Calendar

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

October 29-November 2

October 29 –Monday

  • Staff Development Day

October 30 –Tuesday
  • Warm up:
  • Reteach and review material from test last week
  • Forces Checklist (pg 55) and Wordle Glued (page 57)
  • Forces Notes

October 31 –Wednesday
  • Warm up: Answer Question #4 from Forces Checklist
  • Assign Test Corrections as homework due on Friday
  • CSR Reading on Forces

November 1 - Thursday
  • Warm up
  • Complete the CSR Reading
  • Finish the Forces Notes on page 58 & 59
  • Frayer Models with the vocabulary

November 2 -  Friday
  • Warm up
  • Collect Test Corrections
  • Brainpop
  • Frayer model gallery walk

Sunday, October 21, 2012

October 22-26

Pre AP Students – Part 3 of the six weeks project is due on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25TH. 

October 22 - Monday

  • Warm up: Manipulative with formulas & Graphics (Gateways)
  • Demo- Endothermic
  • Elephants Toothpaste Video
  • Define the Law of the Conservation of Mass
  • Chemical Equation Notes
  • Balancing Act Practice

October 23 - Tuesday
  • Whoosh bottle demo
  • Large chemical equation manipulative
  • Balanced vs. unbalanced

October 24 - Wednesday

  • Check balanced vs. unbalanced
  • Chemical Equation Hunt
  • Sentence Stem: From the chemical equation hunt…

October 25 - Thursday
  • Density Warm-up
  • Review Atoms, Periodic Table, Chemical Reactions
  • PRE AP STUDENTS – PART 3 OF THE PROJECT IS DUE TODAY!


October 26 – Friday
District Assessment

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Week Oct 15-19

October 15 – Monday SUBSTITUTE (Out for training)

  • Bill Nye Chemical Reactions Video with Worksheet
  • Analyzing Chemical Formulas worksheet

October 16 – Tuesday
  • Brainpop: Compounds & Mixtures
  • Chemistry Notes (from Gateways book and our notes)
  • Paperclip Chemistry

October 17 – Wednesday

  • Chemistry language cards (Cscope)- with partner
  • Elephant Toothpaste Demo
  • KWL for Chemical Reactions, fill in K and W (think about the evidence for them)
  • Summarizer: Report back and create class KWL

October 18 – Thursday
  • Warm up: Identify Chemical Reactions
  • Endo/Exo lab
  • Summarizer: Was the chemical reaction in the lab exothermic or endothermic? Why?
  • Homework: Frayer Model with the words Physical Change and Chemical Change (reaction)

October 19 – Friday

  • Warm up: Answer question 2 on checklist
  • Whoosh bottle demo
    • Write down prediction, observations, and inference
  • How do we organize elements that are combining?
  • Reread “Writing Chemical Equations”
  • Chemical Equation Notes
  • Balancing Act Practice

Sunday, October 7, 2012

October 8 - 12

October 8 –Monday

  • Warm up: Periodic Table Review
  • Complete Performance Indicator (Periodic Table Want Ad)

October 9 –Tuesday

  • Warm up: Periodic Table & Atom
  • Reteach and review material from test last week (Retest for those that failed test on Wednesday)
  • Individual Element research

October 10 –Wednesday

  • Warm up:  Introduce chemical formulas and label the elements in the formula
  • Retest for some students
  • Read “Writing Chemical Reactions”
  • Highlight words you recognize in wordle and define from reading
  • Chemical formula notes
  • Station practice of finding the number of atoms vs. elements
  • Summarizer: Trade labeled items with another table. On a piece of chart paper, draw and label the item, write the chemical formula, and find the number of elements and atoms, list the elements.
  • Sentence Stems: The difference between atoms and elements are…

October 11 – Thursday

  • Warm up: Warm up to Science
  • Brainpop: Compounds & Mixtures
  • Practice Counting Atoms
  • Complete Counting Atoms
  • Summarizer: Write out a procedure that you would share with a 5th grader on how to determine the number of atoms and elements in the chemical formula: C6H8O4. Remember that they have never used a periodic table!!
  • Homework: (Regular) Finish Counting Atoms
  • Sentence Stems: If I was to teach a 5th grader how to read a chemical formula, I would…

October 12 – Friday

  • Warm up: Pg. 93
  • Paperclip Chemistry
  • Summarizer: Answer question 1 on your checklist
  • Sentence Stems:
    • The individual paperclips represent…
    • A molecule is represented by…
    • The limit of this model is…