December 18/19/20, 2024

• Get cars, open slides on Chromebooks
• Finish slides, make them look good!
• Final car runs!

Homework: Missing assignments due by Thursday

December 16/17, 2024

• Final Project Day
• Work on egg car.  Build, test, and improve until you are certain your egg will survive!
• Work on slides.  Get slides set up do everything you can do ahead of time.
• Car must be done by end of class.

Homework: Missing assignments due by Thursday

December 12/13, 2024

• Final Project Day #1
• Understanding Car Crashes
• Build/test car, work on slides

Homework: Dec 19 last day for missing work

12/11/24 5th period

• Finish NASA Exercise
• PBS Lunar Phases Sim (paper)
• Paper Car Crash - intro
• Bill Nye: Momentum
• Car groups
• Start Google Slides with template

Homework: None

December 10/11, 2024

• Turn in notebook and Lesson 8+9 Quiz
• Bill Nye: Momentum
• Paper Car Crash - intro
• Car groups
• Start Google Slides with template

Homework: Last day for missing assignments is December 19.

December 9 5th period

• Seats/name tents/can of destiny
• Notebook clean-up
• Lesson 10 vocab (slideshow)
• Moon phase diagram
• NASA exercise: What to bring to the moon

Homework: none

December 6/9, 2024

• Moon phases diagram
• Nasa's tour of the moon
• Nasa Exercise: What to bring to the moon?
• Study/catch-up time
• Notebook check - do you need to finish or get anything?
• Quizlet / Kahoot for studying

Homework: Study for quiz next class, science notebook due complete next class

December 4/5, 2024

• Moon 101 video + intro
• Lesson 10 vocab (slideshow)
• Khan Academy: Phases of the Moon
• PBS Lunar Phases Simulation (paper)
• Notebook check #3
• Voyage to the Moon

Homework: Get notebook organized and study for test

December 2/3, 2024

• Khan Academy Season Simulator (paper)
• Quiz review
• Videos: Equinoxes: National Geographic / Solstices
• differences - solstice in Fairbanks, Alaska
• Quizlet / Kahoot

Homework: Notebook check and Quiz Dec 10/11

November 21/22, 2024

• Lesson 9 Vocab (slideshow)
• Investigation: Modeling the seasons
• Investigation: Measuring Energy on Earth's Surface
• Quizlet 8 and 9

No homework over the break.

November 19/20, 2024

• Polaris Seen From Earth
• Crash Course Constellations Part A / Part B
• Viewing the Constellations: Stellarium
• Constellation Poster

Homework: Finish Constellation Poster

November 15/18, 2024

• 100,000 Stars
• Space Edpuzzle
• Lesson 8 Vocab (Slideshow)
• TCI L8 Section Intro, 1, 2, 3 read/highlight
• Don't highlight Intro

Homework: Finish TCI L8 Section Intro, 1, 2, 3

November 13/14, 2024

• 5 min study/Light Quiz
• Celestial Coordinates/Star Map

Homework: Finish Celestial Coordinates

November 8/12, 2024

• Lesson 12/13 Study Guide on Google Classroom
• How do Rainbows form?
• Quizlet Live/Kahoot
• Why is the sky blue?
• Seek and Find - Light
• BNtSG - Light

Homework: Light Quiz next class - study guide, notebook, vocab.

November 6/7, 2024

Prisms today when it's sunny!

Finish 7/12/13 notes (slideshow)

TCI: L13 Section Intro,1,2,3

Edpuzzle: Crash Course: Light

Extra time: last chance for missing work

Homework: Quiz in 2 classes - begin practicing 5 min/day with Quizlet

November 4/5, 2024

• Notebook check #2 and extra credit puzzles due
• L12 Investigation 3 - Light Colors (p1+2)
• Spectro slides / Slides B
• End of grading period is Thursday - late + missing work!

Homework: Late + missing work due by Thursday

October 30/31, 2024

• Light at Home review
• Notebook check #2 review
• Finish Cosmos
• Candy Corn Lab

Homework: Notebook check #2 due next class

October 28/29, 2024

• L12 Investigation 3
• Notebook check #2 due in one week
• Cosmos: Hiding in the Light

Homework: Light at Home (Google Classroom)

October 22/24/25, 2024

• Google Classroom has all activities
• TCI L12 S3+4 reading/highlighting
• Light Video
• Reflection/Refraction/Absorption/Transmission slides
• PhET Bending Light (worksheet)
• LoL: Temple of Light

Homework: TCI L12 S5 read/highlight

October 18/21, 2024

• Review Test + Scores
• Intro to Light/Edpuzzle
• Lesson 7+12+13 vocab #1-6 (slideshow)
• L12 Investigation 1+2

Homework: Read + Highlight L12 Sections Intro, 1, 2

October 16/23, 2024

• ScienceWorld: around the horn
• Cosmos S01E01: Standing Up in the Milky Way

Homework: Check Aeries, check notebook

October 14/15, 2024

• Study time/Waves quiz
• Doodle notes: Analog vs Digital
• Notesheet / Learning Link (pw: science)
• Reading material if link doesn't work

No homework

October 10/11, 2024

• Waves quiz next class
• PhET Waves (esp)(worksheet)
• Waves review sheet
• Bill Nye Waves

Homework: Study your notebook/quizlet for waves quiz next class

October 8/9, 2024

• Reading+Highlighting: TCI L6 S1+2
• LOL: Galaxy Waves
• Analyzing Waves Investigation
• Bill Nye Waves

Homework: Continue studying your Quizlet vocab 5 min/day

October 4/7, 2024

• Lesson 5+6 vocab (slideshow)
• Google Classroom: Physics simulation
• Slinky Lab
• Bill Nye: Waves

Homework: Study your Quizlet 5 min each day, put study screenshot on Google Classroom by next class

October 2/3, 2024

• New seats and new unit: The Wave
• What is a wave?  CER
• Wave vocab lesson 4 (slideshow)
• Quizlet Waves Vocab
• Test makeup this week lunch/after school

Homework: Practice Quizlet waves vocab 5 min per night

September 30/October 1, 2024

•  Go-Cart project day
• The Engineering Process
• Complete Go-Cart Engineering Challenge

No homework

September 28/29, 2024

• Quiz retakes available at lunch or after school
• The Engineering Design Process
• Go-Cart Engineering Project

Homework: Check Aeries, turn in missing work

September 26/27, 2024

• 5 min study time/Forces Quiz
• Newtons Laws posters reviewed
• TCI L3S3: Designing a Better Seatbelt
• Go-Cart Engineering Project Start

No homework

September 24/25, 2024

• Quizlet/Kahoot
• Quiz Study Guide
• BNTSG/Edpuzzle
• Review study strategies

Homework: Study for quiz next class

September 20/23, 2024

• Science notebooks due
• Disney 3 laws video
• Newton's 3 laws poster

Homework: Study Quizlet 5 min/day for upcoming quiz

September 18/19, 2024

• Complete/review 2nd Law Lab
• Finish notes (slideshow)
• Friction lab
• Notebook check sheet and work time

Homework: Complete notebook, due next class.

September 16/17, 2024

• Lesson 2 notes update: #9 (slideshow)
• Newton's 2nd Law PhET (sheet)
• (Spanish simulator / worksheet)
• Car Acceleration Lab

Homework: check notebook for missing/incomplete pages - Table of Contents and p1-16

September 12/13, 2024

• Missing assignments due by next Thursday
• TCI L2 S4 reading/highlights/questions
• L2+3 notes: #7-8 (slideshow)
• First Law of Motion Lab

Homework: Read/highlight L3S2, turn in highlights L2S4, L3S2

September 10/11, 2024

• Grading period ends next Thursday 9/19
• Test review/test makeup
• Third Law in Space
  
• PhET Forces and Motion Spanish (Worksheet/Español)
• TCI Slides / Balanced/Unbalanced ex.
• Balanced/Unbalanced Drawing (Español)

Homework: Read/Highlight TCI Lesson 2 Sections 2 and 3

September 6/9, 2024

• 5 min study time
• Motion quiz
• Newton's Laws video
• Lesson 2 vocab (slideshow)
• PhET: Forces and Motion (worksheet)

Homework: No homework

September 4/5, 2024

• The engineering design process (Notes slideshow)
• Videos: taco party, cleaning waste, deep fish
• Beach town
• Quizlet/Kahoot
• B day: work time

Homework: Study Quizlet vocab/reference frame sheet for quiz next class

August 30/September 3, 2024

• Acceleration Drawings
• Review day - first quiz in 2 classes on Motion!
• How do we study?
• Note study time/Quiz study time
• Quizlet vocab practice and LIVE
• Frame of Reference practice and word search
• TCI Lesson Game 1/Kahoot/BNtSG

Homework: Study notes/assignments/quizlet for quiz in 2 classes

August 28/29, 2024

• Basketball Frame of Reference Simulation
• Car and Plane Video
• Acceleration Video/Update notes (slideshow)
• Update notebook
• Acceleration drawing
• Quizlet for Lesson 1

Homework: Quizlet study games, upload screenshot proof

August 26/27, 2024

• Collect Lab Safety Posters
• Pom Pom Challenge
• How your grades work/grading policy
• TCI Lesson 1 Section 3 reading
• Basketball Frame of Reference Simulation
• Car and paperclip model/Car and Plane

Homework: No homework!  (WRITE THAT DOWN!)

August 22/23, 2024

• Motion Vocabulary (slideshow)
• Class Website bookmarks
• TCI Reading/Highlighting
• Lesson 1 Sections Intro, 1, 2
• Lab Safety Poster (español)

Homework: Finish Lab Safety Poster

August 20/21, 2024

• Materials check
• Class Bingo
• Set up notebooks
• Taping in classwork

Homework: Bring in any missing materials or signed sheets.

August 16+19, 2024

• Red Cup Challenge
• Check off signed homework sheets
• The CANS OF DESTINY
• TCI Scavenger Hunt and Measure Me Lab
• Four Corners

Homework: Class materials due next class

August 14/15, 2024

• Name tents
• Class rules/Materials/Schoolwide expectations
• Classroom scavenger hunt
• Red Cup Challenge

Homework: Get papers signed, get class materials, due Tuesday/Wednesday of next week.

May 30/31, 2024

• Rocket Launch 2
• Calculate Initial Velocity + Max Height
• Finish packet and slides

Homework: notebook check, packet and slides due start of next class

May 28/29, 2024

• Final Science notebook check due June Monday 3 / Tuesday 4
• Rocket repair/modify day
• Complete rocket packets + slides as far as possible

Homework: Science notebook check due Mon/Tues next week

May 23/24, 2024

• Rocket launch day 1
• Fill in data in packet
• If you did not present your planet presentation, come see me at lunch today.

Homework: Check for incomplete assignments in notebook, due June 3/4

May 21/22, 2024

• Rocket Project Building Day 1
• Slide assignments / Rocket design / IV and DV
• Build rockets/work on slides
• Rocket launch next class
• Clothing, prep and recording

Homework: Final notebook check with rocket packet due June 3/4

May 17/20, 2024

• Test corrections due in turn in bin
• Sit with rocket group, check materials
• Planet Presentations
• When we Left Earth - Gemini

Homework: Rocket materials if you forgot.

May 15/16, 2024

• Planet presentations must be finished today
• Practice your presentation with your group OUT LOUD
• figure out the pronunciation of all words
• The Universe tv show

Homework: Be ready to present next class.  Rocket materials, test corrections due next class

May 13/14, 2024

• Rocket materials due May 17(A) / 20(B)
• Planet Project
• Tests returned/corrections

Homework: Rocket materials due May 17(A) / 20(B)

May 9/10, 2024

• KE/PE Quiz
• Solar System Notes (slides)
• Measure Me lab part 2
• Edpuzzle: Solar System

Homework: Rocket materials due May 17 (A) or May 20 (B)

May 7/8, 2024

• Check off/review study guide
• Kahoot
• Test formula practice
• Van de Graaf generator

Homework: Study for quiz next class (Quizlet)

May 3/6, 2024

• Update notebook
• Rollercoaster Lab (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3)
• Review labs
• KE/PE Study Guide

Homework: Complete study guide by next class

May 1/2, 2024

• Energy Car and Mass Lab
• Bill Nye - Energy
• LoL: Marble game

Homework: Continue to study vocab using Quizlet - 5 min/day

April 29/30, 2024

• Last chance for seating requests (GClassroom)
• Rocket Project groups and materials
• Hydroelectric KE/PE
• Energy Car Lab

Homework: Start practicing KE/PE vocab with Quizlet

April 25/26, 2024

• Potential and Kinetic Energy Vocab (slides)
• Energy Skate Park PhET (worksheet)
• Roller Coaster CPO Lab

No homework

April 23/24, 2024

• CAST Testing
• Seatmate request form on GClassroom
• BOTH MUST REQUEST

No homework

April 19/22, 2024

• Work returned/Turn in notebooks
• CAST testing
• Seating request form for May active

No homework

April 17/18, 2024

• Update Notebook / Notebook Check #5
• Human Impact on Evolution notes (slides)
• Ecosystem Restoration
• CAST Login Practice/Finding student ID
• 4th/6th period: MMM

Homework: Notebook check due next class

April 15/16, 2024

• Welcome back from Spring Break!
• Resource board game (L33 Inv1)
• If not finished, March Mammal Madness next class

Homework: Check notebook for unfinished things; notebook check due in two classes

April 4/5, 2024

• Cosmos: Some of the Things That Molecules Do
• LoL - Adaptation game

Homework: Check Aeries, missing assignments.  End of grading period is the week we return from Spring Break.

April 2/3, 2024

• MMM Final Roar
• ScienceWorld: Nuclear Frogs
• Evidence of Common Ancestry
• Build a Tree (worksheet)
• CAST Practice?

Homework: Check Aeries, missing assignments

March 29/April 1, 2024

• MMM Update
• Embryological Development
• Your Inner Fish

Homework: Check Aeries, do missing assignments

March 27/28, 2024

• MMM Round 2 Update
• Genes? / Genes vs Alleles
• The Outcome of Mutation (sheet)
• All in the Family
• Test Corrections
• B day - extra work time

Homework: Quiz corrections due by April 3, check Aeries for missing work

March 25/26, 2024

• Study time/L24+25 quiz
• MMM Round 2 Part 1 update
• Update Notebook
• Notes L27 (slideshow)
• Genes and Mutation coloring

Homework: Edpuzzle - Genes and DNA (on Google Classroom)

March 21/22, 2024

• Study day today - L24+25 quiz next class
• Kahoot warmup
• Study Guide (on Google Classroom)
• Quizlet practice
• MMM/CAST Computer Practice

Homework: Study for L24/25 quiz next class. Quizlet, study guide, assignments in notebook.

March 19/20, 2024

• Admin talks today
• Turn in Alien Poster/CAST Practice
• March Mammal Madness update
• Rock Pocket Mouse
• Video / illustrations

Homework: Practice Quizlet for quiz in two classes

March 14/15, 2024

• March Mammal Madness bracket update!
• Natural Selection PhET Sim (worksheet)
• Design an Alien Species poster

Homework: Complete your Alien Species poster, check Aeries for missing work

March 12/13, 2024

• MMM brackets
• Galapagos Finches: video
• L25 vocabulary notes (slideshow)
• Guppy Experiment (GClassroom)
• L24 Inv 2: Mouthpart variation
• A day: extra work time

Homework: get brackets in, check Aeries, finish missing work

March 8/11, 2024

• March Mammal Madness!
• (All on Google Classroom)
• Intro video
• The bracket system
• Animal matchups
• Making your choices

Homework: Finish your bracket if not done in class.

March 6/7, 2024

• Present Fossil Slides
• Natural Selection Simulation (sheet)
• Galapagos Islands: Video 1/2
• L24 Investigation 1 (Finch info)
• B day: extra work time

No homework

March 4/5, 2024

• Science Notebooks collected
• L22/23 Test corrections - due next class
• Fossil Research Slide - present at start of next class

Homework: Complete test corrections, fossil research slide (if not finished in class)

February 29/March 1, 2024

• 5 min study time / L22/23 quiz
• Edpuzzle: Darwin
• L24 vocab: Evolution (slideshow)
• Notebook check #4

Homework: Complete notebook check for next class

February 27/28, 2024

• TCI L23 S5: read and complete notes
• Kahoot
• History of Life study guide
• Quizlet L22/L23

Homework: Study for Fossils and History of Life quiz next class, notebook check March 4/5

February 16/26, 2024

• How to Fossilize Yourself
• Geologic Time Scale / coloring
• Kahoot
• Cosmos: Lost Worlds of Planet Earth

Homework: do missing assignments/corrections

February 14/15, 2023

• Homework check
• Absolute Dating (L22 Inv 3)
• Lesson 23 Vocab notes (slideshow)
• Index Fossils
• B day: extra work time.

Homework: Noncontact forces quiz corrections due Friday in turn-in bin.

February 12/13, 2024

• Space Test Corrections due
• CAST Practice 5+6
• Noncontact forces quiz corrections
• Finish Fossil Timeline (back side)
• Sonoran Desert Dig
• Geologic Time Webquest (sheet)

Homework: Finish Webquest, test corrections due Friday

February 8/9, 2024

• Review rock puzzle
• Age of the Earth Video
• Finish Earth History notes (slideshow)
• Fossil Timeline activity

Homework: Test corrections due start of next week (2/12 or 2/13), check Aeries and do missing assignments.

February 6/7, 2024

• 5 min study time before Noncontact Forces Test (can use One Pager)
• Test corrections for Space test
• CAST Practice
• Lesson 22 Earth's History (slideshow)
• Rock Layer Puzzles (worksheet) (puzzle pieces)

No homework

February 2/5, 2024

• L16 Investigation 1 Magnetic Fields
• Notebook update/tests back/corrections
• Noncontact Forces One Pager
• Quizlet / Kahoot

Homework: Finish one pager, study for Noncontact Forces quiz next class

January 31/February 1, 2024

• Update Notebook
• Lesson 16 Magnetism Vocab (slideshow)
• Electromagnetic Strength Lab
• Noncontact Forces Kahoot

Homework: Study Noncontact Forces Quizlet (5 min/day)

January 29/30, 2024

• CAST Practice #3
• Charges and Fields PhET (sheet)
• TCI L15 S4 Reading/highlights
• Circuit Construction Kit
• Questions on GClassroom
• TCI L15 S5 Reading/highlights
• TCI Lesson 15 game
• BNtSG

Homework: Study Noncontact Forces Quizlet 5 min/day

January 25/26, 2024

• Check homework
• Gravitational Forces Review
• Lesson 15 Vocab (slideshow)
• Static Electricity and Magnets Lab
• PheT 1 / 2

Homework: Static Electricity Edpuzzle on Google Classroom

January 23/24, 2024

• Update Notebook
• CAST Practice 1+2
• Lesson 14 notes (slideshow)
• PhET Gravity
• Gravity force basics
• Gravity field sim
• PhET Gravity and Orbits

Homework: Finish PhET Gravity

January 19/22, 2024

• Space unit concept map test
• When We Left Earth
• Noncontact forces
• Gravity Sim , Video
• Lesson 14 Notes? (slideshow)

Homework: None

January 17/18, 2024

• Check/correct study guides
• Kahoot L8/9
• Concept Map Practice - L8/9/10/11
• Quizlet 8/9/10/11

Homework: Study your study guides and concept map for quiz next class.

January 12/16, 2024

• Warm-up - concept map
• Reading: Lesson 11 Sections 1/4/5 + highlighting
• Videos: Lunar Eclipses/Solar Eclipses
• Kahoot review: Lessons 8/9/10/11
• Quizlet: 8+9, 10, 11
• Study guides

Homework: Quiz in two classes - complete and practice with your study guides

January 10/11, 2024

• Moonlight Madness
• Lesson 11 Notes (slideshow)
• Eclipse Exploration Gizmos: 2D / 3D
• Eclipse short slides
• Crash Course Eclipses
• Eclipse Drawing (reference)
• Why eclipses don't happen every month

Homework: Finish Eclipse drawing using reference

January 9, 2024

• New seats NEXT CLASS - sit wherever you want today.
• Welcome back circle - rose and thorn
• Solstice and Equinox around the world

No homework

1°: 8:15 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. 

2°: 9:15 a.m. - 9:58 a.m.

Break: 9:58 a.m. - 10:08 a.m.  

3°: 10:13 a.m. - 11:01 a.m.   

4°  : 11:06 a.m - 11:54 p.m.

Lunch: 11:54 a.m. - 12:34 p.m.  

5°: 12:39 p.m. - 1:27 p.m.  

6°: 1:32 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.