Franke_MS Science -Periods 1 &2 -Monday Assignments

This week you will be doing a presentation/research project on an endangered species. Follow the outline below to be sure to include everything in it.
You can do any kind of digital presentation. It can be a power point, google slides, prezi, you could even make a video of yourself presenting the information like a news report. Be creative.
Share your presentation with me.

This week you will be reading about endangered species. You will develop an argument to explain how species become endangered and thereby become extinct. You will be Investigating how biodiversity describes the variety of species found on Earth and assessing how changes in biodiversity influence humans’ resources and ecosystem services and which human activities affect biodiversity and ecosystems.
Activity: DE Board week 38 4/27/2020 Endangered Species.
Be thinking about one animal on the Endangered Species list you would like to examine in more detail, this will tie into our activity next week.
I am so pleased with the level of engagement with my classes and look forward to seeing you all and hearing from you.
Remember to check in with me once during the week (even if you have two classes with me, you only need to check in once)
You can do so in a few ways:
1. Adding a message to this google classroom post.
2. Sending me an email
3. Come by and chat during my online office hours. (On Webex, Tuesday 10-11and Wednesday, 1-2)

This week, there are a couple of videos for you to watch to review estimating populations.
Then complete the estimating population size worksheet. For technique number 2, you will need a baggy of beans or other objects to count. You will need to write on a copy of this page, take a picture and send OR create your own google doc and share with me.

Remember to check in with me once during the week (even if you have two classes with me, you only need to check in once)
You can do so in a few ways:
1. Adding a message to this google classroom post
2. Sending me an email
3. Come by and chat during my online office hours. (On Webex, Tuesday 10-11 or Wednesday 1-2)

Remember to check in with once this week. You can check in by email, on this classroom post, or by stopping by my office hours.

Assignment
DE Board: Week- 35 Biotic and Abiotic factors.
You will be reading a section in the DE book and answers questions. You will also be reading an article on invasive plants (it is linked in the DE Board). You will also be doing a field study looking at Biotic and Abiotic factors.
Be sure to complete the questions in the DE board, the questions for the article, and the field study activity.
**** You can type into the documents I shared with you and turn in on Google Classroom.

Activity 74- observing live organisms.
vocabulary: Anthropocentrism, Anthropomorphism, Ecology, observation, inference,
homework:
DE board microscopes
Microscope coloring page.

We reviewed for our test on Plate Tectonics next Monday 2/24, playing the Kahoot Game. Be sure to bring a 3x5 notecard, written on both sides(this is extra credit) and your completed vocabulary logs (counted as a 25 point test grade) to use on the test.
Homework: Study for the test on Plate Tectonics.

We viewed a few power points about Plate Boundaries and completed a lab to demonstrate this theory with graham crackers and pudding.
Homework:
1. Be sure to update your vocabulary and have all terms for Plate Tectonics completed. I have attached a list to double check your words against.
2. Complete the Discovery Education Board: Plate Tectonics Board #5 Earthquakes. I have included a lot of your vocabulary in this board. Be sure to read all the directions in the board and complete the exploration assigned.

Lab 43 Measuring Earthquakes
New vocabulary: earthquake, plate, Richter scale, seismograph, seismogram, fault

Homework:
1. This week you will have mapping activities. You will map out the global plates and how they relate to earthquakes and volcanoes.
Activity: Plate Tectonics Earthquake and Volcanoes (mapping activity)
2. More vocabulary to add to your vocab list: Continent, Risk
3. Reading: Lab 45 Understanding plate boundaries. As you read fill out the reading guide (worksheet 45.1) and the map (student sheet 44.2) and complete the analysis questions.

Discuss earthquakes and their destructive affects. We demoed the wave types with slinkies.

Homework:
New Vocabulary to add to your vocab log: Plates, Plate Tectonics, Theory

Plate Tectonics lab 42 (video lab)

Lab 39- Earth time
New vocabulary words for your vocabulary log: geological time, paleontologist, reptile

Homework:
Complete Discovery Education Board #3 "Earth Time"
Complete the lab write up.
New Vocabulary words for your vocabualry log: continent, Pangea, Theory of continental drift.

Activity 40 "Continent Puzzle" .
Students created a model of how the continents have moved over time.

Homework: Complete Lab 40 lab write up if not finished in class.
Complete all vocabulary that we have covered so far this unit.
Complete Lab Activity 41.1 and 41.2 worksheet , handed out in class.
There is no Discovery Education Homework this week.

As you're working through Homework this week for Science, you do NOT have to complete the lab 40 writeup (we will review in class next week) . Just complete the Activity 41 worksheet sent home. There is no Discovery Education homework this week.

Lab 38, Beneath Earth's Surface
Vocabulary: inner core, outer core, lava, magma, lithosphere, mantle, scale, cinder cone volcano, composite volcano, shield volcano, extinct, dormant, cross section, volcanologist.

Homework:
Complete the lab write up for activity 38 Lab to turn in on 12/16/19. This will be the last grade of the semester.
Vocabulary log: geological time, paleontologist, reptile
Discovery Education Board -Plate Tectonics 4- Development of Plate Tectonics.
Due 1/13/2020; Be sure to complete the note page I handed out in class and the Exploration Questions.

Today we examined the history of the Denver, Colorado area in geologic time. Students placed cards in order based on descriptions of ecosystems at the time.

Homework: Complete the Plate Tectonics Board #4 assigned last week.
Please have a wonderful Winter break!

Classwork:
Read the plate tectonic unit introduction for Activity 37 Volcanic Landforms.
Students completed the lab activity 37-Volcanic Landforms Activity
new vocabulary: Magma
** Students need to write the vocabulary word; definition; draw picture and example for full credit on their vocabulary log sheets. They will be able to use these on their next test and it will be counted as a test grade.
Homework:
New vocabulary: lava, lithosphere, mantle, crust, inner core, outer core, cinder cone volcano, shield volcano, composite volcano.
Discovery Education: Plate Tectonic Board #2.
Read article "Types of volcanoes"

Test #1, Studying Materials Scientifically

Homework:
vocabulary log (magma, landform, model)
Discovery Education- Plate Tectonic Board #1

Enjoy your Thanksgiving break. Homework due 12/2/19

Review activity for Studying Materials scientifically; today we played Kahoot (a computer game to help understand concepts)
You will have your first test next week.
Make sure you bring all your completed Vocabulary log sheets and you will use a 3x5 Notecard with handwritten notes on both sides to use on the test- You will be turning them in with your test. These are required and you will be getting a grade for them.

Homework:
Study for test.
Prepare 3x5 inch note card
Compete vocabulary log.
SMS activity 11- this is the take-home part of your test, you will do this individually at home (the activity mentions discussing things with your group, just do it all individually)- You will turn in the SMS activity 11.1 worksheet and the SMS activity 11 analysis questions.

Your test next week will have 4 separate grades (1- test, 2- note card, 3- vocabulary log, 4- SMS activity 11)

Activity 9: Mass and Density; We discussed the lab we were not able to complete since we did not meet last week. Also, I worked with students on completing the Mass_density_volume WS- Science 8 density review.
New Vocabulary, add it to your vocabulary log: Mass, Weight, Qualitative data, quantitative data
*** All students need to have all words updated by next week. I handed out a complete list of our vocabulary words in this unit so they have their vocabulary notes updated for the test Monday, November 18th.
Homework:
Complete the lab write up sheet 9.pdf -This should have been finished in class.
Mass_volume_and density review worksheet; complete any problems we did not finish in class.
There is no Discovery Education Homework!

Activity 8 Measuring Volume. Today we completed a lab to better understand how to measure volume.
Add the following words to your vocabulary log: Cubic Centimeters, Liter, Metric System, Milliliter, Qualitative, Quantitative, Volume. Remember you can use your completed vocabulary on the unit test.

Homework:
Complete lab write up - Activity 8- Measuring Volume
Discovery Education board SMS week 10 (density). Add the vocabulary to your log (Density)

Today we reviewed our labs so far on unidentified liquids and solids. We went over SMS (Studying Scientific Materials) activities 1-7 that we have completed so far.
Also, I reviewed the procedures of Discovery Education Curriculum and worked on making sure all students logged on and understood how to submit any missing work.
We reviewed all vocabulary students should have entered in their vocabulary log which they can use on the test.
Homework: No new Homework. Students need to complete any missing work they have in the Studying Material Scientifically or Discovery Education. Be sure all vocabulary is up to date in your vocabulary log.

Activity 7 Identifying Solids: Today we completed a lab to help identify the solids of our unknown mixture.
New vocabulary words (Add them to your vocabulary log)
Conductivity
density
evidence
Reactivity

Homework:
1. Complete the questions in the lab on student worksheet 7 document.
2..DE board week 9 (Volume), Add the following word to your vocabulary log; Volume.
Complete the "Just dunk it" worksheet handed out in class or copy from the google classroom.

Activity 6: Identifying Liquids-
Make sure you add these words to your vocabulary:
Physical Property
Chemical Property
miscible


Homework:
Complete lab write up- Identifying Liquids
DE Board SMS week 8. Be sure to add the following words to your vocabulary log (Solid, Liquid, gas, substance, phase, boiling point, freezing point)
DE Practice assessment "States of Matter"

Activity 6: Identifying Liquids
New vocabulary (add these to your vocabulary log)
Chemical properties
Physical properties
miscible
toxic

Homework:
Complete lab write up.

DE Board SMS week 8.
Be sure to add the following words to your vocabulary log (Solid, Liquid, gas, substance, phase, boiling point, freezing point)
DE Practice assessment "States of Matter"

SMS activity 5, Students completed the lab to use their written procedures in Activity #3 last week to physically separate solid and liquid components of the mixture.

Homework:
New Vocabulary(to be added to your Vocabulary sheet):
Physical property and Chemical property
-Complete SMS Activity #5. You can answer questions from this worksheet on a google document or copy at home and turn in Monday (document 5.1 will be used in future labs and kept by teacher)
DE Board SMS week 7 and worksheet-Answer these questions as you work on your DE Board assigned this week. A hard copy was also given in class or you need to copy from Google Classroom.
Physical and Chemical change worksheet- complete.

Classwork:
1. This week we continued to study mixtures and how to separate. We read through activity #3 in class and viewed lab items we might use to separate a mixture. Students worked on the
Activity 3 "A Plan to Separate the Mixture" paper and developed a procedure they would use to separate the mixture.
2. We continued to discuss Hazardous Materials at Home- Activity #4: Together we read a short play in Activity 4 and went over the 4 questions to answer. We completed 4.1 pdf in class.


Homework:
Complete the questions in activity 3 and 4 - Both #3 and #4 were handed out in class and also attached to this post.
Complete DE board: SMS Week 6 - There is a Link to the SVVSD DE in this post- Remember you need your full svvsd email and password to get into Discovery Education.
** I will be grading the Exploration "All mixed up" in the DE Board assigned this week.

Review class policies, emails, google classroom, shared folder, DE textbook.
Elephant poem

Homework:
Complete the elephant poem worksheet
Reading: "Internationals systems of units"- answer review questions on a separate sheet of paper (hard copy or you can type and turn in digitally)
View videos

Do your best to complete this assignment at home. Review the metric system and converting in Metric. Discuss reading a ruler and graduated cylinder. Begin Metric worksheet.
Read Intro to Studying materials scientifically (Page 16)
Homework:
Complete Metric conversion review and Metric worksheet.
Personal vocabulary log (Evidence, Hazardous materials, Mixture) Start keeping a vocabulary log that will be aloud to use on the unit test.
Complete activity SMS 1.