December 20-22, 2022

• Paper Car Crash finals
• How to calculate momentum
• Test cars
• Complete slides after your test
• Confirm slides are shared with Mr. Radke and the link is in this document: Car Groups 2022

Homework: None

December 16/19, 2022

• Paper Car Crash building/testing day
• Build your car - orange sheet directions, use safety features
• Test your car - use plastic egg, watch how it impacts
• Improve your design - a real egg isn't as tough as plastic!
• Project slides to do:
• title slide
• project's challenge
• photo of car
• part of data table

Homework: All late/corrected assignments due by end of day Dec 19th

December 14/15, 2022

•  Understanding Car Crashes - It's Basic Physics
• Working on slides: Template
• Building prototype car

Homework: Work on slides if needed, missing/corrected work due Monday Dec. 19

December 12/13, 2022

• Study time (notebooks and Kahoot)
• Lesson 8/9 Quiz
• Video/notebook check
• Paper Car Crash project intro
• Why higher momentum for prize?
• Get in partners
• Car Groups 2022
  
• Create Google Slides presentation, link on Car Groups doc

Homework: Missing/corrected assignments due Monday December 19th

December 8/9, 2022

• Lesson 8/9 Quiz next class
• Pass back work
• Khan Academy Season Simulator
• Lesson 8/9 Study Guide (Google Classroom)
• National Geographic: Equinoxes / Solstices / Difference?
• 24 hours of sunlight in Alaska
• Kahoot / Quizlet
• Lesson 8 Lesson Game
• Earth in Orbit
• Lesson 9 Lesson Game

Homework: Study notes, Quizlet, Kahoot 5-10min/day for quiz

December 6/7, 2022

• Turn in Constellation Poster
• Lesson 8+9 Quiz ("Final exam") on 12th/13th
• Sun+stars patterns review
• Lesson 9 vocab (slideshow)
• L9 Investigation 1: Modeling the seasons
• L9 Investigation 2: Measuring energy on Earth's surface
• Quizlet for L8 and L9
• Review slides - find on Google Classroom

Homework: 5-10 min study of Quizlet each day for test

December 2/5, 2022

• Staple + turn in Star Chart
• Seeing Polaris from Earth
• Crash Course: Constellations and Locations
• View the constellations on Stellarium
• Constellation poster
• Instructions on Google Classroom
• Sources: in-the-sky.org, seasky.org, StarDate Online

Homework: color and finish your constellation

November 30/December 1, 2022

• Crash Course: Earth's Rotation and Revolution
• Modeling seasonal constellations
• Celestial Coordinates
• Extra credit puzzle

Homework: Finish Celestial Coordinates

November 28/29, 2022

• Edpuzzle: Space
• Explore: 100,000 Stars
• Modeling Earth's Rotation
• Update Notebook
• Lesson 8 vocab notes (slideshow)
• Earth-Sun-Moon drawing (on note sheet)
• TCI: L8 Sections 1,2,3 highlights

Homework: finish and turn in highlights

November 17/18, 2022

• Career day
• Casa Grande Graduation Requirements
• Degree Levels
• California Career Zone
• Budgeting
• Occupation research

Homework: Check Aeries, Google Classroom; do missing work.

November 15/16, 2022

• Quizlet study time
• Bill Nye Light and Color
• 5 min study time
• Lesson 12/13 Quiz
• Check Aeries/Google Classroom
• Brain Games: Seeing is Believing

Homework: Check Aeries and Google Classroom, complete missing assignments

November 10/14, 2022

• Seek and Find: Light/Color
• Prisms video
• Reading/Highlighting: L13 Sections 4, 5, 6
• Lesson 13 slides review (Classroom)
• How do rainbows form?
• Why is the sky blue?
• Lesson 12/13 study guide (digital, Classroom)
• Lesson Games 12+13
• Quizlet 12+13

Homework: Study for quiz next class

November 8/9, 2022

• Homework due: TCI L13 Intro+1+2+3
• 3rd period: Finish notes (slideshow)
• Lesson 13 Investigation 1: Color
• Edpuzzle: Crash Course Light

Homework: Finish Edpuzzle

November 4/7, 2022

• Review Light at Home HW
• Finish Cosmos
• Complete notes (slideshow)
• Light catchers - put up on windows
• Crash Course Astronomy - Light Edpuzzle

Homework: TCI L13 Section Intro, 1, 2, 3 reading and highlighting

November 2/3, 2022

• Turn in science notebooks
• Wave Behavior
• L12 Investigation 3
• Cosmos: Hiding in the Light

Homework: Light at Home assignment (Google Classroom)

October 31/November 1st, 2022

• How Candy Corn is Made
• Candy Corn Investigation
• ScienceWorld Candy Chemistry reading
• Sugary Substances
• Sweet Stats
  
• Logic Puzzles

Homework: Notebook check next class

October 27, 2022

• Homework reading review: L12 Section 1+2
• TCI L12 Section 3+4
• Light: Absorption, Reflection, and Transmission
• Which is which? slides
• PhET: Bending Light (Worksheet)
• LoL: Temple of Light

Homework: TCI L12 Section 5 and Reading Further: Holograms.  Add Sections 3+4 to GC as well.

October 25/26, 2022

• Light Waves Intro
• Edpuzzle
• Science Notebook update
• Lesson 7+12+13 notes (slideshow)
• Lesson 12 Investigation 1+2

Homework: Read + highlight Lesson 12 Sections Intro, 1, and 2, turn in on Google Classroom

October 21/24, 2022

• Quiz review
• L4, 5, 6 quiz
• Analog vs Digital doodle notes
• Student note sheet
• Doodle notes continued (password: science)
• Generation Genius screen recording
• Digital vs analog reading
• Extra time?  Alien Escape Room

Homework: Check for missing work, organize and complete assignments in science notebook

October 19/20, 2022

• Waves worksheet
• PhET waves intro (worksheet)
• Alien wave escape room
• Quizlet Live (study version)
• Kahoot (study version)

Homework: Study for quiz next class

October 17/18, 2022

• Review slinky lab
• Review simulation
• TCI Reading + highlighting: L6 Section 1 and 2
• LoL: Agent AMP
• Lesson 6 Investigation 1: Analyzing Waves
• Waves worksheet
• PhET waves

Homework: Quiz Lesson 4, 5, 6 October 21/24

October 13/14, 2022

• Lesson 5+6 waves vocab (slideshow)
• Quizlet 4, 5, 6
• Physics classroom simulation (website)
• Slinky Lab

Homework: Upload a screenshot with proof of studying from your Quizlet 4, 5, 6 to Google Classroom.  Try to study 5 minutes per day.

October 11/12, 2022

• Observing phenomenon: the wave
• Investigation: identifying waves
• Lesson 4: waves vocabulary (slideshow)
• Quizlet: waves
• Bill Nye

Homework: check for missing work

October 6/7, 2022

• The Engineering Design Process (video)
• TCI reading: lesson 2 section 4
• Engineering challenge: Go-carts

Homework: Read+Highlight Lesson 4 Intro and Section 1.  Turn in highlights, including L2S4 from class, on Google Classroom

October 4/5, 2022

• Lesson 2+3 quiz
• Read + highlight lesson 3 section 3
• Designing a better seatbelt (Google Classroom)
• Engineering challenge: Go-carts
• Materials / Slides

Homework: None

September 30/October 3, 2022

• Warm-Up: notebook p14
• Review Study Guide
• Edpuzzle
• Newton's First Law
• Quizlet Live
• Kahoot (practice link)
• Missing work time

Homework: Study for Lesson 2+3 Quiz next class

September 28/29, 2022

• Surface Board Lab
• Update Notebooks
• New bathroom passes
• Disney Three Laws video

Homework: Lesson 2+3 Quiz October 4th and 5th, continue studying using study guide and Quizlet

September 26/27, 2022

• Notebooks back
• Car Acceleration Lab
• Lesson 2 and 3 Study Guide

Homework: Complete study guide, practice vocabulary on Quizlet

September 22/23, 2022

• Sub Day
• Newton's Laws of Motion poster
• Cosmos

Homework: Start studying vocab terms: Quizlet

September 20/21, 2022

• Finish lesson notes (#10+11) (slideshow)
• 2nd Law WS
• Friction Lab
• Turn in notebook
• Disney 3 laws video

No homework

September 16/19, 2022

• Notebook check papers
• Forces notes #8+9 (slideshow)
• First Law Lab

Homework: Notebook check next class

September 14/15, 2022

• Stamp PhET Forces and motion
• Review motion quiz
• Newton's Third Law Demo
• Third Law worksheet
• Notes: Balanced and unbalanced forces
• Balanced/unbalanced drawing (instructions)

Homework: 1st notebook check Sept 20/21.  Look to see that you have everything taped in on the right page!

September 12/13, 2022

• Motion Quiz
• Illustrating History: Isaac Newton
• Forces vocabulary (Lesson 2/3)
• Slideshow, terms 1-5
• Net Forces
• PhET Forces and Motion (website)

Homework: Finish PhET if not done in class.

September 8/9, 2022

• Update notebook
• Frame of Reference/Vocab Crossword
• How does a grade work?
• Quizlet/notes study time
• Quizlet Live
• Lesson Game 1
• Kahoot

Homework: continue studying for Motion Quiz next class (Sept 12/13)

September 6/7, 2022

• Collect Acceleration comic
• PomPom and spaghetti challenge
• Criteria and constraints engineering process
• Cleaning up water
• Taco party
• Beach town

Homework: 5-10 min Quizlet vocab study per day - Motion Quiz Sept 12/13

September 1/2, 2022

• Finish Lesson 1 Notes
• Slideshow
• Quizlet for lesson 1 vocabulary
• Types of acceleration
• Acceleration comic (instructions on Google Classroom)

Homework: Study Lesson 1 vocabulary (5-10 min/night), finish acceleration comic

August 26/31, 2022

• Continue notes
• What is motion?
• Motion investigation 1
• Frame of reference simulation

Homework: Missing assignments

August 24/25, 2022

• Finish Measure Me
• TCI Scavenger Hunt
• TCI Reading/highlighting
• Lesson 1, Sections Intro, 1, 2
• Lesson 1: Motion
• Notes / Presentation
• Motion Investigation 1

Homework: Check Aeries, look for missing work.

August 22/23, 2022

• Four corners
• Materials check homework
• Set up notebook
• TCI scavenger hunt
• Measure me lab

No homework (write this down still!)

August 18/19, 2022

• Stamp homework
• Chromebooks: Aeries, Gmail, Class Website, Clever and TCI
• Review lab safety rules
• Lab safety poster
• Class bingo?

Homework: Class materials check next class (look at pink sheet)

June 2/3, 2022

• Prep time
• Planet Presentations + Notes
• Rocket clean-up and take home

Remember not to bring backpacks on Thursday (Promotion Day)

May 31/June 1, 2022

• Complete Rocket Project
• Instructions and instruction video on Google Classroom
• Turn in packet once all instructions followed and complete
• Practice Planet Presentations
• say it out loud at least twice!
• check on pronunciation and get it right!
• The Universe: Mars, the Red Planet

Homework: Planet Presentations next class.  Late/Missing work due by Friday.  Unused bathroom passes collected for extra credit as soon as Mr. Radke is back.

May 26/27, 2022

•  Rocket Launch Day 2
• Fill rockets with 1 liter of water.  Put on cap.
• Same procedure as last time!  When we return to class, record your second launch time and distance.
• Rocket Packet will be finished next class

Homework: Check Aeries.  Missing work due by next Friday, June 3rd.

May 24/25, 2022

• Calculate Initial Velocity and Max Height
• Trajectory Calculator
  
• Analyze launch 1 data
• Goals for launch 2
• Rebuild/modify rocket
• Secrets of the Sun?

Launch day 2 next class

May 20/23, 2022

•  Rocket Launch day 1!
• Fill rockets with 1 liter of water.  Put on cap.
• Data collection:
• Mr. Radke will record your times.
• You'll find your distance after everyone launches.
• Report your distance upon returning to class.
• Fill in Day 2 categories
• Trajectory calculator

Next class: Rocket rebuild and calculations!

May 18/19, 2022

• Rocket Building Day 1
• Rocket Packet work
• Rocket should be ready for launch by end of class

Homework: Missing work accepted until June 3

May 16/17, 2022

• Notebook + Check sheet in front of notebook - PLACE ON FRONT TABLE
• Have materials + Rocket Packet with you for stamp
• Planet Presentation
• Finished by end of period
• Extra time - spend it making the presentation look nice!

Homework: Building rockets next class.  If you forgot your materials, bring them!

May 12/13, 2022

• Solar System Notes (slideshow)
• Rocket Project packets
• Planet Project Day 1

Homework: Rocket Materials due next class, Notebook check next class

May 10/11, 2021

• Quiz study time
• KE/PE Quiz
• Update Notebooks
• Notebook checklist
• Rocket project groups and materials
• Solar System Notes (slideshow)

Homework: Get your rocket materials, prepare notebook BOTH DUE MAY 16/17

May 6/9, 2022

• Roller Coaster Lab (#2)
• part 1 link
• part 2 link
  
• part 3 link
• KE/PE Study guide

Homework: Study for quiz next class

May 4/5, 2022

• Potential/Kinetic Energy Quiz May 10
• Study guide next class (notes +labs)
• Rolling Marble Lab

Homework: clean up notebook p88+, check Aeries, GC and backpack for missing assignments

May 2/3, 2022

• New seats next week
• Final notebook check in 2 weeks
• Energy car lab

Homework look at your notebook from p88 until the newest.  Tape in/finish any missing/incomplete pages.

April 28/29, 2022

• Turn in ecosystems webquest
• Update notebook
• Kinetic/potential energy vocab notes (slideshow)
• Energy skate park (PhET website)
• Roller coaster CPO lab

Homework: none

April 26/27, 2022

Human Impact on the World

• ScienceWorld: Reshaping Earth
• World Population History (Paper)
• Webquest: Local Ecosystems (On GC)

Homework: Complete Local Ecosystems Webquest

April 22/25, 2022

•  L32 Inv1: GMO Research Project
• Organizing research paper
• Complete on 8.5x11" paper
• Due at end of  class 
• Possible topics/KJHS Research/Useful sites
• Tree of Life - How are they related?

No homework

April 20/21, 2022

• L32 Inv1: GMO Research Project
• Organizing research paper
• Complete on 8.5x11" paper
• Due at end of NEXT class
• (A day 4/22, B day 4/25) 
• Possible topics/KJHS Research/Useful sites
• Tree of Life - How are they related?

Homework: Complete research paper for your research project

April 18/19, 2022

• Reliable Sources in Science
• Example article
• Artificial Selection Research Project
• Useful sources / KJHS Library research
• due at end of class
• Document for turning in research project
• don't forget to share both documents with Mr. Radke!

Homework: Missing assignments due Thursday

April 14-15, 2022

• Study time
• L26/27 Quiz
• Play this when you're done!
• L31 Phenomena: What's up with the Bulldog?
• Human Impact on Evolution
• L31/32 vocabulary (slideshow)
• Artificial Selection Research Project (L31 Inv2)
• KJHS Library Research Site
• Reliable Sources in Science

Homework: Missing assignments due by Thursday 4/21

April 12/13, 2022

• New seats
• Natural Selection and Evolution Quiz study day - quiz next class
• L26 Quizlet
• L27 Quizlet
• Study Guide - do and correct
• Kahoot

Homework: Study for Natural Selection and Evolution Quiz next class: notebook p93-99

March 25/April 11, 2022

• Update notebook
• Embryological Development
• Legends of Learning: Adapt game (Classroom)
• Cosmos: Some of the Things That Molecules Do

No homework:  Hope you enjoy/enjoyed your Spring Break!

March 23/24, 2022

• Homologous structures
• Finish Your Inner Fish (video)
• All in the Family
• PBS Evolution Lab
• Follow-up question on Google Classroom.

Homework: Missing work

March 21/22, 2022

• Videos:
• Where do genes come from?
• Genes vs alleles
• Mutations - (first 2:30 only)
• The Outcome of Mutation - worksheet
• Basic genetics - Traits, DNA, Proteins
• Your Inner Fish - video

Homework: Complete missing work, many people missing Alien Natural Selection.

March 12-15, 2022

• CAST testing
• Have a reading book or work to do silently afterward
• STEM Essay contest available!

No homework 

March 11/14, 2022

• L24+25 Quizlet + Study Time
• L24+25 Quiz
• L27 Notes Evolutionary Relationships (slideshow)
• Genes and mutations coloring

Homework: Bring wired headphones/earbuds for CAST next class.  Check Aeries, do missing work

March 9/10, 2022

• Work into Notebook
• Rock Pocket Mouse (video)
• Lesson 24-25 Study Guide
• Lesson 24-25 Quizlet
• CAST Training Test
• How to find your SSID for login

Homework: Study for Lesson 24-25 quiz next class

March 7/8, 2022

• CAST Practice 16+17
• Update Notebook
• PhET Natural Selection (worksheet)
• Design an Alien

Homework: Finish Design an Alien, due March 11/14

March 3/4, 2022

• CAST Practice 14-15
• Natural Selection Simulation (worksheet)(website)
• Build a Bird (work on GC)
• Guppy Experiment (GC)
• Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
• Panoramic Photo for 2nd period instead

Homework: Finish any unfinished classwork.

March 1/2, 2022

INVESTIGATION DOUBLE HEADER DAY!

• L24 Inv1: Bird Beak Tools 
• L24 Inv2: Mouthpart Variation
• Practice logging in to CAST

Homework: None

February 25/28, 2022

• Quizlet + Study time
• L22/23 Quiz (GC)
• Darwin Edpuzzle (GC)
• Update Notebook
• Evolution of Life Vocab 24, 25 (slideshow)

No homework

February 23/24, 2022

• Lesson 22/23 quiz next class
• Review Birds + Whales homework in L23 notes
• TCI Reading L23 S2+3
• Fossils and the History of Life slides in Google Classroom
• Cosmos: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth

Homework: Review study guide, Quizlets for quiz (all linked on Google Classroom)

Late/missing/work corrections due Thursday.

February 18/22, 2022

• CAST 12-13
• L22 Inv 3: Absolute Dating
• Lesson 23 Notes and Vocab (slideshow)
• Index Fossils

Homework: #18+19 on notes, L23 S5 3 facts about birds + whales

February 16/17, 2022

• CAST 11
• Correct and complete Fossil Timeline (L22 Inv 2)
• If time: Sonoran Desert Dig (GC)
• Geologic Time Webquest (website)

Homework: Finish Webquest

February 11/15, 2022

• CAST practice #10
• Layers of Time game
• Uncovering Layers of the Grand Canyon
• Finish Lesson 22 Notes (slideshow)
• L22 Inv 2: Fossil Timeline (GClassroom)

Homework: Check Aeries, do late/missing work

February 9/10, 2022

• Kahoot + study time
• Noncontact Force Quiz + check One-pager
• New CAST practice sheet
• Start of Lesson 22: History of Life
• History of Life Vocab #1-6 (slideshow)
• Fossil Layers Puzzle (puzzle pieces)

Homework: None

February 7/8, 2022

• CAST Practice 9
• Kahoot (home version)
• Noncontact Forces One Pager
• Notebooks graded during One-Pager
• Quizlet

Homework: One-Pager complete, L14, 15, 16 quiz next class

February 3/4, 2022

• CAST Practice 7-8
• wired headphones required for test
• Update notebook - notebook check paper
• L16 Vocab Magnetism (slideshow)
• L16 Inv 1: Magnetic fields
• L16 Inv 2: Electromagnetic strength
• Electromagnet vocab
• Kahoot!
• Quiz on L14/15/16 Weds/Thurs - study p69 - 76 in your notebook

Homework: Notebook check next class, study for quiz Weds/Thurs

February 1/2, 2022

• CAST Practice 5+6
• A day: Van de Graaff Generator demo
• PhET L15 Inv 2  (Simulation)
• Reading: TCI L15 Section 4 (Circuit sim)
• L15 Inv 3: Building Circuits
• Lesson 15 Lesson Game
• Phenomena: taking apart earbuds

Homework: organize notebook, do missing work

January 28/31, 2022

• CAST Warmup
• Gravitational Forces Review (GC)
• Lesson 15 Vocab (slideshow) (notebook p71)
• L15 Investigation 1: Electricity
• PhET: John Travoltage  PhET: Balloons and Static Electricity

Homework: Edpuzzle on Google Classroom

January 26/27, 2022

• CAST practice questions (notebook p68)
• Gravity: Lesson 14 vocab (slideshow) (p69)
• Video: gravitational concepts
• PhET: Gravity Force Lab and Gravity and Orbits
• Worksheet (p70)

Homework: Finish PhET gravity sheet, complete missing work

January 24/25, 2022

• Review Lesson 12/13 Study Guide
• Light art practice
• TCI Lesson Games 12 and 13
• Lesson 12/13 quiz
• Complete missing work / Video

Homework: Complete missing work

January 20/21, 2022

• L13 Investigation 2 Prisms
• Reading and Highlighting: L13 S4, 5, 6
• Complete/review Review Slides
• Video: How do Rainbows Form?
• Video: Why is the Sky Blue?
• Lesson 12/13 Study Guide (GClassroom)

Homework: Complete study guide, study for quiz next class

January 18/19, 2022

• A day classes: Finish L13 Investigation 1
• All classes: Review and turn in Investigation 1
• Video 1: Light review
• Video 2: Crash Course
• Reading/Highlighting TCI Lesson 13 Sections Intro, 1, 2, 3
• (turn in GClassroom)
• Legends of Learning: Temple of Light

Homework: Lesson 13 Slides Review on Google Classroom

January 13/14, 2022

• Lesson 13 Vocab Notes (p61) (slideshow)
• Lesson 13 Investigation 1

Homework: None

January 11/12, 2022

• Finish PHeT: Bending Light
• Finish Cosmos: Hiding in the Light (on D+)
• Work returned
• Making custom photo filter glasses

Homework: None

January 7/10, 2022

• Missing work?  Come to office hours!  2:30 Mondays.
• Update Notebook
• Lesson 12 Investigation 3 (p66 notebook)
• Finish Cosmos: Hiding in the Light (on Disney Plus)

Homework: Light at Home (Google Classroom)

January 5/6, 2022

• New classroom procedures
• Review reading/highlighting homework
• L12 Investigation 2 (p64 notebook)
• TCI L12 S3,4 reading
• PHeT: Bending Light (p65)

Homework: Finish reading L12 section 5, add highlights for 3, 4, 5 to GC

January 3/4, 2022

• Warm-up #3 (p10)
• Lesson 12 Notes (slideshow) notebook p61
• TCI Observing Phenomenon
• Lesson 12 Investigation 1 notebook p62
• Cosmos: Hiding in the Light notebook p63
• Edpuzzle if time

Homework: Reading + Highlighting TCI L12 Sections Intro, 1, 2