1st Quarter

8/12  Introductions, Attendance, Seating Chart, Equity Survey,  Mr. Monroe's Websites: Mr Monroe's Agenda, Mr Monroe's Google Classroom, Lab Safety, Earthquake (Drop, Cover, Hold) & Fire Drills (B-7 Blacktop) HW: Science Lab Safety Contract and Website & Google Classroom Acknowledgement signatures 

Google Classroom Codes:  Period 1 - s7jw5m7           Period 3 - od6albx           Period 4: yx26sr7           Period 5 - pbtzg4n           Period 6 - 5mnuxyl

8/13 Collect Science Lab Safety Contract and Website & Google Classroom Acknowledgement signatures, Read & Watch: The Lorax, The Lorax Analysis, You Tube: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax 

8/16 SEL Day 1, Project Alert #1 Introduction to Project ALERT

8/17 SEL Day 1 Skit Info & SEL #2, Project Alert # 2 Consequences of Cigarettes,* Vaping, and Marijuana

8/18  SEL Day 1 Skit Info & SEL #2, Project Alert # 2 Consequences of Cigarettes,* Vaping, and Marijuana

8/19 Project Alert Review Day 1 Drug IQ, Finish #2 video & Do #3 Drinking Consequences and Alternatives    

8/20 Project Alert #4 Introduction to Pressures  & #5 Social Pressures to Use Drug                                                                                            No Prep  

8/23 Project Alert # 6 Resisting Internal and External Pressures to Use Drugs & #7 Practicing Resistance Skills

8/24 Project Alert Review # 5 Interviews, Review #6 Scenarios, Do #8 Prescription Opioids and Heroin

8/25 Project Alert # 9 Review and Practice Resistance Techniques, #10 Smoking and Vaping Cessation & # 11 Benefits of Not Using Drugs

8/26 Project Alert # 9 Review and Practice Resistance Techniques, #10 Smoking and Vaping Cessation & # 11 Benefits of Not Using Drugs, National Institute for Drug Abuse, Project Alert Survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALERT-TPT 

8/27 Revisit The Lorax, Sammartano:Is Covid Healing the Earth?, Power of 10, Brain Pop: Metric System, CK12 Metric Unit Conversion, Sliding Scale:Cell Size & Scale, Lab: Candle Observation (*see Google Classroom if possible?) HW: Lab Journal Paragraph

HW: Google Classroom: Read Science Ideas & Concepts: Formatting & Annotating the Text - The Scientific Method (Measurement, Vocabulary & Scientific Checklist),  Metric System & Conversion, Claim - Evidence Reasoning (Cl-Ev-R), Engineering Design Cycle, NGSS 3D - Science & Engineering Practices/Cross-Cutting Concepts/Disciplinary Core Ideas, Enery Types & Heat Transfer, Annotating the Text

8/30 Neil Tyson DeGrauss - Star Video, Brain Pop: Periodic Table of Elements, Periodic Table Song, Brain Pop: Electromagnetic Spectrum, NASA:The Electromagnetic Spectrum Lab Journal: Electromagnetic Spectrum & Periodic Table HW: What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?, NASA Difference Between Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections 

8/31 Big Idea 3: Earth's Systems Interact, Crash Course Kids:Four Spheres Part 1 (Geo and Bio) 6.1  Crash Course Kids:Four Spheres Part 2 (Hydro and Atmo) 6.2, What is the Critical Zone?, Pedosphere How Soil Is Formed?, NASA Science Casts: Earth's Magnetosphere, Read:Nat Geo:Earth Systems & ScienceLearn.org/Earth Systems, Earth's Spheres, Lab Journal: Earth's Main Spheres: Geosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Cryosphere, Biosphere, Magnetosphere HW: Earth's Main Spheres    No Prep 

9/1 Distribute Lab Journals and add assignments, Brain Pop: Heat, Temperature, Heat Transfer,  Brain Pop: Water Cycle, USGS Water Cycle, USGS:Water Cycle Interactive, Water Cycle Song, Begin the Water Cycle Model HW: Water Cycle Model 

9/2   Brain Pop: Forms of Energy, Cal Academy: Earth's Delicate Energy Balance, NSF (NBC): Water Cycle, Energy 101: Hydroelectric Power, USGS:Observing Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range (2001-2018) Lab Journal: Water Cycle Model & Questions HW: Lab Journal: Water Cycle Model & Questions 

9/3   SEL Activity,  Brain Pop: States of Matter & Matter Changing States, Read 3:1 States of Matter pgs 90-95 Review: SRQs 3:1, Join Mosa Mack: Lesson 1 Solve Animation States of Matter (vocabulary/questions/quiz) 

ADD Lab: Measuring Liquid Volume, Measuring Mass, Measuring Length & Distance

9/6 Labor Day - No School

9/7  SEL Activity,  Brain Pop: States of Matter & Matter Changing States, Read 3:1 States of Matter pgs 90-95 Review: SRQs 3:1, Join Mosa Mack: Lesson 1 Solve Animation States of Matter (vocabulary/questions/quiz)

9/8 Thermal Energy Ping Pong Ball Demo, Temperature Heat Transfer & Thermal Energy,  Read 3:2 Changes of State pgs 96-101, Read SRQs 3:2, Lab: Hand-Boilers, Mosa Mack: Lesson 1 Solve Phenomenon States of Matter, HW: finish Mosa Mack

9/9 Thermal Energy vs Temperature, Read:3:3 Gas Behavior pgs 103-11, Review: SRQs 3:3 questions & answers, Lab: Does Air Have Mass, Lab Journal Check, PhET:States of Matter:Basics - States & Phase Changes HW: Catch-Up on Mosa Mack Lesson #1 Solve Animation & Phenomenon or any missing assignments

9/10 Read States of Matter, Lab: CO2 Ice vs H2O Ice (video on GC), HW: finish Dry Ice Lab and catch-up on Lab Journal           No Prep 

9/13 Lab Journal Check, Dry Ice Lab Review (due tomorrow) Mosa Mack: Lesson #2 Lab States of Matter Steps 1-4, Step 3 Q1 video Brass Ball & Ring, Thermal Energy:Expansion & Thermal Energy:Contraction, Step 4 Question 2 video Can Crush, Sci Guys Can Crush, SS Sci:Can Crush, Finish you lab pack (pg 7) and Google Classroom Stream to finish lab on the Mosa Mack platform Steps 3 & 4.

9/14 Model Thermal Energy & Molecular Motion Food Color, Mosa Mack: Lesson #2 Lab States of Matter Steps 5-7, Step 5 Q1-11 video Water Beakers, Visible Atomic Motion In Hot and Cold Water, Step 5 Q13-16 video Butter Boats HW: Finish you lab pack (pg 15) and Google Classroom Stream to finish lab on the Mosa Mack platform Steps 5, 6 Final Conclusion & 7 Exit Ticket

9/15 Lab 360: Hot And Cold Water Science Experiment, Read: Thermal Energy & States of Matter, Read What Is Pressure? Lab Journal pg 8 Mosa Mack States of Matter Lab Models - draw & label all 4 MM Labs 1. Brass Ball & Ring, 2. Crushed Can, 3. Hot & Cold Water Particle Movement 4. Butter Boat, Lab Journal pg 9 Dry Ice Lab, Lab Model Kinetic Energy with PhET - States of Matter Basics & Phase Changes  HW: PhET Lab

9/16 Why Do Drinking Glasses Sweat?, Water vapor turns into liquid droplets when cooled:Condensation,Bill Nye Heat Clip, Read Chem4kids: States of Matter Overview - Evaporation, Model Hot Shower Cold Mirror,  Begin Project: States of Matter Comic Strip rough draft    HW: Project: States of Matter Comic Strip DUE 9/27 Period  3 & 4

9/17 Why Do Drinking Glasses Sweat?, Water vapor turns into liquid droplets when cooled:Condensation,Bill Nye Heat Clip, Read Chem4kids: States of Matter Overview - Evaporation, Model Hot Shower Cold Mirror,  Begin Project: States of Matter Comic Strip rough draft    HW: Project: States of Matter Comic Strip DUE 9/28 Period 5, 6 & 1

9/20  Demo Kinetic Energy Balls, Air Pressure Demo, Plasma: The 4th State of Matter, Atmospheric Phenomena - elves, sprites, tendrils, blue jets, Live Science: elves, sprites, ball lightning, blue jets, etc, Read EOS: Gamma Ray Flashes Read EOS: Have You Seen Ball Lightning? ReadChem4kids: States of Matter Plasma-Mixtures Ex, PhET: Gas Intro & Laws and Gas Properties, Read States of Matter: Plasma, Project: States of Matter Comic Strip  HW: Project: States of Matter Comic Strip  

9/21 Lab: Oobleck, Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids,  Project: States of Matter Comic Strip  Rough Drafts DUE, Google Classroom Read PH T2L1 State of Matter, Review Hot Shower & Cold Mirror &  PhET  Kinetic Energy Pressure & Temperature, HW: Project: States of Matter Comic Strip                                                                                                         No Prep

9/22 Autumnal Equinox CAS: Why Do We Have Different Seasons?  Notes Changes Between States Stairs & Notes, Read: Role of Energy in Changes of State, Add to Lab Journal: Hot Shower Effect (Cold Mirror) pg 10, Oobleck Lab pg 11, Notes Changes Between States Stairs pgs 12-13, Project: States of Matter Comic Strip ,  Read PH T2L2 Change of State  HW: Project: States of Matter Comic Strip   

9/23 Read PH T2L3 Gas Behavior, Review Mosa Mack States of Matter  for Test, Legends of Learning: Effects of Temperature and Pressure on States of Matter, Merlin's Tower, No Pressure, Joules Lab, Building a Racecar in a Dungeon, Friction, Read Internet Apocalypse could ride to Earth with the next Solar Storm

HW: Project: States of Matter Comic Strip 

9/24 Periods 3, 4 & 5 Mosa Mack Summative Assessment Test: States of Matter HW: Project: States of Matter Comic Strip 

9/27 Periods 6 & 1 Mosa Mack Summative Assessment Test: States of Matter, HW: Project: States of Matter Comic Strip  OR  Periods  3 & 4 States of Matter Comic Strip Walk-About , WISE: TIPS Inventory Fall - access code: Dodo027 wise.berkeley.edu 

9/28 Period 5, 6 & 1 States of Matter Comic Strip Walk-About, WISE: TIPS Inventory Fall - access code: Dodo027 wise.berkeley.edu   HW: finish WISE

9/29 Hindenburg Disaster 1937, Brain Pop: Periodic Table, FA: Atoms & Cells, Mosa Mack: Lesson 1 Solve Phenomenon Atoms & Molecules HW: finish Mosa Mack: Lesson 1 Solve Phenomenon Atoms & Molecules

9/30 Brain Pop: Atoms & Atomic Model, Read PH T3L1:Atomic Theory, finish Mosa Mack: Lesson 1 Solve Phenomenon Atoms & Molecules HW: Read PH T3L2:Periodic Table & Notes Atoms & Matter                                                      No Prep 

10/1 Read Matter & Atoms and answer the 3 questions, Read Atoms and answer the 3 questions, HW: Mosa Mack: Lesson 1 Solve Animation Atoms & Molecules

10/4 Brain Pop: Ions & Isotopes,  Read PH T3L3: Bonding & Periodic Table, Read Chem 4 Kids: Atoms Overview, Structure, Orbitals, Electrons, Ions, Neutrons, Isotopes, Bonding, finish Mosa Mack: Solve Animation

10/5  FA:Is It Made of Molecules? Begin Mosa Mack: Lesson 2 Lab-Atoms & Molecules Steps 1-4

10/6 FA:Is It Made of Molecules? Begin Mosa Mack: Lesson 2 Lab-Atoms & Molecules Steps 1-4 

10/7 Notes Extended Structures, Read Chemical Bonds 1, Mosa Mack: Lesson 2 Lab--Atoms & Molecules Steps 5 HW: All atom models cut out and bring to class

10/8 Read PH T3L4: Types of Bonds, Mosa Mack: Lesson 2 Lab--Atoms & Molecules Step 6 (H2O & CO models) & Step 7 Exit Ticket  HW: Model: PhET: Isotopes and Atomic Mass and finish Mosa Mack Lab Atoms & Molecules

End of the 1st Quarter  

*Lab: Measuring Liquid Volume with a Graduated Cylinder

Extra *PBS Nova: Hunting the Elements 1:54 & Beyond the Elements: Reactions 53:00, Indestructible 53:00 & Life 53:00