WELCOME TO FROST –or- WELCOME BACK TO FROST!!!
8 Sep:Play this:
Welcome. Discuss school rules (specific items each class period). Fill out Student Information Sheets IN BLACK INK (due by Friday). Seating charts – use them! 7th and 8th grade orientation programs during special 1sthour. Write your name on a popsicle stick to use for class later – give it back to me today – goes in cup at front of room on your way out. Given time – begin scientific observations exercise (belt, key tube, 9 mag game, black box)
Homework – See text box, above.
9 Sep:Log: (A log question is a question that you need to answer in the “Logs” section of your binder when you come to class each day). Complete “Safety Slacker” by yourself. You may find many more than 4 things wrong with the “slacker” depicted on this worksheet.
Classwork: Hidden Rules worksheet – complete in groups of 4 and relate to the syllabus. Discuss the safety slacker with demo “whoosh bottle”. Begin “Lab Safety Cartoon” in class, finish for homework (due Fri).
Homework: “Lab Safety Cartoon”. On the back of the sheet, each student needs make spaces to comment on all 13 people, and then have at least 10 comments (total) about what they are doing wrong (for Friday). Also - see text box, above.
10 Sep:7th grade photos during class today
Classwork: Divide into groups, introduce yourselves, and discuss the lab safety rules – use your answers to “Safety Slacker” come up with at least 7 rules that your group thinks are critical to our middle school classes (put answers on the back of the sheet). As a class, discuss safety rules and other behaviors that are needed to allow for science to be more enjoyable and interesting. Help with “Lab Safety Cartoon” – due tomorrow.
Homework – See text box, above.
11 Sep:8th grade photos during class today
All Classes – Intro of Mr. Satarino - conflict and issue resolution in MACAT (10 Min during 8th grade photos)
Due: MACAT Syllabus sheets, Student Information Sheet (collect/alphabetize). Also, remember KLEENEX and paper towel for A-L last names, please!
Classwork: Continue lab safety – give credit for effort, then complete discussion of “Lab Safety Cartoon” Worksheet (labs) in class – at least one 7th grader and one 8th grader per group.Begin Hurricane lessons – barometric pressure and Rain Gauge/CoCoRaHS network.
Homework: Binder and 5 dividers due Monday!!!!!!!!
14 Sep: Classwork: Use Samsung Tab 4 tablets (1st time ever) to run Poll Everywhere for safety quiz review. Use projector and sample binder to set up binders. Make sure students have all sheets filed in proper sections of binder.
Due: Binder with 5 dividers
Homework – Part 1: Make sure binder is ready for check tomorrow, finish studying for quiz as needed.
Homework – Part 2: Get safety contract signed for tomorrow
15 Sep: Fire drills for 15 minutes in 1st-3rd hours.
Classwork: Safety Quiz. Show students what a mL is (grad cyl, gram-cm cubes)
Classwork/Homework: Read “Where is Water on Earth?” (Lesson 1 MEECS Water) and make your predictions in the proper column on the table that has been provided. Also, draw your own version of the water cycle in the space provided on the back of the lab.
Vocab: Groundwater, Icecaps, Glaciers
Due: Safety Contract
16 Sep: Log: Compare your answers to the predictions for “Where is Water on Earth?” with the other students in your group.
Classwork – part 1: Complete “Where is Water on Earth?” lab in your groups.
Classwork – part 2: Look at “How Much of Earth’s Water is ‘Available’ for Human Use?” to check your work on the lab.
Classwork/Homework: Complete “The Water Cycle” – MEECS Water page 10. – review/assessment of existing info. (it’s on the back of “How Much of Earth’s Water is ‘Available’ for Human Use?”)
Vocab: Terms for water cycle – not listing them here to keep you from “cheating” on 15 Sep
17 Sep: Meet in lab computer 227 (around the corner from my room)
Classwork: “Path of Michigan’s Water to the Ocean” – begin in class using the computer and lake elevations from Google Earth. Students need to determine the most logical way for both liquid and gas phases of water to reach the Atlantic Ocean from Livonia. (Comes with a worksheet/info)
18 Sep: Finish the “Path of Michigan’s Water to the Ocean”. Discuss the lab from Wed. Discuss the vocab students need to know for the water cycle.
Due: “Path of Michigan’s Water to the Ocean”
21 Sep – Computer lab
Vocab: Variable (dependent and independent), hypothesis, control, notable, stepwise.
Log: 8th graders help 7th graders come up to speed on the Starburst jelly bean lab that we will start in class on Monday or Tuesday.
Small groups - work on “Scientific Method” (labs) sheet, learn the meaning of “generalization,” complete back of sheet if time permits (will be homework on Monday).
What are variables? Can more than one variable be tested at the same time in an experiment? Explain your answers!!!!
Begin metric system review – Starburst jelly bean lab – 8th graders read and discuss while 7th graders have their pictures taken. Small groups work together to answer the questions on the back of the sheet (on separate paper).
9 Sep: Hand out BoxTops Fundraiser Sheet to 1st Hour
Due: Binder and 5 dividers (10 points!).
Log: How do you use a fire extinguisher on a burning wall? How long can you get spray to come out of a small (10 pound) fire extinguisher?
Classwork: Create these 5 binder sections in class (8th graders help 7th graders): Notes, Logs, Labs, Tests/Quizzes, Everything Else (E.E.). Don’t empty your binder until we do it as a class!!! Go over last items for “Safety Cartoon” sheet. Complete discussion of “Scientific Method” (labs) classwork from Friday. Watch Flinn lab safety video at:
Classwork/Homework: Complete “Performing an Experiment” on the back of “Scientific Method” sheet for Wed.
Vocab: Data, generalization, mass, absolute zero, stepwise, air pressure = 14.7 psi
10 Sep: Meet in computer lab. If you have not done so, you must sign up for my general info and class emails today!
Fire and tornado drill day (1st – Tornado 8-8:25, 3rd – Fire 10:32, 5th - Fire 1pm, 6th – Fire 2pm)
Use time to go outside and review food chains/webs, producers, consumers, herbivores and carnivores (those are our VOCAB words for the day). Discuss differences between forest edge and deep forest for food. Look at simple and compound leaves, eat grapes and grape leaves (student choice), avoid pokeberries and buckthorn berries, discuss Sumac, Virginia Creeper and Poison Ivy.
Classwork/Homework: Discuss “Performing an Experiment.” Complete ecology review sheet associated with today’s lesson (due Thurs).
Homework: Make hypothesis for Starburst Jelly Bean Lab, if you have not already done so.
11 Sep: 1st hour: 7th Grade Magazine Fundraiser Kickoff
2nd Hour: 8th Grade Magazine Fundraiser Kickoff
Log: “Read and Record/Metric Measurement”(labs)
Classwork: Learn how to properly use the major and minor scale on a ruler and 3 beam balance. Learn to estimate one decimal place beyond the minor scale on any piece of equipment. Take 17 question lab safety quiz + 7 question metric system pre-test.
Time permitting: Begin Starburst Jelly Bean Labby discussing log worksheet and hypotheses students made for lab (help with proper format of a hypothesis). In addition to what is in the directions, your group needs to use a laptop to type a procedure that can be followed by another group – do this as you go along!!! (also sign up for my website emails at this time if you did not do so yesterday in the computer lab).
Homework: Get Safety “Contract” signed for tomorrow (1st and 3rd hours will do this on 12 Sep)
Vocab: Kilo, milli, centi, major scale, minor scale
12 Sep: Open House is Tonight at 7pm.
Due: Safety Contract (hours 5-6). Nature Trail Ecology Review Sheet from Tues.
Classwork: Discuss and collect ecology sheet from Tuesday. Continue Jelly Bean Lab. Create graphs, charts, procedure, collect data.
Vocab: Grams, milliliters, degrees Celsius.
Classwork/Homework: Answer as many lab questions as is now possible, given what you got done today.
Homework: Get Safety “Contract” signed for tomorrow (1st and 3rd hours) – or your parents can bring it to open house tonight!
Additional Work: complete both sides of “Metric Capacity” (e.e.) in any free time that you have
13 Sep: Due: Safety Contract (hours 1, 3)
Classwork: Continue Jelly Bean Lab.
Classwork/Homework: Each student ensures that they have answers to as many of the questions on the back of the lab as possible for next Monday.
Additional Work: complete both sides of “Metric Capacity” (e.e.) in any free time that you have
16 Sep: Classwork: Complete Jelly Bean Lab. Be sure procedure is typed and graphs/charts accurately represent data LABEL EVERYTHING WITH YOUR NAMES AND THE PROPER UNITS!
NOTES ABOUT WHAT MUST BE DONE TODAY:
- The lab PROCEDURE
- DATA CHARTS
- YOUR CONCLUSION (how did the lab either support or not support your hypothesis?)
- You must answer all of the questions on the back of the lab by tomorrow – EACH STUDENT MUST HAVE THEIR OWN SET OF ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ON THE BACK OF THE JELLY BEAN LAB!
17 Sep: Log: Why use the Metric System? Why not use the Metric System? (give 4 reasons for each question).
DUE BY THE END OF THE HOUR
- EACH STUDENT turns in their answers to the lab questions by the end of the hour.
- All GROUPS turn in their hypothesis that they tested
- All GROUPS turn inthe procedure that would be used by others to test the same hypothesis turned in today (hypothesis for #2, above).
- All GROUPS turn in graphs/charts, even the ones that didn’t help to test their procedure.
- All GROUPS turn in their conclusion (how did the lab either support or not support your hypothesis?)
Classwork: Discuss Log. If your team is behind and needs to use the class period for the lab, the following classwork becomes homework: Area Worksheet #1 and Volume Worksheet #1 (due on 24 Sep).
Classwork/Homework: Obtain and begin “Measurement Notes” – due sometime in October, this is a spot to consolidate your understanding of the metric and U.S. systems. Put this information on your “Measurement Notes/Study Guide:
1. 1st two columns on worksheet - define and list the basic units of length, volume, mass, temperature and time (add a space to the worksheet for time) in the Metric System (SI) and our “normal” (English) system?
Be Sure to Explain your answers to #2 and #3 (in rectangles for “English Measurement System” and “Metric Measurement System”)
2. What number (if any) is the metric system based on?
3. What number (if any) is the English system based on?
18 Sep: Log: Look up front and draw what you see in the most scientific way possible.
Classwork: Discuss log and my expectations for how students will make drawings on future lab procedures. Share procedures for Jelly Bean Lab to determine if other groups could follow your procedure as it was written. Return and go over the quiz from last week.
Homework: finish both sides of “Metric Capacity” for tomorrow.
19 Sep: “Catch-Up Day”
Log: I give you credit for “Metric Capacity, then you discuss it in your groups of 4, after which you work together to complete the back of the sheet.
Classwork: Discuss Log as needed. Go over additional items from Nature Trail Fall Visit as needed. Finish discussing 13 lab questions from Jellybean lab (see vocab) – include relationship of mL to cm3, and info about density of water at 40C. Return Quiz and go over specific sections. Discuss issues with lab procedures as written by students.
Homework: Graphs and Charts Practice 1 (for tomorrow – to discuss during “Log”)
Vocab: Capacity, Memorize temps in ques #7 on back of Jellybean lab, Calories, calories, basic metric units are grams, meters, liters. Also: 1 cal/g/0C, for all matter 1cm3= 1 mL, and for water only 1cm3= 1 mL = 1g @ 40C.
20 Sep: Note: Protists came in today, so we will change objectives for a few days while they are available.
Interim Objectives/Big Ideas:
- Cells are the basic units of living things
- The levels of complexity of cellular organization in multicellular organisms.
- Specialized cells exist for specific jobs within multicellular organisms
- Unicellular organisms have cells that are capable of all jobs needed for life.
- What differentiates between living and nonliving things?
Log: In groups of 4, discuss Graphs and Charts Practice 1, then complete Graphs and Charts Practice 2 if you get done early.
Classwork: Obtain “Note Taking Guide: Characteristics of Living Things” packet (labs). Discuss use/parts of microscopes and begin observations of amoeba, euglena, and paramecium on page 14 of the packet.
Classwork/Homework: Graphs and Charts Practice 2 (for Monday – to discuss during “Log”)
23 Sep: Log: In groups of 4, discuss Graphs and Charts Practice 2
Classwork: Continue Microorganism work – complete pages 14-15 of packet, use the laminated sheets to help with your drawings. Begin pages 8-9 (animal slides).
Classwork: Show Videos:
AMOEBA:Amoeba eats two paramecia (amoeba’s lunch):
PARAMECIUM: Paramecium eating pigmented yeast:
EUGLENA: Euglenoid party:
EUGLENA: Euglena - Flagellum movement in phase contrast:
Classwork/Homework: Answer the questions on page 16 of the packet!!! Complete microscope parts worksheet (labs, due tomorrow)
NOTE: Good site to study the parts of a microscope:
Vocab: Unicellular, multicellular, amoeba, euglena, paramecium,
24 Sep: Log: Groups of 4 discuss the questions on page 16 of packet.
Classwork, Part 1: Area Worksheet #1 and Volume Worksheet #1 are due – complete part “C” on back of Dry Volume lab as a demo. I will check in your worksheets while you complete part 2 of the classwork.
Classwork, Part 2: Discuss microscope worksheet. Finish pages 8-9 of packet. Answer questions on page 10 in your group.
Due: Area Worksheet #1 and Volume Worksheet #1, Microscope worksheet.
Homework: Read page 12 of the packet, answer the questions on page 13. STUDY FOR THE QUIZ THAT IS NEXT WEEK!
25 Sep: Log: 1. Monerans (eubacteria and archaebacteria) and protists are two kingdoms of microorganisms. Why are they divided into two kingdoms, and what are some members of those kingdoms?
2. Why are the amoeba, paramecium, and euglena used are representative members of the protist kingdom?
Classwork: Obtain a textbook and complete your study of the characteristics of living things with the questions on page 3-5 of the packet. Show me the work when it is complete.
Classwork/Homework: Complete “Lights on Activity” on page 6 of the packet in the back room or at home, with a family member. (due tomorrow). ALSO START TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FOR THE 27 SEP CLASSWORK/HOMEWORK.
Vocab: moneran, protist, stimulus, response. archae (old), eu (true), karyote (kernel), prokaryote, eukaryote, bacteria (eubacteria and archaebacteria)
26 Sep: Log: Discuss pages 12-13 of the packet and your results on the “Lights on Activity.”
Classwork: Use the text and your notes to complete pages 21-22 of the packet.
Classwork/Homework: “Specialized Cells” on page 24 of the packet (due tomorrow).
Homework: Page 25 of the packet (page not numbered) and page 26 of packet.
Vocab: Cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
27 Sep: Log: Discuss page 25 of the packet (page not numbered) and page 26 of packet.
Classwork: Learn “The Cell Theory” on page 10 and “Cell Similarities” on page 12 – take notes, quiz one-another. Take notes and complete activities on pages 12-13 of text – Surface to volume ratio and the benefits of being multicellular/many kinds of cells.
Vocab: Cell theory, cell membrane, DNA, organelles, cytoplasm, surface to volume ratio.
Classwork/homework: answer the following questions (due Monday):
- What are the 3 parts of the cell theory?
- What are 4-5 things all cells have in common?
- What are 2 advantages of being multicellular?
- Why are the amoeba, paramecium, and euglena used are representative members of the protist kingdom?
- To which levels of organization in your body do the organelles in a unicellular organism most closely relate? Be specific, and explain your answer with at least 3 examples from the protists that we studied.
30 Sep: Log: Work on “Measurement Notes” – see chalkboard and lesson plans from 17 Sep.
Classwork: Finish microorganism work, prep for metric system quiz.
Classwork/Homework: Metric Capacity 2 – Crossword.
1 Oct: Log: Obtain and complete Graphs and Charts Practice 3
Classwork: Discuss Log as needed.
Classwork, Part 2: Remind 101. Quiz on milli, centi, kilo, mass, area, dry volume, volume by displacement, temperatures in both systems
Homework: Graphs and Charts Practice 4 (for Thurs – to discuss during “Log”). Venn Diagram from Characteristics of Living Things” (COLT) packet – due Friday).
2 Oct: Classwork: Go to lab 15 and complete the “Characteristics of Living Things” (COLT) packet and related assignments out of the textbook (as needed, for those who were absent). Use quizlet or another method of your choosing to make materials to use to study the vocab for this unit (see prior lesson plans for lists of vocab we used). Use this link to begin online MEAP review if all other work is completed.