5/20 Study for Human Body test on May 25/26, depending on your science period! 5/10 Human Body Systems project all week. Presentations next week. Invention Convention final essay due Friday! 4/26 Review the Circulatory System 4/25 Cell Test 4/18 - Cell organelle review with Quiver app. It is a free download to bring the cell from 2D to 3D! Pretty cool! 4/19-4/20- Cell model presentations and paragraph explanation. Scoring Rubric 4/21 - Cell Study Guide 4/22 - Cell Jeopardy Review and Test on Monday 4/11 - Plant and animal cells. Science invention convention paragraphs are due this Thursday. Make sure it has lots of details and you cite your sources!
4/12 - Finish up cell organelle notes. Use the Nearpod to the right to click through the slides and take notes. ** Cell model project!! Instructions here!! Scoring rubric. Due next long period Tuesday and Wednesday. 4/13 - Learning the parts of a microscope. Click here for the worksheet. Socrative quiz open note. 4/14 - Cheek cell staining lab using microscopes. Lab Sheet. 4/15 - Plant cell lab in class. 4/4 - Ms. Cottingham still teaching. Transpiration
4/5- 4/6 Work on plant models and tie into deforestation in the Amazon. 4/7 - Poster presentations. Homework is final essay (3 paragraphs) on plant unit. Please read the attachments below to know what is expected and the scoring rubric. Plant Packet Overview of Expectations of Plant Project 4/8 - Seeds and Flowers. 3/28 - Ms. Cottingham lecture on CO2. Notes in class.
3/29 - Short periods. Socrative quiz and start on group posters related to deforestation. 3/30 - 31 - Continue work on group posters in class. 4/1- Greenhouse effect demonstrations. 3/7 - Weather/atmosphere test.
3/8 - Shortened schedule due to bowling field trip! Review what will happen on launch day. Google Earth File 3/9 - Balloon launch at Flag airport! Students must be dropped off by 8am by Wiseman aviation White Gate. 3/10 - Review flight data if we recover the payload. 3/11 - Present weather imovies. ** Mrs. Heins will be going to Sweden for two weeks to shadow Mrs. Berg that was shadowing us for two weeks. Follow along on Instragram (Spacespartans) to learn all that I will be doing at their science museum! Ms. Cottingham from NAU will be teaching her plant unit while I"m away. Have a great spring break! 2/29 - Weather forecasting iMovie project. Students will be doing research to create either a weather forecast for Arizona or on the scene during a weather related natural disaster. Project outline here. Storyboard here. 3/1 - Work on iMovie projects in class. Weather/Atmosphere study guide. Work on it outside of class. 3/2 - Work on iMovies in class. Study Guide - work on outside of class. Click Here 3/3 - Finish up iMovies. 3/4 - Jeopardy review for Test on Monday. _________________________________________________________ 2/22 - Weather notes in class. If you are absent make sure you borrow a notebook and make up all the notes you missed. 2/23 - 2/24 - Analyzing temperature and pressure graphs from previous balloon launches. Use Google Earth to generate launch predictions and explore them in 3D. Article of the week due today. 2/25 - Identifying cloud types and recording weather data. 2/26 - Exploring natural disasters. Make a paper model disaster kit. Draw what you would pack in it and explain why you chose those items. Due Monday. Extra credit if you build a real disaster kit and take a picture of it. Click here for paper copy of disaster kit. 2/15 - Socrative open note quiz and started work on article of the week in class because so many students were out. Due next Tuesday. Click Here
2/16 - Finish up notes for layers of the atmosphere. Make a scale model of the atmosphere in class. Model activity 2/17 - Temperature conversion math. Practice converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa. 2/18 - Thermometer scavenger hunt outside and conversion practice. 2/19 - Balloon mission patch design contest. 2/8 - Satellite GOES and POES notes in class. See Mrs. Heins if you were absent. You will need to make up the notes.
2/9 - 2/10 - Toontastic presentations. You MUST have your citation page ready to go at the start of class! Please have it printed before you walk in. Scoring rubric click here. 2/11 - Notes on the layers of the atmosphere. 2/12 - Hands on activities with salinity and density. 2/1 - Introduction to satellites and the Toontastic research project. Click here for the outline.
List of satellites to research. 2/2 - Research in class and start working on Toontastic projects. 2/3 - Salinity and density lesson. 2/4 - Work on Toontastic research projects. 2/5 - Finish up Toontastic research projects. Students will present them next Tuesday/Wednesday long period days. 1/25 - Water cycle Study guide. Test on Thursday. Click here for study guide.
1/26-27 - River pollution activity. Article of the Week. Click Here. Due next Tuesday. 1/28 - Water cycle test in class. 1/29 - Introduction to the Ocean and zones. 1/19 - Finish working on global water crisis posters. Article of the week is due.
1/20 - Water crisis poster presentations in class. 1/21 - Virtual water activity and home water audit. Water audit due Friday. 1/22 - A drop in the bucket water activity in class. Hands on activity to realize how important our fresh water is. 1/11 - Water cycle story project. They must write a story about a water molecule going through the water cycle. This must be two paragraphs and include the 5 main parts of the water cycle (Evaporation, condensation, transpiration, precipitation, infiltration or runoff.). We will work on the foldable diorama in class. Click Here for the assignment. This assignment is due on Friday.
1/12 - 1/13 - Article of the Week is now a 2 paragraph summary for the rest of the year and it must be typed. This week the students will watch a Ted-Ed video and write a summary. This is in preparation for the AZ Merit because they will have to do a similar task on the test. I will review my expectations for writing the summary. A citation of the source must now be included as well. Due next Tuesday. Click here for the article of the wee. 1/14 - Where do we get our freshwater? Nearpod notes in class. Water cycle stories and diorama due tomorrow. 1/15 - Global water crisis. We will explore how precious our freshwater is and the importance of clean water for everyone using water.org. Students will be broken up into four groups of five. They will research a piece of the water crisis puzzle and present it to the class next week. Here is the criteria for the posters that they will present next Wednesday.
1/4 - Introduction to the water cycle. Notes from Nearpod in class. Our focus will be mainly on evaporation, transpiration, and condensation. The nearpod is to the right.
1/5 - Finish up the water cycle. Conclude with precipitation, infiltration, and runoff. Notes in class. 1/6 - Snow day 1/7 - Snow Day 1/8 - Snow Day 12/13 - Finish up Sphero maze in class. Complete reflection survey of this unit. CLICK HERE
Technology presentations are due tomorrow! 12/14 - Technology presentations - Scoring rubric it to the right in the red text. 12/15 - Technology presentations continued for classes 1,2,3 12/16 - Technology presentations for classes 4 & 5 12/17 - Student drop off and pick up at the Aquaplex for students who earned the reward. If students received more than 5 hole punches they will need to be dropped of and picked up at school. 12/7 - Continue with calculating distance, time, and speed with the Sphero's. The article of the week is due tomorrow. Keep working on your technology projects. The scoring criteria is to the right.
Student Instructions Student Worksheet 12/8 - Creating a program to run the sphero in the pattern of a square and triangle. They will be dividing 360 degrees by the number of sides to figure out the headings for the sphero. Students will be able to try other shapes if they have time. Student Instructions Student Worksheet for Paper 53 app. 12/9 - Continue programming speed and distance based on measurements and calculations. The mission for today is sphero "bowling". Student Instructions Student Worksheet for Paper 53 12/10 - Sphero and percentages. We will be learning how to calculate percentages based on sphero speed. We will also be discussion Sphero error due to momentum at high speeds. Student Instructions Student Worksheet for Paper 53 12/11 - The maze! Students will have to measure distances and perform calculations to create a program that will get their sphero through a maze. This last mission will help students apply everything they have learned in this unit to solve this last problem. Photo of the maze will be here. 11/30 - Introduction to Technology unit. Notes in class using Paper 53. We will go over the technology research project as well. Click Here to download the requirements.
This Popular Science website is a great place to start looking for ideas! Due Tuesday, December 15th. 12/1-12/2 - Practice coding with hands-on activity. Then we will transition to coding at the Hourofcode.com website. Practice coding at the Code Studio! Minecraft, Angry Birds, Frozen, Star Wars, and more! Article of the week due next Tuesday. Click Here for the article on Drones. 11/3 - Introduction to Sphero programming. Changing colors using MacroLab software for basic programming. Student Instructions Student recording sheet 11/4 - Start practicing Sphero programming. Distance, speed, time calculations. Student Instructions Student recording sheet 11/23 - Gallery walk of heat shield posters. Introduction to Paper 53 digital note taking app for our technology unit. I encourage students to obtain their own stylus pens for writing on the ipads. Most are very inexpensive and I have extra in the classroom. We will be using them for the three weeks in between Thanksgiving and Christmas break.
11/24 - Skype video chat with mining engineer Dan Pilcher (my dad!). He will share what it means to be an engineer and also share his thoughts on renewable and non-renewable energy.
Have a great Thanksgiving Break! 11/16 - Finish heat shield poster presentations in class. Homework is to complete notecards with important facts on it for presentations Tuesday/Wednesday. Test over Energy unit is Friday. Study guide for Energy Test Click Here.
11/17-18 - Heat shield poster presentations. If we finish in class there will be time to work on the study guide. Otherwise, it needs to be completed outside of class. 11/19 - Jeopardy review. 11/20 - Energy test. Multiple choice, true/false and essay. 11/23 - Eggstronaut stories! In class writing assignment. 11/24 - Sharing Eggstronaut stories in class. Early release at 1:40pm! Thanksgiving break! 11/9 - We will be starting the Egg-stronaut heat shield lab to apply conduction, convection and radiation to a real world experience! Group work in class. Article of the week due tomorrow. Click Here if you lost it.
11/10 - Build heat shields. Article of the Week due. Nice handwriting or typed. 11/11 - No School 11/12 - Test heat shields 11/13 - Work on poster presentations about their heat shield designs. Rubric for scoring is HERE. 11/2 - Solar viewing day!! Bring your solar ovens to cook S'mores or hot dogs! Remember it can be your own design! We will also be safely looking at the sun to identify sun spots. Check out http://www.spaceweather.com/ to see what is going on with our star right now!
11/3-4 - Reflection on solar ovens. We will work on it in class, Click here for the packet. If not finished in class it is due on Thursday. We will also start an introduction to our heat shield design project buy studying space shuttle heat tiles and ablative heat shields of Apollo. 11/5 - Solar car races if it is sunny! Solar oven papers are due today. 11/6 - Solar car packet wrap up in class. Our solar viewing day has been moved to November 2nd due to bad weather coming this week. Solar oven, S'mores supplies and hot dogs are not due until then.
10/26 - Intro to Solar car engineering design challenge. It looks like we only have a couple days of sun so we are going to take advantage! Groups of 3 will start designing and building their solar cars. 10/27 - Article of the Week is due! Continue testing solar cars. 10/28 - Continue working on solar cars if there is any sunshine. 10/29 - ThingLink presentations 10/30 - Mrs. Heins will be out. Thermal energy with Ms. Hannon. Solar ovens and S'mores materials are due on Monday. : ) 10/19 - Intro to Solar energy - Notes about the Sun.
10/20-21 - Work on finishing Wind Turbine Lab Packets. If not finished in class they are due Thursday. Click HERE for the link to help with the venn diagram on the wind turbine packet. **Homework is new article of the week due next Tuesday. Click here for the Article of the Week. Light energy activity in class. 10/23 - Wind turbine lab packets are due today. Start renewable and non-renewable energy ThingLink projects on the ipads. Links for information on renewable and non-renewable energy. Energy Information Administration Alliant Energy Kids Energy.gov US of Energy Technology of Green Energy 10/24 - ThingLink presentations continued. Solar oven project!! We will need donations of S'mores materials and hot dogs for the students to cook next Thursday. The Coconino Astronomical Society will also be here with solar viewing telescopes! Fun! Click Here for the Solar Oven instructions! 10/12 - Trial #1 of the wind turbines and record results.
10/13 - Trial #2 of wind turbines. . Due next Wednesday long period day. 10/14 - Final trial of wind turbines. Lab write up next week. Have a great fall break! 10/5 - Introduction to Energy. Notes in class. Nearpod slides are to the right.
10/6 - 10/7- Transfer of Energy. Notes in class and hands-on activity with LittleBits. 10/8 - Introduction to wind turbines. Windmill transfer of energy lab. Get into groups, start investigation, and conduct wind turbine research. To start your research click here! 10/9 - Start construction of windmills. In class. 9/28 - Finish up Rocket Mass lab. If you don't finish it in class it is due Tuesday.
For Careers Click Here! 9/30 - Metric Study Guide.
9/30 - Jeopardy Review game.
10/1 - Test Part 1 multiple choice due to short class periods and parent teacher conferences. 10/2 - Test Part 2 - hands on measurement to demonstrate knowledge. 9/21 - Introduction to Rocket Mass lab. This is worth a lot of points so please make sure you stay on top of your work in class.
9/22-23 - Mass Lab in class. Article of the week is due! 9/24 - Mass Lab 9/25 - Wrap up mass lab. Make sure you have all your units, measurements, and complete sentences in your packet. Due next Tuesday. 9/14 - Mass acceleration lab in class.
9/15 - Introduction to volume. Notes in class. Article of the week - Mars Climate Orbiter assigned. Due next Tuesday. 9/16 - Liquid measurement lab. Finding the meniscus. Conversion practice for homework. Due tomorrow.
9/17 - Rainbow Lab in class. Practice liquid measurement. Conversion practice homework due today.
9/18 - Introduction to the scientific process. In class notes. Thank you to everyone who donated Alka-seltzer tablets! 9/8-9/9 - Introduction to Mass. (Mass vs. Weight) How to use a triple beam balance. In class lab.
9/10 - Lego mass lab. In class triple beam balance lab. 9/11 - Mass acceleration lab. If questions are not finished in class then it is due by next Tuesday. 8/31 - Introduction to Metrics. Pre-fixes and their meanings. Note taking in class. Homework is reading a ruler.
9/1 - Measurement lab in class. Measuring objects with rulers and meter sticks. Article of the week due tomorrow.
9/2 - Introduction to metric conversions by moving the decimal. Metric help video is on the right side of this page. Homework is conversion practice. **Article of the Week is due today as well!
9/3 - Continue with conversion practice in class. No Homework unless you did not finish in class.
9/4 - Measurement and conversion practice in class. No homework unless you didn't finish in class. Enjoy the 3 day weekend!
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Technology Project - Scoring Rubric Here
Each student will need to choose a piece of technology to research and present to the class. It is completely their choice what they want to choose. Students also need to use technology to share their research wit the class in a multimedia presentation. The only restriction on software is no Powerpoint. Students can use apps on their phones, ipads, ipods, computers, whatever as a way to present their information. HOWEVER, it has to be brought to school and in a way we can present it. I have projector cords for all apple products. If something is made at home and saved to a flash drive the student MUST make sure it is a file that my computer can read and project. Please check with me early on. Criteria – Each category is worth 5 points
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8/24 - Qualitative data, quantitative data, 5 senses, and inferences. Vocabulary and hands-on in class.
*If you are not at school during note taking days the Nearpod note presentations will be here on the right. Make sure you go through them and make up the notes you missed!
8/25-8/26 (Long Period Days) Mystery Bag Lab!!
Mystery Bag Answers click here.
*If you are not at school during note taking days the Nearpod note presentations will be here on the right. Make sure you go through them and make up the notes you missed!
8/25-8/26 (Long Period Days) Mystery Bag Lab!!
Mystery Bag Answers click here.
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8/27 - Review Mystery bag Lab
8/28 - Article of the Week - How to write sentences and start on the homework. Make sure to capitalize, punctuate, and check your spelling!! Detailed answers with support from the article. Due 9/2.
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8/17 - Science safety - Class rules, sign safety contract. Due Thursday.
8/18 - Safety posters. Due Wednesday. Student groups work on safety skits.
8/19 - Safety posters due. Students will present their safety skits.
8/20 - Safety contracts due and safety test. Students must pass with a 90% or better. This demonstrates mastery of safety rules for the year. If they do not pass with a 90% they must retake the test until they do pass with a 90% or better.
8/21 - Field trip to Fox Glenn Park - Team building activities.
8/18 - Safety posters. Due Wednesday. Student groups work on safety skits.
8/19 - Safety posters due. Students will present their safety skits.
8/20 - Safety contracts due and safety test. Students must pass with a 90% or better. This demonstrates mastery of safety rules for the year. If they do not pass with a 90% they must retake the test until they do pass with a 90% or better.
8/21 - Field trip to Fox Glenn Park - Team building activities.
8/12 - First day of school! Introductions. Please get your syllabus signed and returned by Friday.
8/13 - Newspaper tower activity - Team building.
8/14 - Draw a scientist and Save Fred! activity.
8/13 - Newspaper tower activity - Team building.
8/14 - Draw a scientist and Save Fred! activity.
8/5 - 6th Grade Orientation! Boot Camp!