My Science Homework

As a way to confirm understanding of all of the relative aging concepts covered over the last several days of class, students today worked to complete a reverse cross section of rock layers.  Instead of using a diagram to determine the order of events that occurred through time, students were given a list of ordered […]

Class began with the conclusion of the Rock Cycle graphic organizer guided notes. This only took the first 15 minutes of class or so. We then discussed the significance of today’s date; February 29th: The leap day.
Since we had just closed the unit on Astronomy, and considering that the calendar’s “year” is […]

After completing the planet flashcards in class yesterday, students were introduced to the structure of our own sun.  After a breif discussion of the sun’s formation (as discussed during yesterday’s video clip), we then discussed the internal layers of the sun:  the core, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona.  Tomorrow we will discuss […]

What do students already know about chemistry? What do they want to know? Those were our guiding questions to open class when students completed the first two columns of a Chemistry K-W-L. They were to include at least 5 things in the first two columns - the “K” for what they already […]

Today was the final day of the experimental design project and lab reports were due in class today.  With homecoming coming to a close, the day was very busy, but a lot got done.
All lab reports for all hours (regardless of whether or not class met today) are due today.  Remember - even for 6th […]

Today we continued typing our formal lab reports to document the details of the loop plane experiment we conducted over the last few days.  Students were reminded to format the report as shown in the third handout (How to Write a Lab Report).  Students had the full hour today to type the report, save it […]

All lab groups should have data recorded from the loop plane experiment. By today, each individual should have a graph completed demonstrating a relationship between two variables in their experiment, be it speed and distance, distance and time, speed and trials, etc…
Today was the first of three days we will spend working with the […]

Students started today by brainstorming how they could represent their experimental data in graphical form. Students were encouraged to come up with the graph that would best describe their data - be it a bar graph, line graph, or pie chart. We then discussed which would best suit the different possible experiment scenarios […]

Continuing with the theme from Friday, students worked today to complete their experimental design proposals.  These proposals included a problem statement, hypothesis, description of the variables involved, and a detailed procedure they planned to follow.  Upon completion, the experimental design was approved and students then moved on to Step Two:  Conducting the Experiment.  After constructing […]

Today was the first of six days spent designing an experiment.  Taking into account all we’ve done thus far through the year, students will work in groups of three to design, conduct, and properly document an experiment centered around a small paper loop plane.
Our starting point for today was to construct the “standard” loop plane, […]