May 28/29, 2026

• Complete your Rocket One-Pager, due by end of class.
• Go through directions and be sure it's complete!
• Silent working time.
• Movie!

May 26/27, 2026

• Test retakes any lunch this week.
• Rocket launch #2!  Get and fill your rockets.
• Launch trajectory (how-to) and One-Pager

Homework: Finish one-pager to relax with the movie next class!

May 21/22, 2026

• Test return and review - retakes any lunch next week
• Rocket repair and modification
• New independent variable for each rocket?
• Try to make your rocket exactly the same as before, but with your one change.
• Dress appropriately for launch Tues/Weds

Homework: Missing assignments due May 29th

May 19/20, 2026

• Put water in rockets
• Launch rockets
• Put launch 1 data in blue packet table
• Rebuild /modify rockets next class:
• Do you need more materials?

HW: May 29th all missing assignments due

May 18, 2026

• Rocket 1L Watermark
• Makeup tests/notebook checks
• When We Left Earth
• Rocket Launch next class - dress appropriately w/closed toed shoes and socks.

Homework: Missing assignments due by May 29th

May 14/15, 2026

• Rocket Building Day - use and fill out blue packets as you build
• Final notebook check by groups.
• Rocket Launch Tues/Weds: wear long pants and close-toed shoes+socks

No homework

May 11, 2026

• Rocket materials check
• Review study guide (some classes)
• Taste Test Lab

Homework: Quiz next class, notebook check Thurs/Fri

May 7/8, 2026

• Population Board Game
• KE/PE Study Guide

Homework: Do Study Guide. Rocket Materials Monday, Quiz Tues/Weds

May 5/6, 2026

• Final notebook check
• Energy Car and Mass Lab

Homework: Rocket Materials May 11, practice Blooket for quiz Tues/Weds

May 4, 2026

• Roller Coasters Lab
• KE/PE Part 1
• KE/PE Part 2
• KE/PE Part 3

Homework: Practice using the Blooket, screenshot on GC

April 30/May 1, 2026

• ScienceWorld reading
• Energy Car Lab
• BNtSG Energy

Homework: Rocket Materials May 11

April 28/29, 2026

• Finish notes (slideshow)
• Energy Skate Park (worksheet)
• Roller Coaster CPO

Homework: Rocket materials due May 11

April 27, 2026

• Rocket Project Groups and Materials due dates
• Planner Check
• Kinetic/Potential Energy Notes (slideshow)

Homework: Talk to parents/guardians about rocket materials due 5/11

April 21/22/23/24, 2026

• CAST testing.

No homework or classwork

April 20, 2026

• Study time/Evolutionary Relationships Quiz
• Adapt Game
• CAST test starts next class.
• Charge Chromebook!
• Get more sleep!
• Bring a reading book!  Get one from library today!

Homework: Missing assignments due by Wednesday

April 16/17, 2026

• Finish Artificial Selection Project slides
• Present projects
• Cosmos

Homework: Study for quiz, missing work due by Wednesday

April 14/15, 2026

• Human Impact on Evolution Vocab (slideshow)
• GMOs: Farm to Table
• Artificial Selection Project
• Quiz on Natural Selection/Evolutionary Relationships/Artificial Selection next Monday

Homework: Study Blooket on GC

April 13, 2026

• Welcome back from Spring Break!
• Blooket review!
• CAST Practice day
• Find your ID number in Aeries
• Sign in and do the practice test
• Headphone use - must be wired, we'll provide.
• Sorry, no personal headphones.
• CAST starts next week Tuesday/Wednesday
• End of grading period next week.

Homework: Complete missing assignments!

April 2/3, 2026

• MMM Final, Artemis II Launch
• Embryological Development
• Your Inner Fish

No Homework

March 31/April 1, 2026

• Evidence of Common Anatomy
• All in the Family
• Build a Tree (paper)
• Extra time: MMM, update notebook, missing work

Homework: Unfinished classwork

March 30, 2026

• Practice / Natural Selection Quiz
• Genetics and mutations videos
• The Outcome of Mutation (worksheet)
• MMM Elite Trait

Homework: Check Aeries, finish missing assignments

March 26/27, 2026

• Turn in Alien Poster/Update notebook
• MMM Sweet Sixteen
• Natural Selection/Evolution Study Guide GC
• Blooket
• Evolutionary Relationships Vocab (slideshow)
• Genes and Mutations coloring

Homework: Blooket+study guide for quiz Monday

March 24/25, 2026

• MMM: Round 2 end
• The Rock Pocket Mouse
• Video/Illustrations/Worksheet
• Finish Design an Alien Poster

Homework: Alien Poster due next class

March 23, 2026

• Test retakes today at lunch
• MMM
• Design an Alien project start
• Planner check

Homework: Complete your Design an Alien brainstorming

March 19/20, 2026

• ScienceWorld: Hummingbirds
• March Mammal Madness
• L24 Inv 2 Mouthpart Variation Lab
• Finish vocab (slideshow)
• Natural Selection Sim (paper)
• Natural Selection PhET (paper)

Homework: Finish simulations

March 17/18, 2026

• March Mammal Madness update
• Pass back work/update notebooks
• Evolution Vocab (slideshow)
• Videos: Galapagos Finches
• L24 Inv2: Mouthpart lab

Homework: Darwin Edpuzzle

March 16, 2026

• Library - Substance Use Prevention Workshop
• Test retakes Friday lunch (28 and below)

March 12/13, 2026

• 5 min study / History of Life Quiz
• MMM - picks into Google Form for scoring
• 30 min Mesozoic One Pager finish
• Grading together as a class at the end

HW: Finish incomplete work

March 10/11, 2026

• History of Life Study Guide on GC
• MMM 2026
• Slides
• Mesozoic One-Pager due by end of class
• Planner check during work time

Homework: Practice Study Guide with another person

March 5/6, 2026

• Turn in Webquest HW
• Fossils Vocabulary (slideshow)
• Index Fossils
• Start Mesozoic One-Pager
• Planner check Tu/W, quiz Th/Fri next week, 

HW: Finish Mesozoic research

March 3/4, 2026

• Update Notebook
• Sonoran Desert Dig Site
• Absolute Dating Investigation
• Geologic Time Webquest (sheet)

Homework: Finish Webquest

March 2, 2026

• Finish notes (slideshow)
• Coloring Geologic Time Scale
• Finish Cosmos

No homework

February 26/27, 2026

• Fossil Timeline part 2
• Turn in notebooks
• Cosmos: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth

No homework

February 24/25, 2026

• Rock puzzle questions / layer game
• Making North America
• Fossil Timeline Lab part 1
• Notebook Check #4

Homework: Notebook check due next class

February 23, 2026

• Update Notebook
• History of Life Notes (slideshow)
• Rock/Fossil Layer Puzzles (game?)

Homework: Missing work

February 12/13, 2026

• Electromagnetic Strength Lab
• Noncontact Forces One-Pager
• Extra credit opportunity on GC

No homework over break

February 10/11, 2026

• Electromagnetic Phenomena
• Magnetism vocab (slideshow)
• Lesson 16 Investigation 1
• Electromagnetic Strength Lab

No homework

February 9, 2026

• Reading: Black history month
• Modeling Electric Fields
• PhET Simulator
• Electrical Current simulator

Homework: Missing assignment check

February 5/6, 2026

• Electricity Vocab (Slideshow)
• Static electricity lab
• John Travoltage PhET
• Balloons and Static Electricity

Homework: Edpuzzle Static Electricity

February 3/4, 2026

• Gravitational fields sim
• National Lab Gravity sim
• PhET: Gravity and Orbits (worksheet)
• The Fabric of Spacetime activity!
• Gravitational Field lines and sheet
• Extra time?  Van de Graaf generator

Homework: TCI Lesson 15 Section 1+2 reading/highlighting

February 2, 2026

• New seats
• Admin talks today
• Gravity Vocab (slideshow)
• PhET Gravity force basics

Homework: missing assignments

January 29/30, 2026

• Seating chart request form
• Planet presentation polish and practice
• Do planet presentations

No new homework.

January 27/28, 2026

• ScienceWorld: Brainrot
• Crash Course: The Solar System
• Planet Presentations
• Template on GC /Groups of four
• Work on project today
• Present next class
• Seating requests on GC

Homework: Complete your assigned slides for Planet Presentation

January 26, 2026

• Solar System + beyond vocab (slideshow)
• 3rd period: Planet distance scale
• Edpuzzle: Inner Planets / Planner check
• Test retakes Friday at lunch

Homework: Finish Edpuzzle

January 22/23, 2026

• Study time / quiz
• When we Left Earth (ep3 m26-51)
• Moon Phase Picture extra credit
• Due Friday Feb 13th
• Welcome to the Solar System
• Planet distance scale

Homework: Missing assignment check

January 20/21, 2026

• Lunar / Solar eclipses
• Reading TCI: L11 S1,4,5
• Phases of a total solar eclipse
• Lesson 10/11 Study Guide
• Apollo 11 and the first men on the moon.
• Blooket

Homework: Study for quiz next class

January 15/16, 2026

• Lesson 11 Vocab - Eclipses (slideshow)
• 2D / 3D Eclipse Gizmos
• Orbital Plane explanation
• Crash Course Eclipses
• Drawing together: Eclipses (Guide)
• Blooket
• Quiz next week Thurs/Fri

Homework: Blooket practice screenshot

January 12, 2026

• Moonlight Madness
• Moon Phases Flipbook
• Crash Course: Moon Phases

Homework: Finish Edpuzzle

January 8/9, 2026

• National Geographic: The Moon
• Update Notebook
• Lesson 10 (Moon) Vocab (slideshow)
• Khan Academy Moon Phases
• Lunar Phases Simulation (paper)
• Tidal Locking / Crash Course

Homework: Finish any classwork.

January 7, 2026

• What would life be like on the Moon?
• (NASA video)
• What should you bring to the moon?

No homework