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Science fair resources: Read more abstracts from past fairs here: http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/absonline/ Find your science fair forms here (rules wizard): http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/students/wizard/index.asp
Help preserve the natural biodiversity of our area by identifying and removing invasive species from your property. Visit this blogspot constructed by Scituate Students to start learning about some of the most widespread invasive plant species in our area:
http://shsenvisci.blogspot.com/
http://shsenvisci.blogspot.com/
Students in the NEED Projects are raising funds to support their Comminuty Energy Education Projects and Leadership Training. Please support their efforts with your purchase of great gifts made from recycled paper from our partner organizations linked below. Clicking on the images will take you to the links provided:
http://www.twistedlimbpaper.com/fundraising/shsneedprojectorder.htm
Upcoming due dates for 1st quarterPeriod 1: Physical Science - Did you get your welcome letter signed?
- HW due Tuesday, September 8th: Research how glow sticks work and write a paragraph summarizing this information.
- HW due Wednesday, September 9th: Write a draft of your introduction and discussion for the glow stick lab.
- Review your notes: Quiz on Thursday!
- HW due Thursday, September 10th: Read the safety contract. You and a guardian must sign it. Return the signed contract in class and you will receive another one for your records. Complete the 5 study questions on the bottom of your study guide.
- Due Monday, September 14th: Your typed lab report is due. This is a test grade.
- Due Tuesday, September 15th: Outline section 1 of chapter 16.
- Due Wednesday, September 16th: QW assigned at the beginning of class: 1-5 p.495
- No HW due Thursday, September 17th
- Due Monday, September 21st: Outline section 2 of chapter 16.
- Due Wednesday, September 23: Questions from section 2, Chapter 16 and outline of section 3 of chapter 16
- Due Thursday, September 24th: questions from section 3 chapter 16
- Due Monday, September 28th: questions from the end of chapter 16 (p. 513-514)
- Due Monday, October 5th: Practice problems
- Due Tuesday, October 6th: Study Guide (Want a head start? Link to document can be found at the bottom of this page)
- Wednesday, October 7th: Test on Chapter 1-6.
- due Wednesday, October 14th: Read pages 158-163 and complete questions 1-5 on page 163
- Due Wednesday, October 21: Sig Fig practice
- Due Thursday, October 22: Conversion practice problems
- Tuesday, October 27: Quiz on conversions
- due Wednesday, October 28th: Draft of introduction, purpose, and materials for your lab
- due Thursday, October 29th: Update the procedure of your lab.
- due Monday, November 2nd: Draft of your results section
- due Tuesday, November 3rd: Full lab report due. This is a test grade!
- due Wednesday, November 4th: Outline of section 3 of chapter 6
- Due Thursday, November: questions 1-5 on page 179 and vocab from p. 176
- due Monday, November 9th: Study guide
- Tuesday, November 10th: Test on Chapter 6
Period 2: Physical Science
- Did you get your welcome letter signed?
- HW due Tuesday, September 8th: Research how glow sticks work and write a paragraph summarizing this information.
- HW due Wednesday, September 9th: Write a draft of your introduction and discussion for the glow stick lab.
- Review your notes: Quiz on Friday!
- HW due Friday, September 11th: Read the safety contract. You and a guardian must sign it. Return the signed contract in class and you will receive another one for your records. Complete the 5 study and complete questions questions on the bottom of your study guide. - on pge
- Due Monday, September 14th: Your typed lab report is due. This is a test grade.
- Due Tuesday, September 15th: Outline section 1 of chapter 16.
- Due Wednesday, September 16th: QW assigned at the beginning of class: 1-5 p.495
- No HW due Friday, September 18th
- Due Monday, September 21st: Outline section 2 of chapter 16.
- due Wednesday, October 14th: Read pages 158-163 and complete questions 1-5 on page 163
Due Friday, September 25th: Questions from section 3 chapter 16 Due Monday, September 28th: questions from the end of chapter 16 (pages 513-514) Due Tuesday, October 6th: Study guide (Want a head start? Document is linked at the bottom of this page) Wednesday, October 7th: Test on Chapter 16. due Wednesday, October 21: sig fig practice due Friday, October 23: conversion practice problems Tuesday, October 27: conversion quiz due Wednesday, October 28th: draft of the introduction, purpose, and materials and methodsfor your lab due Friday, October 30th: update of your procedure is due due Monday, November 2nd: write a draft of your results section due Tuesday, November 3rd: Full lab report is due. This is a test grade
Period 5: EnviSci - Did you get your welcome letter signed?
- Review your notes: Quiz on Friday!
- HW due Thursday, September 10th: Complete the assignment on the bottom of the study guide.
- Due Wednesday, September 16th: Collect some flower or vegetable seeds from nearby (with permission, of course).
- Due Friday, September 25th: Outline of pages 1-10 of Forests of Rhode Island
- Due Monday, September 28th: Outline of the remainder of this booklet
- Study your tree id!!!!! http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/factsheets.cfm
- Did you study?
- Due Friday, October 2nd: Research native plants appropriate for our erosion control project. Write a paragraph about your recommendations.
- Due Wednesday, October 7th: Your tree ID study guide is due. Test on Tree ID.
- due Monday, October 26th: summary of tree farm info
- due Wednesday, October 27th: download orthophotos from RIGIS
- due Thursday, October 28th: visit the Nature Conservancy web site and find out what ecosystem type we live in
Period 6: IPS Did you get your welcome letter signed? Due Wednesday, September 9th: Draft of your materials and methods, results, and discussion sections of your lab report. This may be hand written. Due Thursday, September 10th: Write down three topics that you have interest in pursuing for science fair and explain why you are interested in them. - Due Monday, September 14th: Complete flag pole lab is due.
- Due Thursday, September 17th: Review two potential sources for your favorite science fair idea. Create the notecards described in class.
- Due Friday, September 25th: Your science fair question & hypothesis or engineering goals
- Due Friday, October 2nd: Reaction time lab report
- Due Thursday, October 8th: Research proposal
- Due Thursday, October 22: Study guide & science fair paperwork
- Tuesday, October 27th: test
- due Wednesday, November 4th: Baking soda lab report
- due Thursday: Questions 3-10 in Chapter 1
- due Friday, November 6th: materials and methods section for the next lab
Period 7: Intro to Biotech
Did you get your welocme letter signed? Practice opening and closing your microcentrifuge tube with your non-dominant hand. Review your notes: Quiz on Friday! HW due Thursday, September 10th: Complete the two solution making problems assigned in class.Due Friday, September 18th: Find an article related to GMOs and summarize it.Due Friday, September 25th: detailed notes from the assigned articleDue Monday, October 5th: Bacterial transformatin lab reportDue Friday, October 16: Find one article in favor of GMOs and one article opposed to them. Type a 1/2 page summary of each one. Be sure to include the full citation information.Due Thursday, October 22nd: study guide; click this link: and then click on the replication animation (the top one) to review the process that we studied in classTuesday, October 27th: testdue Thursday, October 29th: find another article on GMOsdue Friday, October 30th: Write your opinion with an explanation on if you think "Golden Rice" can solve the problem of blindness in children due to malnutrition.due Friday, November 6th: Your 1 page position paper on GMOs
Check out the refrigerator art that was on exhibit in Washington DC. This one was contributed to the exhibit by members of the SHS NEED Project, Sean Beard and Charlie Colvin. Way to go!!! Congratulations to all participants in Energy Night 2007 & 2008 and all the student leaders in the NEED Project on your Chafee Award. To read about this prestigeous award, click here . So you think what you do doesn't matter? Watch THIS!!! So, what will you do to CREATIVELY communicate information about climate change, carbon dioxide, energy and YOUR method of reducing energy waste or making renewable energy? Science Fair Participants: Here is the link to the Rule's Wizard .
Here are some short films by our friend DJ Johnson that show what a few local folks are doing to try to make life in Rhode Island sustainable.
These are entertaining: movie 1 and
movie 2.
A couple commercials from EDF.
Check out this "mock-umentary". If you want to support clean energy, go to GreenStart.net.
For a good laugh, check this out: http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html
Junior Solar Sprint:
Each year, teams of middle school students build and race solar powered cars in an event called the Junior Solar Sprint. The race is held in conjunction with the Rhode Island Sustainable Living Festival and Renewable Energy Expo at the Apeiron Institute for Environmental Living. Would you like to coach a team for the 2008 race? Talk to Ms.D.
To find out more about the Junior Solar Sprint, visit the
Northeast Sustainable energy association's web site at this link.
click Click here to order a kit..
To find out more about the Sustainable Living Festival, visit the
festival's web site at this link.
Find MSDSs at Flinn Scientific.
Useful links:
RI Sustainable Living Festival and Renewable Energy Expo
Does your electricity pollute? Unfortunately the answer is probably, "Yes." Well, it doesn't have to:Learn about GreenStart
Reduce your ecological footprint and work for a healthier planet.
Measure your ecological footprint
UnDo It!!! Learn about the Climate Stewardship Act. See how you can effect policy change to help reduce the emmission of greenhouse gasses.
Clean Power Now!!! What's up with the Cape Wind Project?
Make your own paper
Where art and science meet
Biology:
Here are the links to those handy animated explanations:
Guide to makeing your speed vs. time graph for the class data:
Making an XY Scatter plot
1. Enter data with x values on the left and y values on the right.
2. Highlight the data you want to put on the graph first.
3. Go to Insert, Chart.
4. Click on XY Scatter and click on next.
5. Click on next again or add additional series at this step (instructions below).
6. Type in the title and labels for each axis. Don¡¦t forget the units!!! Click on Next.
7. Click ¡§as a new sheet¡¨ and click on finish.
To modify and add additional data:
1. Right-click on the chart and click on source data.
2. Click on the ¡§series¡¨ tab.
3. Name the first series that you already have on the graph.
4. Click on add
5. Name the new series
6. Click the little symbol next to the ¡§x values¡¨ box. Navigate to your data table and CAREFULLY select your x values for the new data series that you wish to add. (x should be your left data column). Click the little symbol again.
7. Click the little symbol next to the ¡§y values¡¨ box. Navigate to your data table and CAREFULLY select your y values for the new data series that you wish to add. (y should be your right data column). Click the little symbol again.
8. Repeat steps 4-7 for each data series that you wish to add to your graph.
9. Click Ok
For Trendline
1. Click on a point in one of your data series to select that data series.
2. Under Chart, click Add trendline (if you don¡¦t see this option, you have to install the analysis toolpack---go to tools, addins, and select analysis toolpack---click ok)
3. Make sure that linear is selected. On the options tab, check off, ¡§set y-intercept to 0¡¨, display equation, and display r^2 value. Click ok.
4. Change the color of the text of the equation to match the color of the symbols in that series.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 for each series.
Keep these instructions handy (copy them into a work document and save them on your computer) for future reference.
Good Luck!!!
Phytoplankton slide show:brd1.ucsc.edu/exp_design/Botany/phytoplankton.ppt
Community Energy Education Project Participants:
Here is a link that I found that you might find helpful in locating articles for your essay.
http://environment.newscientist.com :-)
Check out the information about the challange that could earn you a trip to Hawaii!!!
Igniting Creative Energy
Click here for information on the Dupont Challenge
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