The content topics that will be explored include force and motion, energy and matter, sound and light, and the interaction of these processes.
Homework Friday 01/15: Copy Activity 12 "Kinetic and Potential Energy" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Monday 01/04: Copy Activity 11 "Work, Energy, and Power" set up in to your Science notebook.
Rube-Goldberg Project Guidelines packet:
Homework Thursday 12/03: Copy Activity 10 "Gravity and Motion" set up in to your Science notebook.
Things to do over Thanksgiving Break: 1. Finish Activity 9 "Forces" packet. 2. Do Activity 1 in Rube-Goldberg packet (questions 1 - 4). 3. Finish Activity 9 Lab 2 "Second Law of Motion - Energy Car" questions a - g. Following are electronic copies of the paper packets, in case you forgot them at school:
Homework Tuesday 11/17: 1. Study for Distance, Time, and Speed quiz. 2. Copy Activity 9 "Forces" set up in to Science notebook.
Activity 7 Lab 3 Create a Distance-Time Graph:
Activity 7 Lab 2 Position, Time, and Speed lab packet: Complete Assessment questions 1 - 4 for homework. Be ready to review questions on Monday 11/09.
Homework Friday 10/02/2015: Complete "Scientific Method Process Skills Practice" packet if you did not do so in class. Due Monday 10/05. In case you left your paper copy at school, here is an e-copy to print.
Activity 4 "Representing Data" reading:
Homework Friday 09/18/2015: Finish Activity 3 "Life of A Raisin" questions and conclusion. Be prepared for class discussion on Monday 09/21.
Homework Tuesday 09/15/2015: Copy the following document "Keeping a Science Notebook" in to your Science Notebook. We will talk about the content of the document in class on Wednesday 09/16.
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The content topics that will be explored include ecosystems, cell structures and life processes, heredity, and biological evolution.
Genetics and Gregor Mendel: Watch these videos to learn more about Mendelian Genetics. Thursday 05/26 CRWC Stream Leaders Program Basic Training: Review the following file to help prepare you for our school's participation in the CRWC Stream Leaders water quality monitoring program.
Videos for Plate Tectonics lab activities 41 & 42: Class assignment for Friday, May 13 "Stream Leaders Water Quality Monitoring" packet Directions - Read the file. Create Cornell notes from reading.
Class assignment for Friday, May 06 "Macroinvertebrates as Bio-indicators of Stream Health" pdf notes file: Directions - Read the file. Create Cornell notes from reading.
Homework Monday 05/02: Copy Activity 16 "Sexual and Asexual Reproduction" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Tuesday 04/26 for MSVPA students who missed Life Science class: Copy Activity 15 "Meiosis" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Wednesday 04/20: Copy Activity 14 "Mitosis" set up in to your Science notebook.
"Cells" Unit Study Guide 04/13: Be ready for class discussion Friday 04/15. "Cells" Unit Test Monday 04/18. Human Body Systems Project handout 03/14/2016: Posters due by Wednesday 03/23. Presentations start Monday 03/28.
Homework Thursday 03/10: Copy Activity 12 "Levels of Cellular Organization" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Monday 03/07: Copy Activity 11A "A Cell Model" lab set up in to your Science notebook.
Understand the connection between photosynthesis and cellular respiration: Homework Wednesday 02/03: Copy Activity 10 "The Chemistry of Life" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Tuesday 01/26: Copy Activity 9 "The Characteristics of Cells" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Wednesday 01/20: Copy Activity 8C "Lab: The Cells of Producers" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Friday 01/15: Read "Introduction to Microscope" notes and complete note sheet handout. Be ready for an open-notes quiz on using a microscope Tuesday, 01/19.
Homework Tuesday 01/12: Copy Activity 8A "Lab: A Producer's Source of Energy" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Friday 01/08: Copy Activity 8 "Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration" set up in to your Science notebook.
Homework Wednesday 01/06: Copy Activity 6D Field of Dreams Project: "People, Birds, and Bats" set up in to your Science notebook.
Activity 6 "Investigate an Abiotic Limiting Factor" (aka "bean plant experiment") Post-Lab Work handout. Due Wednesday 12/16.
Activity 6B Field of Dreams Project: "Introduced Species" set up 12/10 and intro video on invasive species in the Great Lakes:
Homework Tuesday 12/01: Prepare for Unit 1 "Interactions of Living Things" assessment: Homework Monday 11/23 & Tuesday 11/24: 1. Finish Activity 7 Lab "Identifying Predator and Prey. (All sections) 2. Finish Activity 7 "Interactions in Communities " work including Vocabulary, Analysis Questions and Conclusion. (All sections)
Homework Thursday 11/12 (7D & 7E) & Friday 11/13 (7C): Copy Activity 6 "Population Dynamics" in to Science notebook.
Homework Friday 11/06/2015: Finish Cornell Notes for Soil lecture PowerPoint.
Students who missed the presentation from the Clinton River Watershed Council (CRWC) on Friday 11/06, please review the presentation file, courtesy of the CRWC, to learn more about our freshwater supply and watershed.
Homework Monday 11/02/2015: Copy Activity 5 Lab set up in to your Science Notebook. We will start the lab and assigned work on Wednesday 11/04.
Activity 5 "Matter and Energy in Ecosystems" reading:
Biomes Poster Project Assignment Handout 10/14/15: Poster is due at beginning of class Wednesday 10/21.
Homework Tuesday 10/05: Finish Activity 3 Introduction to Ecology reading, questions, vocabulary, Analysis Questions, and Conclusion writing. We will discuss and review the material Wednesday in class.
Please complete Cornell notes for the following lecture notes on Michigan Rock Cycle by Monday, 09/28:
Rock Collection and Rock Cycle Project 09/14 handout:
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