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feb 7, 2025

  • Physics #2 Test

feb 6, 2025

  • Review for test on Friday
  • ​Continue Newton's Laws poster

feb 5, 2025

  • Surface Board Lab - finish
  • Review for test on Friday
  • ​Begin Newton's Laws poster

feb 4, 2025

  • Surface Board Lab - begin

Feb 3, 2025

  • Newton's First Law Lab

jan 31, 2025

  • Finish Lab 

jan 30, 2025

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  • Fan Cart Physics Gizmo

jan 29, 2025

  • Finish Lab

Jan 28, 2025

  • Submit your slide deck to Schoology. 
  • This is a DEADLINE
  • Last presentations will be marked down 30%.​
  • New Seats
  • Car Acceleration Lab

jan 27, 2025

  • Last in class day to work on slides 
  • New seats tomorrow

jan 24, 2025

jan 23, 2024

  • Think about ONE factor that you will change - this is your Independent variable. 
  • Make 1 change to your Car #1 (that is your independent variable)
  • and race today
  • Think about your dependent variable too - will it go slower, faster, farther or have more momentum
  • You need to finish Slides #1, 2, 3, 5 (car #1 only) - should be completed - finish these slides for homework

Jan 22, 2025

  • Sub Day: Create data table - 7 columns and 7 rows. 
  • Continue working on slides:  # 1, 2, 3,5 (car #1 only), and 7

jan 21, 2025

  • 1st and 2nd period: finish racing today - final day.
  • Finalize your car, find the mass, write your name on the car. Create data table: 7 columns and 7 rows. 
  • The Fastest, Farthest, and Best Looking will be shown off for Open House in May. Winners announced by the end of the week
  • 3rd and 4th Period - you need to race your car three times today - let's go!!

jan 18, 2025

  • If you raced your car on Friday, you can insert your data table into SLIDE #5. 
  • Calculate Speed and Momentum (Speed X Mass)​

jan 17, 2025

  • RACE DAY!!!
  • Good luck!     Have fun!!
  • Make sure the balloon is still before you release.
  • You will race your car 3 times and it needs to go at least 3 meters once.
  • I will collect data for your cars
  • Find the mass of your car
  • Write your data on your purple sheet
  • Start making the data table too
  • Go to "INSERT" --> "TABLE --> "7 Rows and 7 Columns" (follow the purple paper)​

jan 16, 2025

  • Are you ready for a race tomorrow? Tuesday?
  • So, if your car goes 3m today, STOP!
  • Find the mass and write it down - for your data table next week.
  • After that - you will race tomorrow and I will give you ONE new balloon!!!
  • Also, only cars will be on the counter after today. Put all other items you have in your backpack :)
  • I do have 7", 9" , and 12" balloons as a choice 
  • (thinking... small balloons for small cars)?? ​

jan 15, 2025

  • Progress Reports due in two days
  • Minimum Day - No build day (no glue guns) 
  • Update lab book - hand back papers
  • Assign Balloon Car Digital Slides
  • Open Slides, share with me and your partner - SHARE SLIDE DECK WITH ME TODAY 

jan 14, 2025

  • Turn in Sled Wars Gizmo
  • Take photos (at least 2) of car
  • Attach Balloon to car if you are ready :)
  • Test car - 3 m - Each yellow line is 1 meter

Jan 13, 2025

  • Build the axles first. 
  • I will explain how to do this.
  • I will have a table set up so I can melt a hold into your wheels if needed by the door
  • Keep glue guns on low
  • Keep the tools at the front table - do not remove or bring to your desk
  • take pics of your materials, and the axles, when finished

jan 10, 2025

  • Sled Wars Gizmo - reviewing acceleration

jan 9, 2025

  • Explain how to complete back side of SeeSaw Lab
  • Finish the front side for those groups that didn't finish
  • Finish/Turn in wordsearch/Xword
  • Newton's Laws - use your chromebook to finish Physics Notes​
  • Write your names/partner for Balloon Car
  • ​Bring a charged Chromebook Friday (Gizmo)

jan 8, 2025

  • Begin SeeSaw Lab
  • ​Bring a charged Chromebook Friday (Gizmo)

jan 7, 2025

Jan 6, 2025

  • Welcome back - share what you did
  • Moving on to Physics 2 - hand out vocab
  • Assign Balloon Car project​

dec 20, 2024

  • 1st Period: submit your test now
    Watch Elf in your seats /not bean bags
  • HW pass and stickers for 48/56 or greater on test (100%=2HW )
  • Assembly Schedule and Minimum Day
  • Last Day - movie day

dec 19, 2024

  • Do not move the chairs - test mode
  • Take out your Chromebooks and your lab book
  • Physics 1A Unit Test - 23 questions / 56 points
  • Do a quiet activity until all tests are completed

dec 18, 2024

  • ​Go over Graphing Review worksheet​
  • ​Energy Skate Park pHet activity 

dec 17, 2024

Picture

dec 16, 2024

  • Go over Acceleration bookwork (p 74)
  • Acceleration vs Speed graph worksheet
  • ​Graphing Review worksheet

dec 13, 2024

  • Finish Notes in Physics 1A
  • Finish Bookwork
  • Bill Nye Momentum

dec 12, 2024

  • Acceleration Bookwork
  • Review - Kahoot​

dec 11, 2024

dec 10, 2024

  • Update lab books - hand back papers
  • Speed worksheet - Bike Race

dec 9, 2024

  • Collect lab books
  • Calculating speed worksheet - work on units!
  • Finish Domino Derby​

dec 6, 2024

  • Explain Humboldt quake
  • Begin Domino Derby​

dec 5, 2024

dec 4, 2024

  • Understanding Motion (p68)
  • Speed Graphs - can you read a graph?
  • Explain assignment for tomorrow with sub

dec 3, 2024

  • Constant Speed Car
  • Frame of Reference/Reference Point w/s - finish with internet search on constellations... do stars move?
  • HW passes (32/32) and stickers for 28/32 or greater

Dec 2, 2024

  • New Seats
  • Bathroom passes Trimester 2
  • Begin Physics - glue vocab into Lab book
  • Physics: Motion and Energy
  • (stickers/HW pass for Human Evolution test will go out tomorrow...28/32 or greater gets a sticker, 32/32 gets a HW pass)

nov 22, 2024

  • Hand back Human Evolution worksheet
  • Human Evolution Test (16 questions/32 points)
  • ​Stay quiet / in assigned seats until last test is done

nov 21, 2024

  • Finish Human Webquest (10 min)​
  • Write the notes from videos into lab book
  • Highlight lab book for test tomorrow​​​
  • Kahoot​​

nov 20, 2024

  • Human Evolution Webquest begin​​

nov 19, 2024

nov 18, 2024

nov 15, 2024

nov 14, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

nov 12, 2024

  • Hand back papers
  • Homologous Structures - page 235 in the green book
  • Color code and label some of the human vs bird skeleton
  • Show pics of Peru
  • Tomorrow a sub day - preview your Homology webquest​​​​​

Nov 8, 2024

  • End of Trimester 1
  • Finish Inner Fish

nov 7, 2024

  • Your Daily Dose:www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmR21-4iWyI
  • Collect on timeline, mass extinction (pink), webquest (yellow), fossil jostle (gold), and crossword (yellow).
  • Being Inner Fish

Nov 6, 2024

nov 5, 2024

  • Your Daily Dose:www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul9l6xfEofs
  • Watch 20 minutes of "Mass Extinction" - only the Great Dying part at the end. After the video, work on the illustrations on the back of the video sheet.
  • Turn in at end of class​
  • Continue Crossword for the kids that finish early

Nov 4, 2024

Oct 31, 2024

  • Your Daily Dose:www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF1lSg_fWew
  • Take a survey - it is in schoology and enter your Student ID without the zero in front
  • Stay in your assigned seats 
  • If you still need to work on timeline, do so quietly at your table
  • Watch "It's the great pumpkin charlie brown" 

oct 30, 2024

oct 29, 2024

oct 28, 2024

oct 25, 2024

  • Class helpers for sub? two or three people
  • What movie on Halloween?
  • Begin Geologic Time Line
  • Tape paper and fold with your name clearly written on the side that is facing up
  • Mark out all time periods today 
  • Assignment link in schoology and my website

oct 24, 2024

  • Leave the chairs where they are
  • 50 Point test today
  • 25 questions, open note book​
  • Redeem Bathroom Passes for Tri 1 Extra Credit
  • Complete the Crossword and turn in today
  • Stay quiet and in your seats during test

oct 23, 2024

  • ​Go over the lessons that you will be doing with the sub and where to find the assignments
  • Crossword 
  • Blooket

​oct 22, 2024

  • Highlight Lab book
  • Review for test- review with a Kahoot​​

oct 21, 2024

  • TEST ON THURSDAY
  • Fossil Puzzle #1 - work on this first
  • In the mean time, we will do a fossil reveal outside
    • How to reveal your Fossil: 
      • ​make a tiny cut in cup, pull cup away (throw away cup)
      • separate clay from fossil
      • return clay to Ms Toal
      • clean up the fossil with paper towel or tweezers if needed

oct 18, 2024

  • Show slide deck on how to make a fossil
  • FIRST: Finish and Turn in Fossil Puzzle 2 (green paper from yesterday)
  • Make a fossil after you turn in green paper
  • Begin ice age

oct 17, 2024

  • ​Hand back Lab books
  • Finish Rock puzzle questions
  • Fossil Puzzle - part 2
  • Definitely get the order first and then answer questions.
  • If you do not finish in class, it is homework due at the beginning of class tomorrow

oct 16, 2024

oct 15, 2024

oct 14, 2024

oct 11, 2024

  • pop quiz - no lab book
  • Geologic Time Scale​

oct 10, 2024

  • Finish video - go over worksheet​
  • kahoot review
  • Blooket vocab

oct 9, 2024

  • "The day the Mesozoic Died video" and worksheet​

oct 8, 2024

  • Ch 8 bookwork​

Oct 7, 2024

  • Go over geology vocab
  • Draw rock cycle

Oct 4, 2024

  • No School

oct 3, 2024

  • Notes are due today - stamp for 30 points
  • Assemble Pop up T-rex - scissors and glue
  • Going over Geology Vocab with a powerpoint - if time permits

oct 2, 2024

  • Sub Day 
  • Work on coloring in your T-rex and a fancy background

oct 1, 2024

  • Finish Geology Vocab Notes - including a colored pic for each word
  • Explain how to complete Pop Up T-rex 
  • Go over Geology Vocab with powerpoint

sept 30. 2024

sept 27, 2024

  • The Great Floating Grape Lab - choose your partner

sept 26, 2024

  • Did you complete the drawing on page 427?
  • Go over test/ HW passes and a sticker for 90% or greater
  • Bill Nye Buoyancy with a worksheet :)

sept 25, 2024

  • Sub day today 
  • Buoyancy Bookwork​

sept 24, 2024

  • Daily Dose at end of class
  • DO NOT MOVE CHAIRS - TEST MODE
  • Test today - open notebook, CB will be locked
  • 60 points, 30 questions (multiple choice)
  • 54/60 or greater will get you a HW pass and sticker!!
  • 100% on test will get you double that :D
  • work on wordsearch when you are done with test - turn in wordsearch at end of class
  • ​Sub tomorrow

sept 23, 2024

sept 20, 2024

  • Fall Equinox 
  • Review for test on Tuesday
  • Crossword and Wordsearch
  • ​Kahoot

sept 19, 2024

  • Density Lab Gizmo

sept 18, 2024

  • Too overcast to see Partial Lunar Eclipse last night :(
  • Finish Mass and Volume Lab​
  • Test next week - highlight lab book
  • Charge your chromebooks tonight :) 

sept 17, 2024

  • Partial Lunar Eclipse tonight (draw on page ___)
  • Continue Mass and Volume Lab - turn in lab sheet

sept 16, 2024

  • New Seating Chart
  • Hand back papers
  • Update Lab book
  • Begin Mass and Volume Lab with your table partner

sept 13, 2024

sept 12, 2024

sept 11, 2024

  • Backpacks in the back for part of class
  • Take out a pencil
  • Finish up Metric Olympics Lab
  • Establish winners
  • Winners get stickers
  • Finish up the lab and turn in - or finish it as Homework

sept 10, 2024

  • Take out a pencil
  • Put your Backpacks in the back of the room
  • Begin Metric Olympics

sept 9, 2024

  • Notes on TBB and Grad Cyl​
  • Begin Metric Olympics - explain stations
  • Finish name game this week​
  • new seats coming next week
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sept 6, 2024

  • Hand back Measuring Volume Gizmo
  • Tape in Lab safety blue 1/2 sheet
  • Turn in poster today
  • Tantalizing Toothpicks​​

sept 5, 2024

  • ​Pop Quiz on measurement (5 pts)
  • Work on Poster - due tomorrow at beginning of class with your rubric
  • use a Ruler for straight lines
  • You can choose a lab rule (blue paper) or the ABCDE rules
  • Put your full name on the back. 
  • Must have color, neatness counts. Hand drawn. ​​

sept 4, 2024

  • Stamp Measure Me Lab
  • Hand back Mini Length Lab
  • Lab Safety Rules (blue sheet)
  • Begin poster
  • HW: parent signature

sept 3, 2024

  • Measure Me Lab

aug 30, 2024

  • Finish Measuring Volume Gizmo - turn in 

aug 29, 2024

btsn_2024_8th.pptx
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  • Hand back Mini Length Lab - finish and turn in.
  • Finish Mini Length Lab
  • Sign into Gizmo
    Class Code 1st: ELHVKG7G
  • Class Code 2nd: ELGRMR2D
  • Class Code 3rd: ELVV46PF
  • Class Code 4th: ELXK1Z8F
  • Submit 3 Screenshots from Measuring Volume Gizmo

aug 28, 2024

aug 27, 2024

  • Metric Staircase 
  • How to do Metric Conversions (show me)
  • ​www.showme.com/sh?h=2Njn9jE
  • Metric conversion worksheet​
  • Stamp conversions for completion. Due now only / won't accept late worksheet. 

aug 26, 2024

Notas Metricas
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2024 Reglas Metrica
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aug 23, 2024

  • Start the name game
  • Scavenger Hunt- front side for twenty min, finish the back together
  • turn in at end of class

aug 22, 2024

aug 21, 2024

  • Observation vs Inference notes and tiny worksheet. ​
  • stamp for completion
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aug 20, 2024

  • Show digital lab book link in schoology
  • Scientific Method Notes - page 4-5 in your lab book.
  • SciMeth bookwork: define the terms listed
  • Tape the assignment on the top of page 4. Draw a line down your lab book on the left side and use Cornell Note Format for this assignment. Use the blue text book for this assignment. 
  • ​ed.ted.com/lessons/rethinking-thinking-trevor-maber

aug 19, 2024

  • ​​​Lab book Table of Contents set up
  • Bathroom Passes, put your name on all 3.
  • Number first 50 pages in lab book.
  • Update Table of Contents 
  • hand back ABCDE Quiz 
  • Red Solo Cup activity

aug 16, 2024

aug 15, 2024

  • ABCDE Quiz
  • work on lab book cover
  • Clearly write your first/last name, subject 

aug 14, 2024

Review ABCDE's for 8th
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aug 13, 2024

  • First day of school
  • open seating - you may choose your seat today
  • Please be seated by the time the 2nd bell rings
  • Take roll / what's your name? 
  • ABCDE rules handout
  • name card
  • HW: parent signature