September 2023
Monday, September 5th, 2023
School resumes!
Meet in your advisory space at 7:55
Scavenger hunt (outside) - make sure you dress for the weather and bring a water bottle
Project block review
Mini project week begins (@ JMKAC)
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
Daily Schedule
Advisory, P1, P2, P3, P5, P7, lunch, mini project day 2
Biology Schedule
Do Now: Create a name card. Include the following things: Your name, pronouns, extrovert/introvert ratio, best skill/s you bring to a team, water/land/air/fire. Example on whiteboard.
Exit Ticket: turn your name card in at the door
Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Daily Schedule
Advisory, P1, P2, P3, lunch, mini project day 3
Biology Schedule
Do Now: classroom scavenger hunt
Friday, September 8th, 2023
Daily Schedule
Advisory, P4, P5, P7, lunch, Mini project exhibitions
Biology Schedule
Do Now: classroom scavenger hunt
Monday, September 11th, 2023
Do Now: Find your new assigned seat and then think about this question; What does it mean to be "alive"?
Intro to science and biology: What does it mean & what will we discover?
What does it mean to be "alive"? - Jigsaw activity
Get into your assigned jigsaw groups
Individually research the topic you are assigned
Then, get into your expert groups and share out what you discovered
Return to your jigsaw group and share what you learned about the topic you researched
As others share with you what they learned, be sure to fill in the answers on your worksheet
Exit Ticket: Turn your worksheet in on the way out
Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
Do Now: in your notebook, write down the words and definitions on the whiteboard
Review characteristics of life
Living nut activity (four corners)
Exit Ticket: Turn in your "characteristics of life" worksheet as you exit
Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
Wednesday clubs and GWT
Thursday, September 14th, 2023
Do Now: Have your notebooks out and be ready for learning
"Is it Alive?" card sort activity with your table group
Read and discuss the article on viruses. Compare and contrast viruses and bacteria.
Cornell notes on characteristics of life in your notebook
Exit Ticket: At the door, tell me two characteristics of life
Friday, September 15th, 2023
Do Now: With your table group, brainstorm what steps you remember that form the scientific method. When you think you have them all, write them down on your mini white board.
Scientific Methodology: review and discuss process
Review variables (independent vs. dependent)
Watch Mythbusters experiments (#2 & 4) and practice determining the variables
Variables worksheet
Exit Ticket: variables question at the door
Monday, September 18th, 2023
Do Now: Write down the definitions on the whiteboard for the words "observation" and "inference" in your notebooks.
observations vs. inferences activity (slideshow)
Exit Ticket: Share one observation or one inference about the classroom
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
P2 - observations vs. inferences activity (slideshow)
P5 - Watch "My Dad is a Space Alien" Audi commercial
and the Shamwow commercial or Slap Chop
Thinking routine: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning.
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Wednesday clubs and GWT
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Do now: Have your notebook out and be ready to learn
Then: Practice Identifying parts of the scientific method together as a whole
Finally: begin worksheet independantly (due Monday 9/25)
Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Do Now: Get out your notebooks and your scientific method practice packet from yesterday and begin to work on finishing it. It is due Monday (9/25)
Then: Rotate through stations
1) spend five minutes quietly observing something living (besides a human) in the room. Make notes: what does it look like? sound like? feel like (if applicable)? How does it move? What behaviors do you notice? What questions does this make you wonder about?
2) Find a book of interest on the bookshelf and read from it for five minutes. Then, take five minutes to write what you remember from your reading. You can reference the book again. Put the book back where you got it from.
3) Write your exit ticket - see below
Exit Ticket: Is a virus alive? Why or why not? Write your answer on a notecard or half sheet of paper. You can use your notes or ask a friend for theirs. No googling the answer!
Monday, September 25th, 2023
Do Now: Get a copy of the mold lab activity sheet on the table by the door and read the first page quietly to yourself.
Then: Get into your assigned groups:
P2
Ramon, Justice, Annmarie, Ruth, Henry
Keagan, Elliot, Autumn, Onyx, Kore
Sam, Gavin K., Emileo, Zoe, Kai
Olivia, Charles, Perrin, Lily, Brayden, Harrison
Jaidyn, Sammy, Arial, Casey, Haze, Kaven
P5
Carson, Grace, Chris, Ariana
Julian, Corbin, Devlin, Lee, Sam
Jeidy, Joey, Yasmine, Kiara, Hannah
Next: Mold Lab - Day one, set up.
Read through and complete steps 1-3. Decide as a group what your question will be and what your hypothesis is. Determine what supplies you will need (ex. how many cups, Jell-O or Gelatin?) and write it on a post it note. Write your group members names on it. Give me the post it note.
Watch Taxonomy Crash Course (12 min) - See/Think/Wonder in your notebook
Exit Ticket: Tell me what the homework assignment is for tonight - hint - it has to do with mold!
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
Do Now: Get your moldy lab worksheet and read steps 4-6. also, bring your mold specimen if you found one!
Next: Mold Lab: day two, Make your gelatin or Jell-o and inoculate with mold spores.
Then: Watch Classification
Exit Ticket: Appreciation, Apology, Aha! Identify something you appreciated today, an apology you’d like to deliver, or an aha moment you experienced.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
Wednesday clubs and GWT
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
Do Now: Take out your notebooks. Use a plastic cup (on table) to trace as many circles in your notebook as you have cups of jello or gelatin. Mark this section of your notebook with a post-it note indicating this section contains your observations. Allocate enough pages for 5 days of observations.
Next: Mold Lab - Inoculate substrate with mold spores
Then: Taxonomy see/think/wonder
Friday, September 29th, 2023
Do Now: Take out your notebook and open it to your observation day 1 page.
Next: Mold Lab: day one observations and data documentation
Then: Lecture and notes on taxonomy
Exit Ticket: Draw the classification hierarchy in your notebook and show me that you have done so
