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=**Science Lesson Plans - Hours 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9**= ===Please be advised that what is listed below is a working, FLEXIBLE schedule. Class work and due dates may change, depending on schedule changes and how fast or slow the students grasp concepts. Please check with your student for the accurate day-to-day agenda and homework assignment.===

Links to handouts and presentations can be found on the day they were introduced.

Lesson Plans

May 2012
 * = **Monday 5/7**

Vocab Quiz

Intro to Producers, Consumers,and Decomposers

PCD Talking to Text Reading

Burrito Foldable

HW: Finish Top Half of Burrito Foldable ||= **Tuesday 5/8**

PCD Burrito Foldable Note

[|Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Interactive Game]

HW: Producers and Consumers Worksheet ||= **Wednesday 5/9**

Energy Flow in Ecosystems

The Flow of Energy Through Ecosystems Video

HW: Draw a picture diagram of energy flowing from the Sun to Producers, 2 Consumers, and a Decomposer. Label where the energy is going ||= **Thursday 5/10**

Food Chains





[|Kid's Corner Food Chain] ||= **Friday 5/11**

Food Webs

[|Fun with Food Webs]

HW: Take Home Quiz (Can use notes) and Food Web Worksheet ||
 * = **Monday 5/14**

[|Brain Pop Movie]

Food Chain and Web Review

Animal Safety Instructions ||= **Tuesday 5/15**

Getting to know Organisms in Our Classroom Ecosystem (Activity 2 pg 6)

HW: Finish Relationships in Communities Handout ||= **Wednesday 5/16**

6th Grade Team Project: Australian Investigation ||= **Thursday 5/17**

Classroom Ecosystem (Pg 5-6)

Human Interactions in an Ecosystem

HW: Pages 6 and 10 in Student Journal Due Friday 5/25 ||= **Friday 5/18**

6th Grade Team Project: Australian Investigation ||
 * = **Monday 5/21**

Food Web Affects: Study Stations

Study Guides

HW: Study Guides

||= **Tuesday 5/22**

Review Study Guides

Learning Goals

HW: Study for Test ||= **Wednesday 5/23**

Life Science Midpoint Test

DUE: Field Trip Permission Slips ||= **Thursday 5/24**

6th Grade Field Trip ||= **Friday 5/25**

Goal 2 Clicker Quiz

Review Test

[|Living Together]

(Write how each partner benefits from each other) ||
 * = **Monday 5/28**

NO SCHOOL HAPPY HOLIDAY ||= **Tuesday 5/29**

Intro to Population Relationships: Mutualism, Parasitism, and Commensalism

Concept Map

Last Day to Turn in Late Work ||= **Wednesday 5/30**

Our Ecosystem: The Human Factor

Consequences of Overpopulation ||= **Thursday 5/31**

Exhibition Night Practice and Setting Up ||= **Friday 6/1** ||
 * = **June 4**

Final Exam Review [|Jeopardy Final Review] ||= **June 5**

Final Exam ||= **June 6**

Final Exam ||= **June 7**

Final Exam ||=  ||

April 2012
 * = **Monday 4/9**

Timeline Activity (Act. 11 pg. 36-37)

HW: Make of Timeline of 10 Important Events that you have Experienced (make sure the Events are in Order in which the Occurred) Then write 2-3 Sentences about how these Events have Shaped you into the Person that you are Today. ||= **Tuesday 4/10**

Timeline Activity (Act. 11 pg. 36-37) ||= **Wednesday 4/11**

Review Timeline Activity

HW: ES2 Study Guide Due Thursday ||= **Thursday 4/12**

Clicker Quiz

Learning Goals

Review Study Guide

HW: Study for Test ||= **Friday 4/13**

ES2 TEST ||
 * = **Monday 4/16**

Geologic Touch Down Review

ES2 Re-Take ||= **Tuesday 4/17**

Analyze Earth Science 2 Test Results

Take Life Science Pre-Test ||= **Wednesday4/18**

Analyze Life Science Pre-Test Results

Life Science Goal Setting

New Learning Goals

Intro to the Ecosystem

HW: Read Story on Ecosystem and Answer Questions 1-5 ||= **Thursday 4/19**

What is an Ecosystem? Concept Map (in back of student journals)

Exploring Different Ecosystems in Biomes [|Geo Kids]



HW: Write Down 5 Organisms that You see in Your Ecosystem ||= **Friday 4/20**

Abiotic vs. Biotic Magic Box Activity

Concept Map: (Adding Abiotic and Biotic)

HW: Ecosystems Packet ||
 * = **Monday 4/23**

Abiotic vs. Biotic: Does Non-Living Mean Dead?

So You Think You Know the Difference Game

HW: Finish Abiotic vs. Biotic Factors Worksheet

||= **Tuesday 4/24**

Vocab Boxes: Organism, Populations, Communities, and Ecosystem

HW: Write an 8-lined Poem about the 4 vocab terms covered in class (Ecosystem, Organism, Population, and Community) Make sure that the Poem covers a definition and example of each term

Due Thursday 4/26 ||= **Wednesday 4/2**5

Planet Earth Video

Concept Map: (Adding Organism, Population, Communities, and Ecosystem)

Ecosystem Pyramid Project Rough Draft ||= **Thursday 4/26**

Ecosystem Pyramid Project ||= **Friday 4/27**

Ecosystem Pryramid Project

HW: Worksheet ||
 * = **Monday 4/ 30**

4 C's Self and Peer Review

Terms Note Charts

Graphing Skills Review

Activity 1 Pages 1-3

HW: Finish Population Graph on Page 3 ||= **Tuesday 5/1**

Analyze Activity 1 Graphs

Limiting Factors

HW: In an ecosystem, name a predator and a prey. Describe how the prey and predator population growth would look like over the years (Hint: look at graphs on page 3 in student journal) List limiting factors that would stop the prey and predator population from growing (make sure you list biotic and abiotic factors). Include as many vocabulary words as possible. ||= **Wednesday 5/2**

MAP TESTING PREP Goal Setting ||= **Thursday 5/3**

MAP TESTING ||= Friday 5/4

Terms Note Chart ||

March 2012
 * = **Monday 2/27**

Discuss Page 2 in Student Journal - What does each type of movement produce?

Use Dance of the  Plates Exploration to  complete pages 8-10

Learning Goal: Explainhow the movementof tectonic plates causegeological events ||= **Tuesday 2/28**

Review Notes on Pages 8-10 - Discuss what each forms

Clicker Quiz and Learning Goals (1)

Learning Goal: Explain how the movement of tectonic plates cause geological events ||= **Wednesday 2/29**

Mid-Point Quiz on Plate Tectonics

Use Magnets Exploration to Complete Pages 13-14 in Student Journal

Learning Goal: Demonstrate the magnetic field of a bar magnet ||= **Thursday 3/1**

Finding Direction Using Magnets

Video Segment: Earth's Magnetic Field (7:09) -

What causes Earth's magnetic field?

Mad About Magnets Article - Talking to the Text

Learning Goal: #1 Explain how Earth is like a magnet

have been used for navigation ||= **Friday 3/2**
 * 1) 2 Explain how magnets (compasses)

Discuss How Magnets Have Been Used in the Past

Video Segment: Compass/GPS (5:38)

How to Use a Compass

Complete Page 15 - Use Venn Diagram for Question #2 (Due Monday 3/5)

Review of Magnetism: Principles of Magnetism (1:47)

Learning Goal: #1 Compare and contrast the Earth to a bar magnet


 * 1) 2 Explain how magnets (compasses)

have been used for navigation ||
 * = **Monday 3/5**

Grade Page 15 Venn Diagram

Magnetic Earth Clicker Quiz and Learning Goals (2) ||= **Tuesday 3/6**

Discussion: How do we learn about Earth's past?

Video Segment: Life in Earth's Past (4:25)

Putting the Pieces Together - Activity 8 (pages 20-24) - Highlight key information for each organism

Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossilsgive us intoEarth's past ||= **Wednesday 3/7**

Putting the Pieces Together - Activity 8: Directions page 19

Work on Fossil Dig with Organisms - Record data on page 25

Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossilsgive us into Earth's past ||= **Thursday 3/8**

Analyze findings on page 25 - What conclusions can we make?

Complete page 26 and discuss in class

Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossilsgive us into Earth's past and how organisms and the environment have changed ||= **Friday 3/9**

Getting into the Fossil Record - Online Activity



Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossilsgive us into Earth's past and how organisms and the environment have changed ||
 * = **Monday 3/12**

Complete Getting into the Fossil Record - Online Activity

Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossilsgive us into Earth's past and how organisms and the environment have changed ||= **Tuesday 3/13**

Review Online Activity



Fossil Record Clicker Quiz

[|Fossilization Video Clip]

Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossils give us into Earth's past and how organisms and the environment have changed ||= **Wednesday 3/14**

Learning goals (3) Introduce Fossil Story Project

Fossil Observation Chart Activity 9 (page 27)

Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossils give us into Earth's past and how organisms and the environment have changed || **Thursday 3/15**

Fossil Story Project: Predicting the Past Activity

Fossil Exploration and Identification



HW: Traces of Tracks Worksheet

Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossils give us into Earth's past and how organisms and the environment have changed || **Friday 3/16**

Fossil Story Project:

Work day- finish page 27 and Fossil Identification if needed

HW: Finish Writing Rough Draft

Learning Goal:Explain what clues fossils give us into Earth's past and how organisms and the environment have changed ||
 * = **Monday 3/19**

Fossil Story Project: Last minute Story Additions

Self and Peer Review

Introduce Grid Drawing

[|Step by Step How to Grid Draw Video]

||= **Tuesday 3/20**

Fossil Story Project: Typing Fossil Story

HW: Work on Grid Drawing ||= **Wednesday 3/21**

Fossil Story Project: Typing Story

Grid Drawing Fossils

HW: Work on Grid Drawing ||= **Thursday 3/22**

Fossil Story Project: Review Using Paints Painting Grid Drawing Fossils

HW: Work on Grid Drawing ||= **Friday 3/23**

Fossil Story Project: Painting and Mounting Grid Drawing ||
 * = **Monday 3/26**

Fossil Story Project: Mounting Picture and Story

HW: Read Finding the Relative Age of Rocks Article and Answer Question 1-4 ||= **Tuesda**y **3/27**

Relative Age



HW: Finish Packet ||= **Wednesday 3/28**

Absolute Dating

Preserve the Past or Build the Future Debate ||= **Thursday 3/29**

HALF DAY ||= **Friday 3/30**

HALF DAY

CAREER DAY

NOTE: All Assignments Turned in by the End Today will not be Counted as Late ||

February 2012 New 9-Weeks Binder Clean Up
 * = **Monday 1/30**

Watch Your Mouth Article -Read Alone Then With Partner

Discuss How and What a River Carries Meandering River

The Ever Changing

River Exploration

Learning Goal: Explain how moving __water__ can shape the Earth by eroding rock and depositing sediments. ||= **Tuesday 1/31** Find Saint Joseph River on Michigan and Watershed Maps

Discuss Saint Joseph River Dredging Picture 1

Planet Earth Segment -Fresh Water: Rivers Shape the Landscape (1:43) Compile Erosion Flip Book

HW: Start Flip Book forthe Types of Erosion -add water erosion Learning Goal: Explain how moving __water__ can shape the Earth by eroding rock and depositing sediments. ||= **Wednesday 2/1**

Erosion Demonstrations - Wind Demonstrated by Teacher, Water and Ice Investigated by Students

Read Land Shaper Article and Answer Questions while Ice is Melting - Use Talking to the Text Strategy



Discuss How Erosion Changed the Surface of the Soil in Demonstration

HW: Continue Flip Book for the Types of Erosion - add wind and glaciers Learning Goal: Explain how __wind__ and __glaciers__ can shape the Earth by eroding rock and depositing sediments. ||= **Thursday 2/2**

Rock and Roll Exploration



Extra Time After Exploration? Check This Out!

Discuss Rock and Roll Exploration

Wave Erosion - Pages 94-97 in Purple Resource Books

HW: Work on Flip Book for the Types of Erosion - add gravity and waves __ (Flip Books Should Be **95%** __ __ Done for Class Tomorrow) __

Learning Goal: Explain how __gravity__ and __waves__ can shape the Earth by eroding rock and depositing sediments. ||= **Friday 2/3**

Flip Book Work Time

Share Flip Books in Groups

Erosion Learning Goals and Clicker Quiz

Learning Goal: Explain how __water__, __wind__, __glaciers__, __gravity__ and __waves__ can shape the Earth by eroding rock and depositing sediments. || Rock Cycle Interactive
 * = **February 2/6**



Learning Goal:Compare and contrast the formation of rocks using the rock cycle model ||= **February 2/7** Rock Around the Clock

Exploration



Learning Goal: Compare and contrast the formation of rocks using the rock cycle model ||= **February 2/8** Review Online Activities from Monday and Tuesday Video Segments:Three Types of Rocks (4:55)The Rock Cycle (3:16) The Rock Cycle Venn Diagram

Learning Goal: Demonstrate similarities and differences among rocks using the the rock cycle model ||= **February 2/9**

Create Procedure for Turning Chocolate "Sediments" into Different Types of Rocks

Carry Out Sedimentary Rock Procedure



Learning Goal:Demonstrate similarities and differences among __sedimentary__ rocks using the the rock cycle model ||= **February 2/10**

Carry Out Metamorphic and Igneous Rock Procedures

Analyze Examples of Real Rocks



Learning Goal: Demonstrate similarities and differences among __metamorphic and__ __igneous__ rocks using the the rock cycle model

Note: Earth Science 1 Test Next Wednesday ||
 * = **Monday 2/13**

Learning Goals/Clicker Quiz

Earth Science 1 Study Guide

Learning Goal: Show understanding of all five Earth Science 1 Learning Goals ||= **Tuesday 2/14**

Review Study Guide

Test Review Jeopardy

||= **Wednesday 2/15**

Earth Science 1 Test ||= **Thursday 2/16**

Review Test

Take Earth Science 2 Pre-Test ||= **Friday 2/17**

Review ES2 Pre-Test

New Learning Goals - What do we know?

||
 * = **Monday 2/20**

No School - Presidents' Day ||= **Tuesday 2/21**

Discuss - Where do earthquakes occur?

Review Latitude and Longitude - practice on map

Plot Recent Earthquakes

Learning Goal: Explain the connection between tectonic plate movement and geological events ||= **Wednesday 2/22**

Review Plotting of Earthquakes - Compare Maps

Look for Connection Between Plots and Online Map (Additional Map)

Students Complete Page 1 - Share and Discuss Responses

Learning Goal: Explain the connection between tectonic plate movement and geological events ||= **Thursday 2/23**

Read Pages 19-21 in Orange Textbook on Layers of the Earth

Complete Layers of the Earth Handout and Label Diagram -

Homework: Read Article on Alfred Wegener - Talking to the Text Strategy

Learning Goal: Describe the layers of the Earth and how they cause tectonic plate movement ||= **Friday 2/24**

Plate Tectonics Puzzle Pieces

Discuss Alfred Wegener Article and Continental Drift

Observe Movement of Plates

Watch Video Segment: How the Inner Structure of the Planet Affects Plate Tectonics (5:43)

Learning Goal: Explain how evidence is used to support the Theory of Continental Drift ||

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January 2012 Diggin' Up the Dirt Article -Talking to the Text
 * = **Monday 1/9**



Clicker Quiz and Learning Goals:Soil and Sediment Learning Goal: Describe how soil is made of sediments and decomposed materials ||= **Tuesday 1/10** Physical (Mechanical) and Chemical Weathering Reading * Practice Talking to the Text Strategy * Complete Venn Diagram Comparing and Contrasting the Two Types of Weathering





Note Cards for Physical and Chemical Weathering

HW: Complete Venn Diagram and Note Cards

Learning Goal: Compare and contrast physical and chemical weathering ||= **Wednesday 1/11** Review Physical and Chemical Weathering Reading

Weathering Lab Stations

Learning Goal: Explain how physical and chemical weathering lead to erosion and the formation of sediments ||= **Thursday 1/12**

Work Time for Individual Presentation Posters

to the Real-World
 * Include How Station Connects

HW: Finish Poster if Needed



Learning Goal: Explain how physical and chemical weathering lead to erosion and the formation of sediments ||= **Friday 1/13**

Snow Day ||
 * = **Monday 1/16**

No School - MLK Day ||= **Tuesday 1/17**

Gallery Walk of Weathering Presentations



Learning Goal: Explain how physical and chemical weathering lead to the formation of sediments ||= **Wednesday 1/18**

Finish Gallery Walk - Discuss Findings and Questions

Video Segments on Physical Weathering (2:39) and Chemical Weathering (2:57)

Draw Picture of Weathering Example on Each Note Card

Discuss Connection Between Weathering and Soil

Learning Goal: Explain how physical and chemical weathering lead to the formation of soil ||= **Thursday 1/19**

Review Physical Weathering - Forces that Shape the Earth

Review Chemical Weathering - Planet Earth: Caves Formation Segment

Weathering Picture Review

Erosion Note Card

HW: Read pages 33 and 35 Using Talking to the Text Strategy

Learning Goal: Explain how physical and chemical weathering lead to erosion and the formation of sediments ||= **Friday 1/20**

Clicker Quiz and Learning Goals: Weathering Discuss Glacier Reading Glacier Exploration - Snowball (or ice cube) Exploration - Observations on page 32
 * Connect Observations to reading (pg. 33 & 35)
 * Identify Weathering
 * Connect to Erosion

Formation of the Great Lakes

Learning Goal: Explain how glaciers erode rock and deposit sediments || Mid-Term Exam Study Guide -Work Day ||= **Tuesday 1/24** Review Study Guide Create Notes Index Card
 * = **Monday 1/23**



HW: Study for Exam ||= **Wednesday 1/25** Hours 3, 4 & 5: Jeopardy Review Game Hour 8: Science Mid-Term Exam Hour 9: Class Does Not Meet HW: Study for Exam ||= **Thursday 1/26**

Half Day

Exams for Hours 2 & 4 ||= **Friday 1/27**

Half Day

Exams for Hours 5 & 9 ||

December 2011
 * = **Monday 11/28**

Brainstorm Forms of Energy

Seven Forms of Energy Video Segment (5:05)

Read Energy Article and Complete Graphic Organizer - DUE WEDNESDAY

Handouts: ||= **Tuesday 11/29**

Discovery Education Explorations

Forms of Energy

Changing the Form of Energy

Handouts: ||= **Wednesday 11/30**

Law of Conservation of Energy Introduction

Money Demonstration

||= **Thursday 12/1**

Energy Transfers Kit

||= **Friday 12/2**

Review Energy Transfers Kit

Learning Goals

Clicker Quiz ||
 * = **Monday 12/5**

Movement of Molecules - Hot vs. Cold Water pg. 37 & 38

Solid, Liquid, Gas Dance (courtesy of last year's eighth grade class) ||= **Tuesday 12/6**

Movement of Molecules - BB's as a Model pg. 38 & 41

Review Page 40 and Discuss

Due Wednesday
 * H.W.: Page 41 Question #2 **

||= **Wednesday 12/7**

Solid, Liquid, & Gas Dance Demonstration

Changes of States - Discovery Education Exploration



Video Segment: Energy and the Four States of Matter: Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma [03:41] ||= **Thursday 12/8**

Mrs. Barrett's Famous Matter Doesn't Go Anywhere Lab - Law of Conservation of Mass



Discovery Animation ||= **Friday 12/9**

Law of Conservation of Mass Note Card

Clicker Quiz

Learning Goals

Work on Study Guide

**Physical Science Test** - Due Monday
 * H.W.: Study Guide for **




 * Physical Science Test **
 * on Tuesday 12/13 ** ||
 * = **Monday 12/12**

Review Study Guide

Test Review Game

||= **Tuesday 12/13**

__**Physical Science Post-Test**__ ||= **Wednesday 12/14**

Review Test Results

Begin Earth Science 1 Pre-Test ||= **Thursday 12/15**

Complete Earth Science 1 Pre-Test

Observing Rock Samples - Page 1

||= **Friday 12/16**

Analyze Pre-Test Results

Review Learning Goals for Earth Science 1



Observing Sediment Properties - Page 40

Compare and Contrast Sediments ||
 * = **Monday 12/19**

Exploring Sediments - Developing an Inquiry Report

- Develop Problem/Question - Prior Knowledge - Hypothesis - Independent/Dependent Variable - Control(s) - Materials - Procedure

||= **Tuesday 12/20**

Continue Exploring Sediments Inquiry Report

- Results (Perform Experiment) - Analysis of Data ||= **Wednesday 12/21**

Continue Exploring Sediments Inquiry Report

- Conclusion ||= **Thursday 12/22**

What is Soil? Pages 37 and 38 ||= **Friday 12/23**

Mega Party

Christmas Assembly ||

November 2011
 * = **Monday 10/31**

Toy Project Presentations

Toy Instructions Due ||= **Tuesday 11/1** Collect Toy Projects

Pass Back Quiz

Learning Goals

Clicker Quiz ||= **Wednesday 11/2** Introduction to Thermal Energy

Expert Jigsaw Reading (Thermal Energy, Conduction, Convection, and Radiation)

Poster Construction ||= **Thursday 10/3** Poster Construction and Presentation

Note Organizer ||= **Friday 10/4**

Poster Presentations and Note Taking ||
 * = **Monday 11/7**

Heat Energy and Conduction
 * [|Bill Nye The Science Guy on Heat]**


 * [|Eureka! Episode 24 Conduction]**

Activity 6 ||= **Tuesday 11/8**

Conduction

Ice Water Demonstration

Conduction Note Cards

HW: Draw a picture or create a comic strip about Conduction. Be sure to explain the conduction Process ||= **Wednesday 11/9**

Intro to Convection [|Convection Current]

Story Time With Ms. Weston

Goldilocks the Liar

Conclusion

Convection Note Cards

HW: Conduction/ Convection Word Search Sheet

Parent Teacher Conferences 5- 8:30pm ||= **Thursday 11/10**


 * Half Day**


 * 3, 4, 5**

Story Time With Ms. Weston

Goldilocks the Liar

Parent Teacher Conferences Noon - 3:30 and 5- 8:30pm ||= **Friday 11/11**


 * Half Day**


 * 8, 9**

Story Time With Ms. Weston

Goldilocks the Liar ||
 * = **Monday 11/14**

Goldilocks Experiment

Analyze Data



||= **Tuesday 11/15**

Goldilocks Analyze Data and Conclusion

Convection Self Assessment

Convection Note Card

HW: Finish Goldilocks Conclusion - Due Friday

||= **Wednesday 11/16**

Understanding Radiation Activity - How Heat is Transferred Through Different Colors

Radiation Reader's Theater

Radiation and the Sun Video Segment (2:28)

Work Time for Conclusion

Conclusion Due Monday 11/21

||= **Thursday 11/17**

Heat Transfer Song

More on Radiation

Radiation Note Cards

Conclusion: Reasoning Section

Work Time for Conclusion/ Study Guide

HW: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation Study Guide Due Friday 11/18

[|123 Heat Transfers Energy] ||= **Friday 11/18**

Learning Goals

Review Study Guide

Conduction, Convection, Radiation Review Game

[|Radiation, Conduction, Convection Rap Song]

|| **Conduction Convection** **Radiation Quiz**
 * = **Monday 11/21**

||= **Tuesday 11/22**

Go over Quiz

Clicker Quiz for Learning Goals

Binder Cleanup ||= **Wednesday 11/23**

1/2 Day

Cultural Awareness Assembly ||= **Thursday 11/24**

No School

||= **Friday 11/25**

No School ||
 * = **Monday 11/28**

Brainstorm Forms of Energy

Seven Forms of Energy Video Segment (5:05)

Read Energy Article and Complete Graphic Organizer - DUE WEDNESDAY

Handouts: ||= **Tuesday 11/29**

Discovery Education Explorations

Forms of Energy

Changing the Form of Energy

Handouts: ||= **Wednesday 11/30**

Law of Conservation of Energy Introduction

Money Demonstration

||=  ||=   ||

**__October__**
 * = **Monday 10/3**

Science MAP Testing ||= **Tuesday 10/4**

Introduction to Energy

** Activity 1 - page 1 ** Perform Experiment ||= **Wednesday 10/5**

** Activity 1 - page 1 ** Finish Trials and Analyze Data

Potential and Kinetic Energy Note Cards ||= **Thursday 10/6**

** Activity 1 - pages 2-3 ** Design Investigation and Perform

H.W.: Find and Record 5 Examples of Potential Energy and 5 Examples of Kinetic Energy Around Your Home - Due Friday ||= **Friday 10/7**

** Activity 1 - pages 3-4 **

Potential and Kinetic Energy Song

Analyze Data and Write Conclusion ||
 * = **Monday 10/10**


 * Activity 1 - page 4 **

Learning Goals

Clicker Quiz


 * [|Potential Energy] ** ||= **Tuesday 10/11**

Reading MEAP Testing

Afternoon: Me Essay Project ||= **Wednesday 10/12**

Reading MEAP Testing

Afternoon: Me Essay Project ||= **Thursday 10/13**

**Activity 3 - pages 8-9** Mass affect Kinetic and Potential Energy

Our Video of the Sphere Drops



H.W.: Potential and Kinetic Energy Worksheet Due Monday ||= **Friday 10/14**

Analyze Data and Write Conclusion
 * Activity 3 - pages 8-9 **

Dropping Spheres Video

H.W.: Finish Writing Conclusion Due Monday

||
 * = **Monday 10/17**

Go over Homework

Review with Potential and Kinetic Energy Cards

Pendulum and Energy ||= **Tuesday 10/18**

Math MEAP Testing

Afternoon: Me Essay Project ||= **Wednesday 10/19**

Social Studies MEAP Testing

Afternoon: Me Essay Project ||= **Thursday 10/20**

Go Over Conclusion

Moving Up Exploration

**Activity 5 - page 12** Toys and Energy ||= **Friday 10/21**

Toys and Energy Analyze Data ||
 * Activity 5 - 12 **
 * = **Monday 10/24**

Potential and Kinetic Energy Review

[|Set To Go]

Introduce Toy Project

H.W. :

Brainstorm Ideas for Toy

Study for Potential and Kinetic Energy Quiz ||= **Tuesday 10/25**

Review Study Guide


 * Potential and Kinetic**
 * Energy Quiz**

H.W.: Continue to Think About The Toy You Want to Build

Bring materials for Toy Project for Wednesday

Study Guide Due ||= **Wednesday 10/26**

Toy Project: Constructing Toy

H.W.: Finish Building Toy at Home

Rough Drafts of Instructions



||= **Thursday 10/27**

Toy Project: Typing How To Instructions

H.W.: Practice Presentation

Finish All parts of Toy Project ||= **Friday 10/28**

Toy Project: Finish Typing ||
 * = **Monday 10/31**

Toy Project Presentations

Toy Instructions Due ||=  ||=   ||=   ||=   ||

__** September **__ Happy Labor Day! No School ||= **Tuesday 9/6** Welcome Back Shamrock Pride at BSMS ||= **Wednesday 9/7** Shamrock Pride in the Classroom Design Name Tags Classrooms Procedures and Materials ||= **Thursday 9/8** Confusion Game What is Science? Poster ||= **Friday 9/9** Welcome to Laptops - Computer Usage Novell Login Microsoft Office - Set-up Folders || Introduction to Science Tools Brain Pop Video: Measuring Matter ||= **Tuesday 9/13** Parts of a Ruler Length Video Measuring objects Metric Measurement Chart H.W.: Ruler Practice Sheet ||= **Wednesday 9/14** **Length Continued** Review Homework Length Note Card Using a Meter Stick Introduction - How to Read a Graduated Cylinder ||= **Thursday 9/15** Exploring Graduated Cylinders Graduated Cylinder Rotation Marble Displacement Metric Measurement Chart Volume Note Card H.W. Measuring Volume Practice ||= **Friday 9/16** Difference between Mass and Weight Discussion Weight on Other Planets [|Explore Learning] Triple-Beam Balance Measuring Objects Metric Measurement Chart Mass Note Card || What is Temperature? (Hot vs. Cold) Compare Fahrenheit and Celsius Taking Temperature Metric Measurement Chart Temperature Note Card Study Guide Due Tuesday 9/20 Measurement Quiz Tuesday 9/20 ||= **Tuesday 9/20** Discuss Processes - Where do we use them in our lives? Analyze Science Inquiry Process in a Myth Busters Investigation H.W.: Bring in your best paper airplane tomorrow ** Hours 3, 4, & 5 ** ** Science Inquiry Investigation ** ** with Paper Airplanes ** Test Airplanes for Distance Redesign Airplane Changing Only One Variable ** Hours 8 & 9 ** **Introduction to** **Science Inquiry** Discuss Processes - Where do we use them in our lives? Analyze Science Inquiry Process in a Myth Busters Investigation H.W.: Bring in you bestpaper airplane tomorrow ||= **Friday 9/23** **Half-Day** **Hours 8 & 9** Test Airplanes for Distance Redesign Airplane Changing Only One Variable || Analyze Data from First Trial Discuss Steps of Guided Inquiry Chose One Variable to Change in Airplane Test Airplanes (if time) ||= **Tuesday 9/27** Test Airplanes Analyze Data and Complete Guided Inquiry Process ||= **Wednesday 9/28** Create Posters to Display Data, Analysis, and Conclusion Gallery Walk and 411 Card ||= **Thursday 9/29** Physical Science Pre-Test (Assessment not counted as a grade. Done to help students set goals and guide instruction.) ||= **Friday 9/30** Analyze Class Data from Pre-Test Set Goals for Physical Science Unit Student Receive Physical Science Student Journals ||
 * = **Monday 9/5**
 * = **Monday 9/12**
 * Length**
 * Volume**
 * Volume**
 * Mass**
 * = **Monday 9/19**
 * Temperature**
 * Half-Day **
 * Hours 2, 3, 4, & 5 **
 * Quiz Over**
 * Metric Measurement** ||= **Wednesday 9/21**
 * Hours 3, 4, & 5 **
 * Introduction to Science Inquiry**
 * Hours 8 & 9 **
 * Quiz Over Metric Measurement** ||= **Thursday 9/22**
 * Science Inquiry Investigation**
 * with Paper Airplanes**
 * = **Monday 9/26**