Sept. 5th, 8th grade

We corrected evidence vs. inference worksheet.

Storyboards are due Friday.

7th Grade, Sept. 4th

Bellwork:

What 5 things do you need when you come to class?

Give an example of a Qualitative observation?

Give an example of Quantitative observation?

1.We graded observations from field trip.

Objective: Students will be able to tell the difference between an inference and an observation.

2.Worksheets:

Please work on the 3 worksheets:

Boy in the water

Boy in the Water

An Ancient Coin

Boy in the Water picture

 

8th Grade, Sept. 4th

Students need to work on Sea Monsters worksheet by highlighting evidence vs inferences.  Also, we worked on a storyboard worksheet telling the story of Dolly using inferences and evidence. If you still need to watch the video it is available on Youtube.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/DiscoveryChannel2013

Worksheet for Storyboard:

http://www.the-flying-animator.com/storyboard-template.html

Rubric for Storyboard:

Rubric Storyboard (scroll down to 4th page)

Worksheet for highlighting:

Behind The Scene: Science Notes

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/media/vintage/www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/17/g68/smscinotes.pdf

 

 

8th Grade, Sept. 3rd

We finished watching National Geographic’s Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure. Then we highlighted a worksheet of the movie’s storyboard on what was an inference and what was evidence in the movie using two different colored highlighters. We will be going over this in class tomorrow.

 

 

7th Grade, Sept. 3rd

Today we went on the Walking Field trip to Jensen Trail. Please write in your Science notebook 10 examples of Qualitative observations and Quantitative observations. We also took in class notes.

7th grade Aug. 30, 2013

Guided notes “Cohesion and Water Tension”

Performed another experiment using Dawn dish soap on the pennies to see if there was a difference between that and Sun dish soap.

Please answer the two questions on the bottom of the lab sheet from yesterday which are due on Tuesday, Sept. 3.

8th grade Aug. 30, 2013

FLIP drawings were due today.

Class started watching Sea Monsters A Prehistoric Adventure movie by National Geographic.  Students will continue watching it through Monday then get a worksheet where students decide what is an inference and what is an observation.

TEXTBOOK CODE

To access the textbook online please go to the following website:

http://my.hrw.com

User name:  abd7n

Password:  x4w7s

 

8th Grade Aug. 29th

Walking Field Trip on Jensen Trail. We made a T chart in our Science notebooks with 10 qualitative and quantitative observations including 5 inferences.

FLIP drawing due tomorrow!

7th Grade Aug. 29th

In Class Lab: Prediction Lab Part 1. This in class lab will continue Friday.

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