Week of October 26-30

6^th Graders and 8^th Graders will be in the Computer Lab 206 on Monday and Wednesday of this week. 6^th Graders will be working on their Pop Corn Lab Report. 8^th Graders will be working on two assignments involving waves, seismic waves, and Electromagnetic Waves.

Science Fair: On Tuesday, all competitors can check student folders (mailboxes) in classroom. In your mailbox, you should find a colored science fair folder with all of your forms and your research plan inside. If the Checklist for the Adult Sponsor has been signed, that means your project has been approved and you may begin your experimentation. If your checklist has not been signed or there is not special folder in your mailbox, you will need to see Mrs. Flynt about your project. Also, please check your research plan, bibliography, and all forms for suggested revisions. These MUST be incorporated in your final version.  Please be sure to return all revised Research Plans, bibliographies, and forms to your Science Fair Folder by FRIDAY!!!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

6^th Grade

7^th Grade

8^th Grade

Daily Launch

Preview and read pages 5-17 in Enviro Science Textbook.

Read and highlight Water Bottle Rockets Diagram Assignment.

Work on Physical Oceanography vocab, as well as adding questions, vocab, key ideas, and summaries to classnotes and Cornell handouts.

Daily Mission

Review calculating % difference and discuss results of Pop Corn lab. Explain what needs to be in the Results section and Discussion/Conclusions section of Lab Report. Suggest inferences that can (and can’t) be made, based on our data, as well as the benefit this data or similar experiments might provide in the real world.

Introduction to Environmental Science. Discuss some of the topics and fields of science associated with environmental science.

2^nd: Discuss WBR Diagrams assignment. Complete final trials in Water Bottle Rocket Lab (1/2 full). Begin compiling group data.

3^rd: Discuss WBR Diagrams assignment. Complete Water Bottle Rocket Blast Off WS. Students will finish selecting their jobs for our rocket lab and establish where they will be positioned and with whom they will work.

4th Period:

Reviewed the following topics at student request: transverse waves, longitudinal waves, compression, rarefaction, p-waves, s-waves, mafic, felsic, viscosity, intrusive, extrusive, gabbro, granite, basalt, rhyolite, pumice, obsidian, turbidity current, turbidites, oceanic-continental subduction and associated features, oceanic-oceanic convergence, volcanic island arc.

5^th Period:

Reviewed the following topics at student request: atoll, turbidity current, turbidite, bathymetry, isobaths, isobars, isotherms, contour lines, James Hutton, uniformitarianism, catastrophism, transverse waves, longitudinal waves, compression, rarefaction, p-waves, s-waves, surface waves (ocean waves), shadow zone.

Handouts

History of Rocketry Research Questions, Water Bottle Rocket Blast Off WS, Water Bottle Rockets Diagram Assignment

Physical Oceanography Vocab List

Homework

Turn in Popcorn Lab Reports tomorrow.

Science Fair: Revised Research Plans, bibliographies, and forms due tomorrow.

Work on History of Rocketry Research Questions and Water Bottle Rockets Diagram Assignment.

Next Rocket History Bibliography is due on Monday (4 new sources/7 total).

W.B.R. diagrams will be due next Wednesday.

FCAT Science Voyager Reports due tomorrow! Dates: 10/16-10/30.

Introduction to Waves Assignment also due tomorrow.

Friday, October 30, 2009

6^th Grade

7^th Grade

8^th Grade

Daily Launch

Turn in Pop Corn Lab Reports to INBOX.

Finish reading pages 5-17 in Enviro Science Textbook.

2^nd: Take out data tables for WBR Lab.

3^rd: Get in your groups and prepare for today’s lab.

Work on Physical Oceanography vocab, as well as adding questions, vocab, key ideas, and summaries to classnotes and Cornell handouts.

Daily Mission

Introduce students to the layout and design of their textbook while introducing and discussing some of the fields and issues associated with Environmental science. Generate discussion using targeted questions that require students to look in captions, graphs, and margin notes for answers. Quiz students on the self-check and section review questions.

2^nd: Compile data and observations from all groups and calculate average flight altitudes for each tested water volume.

3^rd: Students will mark off locations on the field and conduct two test launches for water bottle rocket lab.

4th Period:

Reviewed the following topics at student request: “iso”, “bathy”, contour lines and contour maps, isopleths, isobaths, isobars, isotherms, atoll, volcanic island formation and erosion, slab pull, shadow zone.

5^th Period:

Reviewed the following topics at student request: focus, epicenter, hanging wall, footwall, normal fault, reverse fault, wave classification, types of mechanical waves (sound waves, seismic waves, ocean waves), types of electromagnetic waves, types of longitudinal waves (sound waves, p-waves), types of transverse waves (electromagnetic waves, s-waves, ) combined-type waves (surface waves, ocean waves, Raleigh waves, Love waves), wave medium, particle motion vs. wave propagation, side-scan SONAR.

Handouts

Environmental Science Textbook.

History of Rocketry Research Questions, Water Bottle Rockets Diagram Assignment

Physical Oceanography Vocab List

Homework

Have a

SPOOKTACULAR

Halloween!!!

Work on History of Rocketry Research Questions and Water Bottle Rockets Diagram Assignment.

Next Rocket History Bibliography is due on Monday (4 new sources/7 total).

W.B.R. diagrams will be due next Wednesday.

Have a

SPOOKTACULAR

Halloween!!!