*Process Skill Review: lab safety, observations and inferences, scientific method, Happy Birthday Lab, Metric system review, Metric Lab.
*Chemistry Unit: Chemistry vocabulary, chemical and physical property notes, Periodic Table of Elements, Atomic number, Atomic structure, electron, proton, neutron, period, family/group, metal, non-metal, metalloid, noble gases, alkali metals, halogens, alkaline earth metals, valence electrons, Bohr models, energy levels related to periods on PTE, test over chemistry unit.
*Physics Unit: introduction to vocabulary, physics foldable, force, net force, balanced and unbalanced forces and how to recognize them via drawing, equilibrium in a volcanic system, Newton's Laws of Motion, Newton labs, Newton picture activity, deciding Which Law?, acceleration, mass, and force relationship.
Simple machines, work, compound machines.
*Environmental Science Unit: environmental science, renewable, nonrenewable, inexhaustible, notes, examples of each resource, review turbines, discuss alternative energy sources, importance of conservation, recycling, reducing and reusing.
*Earth Science Unit: natural disasters and human impact from/on the said disasters, volcano and earthquake locations, transverse/strike-slip fault causes earthquakes, mid-Atlantic ridge, how volcanoes and earthquakes change Earth's crust, Richter scale, how volcanic eruption relates to climate change, plate boundaries and what occur along these plates. Weathering: mechanical and chemical, erosion, deposition, notes on the above, weathering lab, review of rock cycle, examples of geological processes glued into journal.
*Planetary Movement and Moon Phases: took Sun-Earth survey, review day and night, tilt, axis, rotation, revolution, orbit, Earth's movement foldable.
*Human Body Unit: organization of human body, brief description of function and major organ/structure of each system. Research project. Students match function and structure with systems.
***All work that has no name will have a 10-20 point deduction, depending on the type of assignment.
***Students are to use pencil only! No work will be accepted in INK!
***All late work will have a 11 point deduction per day for the first three days. After three class days, there is a 50 point automatic deduction.
**********If students do not complete body system homework assignments (textbook) and Human Body Project, they will be given zeros for the missing work and will not be allowed to dissect*********************
------------May 11-15 SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Monday - (G) - 05/11: Check homework. Complete notes on all human systems. Human body Activity. 5th: LTF Test
Hmwk: Read Chapter 11 & 12: Write a paragraph per system: function of system, major organs and their function, and a drawing! Due next class. Notes go in journal on page 33. 2.) Work on Project - Due May 15th!!
Tuesday - (P) - 05/12: Check homework. Complete notes on all human systems. Human body Activity. 1st and 4th: LTF test.
Hmwk: Read Chapter 11 & 12: Write a paragraph per system: function of system, major organs and their function, and a drawing! Due next class. Notes go in journal on page 33. 2.) Work on Project - Due May 14th!!
Wednesday - (G) - 05/13 (ED): Check homework. Complete notes on all human systems. Human body Activity. Missing assignment sheets given to 7th and 8th. All work due by the 19th.
Hmwk: Read Chapter 13-16: Write a paragraph per system: function of system, major organs and their function, and a drawing! Due next class. Notes go in journal on page 33.
Thursday - (P) - 05/14: Project due for 1st and 3rd periods. Human Body quiz and activity.
Hmwk: 1.)Read Chapter 13-16: Write a paragraph per system: function of system, major organs and their function, and a drawing! Due next class. Notes go in journal on page 33. 2.) Test on Monday over Human Body.
Friday - (G) - 05/15: Project due for 1st and 3rd periods. Human body activity in preparation for test next week. Missing assignment sheet giving to 5th period to have signed.
Hmwk: 1.) Complete chapter notes if you haven;t. 2.) Test on Tuesday over Human body.
--------------May 18-22 SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Monday - (P) - 05/18: Project due for 3rd and 4th period. Human body activity. Ecology notes.
Hmwk: Succession AYR?
Tuesday - (G) - 5/19: ALL MISSING WORK DUE TODAY! NO EXCEPTIONS! Human Body test. Ecology notes.
Hmwk: Succession AYR?
Wednesday - (P) - 5/20: Succession homework due today. Human Body Test. Review homework. Owl Pellets? Take science folder home!
Hmwk: none
Thursday - (G) - 5/21: Ecology - owl pellets? Food chains and food webs. Take science folder home!
Hmwk: none
Friday - (P) - 5/22: 1st period: Science Game! House S field trip and reward ceremony. No classes today.
Hmwk: none
Last week of school!!!!!!!!!!
Monday: Holiday, no school.
Tuesday: Gray - Dissection. Turn journals into teacher.
Wednesday: Purple - Dissection. Turn journals into teacher.
Thursday: Gray - Last day for students.Reflection & activity. Letter to incoming 7th graders?
Have a good summer!
Until next time,
Ms. Smallwood
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