Sunday, June 7, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 10

Home Instruction - Week 10
Last Daily Journals of the Year!

Daily Journal Questions:
Day 1: What is the name of the atmospheric layer that is closest to us?
Day 2: What do chlorofluorocarbons break down?
Day 3: What is the term for 
the temperature at which air is saturated and condensation takes place?

Click Link: Some notes if you need help answering the questions.

All assignments are posted on Google Classroom.

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 9

Home Instruction - Week 9

Daily Journal Questions:
Day 1: How many seismograph stations are needed to find an epicenter?
Day 2: What are the three main types of volcanoes?
Day 3: What is the name of the area around the Pacific Ocean with very active volcanoes?


Click Link: Some notes if you need help answering the questions.

All assignments are posted on Google Classroom.

Monday, May 25, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 8

Home Instruction - Week 8

Daily Journal Questions:
Day 1: What is the point on the earth’s surface directly above the focus?
Day 2: What is the scale that measures the energy released at the focus of an earthquake?
Day 3: What is the term for 
materials of all types that erupt from a vent; ash, cinder?

Click Link: Some notes if you need help answering the questions.

All assignments are posted on Google Classroom.

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Home Instruction Week 7

Home Instruction - Week 7

Daily Journal Questions:
Day 1: What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Day 2: Which type of plate boundary is most associated with earthquakes?
Day 3: Which type of boundary involves plates moving towards each other?


Click Link: Some notes if you need help

All assignments are posted on Google Classroom.

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 6

Home Instruction - Week 6

Daily Journal Questions:
Day 1: What is the mechanism for the movement of continents?
Day 2: What two metals are found in the core?
Day 3: What is the term for the earth’s stiff outer shell made of the crust and hard upper mantle?

All assignments are posted on Google Classroom.

Monday, May 4, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 5

Home Instruction - Week 5

Daily Journal Questions:
Day 1: What is the thickest layer of Earth?
Day 2: What is the thinnest layer of Earth?
Day 3: What is the theoretical super continent called?

All assignments are posted on Google Classroom.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 4

Home Instruction - Week 4

Daily Journals: 
Day #1: What provides the Earth with energy?
Day #2: What is the molten rock that comes out of a volcano?
Day #3: What's your most prized possession and why?

All Assignments are posted on Google Classroom.

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 3

Week 3 Daily Journal Questions:
#1 - What color is a cooler star (red or blue)?
#2 - What gas is our Sun most composed of?
#3 - What is the term for a cloud of dust and gas in which stars form?

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 2

Week 2 Daily Journal Questions:
#1 - What are the outer planets called?
#2 - What planet has a volcano called Olympus on it?
#3 - What two planets are blue because of methane gas?

The week's assignments (see Google Classroom explanations)
- Daily Attendance (Monday and Wednesday)
- Extraterrestrials in Pop culture

- Makeup Work
- Daily Journals
- Notes: Stars video and assignment

- Wednesday Google Meet

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Home Instruction - Week 1

Fourth Marking Period is here!

Week 1 Daily Journal Questions:
#1 - What are the four terrestrial planets in our solar system?
#2 - What star cluster do we know as Subaru?
#3 - What is the term for believing that the solar system revolves around the sun?

The week's assignments (see Google Classroom explanations)
- Daily Attendance on Tuesday and Thursday
- Constellations in the Sky - video and assignment
- Notes: Planets video and assignment
- Google Meet on Thursday
- Daily Journals (above)
- Innovator project - put your research into a presentation

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Home Instruction Rotation 12

Day 1 Daily Journal: What is your Zodiac sign?
Day 2 Daily Journal: What ocean is the international date line in?
Day 3 Daily Journal: What does "the land of the midnight sun" refer to?

All work should be completed on Google Classroom. Please email lhennings@hpregional.org if you have technical difficulties. You can also text using Remind (Text @436phy8 to 81010).

Agenda:
- Daily Journals (above) - due Friday, 3/27 at 3pm
- Film and questions about Stephen Hawking - due Friday, 3/27 at 3pm
- Videos with Google Forms - Constellations and Planets - due Tuesday, 3/31

April 1st is the end of the Marking Period. Email me with any questions.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Home Instruction - Rotation 11

Rotation 11 
Remember that all notes can be found on Google Classroom.
Day 1 Daily Journal: Time is based upon the ___________ of the Earth.
Day 2 Daily Journal: How many constellations are in the Zodiac?
Day 3 Daily Journal: How many degrees is teh Earth tilted at?

All work should be completed on Google Classroom. Please email lhennings@hpregional.org if you have technical difficulties. You can also text using Remind (Text @436phy8 to 81010).

Agenda:
- Daily Journals (above) - due Monday, 3/23 at 3pm
- Graphing Packet - due Monday, 3/23 at 3pm
- Space Science Innovator Project - Look on Google Classroom for directions - due Wednesday, 3/35 @ 3 pm.

Monday, March 16, 2020

Home Instruction - Rotation 10

Rotation 10 
Remember that all notes can be found on Google Classroom.
Day 1 Daily Journal: What is the term for the imaginary lines that show distance North or South of the equator?
Day 2 Daily Journal: What causes the seasons on Earth?
Day 3 Daily Journal: What is the date of the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere?

All work should be completed on Google Classroom. Please email lhennings@hpregional.org if you have technical difficulties. You can also text using Remind (Text @436phy8 to 81010).

Agenda:
- Daily Journals (above) - due Tuesday, 3/17 at 3pm
- Solar System Crossword - due Tuesday, 3/17 at 3pm
- Newsela articles and questions located on Google Classroom - due Thursday 3/19 3pm
- Graphing packet. This needs to be done on the handout provided last week. Look for more instructions on Google Classroom - due Monday 3/23 3pm

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Rotation 9 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at the stars.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What constellations have you heard of?
- Notes
- Astrology assignment

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Rotation 9 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at the stars.

Agenda:

- Daily Journal: ________________ are objects that orbit other objects with larger masses.
- Notes

Monday, March 9, 2020

Rotation 8 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at the phases of the moon.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What force holds the solar system together?
- Supermoon
- Gizmo: Phases of the Moon

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Rotation 8 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look into our solar system.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the theory that explain how the universe began?

- Finish Timeline
- Notes

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Rotation 8 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To discuss time.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: List as many planets as you can.
- Cosmic Timeline 

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Rotation 7 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To assess chemistry and start astronomy.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is in space?
- Chemistry Assessment
- Astronomy Vocab
- Cosmic Timeline - Column A only

Monday, March 2, 2020

Rotation 7 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To see chemistry in cooking.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the smallest particles that have the properties of an element?
- Review Game
- Late work - we are halfway through the third marking period

- Astronomy Vocab

Friday, February 28, 2020

Rotation 7 - Day 1

Today's goal: To get caught up on work.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What phase occurs between the freezing and boiling points?
- Late work

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Rotation 6 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To view some chemical and physical changes.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Which phase of matter maintains its shape?
- Finish Chemistry in Cooking

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Rotation 6 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To review the chemistry unit.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: The higher the temperature, the _______________ the particles move.
- Review Sheet
- Late work

Monday, February 24, 2020

Rotation 6 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To finish Mystery Density.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the equation for density?
- Mystery density - Liquids and questions
- Review Sheet
- Late work

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Rotation 5 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To practice calculating density.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Is density a physical or chemical property?
- Mystery density lab

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Rotation 5 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at chemical and physical changes.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the property of liquids and the rate at which they spread?
- WS Chemical vs Physical
- Grade Sheets and late work
- Prep lab activity

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Rotation 5 - day 1

Today's Goal: To look at chemical and physical changes.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the phase change going from solid to gas?

-Density
- Webquest

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Rotation 4 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at what happens when water heats up.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the phase change going from solid to liquid?
- Gizmo: Phases of Water

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Rotation 4 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at the kinetic theory.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: List as many as possible: things that go on graphs
- Notes: Kinetic Theory

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Rotation 4 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To finish up project.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: List as many as possible: things that are in the sky.

- Graphing

Friday, February 7, 2020

Rotation 3 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To hand in project.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Elements in a group have the same # of _________________ electrons.
- Finish project and any late work

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Rotation 3 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To work on Name project.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What element is fourth in the Halogen Family?
- Finish any late work: Gizmo, webquest
- Work on your Name in Element Symbols Project

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Rotation 3 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at characteristics of elements.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What element on the periodic table has an atomic number of 15?
- Name Written as Element Symbols

Monday, February 3, 2020

Rotation 2 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at patterns.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Nonmetals are usually on the ____________ side of the periodic table.
- Lab time: Work on your name in elements
- Top Secret Periodic People

Friday, January 31, 2020

Rotation 2 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at the patterns found in the periodic table.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What group of metals can be stretched and shaped without breaking?

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Rotation 2 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at patterns

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What group of elements on the periodic table are inert (don't react)?
- Marking Period 2 Grades are due on Friday
- Reminders for the second half of the year...
- Gizmo: Element builder

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Rotation 1 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To finish current assignments.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the name of the negatively charged particles outside of nucleus?
- Finish Notes on Periodic Table
- Finish Gizmo: Element Builder: www.explorelearning.com

Monday, January 27, 2020

Rotation 1 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look into some elements.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for a liquid mixture that does not mix well like oil and water?

- Review Exams
- Finish webquest with https://ptable.com/

- Gizmo: Element Builder - www.explorelearning.com

Friday, January 24, 2020

Rotation 1 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look into some elements.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What two things are in the nucleus of an atom?
Secrets of the Super Elements - click to watch video
- Finish webquest with https://ptable.com/
- Gizmo: Element Builder - www.explorelearning.com

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Rotation 8 - Day 3

Today's goal: To review.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of elements are good conductors of electricity?
- Finish and hand in Matter Packet
- Work on Midterm Review Sheet

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Rotation 8 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discuss matter and work on Review sheet.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the horizontal rows on the periodic table?
- Matter Packet
- Review Sheet

Monday, January 13, 2020

Rotation 8 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To work on review sheet.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What group of elements on the periodic table react violently in water?
- Work on Review Packet - students may help each other, but are responsible for their own work

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Rotation 7 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at observations.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a mixture that is different throughout?
- Observation activity
- Midterm Exam Review

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Rotation 7 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at chemistry.

Agenda: 
- Daily Journal: What is matter?
- Notes
- Vocab: Chemistry

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Rotation 7 - day 1

Today's Goal: To look at the next unit.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is stuff made of?
- Start discussing chemistry
- Notes

- Vocab

Friday, January 3, 2020

Rotation 6 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To start sharing presentations.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the bouncing back of a wave as it meets a surface?
- Share presentations
- Vocab for next unit

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Rotation 6 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To finish projects.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is an observed change in the frequency of a wave when the source or observer is moving?
- Finish project or late work