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Finish watching Contact
HW: None
MU: None
Continue Tour of the Planets (Mars and Jupiter)
HW: None
MU: Come in before or after school to get information for Tour about Planets to make up participation points.
Finish Tour of the Planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
Model the Solar System Activity (Earth Science Student Works CD-ROM Ch 28 Design your own GeoLab) rubric
HW: Each person in your group choose something to do tonight for you project.
MU: Come in before or after school to finish Tour of Planets, and start the Model of the Solar System Activity (classroom participation points), and then do the Question of the Day.
Continue working on Model the Solar System Activity rubric
HW: Each person in your group choose something to do tonight for you project.
MU: Work on the Model of the Solar System Activity (classroom participation points).
Continue working on Model the Solar System Activity rubric
label features you chose to do on your model (make sure both actual and scaled measurements are included)
do analysis and conclusion questions
HW: Finish your models and do analysis and conclusion questions from handout.
MU: Work on the Model of the Solar System Activity (classroom participation points).
Present Models of Solar Systems to class (will be graded using rubric)
answer #4 on the analysis questions from the handout
HW: Answer #4 on the analysis questions form the handout.
MU: Come in before or after school to present your model and look at other models from other classes. Then answer #4 from the handout.
April 15th, 2008 (WASL testing in am, only 1st and 2nd in afternoon)
Group work reflection
Watch Last Planet
write down evidences from video that supports both sides of the question, Is Pluto a planet?
write a two chunk to answer the question (TS: answers the question, CD: evidence from video, 2 CM: your explanations of the how the evidence supports what you say, CD: another evidence from the video or elsewhere, 2 CM: your explanations of how the evidence supports what you say CS: a concluding statement to tie everything together.
HW: Finish your two chunk about whether you think Pluto is a planet or not.
MU: Come in before or after school to watch Last Planet and write two chunk above.
April 16th, 2008 (WASL testing in am, only 3rd and 4th in afternoon)
April 17th, 2008 (WASL testing in am, only 1st and 2nd in afternoon)
Watch Cosmic Collisions
answer the following questions while watching
What things collide in the universe?
What happens when they collide
HW: Finish questions
MU: Come in before or after school to watch video and answer questions (make up class participation points)
April 18th, 2008 (WASL testing in am, only 3rd and 4th in afternoon)
WASL practice test
try to answer written questions
go over rubrics and tips about how it is graded
HW: None
MU: Open the written questions above, answer them in our notebook, open the rubrics and tips and grade the questions you wrote and then show me for class participation points.
Check off WASL work
Write down Kepler's 3 Laws
Comparison of asteroids, comets, meteor, meteoroid, meteorite
each group research and find a way to demonstrate the difference between each to the rest of the class
make a box and t-chart to compare them
HW: Finish your box and t-chart
MU: Come in before or after school to make up class participation points.
Finish Comparison Presentations
Review Comparison Box and T-Chart
Make comets using dry ice
draw a picture with labels
take outside to see trail (or breath on it in class)
HW: None
MU: Come in before or after school to make up participation points.
Moon and Tides Pre-Assessment
HW: Work on/ Finish Web Quest if you will be gone tomorrow.
MU: Come in before or after school to take the moon and tides pre-assessment and do the Web Quest.
Continue Moon Phase Web Quest
HW: Finish Web Quest
MU: Come in before or after school to make up participation points.
Check off the Moon Phases Web Quest
Modeling Phases of the Moon
group one: sketch the pictures of the moon at each phase
group two: sketch the configuration of sun, moon and earth at each phase
group three: determine where the sun will be in the sky during each phase of the moon
HW: Look for the moon over the weekend, record date, time, drawing and where it is in the sky (see data table) at least once.
MU: Do Question of the Day, come in before or after school to do Modeling of Phases of the Moon and do HW.
Discuss current phase and weekend data
Question of the Day (check off weekend data)
Ask for volunteers to demonstrate and explain each groups findings
Model Eclipses
Modify Model Activity to show tilt of the earth (small foam ball becomes moon, large foam ball becomes earth, stick and toothpick are axis and rubber band is equator.
HW: None
MU: Do Question of the Day, come in before or after school to model eclipses and tilt of the earth, and review website above.
copy down chart
make predictions for summer solstice, winter solstice, spring equinox, and fall equinox.
fill in data on chart
discuss what finished chart means
HW: Finish filling in chart if you did not do so...
MU: Do Question of the Day, Copy down chart, make predications where sun will rise for times of the year above, then graph the data from the data above.
pre-lab: background, purpose question, hypothesis, variables, drawing of set up including labels for all materials, reference to handout for materials and procedure, data table.
HW: Finish pre-lab if you didn't in class.
MU: Do Question of the Day, and come in before or after school to make up Insolation Angle Lab, do pre-lab before coming in.