May 16 - 7th grade

Students will have a quiz over page 98-103 in their notebooks tomorrow.

Students began working on their limiting factors activity (owl and mice).

May 16th - 8th grade

Resources to complete your diagram:

CK 12

website (start with protostars)

interactive

interactive

May 15th - 8th grade (am)

Finished our game of Guess Who.

Students read over a review section on how stars get their energy.

Reading section

May 12th - 7th grade

Went over pages 100-103

Here is page 102.

May 12th - 8th grade

Students practiced using H-R diagram by playing "Star Guess Who".

may 11 - 7th grade

Reading section

Copy of page 100

Copy of page 101

The link for the activity on page 103
http://ats.doit.wisc.edu/biology/ec/pd/t1_a1_b.htm

May 8th- 7th grade

Students check grades and write them down.

Go over as a class the notes page from friday.

Get into groups and answer the review and brainwork questions.

Use the following reading to fill in the foldable.

http://www.ck12.org/book/CK-12-Life-Science-Concepts-For-Middle-School/section/12.3/

May 5th - 8th grade

Students checked their grades and looked for missing assignments.

We then had a discussion about topics discussed on friday including parallax, apparent magnitude, and absolute magnitude.

Students then began working on their parallax lab. 

May 5 - 7th grade

Students took their quiz over Abiotic and Biotic Factors in an environment.

Students used a reading to fill in the following sections of their notebook.

Students also answered the following question sheet from the reading/notes.

Finished up by watching the video on ecology.

May 5 - 8th

We discussed retrograde motion and the questions from the notebook page. Here is a simulation that may help.

Students then investigated the idea of parallax. After filling in their notebook page using the book, we did some "magic".

We finished by discussing apparent magnitude and absolute magnitude.

May 3 - 8th

We discussed the Cosmic Calendar from yesterday (including what the calendar analogy would look like for students life).

Students read and took notes about other objects in the solar system.

May 2 - 7th

We reviewed the speed patterns that speciation can have and how this relates to evolution.

Notebook page

Students then began the notebook page on ecology.

Reading section on ecology.

The adaptation WS was assigned for homework, due thursday.

May 2 - 8th

Students finished their flow map on the formation of the solar system.

We discussed to order of events on the formation.

Students looked at how the formation of the solar system fit in the formation of the solar system using the comparison to a "Cosmic Calendar".

May 1 - 7th

Students checked their grades.

We had a discussion about the salamander activity.

Use the following reading: link

Students began working on the notebook page about the speed of evolution.

May 1 - 8th grade

1) Students checked their grades (and we reviewed how to look at all assignments to make sure everything is turned in).
2) Students put their foldable into their notebook as well as their planet ws.
3) We watched the solar system song video
4) We began discussing the formation of the universe and our solar system. We watched this video.
5) Finished by making a flow map of the order of steps in the formation of the universe.