6th Grade Daily Agenda

WEEK 1: 9/6 to 9/8

Wednesday 9/6:

  1. Welcome & Name Tents
  2. CW: All About You (*due Friday 9/8)
  3. Binders

Procedure: Quiet Signal/Attention Grabber

HW: Dixon Creek Permission Slips, All About You HO

Thursday 9/7:

1. What is Science? Discussion

2. LAB: Are You Symmetrical-Day 1

HW: Dixon Creek Permission Slips, All About You HO

Friday 9/8:

***DUE: All About You HO***

1. LAB: Are You Symmetrical - Day 2

HW: Dixon Creek Permission Slips

week 2: 9/11 - 9/15

Monday 9/11:

1. LAB: Are You Symmetrical - graphing & analysis. Due Wednesday if not done

HW: Dixon Creek Permission Slips BY THURS. THIS WEEK!!

Tuesday 9/12:

1. Schoolwide Policies: Binders, Fire Drill Procedures & Practice

HW: Dixon Creek Permission Slips BY THURS. THIS WEEK!! Finish Lab if not done, due tomorrow

Wednesday 9/13:

***Are You Symmetrical Lab due today***

1. Review Question #6 on Lab, turn in lab

2. Dixon Creek Prep.:

    • map & exploration
    • what will we do out there?
    • what do we need?
    • being safe, respectful & responsible

HW: Dixon Creek Permission Slips

Thursday/Friday 9/14-15:

1. Dixon Creek Field Trip #1

    • Safety, Procedures, & Guidelines at Dixon Creek
    • Scavenger Hunt

week 3: 9/18 - 9/22

Monday 9/18:

1. Notes: Metric Prefixes

2. CW: Metric Conversions HO, due Wed.

Tuesday 9/19:

1. iPad Set Up 1

2. CW: Metric Conversions HO, due Wed. - finish for HW

Wednesday 9/20:

***Metric Conversion HO due to turn in box***

1. Set up Notability on iPad

2. Set Up: Ecology Notes in Notability

    • Vocab: Riparian, Transect

3. Discuss how to set up transects for tomorrow

Thursday 9/21:

1. Dixon Creek Field Trip #2

    • Collecting data on vegetation from transects at Dixon Creek

Friday 9/22: SUB HERE TODAY

1. iPad lesson on Dixon Creek - see Showbie for assignment

week 4: 9/25 - 9/29

Monday 9/25: SUB HERE TODAY

1. Graphing Dixon Creek vegetation transect data

Tuesday 9/26: SUB HERE TODAY

1. Metric Length Lab

Wednesday 9/27:

1. Catch up with Mrs. K

2. Dixon Creek Prep - Trip #3

    • Discuss what types of water invertebrates we might discover at Dixon Creek
    • Add to Ecology Notes (in Notability): Macroinvertebrate, Tolerant, Intolerant.
    • Examine PNW invertebrate species list to identify some common species we might expect to find at the creek.

3. Set Up Notability assignment CW: Riparian Functions (with brochure) (NOTE: per. 6 has completed this assignment, per 7. has set up but not worked on it as of today)

Thursday/Friday 9/28-29:

1. Dixon Creek Visit #3

    • Macroinvertebrate sampling!

week 5: 10/2 - 10/6

Monday 10/2

1. CW: Dixon Creek Macroinvertebrate Follow Up Assignment (Notability document. Finish by end of class Tuesday and submit to Showbie).

Tuesday 10/3

1. Work on CW: Dixon Creek Macroinvertebrate Follow Up Assignment from Notability. As a class, we practiced submitting our work to Showbie when done.

2. Add to "Ecology Notes" in Notability document. Added vocabulary words "Ecology" and "Adaptation"

Wednesday 10/4

1. Finish CW: Ecology notes in Notability. Today we talked about Ecosystems, and thing that can limit what types of living things in that place (Limiting Factors).

Thursday 10/5 (ODD) & Friday 10/6 (EVEN -DOUBLE EARLY RELEASE) - NO DIXON CREEK

1. CW: Food Chains & Webs

2. ACT: Niches

HW: Per. 7 - Riparian Area Functions, due BY Wed. of next week.

***Mrs. K will be gone Monday and Tuesday afternoon next week...***

week 6: 10/9 - 10/13

Monday 10/9 (Sub today)

1. CW: Niche Activity (in Showbie or paper copies)

2. Start HW

HW: Niche Activity Practice

Tuesday 10/10 (Sub today)

1. CW: Dixon Creek Niche Assignment (in Showbie or paper copies)

HW: Finish Dixon Creek Niche Assignment

Wednesday 10/11

1. Review Niche assignments

2. iPad Boot Camp (per. 6)

HW: READ Habitat & Niche (in Showbie or paper copies)

Thursday 10/12 AND Friday 10/13

1. ACTIVITY: Dixon Creek Food Webs (in Showbie or paper copies)

    • Create a food web using the species from Dixon Creek

HW: Finish Dixon Creek Food Web


week 7: 10/16 - 10/20

Monday 10/16

1. Finish Food Webs & turn in

2. Prep for Food Web Presentations

HW: Review vocabulary, practice Quizlet

Tuesday 10/17 (Mr. Hyde here for 6th per., Mr. Rose here for 7th per.)

1. Energy Pyramids

    • notes/discussion

2. Review for Quiz (Quizlet activities)

HW: Review vocabulary, practice Quizlet

Wednesday 10/18

  1. QUIZ: Ecology
  2. Read: "Competition/Predation" in Showbie (or paper copy)

Thursday 10/19 AND Friday 10/20

1. ACTIVITY: "Oh Deer" (per. 6 combined w/Rose)

    • Open "Oh Deer" assignment into Notability from Ecology folder in Showbie
    • Graphing activity in Numbers using data tables. Copy and paste graphs to Notability

HW: Finish first graph, and answer questions # 1-4


week 8: 10/23 - 10/27

Monday 10/23

1. Finish "Oh Deer" graphing & questions, submit to Showbie

2. Tests back and review

3. Test Correction Procedure (See Test Corrections folder in Showbie)

Tuesday 10/24

  1. CW: Apex Predators Reading
    • Marking the Text on 1/2 of the paragraphs, reading the whole article.
    • Marking the text means:
      1. # the paragraphs
      2. _______________ Underline Key Concepts or definitions
      3. Circle important vocabulary words
      4. ? Write questions in the margins
  2. HW: Apex Predators Questions (from Showbie), finish Marking the Text

Wednesday 10/25 - Friday 10/27

      • Parent Teacher Conferences
      • FINISH APEX PREDATORS ASSIGNMENTS FROM TUESDAY