January 29 These Elephants Could Sense the Tsunami Before It Arrives

January 29 These elephants could sense the tsunami before it arrives.

January 28th We began the followingfinalfinal. We will be focused on the questions that you are struggling with the most! You only need to answer the 50% of questions that are most difficult for you!.When you answer, no letter answers. 3. The answer is B is not accredited. You must read the question and answer by explain why you chose the answer that you did. You may research, you may collaborate, you will not receive credit for incorrect responses.

Check out the awful affects of Zika virus in Brazil. Let's hope that this disease does not make it's way to the United States!

January 27 through February 1 You will be given a final. You are responsible to answer 1/2 of the questions posted. This will be a major grade along with your presentations on Science Research and weather systems. You also will have a final homework grade. Marking period grades will be completed by February 1. The marking period ends February 2.

January 24 to 25 I hope you are enjoying the snow! I sure am glad you guys were right, at least a foot of snow already with more on the way! Enjoy the Nor'easter! What a great time to be studying the weather!

January 22 With any inclement weather be ready when we return to explain your final weather research project, 4 to 5 slides on your chosen weather phenomena!

January 20-22 Climate's around the world, we researched and described in detail how animals are perfectly adapted to their environment and their climate. Be a trend setter and read this one!

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January 19th We have computer lab time! Utilize this time for a final science fair project. Collect your research! As a class we will also make weather predictions for the next week! Any snow forecasted for this week! Tell us why? Better yet play a game and make some

predictions!

Better yet pick your own weather game to play here is a partial list!

The following is a list of weather events that you may choose to study, Hurricane Sandy, Katrina, Camille, Yolanda, Andrew

Tornadoes in Oklahoma, Texas, Connecticut, Ohio, Kansas, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas

Great floods of Johnstown, PA, Mississippi River, winter floods

Blizzards of 1978, 2012, Nor'easters, seasonal lake effect snow, Buffalo snow

January 15th Today is the virtual dissection of frogs! does the tympanic region differ between species of frog? Identify major organ systems. Try this link as well.

Watch each of the internal anatomy videos, focus on these organ systems.

January 14th I am out today! You will be writing a one page storyline about how your chosen animal has evolved over 63 million years. Give reasons for all the adaptations that must have happened to bring your species from mouse to exceptional mammal. You also will read and review a scholastic article!

January 13th Imagine what this robin hears as worms move beneath it's feet. Can you explain (Jacob) . If that wasn't enough imagine elephants talking to other elephants through their feet. of you may want to think more about sound!

imagine how bats fly through complete darkness and still find their way out of caves, find food, or what about water!

How about sound as being better than light, at least in a blue world

January 12th Earthworm dissection please compareyesterdays research to todays dissection, include anatomy, physiology, and ethology. we question our own intelligence as we look into our worms

January 11th Use inference and inquiry in the classroom, this girl is an inspiration for ambidexterity week we will focus on biological sciences. Don't worry I won't ask you to do this! labs, brain pops and reading for meaning. Visit brain pop, at password woodbridgemiddle 1. (science, cellular life, bacteria- tell me the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells) 2. Stem cells- explain adult stem cells 3. cellular respiration- explain it include mitochondria, ATP , water and co2, include fermentation 4. metabolism- compare catabolic and anabolic reactions 5.natural selection-how does natural selection work- finches Ecology and Behavior 6. Charles Darwin- explain the birds 7. Migration- 3 types, do humans migrate8. hibernation- can a hibernating animal be awoken? Do bears hibernate9. camouflage- explain counter shading10. land biomes, tell us a little about each

January 8th Follow your dreams! Check out this video on motion

always follow your dreams of finding high places! We spent time this week, creating, prototyping, and inferring, physical science. Next week weare back to experiments.Enjoy the weekend, marking period is coming to an end, make sure you are completing homework.

January 7th I suggest you take a look at the requirements posted from the high school website for recommendations for the next 4 years. Realize at a minimum each r track course maintains 1 hour oh homework every night and ap courses can be 2 to 3 hours a night!

What subjects should I take if I plan to go to a competitive four-year college?

Admission to a competitive college is difficult. You must be able to show the college admissions officers that you have the ability to do well in college and that you are motivated to do your best. It is important to remember that you will be competing against other capable and motivated applicants for limited spaces. You should plan on a four-year program that looks like this:

GRADE 9GRADE 10

English 1R or Honors*English 2R or Honors*

Algebra 1R/1H* or Geometry R*/H* Algebra 2R*/H* or Geometry R*/H* World Languages 1 or 2R* World Languages 2 or 3R

World History II R* U.S. History 1R or AP*

Biology R Chemistry R

Health 9*Health 10*

Physical Education 9* Physical Education 10*

Visual/Performing Arts*21st Century Life and Careers*

21st Century Life and Careers*

GRADE 11GRADE 12

English 3R, Honors or AP* English 4R or AP*

Algebra 2 R*/H* or Pre-calculus R*/H* Pre-calculus R*/H* or Calculus R or AP

World Languages 3 or 4RWorld Languages 4R or AP

U.S. History 2*Science AP*

Physics or Science AP Social Studies AP*

Health 11*Health 12*

Physical Education 11* Physical Education 12

Financial, Economic, Bus. & Entrepreneurial Literacy College Preparatory Accounting

or Economics* Elective

* = required course or one that will meet a departmental requirement.

We are scheduling for high school classes check out your options for next year!

Lets design and build with Knex, use this video for inspiration! January 6th This is a project happening at the town next door! What do you think?

You shouldcheck out this video to drive home the evaluation of sand storms, you will see the rain that follows and the change in the color of the atmosphere, skip to at least 5 minutes in!

January 5 We read scholastic articles and interpreted. Did you answer all 4? If not refer to the following. one and make inferences like we did in class! Today we filled out STEM scholarships, please, please tell your parents so they look to expect e-mails regarding future opportunities! For some of you interested in pushing yourself to the next level, 8th annual heroes conference. cost for test $60.00, funded through the heroes academy.

January 4th Happy New Year! We are going to review our year and prepare for the NJ ASK8. While filling in any gaps in our learning. Use brainpop at your discretion this week. Review your Study island and describe in details your designs, creations and future expectations! Have you created your New year resolutions!

Bridges!!

Joe and Asiyah, check out these lagomorphs,

Chelsea and Alanadacheck out the standards at the high school level

December 24 through next year our Science fair is June 1st at Colonia High School. This form is necessary to participate. December 23 Take this test

We will destroy not with wind but weight 22 Outstanding work today thank you. Check out a video on bridge construction, bridge maintenance or bridge disaster. Check out gallopingertie!

If you are struggling with our bridge project, this is an alternative project. Watch the following video and present your findings to the class. We complete our balsa wood bridges, test them for strength! December 21 A special shout out to a couple of Woodbridge Middle Scholars from 5 years ago! Thanks for the visit David and Victoria!!! Go Tigers go! Or should I say "No David"!!Princeton

How to build

Let's make an airplane, car, truck, boat, out of recycled materials. Check out this one first on airplanes

\December 18 Now let's turn your K-nex structures into a balsa wood structure. We will glue balsa wood, mimicking the K-nex of yesterday.

December 17 Block #1 We will be building bridges! The goal is to create a bridge that can hold (mass) strength, unique design or expansion distance. Watch the following video for inspiration will use water in the bucket to determine the strength, your structure will break! Use one of the following sites to share and show structures that have been tested.

Block #3,4 After presenting your inventions, check out this video will be flying planes! Play the following game earn 1000 pts then lets design planes! about thrust, yawl, surface area, resistance, environmental conditions. The three categories are distance, time in the air and accuracy!

December 16 Check out this idea

You can use this site too

I know this video may seem long but if you skip to the middle we will try using it over the next couple days.

Finally we take coding to the final level and we build structures using tried and true variables. Lets build Earthquake proof structures. Storm proof, hurricane proof, tornado proof!

December 15 Imagine the following at how aware or unaware people passing are. Could you create a skit that could cause people to react differently than normal?

December 14 to 15th Today we are going to code behaviors. Lets start with non-verbal communication. We will mix up some signals in order to make a point, without saying what we mean. Let's make this a fun assignment. Check out this video to help you code genetic behavior.

Review the El Nino

quantum leap, December 14th Let's take on size as an adaptation today. After watching the following video, have you ever thought about all the physical features that current species have, alligator skin, whale size, bunny ears...

December 11 We created a storyline about a genetically modified species based on environmental change

Now that we are experts at coding, this should help you to better understand another strand, human genome CODE,

December 10 We had a robot race today, how does that compare to this? out this wiz kid! to get to the first 3 minutes. If you enjoyed learning about Santiago try a slide puzzle, I only finished the dog

December 10th Now relate coding of computers to coding of life.

December 9th If yesterday was fun, coding for games, apps, web sites, today we will code for robots. Imaging the future where robots will brush your teeth, comb or style your hair, regulate vitamin or mineral deficiencies in the human body, maybe even prevent rare species from going extinct. is our robotic starting point today. As you write code, think about how similar that of human genetics is to the code of life. 98% oh human genes are identical to chimpanzees and 50% similar to a plant and more closely related tofishes and mice! By tomorrow we will create a race, track or show space for your coded robots!

December 8th check out some of the other free coding links. you a quant? You may want to look that one up!

December 7 Check out this video Check out thislink for gaming or coding or this link so you and BB-8 can create a galaxy far far away

Usage of Kleiber's law and EFFICIENCY in class today

Next week, computer code writing, programing computers maybe to someday remove carbon dioxide, build 3-D images that you design or drive you to and from your future job!