Insulation Lab
If absent watch this video and describe how insulation helps reduce the transfer of thermal energy.
11/8
Friday
Periods 6-1
Quiz on 3 Types of heat transfer (Posted on "Forms" tab on Friday.)
11/7
Monday
Periods 1-4
FOOD DRIVE PLEASE!
Finish Graphing data
11/8
Tuesday
Teacher Work day
11/9
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Finish Graphing data
Periods 1-2
FOOD DRIVE PLEASE!
Conduction Lab
Start Popcorn Lab...yes POPCORN LAB!
11/10
Thursday
11/11
Friday
No School
10/31
Monday
Periods 1-6
Finish Climate vs Weather activity (Latitude; see Oct 26 for assignment.)
11/1
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Solar Angle... Why is the Sun so much lower on the horizon in the winter?
Video of what we are doing in class (Draw a high angle circle and a low angle oval from a flashlight. Do this activity at home.)
11/2
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Solar Angle... Why is the Sun so much lower on the horizon in the winter?
Video of what we are doing in class (Draw a high angle circle and a low angle oval from a flashlight. Do this activity at home.)
Periods 1-2
Heating different land types lab
11/3
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Heating different land types lab
11/4
Friday
Periods 6-1
Finish Heating different land types lab
Review Radiation (Big Ideas and Vocabulary)
10/24
Monday
Periods 1-6
Quiz 3 Convection and Density (Postponed from last Friday)
10/25
Tuesday
10/26
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Finish Quiz
Periods 1-2
Notebook check 3
Latitude... What's the Big deal?
Data Sheet Use pages 116-121 in FOSS book (FOSS Web link)
Solar Angle... Why is the Sun so much lower on the horizon in the winter? (Will do this Monday/Tuesday)
10/27
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Notebook check 3
Latitude... What's the Big deal?
Data Sheet Use pages 116-121 in FOSS book (FOSS Web link)
Solar Angle... Why is the Sun so much lower on the horizon in the winter? (Will do this Monday/Tuesday)
10/28
Friday
Periods 6-1
No School today. Celebrate Nevada!
10/17
Monday
Periods 1-6
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
10/18
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
10/19
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Periods 1-2
Layering Hot and Cold Lab Procedures explained
Convection Chamber Demo
10/20
Thursday
10/21
Friday
Periods 6-1
Quiz 3 Convection and Density
10/10
Monday
10/11
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Density Lab (How does mass affect density?)
10/12
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Density Lab (How does temperature effect density?)
Periods 1-2
Density demonstration and calculations
10/13
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Density demonstration and calculations
10/14
Friday
Periods 6-1
Quiz (density and air pressure)
9/26
Monday
Periods 1-6
Our Earth
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/20
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Quiz on What is Air
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/21
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Quiz on What is Air
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
Periods 1-2
Tumblewing: Can you see air?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=UE9v4yJkIS4&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LefTqarcvCI
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/22
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Tumblewing: Can you see air?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=UE9v4yJkIS4&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LefTqarcvCI
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/23
Friday
Periods 6-1
Density Density questions
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/19
Monday
Periods 1-6
What's in the Air reading with questions (Finish these up)
Thin Blue Veil Elevator to Space
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/20
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Pressure in a JAR Demo Lab Jar Lab Sheet
What is Air Pressure Questions for reading pages 32-40
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/21
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Pressure in a JAR Demo Lab Jar Lab Sheet
What is Air Pressure Questions for reading pages 32-40
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
Periods 1-2
Finish Air Pressure Questions for reading pages 32-40
Surface Air pressure maps assignment map
video to help you understand how to draw pressure lines (isobars)
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/22
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Finish Air Pressure
Surface Air pressure maps assignment map
video to help you understand how to draw pressure lines (isobars)
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/23
Friday
Periods 6-1
Notebook Check #2
Big Ideas
Vocabulary
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/12
Monday
Periods 1-6
Pretest for upcoming unit
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/13
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Pressure in a bottle Finish Lab Updated table of contents and lab notes
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/14
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Pressure in a bottle Finish Lab Updated table of contents and lab notes
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
Periods 1-2
Earth's Atmosphere
What's in the Air reading with questions
Big Ideas
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/15
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Earth's Atmosphere
What's in the Air reading with questions
Big Ideas
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/16
Friday
Periods 6-1
Thin Blue Veil
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
9/6
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Severe Weather Read pages 3-17 of the Textbook and fill in the notetaker linked here: Severe Weather . To get access to the textbook use the link under the Science page called FOSS Web Link. Then login with your normal student login.
Weather Chart data- We will start collecting weather data for Sparks Nevada AND another city in the world. Please use the NOAA website to do this. Found here: https://www.weather.gov/
Climate vs Weather
9/7
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Severe Weather Read pages 3-17 of the Textbook and fill in the notetaker linked here: Severe Weather . To get access to the textbook use the link under the Science page called FOSS Web Link. Then login with your normal student login.
Weather Chart data- We will start collecting weather data for Sparks Nevada AND another city in the world. Please use the NOAA website to do this. Found here: https://www.weather.gov/
Climate vs Weather
Periods 1-2
Weather Chart data- We will start collecting weather data for Sparks Nevada AND another city in the world. Please use the NOAA website to do this. Found here: https://www.weather.gov/
Go Outside and write a brief paragraph describing the weather.
What is Air Pressure?- Bottle demonstration
9/8
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Weather Chart data- We will start collecting weather data for Sparks Nevada AND another city in the world. Please use the NOAA website to do this. Found here: https://www.weather.gov/
Go Outside and write a brief paragraph describing the weather.
What is Air Pressure?- Bottle demonstration
9/9
Friday
Periods 6-1
Finish up What is Air Pressure Lab
Watch this air pressure demonstration video Write a few sentences explaining why you think the foam is getting smaller when the plunger is pushed into the syringe.
Homework--- Collect weather data for your chosen city. This should take 3-5 minutes to complete.
8/29
Monday
Periods 1-6
Finish Metric Lab
8/30
Tuesday
Periods 1-4
Even more Metric Lab work.
8/31
Wednesday
Periods 5-6
Even more Metric Lab work.
Periods 1-2
Notebook Check (Have your notebook updated)
FOSS Investigation 1.1
Watch this video: Hurricanes vs Tornadoes Make a T Chart and list 3 things that explain each.
What is Weather? Answer this question based upon what you know right now. Be ready to add this to your notebook when you return.
Outside classroom for observations
9/1
Thursday
Periods 3-6
Watch this video: Hurricanes vs Tornadoes Make a T Chart and list 3 things that explain each.
What is Weather? Answer this question based upon what you know right now. Be ready to add this to your notebook when you return.
Outside classroom for observations
9/2
Friday
Periods 6-1
Severe Weather Read pages 3-17 of the Textbook and fill in the notetaker linked here: Severe Weather . To get access to the textbook use the link under the Science page called FOSS Web Link. Then login with your normal student login.
Weather Chart data- We will start collecting weather data for Sparks Nevada AND another city in the world. Please use the NOAA website to do this. Found here: https://www.weather.gov/
8/22
Monday
Periods 1-6
Finish Burning Money Lab Report
Activity Safety Cartoon 1 (List all the things wrong in the comic
Safety Video Safety Video
8/23
Tuesday
Periods 6-1
Picture Day! Pictures taken during Science class.
8/24
Wednesday
8/25
Thursday
Periods 5-6
Safety Quiz
Metric Lab PowerPoint PowerPoint
and student notetaker Notetaker
Periods 1-2
More Metric Lab
8/26
Friday
Periods 3-6
More Metric Lab
8/15
Monday
8/16
Tuesday
Periods 1-6
Icebreaker
Notebook Setup
8/17
Wednesday
Periods 1-4
Icebreaker
Class Procedures
Burning Some Money Lab Lab sheet
Watch this if you are not at school for the money lab
Continue setting up Notebooks
8/18
Thursday
Periods 5-6
Icebreaker
Class Procedures
Burning Some Money Lab Lab sheet
Watch this if you are not at school for the money lab
Continue setting up Notebooks
Periods 1-2
Icebreaker
Safety Cartoons Activity
8/19
Friday
Periods 3-6
Icebreaker
Safety Cartoons Activity