May 18th - 8th grade

If you have time, here is the video:

Video

May 15th- 7th grade

Students worked on plotting the locations of salamanders in California.

When they completed this, they answered the questions for Part A.

They will continue working on this tomorrow.

May 15-8th grade

Students worked on the parallax lab. Graph, table, and explanation paragraph are due tomorrow.

May 14 - 8th

Finish Other Objects in Space Notes

Complete Other Objects in Space WS due Tuesday

Discover what parallax is:

article
diagram
simulation (may not work on tablet)
interactive (may not work on tablet)

Read lab and be ready to do tomorrow

May 11-7th grade

After a brief discussion from yesterday, student began working on the concept of speciation. Students read and took notes on this concept.

Speciation reading

Speciation notebook page

Students then began working on part 1 and 2 of the speciation ws.

May 11 - 8th

We had a discussion about the Cosmic Calendar we used yesterday.

Students then worked on the notebook page for retrograde motion, we discussed it, and we did the questions about it.

Students then read about other objects in the solar system and started the notes page on it.

May 10 - 8th grade

Students put page 114 How the Solar System was formed into their notebook.

We then discussed the age of the Universe and compared it to a calendar year.

May 9 - 7th grade

We discussed definitions of the word variation and adaptation.

Students worked in groups to complete the bat/fish WS.

We put yesterday's note page and the WS into notebooks.

We finished by watching a video from the Amoeba Sisters on Natural Selection.

May 9 - 8th grade

Students put page from yesterday into their notebook (foldable). We then discussed what they had found about the types of models of the solar system.

We read together as a class about how the solar system formed.

Students then worked on the Models of the Solar System WS and that is due tomorrow.

May 8 - 8th grade

We went over assignments that were handed back.

Students continued working on their models of the solar system foldable.

Finished foldable is due tomorrow.

May 8 - 7th grade

Reading section for today

May 4th- 7th grade

Students worked with me to find evidence of Darwin's Natural Selection from examples.

Students then put this paper into page 102.

Students watched Cosmos for an example of natural selection.

May 4 - 8th

Students and I discussed the similarities and differences of planets and dwarf planets.

Students then took notes about characteristics of each of the dwarf planets in our solar system.

dwarf planet song

We then began working on the model of the solar system foldable

May 3 - 8th

We went over WS #3 from the solar System Activities.

Students then took a quiz over the planets.

Students worked on the Pluto WS.

May 2 - 8th grade

Book resource for your notes. This section starts with Mercury. By using the forward arrow at the top you may may learn about other planets also. You may also search google, but make sure you actually read what you find! Not just skim the first box that pops up.

May 2-7th grade

video description of natural selection

After pausing the presentation, go to this video. You may have to deal with some ads. Industrial revolution

When the presentation is finished, watch this video for a summary of what you saw. Peppered Moth

Go back to your questions from the front of the worksheet yesterday. Make any changes that you need to now that you have learned this material.

Complete the the Peppered Moth Fill in the Blank worksheet. The word bank is located at the bottom of the page.

May 1st- 7th grade

Link to simulation

Reading selection to help with the questions