Upcoming dates to keep in mind:
Quiz Dates: 9/11, 9/25
Daily Reports: Trimester 1
9/2 Get Acquainted/Classroom Procedures/Introduce Toaster Demonstration (we're not making food!)
9/3 Classroom Diagram/Safety Posters
9/4 Vocab: Catastrophic/Finish safety posters/Toaster demonstration/7th Grade lab safety skits
9/8 Vocab: Convection/Reviewed lab safety/safety skits
9/9 Review for Quiz on Friday/Scientific Method
9/10 Finish scientific method/Book search/Lab 1.1
9/11 Morning assembly/Quiz/salt water, coin, paper towel and light bulb lab
9/14 Vocab: Cumulonimbus/Cat Events book check/Quizzes returned and reviewed
9/15 Pictorial: Advancing Cold Front/Lab 2.1 (Vortex Lab)/Introduction to Storms National Geographic video
9/16 Entry: Read p. 17-19 in student guide and answer questions
9/17 Tornado/Hurricane/Thunderstorm comparison chart/vocab: conduction/Parts of a Science Lab/Graphing
9/18 Computer lab (Main): N.O.A.A. on-line lesson
9/21 Lab 3.1 Sand, soil and water lab/Begin Thunderstorm Paper
9/22 Lab 3.1 Sand, soil and water: finish write up/Continue with thunderstorm paper
9/23 Quiz review questions, Storms power point
9/24 Reading pp. 32-41 in student guide with questions/Joseph Henry play/Start atmosphere posters
9/25 Quiz #2 (see review questions/Atmosphere posters
9/28 Finish atmosphere posters/finish lab 3.1/Hurricane History reading
9/29 Vocab: Supercell/ Hurricane reading: The greatest storms on earth, part I/ Go over quiz #2/Thermal energy notes
9/30 Thermal Energy reading and note taking
10/1 Lab 4.1 and 4.2 Investigating the Temperature of Air
10/2 Finish Lab 4.1/4.2 write-up/American Chemical Society Labs 6.1 and 6.2
10/5 Review Lab 4.1/Lab 5.1
10/6 Computer lab
10/7 Map: global water currents, hurricane power point, quiz review
10/8 Lab 6.1 and 6.2, read pp. 76-79 and answer questions, Evangelista Torricelli play
10/9 Quiz #3, Thunderstorm notes
10/12 vocab: thermal equilibrium, finish thunderstorm notes
10/13 Computer lab: type paper
10/14 Lab 7.1 and 7.2
10/15 Hurricane notes
10/16 Hurricane notes/Nova hurricanes
10/19 Finish hurricane notes/storms jeopardy
10/20 Storm comparison chart
10/26 Lab 11.2 Marshmallow houses
10/27 Computer lab: finish thunderstorm papers
10/28 Vocab: Seismologist/Underwater earthquake reading/Reading a seismogram
10/29 Nova video: The Day the Earth Shook
10/30 Lab 12.1 - We will create earthquakes in the classroom!
11/2 Reading: Discover Kids: Earthquakes and questions, Finish Nova video
11/3 Labs 12.2 and 12.3/go over quiz review questions we can answer so far
11/4 Mercalli vs. Richter scales
11/5 Finish lab 12.3/Reading a Seismogram worksheet
11/6 Quiz #5/Finish reading seismogram worksheet
11/9 Review Quiz #5/Pictorials: Divergent Plate Boundaries/Complete Lab 12.3
11/10 Labs 13.1/14.1/ Science Charades
11/11 No School: Veteran's Day
11/12 Pictorial: Subduction Zones/Lab 15.1
11/13 Properties of water (4 labs)
11/16 Vocab: lithosphere/asthenosphere/Reading questions chapter 15, Earthquake test study guide/Plate boudaries Simon Says
11/17 Chapter 15 reading questions
11/18 Review study guide/Surface waves
11/19 Earthquake test (best earthquake test ever)/Volcano reading
11/20 Volcano posters (due 11/25)
11/23 Volcano posters
11/24 computer lab
11/25 Mt. St. Helens