April 3/4, 2025

• MMM Results
• Energy Car and Mass Lab
• Bill Nye: Energy

No homework

April 1/2, 2025

• New seats / MMM
• Hydroelectric KE/PE
• Energy Car Lab
• Blooket PE/KE

Homework: Blooket practice + screenshot on Google Classroom by next class

March 28/31, 2025

• Energy Unit begins!
• Potential and Kinetic Energy Vocab (slideshow)
• Energy Skate Park PhET (worksheet)
• Roller Coaster CPO lab

Homework: Check Aeries and Science Notebook for missing/incomplete assignments to finish!

March 26/27, 2025

• Artificial Selection Project presentations
• MMM update
• Ecosystem Restoration Projects

Homework: Complete ecosystem restoration projects, check Aeries, complete missing assignments

March 24/25, 2025

• MMM Update
• Human Impact on Evolution Notes
• Slideshow
• Artificial Selection Project
• To be presented next class in groups

Homework: Finish your slides for the Artificial Selection Project

March 20/21, 2025

• Notebook update
• MMM Update
• Resource Board Game

Homework: Missing assignments

March 18/19, 2025

• Study time / Evolution Quiz
• Cosmos: Some of the Things Molecules Do
• MMM Update

Homework: None

March 14/17, 2025

• MMM First Results / Plants checkup
• LoL: ADAPT game (Google Classroom)
• Evolution Review for Evolution test next class
• Check in for missing assignments
• Kahoot part 1 + part 2 / Blooket
• Extra time: missing work

Homework: Do Blooket, study using your study materials for the quiz next class.

March 12/13, 2025

• Embryological Development
• Your Inner Fish
• March Mammal Madness Wild Card Results

Homework: Study for quiz in two classes

March 7/11, 2025

• Evidence of Common Ancestry
• Build a (Evolutionary) Tree
• March Mammal Madness
• Finish Bracket: Left Side / Right Side
• Put answers in Google Form on Google Classroom
• Put photo of paper bracket on Google Classroom too

Homework: March Mammal Madness must be done by evening tonight(March 11).

March 5/6, 2025

• Test Review
• Genes and Mutation Videos: 1/2/3
• The Outcome of Mutation (paper)
• March Mammal Madness
• Intro vid / Slide deck
• Left side / Right Side

Homework: Finish March Mammal Madness Bracket by Monday

March 3/4, 2025

• Staple and turn in Alien Poster
• Study time and Natural Selection quiz
• Evolutionary Relationships Vocab (slideshow)
• Genes and Mutations coloring
• Native Plants

No homework

February 27/28, 2025

• Quiz next class
• Lesson 24+25 Study Guide
• Design an Alien
• Native Seeds

Homework: Complete your Alien Design, Study Quizlet for quiz next class

February 25/26, 2025

• CAST Practice (p61)
• PhET Natural Selection (paper)
• Rock Pocket Mouse
• paper / illustrations / video

Homework: 5 min/day study for Natural Selection/Evolution Quizlet - quiz next week

February 14/24, 2025

Career Day!

• Graduation and college requirements
• Careers in Science
• California Career Zone/California Colleges
• Budgeting / How To Slides

No homework

February 12/13, 2025

• Welcome to the Galapagos Islands
• Natural Selection Simulation (paper)
• Finish L24-25 notes (slideshow)
• Galapagos Finches and their beaks
• L24 Inv1 Bird Beak Lab
• Turn in science notebooks

No homework

February 10/11, 2025

• CAST Practice
• L24+25 Vocab Evolution of Life (slideshow)
• Darwin Edpuzzle on GC
• Investigation: Mouthpart Variation
• Notebook Check #4

Homework: Complete Notebook Check, turn in next class

February 6/7, 2025

• Missing Assignments
• Absolute Dating Investigation
• Bead Picture Slides
• Lesson 23 Fossils Vocab (slideshow)
• Index Fossils

Homework: Check Aeries, do missing work

February 4/5, 2025

• New seats next class
• Yosemite and the History of Earth
• Sonoran Desert Dig Site
• Fossil Timeline Part 2

Homework: Complete Fossil Timeline if not done in class

January 31/February 3, 2025

• Cosmos: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
• Video notes
• Webquest: Geologic Time
• Extra time?  Work on missing assignments or work from other classes.

No homework

January 29/30, 2025

• Layers of Time game
• Layers of the Grand Canyon video
• Finish Earth's History Notes (slideshow)
• Fossil Timeline - front side today.  Back side next week.

No homework

January 27/28, 2025

• Noncontact Forces Quiz
• Turn in One Pager
• L22 Earth's History Vocab 1-6 (slideshow)
• Rock Puzzles
• Fossil Layer Puzzle
• Layers of time game

No homework

January 23/24, 2025

• Magnet investigation / Kahoot
• One-Pager for Noncontact Forces
• Quizlet
• Check Aeries, work on missing work

Homework: Study for Noncontact Forces Quiz next class

January 21/22, 2025

• Lesson 16 Magnetism vocab (slideshow)
• Lesson 16 Investigation 1
• Electromagnetic Strength Lab
• Kahoot
• Noncontact Forces Quiz next Mon/Tues

Homework: Study Quizlet 5 min/day Google Classroom

January 16/17, 2025

• ScienceWorld
• PhET: Modeling Electric Fields
• Circuit Construction Kit
• On Google Classroom
• van de Graaf Generator
• BNtSG

No homework

January 14/15, 2025

• Notebook update
• Electricity Vocab (slideshow)
• Static Electricity and Magnets Lab
• PhET: Travoltage / Balloons

Homework: Static Electricity Edpuzzle

January 10/11, 2025

• Gravitational Fields Simulator
• Britannica: Gravitational Force
• Lesson 14 Vocab (slideshow)
• PhET: Gravity Force / Orbits (paper)
• Gravitational Fields (paper)

No homework

January 8/9, 2024

• Welcome back!  Break talk.
• What is an Eclipse?  When?  Slides
• Crash Course Eclipses
• Eclipse Gizmos 1/2 - limited-time use!
• Why not every month?
• Eclipse Drawing for notebook

Homework: Be responsible: make sure you have all your class materials every day!