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Assignment Due |
In Class |
Homework |
Sept. 7 |
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- Welcome
- Introductions
- How do candles burn?
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Sept. 10 or 11 |
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- Observation vs. Inference
- Get Textbooks
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Sept. 12 or 13 |
- Scienceography
- Expectations Signature
- Syllabus Signature
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- What is Science? (starts with questions, leads to discoveries)
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Sept. 14 |
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- "Big Ideas" of Physical Science
- Time and Space
- Matter and Change
- Forces and Motion
- Energy
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- Copy or attach all your notes from this week into your lab notebook
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Sept. 17 or 18 |
- All notes should be either attached or copied into lab book
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- "Big Idea" Group Presentations
- More on hypotheses
- Independent and Dependent Variables
- Class Notes
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In your science journal, answer these questions:
1. What is the difference between independent, dependent, and control variables?
2. Suppose you want to see how running affects your pulse.
a. What is your hypothesis?
b. Identify the types of variables.
c. Explain how you can test this.
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Sept. 19 or 20 |
- Two questions listed above, in science journal.
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- Applying what we've done so far (mini-experiment: observations, hypothesis, identify variables)
- Writing a conclusion
- Class Notes
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Sept. 21 |
- Vocab Mini-quiz
- Turn in Science Journals
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- Quiz: Answers
- Measuring with the Metric System
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Sept. 24 or 25 |
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- Measure an object in metric units. Convert that measurement to all prefixes. (You should have seven measurements.)
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Sept. 26 or 27 |
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- Write a paragraph explaining to a 7th grader how to convert a measurement from centimeters to kilometers.
- Quiz Friday: Draw the stairway to metric prefixes and know base units for distance, time, volume, and mass.
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Sept. 28 |
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- More work with conversions
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Oct. 1 or 2 |
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Oct. 3 or 4 |
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- Data Tables and Graphing
- Mass-Volume Relationships
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- Quiz on Friday: conversions
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Oct. 5 |
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- Finish mass-volume graphs
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Oct. 8 or 9 |
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Oct. 10 |
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- Finish the gummy bear lab (data table, analysis, conclusion)
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Oct. 15 or 16 |
- Gummy Bear Lab Due (in your science journal)
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Oct. 17 or 18 |
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Oct. 19 |
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- Write three scientific questions with the format "How does (IV) affect (DV)? Identify the variables. Write Hypotheses for each.
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Oct. 22 or 23 |
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- Review for Test: Review worksheet
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Oct. 24 or 25 |
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Oct. 26 |
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Oct. 29 or 30 |
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Oct. 31 or Nov. 1 |
- Atomic Number Table Workshet
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- Periodic Table name tag: Make a name tag for yourself using the boxes from the periodic table for as many letters as you can! You must have at least four elements.
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Nov. 2 |
- Atomic Number Quiz
- Periodic table name tag
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Nov. 5 or 6 |
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Nov. 7 |
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- Conclusion of metals/nonmetals activity
- Elements revealed!
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Nov. 13 or 14 |
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Nov. 15 or 16 |
- Word Splash (green worksheet)
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Nov. 19 or 20 |
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- No homework: Happy Thanksgiving!
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Nov. 26 or 27 |
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Nov. 28 or 29 |
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Dec. 3 or 4 |
- Lab notebook with Phase Changes Lab
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Dec. 5 or 6 |
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Dec. 7 |
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Dec. 10 or 11 |
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- Juno assignment (Go to Jupiter Grades, click "Juno" tab on left side, then log in and complete "unit 2 indicators." If you have problems, see me by Thursday.
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Dec. 12 or 13 |
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- Review
- Finish Review worksheet (if you don't finish in class, due Friday)
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Dec. 14 |
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Dec. 17 or 18 |
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Dec. 19 or 20 |
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Jan. 8 or 9 |
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- Finish periodic table activity: dot structures, bohr model
- Notes
- Read p. 158-161, do p. 164 #1-3, 6-8
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- p. 164# 1-3, 6-8 if you didn't finish in class
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Jan. 10 or 11 |
- p. 164# 1-3, 6-8 if you didn't finish in class
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- Notes: Predicting ions
- Ionic Bonds
- Do the following activities on the computer. Write down the answers as you go (just the letter), and have me sign off that you got over 80%. You may share a paper, but you must switch who writes the answer.
- Activity 1
- Activity 2
- Activity 3
- Lewis Dot Structures and Ions worksheet
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- Lewis dot structures and ions worksheet if you didn't finish in class
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Jan. 14 or 15 |
- Lewis structures/Ion worksheet
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Jan. 16 or 17 |
- Activities 1 and 2 if you did not finish in class
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Jan. 18 |
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- Balancing equations practice
- How to Balance an Equation:
- Count atoms on both sides
- Figure out where the Law of Conservation of Matter is false. (Which atoms do not have the same amount on the right and left side?)
- Change coefficients to fix this problem. Start with the side that has fewer atoms.
- Repeat steps 1-3 until the Law of Conservation of Matter is true!
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Jan. 22 or 23 |
- Entire worksheet Due (bonus question optional)
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- Types of chemical reactions
- Synthesis (Zinc and iodine)
- Decomposition (elephant toothpaste)
- Single Displacement (Zinc and copper chloride)
- one element switches places
- Double DIsplacement (Silver Nitrate and Cobalt chloride)
- two elements switch places
- Activity 1
- Activity 2
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Jan. 24 or 25 |
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Jan. 28 |
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Jan. 29 or 30 |
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- Last day of the semester!
- Retakes (must be done today!)
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