Summer School Science 2007

Week 1

Monday:

  • Introduction to Class: Expectations, Syllabus, Lab Safety, & Class Webpage (30 min)
  • Student Inquiry Tubes (20 min)
  • Chemistry of Life – Lecture & The Exploratorium (40 min)
  • Quia Concept Review (20 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Polymer Demonstrations (30 min)
  • Making Gluep (20 min)
  • Sun Prints (40 min)
  • ChemistryVocabularyBuilding Worksheet (30 min)

Tuesday:

  • Chemical Concept Review (15 min)
  • Soil Chemistry Lab (60 minutes)
  • Video: Kaboom (35 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Video: Kaboom (25 min)
  • Lab: Something to Dye For (60 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (35 min)

Wednesday: No School

Thursday:

  • Cellular Submarines (30 min)
  • Cell Parts Lecture (50 min)
  • Cell Coloring Sheets (30 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Mitosis Lab & Cell Cycle Simulation (60 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Friday:

  • Lab: Coin Flip Kids (60 min)
  • Video: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea part 1 (50 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Video: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea part 2 (70 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Week 2

Monday:

  • Punnett Squares: Understanding Heredity (60 min)
  • Understanding Mendelian Genetics (50 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Understanding Mendelian Genetics (60 min)
  • Genetics Vocabulary Scramble (30 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (30 min)

Tuesday:

  • M & M Genetic Drift Lab (50 min)
  • Human Karyotype Activity (60 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Human Karyotype Activity cont. (10-20 min)
  • Exploring Genetics Disorders (30 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Wednesday:

  • CSI Virtual Crime Scene Lab (90 min)
  • DNA Models (20 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • DNA Models Continued (50 - 60 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 - 70 min)

Thursday:

  • Designing Biome Travel Brochures (110 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Biome Mapping Lab (90 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (30 min)

Friday:

  • Video: The SavageGarden (60 min)
  • Estimating Mobile Populations (50 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • The Boreal Forest (60 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Week 3

Monday:

  • WebQuest: The Buzz About Blooms (110 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Plant Fibers: Making Paper (60 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Tuesday:

  • Wet Your Waders (60 min)
  • Protists & Algea Coloring Sheets (50 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • CarmenLake (60 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Wednesday:

  • Nab the Aquatic Invader (60 minutes)
  • Video: Shark Encounters (50 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Video: Shark Encounters Cont. (10-15 min)
  • Fish ID Lab & Coloring Sheets (45 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Thursday:

  • Nobel Prize Web: Blood Typing, Hearing & Defeat the Bacteria (110 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Video: Wild Survivors (60 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Friday

  • The Physics of Toys: Center of Gravity, Centrifugal Forces, & Ballistics (ORBIX Tops & C. of Gravity & Cat-a-Pults)

The class will be divided in half to perform these experiments. After break, they will switch lab equipment.

Week 4

Monday:

  • The Physics of Toys: Ballistics part II, Flight, Motion (Nerf Guns, Paper Airplanes, Mouse Trap Racers)

The class will be divided in half to perform these experiments. After break, they will switch lab equipment.

Tuesday:

  • All About Lasers Game (30 min)
  • Pendulums and Roller Coasters (30 min)
  • Tarzan & Cheetah Lab: Understanding Pendulums (50min)
  • Break
  • Video: Extreme Gadgets (60 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (60 min)

Wednesday:

  • Google Earth & Remote Sensing (60 min)
  • All About Sound – The San Francisco Symphony (30 min)
  • The Exploratorium (20 min)
  • Break (10 min)
  • Solving Logic Problems (30 min)
  • Deductive Mystery Game (90 min)

Thursday:

  • Deductive Mystery Game – Conclusion (110min?)
  • Break
  • Video: Agatha Christie Mystery Movie – Evil Under the Sun

Friday:

  • Video: Agatha Christie Mystery Movie – Ten Little Indians
  • Break
  • Grades & Celebration (Movie: Night at the Museum)