Starters
Composition book is where you write the daily starter questions and answers. Starters are review questions about material covered during the previous lesson. Starters should be numbered and dated as presented below. Starters also contains daily reminders of what assignment is due when.
Starter #28 Date: Block 3/11-12/20
Objective: How to make water drinkable
EQ: What is the process for wastewater treatment?
1. Name the five largest places where water is stored on Earth and in what phase that water is in? (i.e., liquid)
2. Where does most evaporation take place and why?
3. Where does most precipitation take place and why?
FRIDAY 3/13 End Quarter 3 - Midterm grades Due
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Homework: HW#10 Properties of Water Due 3/13
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - After school Thursday J5 or lunch Mon-Wed J5
Starter #27 Date: Tuesday 3/10/20
Objective: Water Resources
EQ: How is water used and stored?
1. Why is water called the Universal solvent?
2. What is the process called when water evaporates directly from glacial ice?
3. Hydrogen atoms have a positive charge and oxygen atoms have a negative charge. This causes water to be?
FRIDAY 3/13 End Quarter 3 - Midterm grades Due
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Homework: HW#10 Properties of Water Due 3/13
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - After school Thursday J5 or lunch Mon-Wed J5
Starter #26 Date: Monday 3/9/20
Objective: The Water cycle - continue
EQ: What are the steps of the water cycle?
1. What is transpiration?
2. What is infiltration?
3. What is runoff?
FRIDAY 3/13 End Quarter 3 - Midterm grades Due
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Homework: HW#10 Properties of Water Due 3/13
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - After school Thursday J5 or lunch Mon-Wed J5
Starter #25 Date: Friday 3/6/20
Objective: The Water cycle
EQ: What are the steps of the water cycle?
- What is polarity?
- Why is ice less dense than water?
- What makes water have adhesive and cohesive forces?
- Which of the following solutes are polar?
Salt, Sugar, margarine
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Homework: HW#9 Vocabulary Unit 8 Due Today
Quiz: Vocab Quiz Unit 8 Today
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #24 Date: Wed./Thurs. 3/4-5/20
Objective: Properties and Use of Water
EQ: What are the properties of water?
Label the three states of matter for water.
Label the phase changes /processes between each state.
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Homework: HW#9 Vocabulary Unit 8 Due Friday 3/6
Quiz: Vocab Quiz Unit 8 Friday 3/6
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #23 Date: Monday 3/2/20
Objective: Review Plate tectonics & Natural Hazards
EQ: What do I have to study for the test tomorrow?
1. What factors determine the explosive force of a volcanic eruption?
2. Magma that is/has a __________ produces violent volcanic eruptions. (high or low viscosity)
3. Why are the volcanic eruptions in Hawaii usually non-explosive?
4. The silica content of magma greatly affects its viscosity. Magma with a high silica content has a ….. viscosity and flows ……….. .
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Homework: HW#8 Study Guide Unit 6 Due Tues. 3/3
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
When we have finished the starter swap compbook with your table partner and we will count stamped starters! Write the number they had # / 23 and your name. On their last page.
Starter #22 Date: Friday 2/28/20
Objective: Review content from Plate Tectonic Unit
EQ: What do you need to study this weekend?
1. What is lag time on a seismogram?
2. Which station would have the greatest lag time?
3. The distance between an epicenter of an earthquake and a seismic station is the time difference between which waves?
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Homework: HW#8 Study Guide Unit 6 Due Tues. 3/3
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #21 Date: Wed./Thurs. 2/26-27/20
Objective: Impacts on buildings from Earthquakes
EQ: Can you engineer an Earthquake safe building?
1. What is the focus and epicenter of an earthquake?
2. How many points do we need to determine the epicenter?
3. Which seismic waves are the fastest?
4. Which seismic waves can not move through liquid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4VQul_SmCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY7iviX37-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVk5i62hJjQ
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Homework: HW#8 Study Guide Unit 6 Due Tues. 3/3
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #20 Date: Tuesday 2/25/20
Objective: Seismic Triangulation
EQ: How do we know where an earthquake occured?
1. Why do earthquakes occur?
2. Which type of fault occurs at which type of boundary?
3. On what scale do we measure earthquake magnitude and what does the value measure?
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Homework: HW#8 Study Guide Unit 6 Due Tues. 3/3
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #19 Date: Monday 2/24/20
Objective: Understand why earthquakes happen.
EQ: What makes earthquakes happen?
1. What three factors determine if a volcano's eruption is Quiet or Violent?
2. Name three types of magma?
3. Does magma with high silica contents have high/low viscosity? Does it flow- quickly/slowly?
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Homework: HW#8 Study Guide Unit 6 Due Tues. 3/3
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5
Starter #18 Date: Friday 2/21/20
Objective: Volcanic Eruptions
EQ: What makes volcanoes erupt differently?
1. Most volcanoes occur along what type of boundary?
2. What type of material erupts from a volcano?
3. Can you name at least three volcanoes?
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Homework: HW#7 Plate Interactions Due Today
Missing assignment = Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #17 Date: Wed/Thur 2/19-20/20
Objective: Analys Continental Drift & Volcanoes
EQ: What types of volcanoes are there?
1. Name the 4 types of evidence Alfred Wegener presented to support his idea of continental drift.
2.What was the two modern additional evidence that supported the Theory of plate tectonic?
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Homework: HW#7 Plate Interactions Due Friday
Missing assignment = Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #16 Date: Tuesday 2/18/20
Objective: Learn how Seafloor spreading works
EQ: How do the plates move and change?
1. What is the type of rock that makes up continental plates and what type of rock makes up oceanic plates??
2. Why do oceanic plates subduct under continental crust?
3. What are the four layers of the earth??
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Homework: HW#6 Plate Tectonic Due Today
HW#7 Plate Interactions Due Friday
Missing assignment = Academic Recovery: Grade below 70% - Lunch Mon-Wed, after school Thursday in J5.
Starter #15 Date: Friday 2/14/20
Objective: Plate movements and natural disasters
EQ: What features occurs at each type of boundary
1. What feature is formed at a oceanic- oceanic convergent boundary?
2. What feature is formed at a continental- continental convergent boundary?
3. What feature is formed at a oceanic- continental convergent boundary?
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Homework: HW#6 Plate Tectonic Due Today
Missing assignment = Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #14 Date: Block 2/12-13/20
Objective: Learn about the types of crust
EQ: What is the difference between oceanic and continental crust?
1. What are the three types of plate boundaries?
2. What happens to the crust that is subducted?
3. What is the Ring of Fire?
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Homework: HW#6 Plate Tectonic Due Friday
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 after school or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #13 Date: Tuesday 2/11/20
Objective: The Theory of Plate Boundaries
EQ: What changes happens due to plate movement?
1. The crust is made up of which layers?
2. What is the asthenosphere?
3. The outer and inner core of Earth are made of?
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Homework: HW#5 Vocabulary Unit 6 Due Today
Quiz: Vocabulary Unit 6 Today
Missing assignment = Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 after school or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #12 Date: Friday 2/7/20
Objective: Learn about The Earth’s Layers
EQ: What is inside our planet and how do we know?
- Sign up for Science in the News.
- Follow the instructions on the handout and create your own scaled model of the layers of the earth.
- When you are done with your model use the classroom copy with facts and complete the graphic organizer on the back.
Homework: HW#5 Vocabulary Unit 6 Due 2/11/20
Quiz: Vocabulary Unit 6 Monday 2/11
Academic Recovery: Grade below 65% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #11 Date: Block 2/5-6/20
Objective: Show mastery in Space Unit
- Turn in HW#4 Study Guide for Unit 5 Space
- Turn in your binder - make sure that the TOC is updated and assignments organized in chronological order.
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Academic Recovery: Grade below 70% - Thursdays after school in J5 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #10 Date: Tuesday 2/4/20
Objective: Present Space Project
EQ: Learn cool stuff about space
1. What are the darker spots on the Sun?
2. The fundamental material in nuclear fusion, which leads to heavier elements, is…
3. What is solar wind??
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Homework: HW#4 Study Guide Unit 5,
Due Block 2/5-6/20
Test: Unit 5 test, Block 2/5-6/20
Academic Recovery: Grade below 70% - Thursday K4 or lunch Mon-Wed J5.
Starter #9 Date: Monday 2/3/20
Objective: Present Space Project
EQ: Learn cool stuff about space
1. What is the cosmic microwave background (cosmic background radiation?
2. Red shift is one of the pieces of evidence for the Big Bang. Red Shift refers to?
3. Is the universe currently expanding, contracting, or staying the same size?
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Homework: HW#4 Study Guide Unit 5,
Due Block 2/5-6/20
Test: Unit 5 test, Block 2/5-6/20
Academic Recovery: Grade below 70% - Thursday K14 or lunch Mon-Wed J5
No Starter Date: Wed-Fri. 1/29-31/20
Objective: Complete Part 2 and half of part 3 of the Space Research Project
1. Watch the video instruction for part 2.
2. Complete part 2 and submit to google classroom.
3. Watch the video instruction for part 3.
4. Complete part 3 of the project and submit to google classroom.
The project is due at the end of class Friday - submit to google classroom.
Presentations will take place Monday and Tuesday.
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Homework: HW#4 Study Guide Unit 5,
Due Block 2/5-6/20
Test: Unit 5 test, Block 2/5-6/20
Starter #8 Date: Tuesday 1/28/20
Objective: Learn about a topic in Space
EQ: What subject about Space do I want to focus on in this project?
1. Which spectral class does our sun belong to?
2. What is the general relationship between temperature and star brightness?
3. What is a large group of stars bound together by gravity called?
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Homework: HW#4 Study Guide Unit 5,
Due Block 2/5-6/20
Test: Unit 5 test, Block 2/5-6/20
Starter #7 Date: Monday 1/27/20
Objective: Review HR Diagram & Big Bang
EQ: Can you classify stars?
1. Write the layers of the Sun from inside out.
2. What is the most common element found in solar wind?
3. What is the relationship between star color and star temperature?
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Homework: HW#4 Study Guide Unit 5,
Due Block 2/5-6/20
Test: Unit 5 test, Block 2/5-6/20
Starter #6 Date: Friday 1/24/20
Objective: Learn about the Big Bang Theory
EQ: What are the evidence for the Big Bang Theory?
1. Which layer of the sun gives off visible light?
2. Which layer of the sun transfer energy by electromagnetic radiation?
3. What are the eruptions called when loops in sunspot regions suddenly connect?
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Homework: HW#3 Stars/Big Bang Theory,
Due Friday 1/24/20
Starter #5 Date: Wed./Thurs. 1/22-23/20
Objective: Learn about the Elements of the Universe
EQ: How can solar winds tell us what we are made of?
1. Write the steps in an average star’s life-cycle
2. Which steps of an average star’s life cycle differ from a massive star?
3. What type is about 90% of stars on the H-R diagram??
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Homework: HW#3 Stars/Big Bang Theory,
Due Friday 1/24/20
Starter #4 Date: Tuesday 1/21/20
Objective: Model how energy is transferred through layers of the sun
1. What type of galaxy do we live in and what is it called?
2. What two other types of galaxies are there and what shapes do they have?
3. Why do elements give off certain colors? (What are the electrons doing?)
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Homework: HW#3 Stars/Big Bang Theory,
Due Friday 1/24/20
Starter #3 Date: Friday 1/17/20
Objective: Learn about three types of galaxies
EQ: How are galaxies classified?
1. What is fusion?
2. What does the H-R diagram tell us about a star?
3. According to the HR-diagram, what is the brightest possible magnitude and is the hottest temperature?
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Homework: HW#2 Observing Matter in Space,
Due Friday 1/17/20
Starter #2 Date: Wed./Thurs 1/15-16/20
Objective: Classifying Stars
EQ: How do we classify star?
1. What is the Electromagnetic spectrum?
2. How do we know what element is in a star?
3. What scientific instrument is used to read an emission spectrum?
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Homework: HW#2 Observing Matter in Space,
Due Friday 1/17/20
Starter #3 Date: Tuesday 1/14/20
Objective: Classifying Stars
EQ: How do we know the composition of a star?
1. What can scientists measure using the Doppler effect?
2. What can scientists measure using Parallax?
3. What did scientists measure with the Parker Solar Probe?
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Homework: HW#2 Observing Matter in Space,
Due Friday 1/17/20
No Starter Date: Monday 1/13/20
Objective: How do we know about Space
EQ: How can we measure things in Space?
Presentation of SOLE Space Project
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Homework: HW#2 Observing Matter in Space,
Due Friday 1/17/20
No Starter Date: Friday 1/10/20
Objective: How do we know about Space
EQ: How can we measure things in Space?
- Turn in HW#1 Vocabulary Unit 5
- Take the Unit Vocab Quiz.
- Work with your group to complete your slide show / poster to present Monday.
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Homework: HW#1 Space Vocabulary, Friday 1/10/20
QUIZ: Unit 5 Vocabulary Friday 1/10/20
Starter #2 Date: Thursday 1/9/20
Objective: How do we know about Space
EQ: How can we measure things in Space?
1. What is the importance of stars to humans?
Name three things….
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Homework: HW#1 Space Vocabulary, Friday 1/10/20
QUIZ: Unit 5 Vocabulary Friday 1/10/20
Welcome back to Science Class!
Starter #1 Date: Wednesday 1/8/20
Objective: Setting goals for the spring semester
EQ: What can I / you improve on this semester?
If you do not have your comp book, write on a lined paper write: starter #, date, objective and the questions and answers.
1. What was the best thing with the winter break?
2. What was the worst thing with the winter break?
3. Why is it important to be in your seat and working on the starter as the bell rings?
4. Why can you not have your phone out after the bell rings?
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Homework: HW#1 Space Vocabulary, Friday 1/10/20
Classwork: Fall semester survey - end of period
QUIZ: Unit 5 Vocabulary Friday 1/10/20