Saturday, September 21, 2013

Thursday September 18th

The Plan:
Science:
This week in science we will continue our unit on Electricity, State of Matter, and Heat by doing the following:

·         Lab Quiz on Monday- calculate the volume, mass, and density of items using the appropriate tools and given formulas.

·         Identify and classify physical and chemical changes.

·         Explain temperature and how it is measured.

·         Discover how heat is related to temperature and thermal energy.

Homeroom: Open House was so amazing thank you to all of your who showed up it was so great to meet all of you!

What is Happening:

Monday: Today we took our quiz over mass, volume, and density and then began looking at our reading for physical and chemical changes by creating a preview page.

Tuesday: Today we took a look at our quizzes and discussed how we are going to correct the quizzes and then we continued to work on our preview page for our next reading. Quizzes will be coming home tomorrow with full corrections for you to sign and return Monday the 23rd. Thank you so much for all your hard work!

Wednesday: Today we corrected the quizzes and then we completed a "Sage and Scribe" activity where the students had to teach another student how to use the lab equipment and then write step-by-step directions. Quizzes will be coming home today with full corrections for you to sign and return Monday the 23rd.

Thursday: Today we started to look at physical and chemical changes by watching a Brainpop video "Property Changes" and completing a sorting activity on a variety of  property changes. We then went through the reading "Changes in Matter" and answered any questions we might have had. We will be reviewing this information on Monday the 23rd and completing more work on this topic.

Friday: