More presentations were done today!

By now everyone should have brought their in.  No homework tonight but be prepared for some tomorrow.

Science Fair Presentations were today

Remember you needed to bring your POSTER and your PAPER.  A large majority of you forgot them.  More presentation tomorrow.

Here is what your Word Experts card should look like

Work Expert Card

Today we learned a new vocabulary strategy to increase our understanding of vocabulary words.  In case you forgot how to do them, here you go:

On the Front:
The word (written in dark, bold letters) and a picture of the word

On the Back:
Write the word and sentences from the textbook and the page number
Look up the word in a dictionary to find out the part of speech.  Write the definition in your own words
Write a sentence (at least 6 words long) using the word.

Finish yours for homework and continue to work on your projects that are due Wednesday!

Student v. Teacher Volleyball game pics

Fish!

Science Fair Project are due next week!

Due tomorrow:  Your NEW and IMPROVED results and data (remember to go back and rewrite using all the tips I gave you today!)

309,310,308 voted for them to be due on Wednesday the 24th and everyone understands that if they aren't turned in until Monday, they will receive at best a 50%

307 voted for them to be due on Tuesday the 23rd and everyone understand that if they aren't turned in that day and instead they are turned in Wednesday, they will receive at best a 70%, with Monday being a 50%

Now that I got all THAT out of the way, I can show you some pictures of my homeroom writing letters to soldiers.

Pictures from the classroom

310 group attempts to strike for oil.  It took 12 digs

308 adds up how much they spent on digging for oil.

307's Assessment Wall using Riverside data

The rat is gone!!!

For those of you I told the rat story to, I thought you should know the rat is gone!

I drove through the alley before I pulled into the parking lot and noticed the smushed rat and his mushed brains are no longer on the concrete.  yay!

Thank you 311

Lots of Updates!

Homeroom-Read up to page 170 in your book club book!

All classes-Use your notes from the video about Energy Crossroads to complete the homework

Continue working on your Science Fair project.  Your Results and Data chart is due Thursday!

Remember-EMPTY Ink Cartridges are extra credit so bring 'em in so I can properly recycle them!

A Solar House

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/house.html

Are you working on your project?

I hope so!!!

You have a long weekend ahead!

Remember your Review of Literature is due Monday!

Tuesday

Today everyone turned in their purpose, materials, and procedure for their Science Fair Project and I had a chance to look them over while you did your research for your Review of Literature.  If all goes well tomorrow, we will also be using the lab for research and to begin type (if you chose to) our projects.

Homework-continue working on your projects at home and be ready to research tomorrow!

We struck oil...pictures!

Preparing their pan to strike for oil.  The balloon represents oil.

Covering the "oil" with sand.

We struck oil!!

Aaaaahhhhh!  Its an oil spill!  J/K :)

We struck oil today!!

And spent a lot of money doing it!!  Pictures to follow later!

See Friday's post for what's due tomorrow.

Due on Tuesday

309-I forgot to tell you this.

On Tuesday you AND your partner will need to have the following done:

Purpose

Procedure

Materials

We already discussed PURPOSE, so look back at the notes you took if you forgot.

For Materials, make a numbered list of the materials used (not in a paragraph)

For the Procedure this is where you list of the steps taken to complete the experiment, also written in a list format.

Have a great weekend and remember if you need to do anything that will take a while, you need to start THIS WEEKEND!

Lots of Vocab! Here are the rest of the words

Independent Variable

Inquiry

Kinetic Energy

Natural Gas

Nonrenewable Energy Source

Observations

Peat

Petroleum

Prediction

Renewable Energy Source

Reservoir

Scientific Process

Seal

Solar Energy

Tar Sands

Turbine

Variables

We started our new notebook today

The new notebook is only for Vocabulary.  If EVERYONE does their homework tonight, we'll have a working day tomorrow.  That means you will be able to work all day on your science fair projects.

Here are the words you needed to define in the notebook:

atmosphere
biomass
biosphere
chemical energy
coal
control
data
deoendent variable
earth system
electric energy
evidence
fossil fuel
generator
geosphere
geoscientist
heat energy
hydrosphere
hydroelectric power

Tuesday

Today we learned about how to write a purpose and hypothesis for our science fair projects.  MOST students have come up with three ideas and many of you had your ideas approved by me.  If they weren't approved by me, we will be working on them again tomorrow.

Remember your Science Vocabulary notebooks for tomorrow!

Monday. Happy November!

If you did NOT do your Science homework over the weekend (coming up with three ideas for the science fair project), please make sure you have the ideas ready tomorrow morning!