Objective: Students will take all the information they have learned from the past 6 lessons to create a model answering the essential question for this week.

Slides: N/A

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: A paper copy provided in class. 

Objective: Students will learn some of the final factors that impact why different locations around the world get the same amount of sunlight, but experience different rates of skin cancer. 

Slides: N/A

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: The whole form can be completed from home, make sure to read the attached article. Skip the hands on with lenses section

Objective: Students will learn about how light behaves differently when moving through different substances and how light can bend. 

Slides: N/A

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: The whole form can be completed from home, make sure to read the attached article. Skip the hands on with lenses section

Objective: Students will learn how we use light as a tool in the world around us through a jigsaw graphic organizer on Monday and 1/2 of Tuesday. Students will work together the second 1/2 of Tuesday to complete the "Light as a tool CONCEPT CHECK" posted to the right. 

Standards: Use the "Light as a Tool" subsection to complete 

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: The whole form and graphic organizer can be completed from home, make sure to read the attached article. 

Objective: Students will learn about the system that we use to classify all light and will practice differentiating between different sources.

Slides: 

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: The whole form can be completed from home, make sure to read the attached article. 

Objective: Students will begin looking into how we see light as well as the different forms of light in the world around us. 

Slides: 1-20

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: The whole form can be completed from home, make sure to read the attached article. 

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of our essential question in a claim, evidence, reasoning paragraph. Students will also create a model showing the answer to the essential question. 

Slides: N/A

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: Please see me if you were absent for instructions for completing our first CER of the year. 

Objective: Students will learn the role of melanin in our skin and what factors it contributes in answering our big question. 

Slides: 33-46

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: The whole form can be completed from home, make sure to read the attached article. 

Objective: Students will be comparing how light behaves in the SIM to the real world evidence they experienced yesterday. Students will also practice adding new evidence to their class notes and update thier claim and model. 

Slides: 33-46

Standards: MS-PS4-2 

Absent Students: The whole form can be completed from home

Objective: Today students will collect evidence about light sources through a hands on lab involving various light sources and objects. 

Slides: 21-29

Standards: MS-PS4-2

Absent Students: Complete as much of the form as you can, skip sections that involve group discussions.

Objective: Today students will be introduced to Light Waves as well as practice modeling our big question for the week. 

Slides: 1-15

Standards: MS-PS4-2

Absent Students: Complete as much of the form as you can, skip sections that involve group discussions.

Objective: Today students will create a Lab Safety Poster clearly illustrating one of the safety items or practices we discussed yesterday.

Slides: N/A

Standards: Safety Compliance Standards

Absent Students: The poster can be excused for students absent both days, but ALL STUDENTS must pass the safety quiz prior to labs this year. 

Objective: Today students will create a Lab Safety Poster clearly illustrating one of the safety items or practices we discussed yesterday.

Slides: N/A

Standards: Safety Compliance Standards

Absent Students: The poster can be excused for students absent both days, but ALL STUDENTS must pass the safety quiz prior to labs this year. 

Objective: Today students will dig deeper into how to ACT SAFELY in our science classroom this year, specifically during labs and experiments. 

Slides: 117-125

Standards: Saftey Compliance Standards

Absent Students: The poster can be excused for students absent both days, but ALL STUDENTS must pass the safety quiz prior to labs this year. 

Objective: Today students will look into what science is since this is the entire focus of this class for the entire year together. 

Slides: 67-88

Standards: 

Absent Students: This form is excused for absent students it is mostly collaborative discussions as table groups. 

Objective: Today students will practice classroom procedures while learning about leadership and be introduced to teams and team roles

Slides: N/A

Standards: N/A

Absent Students: None

Objective: Today students will practice classroom procedures while learning about how the brain handles multitasking and how this impacts our lessons. 

Slides: 26-43

Standards: N/A

Absent Students: You can look over the the slides and short video to learn about multitasking. 

Objective: Today students will practice classroom procedures while taking part in a small group teambuilding activity. 

Slides: N/A

Standards: N/A

Absent Students: You can look over the teambuilder on your own and check your score upon your return.