5/21- Reading EOG's

5/22- Math EOG's

5/23- Science EOG's

5/13/13: Progress Reports were issued.

5/7/13: Peppered Moth Survey due today (Real Life Variation Data)

4/24/13: Progress reports were sent home. As a matter of fact all the teachers in the team sent a progress report home with the student. So please sign all the four progress reports and have your son/daughter turn it in to us.

4/24/13: Notebook check on this day. The following entries will be graded:

1) Overview of Trip Through Geologic Time

2) Prehistoric Earth

3) Fossil Tour

4) Finding the age of rocks through rock dating.

5) Strata Puzzle/Diagrams

6) Relative aging of rocks

7) Radioactive Dating.

 4/17/13: The following sections have been covered to meet the essential standard posted down below:

Fossils

Relative Age of Rocks

Radioactive Dating

4/11/13- Report cards were sent home on Monday. 

4/8/13

The essential standard that will be covered in the 4th quarter will help students understand the evolution of  organisms and landforms based on evidence, theories and process that impact the earth over time.

Students broadened their understanding of the role that fossils played in the construction of Prehistoric Earth.


3/18/13: Notebook Check on Thursday. The following entries will be evaluated-

Drawings of five to eight slides of virus. 

Entries on Virus: #443- Draw and label figure 3                    

  #444- Draw and caption figure 4 on hidden and active virus

#446 (section 1 assessment) 1(a,b,c ): 2 (a,b): 3(c)

  Entries on Bacteria: #449: Draw and label figure 6

#450: Draw and label figure 7

#453: Analyze Data

  #457: All questions under Section 2 Assessment

 

3/18/13: Parents,currently we are reviewing basic structures and functions of virus and bacteria. We will taking a quiz on that topic on Tuesday.

Progress reports will go home on 3/19/13.  

3/11/13- Project on food and nutrition due.

Today, we start a new unit on microorganisms. 

1/13/13

Students are currently exploring how the periodic table is organized and hot to use the periodic table to obtain information about the atom of an element.

Students did an activity on chemical bonding. They learned to create chemical formulas from the symbols of the elements making up the substances.

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1/14/13: Quiz on Section 1 and 2 (Chapter 15)

Please look at the attachments to prepare for the test.



2/4/13:  In our new unit on Ecosystems, we will be investigating factors that determine the growth and survival of organisms.  

2/13/14: Science Hw: Essential Question: What are animal adaptations? How does it serve the animal in its environment.

3/11/13- Project on food and nutrition due.

Today, we start a new unit on microorganisms.