may 28, 2026

  • Last day of school!! yay!!
  • Watch Wall-e :)
  • ​stay seated, stay quiet, phones ok
  • When bell rings at 12:25, everyone needs to leave campus immediately, no hanging out in quad

may 27, 2026

  • choose your seats, do not move chairs
  • daily dose and movie day
  • no food, no phones, no chromebooks, no bathroom or water passes :)
  • Last Wednesday of the year :)

may 26, 2026

  • Assembly Schedule
  • All assignments due today, gradebook closing today
  • finish your timeline
  • open seating, do not move chairs
  • Wall-e movie (shhh) if timelines are finished
  • no food, no phones, no chromebooks, no bathroom or water passes :)
  • yearbooks ok ​

may 22, 2026

  • Earthquake Timeline finish - due today for 5th period
  • turn in any late work today - geology crossword?
  • Hand back projects (from the wall)
  • no bathroom passes or getting water :)
  • no chromebooks
  • if you finish your timeline, check out a board game to play with a few friends​​

may 21, 2026

  • Test on Geology​
  • work on timeline after test

may 20, 2026

  • Crossword and wordsearch 
  • ​review for test tomorrow - kahoot and blooket

may 19, 2026

  • ​TUPE presentations in the library
  • CB survey to follow​

may 1​8, 2026

  • Earthquake Timeline begin

may 15, 2026

  • sub day - crossword and wordsearch

may 14, 2026

  • Measure Me Lab

may 13, 2026

  • Earthquake notes​​

may 12, 2026

may 11, 2026

  • Inside the Earth Notes​​

may 8, 2026

  • EC pass redemption Day ​
  • Continue/Finish Free Solo​

may 7, 2026

  • Turn in Red Cross Emergency SHeet
  • Continue Free Solo​

may 6, 2026

  • Open seats today
  • Continue Free Solo

may 5, 2026

  • Short slide deck on Yosemite trails
  • Begin Free Solo​

may 4, 2026

  • Update Lab book
  • Color in geological provinces (there are 11)​

may 1, 2026

apr 30, 2026

  • 3rd period: finish your Rock Cycle Interactive worksheet - lots of no names :). 
  • 5th period:  finish your Rock Cycle Interactive worksheet ( finish today)

apr 29, 2026

  • finish worksheet on rocks​
  • Wizards assembly 4th and 5th

apr 28, 2026

  • Finish Colliding Continents

apr 27, 2026

  • finish Pangea
  • Finish Colliding Continents video

apr 24, 2026

  • Pangea Puzzle

apr 23, 2026

apr 22, 205

apr 21, 2026

apr 20, 2026

  • Begin our last unit - Geology
  • ​Rock cycle​

apr 17, 2026

  • Lab book check 
  • open lab to page 99/100
  • Movie Day

apr 16, 2026

  • Watch Biggest Little Farm (3rd period). 1:10
  • Watch rockets (5th period). 49: 26

apr 15, 2026

  • Continue Biggest little Farm
  • 3rd: 48:05
  • 5th: 21:00
  • Progress reports go out Friday

apr 14, 2026

  • Watch Biggest Little Farm (3rd period)
  • Watch rockets (5th period)

apr 13, 2026

  • New Seats
  • Lab book update - hand back papers
  • Biggest Little Farm video - begin

apr 3, 2026

  • Finish Video​

apr 2, 2026

  • Update on Artemis Launch
  • Begin Miracle of Life video with a worksheet

april 1, 2026

  • STI Scavenger Hunt today - turn in with your STI notes

mar 31, 2026

  • Finish STI Notes 
  • Kahoot if time permits

mar 30, 2026

  • Continue STI Notes

mar 27, 2026

  • STI video
  • STI notes - begin

mar 26, 2026


Birth Control Video #2
Birth Control options.  my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/11427-birth-control-options
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mar 25, 2026

  • ​​DVD video on Abstinence  (34 min)​

mar 24, 2026

mar 23, 2026

mar 20, 2026

mar 19, 2026

  • Male and Female Reproductive System labeling - color code with colored pencils

mar 18, 2026

  • Finish yellow Reproductive System worksheet
  • One more worksheet: Male / Femaie Rep system

Mar 17, 2026

  • Reproductive System is the concept this week
  • Signature for Group Agreements?
  • Turn in Endocrine system worksheet
  • continue on Reproductive System vocabulary using Green book
  • Sub on Friday
  • Vocabulary begin

mar 16, 2026

  • New Seats for Health Ed
  • Check your grades! Did you complete the Ecology Vocab?
  • Health Ed Agreement​
  • DD 20 min

mar 13, 2026

  • Finish Deep Water Horizon
  • Who do you want to sit next to for Health Ed?​ (seating chart)
  • Hand back papers

mar 12, 2026

  • Continue Deep Water Horizon

mar 11, 2026

  • Today you will be working with your group from your assigned seat. 
  • You need add information using your own chromebook and I will be looking at your contribution today.
  • You will also need to complete the survey on how your group did (confidential)
  • Today's effort will affect your grade for this project - consider it your final test
  • Follow the rubric to make this slide deck as best as possible.
  • Good luck 

mar 10, 2026

  • Begin Deep Water Horizon Video
  • Tomorrow we will finish our slides

mar 9, 2026

  • Shrek day- Ms Toal out sick

mar 6, 2026

  • Return the items that were washed at the rehabilitation center.
  • Put them back in the exact same way as your "before" photo
  • Take an "after" photo to visually compare
  • After that, we will work on our slides - however you want (either finish slide about biotic factors, or begin the next slide about the oil spill damage
  • Also, we will disassemble our beaches, so please bring up all trinkets and shells (not wooden tan bark or real leaves)

mar 5, 2026

  • Put your fidgets and 3D printed items in your backpack
  • You will receive 50 million dollars to clean up your beach
  • You HAVE to pay for a waste disposal fee to dump your mess (ziploc bag)
  • It is a law that you must pay to save your animals - send them to the rehabilitation center for urgent care (just a mere $2.5 million)
  • You have to handle with care, so you need to purchase a safety tool to handle the toxic residue (tweezeers)
  • I just need to show you how to count the money and how to fill out your expenditure worksheet for your first initial purchase. 

mar 4, 2026

  • There is an oil spill near your beach - Oh No!!!!  An oil tanker collided with a land mass last night and they just now noticed that oil has been spilling slowly all night and the spill is headed towards your beach!
  • It is a mix of heavy oil and light oil....
  • Are your living organisms going to survive? 
  • Looks like there aren't enough emergency response teams nearby, but there are teams packing and loading supplies.There is a delay at the airport so help until .... tomorrow.
  • Let's hope that there won't be a hurricanes or high wind storms tonight
  • In the meantime, let's work on the next slide (the one after the title)
  • Find a table and sit with your group. Pair up or (take out 2 CB fro groups of 3) and start working on the next couple of slides describing your ecosystem/biotic and abiotic factors

Mar 3, 2026

  • ​Make your beach. Take photos for your slide deck
  • Include your 3X5 card with your group info
  • Choose your trinkets - no more than 4 of mine. I need to provide enough for two classes. 
  • If you want to bring your own trinkets tomorrow, ok! 
  • We will be spilling our oil on Wednesday and Clean up is on Thursday
  • After you make your beach, work on slide #1

Mar 2, 2026

  • LUNAR ECLIPSE TONIGHT (starts at 2 am, its peaking at 3:33 am, coming out of shadow at 4am... that's a late night!) ​
  • Begin Oil Spill Lab - make a copy of the slide deck and make a beautiful title page :)
  • Share slide deck with everyone in your group and Ms Toal
  • Kahoot review on Vocab
  •  create.kahoot.it/share/ecosystems/fbfffa4a-64b0-4b2b-b285-cbb4fea2dc27​

feb 27, 2026

  • Pick a group
  • Research a beach
  • 5 Biotic and 5 Abiotic factors
  • What is the food chain in your beach

feb 26, 2026

  • Ecology Vocab is due and will be stamped tomorrow
  • Coral Reef Gizmo

feb 25, 2026

feb 24, 2025

  • Check your grades
  • EC redemption
  • Internet Oil Spill Research - begin

FEB 23, 2023

feb 20, 2026

  • Ecology Crossword and wordsearch

feb 19, 2026

  • What a Tangled Web worksheets (3 parts)
  • Go over vocab - crossword/word search with sub tomorrow

feb 18, 2026

  • Hand out EC passes for Chem 2 test and stickers :)
  • Last day to work on Bucky Ball
  • Last day to work on Vocab 
  • Finish for HW if not finished in class today.

feb 17, 2026

  • New Seats
  • Begin Ecology Vocab - use my quizlet flashcards as your resource
  • ​quizlet.com/376242092/ecology-vocabulary-2024-flash-cards/?i=1hbgsc&x=1jqt
  • Last day to turn in ANY missing work for trimester 2 is Monday Feb 23.
  • My gradebook closes Monday Feb 23 at the end of the day
  • No late work accepted next week
  • Trimester 2 ends next Friday 2/27
  • You can redeem you extra credit passes next week for Tri2 (or you can redeem it for Tri 3)

feb 13, 2026

  • Assemble bucky ball

feb 12, 2026

  • Last Chemistry Test! 
  • Work on Bucky Ball after test

feb 11, 2026

  • Quick study guide
  • kahoot
  • blooket
  • test tomorrow

feb 10, 2026

  • hand back papers
  • review for test - highlight lab book
  • go over study guide

feb 9, 2026

  • Did anyone go to Science on Saturday?
  • Acid/base notes 
  • acid/base bookwork

feb 6, 2026

  • Acid and base Gizmo. 
  • due at end of class
  • Stay in assigned seats

feb 5, 2026

  • Finish Balancing Chem Equations - turn in
  • Begin Bucky Ball - design with a theme

feb 4, 2026

feb 3, 2026

  • I started the morning with a migraine  :(
  • Notes on Chemical Equations
  • Counting Atoms worksheet

Feb 2, 2026

jan 30, 2026

jan 29, 2026

jan 28, 2026

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  • ​Hot Solutions Lab 

jan 27, 2026

  • Splitting a Water Molecule Lab ​​
  • ​Notes on Covalent bonding for water while lab proceeds (20 minutes).

jan 26, 2026

  • Ionic and Covalent Bookwork

jan 23, 2026

  • Periodic Table Test - 30 questions, not 20, oops :)
  • Work on Alien Periodic Table or a quiet activity when finished.

jan 22, 2026

  • 5 minutes of Carbon video
  • Hand back papers
  • Review for Periodic Table Test/write study guide
  • Alien periodic table due tomorrow

jan 21, 2026

  • Finish Carbon Video

jan 20, 2026

  • Test on Friday
  • Alien is due by end of class on Friday (after your test)
  • Notes on Carbon​​
  • Carbon video

jan 16, 2026

  • Alien Periodic Table​​​

jan 15, 2026

jan 14, 2026

  • Valence electron worksheet​

jan 13, 2026

  • New Seats tomorrow
  • Update lab book
  • Valence Electron Notes (easy)
  • Element Entertainment - continue​

jan 12, 2026

jan 9, 2026

  • Conductivity Lab part 2 demo 
  • Cosmos: Electric Boy video
  • Finish crossword

jan 8,2026

  • Conductivity Lab part 1 

jan 7, 2026

  • Review P/T - mandatory Kahoot :)
  • Periodic Table 
  • Conductivity Lab tomorrow and Friday :)

jan 6, 2026

  • Use markers to outline metals, nonmetals, semi-metals, and noble gases

jan 5, 2026

  • Slight movement of chairs, same seats as last month
  • Welcome back!
  • How was break?
  • Periodic Table Notes

dec 19, 2025

  • Ultimate Crossword due Jan 6, 2025
  • update lab book
  • minimum day and assembly schedule

dec 18, 2025

  • Last day to work on poster - due at end of class
  • Make sure your full name is on the back of poster. 
  • Paperclip your pink sheet to your poster.

dec 17, 2025

  • Poster is due by the end of class TOMORROW
  • When you finish your poster, turn it in with pink sheet​
  • work on ultimate crossword

dec 16, 2025

  • No internet
  • Build nucleus with sticky nucleus :)
  • Facts and questions need to be typed and printed
  • turn in with pink sheet when finished

dec 15, 2025

  • p+/n/e- hole punches
  • Make formatted box with number of p+/n/e- and charges
  • EC passes and stickers today

dec 12, 2025

  • Cut out circles for nucleus and shells 

dec 11, 2025

  • 2nd ITEM FOR YOUR POSTER today:
  • Complete formatted and labeled atomic box

dec 10, 2025

  • Teacher approved rough draft
  • choose your color theme: today get a large color as your main poster and then a couple small colors to format your title
  • We are starting on the formatted title FIRST! 

dec 9, 2025

  • Color coded Rough Draft - due by end of class - must be approved by teacher 
  • HW if it's not completed and approved today

dec 8, 2025

  • Finish It's Elementary
  • Assign "Atom Poster" on an element of your choice.
  • Elements chosen - begin rough draft on the back of your poster assignment :)

dec 5, 2025

  • Test on the Atom - 25 questions (50 Points)
  • use your periodic table or borrow one of mine :) 
  • Open notes (lab book pages 47 - 57) ​
  • ​begin "It's Elementary"

dec 4, 2025

  • highlight lab book
  • Review for test tomorrow (Friday)
  • 3rd period: Blooket - 2 games
  • ​5th period: finish Atom worksheet

dec 3, 2025

  • New Seats
  • pass back papers
  • Atom worksheet - start

dec 2, 2025

  • Inside the Squares worksheet
  • review with a Kahoot

dec 1, 2025

  • warm up on the atom
  • continue element name poster

nov 21, 2025

  • work on Element Name Poster

nov 20, 2025

  • Element Name Poster - begin
Picture

nov 19, 2025

  • Bill Nye The Atom

nov 18,2025

  • warm up questions
  • P+/n/e- drawings half sheet
  • finish back of blue paper from yesterday if you are ahead
  • maybe a kahoot if time permits

nov 17, 2025

  • Turn in Interactive Periodic Table from Friday
  • Atomic Box Notes - page 49 in lab book
  • Assign an element worksheet

nov 14, 2024

  • Finish PT symbols
  • Interactive Periodic Table - with a partner but different elements between the two of you

nov 13, 2025

  • Finish Notes
  • Begin filling in symbols on the Periodic Table

nov 12, 2025

  • Begin Chemistry
  • Notes on the Atom

nov 7, 2025

  • CORE SEL SURVEY
  • Hunting the Elements video

nov 6, 2025

  • Ch 3 test
  • Crossword and wordsearch due by end of class

nov 5, 2025

  • ​Highlight lab book from page 30 - 43
  • Kahoot review - stay in assigned seats
  • Crossword/wordsearch due tomorrow by end of class

nov 4, 2025

  • Review with Phase Change Graph
  • Review with Crossword

nov 3, 2025

  • Pass back papers
  • update lab book
  • Ch 3 crossword today (wordsearch later...)
  • TEST ON THURSDAY

oct 31, 2025

  • watch a movie 
  • piece of candy for dressing up :)

oct 30, 2025

  • Stem Case Gizmo ​
  • no worksheet - just go through the assignment 
  •  ​I can see your progress on my computer :)
  • TEST next week - Thurs 11/6 

oct 29, 2025

oct 28, 2025

  • Dry Ice

oct 27, 2025

  • New Seats
  • Turn in Posters - finish for HW if not done yet - no time today!
  • Prep for Dry Ice (tomorrow, or Th, or Fri - depending on  Safeway)

oct 23, 2025

  • Continue working on comic strip

oct 22, 2025

  • Begin Physical and Chemical comic strip

oct 21, 2025

  • Turn in Phase Change Gizmo
  • Stamp folded sheet for 16
  • Go over Physical and Chemical Changes and Properties

oct 20, 2025

  • How far are you on Physical and Chemical Changes folded sheet?
  • How far are you on Phase Change Gizmo?
  • Hand back papers for lab book​

oct 17, 2025

  • SUB DAY 
  • Phase Change Gizmo

0ct 16, 2025

oct 15, 2025

oct 14, 2025

  • Finish Ice Cream Lab write up 
  • Collect Phase of Water Gizmo
  • Liquid Science - demo - front side​

oct 13, 2025

oct 10, 2025

  • Ice cream Lab today!! yay

oct 9, 2025

  • Prep for Ice Cream
  • Phase Change Triangle
  • Collect Lab books :)

oct 8, 2025

  • Go over Notes on States
  • Notes on Phases powerpoint
States of Matter
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Phases
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oct 7, 2025

  • Ch 3 bookwork: States of Matter
  • kahoot on what we are going to learn (front load)

oct 6, 2025

  • Finish Deep Freeze​

oct 3, 2025

oct 2, 2025

  • Suicide Awareness discussion

oct 1, 2025

  • go over test
  • EC passes
  • Bill Nye

sept 30, 2025

  • Test on Matter / Measurement. 50 points/25 questions
  • 44/50 (or greater) will get you an Extra Credit pass and a sticker
  • When finished, do a quiet activity (read, homework, draw) until the last test is completed

sept 29, 2025

sept 26, 2025

  • finish Density Determination Lab and write up - turn in it
  • Highlight lab book for test (test in Tuesday Sept 30)

sept 25, 2025

  • Hand back papers
  • update lab book
  • grades go out tomorrow
  • continue with Density Determination lab part 2 cylinders

sept 24, 2025

  • finish Density Determination Lab for cubes
  • begin part 2 with cylinders

sept 23, 2025

  • Begin Density Determination Lab for cubes

sept 22, 2025

  • Explain Equinox
  • Density Gizmo 

sept 19, 2025

  • Hand back Mass and Volume Lab
  • Finish Notes on Density
  • calculate density for your 4 items.
  • Blooket on Density and measurements

sept 18, 2025

  • Begin Density Notes
  • Finish Mass and Volume Lab 
NOTES ON DENSITY
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sept 17, 2025

  • New Seats
  • Begin Mass and Volume Lab with your new table partner :)

sept 16, 2025

  • Hand back papers
  • Update Lab book
  • Go over TBB Gizmo 
  • Draw Graduated Cylinder / meniscus
  • Lab tomorrow - new seats next week

sept 15, 2025

sept 12, 2025

  • Finish TBB/GradCyl Notes​
  • TBB Gizmo - finish in class
  • Conversion Challenge worksheet - begin

sept 11, 2025

  • Put your 1st/last name on Green rubric and turn in with poster
  • Work is due in 30 minutes after 2nd bell with a rubric stapled to it
  • TBB and Grad Cylinder Notes​

sept 10, 2025

  • Lab Safety poster continue. Due tomorrow at beginning of class

sept 9, 2025

  • Hand back Metric Ruler: cm and mm mini lab
  • Stamp Measure Me lab /glue or tape in
  • Update Lab Book​
  • Metric Ruler Quiz (6 pts)
  • Lab Safety Rules - parent signature (homework)
  • Begin poster​
  • Philly baseball www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOvTd8SHPww

sept 8, 2025

  • Measure Me Lab

sept 5, 2025

  • Metric Rulers mini lab

sept 4, 2025

sept 3, 2025

  • Hand back papers
  • Update lab book
  • Check Schoology for any missing assignments
  • Metric Staircase p 12 and conversions​
  • ​​show me www.showme.com/sh?h=2Njn9jE

Sept 2, 2025

aug 29, 2025

  • Friday before a 3 day weekend :)
  • No school on Monday
  • final count of Snoopy's in rm 24
  • Mythbusters video today

Aug 28, 2025

  • Back to School night is tonight!
  • DId you fill out your schedule for your parents tonight?
  • scavenger hunt - finish
  • birthday bar graph - make a conclusion, turn in worksheet by end of class

aug 27, 2025

  • Take out lab book - I need to check your book so far.
  • Show digital lab book in Schoology 
  • Finish Observation vs Inference worksheet
  • Begin Scavenger Hunt

aug 26, 2025

  •  Review Obs and Inf with a couple pics
  •  Intro to ​'Observation vs Inference" 1/2 sheet review
  • Observation vs Inference worksheet with a slide deck - only 10

aug 25, 2025

Observation and Inference Notes
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aug 22, 2025

  • Finish outside profile (pencil only)
  • start on inside profile activity: Use Color for the inside
  • Last day to work on this in class
  • It is due Tuesday - take it home today and finish for homework​
  • group photos

aug 21, 2025

aug 20, 2025

  • Thank you for being you. I see you!
  • Team building activity - red solo cup

aug 19, 2025

  • Clear tape Lab Book Covers
  • Add Table of Contents pages
  • Give Bathroom Pass - tape into back of lab book
  • Number 1st 50 pages of lab book
  • Tape/Glue in ABCDE handout

aug 18, 2025

aug 15, 2025

aug 14, 2025

  • New Seats
  • Take roll
  • Stamp ABCDE Parent signatures?
  • 4 X 6 notecard activity
  • Review ABCDE's with a slide deck

aug 13, 2025