Lesson Plans -- Calendar

1  QUIZ Ch 1

1.  Question of Day -- Why are adaptations important for the survival of a species?

2.  Quiz over Ch 1

3.  Work on Immunity Idol

2  Ch 2.4

1.  Question of Day -- How does energy flow (move) through the ecosystem?  

2.  Divscover Activity

3.  Guided Reading

Ch 2.1

4.  Discuss energy movement in an ecosystem

5  Ch 2.1

1.  Question of Day -- Name one consumer and decomposer from your biome.

2.  Create a food web of organism

3.  List producers, consumers, and decomposers

6 Ch 2.3

1.  Question of Day -- What is biogeography?

2.  Discuss biogeography

2.  Tie bio into biome

7 QUIZ Ch 2

1. Question of Day -- What are 3 means of seed dispersal?

2.  Quiz over Ch 2

3.  Develop game for biome

8  Ch 3.1

1.  QoD - What is an envioromental issue?

2.  Lecture on Ch 3.1

3.  Review and Reinforce Wkst

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9  Ch 3.1

1.  Question of Day

2.  Identify environmental issue in biome

3.  Write story/song of enviromental issue in own biome

12  Ch 3.1

1.  Question of Day

2.  Identify renewable/non- renewable resources

2.  Finish story/ song

13 Ch 3.3

1.  Question of Day

2.  Discover Activity pg 95

3.  Guided Reading Ch 3.3

4.  Discuss Biodiversity

14  Ch 3.3

1.  QoD - How does biodiversity effect biome?

2.  Powerpoint of own biome

15

1.  Question of Day

2.  Work in Computer Lab on Presentation

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1.  Question of Day

2.  Video on Biodiversity

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1.  Question of Day

2.  CRT Review - Vocabulary

20

1.  Question of Day

2.  CRT Review - Objectives

21

1.  Question of Day

2.  CRT #4 - Enviornmental Science

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1.  Question of Day

2.  Presentations to Survivor Producers

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1.  Question of Day

2.  Presentations to Survivor Producers

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No School

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Skating with Success

Locker Clean Out

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1. Play Energy Challenge Games

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1.  Play Energy Challenge Games

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Last Day of School

1. The Lorax

2.  Mrs. Smith's Wish for you for Summer

1

Question of Day -- Why is it important to carefully collect data during an experiment?

Performance CRT Practice

2

Question of Day -- What must you bring to your 2nd period class next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday?

MAT Practice Test

3

Question of Day -- What do you want to study for your inquiry project?

Performance Assessment CRT

4

Question of Day -- How do you write a hypothesis statement?

Performance Assessment CRT

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Question of Day -- What information will you need to complete your interpretation?

Performance Assessment CRT

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Question of Day --  What is the biggest environmental issue that we face?

MAT Testing

9

Question of Day --

How are you to treat the performers in a production?

MAT Testing

10

1.  Question of Day - What are the living areas or life zones in the world?

2.  Video -- Biomes of the World

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Question of Day --

What is your favorite biome?  Why?

MAT Testing

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1.  Question of Day -- What are the two tress types that make up the different rainforests?

2.  Planet Earth

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1.  Question of Day -- Name one unique part of the rainforest and one unique part of freshwater.

2.  Planet Earth

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1.  Question of Day -- What did you discover about the desert you never know before?

2.  Planet Earth

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1.  Question of Day -- What is the habitat you live in?

2.  Discover  Activity page 16

3.  Lecture/Discussion CH 1 Section 1

4.  Guided Reading CH 1.1

Guided Reading CH 1.1 Homework if not finished in class.

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1.  Question of Day -- What are the three levels under ecosystem?

2.  Planet Earth

21

1. Question of Day -- Name 3 biotic and 3 abiotic things in an ecosystem.

2. Find out biome group

3.  Identify biotic and abiotic factors in your biome

4.  Identify populations in your biome  

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1. Question of Day -- What is one unique animal/organism that lives in your biome?

2.  Develop levels of organization in biome.

3.  Survivor Biome Flag - design must have one animal and one plant population from your biome.

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1. Question of Day -- What relationships occur in populations in biomes?

2.  Discover Activity page 23

3.  Guided Reading over Chapter 1 Section 2

4.  Discussion over Chapter 1 Section 2

24

1.  Question of Day -- What are the four ways of determining a population?

2.  Counting Turtles Activity

3.  Work on your Survivor Biome Flag

25

1.  Question of Day -- What are two reasons for a change in populations size?

2.  How Many Bears? Activity

3.  Work on your Survivor Biome Flag

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1.  Question of Day -- What are 2 ways that predators have adapted?

2.  Discover Activity page 31

3.  Read Chapter 1 Section 3

4.  Review and Reinforce over CH 1.3

Review and Reinforce over CH 1.3 if not finished in class, it is homework.

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1.  Question of Day -- What are the 3 types of symbiosis?  Give an example of each.

2.  Discussion over adaptations to a biome, predator/prey relationships, and symbiotic relations

3.  Complete Survivor Booklet section on adaptations, predator/prey, and symbiotic relations

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1.  Question of Day- none

2.  Review for Quiz over Chapter 1

3.  Work on Survivor Immunity Idol for biome.

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Performance CRT Practice

1

1. QoD

2. Begin New Layered Packet

3. Lecture

4

1. QoD

2. Work on Layer C

5

1. QoD

2. Work on Layer B

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SNOW DAY

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1. QoD

2. Finish Layer B

3. Layer A Brochure

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1. QoD

2. Finish Packet

3. Finish Layer A Brochure

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1. QoD

2. Review for Quiz

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1

Holiday Break

2

Holiday Break

3

1.  Brain Reactivation Activity

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1.  Barfing Bag Activity

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Question of Day...

Is yeast living or non-living?  Explain your answer.

Plan for Today...

1.  Begin new layered packet.

Packet due Friday.  Layers C, B, and A.

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Question of Day...

What is a controlled experiment?

Plan for Today...

1.  Work on Layered Packet.

Layer C should be finished by the end of the day.

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Question of Day...

How many of the characteristics of living things must an organism have to be considered living?  Why?

Plan for Today...

1.  Work on Layered Packet

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Question of Day...

What are the 4 basic needs of all living things?

Plan for Today...

1.  Work on Layered Packet.  Should be working on Layer B or A.

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Question of Day...

Why do we, as scientists, need to know if something is living or nonliving?

Plan for Today...

1.  Finish Layered Packet

Quiz over Chapter 1 Section 1 on Tuesday.

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No School

15

1.  QoD

2.  Unit Quiz

3.  Classification Activity

16

1.  QoD

2.  Expectations

3.  Begin Layered Packet

17

1. QoD

2. Work on Layer C

18

1. QoD

2. Work on Layer C

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No School

22

1. QoD

2. Clean out Lockers

3. Work on Layer B

23

1. QoD

2. Finish Layer B Packet

3. Watch Video

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1. QoD

2. Read Ch 1.4

3. Kingdom Activity

25

1. QoD

2. Finish Kingdom Tree

3. Virus Activity

28

1. QoD

2. Review for Quiz

29

1. Quiz

30

1.  QoD

2. Virus Activity

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1. Work Catch Up or

2. Oblik

3

1.  Demo - Balloon in a Bottle

2.  Guided Reading Worksheet - Changes in Matter.

Worksheet homework, if not finished in class.

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1.  Video

2.  Phases of Matter

5

1.  Discussion of work in science.

2.  Discuss observations.

3.  Phases of Matter

6

1.  Moth Ball Demo

2.  Grade Changes in Matter Worksheet.

7

1.  Guided Reading Worksheet - Periodic Table and Elements.

Worksheet homework, if not finished in class.

10

1.  Periodic Table Activity - Create an element.

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Snow Day!

12

1.  Watch "The Elements" Video.

13

1.  Finish "The Elements"

2.  Discuss arrangement of the periodic table

3.  Flame Test over characteristics of some elements.

14

1.  Teach partners how to find...volume of regular and irregular shaped objects, mass, density

2.  Create cube to aid in studying for CRT regarding volume, mass, density, SI units, and mass vs. weight

17

1.  Review Worksheet for CRT.

Worksheet homework, if not completed in class.

18

1.  Vocabulary Review Game.

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1.  CRT # 2 Jeopardy Game.

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1.  CRT # 2 - Chemical Building Blocks

over CH 1.1 and 1.2, CH 2.1 and 2.4, CH 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.

21

1.  Video - Mt. St. Helens - Minute by Minute (broken when shown before)

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Holiday Break

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Holiday Break

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Holiday Break

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Holiday Break

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Holiday Break

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Holiday Break

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1.  Describing Matter - Work on Layer C Packet - Lecture Today.

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1. Describing Matter - Work on Layer C packet.

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1.  Describing Matter - Finish Layer C and move on to Layer B.

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1.  Describing Matter - Work on Layer B.

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1.  Video

2.  Guided Reading over 1.1 and 1.2.

Guided Reading Homework, if not finished in class.

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1.  Measuring Packet - Focus on Mass, Length, and Volume.

Measuring Packet homework, if not finished in class.

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Sub Day

12

1.  Describing Matter - Work on Layer B.

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1.  Describing Matter - Last day to Work on Layer B.

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1.  Activity on Volume and Mass.

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1.  Activity - Practice Measuring and Calculating Density of an Object.

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1.  Measuring volume, mass, and density of different fruits.

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1.  Another activity over measuring and calculating density. Practice for quiz  tomorrow.

20

1.  Quiz over Chapter 1.1 and 1.2.

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1.  Video over Scientific Method.

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Thanksgiving

Break

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Thanksgiving

Break

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1.  Handed grades to students.  Work on missing assignments.

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1.  Hand back Quiz. 

2.  Review sheet over quiz.

Quiz review homework, if not finished in class.

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1.  Stations -- Chemical change, Physical change, Liquid Density Column, etc.

29

1.  Discuss Sollids, Liquids, and Gases.

2.  Act out molecules of solids, liquids, and gases.

30

1.  Messy Activity - Make GAK and look at chemical and physical properties.

1

1.  Work on Plate Tectonic/ Sea Floor Spreading Packet

2.  Plate Tectonic Video

2

1.  Watch Killer Quake Video

2.  Killer Quake Worksheet

3

1.  Work on Plate Tectonic/ Sea Floor Spreading Packet

4

1.  Last day to work on Sea-Floor Spreading/Plate Tectonics packet.

Study for quiz over Chapter 1-- Quiz is tomorrow.

5

1. Quiz over Chapter 1 - Sea Flooring Spreading/ Plate Tectonics

2. Introduction to Earthquakes

8

1.  Go over Stress on Earth's Plates.

2.  Create chart over reading from CH 2 Section 1.

9

1.  Create model -- Three Fault Model to represent the three types of faults

10

1.  Discuss and answer questions over Three Fault Model.

2.  Read and complete Guided Reading over CH 2 Section 1 and 2.

11

1.  Finish the guided reading worksheet over CH 2 Section 1 and 2.

2.  Watch Introduction clips on Volcanoes

12

1.  Discuss Volcanoes.

15

1.  Complete CRT # 1 Review Worksheet.

Worksheet is homework if not completed in class.

16

1.  Go over CRT # 1 Review Worksheet.

2.  Jeopardy Review Game.

Study Review Worksheet for 15 minutes tonight.

17

1.  Play Jeopardy Part 2 Review Game.

Study Review Worksheet for 15 minutes tonight.

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1.  CRT # 1

Inside Earth

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1.  Watch

Video over Volcanoes -- Mt. St. Helens:  Minute by Minute.

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

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1.  Rainbow in a Test Tube Lab.

30

1.  Clean out folders.

2.  Clicker Preset.

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Skating with Sucess!

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NO SCHOOL

4

1.  Quiz on Thinking Like a Scientist

5

1. Introduction to Earth's Interior

2.  Hand out Earth's Interior Packet

6

1.  Work on Earth's Interior Packet

2.  Bill Nye Video -- Layers of Earth

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1.  Work on Earth's Interior Packet

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1.  Work on Earth's Interior Packet

11

1.  Finish Earth's Interior Packet

12

1.  Quiz on Earth's Interior

2.  Lecture on Heat Transfer/ Continental Drift

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1.  Animal Observation Activity

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1.  MIcroscope Observation Activity

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1. Work on Heat Transfer/ Continental Drift Packet

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1.  Work on Heat Transfer/ Continental Drift Packet

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1.  Work on Heat Transfer/Continental Drift Packet.

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1.  Work on Heat Transfer/ Continental Drift Packet

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1.  Finish Heat Transfer/ Continental Drift Packet

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1.  Quiz on Heat Transfer

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1.  Watch Video over Plate Tectonics.

2.  Types of Boundaries Cheer

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1.  Work on Plate Tectonic Packet

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1.  Work on Plate Tectonic Packet

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Graham cracker plate tectonic activity

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1. Introduction on Mrs. Smith

2.  Student Introductions

3.  What is a Scientist?

4.  Homework -- Two Sculptors for Parents

21

1.  Individually write class rules

2.  Groups agree on rules

3.  Mrs. Smith helps with rules

22

1.  Discuss Lab Safety Contract

2.  Safety Rules 101

3.  Homework -- Parents Sign Safety Contract

23

1.  Introduction of Lab Write-Up Sheets

2.  Ice Cube Lab

3.  Finish Lab Write-Up

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1.  VARK Assessment and Multiple Intelligence in the computer lab.

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