Welcome to Silver Knight's Gifted Science

Agenda for Second Quarter: 10/26-1/15

Chapter 17: Absorption, Digestion, & Exchange

Chapter 18: Transport & Protection

Chapter 14: His/Herstory of Earth

Chapters 6.1 Systems 4.3 Waves

Chapter 5: Ocean Environments

Chapter 2: The Water Planet

Ecybermission or Science Fair Completed

11/11 Schools Closed

11/12 Report Cards Issued

11/26 & 11/27 Schools Closed

12/22 - 1/3 Winter Break

1/15 Early Release and End of Second Quarter

Week of 11/9:

Computer investigations on Monday and Tuesday.

Day off Wednesday!

Thursday & Friday a guest educator, so work counts double/page 656 the 16 terms in geometric shapes and reading/study guides completed.

Objectives: (Student) I will know how to describe circulation {types of and flow of}. I will know how to describe the functions and uses of the organs of the Integumentary System. I will be 'working' on understanding the Immune System responses to pathogens!

Gifted Homework Quarter II

11/2 Monday: Chapter 17: Respiratory, Digestive, & Urinary Systems.

Homework: Three Separate Travel Guide Cover Pages {As the O₂ Voyages} with details of the system on the cover.

OR Four Square Vocabulary (p.R50) for the 8 Vocabulary words on P. 620 + mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine + P. 622 #28.

11/9 Monday: Current Event Article   *The article * Written by you, the Main   Idea(s) & Supporting Detail(s)  * Identify & explain in order of importance the 8 body systems involved {skeletal, muscular, respiratory, digestive, urinary, circulatory, immune, nervous}.

11/20 Friday: Body Board/Bored GameWith a partner or by yourself, Body Terms in/on a Board or from internet like http://jeopardylabs.com. This date was 'moved back'.

12/2: Wednesday Reading Guides for Chapter 14. This date was also 'moved back'/sorry!

Chapters 6.1 Earth Systems & Chapter 4.3 & Waves: Any class works not completed will be homework.

Chapter 5 Ocean Environments:  from our time in media either a tour of Fort Lauderdale’s coast, deep waters, or resources in an ocean, or The Everglades.

12/14: Monday Science Fair Paper or ecybermission completed.

Chapter 2: The Water Planet – Next Year

Grading 'System' determined by department: 35% tests & quizzes, 25% class works, 25% projects, 15% homework.

Discipline: The Broward County Matrix.  Opportunities for detention are offered before school and @ lunch when we have morning duty.

Every Thursday is Silent Sustained Reading for the "DNA" {Do Now Activity}, & POP Quiz Day or SumMARY for concepts experienced during the week, correct spelling of terms will be required for credit. You will need a book of choice to read and pen and paper to POP Quiz!

Schoolnotes is ONE way to interact and communicate. Of course, there is always the student planner, and the phone, 754 - 323-4500. You may email directly through schoolnotes or maryalt @ bellsouth.net. Communication is extremely important for our success.

Suggested supplies for 2009 - 2010 for science: Pens - any color, markers or colored pencils, highlighters, composition book. 

eCybermission Challenge or Science Fair Research completed.

• Mission Challenges are divided into 4 separate topics: ^1. sports & recreation, ^2. renewable energy, ^3.environment, ^4. health & human safety.
• “eCybermission is a free, web-based science, math, technology competition for students in grades six through nine. The competition goals are to improve student performances in science, math, & technology, encourage future careers in these fields, & inspire new generations of citizens to embrace & appreciate the role of science, math, & technology in our world.”

 Quarter 3: 1/20 – 3/25

 Chapter 7: Weathering & Soil

Chapter 8.1: Erosion & Deposition

Chapter 20: Earth, Moon, & Sun

*Benchmark Assessment Test IV

Chapter 21: Our Solar System

Chapter 22 Stars, Galaxies, & the Universe

 Quarter 4: 4/06 – 6/09

 Chapter 9: Natural Resources

 *Benchmark Assessment Test V

Chapter 10: Electricity

Chapter 11: Circuits & Electronics

Chapter 12; Magnetism

Benchmark Assessment Test VI

Family Life

A Few Musings for 2009

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day.  In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour, in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick, but out by us it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from the galactic central point.
We go round every two hundred million years, and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions,in this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding.
In all the of the directions it can whiz, as fast as it can go, the speed of light you know.
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure.
How amazing....."

from Monty Python's, The Meaning of Life”