Portland Public Schools
Portland, Oregon

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East Sylvan Middle School (Grade 6)
1849 SW 58th Ave. | Portland, OR 97221
Phone: (503) 916-5560 | Fax: (503) 916-5564
West Sylvan Middle School (Grades 7-8)
8111 SW West Slope Drive | Portland, OR 97225
Phone: (503) 916-5690 | Fax: (503) 916-2681

February 2012

February 2012
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1 Magnet review questions
2 Magnet quiz
3 No school
6 Complete question sheet on Bill Nye DVD on static electricity

7 Exploring electrical charges simulation

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new

Complete worksheet on balloons and

John Travoltage

8 Perform your own static electricity experiments and drawings Click here for Textbook pages 46-53
 

  

9 Building and testing your own electroscope
lab sheet

10 Turn in folders with

1) Worsheet with Bill Nye and textbook questions on the back

2) Balloon and Travoltage worksheet with your drawings

 3) Electroscope lab

13 Review static electricity and grade folders
14 Read pages 32-34 and do lab "Sparky's light kit"
15 Build your own electric circuit thru simulation
16 Use a circuit to determine good conductors or insulators
17 Complete conductor/insulator lab and turn in. Check here for textbook pages on current electricity.
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21 Circuit measurements worksheet  Pages 56-60

Short lab on V = I x R

22 Series and parallel circuits
23 Series and parallel circuits
24 Series and parallel circuits lab and worksheets completed and due
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May 2012

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September

September 2011
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6 Name Game and

orientation 

7 Groupwork 8  Groupwork 9 Bridge building
12 Understanding the metric system

13 measuring metric length    due the 14th

14 Measuring metric mass
due the 16th
15 Measuring metric volume
due the 16th

16 Practice quiz
Click here to read pages 22-27.

19 Science vocabulary and notes. Click here 20 Density problems 21 Metric quiz
22 Review test taking technique and finish goal setting.
23 States of matter

26 Review lab safety
Have green safety agreement signed by parent and turn in 27th

27   Mystery mixture lab            

Click herefor textbook pages for chemical names, formulas, common names,and uses.    

 

28 Mystery mixture lab

 Complete uses.

 Go to the 27th and click.

29 Mystery mixture lab

Complete pages  11&13

30 Mystery mixture lab is due.

October

October 2011
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
3 Review mystery mixture lab. Quick write on lab. Review page 13. Work on glossary of vocabulary words.
4 Read pages in Chemical Building blocks. Start chart on Matter. 
5 Complete chart on matter. 
6 Complete chart on matter
7 Classification charts are due.
10 Take notes on the history of atom and put in chart in composition book
11 Start project on history of atom in table groups: Timeline, gameboard, models and drawings, or skit/ poem
12 Continue work on team project on history of the atom
13 Complete team project on history of atom. Due at the beginning of class Monday.
14 No school

17  Complete chart on the history of the atom

  Start work on coloring periodic table

18 Complete periodic table. 

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19 Late start school day

Work on graphs for bullying.

20 Video

Page 1&2 of Bohr model packet

21 History of the atom and periodic table due

24 Bohr model packet

complete pages 1 thru 3

25 Valence electrons and atomic mass vs atomic number pages 4,5&6

 

26 Complete Bohr model packets

due Friday 28th

27 Review for Friday's quiz on

Classification of matter/ scientists/and the Bohr model

28 Quiz

Periodic table

Chart of scientists

Bohr model packet

all are due

 

 

31 Dry ice experiments
 

 
 

November

how_atoms_rearrange.pdf

November

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1  Ionic bonding

first two pages

.Covalent bonding second two pages

 

 

3 Review for quiz

Click here for pages on bonding

4 Quiz on ionic and covalent bonding. 

7 Reviewing ionic and covalent bonds by using models.

8 Making clay models of ionic and covalent bonds. worth 20pts.

9 complete models

10 No school

11 No school

14 Review class goals. Complete first page of Limewater lab.

15 Limewater lab

complete pages 88-89 Click at the top of November how atoms rearrange from the textbook

16 Limewater lab

Work on balancing equations. Thru page 91 is due at end of period

17 Penny lab

18 Penny lab

21 Conferences

22 Conferences

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24 Thanksgiving

25 No school

28 1Redo penny lab

     2 organize folder

     3 complete pink summary sheet

     4 balance equations   

29 Complete Penny Lab.        .

      

30 Final date to turn in folders with

1 Bonding basics

2 Limewater lab

3 Penny lab

4 Pink summary

5 Balancing Act

 

 

 

December 2011

December 2011
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6 "How much gas" packet

Due Friday

7 Work on  experiments in packet

Due on Friday

8 Review for quiz - practice quiz

Click here for textbook pages

9 Quiz on chemical reactions, phases of matter

12  Bill Nye video on phases of matter. Write new ideas. 

13 Heating and Cooling Air Lab

Read pages 23-27

Complete Page 37 1-5 in folder

14 Heating and Cooling Lab.

Perform experiments heating and cooling air

15 Complete pages 32 & 33 in folder including drawings. 

Click here for textbook pages

16 Shaving foam lab.
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January 2012

January 2012
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2 No school

3 Highlight notes from summary sheet

Click herefor kinetic energy textbook pages

4 Heating and cooling water

complete pages 34,35,39,and 41

5   Mixing water

complete the top of page 43, then complete all of page 45 and 47

6 Heating and cooling Air Lab and Mixing water lab are due at end of period.

9 Phase changes

Read pages 42-48

Answer questions in lab on page 65

10 Dissolve or Melt M&M lab

Complete pages 60-61 Click here for pages in green textbook on phase change, dissolving, and kinetic energy

11 Melting 3 materials
12 Sugar lab

13 Complete Melting 3 Materials and Sugar Lab and turn in folders.  Watch Bill Nye video on Heat and Kinetic Energy.

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18 Dissolving vs Melting
19 Kinetic energy review
20 Kinetic Energy Quiz

23 Discovering the many uses of magnets.

List 25 uses  on pages 11 &12 of composition book.

24  Bill Nye video on magnetism.  Notes from video written on pages 13&14 of composition book   25  Review notes from video and complete magnetism worksheet.  textbook pages 14 thru 29. Click here for textbook pages on magnetism.  26 Magnetism "Tug of War" lab.  Due friday.
27 Worksheet and Magnetism lab due today.
30 Drawing magnetic field lines.
31 Building electromagnets

 

January

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3 Complete physical/chemical change worksheet

4 Discuss worksheet and make observation on page 1 of mystery mixture lab

5 Copy down physical/chemical change chart on back of page 3

Fill out chart on the back of page 1

Click here for more information

6 Mix substances and record results on page 2 of mystery mixture lab

7 Look at evaporation tray and decide on mystery mixture and turn in all 3 lab pages and worksheet from Monday.

10 Review names of substances and elements. Start filling in periodic table

11 Complete periodic table with group numbers, valence electrons, and bonding.

12 Review bonding and do limewater experiment to understand chemical reactions

13 Use manipulative to understand valence electrons, octet rule, and chemical equations.

14 Complete the chemical equations in the limewater lab and turn in.

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December 2010

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1 Complete the Melting 3 Materials.  due at the end of class on Thursday.

2 Lab procedure thru the melting of sugar needs to be completed(typed with drawing) by Friday

3  In computer lab to complete typing and drawing for the procedure of the melting 3 materials lab.

6 Turn in procedures for the two day lab on melting 3 materials

7 Do Freezing Water Lab

Record temperatures and make observations on page 69

8 Bullying video and activities

9 Complete Freezing Water lab

Graph and questions page 70+71

Start glossary of terms on page 1 in your lab

10 Complete glossary of terms

Complete handout on physical and chemical changes

Staple handout to Freezing Water Lab and turn in.

13 Complete Glossary of terms and do rough draft of concept map on states of matter

Take notes on video on back of lab

14 Complete final draft of concept map. Click here for glossary terms.

15 View other students concepts maps and add ideas. Then make completions to concepts map

16 Final checklist on concept maps due at end of period.

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February

February
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1 Read pages 24-28

Find final mass of pennies and record observations

2 Balancing equations and the four types of reactions

Click herefor science pages

3 Finish penny ;lab and balancing sheets
4 Turn in penny lab along with the yellow and green balancing equation worksheets.
7  Do baking soda and HCl lab in class.  Packet should be complete thru page 93.  Packet will be due on Friday 11th
8 Work on pages 95 and 97, Read pages 69-72 to answer questions on page 97
9 Bullying skits
10 Do heartburn chemistry lab. Complete page 99
11 Turn in packet complete thru page 99.
14 Work on "convince me" background sheet
15 work on material list and procedure
16 work on the observation and results of the Tums experiment
17 work on the conclusion of the science inquiry
18 Finish typing up science inquiry due on Tuesday. Click here for pages to textbook
21 No school
22 Turn in your science inquiry in class
23 Video on static electricity
24 No school
25 Review ideas from the video and read pages in book 45-53. Click here to see pages

28 Complete worksheet on static electricity and turn in with electroscope lab on Wednesday 

 
 
 
 

March

March
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1 Do electroscope lab.
2 Complete electroscope lab and static electricity worksheet.  Due on Thursday. Pages to textbook can be found by clicking on Feb. 25th.
3 Watched video on current electricity and safety, Worked on sparky's light kit

4 Sparky light kit and the worksheet on circuits and safety due on Monday. Click here for pages to textbook. 

7 Discussed electric circuits. Handed out circuit packet due on March 15th
8 Electric current lab
9 Electric current lab
10 Four square vocabulary
11 Mythbusters
14 Completed circuit packet in class. Staple four square to packet and turn in on Tues. March 15th. Click here for textbook pages
15  Discuss relationship between electricity and magnetism.  Start magnetism lab.
16 Work on magnetism lab due on Thursday.
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