Treadway Science Quarter 3

Agenda for Thursday, March 14, 2019

Get Started: Put everything away.

Today: The Special Properties of Water

SLIDES: Special Properties of Water

  • Solid water (ice) expands as it freezes
  • Growing snowflakes. Growing ice crystals in soap bubbles
  • Ice floats in water
  • Special properties of water and life
  • Water on Mars

HW: Go outside. Play with others. Be kind.

Agenda for Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Getting Started: Get science notebook. In preparation for the quiz, clear desk except for notes, pencil, and science notebook

Today: Quiz - Energy, Particles, and Phase Changes

  1. Quiz
  2. ScienceWorld magazine - read silently
  3. Discussion of interesting articles.

Homework: go outside and get some sunshine

Agenda for Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Hand in missing assignments.

GC - Tuesday Question:What’s in the Bubbles? Get SciNotebook.

Today: Review Matter and Energy

  1. Discuss the Tuesday question: What’s in the Bubbles?
  2. Review options for quiz on Wednesday:
    1. Did you finish the Questions :Online Reading 1 & 2
    2. Textbook: Unit 6, lesson 6 - read and/or digital lesson
    3. Chart: Changes of State
    4. Tan - Questions to Explore: Energy and Matter

HW: Today missing assignments. Quiz Wed. - you may use notes, worksheets, SciNotebook. Be sure resources are organized/complete.

Agenda for Monday, March 11, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Google Classroom - Monday Question. Get out SciNotebook, highlighter and pencil for notes.

Today: Changes of State (Phase Changes)

  1. DEMO - Ice melts in a container
  2. DEMO - Temperature probes - boiling & freezing point of water
  3. Handout: Notes - SLIDES: Changing States of Matter
  • 7.11 SLIDES: Changing States of Matter
  • SciNotebook - for questions, sketches, etc.

HW: Quiz Wed. - Energy, Particles, and Change of State. Read textbook Unit 6, Lesson 6 (Changes of State) - pp. 486-495. Tues March 12 = last day for missing assignments.

Agenda for Friday, March 8, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. GC link (Molecular Workbench) and SciNotebook - Friday Question: How does changing the temperature affect the motion of atoms and molecules?

Today: Temperature and motion of atoms

  1. Blue Virtual Lab not required (3 pts extra credit only)- MONDAY
  2. DEMO: changing the temperature of air - soap bubble, plastic bottle
  3. Handout - Questions for online reading. Check your answers with SLIDES 7.4 online reading 1 and 7.5 online reading 2.

HW: Complete/check handout. Missing assignments 3/12.

Quiz next week - energy and particles.

Agenda for Thursday, March 7, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Get out white paper - Temperature and Thermal Energy to hand in.

Today: Temperature and Kinetic Energy

  1. White paper - Temp & Thermal Energy - Questions? Hand in
  2. How to navigate ThinkCentral - attached slides and Classwork
  3. Blue Virtual Lab - How does temperature affect kinetic energy?

Use Virtual Lab on ThinkCentral, Unit 5, Lesson 2

NOTE: This lab investigation was cancelled.

HW: Complete missing assignments by 3/12

Agenda for Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - Early Dismissal

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Prepare for today’s quiz (clear desk, GC)

Today: Temperature and Kinetic Energy

  1. Quiz: Elements, Atoms, and Molecules
  2. White handout: OH ScienceFusion: Temperature and Thermal Energy. Read textbook pages 378-380

HW: Complete white handout using textbook & ThinkCentral.

Agenda for Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Tuesday Practice (paper) - chemical symbols and formulas. Need textbook. Get SciNotebook.

Today: Temperature, Kinetic Energy, and Density

  1. Review chemical symbols and formulas - Quiz tomorrow.
  2. Review food coloring in hot and cold water - What is happening with the water particles? Temperature, KE, spacing
  3. How does a hot air balloon work? Temp, KE, spacing, density

HW: Quiz Wed - symbols & formulas. Late HW due 3/12

Agenda for Monday, March 4, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Get SciNotebook. GC - Practice Quizlet: 18 Common Elements.

Today: Elements & Molecules. Temperature & Kinetic Energy

  1. Read a chemical formula - 6.1 SLIDES - Atoms, Elements, and Molecules (#24-31)
  2. Handout - Practice: Particles - Atoms and Molecules. Practice Quizlet until all are finished. Review answers.
  3. Energy - Hot and Cold Particles - Demo

→ Temperature & Kinetic energy

  1. Sci Notebook: Hot Air Balloons - How do they rise and sink?

HW: Practice Quizlet (Quiz Wed). Complete missing work by 3/12

Agenda for Friday, March 1, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. GC - Friday question. Get out your Notes: Atoms, Elements, and Molecules from yesterday.

Today: Atoms, Elements, Molecules, and the Periodic Table

  1. Friday question: Atoms vs molecules
  2. SLIDES: Atoms, Elements, and Molecules. Complete your Notes: Atoms, Elements, and Molecules.

HW: Practice Quizlet. Complete missing assignments - March 12.

Agenda for Thursday, February 28, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW Get out your sci notebook. Skip 2 blank pages. On the next clean right-hand page write “Atoms, Elements, and Molecules” at the top of the page. Open textbook.

Today: Particles of Matter - Atoms, Elements, and Molecules

  1. Textbook - read pp. 216-217, 444, 446-447. Look at the images on pages. In your sci notebook, use words and sketches to clarify what atoms, elements, and molecules are.
  2. 6.1 SLIDES: Particles of Matter - Atoms and Molecules
  3. Handout: Notes - Atoms, Elements, and Molecules

HW: Quizlet: 18 Elements (link in GC) Last day for late work = 3/12

Agenda for Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Getting Started: Hand in late assignments (if any).

Prepare for test: clear desk, get pencil, may use hand held or Desmos calculator, open Google Classroom.

Today: Mass, Volume, and Density

  1. Pass out blank paper - write name and period on paper.
  2. Google Classroom - Test: Mass, Volume, and Density
  3. Read ScienceWorld magazine or missing work
  4. SLIDES: Density - Will it rise or sink? Archimedes, global haline circulation, applications

HW: none except missing assignments

Agenda for Tuesday, Feb 26, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Get out your Green Gizmos - Density Laboratory and check your answers. Get calculator.

Today: Review & Applications of Density

  1. Green Gizmos - Density Laboratory: Questions? Hand in.
  2. Finish sink/rise demonstrations (if needed)
  3. GC - Online Review: Mass, Volume, & Density. You may use SciNotebook, Desmos or hand-held calculator, and paper.
  4. Paper - Applications: Density. Complete 1, 2, and a question assigned to your team. Use whiteboard to present answers.

HW: Test Wed -Volume, Density. Use Online Review, Review Sheet

Agenda for Monday, February 25, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Get out green Gizmos - Density Laboratory. Hand back papers. Pass out review.

Today: Density - Rise or Sink? - Notes & Demos

  1. Green Gizmos - Density Laboratory. Questions? Due Tues. Hand in if complete.
  2. SLIDES: Density - Will it rise or sink?
  3. Density of Wood - calculate density - predict rise or sink
  4. Demonstrations - egg, water, and salt; cans of pop, density tower

HW: Green Gizmo due Tues. Test on Mass, Volume, & Density - Wed or Thurs. Practice Quizlet: Review mass, volume, & density

Agenda for Friday, February 22, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Hand in Gold: Density of Water. Answer the question on Floating Logs (paper)

Today: Density - Float or Sink?

  1. Discuss Floating Logs
  2. Gizmo - Density Laboratory (green) - Complete and hand in.

In Google Classroom, use “Classwork” tab and LINK TO GIZMOS. For both username & password use kcs _ _ _ _ _

  1. Quizlet: Review Mass, Volume, Density (link in Google Classroom)

HW: Complete the green Gizmo - due Monday. Practice Quizlet.

Test next week: Mass, Volume, Density

Agenda for Thursday, February 21, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Pass back papers. *Get out HW - Gold Density of Water. Get your SciNotebook. Miss the density quiz on Tuesday?

Today: Sink or Float?

  1. Discussion: Density of Water - Ask questions. Review/revise gold Lab Activity-Density of Water. Staple extra notebook paper to gold paper as needed. Hand in to Rack to be graded.
  2. Green Gizmo - Density Laboratory - Go to “Classwork” in Google Classroom - LINK TO GIZMOS. Use kcs _ _ _ _ _ (ID)

HW: Complete PART 1 of Green Gizmo - Density Laboratory → Next week - Test over Mass, Volume, and Density.

Agenda for Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Pass out papers. Prepare for today’s quiz - Calculate density: get out paper, pencil, calculator

Today: What is the density of water? Will objects rise or sink?

  1. GC - Quiz: Calculate Density - hand in scratch paper
  2. Complete gold lab activity - Density of Water. Hand in to Rack.
  3. GC - follow the link in “Classwork” to “LINK TO GIZMOS.” Both your username and password are kcs__ __ __ __ __ (your ID). Launch “Density Laboratory.”
  4. Green paper: Gizmos - Density Laboratory (most students did not get this far)

HW: Complete Gold Lab Activity: Density of Water - due Wed, Feb 20

Agenda for Friday, February 15, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Get out a calculator (online Desmos or hand-held). Sci Notebook - Friday Question: Calculate density. Get out your yellow homework (if not handed in Wed)

Today: Density of Water

  1. Review: Calculate density - SHOW EQUATION, SUBSTITUTION, AND ANSWER WITH UNITS. Hand in yellow homework.
  2. Gold Activity: Density of Water - With your lab team, calculate and graph the density of water. Complete with team & hand in.
  3. Optional: Density of other materials (Create table in SciNotebook)

HW: Short Quiz on Tuesday - Calculate Density

Agenda for Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. GC - Wednesday Question, get out your white handout: Density - the basics

Today: Practice calculating density

  1. Wednesday Question: How do you calculate density?
  2. SLIDES and correct white handout: Density - the basics
  3. 4.4 Online Practice: Calculate density (not for a grade)
  4. 4.5 Yellow Worksheet: Calculate density - SHOW YOUR FORMULA & SET-UPS. Complete and hand in to Rack.
  5. Extra practice: Textbook, p. 425 #9.

HW: Yellow Worksheet: Calculate Density - due Friday, Quiz Tues

Agenda for Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. GC - Tuesday Question. Have your homework available.

Today: Calculate Density

  1. Define density
  2. SLIDES: Density - define and calculate. Calculate density.
    1. Go over homework in textbook, p. 422.
  3. Handout: Density - the basics (this is practice)

Homework: Complete the handout: Density - the basics

Agenda for Monday, February 11, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. GC - Monday Question: Density. Get out your Science Notebook - section on Density

Today: Define and Calculate Density

  1. Define density
  2. SciNotebook - SLIDES: Density - define and calculate
  3. Calculate Density - Textbook, p. 422
  4. Handout - Density Basics (practice only). Show your set-ups. Use the Desmos or hand-held calculator. Include units.

HW: Textbook, p. 422. Read and Calculate #15

Agenda for Friday, February 8, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Get out Pink Handout: 12 Bottles & SciNotebook - turn to page with “12 Bottles.”

Today: Introduction to Density

  1. Pink Handout & SciNotebook: 12 Bottles - Scientific writing (clear, complete, concise. Restate the question. No pronouns - “it” “they”. Explain everything with evidence.)
  2. Textbook - read pp. 421
  3. SLIDES: Density - Define and Calculate

HW: Missing assignments. Look for equal volumes with different mass.

Agenda for Thursday, February 7, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Prepare for today’s Quiz - get on Google Classroom, clear your desk, get calculator as needed.

Today: Mass and Volume - Introduce Density

  1. Quiz: Measure Volume. When finished, read ScienceWorld.
  2. Pink Investigation: 12 Bottles

SciNotebook: on the next clean page, write “12 Bottles”

Calculations and discussion

HW: None except missing assignments

Agenda for Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Pass out graded papers. Online Worksheet: Water Displacement due TODAY.

Today: Compare equal volumes of matter

  1. Questions about Blue Lab Activity - Water Displacement
  2. Review for Quiz tomorrow - volume of solids and liquids
  3. Pink Handout: Compare 12 bottles of matter

Do equal volumes of matter all have the same mass?

HW: Online Worksheet: Water Displacement due TODAY. Quiz Thurs - Volume of Solids and Liquids. Review Online Practice (graduated cylinder and water displacement), look over white review sheet.

Agenda for Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. GC - Link Quizlet: Measure Volume

Today: Measure Volume

  1. Questions/Challenges Water Displacement
  2. Blue Lab Activity: Explore Water Displacement - with your lab team, complete measurements and reflection. Hand in to Rack
  3. 3.6.4 Online Practice 3: Water Displacement (purple)
  4. 3.6.5 Online Worksheet: Water Displacement (red) - 9 pts, due Wed
  5. Handout - Review: Volume of solids and liquids - QUIZ Thurs

HW: 3.6.5 Online Worksheet due Wed, Practice Quizlet, Review - Quiz Thurs

Agenda for Monday, February 4, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Open your science notebook to water displacement. GC - Monday Question.

Today: Review and Explore Water Displacement

  1. Review Monday Question - matter, mass, and volume
  2. 3.6 SLIDES: Slides 15-22 (Review) and slide 23 (lab activity)
  3. GC - 3.6.1 Online Practice 1: Water Displacement (green)
  4. GC - 3.6.2 Online Practice 2: Water Displacement (gold)

Lab Activity: Explore Water Displacement (blue paper) - you may begin when 2 or more team members are ready. Finish tomorrow as needed.

HW: Repeat Online Practice 1 and 2 as needed.

Agenda for Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Getting Started: Science Notebook: on the next clean page write “Water Displacement.”

Open your textbook (book or online) to p. 420. Read silently.

Today: Volume of irregular objects

  1. Textbook (Science Fusion) - Read p. 420
  2. SciNotebook: 3.6 SLIDES: Water Displacement

3.6.1 Online Practice 1: Water displacement (green) - this is for practice only. You may retake as needed.

Agenda for Monday, January 28, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Get out homework - gold investigation (volume of hand)- if needed.

Today: Water Displacement

  1. Review gold investigation - volume of a hand. Hand in.
  2. Team presentations and discussion - volume of a hand

HW: Gold Paper due today. None, except missing assignments

Agenda for Friday, January 25, 2019 - 2-Hour Delay

Getting Started: Hand out gold science writing template.

Today: Review investigation

  1. Use the Scoring Guide (tan handout) to review your investigation. Share with team members to find small mistakes. Make corrections. Hand in for a grade (14 points)

Homework: gold science writing template if not finished today.

Agenda for Thursday, January 24, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. GC - prepare for quiz. Pass out gold Science Writing Template.

Today: Complete your investigation - volume of a hand

  1. GC - Quiz: Read a Graduated cylinder
  2. Gold Science Writing Template - With your lab team, complete the step-by-step procedure, results (labeled data table), claim, evidence, reasoning, and reflection
  3. Claim (sample sentence frame): Based on my results, I claim that the process of _________, then ____________, then ___________ will / or will not effectively measure the volume of a hand.

HW: complete your science writing template - due tomorrow (Fri)

Agenda for Wednesday, January 23, 2018

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Get out SciNotebook. Pass back gold Science Writing Template.

Today: Design your Investigation - Volume of a Hand

  1. SciNotebook: Complete exploration of your lab resources
  2. Gold Science Writing Template: Using your design, complete your testable question, step-by-step procedure, data collection of 2 or more hands.
  3. Turn in your gold science writing template (so you don’t lose it)

HW: Quiz tomorrow - Read a graduated cylinder

Agenda for Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. GC - Tuesday Question

Today: Design an investigation (beginning)

  1. Review the Tuesday Question: Potatoes in Soup
  2. Complete SLIDES: mL & cm3, Crow & Pitcher, Investigation
  3. Gold Science Writing Template - Complete beginning thoughts
  4. SciNotebook - Ideas: Volume of a Hand. Test out your initial ideas for your investigation
  5. Begin to complete the gold Science Writing Template.

HW: Quiz Thurs - Graduated Cylinders, review practice

Agenda for Friday, January 18, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Per 1,6,7,8 - SciNotebook - At the top of the page write “Graduated Cylinder.” Create a data table identifying the size of grad. cylinder, interval, and volume measured.

Today: Volumes of Solids and Liquids

  1. 3.4.3 Online Worksheet: Read a Graduated Cylinder (yellow)
  2. Lab Practice: Irregular intervals (periods 1,6,7,8)
  3. SciNotebook & 3.5 SLIDES - mL and cm3, Crow and Pitcher

HW: Shovel a driveway and sidewalk. Play in the snow. Play board games with others. No school on Monday - Martin Luther King day

Agenda for Thursday, January 17, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. SciNotebook - At the top of the page write “Graduated Cylinder.” Create a data table identifying the size of graduated cylinder, interval (mL), and volume (mL) measured.

Today: Use a graduated cylinder to measure volume

  1. Periods 1,6,7,8 - Lab Practice with 50 mL and 100 mL grad cyl
  2. 3.4 SLIDES: Read a Graduated Cylinder
  3. 3.4.2 Online Practice 2 (orange): Read a graduated Cylinder
  4. Periods 3 & 5: Lab Practice with 25 mL and 10 mL grad cylinder. Record your data in a labeled data table.

HW: complete 3.4.2 Online Practice 2 (orange). Also review 3.4.1 Online Practice 1 (red). Both of these can be repeated.

Agenda for Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 2 Hour delay

Getting Started: GC - Wednesday Question. Pass out papers.

Today: Measure the volume of water with graduated cylinders

  1. GC - Online Practice 1 (red):Read a Graduated Cylinder.
  2. 3.4 SLIDES: Read a Graduated Cylinder - Procedure & Safety
  3. Lab Practice: Graduated Cylinders. SciNotebook: On the next clean page, write “Graduated Cylinders” at the top. Create a data table labeled for graduated cylinder, interval, volume (mL). Practice measuring water. Record your data.

HW: Practice online practice: graduated cylinders

Agenda for Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Getting Started: Hand in white Worksheet: Volume of a Box (if you did not hand it in Mon), GC - Tuesday Question. SciNotebook: Skip a page. Write Volume at the top of the page.

Today: Volume of Liquids with Graduated Cylinders

  1. Review: volume
  2. SciNotebook & 3.4 SLIDES: Read a Graduated Cylinder

*scale, interval, meniscus

  1. 3.4.1 Online Practice 1(red): Read a Graduated Cylinder

HW: none

Agenda for Monday, January 14, 2019 - 2 Hour delay

Getting Started: Planner-HW, GC - Monday question

Today: Volume - Review and Practice

  1. Review Monday Question
  2. Pink Investigation: Hand in today
  3. Complete 3.2 Worksheet (white): volume of a box - hand in
  4. Lab Practice: SciNotebook - measure the dimensions of boxes & calculate volume. Check your answers
  5. ScienceWorld magazine

HW: 3.2 Worksheet: Volume of a box - due Tuesday

Agenda for Friday, January 11, 2019

Getting Started: Get out Chromebook and clear desk for quiz.

Today: Matter has Mass and Volume

  1. Questions about Mass? Google Classroom - Quiz: Mass
  2. Pink Investigation: Complete/share as needed.
  3. Textbook: pp 417-419, #9 and #11
  4. Worksheet: volume of boxes (this is not homework

HW: shovel someone’s sidewalk & driveway. Play in the snow.

Agenda for Thursday, January 10, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - HW. Pass back investigations. Extra help - read a triple beam balance.

Today: Volume

  1. Pink - Investigation: How Much Space? Challenges? Work with your lab team to complete information about volume. Whiteboard - present results of either part 2 or 4.
  2. Textbook (ScienceFusion) -

p. 417 Read and complete #9

p. 418 Read and look at example, p. 419 complete #11

HW: Quiz Fri - Mass. Textbook read pp. 417-419, #9 and #11.

Agenda for Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Getting Started: Planner - write HW. GC - 2.1.5 Online Review - Measure Mass (this is for practice)

Today: Measure volume of regular objects

  1. Go over Online Review. Quiz Friday: mass and weight
  2. Pink - Investigation: How Much Space? Work with your lab team to complete the paper about volume.

HW: Quiz Friday: Mass and Weight. For help, review 2.1 SLIDES: MEASURE MASS posted in GC.

Agenda for Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Getting Started: New Seating Chart. Planner - No HW.

GC - Tuesday Question: Review Mass

Today: Review Rules and Mass

  1. Review Tuesday Question
  2. SLIDES - Review Science Classroom procedures
  3. Science Notebook - Practice - Use the Triple Beam Balance to Measure Mass

Homework: none. Bring your textbook tomorrow.