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may 13, 2025
- Alien Assessment - by yourself or with 1 person. Not groups of 3/4/5/6 - spread out and move to different stations - don't clump with your friends. This is a silent assessment
may 12, 2025
- Set up your Alien for the assessment tomorrow
mAY 9, 2025
- Continue building Alien
may 8, 2025
- Begin building Alien
MAY 7, 2025
- Begin Note card for Alien
- Find 5 characteristics for your alien - teacher approval needed
may 6, 2025
- Pick Planet or Moon
may 5, 2025
- Finish Notes
may 2, 2025
- Alien Moon Notes
May 1, 2025
- Planet Notes
apr 30, 2025
- Astronomy test today - no daily dose.
- Daily dose X2 tomorrow
apr 29, 2025
- Kahoot Review for Astronomy Test
apr 28
- Go over Sun Notes
- Highlight Lab book for test review
- Kahoot Sun review
apr 25, 2025
- Sub Day
- Complete the Phases and Eclipses worksheet - both sides
- Turn in at the end of class.
apr 24, 2025
- We should be able to finish testing today.
- Finish your Sun Notes - due Monday
apr 23, 2025
- Continue testing
- Work your Sun Notes when finished with your test
apr 22, 2025
- State testing Tues - Thursday
apr 21, 2025
- No School
apr 18, 2025
- Finish drawing Phases and Eclipses
- Glue/tape in Sun Notes for next week
- Show online practice test
- Kahoot review on Earth and Moon
apr 17, 2025
- Finish Moon Notes
- Phases and Eclipse drawings
apr 16, 2025
- Bill Nye the Moon
- Organize lab book
- HW: look at the moon tonight, keep note on which side is lit? left side or right side? Sloane says it's the right side that is lit.. will she be right?
apr 15, 2025
- Finish Earth Notes
- Start Moon Notes

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Earth Notes | |
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apr 14, 2025
- New Seats
- Earth Notes
apr 11, 2025
- Choose your seats for today
- FInish your slide deck today in class.
- Due by end of class
- Brag Board and photo for rockets OVER 100m :)
- Decorate the dry erase board, with your distance and I will take a photo of your group and rocket outside -yay!
- Dismantle 1 rocket, save the best for open house in May (May 14)
apr 10, 2025
- Choose your own seats today and tomorrow
- Rocket Launch day #2.
- Rockets look great!
- Do not join PE classes - stay under solar panels
- Daily Dose later....
apr 9, 2025
- Finish all slides for your rocket except the conclusion slide
- Share slide deck with me today if you didn't share with me yet
- Make a data table Insert data from yesterday's launch
Apr 8, 2025
- No time for Daily Dose
- Get your CONTROL ROCKET #1 and fill it up half way and close it with the bottle cap.
- Use the 1LITER bottle, fill it up all the way and add it to your 2 liter rockets. Do not put the plastic bottle over the faucet opening
- Once it's filled up - line up outside
- it's ok to bring your phone - no social media - just photos/videos
- Rocket Day!! Launch Day #1
- 4th period: bring all of your stuff - we will most likely need to launch into lunch - bring/go get your lunch. We have 2 class periods and the field is open only to science.
apr 7, 2025
- Share what you did over break
- Explain rocket launcher
- Update lab book - had back papers
- Astronomy Vocab
mar 28, 2025
- Last day to build rockets. Clean up after, bring me any plastic bags to reuse, you can take your duct tape home or donate it to science! :)
- When is Easter? Do you notice that it is not on the same day from year to year? What defines the day or Easter?
- Stay here - do not wander the campus!
mar 27, 2025
- Support EAMS and go to Nick the Greek tonight
- Share your slide deck with me today. I will be marking groups who have shared their slide deck
- First rocket should be done
- Tomorrow is the last day to work on the 2nd rocket. No rocket building after break. If you need to come in and finish during lunch - you may do so
mar 26, 2025
- Start slide deck, title it
- Share with your group members and me ([email protected])
- Rocket #1 should be finished - start on rocket #2
mar 25, 2025
- Make 2 identical rockets, change one thing on the second rocket
- Rocket should weigh somewhere between 200 - 400 ish gram
- both rockets need to be finished this week
mar 24, 2025
- Start building your rocket
- Bottom of rocket is the bottle opening. Keep the cap
- The bottom of the bottle needs to remain clear for the launcher.
mar 21, 2025
- Finish "Hidden Figures"
- Rocket Materials are due today. Label every item and contain your items in a plastic bag or box. Sharpie your name on the bottle near the opening.
- If you don't have materials on Monday, you will lose points.
- First day of Spring! aka Vernal Equinox (12 hr day = 12 hr night
Mar 20, 2025
- Continue "Hidden Figures" Movie
Mar 19, 2025
- Continue "Hidden Figures" Movie
mar 18, 2025
- 25 min to finish Light Lab
- Open CB and finish station 9 - turn in lab
- Take a quick survey (lab feedback from you) :)
- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIOwT8VuPH3NPr6lkQI6I0sjDPAEHR1kqtkXEOrxlkzKor7Q/viewform?usp=sharing
- Begin "Hidden Figures" Movie
mar 17, 2025
- カリフォルニアへようこそ!今日は私が皆さんの理科の先生です。私の名前はトール先生です。
Kariforunia e yōkoso! Kyō wa watashi ga minasan no rika no senseidesu. Watashinonamaeha tōru senseidesu. - Light Lab - 9 stations, video intro for each station. Do each station with 1 person or alone.
mar 14, 2025
- Waves Test
- Turn in Lab Books
mar 13, 2025
- Flame Test Demo - finish worksheet for HW if not finished in class
mar 12, 2025
- hand out study guide - go over it
- Get into rocket groups and work on choosing Independent variable and fin design
- ticket out the door: a completed rocket drawing #1 by everyone!
- 30 point Lab book check on Friday (leave lab book after test)
mar 11, 2025
- Turn in Waves Worksheet from yesterday
- Go over Light:Crash Course (purple)
- Begin NASA: EM Spectrum webquest
- Find your 2 liter bottles, a nose cone and duct tape for rocket
- Materials due next Friday 3/21
Mar 10, 2025
- Turn in purple "Light Crash Course"
- Hand back papers - update lab book
- Waves worksheet
- Hand out Tri 3 bathroom passes
- Test on Friday (20 questions)
Mar 7, 2025
- Assign Rocket groups (3 or 4, not less or more)
- Show slide deck real quick for absent kids
- Light Crash Course - video and worksheet (headphones are needed)
- stay in assigned seats
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjy-eqWM38g
mar 6, 2025
- Turn in your pHet Bending light w/s from yesterday
- SEL Presentations fro 8th grade in Science
Mar 5, 2025
- Pre-Survey BEFORE tomorrow's presentation - take out your CB - it's only 10 questions.
- pHet Bending Light - interactive activity
- LUNAR eclipse 3/13 - next week
Mar 4, 2025
- Assign Water Rockets: build at end of March, launch first week after Spring Break :)
- Kahoot on Light and Waves
- Every Day Heroes Assembly
mar 3, 2025
- New Seats
- Update TOC in lab book
- Turn in "Waves in my Life" poster
- Light Vocabulary (p 100 in lab book)
- Sound waves vs Flames: Mythbusters 5 min www.youtube.com/watch?v=-83EUEac9a8
- Surfing with Dynamite: Mythbusters (3 min) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW0DocsxRmo
- Small scale shock waves www.youtube.com/watch?v=8opkOJ26xr0
feb 28, 2025
- Work on Poster - Due Monday Morning
feb 27, 2025
- Begin "Waves in my Life"
feb 26, 2025
- Waves Gizmo/Slinky Lab Mash Up
- One partner or by yourself - NO GROUPS of 3! :)
- Turn in at end of class
feb 25, 2025
- Discovery Ed - Waves Intro
- Last day to turn in missing work is TUES 2/25**
- Trimester ends Feb 28
feb 24, 2025
- Hand back papers and go over the answers - reteach for more clarity
- Trimester ends Feb 28
- Turn in HW passes for EC, if you want
- Bathroom passes are worth 3 points each
- You can also save them for 3rd tri - and I will give you 3 more for Tri 3
- Last day to turn in any missing work is Tuesday Feb 25
- Penny drop Myth busters
- www.northgrandhs.org/apps/video/watch.jsp?v=10109554'
feb 21, 2025
- Discovery Ed: Waves on.a String
- Trimester 2 ends in ONE WEEK :)
- Last day to turn in any missing work is Tuesday Feb 25
- Trimester ends Feb 28
feb 20, 2025
- Discovery Ed - Describing Waves
- Discovery Ed - pHet Waves Intro
- Last day to turn in any missing work is Tuesday Feb 25
feb 19, 2025
- Bill Nye Waves with a worksheet
- NOT moving around :)
feb 18, 2025
- Begin Waves - vocabulary

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feb 17, 2025
- No School Today
feb 14, 2025
- Finish October Sky
feb 13, 2025
- Continue October Sky
feb 12, 2025
- TONIGHT: GEA EXPO at LHS gym 5:00 - 6:30
- Begin October Sky
feb 11, 2025
- Physics test - 30 questions, 60 points
- If time permits: Penny drop Myth busters
- www.northgrandhs.org/apps/video/watch.jsp?v=10109554'
feb 10, 2025
- Review for test on Tomorrow
- Highlight lab book
- Kahoot
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zrv2p_QsUU
feb 7, 2025
- Turn in Fan Cart Physics - finished or not
- Update lab book
- Go over lab worksheets
- Review/Test on Tuesday - blooket
- Physics #2 Test Tuesday.
feb 6, 2025
- Hand out your Balloon Car scores
- Turn in Surface Board Lab if you didn't yesterday
- Fan Cart Physics Gizmo (easy) due by end of class.
- You can pick 1 person to work with.
- Chairs do not move.
feb 5, 2025
- Surface Board Lab - finish
- Finish the write up for Homework if not completed in class
feb 4, 2025
- Review with quick Kahoot
- Begin Surface Board Lab
Feb 3, 2025
- Go over and finish Car Acceleration Lab graph and write up
- Finish Newton's First Law lab - part 3 (same groups as last time)
jan 31, 2025
- Take out your Chromebooks
- Recycle Survey in Schoology
- Finish Car Acceleration Lab on Monday (yellow)
- Science on Saturday - extra credit opportunity
- Newton's First Law Lab - begin part 1 and 2. (pink)
- Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_TqHO8ezv2AnE0_a76I2XmxgEE1QzpJeP7h6GqcBefepqSg/viewform?usp=header
jan 30, 2025
- GEA and FFA Day :)
jan 29, 2025
- I will be out "Observational Rounds"
- Finish Lab - return materials
- Finish graph and write up for homework if you have not finished in class.
- Tomorrow is GEA and FFA. :)
Jan 28, 2025
- 4A class will have teachers coming in for "Instructional Rounds"
- Reminder: Submit your slide deck to Schoology today/tonight.
- This is a DEADLINE
- Car Acceleration Lab - begin
jan 27, 2025
- New Seats
- Last in class day to work on slides
- Submit your slide deck into Schoology before midnight Tuesday Night
- Late presentations will be marked down 30%.
jan 24, 2025
- Last Day to race car #2
- Hand out rubric for slides - changes slide #6 and #7 a little bit.
- Go to Foyer and race the farthest cars - last 15 min (everyone)
- Use the rubric to answer slides #6 and #7
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
- Physics Vocab #2:
- vector
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=A05n32Bl0aY&list=PL3E788EDA794CCE7B&index=16&feature=plpp_video
- 7 inertia demos
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ux9D7-O38
- Work on Wordsearch if time permits
Jan 6, 2025
- Welcome back - share what you did
- Moving on to Physics 2 - hand out vocab
- Assign Balloon Car project
- Go over Newton's Laws
- Newtons laws
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOv7NyOnhY&t=4s
- Newtons 2nd law
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCG0qoY9Dc
- Newtons 3rd law
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx9kiF00rts
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
- Review with "Card-Card Quiz" (outside 15 min)
- Highlight lab book
- Review with Kahoot, tea party
- Advisory class: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOipDe7lhYM&t=9s
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
- Chelsea
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhm7-LEBznk
- Speed Graph Gizmo
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
- Sub Day
- VIDEO: How did feather evolve?
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPLgfGX1I5Y&list=PL2FMfCoEYqc4Mi5QCIRnhB-NKVEy9qpU4&index=1
- It's All in the Bones worksheet
- Can you figure out the animal being Xrayed?
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
- Human Evolution videos and articles:
- Evolution slide deck docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TQ4gtqYL26BfebIGuFE-IBvZfMYFY1QscwT2NYkqkGg/edit?usp=sharing
- Where did Humans come from? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD9AYN7JnFM&list=PL2FMfCoEYqc4Mi5QCIRnhB-NKVEy9qpU4&index=6&t=1s
- Why are we the only humans left? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbHj-Q1FTj8&list=PL2FMfCoEYqc4Mi5QCIRnhB-NKVEy9qpU4&index=7
nov 18, 2024
- Octopus vs under water maze
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7__r4FVj-EI
- 12 Days of Evolution
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_jyHp3bmEw
- Lucy www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kc7rEQXpI
nov 15, 2024
- earth over the next 1 billion years
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I08UUBViP1A
the life and death of Lucy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kc7rEQXpIShow pics from Peru - Human Skull Gizmo - finish
nov 14, 2024
- Proof of evolution that you can find in your body - worksheet included
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFxu7NEoKC8&list=PL2FMfCoEYqc4Mi5QCIRnhB-NKVEy9qpU4&index=8
- Evidence of evolution (3 min)
- app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/search-browse/?q=evidence+of+evolution
- Human Skull Gizmo - begin
Nov 13, 2024
- Sub Day: Homology Webquest
- link #1 for questions #1 and #2. www.britannica.com/science/homology-evolution
- link #2 for part 2 evolution.berkeley.edu/similarities-differences-homology-convergent-evo-hs/
- Do a little internet research and find two animals that are homologous.On the back side of your worksheet, draw and label an example of two animals that are homologous. Draw each animal and label the homologies
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
- Your Daily Dose:www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9IerUwohw
- Collossal Fossil Jostle assignment. Go to Discovery Ed in Classlink and there is an assignment there. If you want to try the link here or in schoology.
- Do not work with partner because there are a few variations to this - not every page will be the same as your neighbors.
- Below is the link to the assignment in Discovery Ed
- classlink.discoveryeducation.com/learn/assignment/e4564980-af18-45ac-aab0-7f00e88f3e21/enter
- Stay in assigned seats.
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
- Your Daily Dose:www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph2ZBNFzhsQ
- Webquest: Geologic Time
- ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/gtiframe.html
- Stay in assigned seats.
- Click on the link either here or in Schoology for webquest.
- Due by end of period.
- Geologic Time Scale and Evolution Crossword - begin
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
- Your Daily Dose:www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQsS3sPstAY
- Day 4 on Geologic Timeline - this should be your last day.
oct 29, 2024
- Your Daily Dose:www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZsOWwPO8yA
- Day 3 on Geologic Timeline
oct 28, 2024
- Yoru Daily Dose:www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLEiYR2DMcU
- Day 2 on Geologic Timeline
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
- How to reveal your Fossil:
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
- Fossil Directed Reading
- video on "The Great Dying" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUQl5Acrc7U
oct 15, 2024
- Turn in Lab books
- How is a fossil made? ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-fossilize-yourself-phoebe-a-cohen
- Pangea gizmo - stay in assigned seats, turn in at end of class
oct 14, 2024
- New Seats
- update lab book
- 6th extinction. www.pbs.org/video/its-okay-be-smart-extinction/
- rock layer puzzle
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
- Test tomorrow
- Quizlet live #1 quizlet.com/309688658/2024-matter-definitionstbbgradcyl-basics-flash-cards/?funnelUUID=9abce24a-db5a-4580-86ee-28012c58a2d7
- Quizlet live #2 quizlet.com/309688485/2024-matter-quest-live-flash-cards/?funnelUUID=59bc3381-e798-4e00-afa6-34ed0b0657d9
- Blooket play.blooket.com/hw?id=66e20ba188db68c86682f42c
- crossword and wordsearch
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
- Finish MB
- Notes on Density
- video on density (2:30) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAWrYB3JGxg&t=94s
- video (1:47) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJkEVOZbTM&t=90s
- Mass, Volume, Density video (3:03) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYsflJxCbQg&t=42s
sept 12, 2024
- Lab book check - open lab book to page 19/20 and bring up to front table
- Movie day - no worksheet (a rare moment)
- Stay in assigned seats :)
- Mythbusters - Jet pack Chevy
- www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B000I8H2ZU/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1
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

intro_to_tr_bm_bal_gradcyl2016.pptx | |
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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

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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
- How to read a ruler
- docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l4y6y1rrNK-Bk6cIhJ9smz_nhJyeRbbd1VDychHSLhc/edit#slide=id.g99f93cc931_0_80
- Mini Length Lab - turn in at end of class - finished or not
- Kahoot to review measurement with a ruler
- create.kahoot.it/details/18234c78-3f90-49c9-ad20-95148bd786f2
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
- Metric System
- TedEd
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bUVjJWA6Vw
- Metric Notes
- docs.google.com/presentation/d/11ptZ3eHMwXIMnuGOUQXY-Lixi5bG_N5OqOt0nLjE86c/edit#slide=id.p1

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
- Pre-Assessment for Measurement
- docs.google.com/forms/d/1Kz_1YJHVAexFhD0sxzDNLHMT2puKfKsobAbgBxvmmM0/edit
- Observation and Inference worksheet: use the slide deck to complete the worksheetdocs.google.com/presentation/d/19W_ICrOCLwJ0xOawEBoj8xRpY7SFZgBqHiQmBdY2mBs/edit?usp=sharing
aug 21, 2024
- Observation vs Inference notes and tiny worksheet.
- stamp for completion

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2024_observation_vs_inference_espanol.pptx | |
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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
- Finish Lab book cover
- clear tape your cover
- Welcome to 8th grade science
- docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kUKIZmNNO24b7AOf8-FI8l0_Q_zFMAbLw2JIokwA0dw/edit#slide=id.g275a2f05c4d_0_75
aug 15, 2024
- ABCDE Quiz
- work on lab book cover
- Clearly write your first/last name, subject
aug 14, 2024
- review ABCDE
- kahoot review ABCDE's
- create.kahoot.it/share/abcde-quiz/8060857e-3667-45c1-b231-77f44edc10c0

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