Week 9, 10/28 to 11/1

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 Last updated on Thursday, Oct 31, 2013, 8:22am

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am 

2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am 

3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am 

Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am 

4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm 

5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm 

6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science Monday - Today students who still need to finish their lesson 3 reflection questions will work on those and check their answers with me.  Then students will complete the lesson 3 quests on 3D GameLab and any other quests they still have to work on. Here are the standards and learning targets we are working on currently. HW - None, unless you can work on any past quests at home that you still need to finish. Parents can check their child's progress on 3D GameLab at any time (see how here). Tuesday - Students are working on their battery quests to finish all the lessons 2 and 3 work so they can start the lesson 4 quest, Forms of Energy. HW - None Wednesday - Same as yesterday. HW - None Thursday - By now students should be working on the Forms of Energy quest. HW - Do the Assess Thyself quest if you haven't already (it should have been done in class already and doesn't take long at all). Happy Halloween! Friday - Today Forms of Energy should be completed. The plan is to start EMM Lesson 5 on Forces on Monday. HW - None

8th grade Science Monday - Today we will finish recording team's final observations to share what they got from last week's experiment. We will see which substances teams decided were living and what their evidence was, as well as notice if the different liquid environments had any effect. Here are the standards and learning targets we are working on currently. HW - None Parents can check their child's progress on 3D GameLab at any time (see how here). Tuesday - Students are going to be working on their living quests based on the work we've been doing these last couple of weeks. HW - If you haven't taken your Biome/Ecosystems test at least once, please do so. Then complete the Biome Self-Assessment and the Assess Thyself quests. Wednesday - Same as yesterday. HW - None Thursday - Same as yesterday. HW - Do the Assess Thyself quest if you haven't already (it should have been done in class already and doesn't take long at all). Happy Halloween! Friday - By today students should have completed all the living quests and the Food Web and Food Energy Pyramid and Adaptations quests. Students have had all week to work on all of the above. HW - None

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Week 8, 10/21 to 10/25

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 Last updated on Thursday, Oct 24, 2013, 7:31am

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am 

2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am 

3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am 

Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am 

4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm 

5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm 

6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science Monday - Today we are going to finish EMM Lesson 3, including the debrief and reflection. HW - None Tuesday - Today students continued to work on their lesson 3 reflection questions. HW - None Wednesday - Same as yesterday. HW - None Thursday - Today, as students finish their lesson 3 reflection questions, they will complete the lesson 3 quests on 3D GameLab and any other quests they still have to work on. HW - None Friday - Same as yesterday. HW - None

8th grade Science Monday - Today we are going to start determining what is living by doing a sorting activity to get students thinking. This is the first activity in our work to come up with a list of criteria to determine whether something is living or not. HW - None Tuesday - Today students continued working on yesterday's activity, specifically responding to a prompt on the class forum (the Is it Living prompt).  Then teams setup a set of vials that they will be using for an experiment to look for evidence as to whether five substances are living or non-living. HW - None Wednesday - Today teams finish setting up three different liquid environments in their vials then added five different substances. Students will be observing what happens in their vials to find any evidence whether the substances are living or non-living. HW - None Thursday - Today teams will record their observations while working on their available or in progress 3D GameLab quests. HW - None Friday - Today teams will record their final observations to share what they got from the experiment. We will see which substances teams decided are living and what their evidence is, as well as noticing if the different liquid environments had any effect. HW - None

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Week 7, 10/14 to 10/18

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 Last updated on Thursday, Oct 17, 2013, 8:21am

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am 

2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am 

3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am 

Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am 

4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm 

5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm 

6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science Monday - Today we are going to debrief the EMM (Energy, Machines, and Motion) Lesson 2 Building a Battery lab. Students worked on the reflection questions then we went over them. HW - None Tuesday - Today students can work on any quests they still need to work on to get the battery quests connected to the lesson 2 lab. Then we will begin the quests to lead us to lesson 3! HW - None Wednesday - Today I will check in with students to see if they need more time to finish the quests they were working on yesterday.  Students did need more time so they got to work on their quests all period. HW - None Thursday - Today students will continue to work on quests to catch up. HW - None Friday - Today we will work on the EMM Lesson 3 lab on Rechargeable Batteries. HW - None

8th grade Science Monday - Today teams need to work on getting their Biome Project videos uploaded. Once they are done with their videos they can take the assessment and the self-assessment. Here are the standards and learning targets for the Biome Project. HW - None Tuesday - Today any student who has not yet taken the Biome/Ecosystem test needs to take it. There is a self assessment after students take the test. (The test results will be emailed to students and they can take it again to get a better score.) Those who are all caught up can work on the NOAA quests. HW - Check your email for you tests scores if you haven't already. Wednesday - Today students checked their emails to see their test scores. Students are able to retake the test to improve their scores. Teams are still working on editing, exporting and uploading their biome commercial movies. HW - None Thursday - Today all students need to take a self-assessment so reflect on how well they did on the Biome project and Biome/Ecosystems test.  As teams finish uploading and embedding their biome commercial movies on their blogs we can start viewing each other's work and giving feedback. HW - None Friday - Today students can continue to work on what we were doing yesterday. HW - None

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Week 6, 10/7 to 10/11

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 Last updated on Thursday, Oct 10, 2013, 4:36pm

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am 

2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am 

3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am 

Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am 

4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm 

5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm 

6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science Monday - Today 6th graders will assess their learning about volcanoes. Those that didn't start the volcano project or didn't finish the volcano project can work on it at home or in class if they finish their daily work. Here are the standards and learning targets for volcanoes. HW - None if you are done with Type that Volcano and Type that Lava. Type that Eruption is also a good one to do to finish that series. Class time can also be used to complete those assignments. Tuesday - Yesterday 6th graders in all three classes were needing more time with the volcano quests so we're spending another day working on those. I don't mind giving students more time to work on something that they are enjoying learning about! HW - Just the volcano quests. The Mt Saint Helens quests are great to explore further and see all that the USGS volcano website has to offer. These are optional and offered for fun if kids are interested in learning more about Mt Saint Helens. Wednesday - Still working on volcano quests. HW - Only the volcano quests if you want to work on them at home. Thursday - Today we will be switching gears to the topic of energy! We will start our study of energy by thinking about batteries and what students already know about batteries. HW - Same as before. Friday - Today 6th graders will be building a battery! This is part of our Energy, Machines, and Motion energy unit. lesson 2. It's pretty cool! HW - Just volcano quests if you're not done with those. Then take the self-assessment. This can be done in class as well for those who can't work on these at home.

8th grade Science Monday through Friday - Eighth graders are still working on the Biome Project. If teams haven't written their script or started their movie they need to catch up because they've had two weeks already to do their research. This is the third week of this project and the last week (hopefully). Thursday the project test and self-assessment is up and ready for those teams that are done. So Friday is a tentative deadline for this project to get movies filmed, edited, uploaded and embedded on blogs so that we can start watching each other's movies and giving each other feedback. HW - None if your research is all done and your team is starting to film the movie.

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