6th Grade Science

2019-2020

Week of May 25

Focus question of the week: Which paper airplane design flies the farthest?

Use a family member, a book, or the internet to find different paper airplane designs. Make 4 different paper airplane designs and fly them to show which one flies the farthest. Remember a good controlled experiment will use multiple trials. Three tries for each plane.

Paper Airplane Design Link

Longest flying design search

Email me a picture or video of the best plane to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us Tell how far it flew.

Have a great summer!

Week of May 18:

This weeks learning

Week of May 11:

This is an answer from last weeks focus question.

To freeze a small amount of water during may put ice and salt into a cup and then putting water in another smaller cup and putting the small water cup inside the salt and ice cup. When you mix salt and ice the salt lowers the melting point of the ice making it a lot colder and then freezing the water. Since the ice gets colder the water transfers energy to the ice and the water loses energy causing it to freeze.

Ice Experiment setup video.

Freezing water video.

Any time there is a phase change or a change in the state of matter, energy is transferring. So when a solid melts and becomes a liquid, energy transfers into the solid and warms it up causing it to melt. When a liquid evaporates and becomes a gas, energy transfers into the liquid and warms it up causing it to evaporate. When a gas becomes a liquid (dew on the grass), energy is transferring out of the gas, cooling it, and causing it to condense on the grass. When a liquid becomes a solid (dew on the grass), energy is transferring out of the liquid, cooling it, and causing it to freeze. Sometimes a gas transfers energy fast enough that a gas becomes a solid (Frost). This process is called deposition. You can see this happen on the outside of the cup in the timelapse video. Sometimes a solid transfers energy away fast enough that a solid becomes a gas. (Dry ice). This process is called sublimation.

Phase change worksheet You cannot type on the page. It is a pdf. You will have to print and write on this paper, or number a paper 1-9 and write the answer from the diagram on that list and email it to me. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Watch online video “Hoar Frost video”

Week of May 4:

Do online activity "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases "

To view an online activity.

Log in to www.FOSSweb.com.

Username will be your school email. (example, firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us ) Password is the same as your computer login. Select “Chemical Interactions” module. If you need help logging in, email me. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Do Response Sheet 8 and email to Mr. Houck. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Focus Question of the week:

How can you freeze a small amount of water without a freezer during May? (Think ice cream)

Explain to me in an email how it could be accomplished or make a video or pictures that show the process.

Week of April 27:

Solubility review email answers to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Read "Rock Solid" on pages 89-100. Email answers to Think Questions to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

To read an assignment.

Log in to www.FOSSweb.com. Select Chemical Interactions

Username will be your school email. (example, firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us)

Password is the same as your computer login. If you need help logging in, email me.

trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Week of April 20:

Open this link and write answers on page. Science Lab sheet

Watch this video. Melting Lab video Complete the lab sheet before proceeding.

Watch this video Wax and Sugar video

Answer these questions about the video. Melting wax and sucrose questions

Week of Monday 4/13:

Read "Concentration" on pages 75-86.

To read an assignment.

Log in to www.FOSSweb.com.

Username will be your school email. (example, firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us)

Password is the same as your computer login. If you need help logging in, email me.

trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Answer questions on page 86 and email your answers to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Read "The Frog Story" on pages 87 and 88.

Week of April 6th

Monday 4/6: Read ”How Things Dissolve” on pages 64-73.

What is the difference between melting and dissolving? Answer this question in an email and send it to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us.

Review from fifth grade. Answer these questions.

1. What is a solution, solvent and solute?
2. If you make Kool-Aid, you make a solution. What is the solvent and what is the solute?
3. How would you make the Kool-Aid more concentrated?
4. How would you dilute the Kool-Aid if it is too concentrated?

Email your answers to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Week of 4/1:

Read “Engineering a Better Design” on pages 56-63.

To read an assignment.

Follow instructions on the link and record observations on the results sheet.

Dissolve Or Melt investigation,

DIssolve or Melt Results

Please email the results to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us.

Find three things that will dissolve in water and three things that will melt under certain conditions. Email me list of these things and tell me what the conditions are that cause the 3 things to melt. Email to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us.

Week of March 30.

Wednesday 4/1: Read “Engineering a Better Design” on pages 56-63.

Thursday 4/2: Follow instructions on the link and record observations on the results sheet.

Dissolve Or Melt investigation,

DIssolve or Melt Results sheet

Friday 4/3: Find three things that will dissolve in water and three things that will melt under certain conditions.

Email me list of these things and tell me what the conditions are that cause the 3 things to melt. Email to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Monday 4/6: Read ”How Things Dissolve” on pages 64-73.

To read an assignment.

Log in to www.FOSSweb.com.

Username will be your school email. (example, firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us)

Password is the same as your computer login. If you need help logging in, email me.

trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

What is the difference between melting and dissolving? Answer this question in an email and send it to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us.

Week of March 23-27.

Tuesday: Thermos Challenge.

Wednesday: Thermos Challenge revisions.

Thursday: Thermos Challenge revisions.

Friday: Thermos Challenge revisions.

Week of March 16-20.

Spring break

Wednesday: Dissolve or Melt? Notebook 41. Solubility, Notebook 42 .Discuss and remind students about mixtures and evaporating solutions. Watch online "Explore Dissolving." Read "How Things Dissolve."

Thursday: What happens at the particle level when a substance melts? Melt 3 materials. Answer Focus question.

Friday: Melting wax and sucrose experiment. Notebook 44, write about melting and freezing. Read "Rock Solid" on pages 52-58.

Week of March 9-13.

Monday and Tuesday: Discuss energy-transfer experiment. Calculate calories from transfers. Discuss results. Define Conservation of Energy and equilibrium. Answer Focus question. Do Notebook sheets 36 and 37 as homework.

Wednesday: Group test.

Thursday: Insulation investigation

Friday: Insulation investigation and Start Thermos revision..

Week of March 2-6.

Monday: Review mixing water experiment and kinetic energy. Introduce energy transfer. Have sense making discussion and Share energy transfer BIG ideas. Project online activity, "Thermometer".

Tuesday: Read "Energy on the Move." View online "Energy Flow" activity. Do Response Sheet - Investigation 5. Record vocabulary. Answer focus question 5.2.

Wednesday: Introduce heat and formula for how to calculate heat. Do notebook sheet Calculating Energy Transfer in Calories A an B as homework

Thursday: Dare Graduation.

Friday: Discuss energy-transfer experiment. Calculate calories from transfers. Discuss results. Define Conservation of Energy and equilibrium. Answer Focus question.

Week of February 24-28.

Monday: Fill out Study Guide

Tuesday: Quizizz review

Wednesday: Chemical Interactions Investigation 4 Test

Thursday: Review Test, Review kinetic energy, Introduce mixing hot and cold water experiment. Create investigation procedures. docs.google.com/document/d/1V4vwZZeDUmUp46ftupVRTwJ4OIIfdkf6a9QXroCF89c/edit

Friday: Do hot and cold water experiment. Analyze results. Record vocabulary and answer Focus question 5.1.

Week of February 17-21.

Monday: Finish air experiment. Do Vocabulary; contract, contraction, expand, expansion, and Kinetic energy. Do Focus Question 4.1.

Tuesday: Compare compression and contraction. Do Bottle experiment.

Wednesday: Finish page 25 bottle experiment. Read Pages 33-39, "Particles in Motion." Fill out Kinetic Energy Concept map.

Thursday: Do Response sheet 4, Vocabulary; temperature and thermometer and Focus Question 4.2.

Friday: Do solid expansion and contraction investigation. Sphere and Ring. Read pages 40-45. Do Focus question 4.3.

Week of February 10-14.

Monday: Fill out Study Guide

Tuesday: Kahoot

Wednesday: Test

Thursday: Snow Day

Friday: Review test. Do air investigation. See what happens when air heats up and cools.

Week of January 20-24

Monday: Share Mystery-Mixture Analysis, Introduce chemical reaction. Conduct two substance reactions to confirm. Evaporate liquids.

Tuesday: Review reactions, Observe Evaporation results, FOSSweb activity, Two-substance Reactions, Large scale demonstrations. Answer focus question. Record vocabulary.

Wednesday: Periodic Table - Focus question. Introduce the periodic table of elements. Notebook sheet 7 - Mystery-Mixture Elements.

Thursday: Explore the periodic table online. Read "Elements". Add to Glossary and the Focus Question any new learning.

Friday: Finish reading Periodic Table, What makes up all the substances on Earth? Food packaging.

Week of January 13-17

Monday: Mystery Material investigation, Focus Question.

Monday: Introduce white substances and vial labels, Fill out Notebook sheets 2 and 3. Observe white substances.

Tuesday: Develop a plan to test mixtures, Mystery-Mixture Analysis sheet 4. Test mixtures.

Wednesday: Share Mystery-Mixture Analysis, Introduce chemical reaction. Conduct two substance reactions to confirm. Evaporate liquids.

Thursday: Review reactions, Observe Evaporation results, FOSSweb activity, Two-substance Reactions, Large scale demonstrations. Answer focus question. Record vocabulary.

Friday: No School

Week of January 6-10.

Monday: Do Word Scramble.

Tuesday: Do Kit Activities.

Wednesday: Natural Resources worksheet

Thursday: Finish all Kit activities and Bring Back tomorrow.

Friday: Alliant Energy Program Posttest, Organize and Repair folders. Introduce the course- Chemical Interactions. Overview lab safety, especially wearing eye protection. Focus Question. Mystery mixture?

Week of January 3.

Friday: Alliant Energy Program Pretest and Introduction, Do signed permission slip.

Week of December 16-20.

Monday: Focus question: How do you know if something is living. Watch "Flu Attack!" Discuss viruses. Read "Viruses: Living or Nonliving?" 95-100 aloud. Fill out study guide.

Tuesday: Review for test. Kahoot

Wednesday: Diversity of Life posttest.

Thursday: Finish test

Friday: Review test - Jeopardy.

Week of December 9-13.

Monday: Icheck 7 Open Book and Open note test.

Tuesday: Review domains. Introduce the animal kingdom. Write Focus question. Discuss structure, function, and behavior. Look at Insect structures and Functions in Science resources. Introduce and observe hissing cockroaches. Do notebook sheet 61.

Wednesday: Discuss scientific drawings. Continue cockroach observations and describe antennae stimuli. Explore cockroach behaviors. Discuss findings. Review vocabulary and answer Focus question.

Thursday: Think about needs and recall levels of complexity. Focus question. Do online - Levels of complexity activity. Notebook sheet 64.

Friday: Discuss Biodiversity. Read "Biodiversity at Home and Abroad". Give study guide.

Week of December 2-6.

Monday: ICheck 6 Open Book and Open note test.

Tuesday: Discuss features, traits, genes and chromosomes. Watch Mendel video and discuss pea plants.

Wednesday: Introduce alleles, genotype, dominant, and recessive alleles. Draw and label Notebook 58. Watch mendel chapter 4 video. Answer Focus question and add vocabulary.

Thursday: Write Focus question. Intruduce Punnett squares. Use Punnett squares to predict stem length. Read "Mendel and Punnett Squares" pages 73-80.

Friday: Watch video: Genes and Heredity Chapters 5,6,8, and 9. Make hamster Punnett squares and Answer Focus question.

Week of November 25-29.

Monday: Investigation 6, part 3, Flowering-plant reproduction. Focus question, Speedy Flower Dissection, Notebook sheets 50 -52 and dissection cards.

Tuesday: Make seed observations, Notebook sheet 48. Finish Investigation 6, part 3, Start part 4. Flowers and pollinators. Focus questions.

Wednesday: Part 4: Answer pollinator focus questions.

Thursday: Thanksgiving

Friday: No School.

Week of November 18-22.

Monday: Go over I-check 5.

Tuesday: Lima bean dissection, Write focus question. Explain seed coat, embryo, and cotyledon. Draw and label observations and answer questions on notebook sheet 47. Answer focud

Wednesday: Flower dissection

Thursday: Investigation 6, part 3, Flowering-plant reproduction. Focus question, Speedy Flower Dissection, Notebook sheets 50 -52 and dissection cards.

Friday: Make seed observations, Notebook sheet 48. Finish Investigation 6, part 3, Start part 4. Flowers and pollinators. Focus questions.

Week of November 11-15.

Monday: Quick write about transpiration. Introduce transpiration. Online activity - "Plant Vascular System" Introduce and discuss multicellular levels of complexity. Focus Question? How do plants use water?

Tuesday: Read "Water Light, and Energy" Comprehension strategy, Underline important points, circle vocabulary words, and write any questions you have in the margin.

Wednesday: Discuss reading and review for the test. DIscuss the 3 processes: transpiration, photosynthesis, and aerobic cellular respiration.

Thursday: https://kahoot.it/challenge/0507358

PIN 0507358

Friday: I-check 5

Week of November 4-8.

Monday: Record celery results on Celery Investigation A sheet. Fill out Celery Investigation B sheet. DIscuss class results. Compare celery stalks. Add water and food coloring to vials. Performance assessment checklist.

Tuesday: Look at red water vials, DIscuss results. Look for water transport system. Focus Question, Xylem, Observe leaves and look for holes for water to get out.

Wednesday: Stomata observations, online resources, What is happening? Bag experiment. Response sheet-Investigation 5. Focus Question. Homework - Read "The Water-Conservation Problem"

Thursday: Quick write about transpiration. Introduce transpiration. Online activity - "Plant Vascular System" Introduce and discuss multicellular levels of complexity. Focus Question? How do plants use water?

Friday: No School

Week of October 28 - November 1.

Monday: Review and Kahoot review

Tuesday: I-check 4.

Wednesday: Correct I-check 4. Start celery experiment.

Thursday: Maker day

Friday:Revisit celery, Write down focus question. Measure 20 ml of water for celery experiment weigh celery initial celery mass.

Week of October 21-25.

Monday: Quick write fungi. Focus question: What evidence is there that fungus are living organisms? Inspect bread mold and mushroom spore prints. Sample Bread, and Mushrooms and discuss evidence of life.

Tuesday: Sample cheese, Show "Funky Fungi Freak Show" and Fungus slide show. Discuss evidence of life and add to sheet.

Wednesday: Review vocabulary . Answer Focus question. Discuss living and nonliving display. Go to www.FOSSweb.com Username - shhawks Password - hamilton View online "Itsy Bitsy Thinky Locator"

Thursday: BIg Question: Which are we like? Focus Question: What are the characteristics of archaea? Discuss Archaea cell structure. Introduce different archea. Online "Levels of Complexity Archaean Cell." View "Classification History."

Friday: Review Vocabulary. Answer the focus question. Answer the big question, Which of the three organisms are we like? Living/nonliving display. Review notebooks for the I-check.

Week of October 14-18.

Monday: Organize cards by size

Tuesday: Build a Pathway to a cell, Make fungus observations, review vocabulary, and answer Focus Question, Answer Response Sheet.

Wednesday: Observe agar plates and bread experiment. Focus question: What evidence is there that bacteria are living organisms? Sample foods. Observe “Levels of Complexity: Bacterial Cell”. Read “Bacteria around Us”.

Thursday: Make a million dots.

Friday: Read pages 36-43, " Harmful and Helpful Bacteria"

Week of October 7-11.

Monday:Discuss I-Check Investigations 1-3. When finished read “How Big Are Cells?”

Tuesday: Discuss bacteria, fungus, and archaea. Create growing mediums for these items. Inoculate growing mediums. Follow steps 1-11.

Wednesday: Teacher Inservice.

Thursday: Make Spore prints. Observe agar plate, Inspect bread, Review cells. Focus Question. What are the building blocks of cell structures?

Friday: Sort Levels of Complexity cards. Introduce units . Watch " The Scale of the Universe"

Week of September 30-October 4.

Monday and Tuesday: Review cells, Investigate human cheek cells/tissue. Look at "Levels of Complexity: animal cell". Read "Cells." Review "Evidence of life." Review for I-check Investigations 1-3.

Wednesday: Look at "Levels of Complexity: animal cell". Read "Cells."

Thursday: Review "Evidence of life." Review for I-check Investigations 1-3.

Friday: I-Check Investigations 1-3. When finished read “How Big Are Cells?”

Week of September 23-27.

Monday: Identify contractile and food vacuoles, asexual reproduction. Compare paramecium to elodea. Introduce single celled organisms. Distinguish between living and nonliving. Made of cells.

Tuesday: View "Levels of complexity: Protist Cell." Compare plant and protist cell structures. Answer Focus question. Vocabulary. Response sheet - Investigation 3.

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: Focus Question: Go on a mini-habitat safari. Conduct a scientific investigation Search for life. Discuss findings. Review vocabulary - Dormancy. Answer focus question. Homework research identified organisms.

Week of September 16-20.

Monday: Vocabulary magnification, magnify, power, scale. Review "Characteristics of Life." Focus Question "What evidence can we find that brine shrimp are living organisms?" Notebook Sheet 10. Start observations and Brine Shrimp sheet. Look at observations - Assesment. Orient students to yeast and then clean up slides.

Tuesday: Page 188, session 2.

Wednesday: Create brine shrimp wet mount after watching video. Look at shrimp under 4x time and 100x power. Assess microscope use, estimating size, and detailed drawing. Add dyed yeast and observe.

Thursday: Record evidence of life on teacher master k. Add notes on right hand page. Review big ideas we have learned so far. Respond to focus question.

Friday: Create paramecium wet slides with methyl cellulose and cover slip. Record observations and draw a paramecia. Discuss observations and Evidence of life.

Week of September 9-13.

Monday: 2.1.1 - 2.1.8 Introduce the microscope. Focus question. "How do objects appear when they are viewed through a microscope?" Describe how to carry and care for a microscope and microscope kits. Demonstrate preparing a wet mount and using microscopes.

Tuesday: 2.1.9 -2.1.15 Review microscope procedures. Record observations.

Wednesday: Follow steps 16-18 on pages 168 and 169. Answer the focus question in science notebooks. "How do objects appear when the are viewed through a microscope?" Review vocabulary. (1. compound microscope) (2. field of view) Read "The History of the Microscope" Create a simple timeline about the microscope.

Thursday: Turn in timelines, Follow steps 1-12. Focus Question: How can we estimate the size of an object by looking at it through a microscope. Use metric rulers to to estimate field of view at low power. Do same procedure for medium and high power. Add field of view measurements to drawings.

Friday: Revisit the letter e. Practice estimating size. Discuss responses. Do Response Sheet - Investigation 2, Return to size comparison images. Vocabulary magnification, magnify, power, scale. Answer Focus Question.

Week of September 2-6.

Monday: Labor Day

Tuesday: Observe unknown materials investigation, 1.2.16-19.

Wednesday:1.2.20-30 Make final observations, organize data, environments and definitions, Collect Environment sheets.

Thursday: Read "Characteristics of Life on Earth" 1.2.31-35.

Friday: 2.1.1 - 2.1.8 Introduce the microscope. Focus question. "How do objects appear when they are viewed through a microscope?" Describe how to carry and care for a microscope and microscope kits. Demonstrate preparing a wet mount and using microscopes.

Week of August 27-31.

Monday: Diversity of Life - Investigation 1.1, Steps 1-14. Focus question, Camphor Demonstration, Living/Nonliving Card Sort. Take picture of Sorting.

Tuesday: Start at 1.1.15 Cord Sorting Revisited, Characteristics of Organisms, Minihabitat introduction and creation, vocabulary / index. Focus question, Homework list 2 living things, 2 nonliving things, and one thing you are unsure about.

Wednesday: Discuss homework, Focus Question, Characteristics of All Life display, 1.2.6-15 Unknown materials investigation.

Thursday: Observe unknown materials investigation, 1.2.16-19.

Friday:1.2.20-30 Make final observations, organize data, environments and definitions, Collect Environment sheets.

Week of August 19-23.

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday: Back to School Night

Friday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various policies. Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations.

2018-2019

Week of April 8-12.

Monday:

Tuesday: Finish Rock solid. Answer Response Sheet - Investigation 8. Answer Focus question. Be sure to improve your answer with examples.

Wednesday: Freezing Water experiment. Notebook 53. Plan class freezer design. Try out freezer design.

Thursday: Test home freezer design. Change of phases experiments. Watch "Heat Frost." Discuss deposition and sublimation.

Friday: Icheck 8

Week of April 1-5.

Monday: Thermos design testing.

Tuesday: Thermos design challenge

Wednesday and Thursday: Dissolve or Melt? Notebook 41. Solubility, Notebook 42 . Separating mixtures and evaporating solutions. Observe evaporation results and Watch online "Explore Dissolving." Read "How Things Dissolve."

Friday: What happens at the particle level when a substance melts? Melt 3 materials. Answer Focus question.

Week of March 25-29.

Monday: Review test

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday: Insulation investigation

Friday: Thermos design Challenge.

Week of March 18-22.

Spring Break

Week of March 11-15.

Monday and Tuesday: Discuss energy-transfer experiment. Calculate calories from transfers. Discuss results. Define Conservation of Energy and equilibrium. Answer Focus question. Do Notebook sheets 36 and 37 as homework.

Wednesday: Review for Icheck 5

Thursday: DARE Graduation

Friday: I check 5

Week of March 4-8.

Monday: Conduct investigation. Discuss Investigation and explain how math can be used to figure the temperature out. Answer Focus question.

Tuesday: Review kinetic energy in hot and cold water. Discuss energy transfer big ideas. Online resource - Thermometer

Wednesday: Read "Energy on the Move," highlight important points on black and white copies,

Thursday: Discuss reading. Do online activity "Energy flow" Answer Response sheet Investigation 5.

Friday: FQ: How is heat measured? Figure out the equation for calculating heat, Do Notebook sheet 33 and 34.

Week of February 25 - March 1.

Monday: Snow Day

Tuesday: Review for test

Wednesday: Go over I check 4 test.

Thursday: Plan mixing hot and cold water experiment.

Friday: Finish plan for mixing hot and cold water experiment.

Week of February 18 - 22.

Monday: Answer Notebook sheet 18. Discuss water inquiry. Make a physical model for liquids. (use hands) Discuss how thermometers work. (Read "Particles in Motion" as homework)

Tuesday: Discuss "Particles in Motion." Answer Response sheet Investigation 4.

Wednesday: Solid expansion and contraction investigation. Answer focus question. Review I check.

Thursday: I check 4,

Friday:

Week of February 11-15.

Monday: Maker Day

Tuesday: No School

Wednesday: Experiment on what happens when air is heated and cooled.

Thursday: Finish Gas Expansion/Contraction Experiment. Answer Focus Question 4.1. Add vocabulary words.

Friday: Liquid Expansion/Contraction experiment.

Week of February 4-8.

Monday: Is Air matter investigation on page 232. Step 10. Read "Particles" on pages 24-27.

Tuesday: Particles of matter presentation. Read "Three Phases of Matter".

Wednesday: Review for I-check 3 test

Thursday: I-check 3 test

Friday: Experiment on what happens when air is heated and cooled.

Week of January 28 - February 1.

Monday: Capture the gas investigation

Tuesday: What is the gas we captured from our experiment? Focus Question: Is air matter?

Wednesday: Is Air matter investigation on page 231.

Thursday: Read "Particles" on pages 24-27.

Friday: Particles of matter presentation. Read "Three Phases of Matter".

Week of January 21-25.

Monday: Read "Substances on Earth" View "Element ID game." and Review for the I-check test.

Tuesday: I-check 2.

Wednesday: Review Icheck 2 test

Thursday: Capture the gas investigation

Friday: What is the gas we captured from our experiment? Focus Question: Is air matter?

Week of January 14-18.

Monday: Periodic Table - Focus question. Introduce the periodic table of elements. Notebook sheet 7 - Mystery-Mixture Elements.

Tuesday: Sewing 101

Wednesday: Explore the periodic table online. Read "Elements". Add to Glossary and the Focus Question any new learning.

Thursday: Finish reading Periodic Table, What makes up all the substances on Earth? Food packaging.

Friday: Finish food packaging activity.

Monday: Place elements on periodic table. Answer Response Sheet and Focus question.

Week of January 7-11.

Monday: Introduce white substances and vial labels, Fill out Notebook sheets 2 and 3. Observe white substances.

Tuesday: Develop a plan to test mixtures, Mystery-Mixture Analysis sheet 4. Test mixtures.

Wednesday: Share Mystery-Mixture Analysis, Introduce chemical reaction. Conduct two substance reactions to confirm. Evaporate liquids.

Thursday: Review reactions, Observe Evaporation results, FOSSweb activity, Two-substance Reactions, Large scale demonstrations. Answer focus question. Record vocabulary.

Friday: Answer focus question. Record vocabulary. Periodic Table - Focus question. Introduce the periodic table of elements. Notebook sheet 7 - Mystery-Mixture Elements.

Week of December 31 - January 4.

Monday: Vacation

Tuesday: New Years Day - No School

Wednesday: Teacher inservice - No School

Thursday: Organize and Repair folders. Introduce the course- Chemical Interactions. Overview lab safety, especially wearing eye protection. Hand out contract. Focus Question. Mystery mixture?

Friday: Mystery Material investigation, Focus Question.

Week of December 17-21.

Monday: Fill out study guide. Kahoot review.

Tuesday: Diversity of Life posttest.

Wednesday: Alliant Energy Program

Thursday: Alliant Energy Program

Friday: Alliant Energy Program and Jeopardy

Week of December 10-14.

Monday: Discuss scientific drawings. Continue cockroach observations and describe antennae stimuli. Explore cockroach behaviors. Discuss findings. Review vocabulary and answer Focus question.

Tuesday: Think about needs and recall levels of complexity. Focus question. Do online - Levels of complexity activity. Notebook sheet 64.

Wednesday: Think about needs and recall levels of complexity. Focus question. Do online - Levels of complexity activity. Notebook sheet 64. Discuss Biodiversity. Read "Biodiversity at Home and Abroad". Give study guide.

Thursday: Focus question: How do you know if something is living. Watch "Flu Attack!" Discuss viruses. Read "Viruses: Living or Nonliving?" 95-100 aloud. Fill out study guide.

Friday: Diversity of Life posttest.

Week of December 3-7.

Monday: Introduce alleles, genotype, dominant, and recessive alleles. Draw and label Notebook 58. Watch mendel chapter 4 video. Answer Focus question and add vocabulary.

Tuesday: Write Focus question. Intruduce Punnett squares. Use Punnett squares to predict stem length. Read "Mendel and Punnett Squares" pages 73-80.

Wednesday: Watch video: Genes and Heredity Chapters 5,6,8, and 9. Make hamster Punnett squares and Answer Focus question. Answer i-check together.

Thursday: Review domains. Introduce the animal kingdom. Write Focus question. Discuss structure, function, and behavior. Look at Insect structures and Functions in Science resources. Introduce and observe hissing cockroaches. Do notebook sheet 61.

Friday: Discuss scientific drawings. Continue cockroach observations and describe antennae stimuli. Explore cockroach behaviors. Discuss findings. Review vocabulary and answer Focus question.

Week of November 26-30.

Monday: Part 4: Answer pollinator focus questions.

Tuesday: Finish Part 4 and begin the I-check review.

Wednesday: Test Icheck 6

Thursday: Review Icheck 6

Friday: Discuss features, traits, genes and chromosomes. Watch Mendel video and discuss pea plants.

Week of November 19-23.

Monday: Make seed observations, Notebook sheet 48. Finish Investigation 6, part 3.

Tuesday: Read

Wednesday: Start part 4. Flowers and pollinators. Focus questions.

Week of November 12-16.

Monday: Lima bean dissection, Answer questions on notebook sheet 47. Answer Focus question. Review transpiration. Remember five material investigation. Focus question. Introduce seeds. Wheat, oats, barley, and corn.

Tuesday: Focus question. Introduce seeds. Wheat, oats, barley, and corn. Organize seed experiment for Saturday.

Wednesday: Investigation 6, part 3, Flowering-plant reproduction. Focus question, Speedy Flower Dissection, Notebook sheets 50 -52 and dissection cards.

Thursday:Make seed observations, Notebook sheet 48. Finish Investigation 6, part 3, Start part 4. Flowers and pollinators. Focus questions.

Friday: Makerspace

Week of October 15-19.

Monday: Observe agar plates and bread experiment. Focus question: What evidence is there that bacteria are living organisms? Sample foods. Observe “Levels of Complexity: Bacterial Cell”. Read “Bacteria around Us”.

Tuesday: Make a million dots.

Wednesday: Read pages 36-43, " Harmful and Helpful Bacteria"

Thursday: Quick write fungi. Focus question: What evidence is there that fungus are living organisms? Inspect bread mold and mushroom spore prints. Sample Bread, and Mushrooms and discuss evidence of life.

Friday: Sample cheese, Show "Funky Fungi Freak Show" and Fungus slide show. Discuss evidence of life and add to sheet.

Week of October 8-12.

Monday: Discuss bacteria, fungus, and archaea. Create growing mediums for these items. Inoculate growing mediums. Follow steps 1-11.

Tuesday: Make Spore prints. Observe agar plate, Inspect bread, Review cells. Focus Question. What are the building blocks of cell structures?

Wednesday: Inservice.

Thursday: Sort Levels of Complexity cards. Introduce units . Watch " The Scale of the Universe.

Friday: Organize cards by size. Build a Pathway to a cell, Make fungus observations, review vocabulary, and answer Focus Question, Answer Response Sheet.

Week of October 1-5.

Monday: Look at "Levels of Complexity: animal cell". Read "Cells."

Tuesday: Review "Evidence of life." Review for I-check Investigations 1-3.

Wednesday: I-Check Investigations 1-3. When finished read “How Big Are Cells?”

Thursday: Discuss bacteria, fungus, and archaea. Create growing mediums for these items. Inoculate growing mediums. Follow steps 1-11.

Friday: Make Spore prints. Observe agar plate, Inspect bread, Review cells. Focus Question. What are the building blocks of cell structures?

Week of September 24-28.

Monday: View "Levels of complexity: Protist Cell." Compare plant and protist cell structures. Answer Focus question. Vocabulary. Response sheet - Investigation 3.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Focus Question: Go on a mini-habitat safari. Conduct a scientific investigation Search for life. Discuss findings. Review vocabulary - Dormancy. Answer focus question. Homework research identified organisms.

Thursday and Friday: Review cells, Investigate human cheek cells/tissue. Look at "Levels of Complexity: animal cell". Read "Cells." Review "Evidence of life." Review for I-check Investigations 1-3.

Week of September 17-21.

Monday: Create paramecium wet slides with methyl cellulose and cover slip. Record observations and draw a paramecia. Discuss observations and Evidence of life.

Tuesday: Identify contractile and food vacuoles, asexual reproduction. Compare paramecium to elodea. Introduce single celled organisms. Distinguish between living and nonliving. Made of cells.

Wednesday: View "Levels of complexity: Protist Cell." Compare plant and protist cell structures. Answer Focus question. Vocabulary. Response sheet - Investigation 3.

Thursday: Elodea observation. Focus question "What microscopic structures make up organisms such as elodea? Create an elodea wet mount. Start elodea observation. Estimate cell size.

Friday: Present cell history and cell wall. View "Database: Elodea Cytoplasmic Streaming." Discuss chloroplasts and other things in slide. View "Levels of Complexity: Plant Cell" and Notebook sheet 12. Review vocabulary and add to index. Answer focus question. Fill out evidence of life sheet.

Week of September 10-14.

Monday: Revisit the letter e. Practice estimating size. Discuss responses. Do Response Sheet - Investigation 2, Return to size comparison images. Vocabulary magnification, magnify, power, scale. Answer Focus Question

Tuesday: Review "Characteristics of Life." Focus Question "What evidence can we find that brine shrimp are living organisms?" Notebook Sheet 10. Start observations and Brine Shrimp sheet. Look at observations - Assesment. Orient students to yeast and then clean up slides.

Wednesday: Page 188, session 2.

Thursday: Create brine shrimp wet mount after watching video. Look at shrimp under 4x time and 100x power. Assess microscope use, estimating size, and detailed drawing. Add dyed yeast and observe.

Friday: Record evidence of life on teacher master k. Add notes on right hand page. Review big ideas we have learned so far. Respond to focus question.

Week of September 3-7.

Monday: Labor Day

Tuesday: 2.1.1 - 2.1.8 Introduce the microscope. Focus question. "How do objects appear when they are viewed through a microscope?" Describe how to carry and care for a microscope and microscope kits. Demonstrate preparing a wet mount and using microscopes.

Wednesday: 2.1.9 -2.1.15 Review microscope procedures. Record observations. Answer focus questions. Project Virtual Microscope. Read "The History of the Microscope"

Thursday: Follow steps 16-18 on pages 168 and 169. Answer the focus question in science notebooks. "How do objects appear when the are viewed through a microscope?" Review vocabulary. (1. compound microscope) (2. field of view) Read "The History of the Microscope" Create a simple timeline about the microscope.

Friday: Turn in timelines, Follow steps 1-12. Focus Question: How can we estimate the size of an object by looking at it through a microscope. Use metric rulers to to estimate field of view at low power. Do same procedure for medium and high power. Add field of view measurements to drawings

Week of August 27-31.

Monday: Diversity of Life - Investigation 1.1, Steps 1-14. Focus question, Camphor Demonstration, Living/Nonliving Card Sort. Take picture of Sorting.

Tuesday: Start at 1.1.15 Cord Sorting Revisited, Characteristics of Organisms, Minihabitat introduction and creation, vocabulary / index. Focus question, Homework list 2 living things, 2 nonliving things, and one thing you are unsure about.

Wednesday: Discuss homework, Focus Question, Characteristics of All Life display, 1.2.6-15 Unknown materials investigation.

Thursday: Observe unknown materials investigation, 1.2.16-19.

Friday:1.2.20-30 Make final observations, organize data, environments and definitions, Collect Environment sheets.

Week of August 20-24.

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Back to School Night

Thursday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various policies. Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations.

Friday: Diversity of Life - Investigation 1.1, Steps 1-14. Focus question, Camphor Demonstration, Living/Nonliving Card Sort. Take picture of Sorting.

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Week of May 7-11.

Monday: Orienteering - Compass and map interaction.

Tuesday:

Week of April 30 - May 4.

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Ag Day - No Science

Thursday: Orienteering Basics - Vocabulary and basic uses.

Friday: Orienteering interactions - Basic uses outside- Shapes

Week of April 23-27.

Week of April 16-20.

Monday: Baking Soda and Acid experiment. Preview procedure and discuss safety. Conduct acid/soda reaction. Discuss notebook sheet and set up evaporation.

Tuesday: Check out evaporation results. Do response sheet Inv 9.

Wednesday: Snow Day

Thursday: Discuss conservation of matter - Investigation 10. Review for Chemical Interactions Final test.

Friday: Chemical Interactions Final test

Week of April 9-13.

Monday: Substance models, Atoms, elements, molecules, molecular compounds and ionic compounds.

Tuesday: Focus question 9.1 "Living Better Through Chemistry" and vocabulary.

Wednesday: Limewater reaction Experiment

Thursday: How atoms rearrange in a chemical reaction? Discussion. Vocabulary- reactant, product, burning, and precipitate.

Read "How Do Atoms Rearrange?"

Friday: DIscuss Limewater experiment and Model Volcanoes. Figure out the Reaction.

Week of April 2-6.

Monday: Melting wax and sucrose experiment. Notebook 44, write about melting and freezing. Read "Rock Solid" on pages 52-58.

Tuesday: Finish Rock solid. Answer Response Sheet - Investigation 8. Answer Focus question. Be sure to improve your answer with examples.

Wednesday: Freezing Water experiment. Notebook 53. Plan class freezer design. Try out freezer design.

Thursday: Test home freezer design. Change of phases experiments. Watch "Heat Frost." Discuss deposition and sublimation.

Friday: Icheck 8

Week of March 26-30.

Monday: Dissolve or Melt? Notebook 41

Tuesday: Solubility, Notebook 42 . Separating mixtures and evaporating solutions.

Wednesday: Observe evaporation results and Watch online "Explore Dissolving." Read "How Things Dissolve."

Thursday: What happens at the particle level when a substance melts? Melt 3 materials. Answer Focus question.

Friday: No School

Week of March 19-23.

Monday:

Week of March 12-16.

Spring Break

Week of March 5-9.

Monday: Calculate heat when mass and temperature change are known. Do worksheet 33 and 34.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Discuss energy-transfer experiment. Calculate calories from transfers. Discuss results. Define Conservation of Energy and equilibrium. Answer Focus question. Do Notebook sheets 36 and 37 as homework.

Thursday: Review for Icheck 5

Friday: I check 5

Week of February 26 - March 2.

Monday: FInish Planning hot and cold water experiment. Conduct investigation. Discuss Investigation and explain how math can be used to figure the temperature out. Answer Focus question.

Tuesday: Review kinetic energy in hot and cold water. Discuss energy transfer big ideas. Online resource - Thermometer

Wednesday: Read "Energy on the Move," highlight important points on black and white copies, Do online activity "Energy flow" Answer Response sheet Investigation 5.

Thursday: Figure out the equation for calculating heat, Do Notebook sheet 34.

Friday: Makey - Makey

Week of February 19-23.

Monday: No School - Ice day

Tuesday: No School - Ice day

Wednesday: Solid expansion and contraction investigation. Answer focus question. Review I check.

Thursday: I check 4,

Friday: Go over I check 4 test. Plan mixing hot and cold water experiment.

Week of February 12-16.

Monday: Finish Gas Expansion/Contraction Experiment. Answer Focus Question 4.1. Add vocabulary words.

Tuesday: Liquid Expansion/Contraction experiment.

Wednesday: Answer Notebook sheet 18. Discuss water inquiry. Make a physical model for liquids. (use hands) Discuss how thermometers work. (Read "Particles in Motion" as homework)

Thursday: Discuss "Particles in Motion." Answer Response sheet Investigation 4.

Friday: No School

Week of February 5-9.

Monday: Particles of matter presentation. Read "Three Phases of Matter".

Tuesday: Review for I-check 3 test

Wednesday: I-check 3 test

Thursday: Experiment on what happens when air is heated and cooled.

Friday: Snow day

Week of January 29- February 2.

Monday: I-check 2.

Tuesday: Capture the gas investigation

Wednesday: What is the gas we captured from our experiment? Focus Question: Is air matter?

Thursday: Is Air matter investigation on page 231.

Friday: Read "Particles" on pages 24-27.

Week of January 22-26.

Monday: Finish reading Periodic Table, What makes up all the substances on Earth? Food packaging.

Tuesday: Finish food packaging activity.

Wednesday: Place elements on periodic table. Answer Response Sheet and Focus question.

Thursday: Read "Substances on Earth" View "Element ID game."

Friday: Review for the I-check test.

Week of January 15-19.

Monday: No school - Snow day.

Tuesday: Review reactions, Observe Evaporation results, FOSSweb activity, Two-substance Reactions, Large scale demonstrations. Bring empty consumer packages.

Wednesday: Answer focus question. Record vocabulary. Periodic Table - Focus question. Introduce the periodic table of elements. Notebook sheet 7 - Mystery-Mixture Elements.

Thursday: Explore the periodic table online. Read "Elements". Add to Glossary and the Focus Question any new learning.

Friday: JA Biztown

Week of January 8-12.

Monday: Mystery Material investigation, Focus Question.

Tuesday: Introduce white substances and vial labels, Fill out Notebook sheets 2 and 3. Observe white substances.

Wednesday: Develop a plan to test mixtures, Mystery-Mixture Analysis sheet 4. Test mixtures.

Thursday: Share Mystery-Mixture Analysis, Introduce chemical reaction. Conduct two substance reactions to confirm. Evaporate liquids.

Friday: Review reactions, Observe Evaporation results, FOSSweb activity, Two-substance Reactions, Large scale demonstrations. Answer focus question. Record vocabulary.

Week of January 1-5.

Monday: New Years Day - No School

Tuesday : No School

Wednesday: Teacher inservice - No School

Thursday: Organize and Repair folders. Rearrange new groups.

Friday: Go over Final diversity of life tests. Introduce the course- Chemical Interactions. Overview lab safety, especially wearing eye protection. Hand out contract. Focus Question. Mystery mixture?

Week of December 18-21.

Monday: Think about needs and recall levels of complexity. Focus question. Do online - Levels of complexity activity. Notebook sheet 64. Discuss Biodiversity. Read "Biodiversity at Home and Abroad". Give study guide.

Tuesday: Focus question: How do you know if something is living. Watch "Flu Attack!" Discuss viruses. Read "Viruses: Living or Nonliving?" 95-100 aloud. Fill out study guide.

Wednesday: Diversity of Life posttest.

Thursday: Finish test or Jeopardy.

Friday: No School - Vacation

Week of December 11-15.

Monday: Write Focus question. Intruduce Punnett squares. Use Punnett squares to predict stem length. Read "Mendel and Punnett Squares" pages 73-80.

Tuesday: Watch video: Genes and Heredity Chapters 5,6,8, and 9. Make hamster Punnett squares and Answer Focus question. Answer i-check together.

Wednesday: Review domains. Introduce the animal kingdom. Write Focus question. Discuss structure, function, and behavior. Look at Insect structures and Functions in Science resources. Introduce and observe hissing cockroaches. Do notebook sheet 61.

Thursday: Discuss scientific drawings. Continue cockroach observations and describe antennae stimuli. Explore cockroach behaviors. Discuss findings. Review vocabulary and answer Focus question.

Friday: Think about needs and recall levels of complexity. Focus question. Do online - Levels of complexity activity. Notebook sheet 64.

Week of December 4-8.

Monday: Make seed observations, Notebook sheet 49. Test review.

Tuesday: Open Book and Open note test.

Wednesday: Open Book and Open note test.

Thursday: Discuss features, traits, genes and chromosomes. Watch Mendel video and discuss pea plants.

Friday: Introduce alleles, genotype, dominant, and recessive alleles. Draw and label Notebook 58. Watch mendel chapter 4 video. Answer Focus question and add vocabulary.

Week of November 27 - December 1.

Monday: Investigation 6, part 3, Flowering-plant reproduction. Focus question, Speedy Flower Dissection, Notebook sheets 50 -52 and dissection cards.

Tuesday: Make seed observations, Notebook sheet 48. Finish Investigation 6, part 3, Start part 4. Flowers and pollinators. Focus questions.

Wednesday: Part 4: Answer pollinator focus questions.

Thursday: Finish Part 4 and begin the I-check review.

Friday: Make seed observations, Notebook sheet 49.

Week of November 20-24.

Monday: Lima bean dissection, Write focus question. Explain seed coat, embryo, and cotyledon. Draw and label observations and answer questions on notebook sheet 47. Answer Focus question.

Tuesday: Review transpiration. Remember five material investigation. Focus question. Introduce seeds. Wheat, oats, barley, and corn. Organize seed experiment for Saturday.

Wednesday: Flower dissection?

Thursday: Thanksgiving

Friday: No School.

Week of November 13-17.

Monday: Read "Water Light, and Energy" Comprehension strategy, Underline important points, circle vocabulary words, and write any questions you have in the margin.

Tuesday: Discuss reading and review for the test. DIscuss the 3 processes: transpiration, photosynthesis, and aerobic cellular respiration.

Wednesday: I-check 5

Thursday: Go over I-check 5. Lima Bean dissection Steps 1-18.

Friday: Makey Makey's

Week of November 6-10.

Monday: Record celery results on Celery Investigation A sheet. Fill out Celery Investigation B sheet. DIscuss class results. Compare celery stalks. Add water and food coloring to vials. Performance assessment checklist.

Tuesday: Look at red water vials, DIscuss results. Look for water transport system. Focus Question, Xylem, Observe leaves and look for holes for water to get out.

Wednesday: Stomata observations, online resources, What is happening? Bag experiment. Response sheet-Investigation 5. Focus Question. Homework - Read "The Water-Conservation Problem"

Thursday: Quick write about transpiration. Introduce transpiration. Online activity - "Plant Vascular System" Introduce and discuss multicellular levels of complexity. Focus Question? How do plants use water?

Friday: No School

Week of October 23- November 3.

Monday: BIg Question: Which are we like? Focus Question: What are the characteristics of archaea? Discuss Archaea cell structure. Introduce different archea. Online "Levels of Complexity Archaean Cell." View "Classification History."

Tuesday: Review Vocabulary. Answer the focus question. Answer the big question, Which of the three organisms are we like? Living/nonliving display. Review notebooks for the I-check.

Wednesday: I-check 4.

Thursday: Correct I-check 4. Start celery experiment.

Friday:Revisit celery, Write down focus question. Measure 20 ml of water for celery experiment weigh celery initial celery mass.

Week of October 23-27.

Monday: Read pages 36-43, " Harmful and Helpful Bacteria"

Tuesday: Quick write fungi. Focus question: What evidence is there that fungus are living organisms? Inspect bread mold and mushroom spore prints. Sample Bread, and Mushrooms and discuss evidence of life.

Wednesday: Sample cheese, Show "Funky Fungi Freak Show" and Fungus slide show. Discuss evidence of life and add to sheet.

Thursday: Review vocabulary . Answer Focus question. Discuss living and nonliving display. Go to www.FOSSweb.com Username - shhawks Password - hamilton View online "Itsy Bitsy Thinky Locator"

Friday: Makey-Makey

Week of October 16-20.

Monday: Organize cards by size

Tuesday: Build a Pathway to a cell, Make fungus observations, review vocabulary, and answer Focus Question, Answer Response Sheet.

Wednesday: Observe agar plates and bread experiment. Focus question: What evidence is there that bacteria are living organisms? Sample foods. Observe “Levels of Complexity: Bacterial Cell”. Read “Bacteria around Us”.

Thursday: Make a million dots.

Friday: FIre safety - Grease Fire.

Week of October 9-13.

Monday: I-Check Investigations 1-3. When finished read “How Big Are Cells?”

Tuesday: Discuss bacteria, fungus, and archaea. Create growing mediums for these items. Inoculate growing mediums. Follow steps 1-11.

Wednesday: Teacher Inservice.

Thursday: Make Spore prints. Observe agar plate, Inspect bread, Review cells. Focus Question. What are the building blocks of cell structures?

Friday: Sort Levels of Complexity cards. Introduce units . Watch " The Scale of the Universe"

Week of October 2-6.

Monday and Tuesday: Go on a mini-habitat safari. Conduct a scientific investigation Search for life. Discuss findings. Review vocabulary - Dormancy. Answer focus question. Homework research identified organisms.

Wednesday and Thursday: Review cells, Investigate human cheek cells/tissue. Look at "Levels of Complexity: animal cell". Read "Cells." Review "Evidence of life." Review for I-check Investigations 1-3.

Friday: I-Check Investigations 1-3.

Week of September 25-29.

Monday: Create paramecium wet slides with methyl cellulose and cover slip. Record observations and draw a paramecia. Discuss observations and Evidence of life.

Tuesday: Identify contractile and food vacuoles, asexual reproduction. Compare paramecium to elodea. Introduce single celled organisms. Distinguish between living and nonliving. Made of cells.

Wednesday: View "Levels of complexity: Protist Cell." Compare plant and protist cell structures. Answer Focus question. Vocabulary. Response sheet - Investigation 3.

Thursday and Friday: Focus Question: Go on a mini-habitat safari. Conduct a scientific investigation Search for life. Discuss findings. Review vocabulary - Dormancy. Answer focus question. Homework research identified organisms.

Week of September 18-22.

Monday: Create brine shrimp wet mount after watching video. Look at shrimp under 4x time and 100x power. Assess microscope use, estimating size, and detailed drawing. Add dyed yeast and observe.

Tuesday: Record evidence of life on teacher master k. Add notes on right hand page. Review big ideas we have learned so far. Respond to focus question.

Wednesday: Elodea observation. Focus question "What microscopic structures make up organisms such as elodea? Create an elodea wet mount. Start elodea observation. Estimate cell size.

Thursday: Present cell history and cell wall. View "Database: Elodea Cytoplasmic Streaming." Discuss chloroplasts and other things in slide. View "Levels of Complexity: Plant Cell" and Notebook sheet 12. Review vocabulary and add to index. Answer focus question. Fill out evidence of life sheet.

Friday: Start paramecium experiment.

Week of September 11-15.

Monday: Follow steps 16-18 on pages 168 and 169. Answer the focus question in science notebooks. "How do objects appear when the are viewed through a microscope?" Review vocabulary. (1. compound microscope) (2. field of view) Read "The History of the Microscope" Create a simple timeline about the microscope.

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Revisit the letter e. Practice estimating size. Discuss responses. Do Response Sheet - Investigation 2, Return to size comparison images. Vocabulary magnification, magnify, power, scale. Answer Focus Question

Thursday: Review "Characteristics of Life." Focus Question "What evidence can we find that brine shrimp are living organisms?" Notebook Sheet 10. Start observations and Brine Shrimp sheet. Look at observations - Assesment. Orient students to yeast and then clean up slides.

Friday: Page 188, session 2.

Week of September 4-8.

Monday: Labor Day

Tuesday: Read "Characteristics of Life on Earth" 1.2.31-35.

Wednesday: 2.1.1 - 2.1.8 Introduce the microscope. Focus question. "How do objects appear when they are viewed through a microscope?" Describe how to carry and care for a microscope and microscope kits. Demonstrate preparing a wet mount and using microscopes.

Thursday: 2.1.9 -2.1.19 Review microscope procedures. Record observations. Answer focus questions. Project Virtual Microscope. Read "The History of the Microscope"

Friday: 2.1.1 - 2.1.12, Ask about size through the microscope, Focus question, Field of view investigation measurement challenge.

Week of August 28 - September 1.

Monday: Start at 1.1.15 Cord Sorting Revisited, Characteristics of Organisms, Minihabitat introduction and creation, vocabulary / index. Focus question, Homework list 2 living things, 2 nonliving things, and one thing you are unsure about.

Tuesday: Discuss homework, Focus Question, Characteristics of All Life display, 1.2.6-15 Unknown materials investigation.

Wednesday: Observe unknown materials investigation, 1.2.16-19.

Thursday:1.2.20-30 Make final observations, organize data, environments and definitions, Collect Environment sheets.

Friday: Read "Characteristics of Life on Earth" 1.2.31-32.

Week of August 21-25.

Monday:

Tuesday: Back to School Night

Wednesday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various policies. Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations.

Thursday: Diversity of Life - Investigation 1.1, Steps 1-14. Focus question, Camphor Demonstration, Living/Nonliving Card Sort. Take picture of Sorting.

Friday: Revisit Card sorting, discuss organisms, Create mini habitats. Review Vocabulary.