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School Year 2009-2010 No assignment...7th and 8th grade's first day is tomorrow. 7th Grade: Read Chapter 1 section 1 pp. 6-13 Define the Key Words in section 1 of your 3 subject spiral. Use secton 2 of your spiral as a journal for answering the word as you proceed through your textbook. Copy and answer each Reading Checkpoint. copy the question to the 7th Grade: Learn the definitions to the Key Words in section 1 of chapter 1. 8th Grade: Section Reviews p. 10, p.14, and p.19 will be graded tomorrow. They were supposed to be completed for today. The vocabulary definitions and copied section notes are due tomorrow. September 4th 7th grade: Copy the GRS (guided reading study) nd fill -in the metric chart. 8th grade: Fill-in your metric chart. September 7th Labor Day...........No School September 8th Current Event Week All classes are to concentrate on learning/memoring their Metric Systems chart. September 9th 7th grade: Continue to study the metrics chart. Your first Current Event is due this Friday. Read section #2 of chapter 1 pp. 14-18 and complete the GRS. Also list and definite the new vocabulary words in the first section of your spiral notebook. 8th Grade: Continue to study the metrics chart. Your first Current Event is due this Friday. Complete the DRL for chapter 1 by tomorrow. The rest of the chapter 1 materials are due on Friday. September 10th 7th Grade: Current Eventth is due and the section #2 vocabulary words should be defined in your spiral notebook. 8th grade: Current Event is due along with the rest of the Chapter 1 materials: VRW; RW; CT; and SPT2. 7th Grade Health: Health Current Event (HCE)---2 are due this month with the first next week. 8th Grade Health: Health Current Event (HCE)---2 are due this month with the first next week. Your ten (10) nutrition labels and ingredients list from the following products are also due at your next class: 1. regular sugar soda, 2. diet soda, 3. caffiene-free soda, 4. Macaroni and cheese mix which you add milk and butter to prepare, 5. loaf of white bread, 6. loaf of whole wheat or whole grain bread, 7. canned green beans, 8. whole milk, 9. ready to eat canned pineapple or another canned ready to eat fruit, 10. tuna fish canned in oil. Do not buy anything for the labels. You may collect them from relatives and family friends if you do not have them in your home. Or, you may search and print out the manufacturers from their company websites. September 11th All Health classes Health Current Event is due. 8th Grade food labels are due. All Science classes will have their first Quest next week. The two major topics being tested will be the Metric System and the Scientific Method. All chapter 1 vocabulary will also be covered on this Quest. 7th grade: Define the rest of the key terms for Chapter 1 in your spiral notebook for Monday. 8th grade: Bring all chapter 1 materials to class. September 14th ALL Classes we will have our first official Quest this week. The Topics being tested...Scientific Method (PIHERC) and the Metric System. You will need to know the chapter 1 vocabulary/key terms from your textbook. Begin reviewing. 8th Grade: Begin Quest vocabulary review. 7th Grade: Complete the Review worksheet and the Enrichment worksheet. 8th Grade health: 10 nutrition and ingredients labels are due. 7th Grade Health: Bring your colored pencils to class. September 15th All science classes complete the 2 worksheets on linear metric measure. Remember on page 1 you read the measurement and write the measurement in centimeters. Hint-put a straight edge alongside the arrow to help clearly see which metric mark is being pointed at by the arrow. Page 2 you will use a straight edge and draw an arrow indicating the measurement listed. The Quest will be on Friday. A Quest is a little longer than a quiz, but not as long as a chapter test. 8th Grade health: 10 nutrition and ingredients labels are due. 7th Grade Health: Bring your colored pencils to class. All health classes should have at least one health current event in by the end of this week.September 16th 7th grade: Study chapter 1 vocabulary...Quest Friday 8th Grade: Copy p. 731 the procedure for using measuring devices into your note section of your spiral. List the 3 procedures in the following order: (1) Meterstick/metric rule, (2) Graduated cylinder, then (3) triple beam balance. Review vocab from C1 for Friday's Quest. All Classes...How's your PIHERC Knowledge? September 17th All Classes tomorrow is our first science quest> here are some questions you should be able to answer: Scientific Method/Scienific Inquiry: 1. What is PIHERC? 2. What does each letter of the acronym stand for? 3. What is done during each step of PIHERC? 4. What is the most important step of PIHERC and why? 5. What maks a hypothesis educated? 6. Why is hypothesizing different from inferring and predicting? 7. What makes a hypothesis testable? 8. What is a controlled experiment? 9. What are variables? 10. Differentiate between a manipulated variable and the responding variable? 11. How do we organize data so that it is meaningful to a reader of our experiment? 12. What must be discussed in your conclusion? The Metric System: 1. Can you write out the metric numberline? 2. Do you know the value that each metric prefix means? 3. Can you tell if one of two different metric unit sizes is greater than, less than, or of equal value? 4. Do you know the abbreviation for each prefix/unit size? 5. Can you change the interger/decimal to match the unit size change by sliding the decimal point? 6. Can you read the length of an object in centimeters or millimeters on a metric rule/meterstick? 7. What are the 3 standard units of the metric system? 8. What is each standard unit used to measure? 9. In which country was the metric system originated and currently housed? 10. What country is the lone holdout and has not adopted the metric system as its measurement system? September 18th Posted Saturday Because site was down after school on Friday 7th Grade: Complete your next science current event and bring it to class on monday. 8th Grade: Read section #1 from Chapter 2 of your textbook. Bring your next science current event to class on monday ready to turn in. 8th Grade Health: Collect and bring your 10 labels to class. These were due last week and represent a 100 point grade Your ten (10) nutrition labels and ingredients list from the following products are also due at your next class: 1. regular sugar soda, 2. diet soda, 3. caffiene-free soda, 4. Macaroni and cheese mix which you add milk and butter to prepare, 5. loaf of white bread, 6. loaf of whole wheat or whole grain bread, 7. canned green beans, 8. whole milk, 9. ready to eat canned pineapple or another canned ready to eat fruit, 10. tuna fish canned in oil. All Health Classes should try to have their second health current event for September in this week. September 21st This is a Current Event Week! 8th Grade Health Classes...10 nutrition labels are due...100 point grade. 7th Grade: Read Chapter 2 section 1...What is Life Science? Complete the GRS as well as defining the vocabulary words for this section in your spiral notebook. 8th Grade: Read Chapter 2 section 1...What is Matter? Answer the section review questions on p. 42. Define the vocabulary words and copy the section notes into your spiral notebook by Wednesday. All Health classes...your second health current Event is due this week. 7th Grade: Complete "What is Life Science" review worksheet 8th Grade: Complete section 1 of the chapter 2 DRW. September 23rd 7th Grade: Learn Chapter 2 section 1's new Key Terms. 8th Grade: Learn Chapter 2 section 1"s new Vocabuary. If you have not handed in your second Current Event...tomorrow is the due date. Seventh Grade Health: Color the first page of the skeletal system (cranium, spine, and rib diagrams) using the coloring code on the back of the first page. September 24th 7th Grade: Study the steps for using a triplebeam balance that you copied from the Appendix of the old life science text. Learn the 4 hints that I gave you to making accurate measurements with a graduated cylinder. Finally, study your new vocabulary. 8th Grade: Finish reading section 2 of chapter 2. Complete the 2nd section of your DRW and do the two section reviews on pp. 46 & 51. Seventh Grade Health: Color the first page of the skeletal system (cranium, spine, and rib diagrams) using the coloring code on the back of the first page.
Eighth Grade Health: Answer the 4 questions from the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. Bring your Bible to health class. September 28th This week finishes grades for Interims 7th Grade: Complete the balance beam packet by reading the scales and calculating the mass represented on each set of triple beams. Be sure to give your answer to the second decimal place as we practiced with the Ohaus reading a triple beam balance program. 8th Grade: Study your new vocabulary words. September 29th All classes use tonight to complete and turn in tomorrow any outstanding work. Refer to the checklist given to you in class today. 7th Grade: Learn the parts of the triple beam balance. 8th Grade: Review new vocabulary and review how you convert metric measurements from the ones place to the thousands place, i.e. from grams to kilograms. (Hiint: count the places on the numberline and move the decimal that many places in the direction you are moving on the line.) September 30th Current event due Friday! 7th Grade: C2 section 1 Vocabulary Quiz Friday. Read C2 section 2 on classification and define the Key Terms in your spiral notebook. 8th Grade: C2 Vocabulary Quiz on Friday. Bring the C2 DRW to class tomorrow for grading. 8th Grade Health classes: read the 11th chapter of the book of Leviticus in the Bible. As you read the different foods that were allowed and prohibited try to come up with a reasonable answer as to why some foods were allowed to be eaten and others were not allowed to be eaten. 7th Grade Health classes: Color and label the second diagram page of the skeletal system (the appendicular skeleton system). October 1st All classes...vocabulay quiz...current event due. October 2nd 7th Grade: Complete GRS 2.2 on classification. 8th Grade: review C2 vocabulary...review the charts and learn the charts on chemical properties and physical properties. 7th Grade Health: Color and label the second page (appendicular skeletal system) and complete the chart on the front of th packet. 8th Grade Health: Read the 11th chapter of Leviticus. As you read the foods allowed to be eaten and those not allowed...ask yourself-why? What do you know about animal diseases and their transfer to humans. October 5th 7th Grade: Know the Kings Play Chess On Fine Grained Sand neumonic and the taxonomic group that each letter stands. Be familiar with the history of the development of taxonoy; its founder; the uniqueness of a binomial nomenclature name; and the reasons for the development of the system of naming organisms. Know the 3 domains and the 6 kingdoms that belong in each. 8th Grade: Know the density formula. Be able to explain why density is a derived quanity. Know what units are used in the derivation. Be able to calculate the volume of a regular shaped solid. Be able to measure the volume of a liquid. Be able to calculate the density of either a regular solid = grams / (LxWxH) or a liquid = grams / mLs. Know how to calculate a Tare Weight. October 6th 7th grade None....Black Rock Tomorrow 8th grade...Review Density concepts. I will be at Black Rock with the 7th grade. You will be expected to complete any classwork not finished during class along with the specific ditto(es) assigned as homework for each night. 8th Grade Health: The 4 page packet on biblical diets will be due completed at your next health class. Pay particular attention to page 4. You will use this information to prepare a 2 to 3 page typed report that will be counted as a test. In this report you most cite specific Bible verses and incorporate scripture quotes into your report. THIS WILL BE THE LAST POST ON THIS PAGE FOR THIS WEEK UNTIL I RETURN FROM BLACK ROCK . October 12th Excellent Time At Black Rock ! This is the week your 4th Current Event is due! 7th Grade health: Bring Skeletal System dittoes to class. The drawings should be both colored and labeled. The chart should be filled out. 7th Grade: Review the vocabulary for chapter 2.2 on classification. Complete both sides of the single page ditto. Each side of the ditto is a separate grade: Review & Enrichment. Wednesday of this week You are to turn into me a 2 to 3 paragraph report on your experience at Black Rock. You should discuss in detail 2 new things you learned from each of 2 different Black Rock classes. Then in your final paragraph discuss the devotions and what you learned about the "Body of Christ" and how it impacted you. October 13th Wednesday of this week You are to turn into me a 2 to 3 paragraph report on your experience at Black Rock. You should discuss in detail 2 new things you learned from each of 2 different Black Rock classes. Then in your final paragraph discuss the devotions and what you learned about the "Body of Christ" and how it impacted you. October 14th 7th Grade: Current Event is due Friday. There will be a quiz on Classification Chapter 2 section 2 also on Friday. Use this evening to review the vocabulary for classification. Do you know the 3 domains and their characteristics? Do you know the 7 taxons in order from Kingdom through species? Do you know the history of the development of Taxonomy? Do you understand the term binomial nomenclature and it's application in identifying an organism? Do you understand that as we progess down the taxons that the numbers of organisms at each level become less and less, because at each lower level more specific chararcteristics are shared? |