MONDAY, 6/1:  Ley, Kot, McGehee, and Quintero

TUESDAY, 6/2:  Silverman and Lambrix

Due Dates:  

McGehee:  Tuesday, 5/26

Quintero:  Wednesday, 5/27

Kot/Velazquez:  Thursday, 5/28

Silverman/Lamrix:   Friday, 5/29

To bring the water cycle to life, students also played the Hydrologic Cycle Dice Game. In this activity, they imagined themselves as tiny water droplets forming in a cloud and racing toward Earth at 15 miles per hour—a fun and engaging way to explore how water moves and transforms throughout the water cycle.

Homework: Students are asked to create a story about their water molecule’s journey through the water cycle game using page 85 as their guide. They are encouraged to be creative and may choose from a variety of formats, such as:

• writing a story

• creating a comic strip

• composing a short book

Students are also welcome to present their ideas in another creative format, as long as they check in with me first to discuss their plan.

MONDAY, 4/13:  Ley, Kot, McGehee, and Quintero

TUESDAY, 4/14:  Silverman and Lambrix

Students will be taking their first quiz next week on what we have learned about atoms. To prepare, they should review pages 76–82 in their lab books.

As part of their preparation, students are creating an Atoms Zine (a small, creative booklet to help organize their learning). The completed Zine is due this week on:

McGehee & Quintero:  Wednesday

Ley & Kot: Thursday

Silverman & Lambrix: Friday

This week, we also spent time learning and practicing effective study strategies. We discussed helpful ways students can prepare, such as using flashcards, creating their own study guides, exploring tools like Quizlet, making drawings or visual aids, teaching the material to someone else, and practicing sample questions.

Students are finishing their parachute lab graphs this week. They will be using the data they collected on fall time and average speed from pages 63 and 69 in their workbook.

The completed graphs are due during their next 80-minute class period this week.

Students will color each layer of the atmosphere on the collage page based on the information provided on the front reading page of What’s in the Atmosphere?

They should carefully identify each layer—troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere, and the ionosphere (which overlaps other layers)— by using different colors. As they color, students should think about what happens in each layer, such as weather in the troposphere, the ozone layer in the stratosphere, meteors burning in the mesosphere, satellites in the thermosphere, and the cold, outer edge of the exosphere. 

Due Dates:  

Tuesday, 2/17:  McGehee, Silverman, & Lambrix

Wednesday, 2/18: Quintero

Thursday, 2/19: Ley & Kot 

Students will choose one of Newton’s Laws and create an example that shows how it works. You will rewrite the law in your own words, describe a real-life scenario that demonstrates the law, and create a colored, labeled drawing to go along with your explanation. 

This assignment is due on:  

McGehee:  Tuesday 1/20

Quintero:  Wednesday 1/21

Ley & Kot:  Thursday 1/22

Silverman & Lambrix:  Friday 1/23

Students will select an object that weighs more than 20 lbs but less than 150 lbs to calculate its weight on each planet. On the back, they will create a bar graph to display their results.  They are allowed to use a calculator.    

Due Dates:

McGehee, Quintero, Ley, and Kot: Monday, 10/20

Silverman and Lambrix: Tuesday, 10/21  

Students began by organizing their average ray length data into a bar graph using the data table on page 24 of their lab books.

Homework: Students took their lab books home and should predict the ray lengths for drop heights of 200 cm, 250 cm, and 300 cm, and complete questions #1, 4, & 5 on page 25.  

Due Dates:  

McGehee, Quintero, Ley, and Kot: Monday, October 7th

Silverman and Lambrix: Tuesday, October 8th.

Due Dates:

Ley, McGehee, Kot, and Quintero:  MONDAY, 9/22

Silverman and Lambrix:  TUESDAY, 9/23

Students are to PRINT OR DRAW images showing their interests and hobbies.  

Students should already be familiar with these concepts, as we have been working on finding averages since October and rounding to the nearest hundredth since December. We reviewed these skills together and worked through several examples in class today.

 Students will have one night to complete this worksheet at home.

MONDAY, 5/11:  Ley, Kot, McGehee, and Quintero

TUESDAY, 5/12:  Silverman and Lambrix