Monday 12/1 Agenda

Learning Goal: We will identify and explain examples of renewable and non-renewable resources.

AGENDA

1. Tomorrow we will have a guest speaker coming in to talk about Sea Otters. To prepare for the presentation we will take a short Pre-Assessment and watch two short videos about Sea Otters.

2. Read Natural Resources pp. 71-73

3. If you are finished with your Diorama Project, Read pp. 75-79 and answer questions for EXTRA CREDIT (this is rare (-;  )

4. For those of you who are not finished with your Diorama Project: Go to Google Classroom and open your Resources Project Worksheet. This will be the last day to complete your diorama during class time. If you don't finish it today you can work on it at home. Turn it in by this Friday.

*The Rubric below will be used to grade your Resources Diorama Project. Please look at it and make sure you complete all the requirements!!

Tuesday 11/25 Agenda

QUIZ CORRECTIONS!!! Make sure you complete quiz corrections if you did not do well on the plants quiz!!

Learning Goal: We will identify and explain examples of renewable and non-renewable resources.

AGENDA

1. Video

2. Click on the Link and answer the three questions below on the Padlet:

• What percentage of the world's energy does the United States use?

• Do you think this is fair? Why or why not?

• What might we do to change this situation?

3. Go to Google Classroom and open your Resources Project Worksheet. This worksheet needs to be finished today!!

4. While you are working on the worksheet, I will call a few groups at a time to weigh the sprouted seeds.

Links to information about renewable and non-renewable resources:

Energy resources

US Energy Renewable Resources

EcoKids renewable energy

Ecofriendlykids/renewable/nonrenewable

*The Rubric below will be used to grade your Resources Diorama Project. Please look at it and make sure you complete all the requirements!!

Monday 11/24 Agenda

QUIZ CORRECTIONS!!! Make sure you complete quiz corrections if you did not do well on the plants quiz!!

Learning Goal: We will identify and explain examples of renewable and non-renewable resources.

AGENDA

1. Go to Google Classroom and open your Resources Project Worksheet. A lot of you are behind on your work. You should have it at least half way completed by now (2 quarters). We are going to go over the 1st and 3rd quarters together. 

2. Finish quarters 2 and 4 of your worksheet, then you can start working on the diorama. It is due at the end of the period tomorrow (Tuesday).

*The Rubric below will be used to grade your Resources Diorama Project. Please look at it and make sure you complete all the requirements!!

Friday 11/21 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

QUIZ CORRECTIONS!!! Make sure you complete quiz corrections if you did not do well on the plants quiz!!

Learning Goal: We will identify and explain examples of renewable and non-renewable resources.

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Warm-Up: Brain Pop "

2. Renewable and Non-renewable resources diorama project.

Links to information about renewable and non-renewable resources:

Energy resources

US Energy Renewable Resources

EcoKids renewable energy

Ecofriendlykids/renewable/nonrenewable

Thursday 11/20 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

QUIZ CORRECTIONS!!! Make sure you complete quiz corrections if you did not do well on the plants quiz!!

Learning Goal: We will identify and explain examples of renewable and non-renewable resources.

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Warm-Up: Brain Pop "Energy Sources", matching activity

2. Renewable and Non-renewable resources diorama project.

Links to information about renewable and non-renewable resources:

Energy resources

US Energy Renewable Resources

EcoKids renewable energy

Ecofriendlykids/renewable/nonrenewable

Wednesday 11/19 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

QUIZ CORRECTIONS!!! Make sure you complete quiz corrections if you did not do well on the plants quiz!!

Learning Goal: We will identify and explain examples of renewable and non-renewable resources.

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Warm-Up: Watch BrainPop "Fossil Fuels" and take the quiz. 

* If you didn't watch the BrainPop "Natural Resources" video yesterday, watch it now so you can play the Sortify game!!

2. Sortify game

3. Non-Renewable Resources beans activity

Tuesday 11/18 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Learning Goal: We will begin to learn about natural resources.

Period 5/6: Click on the link below to complete the Padlet quiz from Friday's lesson:

 Padlet

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Warm-Up: 

2. Teacher Seed Demo, using triple beam balance

3. Tape worksheet into notebook

4. Weigh your seed with your partner, then each partner will record data into table in notebook.

5. Watch the BrainPop video on "Natural Resources" and take the quiz online until you get 100%!

6. If you finish early, watch the BrainPop video on "Humans and the Environment" and take the quiz.

Monday 11/17 Agenda

Weekly Bulletin

Learning Goal: We will begin to learn about natural resources.

Period 5/6: Click on the link below to complete the Padlet quiz from Friday's lesson:

 Padlet

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Warm-Up: With your group, brainstorm a list of things that we use that are made from plants.

2. On the next blank page in your notebook, set up a page to record notes on the "Anticipatory Guide" and "Find the Meaning" activities.

3. Resources PowerPoint

4. Go to the following link and read the first section (three paragraphs) with your group. Answer the questions from the PowerPoint on a blank piece of binder paper and turn it in when you are finished:  Natural Resources and Recycling

5. Watch the BrainPop video on "Natural Resources".

Friday 11/14 Agenda

TODAY'S AGENDA

• Weekly Bulletin

Learning Goal: Learn about plant development and responses.

1. Warm-Up: Draw a diagram of your leaf on the next blank page of your notebook, and write at paragraph answering the following questions in complete sentences: What are some observations about your leaf? What stimulus causes leaves to turn color in the fall? Do all leaves change color? 

2. Watch the movie:  Why do leaves change color in the fall?

3. Finish Powerpoint and Cornell Style Cloze Notes.

4. Quiz: Padlet

5. Watch the BrainPop video on "Seasons".

Thursday 11/13 Agenda

TODAY'S AGENDA

• Weekly Bulletin

Learning Goal: Learn about plant development and responses.

1. Warm-Up:  Watch the following videos about plants:

Tropisms and Hormones

Phototropism and Gravitropism 

10 Incredible Plants

2. Powerpoint and Cornell Style Cloze Notes (tape the worksheet into your notebook on the next RIGHT SIDE page.

3. Exit Ticket Padlet

Wednesday 11/12 Agenda

TODAY'S AGENDA

• Weekly Bulletin

Learning Goal: Learn about plant development and responses.

1. Warm-Up: Pop Quiz!! 

2. On the next blank LEFT SIDE page in your notebook:

• Write the heading Anticipatory Guide: Plant Development

• Number 1 through 6

• Below the numbers, write the heading Find the Meaning

3. Powerpoint and Cornell Style Cloze Notes (tape the worksheet into your notebook on the next RIGHT SIDE page.

4. Exit Ticket Padlet

Monday 11/10 Agenda

TODAY'S AGENDA

• Weekly Bulletin

Learning Goal: Learn about how plants are important resources

1. Seeds, Fruits and Veggies.  Go on the link below. Write the definition for root, flowers, stems, leaves, and seeds.  Draw in your journal 2 plants from the game, labeling the plant parts.

Plant Parts Activity

2. On the next blank page in your science notebook, write the heading "Plants as Resources". Make a list of plants that we eat, then try to identify what part of the plant they are.

3. Then, click on the link and do the activity: plant parts we eat

5. Ticket out

Friday 11/7 Agenda

Reminders:

• You need to be in your seat and on the science blog when the bell rings! Please put your backpack under your seat or table.

• Weekly Bulletin

TODAY'S AGENDA

Learning Goal: Review plants and take quiz.

• Study the Quizlet for 10 min.

 http://quizlet.com/55429162/photosynthesis-flash-cards/

• Review study questions/posters

• Quiz

• Photosynthesis WebQuest

http://woodchurchscience.edublogs.org/files/2008/03/photosynthesis-flash.swf

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/phot_flash.html

Thursday 10/6 Agenda

Reminders:

• You need to be in your seat and on the science blog when the bell rings! Please put your backpack under your seat or table.

• Weekly Bulletin

• 2nd period 7th grade awards assembly!

TODAY'S AGENDA

Science Starter
Write the title, and number 1- 5 in your science journal.

Scramble- Plants

1. I am the place were photosynthesis occurs?                      loptsachlors


2. the waxy covering of plants that keeps the                               tulecic 
plants from drying out.

3. A type of passive transport, is the movement of                      fusionidf
molecules in a fluid or gas from region of higher
 concentration to a region of lower concentration.

4. Plant tissue that transports water and minerals                      lxmye         
from the roots to the leaves / flowers

5. Pore-like openings in leaves that allow gases and                  matasto
water to diffuse in and out of the leaves.

Learning Goal: Review what we have learned about plants over the last few weeks to prepare for tomorrow's test.

• Finish posters

• Present your poster to the class

• Use the following websites to complete photosynthesis WebQuest

http://woodchurchscience.edublogs.org/files/2008/03/photosynthesis-flash.swf

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/phot_flash.html

• Study the quizlet

 http://quizlet.com/55429162/photosynthesis-flash-cards/

Wednesday 11/5 Agenda

Reminders:

• You need to be in your seat and on the science blog when the bell rings! Please put your backpack under your seat or table.

• Weekly Bulletin

TODAY'S AGENDA

Learning Goal: We will review what we have learned about plants over the last three weeks.

1. Plants Study Questions 

• Each partner group will get a study question to answer. Use your notebooks, the textbook, and online research to answer each question. Create a poster to explain the concept. You can divide the work however you want, but each group member must contribute. 

2. Then click on the quizlet to study vocabulary words that will be on the quiz:

http://quizlet.com/55429162/photosynthesis-flash-cards/

Thursday's Science QUIZ

There will be the regular quizlet section of the quiz, and some questions from classwork from the last three weeks.  Be sure to study your journal pages. 

Make sure you study the photosynthesis diagram in your science journal.  You will need to fill out a photosynthesis diagram on the quiz. 

Tuesday 11/4 Agenda

Reminders:

• You need to be in your seat and on the science blog when the bell rings! Please put your backpack under your seat or table.

• Weekly Bulletin

9 AM BUS EVACUATION DRILL

TODAY'S AGENDA

Learning Goal: We will review what we have learned about plants over the last three weeks.

1. Plants Study Questions 

• Each partner group will get a study question to answer. Use your notebooks, the textbook, and online research to answer each question. Create a poster to explain the concept. You can divide the work however you want, but each group member must contribute. 
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2. Then click on the quizlet to study vocabulary words that will be on the quiz:

http://quizlet.com/55429162/photosynthesis-flash-cards/

Thursday's Science QUIZ

There will be the regular quizlet section of the quiz, and some questions from classwork from the last three weeks.  Be sure to study your journal pages. 

Make sure you study the photosynthesis diagram in your science journal.  You will need to fill out a photosynthesis diagram on the quiz. 

Monday 11/3 Agenda

Reminders:

• You need to be in your seat and on the science blog when the bell rings! Please put your backpack under your seat or table.

• Weekly Bulletin

TODAY'S AGENDA

Learning Goal: We will learn about how plants develop and respond to their environment, and make seeds.

1. How do plants change over time? How do they respond to their environment? Click the padlet to answer, and be sure to include your NAME, PERIOD and NUMBER!!: Padlet

2. Partner reading pp. 202-204

3. Carefully tear out p. 207 from the Interactive Textbook and answer the questions. Turn it in to the red turn in box when you are finished. Make sure your NAME AND NUMBER are on your paper!!

4. When you finish, study the quizlet below:

http://quizlet.com/55429162/photosynthesis-flash-cards/