Its been awhile since I posted...

Its been too hard to list the homework this past week because each class is doing something different.  Anyways, here are some highlights from the students who were permitted to complete the experiment. 
Investigation 2: The interior of the Earth

We dropped a pebble into the container and timed how long it would take for the waves to go from one side, to the other.  We then related this experiment to an earthquake.

Using Slinkys the students learned about compressional and shear waves.

TGIF

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Homework for tonight (309 and 310 only)-Review and Reflect,, but not #7

308-"As you Read questions on page 4

307-Read 1-7, Do "As you Read questions and Review and Reflect # 1, 4, 5, 6, 10

All of the above assignments need to be completed in the Science notebook.  I'll collect your data sheets on Tuesday.  NO SCHOOL MONDAY!!!

Our new unit is INTERESTING!!

But its too bad that some classes haven't completed their homework, therefore the experiment can't be done.  :(

This is the homework for some classes and the second assignment is for the other classes that didn't do the experiment:

Read "Digging Deeper" on pages 4-7, answer the "As You Read" questions on page 4 in your lab notebook

Green book: Read B24-25, answer "Reading Focus" question, write a summary for:
Listening for Echoes
Mapping for Sound

Tuesday, 1-11-11

Hi Everyone!!

Well, I was able to see most of you today and it was fun starting our new unit-Dynamic Planet.  Yesterday and today we talked about what we are going to learn in this unit, how it is related to the previous unit and we completed a pre-assessment on the overhead.

Tomorrow, we'll complete our lab-write up (only 309 & 310) and we'll start the experiment.  See you then!!

Yarod's drawing.  This page serves as the cover page of the unit in the lab notebooks.

Pre-assessment

 

Test tomorrow

Homework is a little different for each class (some did not complete their homework from last night), but EVERYONE needs to study for tomorrow's unit test!!

Reread the yellow pages and know all of the definitions for the vocabulary words.

Our "mercury" spill

Turns out it wasn't mercury.  If it was mercury it would have rolled up into little balls.  Thank goodness because the whole school would have had to be evacuated if it was!

Questions to answer by Thursday

From Investigation 7

1A
3A*, B*, D
5A
7A, B
8A, B, C

*means only the writer has to have it done

Also, finish your graph or #8--whichever you were supposed to do.

From today's experiment

Kassandra and Jonathan's neatly wrapped cups.

Griselda, Kimberly and Christopher's data

Learning about heat energy

Yesterday and today we have been doing an experiment measuring the temperature of water to see which container holds heat the best. 

You need to have 1a, 3a,b,d done by Wednesday