Ms. Moore

Friday, February 29, 2008

Happy Leap Year Day ! ! !  Good Luck to you Sadie Hawkins!

No Blog yesterday, there was a substitute, I had a Professional Learning Day.

Ch. 15 Test - Atmosphere today.  Make-ups are done during the help-sessions.  Next Wednesday, 3/5/08, students who missed Ch. 15 Test should come in 10 or 15 minutes before the help-session begins to get test materials.  Help-sessions begin @ 8:20 am.

Warm-up:

• Place your AR test or your 5X8 notecard on top of your book log in your student agenda.  I will collect and sign log from your table.
• Self-check Ch. 15 Assignment and turn in for a CW grade.
• Self-check GR wkbk pages 185-188

Classwork:

• Chapter 15 Test - Atmosphere
• Read Current Science Magazine silently until all are finished and materials have been collected.

Homework:  NONE  :)  Enjoy the weekend!

Take-Home Lab activity "Working Under Pressure" due:  March 5th

Reading notecard for this 9 week grading period is March 14th.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

15.4 The Layers of the Atmosphere

Warm-up:

• Complete GR wkbk pages 185-187
• Add Graphic Organizer - The Layers of the Earth to your CW section of your SCI NB.  List the characteristics of each layer.  Use your textbook pages 515-520.

Classwork:

• Vocab Quiz (sec. 1 & 3)
• Scaling the Atmosphere model.  Using notes from the internet and following both listening and oral directions you will create a scaled model of the atmosphere
• The Atmosphere - Structure
• Graphing Activity - Layers of the Atmosphere

Homework: Practice WS(23) 15.4

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

15.4 Layers of the Atmosphere

Essential Question(s) for Lesson:

• What are the characteristics of the main layers of the atmosphere?

Key Terms: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, aurora borealis, exosphere

Warm-up:

• Place HW WS(19) in basket
• Read section 15.4, pages 515-520 and do GR wkbk pages 185-187
• Frayer Model Vocab Booklet - add Mercury and Aneroid Barometer

Classwork:

• Self-check HW WS(19) and GR wkbk pages 182-184
• Density WS (3rd and 6th) - turn in when complete for a CW grade
• Make a Scale Model of the Atmosphere

Homework:  Study for vocab quiz tomorrow on sections 1 & 3 (weather, atmosphere, ozone, water vapor, density, pressure, air pressure, barometer, mercury barometer, aneroid barometer, altitude)

Help-session tomorrow @ 8:20, those taking a make-up test should show up 5-10 minutes earlier to get started before the help-session.

SIP Book due: 2/29

Ch. 15 Test: 2/29

Take-home lab activity due:  3/5

Monday, February 25, 2008

15.3 Air Pressure

Warm-up:

• Complete reading pages 509-514 and GR wkbk pages 182-184
• Add Enrich WS(12) "How Earth's Atmosphere Got Its Oxygen" to your CW section of your SCI NB
• Add Mercury Barometer and Aneroid Barometer to your Frayer Model Vocab Booklet of Weather Instruments

Classwork:

• Discover Activity page 509.  Add to CW section of SCI NB.
• Density WS - Add to CW section of SCI NB
• Models of the Atmosphere of Mars, Venus, and Earth

Homework:  Practice WS(19) 15.3

Vocab Quiz on Wed. 2/27 (sections 1 & 3)

Media Center visit on 2/28

SIP Reading AR Test or 5X8 notecard is due: 2/29

Ch. 15 Test (sections 1,3, & 4) Friday, 2/29

Friday, February 22, 2008

15.3 Air Pressure

Essential Question(s) for Lesson:

• What are some of the properties of air?
• What instruments are used to measure air pressure?
• How does increasing altitude affect air pressure and density?

Key Terms: density, pressure, air pressure, barometer, mercury barometer, aneroid barometer, altitude

Warm-up:

• Turn in HW to basket - Practice WS(11) 15.1
• Read section 15.3, pages 509-514 and do GR wkbk pages 182-184
• Self-check HW and GR wkbk pages 177-178

Classwork:

• Create a Frayer Model booklet for Weather Instruments using handout.  Due at the completion of ch. 16.
• Discover Activity page 498
• Notes from Internet and Models of Atmospheres

Homework:  NONE  :) Enjoy your weekend

Dates to remember:

• SIP Reading Book AR test or 5X8 notecard is due: 2/29 (Make sure you get your log signed when you turn in your test or notecard)
• Ch. 15 Test next Friday, 2/29 (sections 1,3 and 4)
• Take-home lab activity, due: 3/5

Thursday, February 21, 2008

15.1 The Air Around You

Warm-up:

• Add Essential Questions and Key Terms to Journal section of SCI NB
• Complete GR wkbk pages 177-178
• Add Graphic Organizer "Earth's Atmosphere" to CW section of SCI NB

Classwork:

• Take notes from Internet site "Introduction to the Atmosphere"
• Discuss the Goldilocks Principle and make a model of the atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars.  Answer questions in Journal section of SCI NB
• Do "Discover" Activity on page 498.  Answer questions in Journal section of notebook

Homework:  Practice WS(11)  15.1

Practice worksheets will be posted as individual homework (HW) grades.  I will no longer use the "Ooops!" system of grading homework.

Dates to remember:  SIP Reading book due, 2/29 (AR test or 5X8 notecard); Take-home lab due, 3/5; Chapter 15 Test, 2/29 (sections 1,3, and 4)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Climate & Weather

New Unit, New Seats, New TOC (Table of Contents)

Essential Question(s) for Unit:  How does the sun interact with the earth to produce weather and climate?

Essential Question(s) for Lesson:

• How is the atmosphere important to living things?
• What gases are present in Earth's atmosphere?

Key Terms:  weather, atmosphere, ozone, water vapor

Warm-up:

• Emptied CW section of SCI NB
• Added new TOC for CW section of SCI NB
• Added GR wkbk pages 177-188
• Read Section 15.1, pages 177-179

Classwork:

• Discussed take-home lab handout "Working Under Pressure"  Due:  Wed. 2/5/08
• New Seat Assignments
• Notes From the Internet:  Introduction To Atmosphere 
• Introduction to the Atmosphere

Homework:  None

Chapter 15 Test will be next Friday, 2/29/08 (covers sections 1, 3, & 5)

SIP Reading Book due next Friday, 2/29/08.  Students will be in the Media Center next Thursday for book check-out and may take their AR test then if they have not done so before that day.  If there is no AR Test on the book that they read, they must create a 5X8 notecard and turn that in (like the summer reading notecard).  Get your log signed when you turn in your AR Test or notecard!

Friday, February 15, 2008

Oceanography

Media Center Visit for book check-out (SIP Monthly book:  due - Feb. 29th)

• This month your book will be collected by your science teachers.  As soon as you finish your book, take the AR test and turn in to your science teacher.  Those of you who read a book that is not AR, turn in your 5X8 notecard by Feb. 29th and have your science teacher initial your log in your agenda.
• Ms. Moore's science classes:  do not confuse this book with your class requirement, 1 book related to topics studied during 9 week grading period, due - March 14th.

Warm-up:

• return graded papers

Classwork:

• Media Ctr Visit
• View video:  Science in Action "Oceans" (VID 551.46 OCE)
• Complete Video Focus questions and add to CW section of notebook

Homework:  NONE  :)  Enjoy your 4 day holiday!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day !

Oceanography

Warm-up:

• Read Current Science magazine, issue 10
• Read articles "Source of Wonder" (page 10)and "Discoveries" (page 12)
• Complete WS sections for each article.  Write answers on a seperate sheet of notebook paper and turn in to basket for a CW grade.
• Return Graded Work

Classwork:

• Intro to Oceanography:  View B. Nye video - Oceanography (VID 550 - BIL ES 1)
• Answer the following questions in your Journal section of your SCI notebook:

What moves ocean water?

What are ocean currents?

Does the ocean have varying salt content?

How does salt get into the ocean?

• View websites

Homework:  NONE  :)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Ch. 11 Fresh Water Quiz

Warm-up:

• Place Pink Mid-term gradesheet in HW basket
• Place Ch. 11 Outline in HW basket for a CW grade
• Self-check Ch. 11 Assessment and turn in for a CW grade
• Self-check GR wkbk pages 135-136, 140

Classwork:

• Ch. 11 Quiz
• Read Current Science magazine, issue 10

Homework:  NONE  :)