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February 2012

February 2012
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		1 Radiation, Convection and conduction. Use of lava lamp to show these 3 ways of looking at energy transfer.	2 How is Radiation, convection and conduction differ from Expansional cooling, compressional heating and latent heat.	3 Teacher Planning Day
6 Energy in the Atmosphere. Due 02/08 Readinghere.	7 Convection Lab and Demo-Where is all this wind going? First two demonstration on youtube.com "Convection Causes Wind 1" "Convection Causes Wind 2"	8 Conduction Lab Challenge A	9 Conduction Lab Challenge B	10 Testable Questions must be consistant with hypothesis. Format of testable questions and format of hypothesis.
13 More on testable questions, hypothesis, manipulated (MV) and Responding (RV) variables. Testable questions, hypothesis, MV and RV 1-14 due tomorrow.	14 Where do the MV and RV belong on graph. How to write a analysis and conclusion.	15 How to write an analysis and conclusion.	16 How to write a analysis and conclusion-Turn in.	17 Cool Climate-Graphing Practice-Due 02/22 Assignment here. Textbook pages here.
20 No School	21 Finish Cool Climates Due 02/22	22 Dry Run-Sand and Water. Data Table and Graphing.	23 Start Inquiry-Testable Questions and Hypothesis development with background.	24 Test Soil and Air. Data Table and Graphing
27 Analysis and Conclusion	28 Analysis and Conclusion	29

January

January 2012
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
2 No School	3 Tracking Weather-Weather chart added to notebook. Comparing satellite images. What can we tell? My MI study guide-Use 1 MI to make study guide for 12 tools. What does it measure? What are the units? How does it relate to forecasting?-Due 1/05 QUIZ 1/12/12	4 Data gathered for weather chart. Where is the atmosphere? More comparing satellite images and making weather predictions based images.	5 Study Guide Due Balloon Ride through the atmosphere. Due start of class 1/10	6 Where did our atmosphere come from? Sphere prefixes.
9 .Elevator Ride and Orgins of atmosphere. Reading here from textbook.	10 Elevator Ride and Origin of atmosphere due start of class.	11 Review for quiz. Questions from video, weather tools, discussion and Earth's Atmosphere assignment. Why is the sky blue? Video here.	12 Quiz on weather tools and atmosphere.	13
16 No School	17 Snow Day	18 Late Start	19	20
23 Latent Heat and Kinetic Energy Weather Unit Outlinehere. This is my current master plan.	24 Water Cycle and Latent Heat	25 Water Cycle and Latent Heat-Due 02/26 start of class. Energy Transfer Notes here. Gas as Particles Notes here. Expansional Heating and compressional heating. Extra Credit here. Due 01/30.	26 Logical-mathematical Latent heat. Why we can't see water as a gas, but we can as a liquid or solid. (Think about clumping because of lower kinetic energy and cohesion from water properties unit.)	27 Latent Heat Quiz-mini surprise Body-kinesthetic-Latent Heat
30 Extra Credit Due Energy Transfer-Radiation, convection and conduction After a gas expands to the top of troposphere-it does not climb to tropopause/stratosphere because temperature gets warmer-Air parcel from troposphere is the coldest due to expansion = least dense and sinks (info from Earth's Atmosphere assignment).	31 No more Late Assignments for 2nd quarter. Convection Notes	More on Energy transfer-Conduction Lab	Energy Transfer and water cycle Quiz- Last day of 2nd Quarter	No School-Teacher Planning Day.

December

December 2011
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			1 Ocean Chemistry Due 12/05	2 Ocean Chemistry
5 Playing With Water Lab	6 Hydrogen Bonding Notes in Notebook. Phase change and kinetic theory Good hydrogen bonding and kinetic theory of phase change video here. Hydrogen Bonding Notes here.	7 Bloom's Questions-Due 12/09 Weather Concept Map Due 12/09	8 Good overview video here.	9 Water Properties Test
12 What do we know about the subject of weather?	13 Pretest Atmosphere part 1 and 2. Weather Toolshelpful websites here.	14 Finish Weather Tools-Students should have this finished end of class 12/16. Focused Learning Goals here.	15 Weather Tools Review	16 Temperature, Relative Humidity and other questions
19 Winter Break	20 Winter Break	21 Winter Break	22 Winter Break	23 Winter Break
26 Winter Break	27 Winter Break	28 Winter Break	29 Winter Break	30 Winter Break

November 2011

November 2011
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	1 Volume Practice Lab- Due 11/02 My MI Study Guide Due. Water 4-squre due today.	2 Volume Practice Lab Due Vocabulary Quiz.	3 Buoyancy Boat Lab-Engineering and Design Challenge-Due Monday at end of class.	4 Buoyancy Boat Lab-Engineering and Design Challenge-Due Monday at end of class.
7 Buoyancy Boat Lab-Engineering and Design Challenge-Due Monday at end of class.	8 Grades given out. Work reviewed and returned to students. Animations on water freezing/kinetic theory and NaCl being dissolved.	9 Hot Hand-Vernier Introduced. How cold can you go-vernier. Goal: How does NaCl effect water's ability to freeze/form hydrogen bonds. Goal 2: How can the beaker of ice and salt "spontanously" get cold?	10 Teacher's Prep Day	11 Happy Veteran Day
14 Goal Setting TEST DEC. 2ND!	15 Lego Procedure	16 Rainbow Density Lab Report HERE	17 Rainbow Density Lab	18 Rainbow Density Lab
21 No School-Conferences	22 No School Conferences	23 Happy Thanksgiving	24 Happy Thanksgiving.	25 Happy Thanksgiving.
28 Rainbow Density Lab-Rough Draft of procedure due.	29 Rainbow Density Lab Due. This includes data, graph, questions and typed final procedure.	30 Playing with Water Test Review.

October 2011

Graphing_Notes.pdf

October 2011
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
3 Finding Independant and Dependant Variables. (Also called Manipulated and Responding Variables)	4 Finding Independant and dependant variables and graphing notes. Graphing Memory data and standard deviation. Due 10/7	5 Graphing Practice Due 10/04	6 Brain Anatomy and Function Linux Lab 147 Due 10/10 Helpful Links for research.	7 Last Day for Late Work. Graphing and Memory Data Table and Graph Due. Brain Interactives.
10 World Inside Your Brain Due. Graphing Review Due	11 Depth Perception	12 Introduction to eye	13 Bullying Survey Eye 4-square. Due 10/18	14
17 Finish Eye 4-square. Due end of class.	18 Read Eye Pre-lab: Inside the Teenage Brain	19 Cow Eye Dissection Data Sheet-External Observations Late Start	20 Cow Eye Dissection	21 Vocabulary Test 2-Are you more intelligent? Grades updated! Please check grades online. Grades given to students Extra Credit-5 points Due Monday
24 Extra Credit Due. Is water a Right or a Commodity? Blue Gold	25 Finish Blue Gold Agenda Check Student Check-in	26 Water Properties Pretest. Root Vocabulary here. Vocabulary Quiz 11/02	27 Water Properties 4 square Due 11/01 Pages 23-29 here. Multiple Intelligence Study Guide-Due 11/01	28 Water Properties 4 square. Good Video here. Another cool video here.
31 Lab Safety Agreement and Lab Safety Quiz. Agreement is Due 11/07

September 2011

September 2011
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
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5 No School	6 Ice Breakers Dedicated Science Notebook Due 9/12	7 Team Building	8 Expectations Due 9/13 PPP-Due 9/13	9 MI Checklist Homework for Parent/Guardian Due 9/13
12 Welcome Back! Learning vs. Memory Mirrors Formate Notebooks	13 PC Lab Multiple Intelligence Test Compile data from PPP, MI Checklist and Online Test and complete My (MI'S) MY (MI's) Due 09/14	14 MY (MI's) Due - Long term memory Vocabulary Given	15 My Intell- Study Strategy- Due 9/20	16 The Baby's Brain and classroom discussion
19 Strategies for short term memory Memory Test 1	20 -Due 9/27 Vocabulary Quiz Study Strategy Due	21 Late Opening Memory Test 2 Memory Table Distributed	22 Memroy Test 3	23 Memory Test 4 Calculation of Standard Deviation
26 Finish Testing	27 Expectations Due Standard Deviations calculated.	28 The Miracle Worker.	29 The Miracle Worker Grades given to students.	30 The Miracle Worker Challenge-Due 10/03

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