Class Blog

All science Information is now available in one place!!! - Google Classroom. Each Day I will post the day's schedule, links and handouts. If you are absent and want to know what you missed (and need to make up), check google classroom. Forgot to write down the homework - check google classroom. Lost a handout - check google classroom!

Parents- Please ask your child to log in to their Google Classroom Page if you want to see what we did each day and double check that your child completed their assignments and turned them in. I'm working on some Parent Google Classroom Tutorials - coming soon!

12/16(A) - 12/16(B)

12/16/2016

Due - Presentation

Schedule
Group Check In (10)

Last chance to practice!
Turn it in on Google Classroom!

Presentations 1-6
Bay Sci Challenge - Describe it Make it Challenge

Homework
Quiz Matter Cycling - Review your flashcards!!!

12/14(A)- 12/15 (B)

12/15/2016

Due - Did you work on your presentation? Are you ready for your notebook check?

Schedule
1) Notebook Check
2) Tech Tips - Guest speaker Josh
3) Work Time

Homework
Presentations start NEXT CLASS!!!!
Cycle Quiz on Day of final - Practice your flashcards on Quizlet!

12/8(A) - 12/9 (B)

12/8/2016

Schedule

Data Analysis

How to use Google Sheets for data analysis
How to use the template (if you want to!)

Make your Graph!
Finish watching an Inconvenient Truth

Homework
Graph and Questions (turn in on google classroom!)

12/6 (A) - 12/7 (B)

12/7/2016

Due - Pictures in Group Slide Show

Schedule
Global Warming Survey
Movie - An Invonvenient Truth (first 60 minutes!) - available on Netflix

Complete questions 1-9 on handout

Homework
Is your field study data ready to be analyzed next class??

12/2 (A) - 12/5(B)

12/2/2016

Due - CO2 and Tempearture Questions (Google Classroom)

Schedule
YouTube - Temperature and Climate
YouTube - What is Climate Change
Why should we care about climate change?

Sinking Paradise www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgw4HTtokgk
What will happen to Petaluma as sea level rises? Click Here and then zoom in on petaluma on the map. Then use the sea level button (top left) to increase the sea level. What happens?

Brainpop - Nitrogen Cycle
CN- Matter Cycling - add Nitrogen Notes
Field Study - Data Collection

Homework
Make sure your data and pictures for your invasive weeds field study are all loaded into your presentation. We will graph and analyze our data soon!!!

11/30(A) - 12/1 (A)

11/30/2016

Due - Water Cycle Story and Levels of Organization

Schedule
Warm Up - Quizlet Flashcards (Water Cycle and Carbon Cycle!)
Demo: Chemical Reactions/ Conservation of Matter
Video: Carbon Cycle (This video covers MORE than we need to know...the brainpop video is more basic, but requires a password...)
CN - Matter Cycling (continued! - add the carbon cycle notes)
The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

Graph Data from Mona Loa
Graph Data from South Pole
In notebook
- What are the yearly patterns?
- What causes these patterns?
Put all the year graphs together
- What patterns do you see? What's causing these patterns?

Homework
Carbon Dioxide and Temperature - Read the Article and Answer the Questions (IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM!)

CO2 and Temperature Article

11/28 (A) - 11/29(B)

11/28/2016

Due - Nothing (I hope you enjoyed your fall break!)

Schedule

Warm up (Answer the question in your notebook): “The water you drink every day has probably passed through at least one other person's body. How this could happen safely?”
Video Clip - Dinosaur Pee
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_bbQ0m3wuM
Water Cycle Dice
- Gamehttp://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/atmos/ll_whatacycle.html
CN- Cycling of Matter
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EFIzeFJkQ_wWY9gFlpi28wyaM_94nRxr_3YAwBPwx-M/edit (Stop after water cycle!)
Story Time - Write a story about the path your water molecule traveled in the game. Be sure to explain the processes that allowed your water molecule to move from one place to the next! (Google Classroom!)
Exit quiz - Socrative

Homework - Finish your Story of a Raindrop. Use key vocab terms!! Turn in on Google Classroom.
If you are not done with your levels of organization poster, finish it at home!!

11/15(A) - 11/16(B)

11/15/2016

Due - Owl Data Analysis (turned in on Google Classroom)

Schedule

Warm Up (Handout - Practice with food chains, food pyramids and food webs as well as vocabulary)
CN - Energy Flow and Trophic Pyramids (finishing from last class - notes are in a powerpoint linked to Owl Data Analysis in Google Classroom!)
Otter Trophic Pyramids Practice!
Field Study - Gather data

Homework - Test next class, see Google Classroom for what will be on the test!!

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