Wednesday April 29, 2009

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Current Events.
• Worked on our UNIT REVIEW. We will finish it & review our review on Friday.
• UNIT FINAL TUESDAY.
• Wrote a Journal Entry about Geological Boot Camp. Did you answer all 5 questions?
• Read part of a story. What are Canadian Dancing Elephants?
• Got our Rock Cycles Back......do you understand them?
• REVIEW YOUR UNIT.

Monday April 27, 2009

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Current Events.
• Did not do vocabulary.
• Finished our Geological Boot Camp! How did your group do?
• We are at the end of a unit....what does that mean?
• FIELD TRIP FORMS!!!
  

Thursday April 23, 2009

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Current Events.
• Did not do vocabulary.
• Worked in our Geological Boot Camp! How is your group doing? One more class left to work on it.
• We are at the end of a unit....what does that mean?
• FIELD TRIP FORMS!!!

Tuesday April 21, 2009

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Current Events.....well we were supposed to.....
• Did not have vocabulary.
• Hmmm we are at the end of a unit, what should you be doing every night?
• Got together with Mr. Mang's class and got a job at the GEOLOGICAL BOOT CAMP! How did your first day at work go?
• Would you hire yourself?
• How is the identification of your mystery minerals going?
• FIELD TRIP FORMS?

Friday April 17, 2009

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did current events.
• Did word list #43.
• Handed in CRAZY KRAKATOA.
• Looked at some FOSSILS. What did you notice?
• Talked about LAYERS/STRATA. Do you remember the Parfait example? Everybody loves parfaits!!!
• How old is the Earth?
• Read and Discussed as a class sia7 p419-423.
• Started to work on sia7 p425 ayl #1-10. If you did two questions in class, that means you have two questions per day for homework. DUE TUESDAYDAY.
• FIELD TRIP FORMS!!!!!!
• Hey, we are coming to the end of this unit, hmmmm that means there will be a unit final VERY soon. How will you prepare?

Wednesday April 15, 2009

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Current Events. You have the schedule, please be ready.
• Did word list #42. Are you staying up to date?
• Talked about the rock cycle and layers of the Earth.
• Saw a MODEL of continental drift & plate tectonics. What was it?
• Read as a class sia7 p410-414. What was it about?
• Summarize in YOUR OWN WORDS sia7 p413.
• Did in partners sia7 p414 #1-2.
• HOMEWORK: Finish summary of sia7 p413, read & UNDERSTAND sia7 p415-418.
• What is a FOSSIL? How is one formed?

Thursday April 9, 2009

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did current events. How did that go?
• Did word list #41.
• Did a word search. Every word in the word search was part of your vocabulary. Do you understand them?
• Reviewed the Rock Cycle....igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary.....know them, love them.
• Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, Pangea....what are they?
• Handed in our maps.
• YOUR CRAZY KRAKATOA PROJECT IS DUE ON WEDNESDAY APRIL 15, 2009
• Read as a class sia7 p398-400.
• Did sia7 p400 #1-4. Did you hand yours in before you left on Thursday?
• Read sia7 p 402-408, omit p406.
• HOMEWORK: Do sia7 c&r p408 #1-3, ayl p409 #1-8. Due WEDNESDAY April 15, 2009.

Tuesday April 7, 2009

WELCOME BACK!

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Current Events. It was an open day. You have a new schedule, please be ready.
• Did word list #40. Are you up to date?
• Talked about the Map Assignment (sia7 p 396) it is now due on THURSDAY.
• What patterns do you notice?
• Talked about the Crazy Krakatoa assignment, it is now due next week, Wednesday April 15, 2009. No more class time will be given, you have had nearly on month to complete it.
• Handed in our SIGNED progress reports.
• What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics? What is Continental Drift?