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February 10: Career Day - guest speakers no science class

February 8: no science class - meeting with counselor for registration procedures

February 6 (Snow Makeup): scale drawings (bonus assignment)

February 5 and 9: Design and Play Educational Game - in class

February 4: Film: Tale of a Feather - notes required

February 1-3: SNOW DAYS

January 29: Film: Tale of an Egg - notes required

January 25, 26, 27, 28: EOG Preparation activities

January 20, 21, 22: Geologic Time Presentations

January 19: Film: Tale of a Bone - notes required

January 18 - no school

January 13: Film: Tale of a Tooth - notes required

January 12:  No science class - Classroom Guidance Day

January 8 & 11 & 14 & 19 Geologic Time Project - due date January 19

Media Center Computer Lab Project time - Project topic will be assigned individually on 1/8/2010 by Mrs. Toney. Projects will be presented in class beginning on January 19 - all students should be ready to present on this day.

Requirements: Geologic Time PowerPoint

10 slides:

Slide 1: Title (Title of presentation, student name, class period)

Slide 2: Timeline (where does your presentation fit in the whole of geologic time, what were the number of years that this presentation includes, what is the time span for your presentation)

Slide 3: Climate (land formations, temperature, water, general life conditions)

Slide 4 & 5: Plant life (2 representative plants from this time - pictures, names, descriptions)

Slide 6, 7, 8, 9: Animal life (4 reprentative animals from this time - pictures, names, descriptions, what does the name mean)

Slide 10: References (APA format)

Requirements: Famous paleontologists powerpoint

6 slides:

Slide 1: Title (Title of presentation, student name, class period)

Slide 2: Biographical information (Name, Country of Origin, Date of Birth, Date of Death, education

Slide 3 & 4: Discoveries and important finds (what, where, when, names of discoveries - what the name means)

Slide 5: Why is this person important (explain why these discoveries are important and what contribution this person has made to science - your OWN words)

Slide 6: References (APA format)

January 7:

Film: The Great Dinosaur Hunt (part 2)

Homework: Essay - How does studying the evidence of extinct animals help us to understand how these animals lived?  (Due Tuesday, January 12)

January 6:

Timeline Quiz (able to use timeline on quiz)

End of Grade Preparation Activity 3

Film: The Great Dinosaur Hunt (part 1)

January 4 & 5:

Time Line of Geologic Time (in class creation of timeline)

December 18:

Unit Test

December 17:

Study guide for test

Entering Blue Diamond results online

December 16:

Film: Evolution - bullet style notes

Blue Diamond Assessment #6

December 15:

Film: Dinosaurs - picture notes

Outline section 4.4 (pg 123-125)

Weathering assignment from yesterday must be submitted today

December 14:

Outline section 2.1 (Weathering)

Section review questions #1-4

Define: weathering, erosion, abrasion, permeable, mechanical weathering, chemical weathering

Review worksheet: Weathering

If not completed in class must be completed for homework.

December 11:

EOG 2 Science Preparation questions

Outline 4.3 (purple) and Finding Clues to Rock Layers due today

Radioactive decay activity (Table group activity 1st, 3rd, 4th) (individual 6th)

UNIT TEST: December 18

December 10:

Film: Fossils - taking notes on Quantitative and Qualitative statements

December 9:

End of Grade Science Test Preparation activity

Vocabulary quiz corrections

class time to work on Outline section 4.3 and Finding Clues to Rock Layers

Turn in: Grandest Canyon of All and Vocabulary Booklet

December 8:

Vocabulary quiz corrections

Vocabulary Pop Quiz 2 (amber, cast, extinct, extrusion, fault, carbon film, intrusion, mold, law of superposition, trace fossil)

Finding Clues to Rock Layers Activity

Outline section 4.3 (purple book) Radioactive Dating

work on vocabulary booklet

December 7:

Vocabulary Pop Quiz (mold, cast, imprint, fossil, evolve, sediment, trace fossil, petrification)

Checking and Correcting Fossil Review sheet

Mini-lecture 1.2 added to outline

Author summary comparison to Outline section 1.2

working on Review sheet Relative Age of Rocks

HOMEWORK: The Grandest Canyon of All (due Wednesday)

December 4:

Traces of Tracks story sharing

Work on Review sheet Fossils

Mini-lecture 1.1 added to outline

work on Vocabulary booklet - added: extinct, carbon film, relative age, absolute age, paleontologist, radioactive dating

December 3:

Journal sharing activity

Highlighting activity with author summary and outlines

Traces of Tracks questions and 1 page story to explain the tracks  FINISH for HOMEWORK

Fossil review sheet

December 2:Early Release Day = 12:00 dismissal

Team Science Writing activity 8:05 - 9:10

finish and submit assignment from November 30

December 1: 

1st and 6th period - continue working on assignment from November 30.

3rd and 4th period - Chemicals and Your Health presentation - Blue Diamond Assessment

November 30: 

In class assignment -

Textbook: Evolution Change Over Time

Journal page 11, outline pages 11-28, complete questions on pages 18 and 28

Begin Vocabulary booklet for this chapter: fossil, sediment, pertification, mold, cast, imprint, trace fossil, evolve, law of superposition, index fossil, unconformity, fault, intrusion, extrusion, half-life.  (Bookley includes: word, definition, correct usage in a sentence, page number from book, drawing)