Wednesday, September 14

HOMEWORK FROM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 WAS: WORD WISDOM P. 17 (QUIZ TOMORROW)

SCIENCE WEEK

In class, we are continuing the unit on the Earth's Changing Surface. Students have read from our kit textbook, participated with the Promethean board by looking at slides of landforms, and they receive Polk Pride tickets for coming up to the board to write their answers from the bell ringer. When looking at the slides, they study the picture of the landform, they turn and talk to their group mates about what's going on in the picture, and then they make a sketch of picture, and finally explain the scientific process that is going on in the picture: (erosion, weathering, or deposition). The students did a nice job with their sketches and enjoyed the active assignment.

Students have also been developing their scientific notebooks in class by adding their table of contents and their word bank (science vocabulary words and definitions).

Students need to remember the seven steps of our scientific note-booking process. They are:

1) Question (Focus Question)
2) Prediction
3. Procedure/Plan
4) Observation
5) Claims and Evidence
6) Conclusion
7) Reflection

Students are expected to be ready for a pop-quiz on the seven steps of the note-booking process.

I have been vigorously trying to obtain all of the materials needed for our first real lab in class. I got some more last night at Wal-Mart. I am hoping to have it ready for Friday. If not tomorrow, we will do it early next week (even though it will be Language Arts week).

HOMEWORK FROM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 WAS: WORD WISDOM P. 17 (QUIZ TOMORROW)

I will post later today for tonight's homework and reminders.