SEASONS WEBQUEST (Feb 5-7)

Reasons for the Seasons WebQuest

You've Been Hired!!

An educational publishing company has hired YOU to produce posters for middle school science classrooms.  Your first poster is to be one that shows the causes of seasons on Earth.  Since many students have wrong ideas (misconceptions) about what causes seasons it is very important that your poster be very accurate. Your poster will answer the question "What causes the seasons?".  
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Before you can start your poster, you must do some research on student ideas as well as the science behind the seasons.

Part 1:  Misconceptions about the Seasons

A misconception is an incorrect idea about something. Research the websites provided below to view common misconceptions students may have about the seasons. 
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List four misconceptions in your journal on page 104. Title the page"Misconceptions about the Season"
Skip lines between each one.

• Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy - Misconceptions (read question & answer)
• Seasons Misconceptions (read Seasons Misconceptions paragraph)
• Common Misconceptions
• Some Common Misconceptions
• The Seasons

Misconceptions  (complete sentences)

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PART 2:    TILT OF THE EARTH

How does the Earth's tilt affect the seasons? Research the websites below.
On page 105 in your journal (title the page "Tilt of the Earth"), Draw 4 pictures showing how Earth's tilt affects each season. 

Include the following on all 4 drawings:  Earth, its tilt, the sun, name of the season. 

• Earth’s Revolution and Sun Angle
• Earth’s Tilt and the Seasons
• What Causes the Seasons?
• Seasons and the Tilt
• Seasons and the Tilt Interactive
• Why is the Earth Tilted? (podcast)

PART 3:  THE SEASONS POSTER

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Now you are ready to make your poster!!  The Earth is at four different points in its orbit around the Sun when we have each season. Where is the Earth when it is summer (or winter, fall, and spring)? Does the Earth tilt towards or away from the Sun? Draw a picture of the Earth revolving around the Sun throughout the year. Show the Earth at its location during winter, spring, summer, and fall/autumn. There are additional websites below to continue your research.  Your paycheck will depend on how many accurate items are included in your poster.

• Earth’s Appearance Different Times During the Year
• Seasons Interactive
• Seasons Interactive II
• Observe Seasonal Changes

You must Include the following on your poster to get your full paycheck:

• Title of poster ($2)
• Neatness and color  ($2)
• Sun ($2) 
• Earth in four different locations ($2) 
• Labels for winter, spring, summer, and fall ($2) 
• Tilt ($2) 
• Color in day and night on all 4 Earths ($2) 
• Short paragraph explaining the reason for the seasons ($2)  
• PUT EVERYONE'S NAME ON BACK OF POSTER!!

Fine Print:  Your paycheck will be the paid in points added to your science average : )

This WebQuest is modified from WebQuests found at Science-Class.net and http://mrscienceut.net/SeasonsWebQuest.html.  

February 4-8

Feb 4 - Monday
     Fronts Warm-up
     Life of a Hurricane Worksheet
     Read pgs 157-160 of Gateways book
     Graphing and Analysis Questions page 161

Feb 5 - Tuesday
     Finish Graphing and Analysis Questions page 161
     Seasons Webquest

Feb 6 - Wednesday
     Complete Seasons Webquest
     Seasons Poster

Feb 7 - Thursday
     Present Seasons poster
     Seasons Exit Ticket

Feb 8 - Friday
     Lunar Cycle - draw phases of the moon - perspective activity
     Anticipation Guide - Moon Phases
     Lunar Cycle Probe 

January 28-February 1

 

Monday-

Review Energy Transfer

Notebook Prep for Radiation Lab on Tuesday

Graphing review

Tuesday-

Radiation Lab

Wednesday-

Complete Radiation lab questions and graphing

Thursday-

Air Pressure Notes

Pressure Can Crunch

High Pressure/Low Pressure Foldable

Friday-

Warm front/cold front diagram and notes

Weather map worksheet

Air Pressure and weather front questions

January 22-25

Monday – Holiday

Tuesday – Earthquake video with worksheet

Wednesday –

Notes on Conduction, Convection, Radiation

Teach Hand signals for Convection, Conduction, Radiation

Create Foldable for Energy Transfer

Thursday -

Review Energy Transfer

Convection Lab

Video on how Convection cause changes in weather

Friday -

Review Conduction, Convection, Radiation

Conduction Lab

Second Semester

January 8-18

Earthquake Shake Tower

Design and Building a Tower of balsa wood to withstand the shaking of an earthquake

Plate Tectonics Unit

LAYER D- helpful links:

* Click below to read & learn about CONTINENTAL DRIFT.

• WEBSITE 1 - Good info about evidence for Continental Drift.
• WEBSITE 2 - More of the above plus info about layers of the earth.
• WEBSITE 3 - A great animation & lesson on the break up of Pangaea.
• WEBSITE 4 - Video lesson about Alfred Wegener & Continental Drift.
• WEBSITE 5 - Interactive tutorial on the breakup of Pangaea.
• WEBSITE 6 - An animation that shows how the plates might move in the future.

D - QUIZ

Continental Drift Quiz

Click HERE to take the Layer D quiz over Continental Drift.

Login:  lunch code
Password:  bears

If you pass the quiz ---- start working on the C Layer
If you do not pass the quiz ----complete the Drifting Continents worksheet.

LAYER C - USEFUL LINKS

VOCABULARY:  Click HERE for the Plate Tectonics Vocabulary and games

Geology Dictionary  OR the vocabulary link at the top of the blog for lots more dictionary sites.

VOCABULARY QUIZ

     After completing the C layer vocabulary assignments: Click HERE to take the vocabulary quiz.
     Login = your lunch code
     Password = bears

C-f: Click HERE for instructions for Mountain Movers lab.
or Click HERE to go straight to the Mountain Movers Lab

B Layer - Useful Resources

B-e    Scientists to Research for Plate Tectonics:

• James Hutton 
• Harry Hess
• Arthur Holmes
• Abraham Ortelius 
• Nicolaus Steno 
• Dan McKenzie 
• Alfred Wegener

B Layer - QUIZ
** After completing the B layer: Click HERE to take the quiz.
     Login = your lunch code
     Password = bears

A Layer - Useful Resources


A-a: Google Earth Tour: Click HERE for a video tutorial on how to create a Google Tour using Google Earth.

To Launch Google Earth - go to Start - Program - Google Earth


Requirements:  Look in the crate for the A-a sheet to find out what landforms you have to find in your Google Tour.

Dec 3-7 & Dec 10-14

 

Topics:  Geology, Continental Drift Theory, Plate Tectonics

Monday, December 3rd, we will be begin a self-paced unit where students can choose which activities/lessons they want to explore on the topic.  They have a selection sheet that should add up to 100 points at the end of 10 days.  This will be a major grade.  Many students have thrived with this unit in past years, but others have floundered.  Please ask them each day how many points they are up to on their science work. This should help them understand that it is important to work every day in class to earn the points needed to pass. It is a great way for the students to learn and we will work hard to teach everyone throughout the unit. This unit will continue through December 14th. At that point semester finals will begin.

As soon as I get the schedule for finals, I will post it. Plus I will email it to everyone.

Nov 26–Nov 30

PRE AP PROJECT FOR THIS 6 WEEKS WAS ASSIGNED THE FRIDAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING BREAK. IT IS DUE ON DECEMBER 14TH.

November 26, Monday

• Warm up- page 149
• Newtons Laws of Motion
  • watch video
  • do the card sort
  • watch set of videos
  • re-sort cards
• Take Notes using card sort for Newtons Laws
• Exit Ticket

November 27, Tuesday

• Warm up - Egg Drop Demo
• Answer Questions about the egg drop demo
• Newton’s Laws stations
• Exit Ticket

November 28, Wednesday

• Warm up - Identify the correct Newton’s Law
• complete Newton’s laws stations (if time ran out on Tuesday)
• Analyze speed graphs -
• Exit Ticket

November 29, Thursday

• Watch video for egg car demo
  • Which Law of Motion did this demonstrate?
• Review Forces and Motion for District Assessment

 

November 30, Friday

• District Assessment #2

Nov 5–Nov 16

November 5 - Monday

• Warm up- page 143
• Frayer model gallery walkNet force notes (transparencies)
• Balanced and unbalanced forces
• Sentence stems: In Jenga, the forcers were balanced/unbalanced…

November 6 - Tuesday

• Warm up- page
• Hair dryer demo
• Net force cards –
• Sentence stems: Forces acting on the ping pong ball were…

November 7 - Wednesday

• Warm up- page 145
• Resultant vectors worksheet
• Tug-a-war
• Sentence stems: The net force is…

November 8 - Thursday (substitute for CAST)

• Video - October Sky with worksheet

November 9 - Friday (substitute for CAST)

• Video - October Sky with worksheet

November 12 - Monday

• Warm up- page 137
• Speed formula notes
• Determining speed worksheet
• Sentence stems:

November 13 - Tuesday

• Warm up- page 141
• Page Keely Force Probe
• Speed problems worksheet with manipulations*

November 14 - Wednesday

• Warm up- page 147
• Complete Speed problems with manipulations
• Prep for walk this way lab

November 15 - Thursday

• Warm up- page 121

• Walk this way lab

November 16 - Friday

• Warm up- page 123
• Walk this way lab graphing & conclusion questions
• Complete walk this way conclusion questions
• Sentence stems:

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

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

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

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 5^th grader on how to determine the number of atoms and elements in the chemical formula: C₆H₈O_4. Remember that they have never used a periodic table!!
• Homework: (Regular) Finish Counting Atoms
• Sentence Stems: If I was to teach a 5^th 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…

October 1–5 WOW! It’s October???

Monday, October 1, 2012

Objective: Today I will interpret the arrangement of the periodic table.

1. Warm up: Periodic table manipulative

2. Alkali Metals Video

3. Review Valence Electrons

4. Periodic Table Activity (PT and card sort at stations from Gateways)

5. Periodic table Practice WS

 

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Objective: Today I will interpret the arrangement of the periodic table.

1. Warm up: PT practice

2. Lewis structures notes and practice

 

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Objective: Today I will interpret the arrangement of the periodic table.

1. Warm up: PT  practice

2. Interpreting the periodic table WS

3. Review  for QUIZ TOMORROW

 

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Objective: Today I will interpret the arrangement of the periodic table.

1. Warm up: Large PT Manipulative

2. Review

3. QUIZ

Friday, October 5, 2012

Objective: Today I will interpret the arrangement of the periodic table.

1. Warm up:

2. Periodic table Want Ad

Week of Sept 24-28

Monday, September 24, 2012

Pre-AP:

1. Warm up: Answer question 3 Checklist

2. Describe APE MAN

3. Complete Atomic Math

4. Bohr Model Practice

5. Ticket out: Performance indicator

Sentence Stems: Most of an atom is empty space…this means____

Academics:

1. Warm Up: Answer question 4 on Checklist

2. Discuss atomic masses

3. Complete Atomic Math

4. Bohr Model Practice

5. Ticket out: Performance indicator

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Pre-AP:

1. Warm Up: Answer question 4 on Checklist

2. Atom Quiz

 

Academics:

1. Warm Up: Answer question 4 on Checklist

2. Atom Quiz

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Pre AP & Academics:

1. Warm up: Atomic model/periodic table match from new book page 62

2. Glue in Periodic Table Checklist

3. “How is it arranged?” probe

4. Read “Organization of the Periodic Table” from textbook pages 80-83

a. define vocabulary words

 

Thursday, September 27^th, 2012

Pre-AP & Academics:

1. Warm up: Label the atom model (little sheet)

2. Brain pop – Periodic Table

3. Label the periodic table

4. Interpreting the Periodic Table worksheet

 

Friday, September 28, 2012

Pre-AP:

1. Warm up: Label the atom model (little sheet)

2. Brain pop – Periodic Table

3. Label the periodic table

4. Interpreting the Periodic table

 

Academics:

1. Warm up: Region 4 sheet page 109

2. Coloring the Periodic table families ppt and notes

3. Reactivity video clip