Caution: 7th grade scientists in the making!
All lessons are based off of the Ohio's New Learning Science Standards: http://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Ohios-Learning-Standards/Science/ScienceStandards.pdf.aspx
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." - Rachel Carson
March 16- May 1st - No School
All students will receive emails each week to answer!
Students, please see information that was distributed via email to you and your parents.
Week 28
Monday, March 9, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- folder checks, makeup quiz tests
2) Begin Chapter 12- Water!
3) Quizlet
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Why is water important?
2) Gizmo: The Water Cycle
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
1) Bell Ringer-
2) Lesson 2: Surface Water
Thursday, March 12, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) The Water Debate
Friday, March 13, 2020- No school- staff inservice - END OF THE NINE WEEKS!
Week 27
Monday, March 2, 2020
1) Bell Ringer - Organize folders
2) Quizlet
3) Open note quiz- "Sound"
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- go over yesterday's quiz
2) Electromagnetism-
a- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMnsZuEE_m8
b- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy6kba3A8vY
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Review Electromagnetism
2) Chapter 8 Review
Thursday, March 5, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Quizlet, organize notes
2) Chapter 8 TEST
Friday, March 6, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Makeup test/ assignments
3) Folder Check #2
Week 26
Monday, February 28, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Waves Assignment
3) Quiz Re-takes
Tuesday, February 27, 2020
1) Bell ringer- Quizlet Chapter 8 , Lesson 2 Live
2) Class read: Chapter 8, Lesson 3: The Nature of Sound
3) How does your "voice box" work- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgAQTMgZ6g
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Quizlet live
3) LAB: An alternative way of communicating
Thursday, February 27, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Review terms
2) Review and Reinforce- Lesson 3 "The properties of sound"
3) How old are your ears? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxcbppCX6Rk
Friday, February 28, 2020- SNOW DAY #2
1) Bell Ringer - Organize folders
2) Quizlet
3) Open note quiz- "Sound"
Week 25
Monday, February 17, 2020- No school, President's Day
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Quick Review Lesson 1- Types of waves- slinky and rope
2)Class Read: Chapter 8 Lesson 2: Properties of waves
3) Graphic organizer
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- get out notes from last week
2) Notes- Powerpoint continued from last week
3) Review and Reinforce
Thursday, February 20, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- go over R & R
2) Vocabulary practice- Color by number Waves
Friday, February 21, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Quiz, Chapter 8 Lesson 2: Properties of waves
Week 24
Monday, February 10, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Folder Check #1
3) Missing work
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Electrical Energy Outages
3) Begin Chapter 8 Waves
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Teacher Demo- What causes mechanical waves?
3) Notes- Chapter 8- What are Waves?
Thursday, February 13, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Review and Reinforce
2) Gizmo: Types of Waves
3) Quizlet! REVIEW! Quiz tomorrow
Friday, February 14, 2020- Happy Valentine's Day!
1) Bell Ringer
2) Chapter 8, Lesson 1 Quiz
Week 23
Monday, February 3, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) LAB 290!
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- 15minutes to go through packet
2) Organize Notes from Chapter 7, Test Thursday!
3) Quizlet Chapter 7
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Chapter 7 Review
Thursday, February 6, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Chapter 7 TEST- Electricity
Friday, February 7, 2020- SNOW DAY #1
1) Bell Ringer
2) Folder Check
3) Makeup assignments- tests and quizzes
Week 22
Monday, January 27, 2020
1) Bell Ringer-
2) Finish Chapter 7, Lesson 3 Reading- Choral reading
3) Practice Ohm's law
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Ohm's Law- re-read 246-247
2) Open circuit vs. Closed circuit
3) Parallel vs Series Circuits- practice Drawing!
4) Review vocabulary terms- makeup quizzes
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Parallel vs Series Circuits- go over from yesterday
2) Practice Circuits Gizmo
3) Discuss tomorrow's lab!
Thursday, January 30, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Chapter 7 vocab terms
2) Lab 290!
Friday, January 31, 2020- No School, Flu Day
1) Bell Ringer
2) LAB 290!
Week 21
Monday, January 20, 2020- No school, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Chalk talk, review charges!- go over forms of energy assignment
( an object cannot use more energy than what it had stored)
2) Read Chapter 7, Lesson 2: Electric Current
Wednesday, January 22
1) Bell Ringer- go over last week's "Charge detective" assignment
2) Vocabulary practice- NOTES!!
3) Rehearsal
Thursday, January 23
1) Bell Ringer- Quick Review of Notes
2) Review Chapter 7 Lesson 2: Quiz tomorrow!
Friday, January 24, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- turn in assignment from yesterday- get out your notes- discuss resistance
2) Voltage video- https://www.khanacademy.org/science/electrical-engineering/introduction-to-ee/intro-to-ee/v/ee-voltage-intuition
3) Chapter 7 Lesson 2 Quiz
4) Class read: Chapter 7, Lesson 3- Electric Circuits
Week 20
Monday, January 13, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Review the different forms of energy
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Begin Chapter 7: Electricity
3) Review and Reinforce
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- go over R&R, discuss missing assignments!
2) Finish Reading 232-233
3) Static Electricity: "How charges work" reading
Thursday, January 16, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- go over assignments from yesterday
2) Review Chapter 7 Lesson 1: Quiz tomorrow!
Friday, January 17, 2020- sub
1) Bell Ringer
2) Chapter 7, Lesson 1 Quiz
3) Electricity Crossword
4) Work on missing assignments, read AR, work on homework
Week 19
Monday January 6, 2020- Inservice Day
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- What is Energy?
2) Intro to the forms of Energy!
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- Name that Energy! Back of your notes from yesterday
2) Bill Nye- What is Energy?
Thursday, January 9, 2020
1) Bell Ringer- complete back of Bill Nye assignment from yesterday
2) Pass back graded notes
3) Review the forms of Energy
4) Homework..... STUDY! Quiz tomorrow!
Friday, January 10, 2020
1) Bell Ringer
2) Forms of Energy QUIZ
Week 18
Monday, December 16, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) REVIEW DAY- STUDY CHAPTER 6
TEST TOMORROW!
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
CHAPTER 6 TEST!
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Makeup work- Students must complete and turn in missing assignments before leaving for break TODAY!
Thursday, December 19, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Holiday fun!
Friday, December 20, 2019- 2 hour early release
1) Holiday fun! PBIS Reward from 8-9
WINTER BREAK! Dec 21-January 6- school resumes January 7
Happy Holidays!
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr
Week 17
Monday, December 9, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Chapter 6 Lessons 1 & 2- Graphic Organizer
3) Quizlet- STUDY! QUIZ TOMORROW!
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Chapter 6 Lessons 1 & 2 Quiz
3) Fahrenheit vs Celsius, why do we use fahrenheit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TV6JFxMEcI
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Class read- Thermal Properties
3) Open Book Quiz Chapter 6 Lesson 3
Thursday, December 12, 2019
1) Bell Ringer - Conductors vs insulators
2) Discuss Quiz retakes for today
3) NewsELA Assignment
4) GET YOUR FOLDERS READY! CHECK #2 TOMORROW!
Friday, December 13, 2019
1)Bell Ringer- Go over Lesson Quizzes 1, 2, 3- TALK ABOUT SPECIFIC HEAT
2) Folder Check #2
3) Crossword- THERMAL ENERGY
4) Makeup work- quizzes and tests from Thanksgiving Break
Week 16
Monday, December 2, 2019- NO school
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Begin Chapter 6: Thermal Energy and Heat
3) Enrichment: Converting temperatures
4) Homework- Review and Reinforce
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Review and Reinforce- go over as a class and turn in!
2) Chapter 6, Lesson 2: The transfer of heat
3) Mini lab- How cold is the water?
4) Review and Reinforce
Thursday, December 5, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Chalk Talk- quick review "How cold is the water?"
2) Gizmo: Heat transfer by Conduction
3) Exit Survey
4) STUDY! Chapter 6, Lessons 1 and 2 quiz tomorrow!
Friday, December 6, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Chapter 6, Lessons 1 and 2 - NOTES!
Week 15
Monday, November 25, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Chalk Talk- quick review
2) Fossil Fuels Review
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- STUDY!
2) Fossil fuels TEST
Wednesday, November 27, 2019- 2 hour early release- Thanksgiving Break
1) Makeup work day if you're missing assignments for any class
2) FUN DAYYYY!! Decorate the hall :)
Thursday, Friday, Monday 12/2 - NO SCHOOL- Enjoy time with your loved ones! Be thankful!
Week 14
Monday, November 18, 2019
1) Bell ringer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIXZGJ4QF9E
2)Acid Rain- "The Effects of Acid Rain" assignment
3) Go over as a class
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Pass back papers!- go over pH lab, discuss over what you can do to prevent air pollution
2) Review Assignment- pH, Acids and Bases, Acid Rain- use your book, or chromebook
3) STUDY! Chapter 11 Test tomorrow!
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
CHAPTER 11 TEST!
Thursday, November 21, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Grab a notes packet- What is the law of conservation of energy? Where does energy come from?
2) Introduction to....FOSSIL FUELS! Day 1
3) Quizlet
Friday, November 22, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Continue FOSSIL FUELS- Day 2
3) Place based learning- Where is coal mined in Ohio?!
Week 13
Monday, November 11, 2019- Veteran's Day, No school
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- open your books to page 416
2) Quick Refresh: Dilute vs. Concentrated solutions pg 409 - Teacher Demo
3) Introduction to Acids and Bases-
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- open your books to page 420- go over what we filled in
2) Graphic Organzier- Notes as a class
3) Gizmo practice- Mystery Powder Lab
Thursday, November 14, 2019
1) Bell ringer- Crash course kids, intro to pH- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANi709MYnWg&t=3s
2) Open Note Quiz over Acids and Bases
3) What is the pH scale?- show screenshot picture
4) LAB Prep
Friday, November 15, 2019- Interim reports
1) pH LAB!
Week 12
Monday, November 4, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- on the board: Solutions, Colloids, Suspensions
2) Review and Reinforce
3) Discuss types of Mixtures/ Quizlet, Kahoot- QUIZ TOMORROW!
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- study Quizlet!
2) Chapter 11, Lesson 1 Quiz: Types of mixtures
3) FOLDER CHECK #1
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) NewsELA Workshop!
Thursday, November 7, 2019- 2 hour early release, Parent/Teacher conferences
1) Bell Ringer
2) Class read: Page 408-413
3) Fill in pages 414-415
Friday, November 8, 2019- NO SCHOOL. Parent/Teacher conferences
Week 11
Monday, October 28, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Quizlet Chapter 11
2) Begin Chapter 11: Understanding Solutions
3) Crash course kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN4KifV12DA
4) Chapter 11 Quizlet
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
1) Bell Ringer: Vocab...."A solution is a ......"
2) Graphic Organizer: What are solutions, solutes and solvents?
3) Review
4) Lab Prep
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
1) LAB: Scattered light
2) Stations: What did you get? Why?
Thursday, October 31, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Kahoot
3) The Science of Frankenstein
Friday, November 1, 2019
1) Stations: What did you get? Why?
2) NewsELA Friday
Week 10
Monday, October 21, 2019- No School, Inservice day
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Review- the importance of valence electrons
3) Pass back graded assignments
4) Practice Gizmo
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- get out chromebooks
2) Gizmo! Element Builder
Thursday, October 24, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- get out chromebooks
2) Gizmo! Element Builder
3) Google Survey
Friday, October 25, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Complete Gizmo if not finished in class
3) Lewis Dot Wars
Week 9
Monday, October 14, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Go over Test Questions and answers
3) Begin Chapter 1: Bonding and Chemical Reactions
4) Read pages 348-349
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- go over as a class, turn in!
2) Read pages 351-353- fill in
3) Lewis dot structure war!
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Lewis Dot Assignment- turn in for a grade!
3) Lewis Dot wars
Thursday, October 17, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Review and Reinforce
3) Quizlet live
Friday, October 18, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Lewis dot structure review
Week 8
Monday, October 7, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Review- metals, nonmetals, metalloids
2) Element Research- turn in for a quiz grade!
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Review Day- Chapter 9 Test THURSDAY!
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Quizlet Chapter 9, Lesson 2 & 3
2) Review day- Chapter 9 Test THURSDAY!
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Bell Ringer- Quick Review
CHAPTER 9 TEST
Friday, October 11, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Folder check
Week 7
Monday, September 30, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- grab a chromebook, get onto quizlet! Chapter 9, lesson 2
2) Quick refresh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSyAehMdpyI
WHAT ARE LANTHANIDES AND ACTINIDES?
3) Review and Reinforce- Metals
4) Kahoot/ Quizlet- Quiz tomorrow! Chapter 9, Lesson 2: METALS
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Quizlet/ Quizizz
4) QUIZ: Chapter 9, Lesson 2
5) makeup work
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Begin Chapter 9, Lesson 3: Nonmetals and Metalloids
3) Quiz practice!
Thursday, October 3, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- compare and contrast metals to nonmetals
2) Continue Chapter 9, Lesson 3
Friday, October 4, 2019
1) Bell ringer
2) Missing work day!
Week 6
Monday, September 23, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Quick review, What is the periodic table?
2) The periodic table of elements
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
1)BELL RINGER: WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE?
2) What is the Climate Summit that's held in NYC
3) An important FACT about how your earth is changing :(
4) QUIZ REVIEW for tomorrow!!! Parts of an atom, reading the periodic table
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
1) Quiz, Chapter 1: Lesson 1
2) Chemical vs Physical Properties and Changes
Thursday, September 26, 2019
1) Begin Lesson 2: Metals! 320-323
2) Quizlet
Friday, September 27, 2019
1) Continue Lesson 2: Metals 323-327
2) Quizlet
Week 5
Monday, September 16, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- observation vs inference
2) REVIEW DAY!
3) STUDY- Chapter 1, Lessons 1 & 3 TEST tomorrow!
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
1)Bell Ringer- Quizlet
2) Chapter 1 TEST
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- What is the periodic table? Pass back papers
2) Begin Chapter 9 "The Periodic Table"
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRVV4Diomg
4) Edit notes, organize folder
Thursday, September 19, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Continue Lesson 1- pages 315-319
3) Edit notes- Turn in!
4) organize folder
5) Alkali Metals- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixxJtJPVXk
Friday, September 20, 2019
1) Bell Ringer
2) Periodic Table Practice- Turn in!
3) Folder Check #1
4)MAKEUP WORK
Week 4
Monday, September 9, 2019
1) Bell ringer
2) Review and Reinforce- Chapter 1, Lesson 3
3) Go over IV and DV assignment from last week
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Quick Review
2) Bubbles LAB 290
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
1) Bell Ringer- Google form
2)Double Check that Bubbles LAB is complete and turned in!
3) Review Google form
Thursday, September 12, 2019- No School- Staff Inservice
Friday, September 13, 2019- No School
Week 3
Monday, September 2, 2019- NO SCHOOL- Labor Day
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Bell Ringer- What is....
1) Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Scientific Inquiry
2) Quizlet: Chapter 1, Lesson 3- Makup QUIZ if absent last Friday
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
1) Independent (manipulated) vs Dependent (responding) variables- Review
2) Independent vs Dependent variables worksheet- TAKE NOTES ON THE BACK TO HELP YOU!
3) Gizmo: Growing plants- practice
Thursday, September 5, 2019
1) LAB- Gizmo: Growing plants
Friday, September 6, 2019
1) Pass Back papers- put in science folder!
2) Go over IV and DV worksheet that was graded. Discuss correct answers
3) SLO makeup test
Week 2
Monday, August 26, 2019
Bell ringer- turn in syllabus
Intro to 7th grade science- Science in the Natural World
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Bell Ringer- complete yesterday's assignment, edit sentences and turn into the tray
SLO
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Bell ringer- What's the difference between an observation and an inference?
Read as a class pages 9-11
Quizlet- quizlet live if time!
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Bell ringer- Review and Reinforce- Science and the Natural World - 10 minutes
Quiz Review for tomorrow- STUDY, Chapter 1, Lesson 1
Friday, August 30, 2019
Edcite Quiz- Chapter 1, Lesson 1- Science and the Natural world
NewsELA
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Friday, August 23, 2019
Hope you enjoyed your first week of school!