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WELCOME!

 

Welcome to our class website! This site is designed to keep you informed and updated with class information, and to promote school to home communication. Please feel free to e-mail me with questions or concerns as they arise.  I’m looking forward to working with you to make this year fun, exciting, and educational!  I hope the information posted on this site will help you to be successful in our class.

I’m looking forward to an outstanding year in science and S.T.E.A.M.!

-Ms. Wulfenstein 

jwulfenstein@tvusd.k12.ca.us   

Light Webquest

Parts of the Eye Internet Questions Link

Photosynthesis and Flower Webquest Links

California Healthy Kids Survey

7th grade GMS students will be taking the California Healthy Kids Survey on Thursday 2/28/13 in their science classes.  Parent information letters were sent home with students on 2/22/13.  Only parents wishing to opt their child out, will need to return the signed parent information letter to their child's science teacher.

If you need an additional parent information form, please click here.

Jeanine Wulfenstein Locker

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Science Calendar: (For the STEAM calendar, click on the STEAM link on the upper left hand corner of the page)

Week of 4/8/13 - 4/12/13

Date: 4/8/13 Date: 4/9/13 Date: 4/10/13 Date: 4/11/13 Date: 4/12/13

Daily Question:

Name one bone in your body.

Daily Question:

 Bones and muscles work together to cause ______________

Daily Question:

 The skull is really called the __________

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 The bone of the ankle are the __________

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 The _______ vertebrae are the lower part of the spine

Agenda:

 Bill Nye: Bones & Muscles

Prize Drawing

 

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Bones of the human skeleton

Bone identification lab

Agenda:

 Bones of the human body review

Bone lab

Build a skeleton

Agenda:

 Bone ID lab

Build a skeleton

Skeleton Puzzle

Agenda:

 Brain pop

Build a skeleton

Scrambled bones

Bone quiz review

 

 

 

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Week of 4/15/13 - 4/19/13

Date: 4/15/13 Date: 4/16/13 Date: 4/17/13 Date: 4/18/13 Date: 4/19/13

Daily Question:

 The shoulder blades are really the ___________

Daily Question:

 The most commonly broken bone is the_________

Daily Question:

 An owl pellet is just owl _____________________

Daily Question:

 The ____ bones protect the heart and lungs

Daily Question:

 The main function of the muscular system is to _____

Agenda:

 Scrambled bones

Bone quiz

Agenda:

 Skeletal system notes

Owl pellet dissection

Agenda:

 Finish owl pellet dissecting

Skeletal web activity

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 Skeletal web activity

Muscular system notes

Brain pop

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 Notes

Keyterms pg 526

Chapter 13 puzzle

 

 

 

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Week of 4/22/13 - 4/26/13

Date: 4/22/13 Date: 4/23/13 Date: 4/24/13 Date: 4/25/13 Date: 4/26/13

Daily Question:

 List the 3 types of muscle tissue __________ _________  ___________

Daily Question:

 What is the first thing that happens when you break a bone?

Daily Question:

 The term skeleton is Greek for ____________

Daily Question:

 Label: Input, output, fulcrum

 

 

Daily Question:

 _____________ connect bone to bone

Agenda:

 An inside look: Broken bone

Agenda:

 Muscle fatigue lab

Agenda:

 Muscle fatigue lab (turn in)

Bones and muscles as levers

Brain pop levers

Agenda:

 Study guide

Bingo review

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 Chicken wing dissection

 

 

 

Homework:

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Finish lab

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 Skeletal test on Monday

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 Skeletal test on Monday

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Skeletal test on Monday

Week of 4/29/13 - 5/3/13

Date:4/29/13 Date:4/30/13 Date:5/1/13 Date:5/2/13 Date: 5/3/13

Daily Question:

 ________ connect muscles to the bone.

Daily Question:

 _______Name one organ in the nervous system.

Daily Question:

 _______Name 3 parts of the brain.

Daily Question:

 _______Complete:inter neuron, sensory nouron,motor nouron

Daily Question:

the ____ _____ is a thick column of nervous tissue that connects the brain to the rest of the body.

Agenda:

 Skeletal and musular test

Read silently

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 Nervous system notes

 

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 Nerous system notes(finish)

Reaction time lab

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 Reaction time lab

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 Reaction time lab

Brain explorers paragragh

 

 

 

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Week of: 1/7/13- 1/11/13

 

Date: 1/7/13 Date: 1/8/13 Date: 1/9/13 Date: 1/10/13 Date: 1/11/13

Daily Question:

 

Daily Question:

What was the most interesting thing you did during break?

 

Daily Question:

What era are we currently living in?

 

Daily Question:

1mm = 1 million years.  How many mm equals 34 million years?

 

 

Daily Question:

 How do scientists know what lived long ago?

 

Agenda:

No School

 

Agenda:

 Geologic time: Webquest

New Seats.

Calendar

Coupons and Passes

Agenda:

 

Geologic time Webquest 

Agenda:

 Geologic Time Scale Activity

Agenda:

 Geologic Time Scale Activity

 

 

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 Finish Webquest

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Week of: 1/14/13- 1/18/13

 

Date: 1/14/13 Date: 1/15/13 Date: 1/16/13 Date: 1/17/13 Date: 1/18/13

Daily Question:

 what is thought to have caused the mass extinction at the end of the mesozoic era?

Daily Question:

 wha thappened about 2.5 bya that allowed life on land?

Daily Question:

 Which rock is formed in layers?

Daily Question:

 What is an intrusion?

Daily Question:

 The 3 of years since a rock has formed is its _________.

Agenda:

 complete timeline activity

Agenda:

 Turn in timeline

Vocabulary

Relative age lab

Agenda:

 Relative age lab

Finding clues in rock layers

Agenda:

 Brain pop: Geologic time

Radioactive dating

Agenda:

 

 Geologic time assessment

 

 

Homework:  Finish timeline

Homework:  Quiz Friday

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 Test Friday

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 Test Tomorrow

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Week of: 1/21/13 - 1/25/13

 

Date: 1/21/13 Date: 1/22/13 Date: 1/23/13 Date: 1/24/13 Date: 1/25/13

Daily Question:

 

Daily Question:

 _____ is used to determine the absolute age of rocks.

Daily Question:

 The gradual change in a species over time is called ___________.

Daily Question:

 Different beak shapes in finches is an example of _________.

Daily Question:

What does "survival of the fittest" mean?

Agenda:

 No School

Agenda:

Finish Geologic time assessment

Evolution crossword

Keyterms pg. 224

Agenda:

Evolution notes

Agenda:

 Natural selection webquest

Library

Agenda:

 

 Finish Evolution Notes

Survey

 

 

Homework:

Homework:   Finish keyterms and crossword

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 Finish keyterms

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Week of:1/28/13 - 2/1/13

 

Date: 1/28/13 Date: 1/29/13 Date: 1/30/13 Date: 1/31/13 Date:  2/1/13

Daily Question:

What is something organisms compete for?

Daily Question:

Organism better adapted to their environment are more likely to _______.

Daily Question:

Which beak type from our lab would be the most fit to eat gummy worms?

Daily Question:

An organism likely to be eaten is called the ______ and the organism doing the eating is called the _______.

Daily Question:

How do predators select prey?

Agenda:

 Bill Nye: Evolution

Agenda:

 Natural Selection Lab

Agenda:

Finish and turn-in Natural Selection Lab

Start Paper Moth Lab

Agenda:

Paper Moth Lab

Agenda:

Evolution vocabulary quiz

Evolution bugs lab

 

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Evolution vocabulary quiz Friday

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Week of 2/4/13 - 2/8/13

 

 
Date: 2/4/13 Date: 2/5/13 Date: 2/6/13 Date: 2/7/13 Date: 2/8/13

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Week of 2/11/13 - 2/15/13

 

 
Date: 2/11/13 Date: 2/12/13 Date: 2/13/13 Date: 2/14/13 Date: 2/15/13

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Week of: 12/10/12 - 12/14/12

 

Date: 12/10/12 Date: 12/11/12 Date: 12/12/12 Date: 12/13/12 Date: 12/14/12

Daily Question:

What is a genotype?

 

Daily Question:

In sexual reproduction, each parent contributes _____ of the genetic information.

 

Daily Question:

What are the four kinds of nitrogen bases in DNA?

 

Daily Question:

The liklihood that a particular event will occur is called __________.

 

 

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Agenda:

Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction

Meiosis Notes

 

Agenda:

DNA: Structure and Replication

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Chapter Review

 

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Chapter 5 test

Agenda:

 

Semester Final Review worksheet

 

 

Homework:

Begin reviewing for chapter test

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Review for chapter test

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Review for chapter test

 

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Week of: 12/3/12 - 12/7/12

 

Date: 12/3/12 Date:  12/4/12 Date:  12/5/12 Date:  12/6/12 Date:  12/7/12

Daily Question:

Who was the "father of genetics"?

 

Daily Question:

What is a hybrid?

 

Daily Question:

What is a phenotype?

 

 

Daily Question:

Show a Punnett Square for

Bb x Bb

 

Daily Question:

What does heterozygous mean?

 

Agenda:

Gregor Mendel notes & worksheet

 

 

Agenda:

  • Probability notes/vocab
  • Spongebob genetics

 

 

Agenda:

Make the Right Call Lab

 

Agenda:

Paper Pets

 

Agenda:

  • Finish Paper Pets
  • Genetics vocab quiz

 

 

 

Homework:

Finish worksheet

Homework:

Complete Spongebob genetics

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Homework:

Study for vocab quiz

Work on Paper Pets

Homework:

 

Week of: 11/26/12 - 11/30/12

 

Date: 11/26/12 Date: 11/27/12 Date: 11/28/12 Date: 11/29/12 Date: 11/30/12

Daily Question:

The geneic material that makes up chromosomes is called _________.

Daily Question:

A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring is a ______.

Daily Question:

The different forms of a gene are called ___________.

Daily Question:

What is used to represent a recessive allele?

 

Daily Question:

How many chromosomes do humans have?

 

Agenda:

Baby Mice Introduction

Genetics Introduction

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Traits

Genetics Skit

Agenda:

Class survey lab

Agenda:

Genetics Webquest - Library

Agenda:

Calendar Turn in

Complete and turn in the class survey lab

Bill Nye: Genes

Prize Drawing

 

 

Homework: Turn in Calendar on Friday.

Prize Drawing - Friday

Homework: Turn in Calendar on Friday.

Prize Drawing - Friday

Homework: Turn in Calendar on Friday.

Prize Drawing - Friday

 

 

Homework: Turn in Calendar on Friday.

Prize Drawing - Friday

 

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Week of: 11/12/12 - 11/16/12

 

Date: 11/12/12 Date: 11/13/12 Date: 11/14/12 Date: 11/15/12 Date: 11/16/12

Daily Question:

School Holiday

Daily Question:

In cytokinesis, the cell splits into _____ identical _____ daughter cells.

Daily Question:

The regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo is called ______?

Daily Question:

During Interphase, the _____ replicates (makes a copy).

Daily Question:

Why do cells divide?

Agenda:

 

Agenda:

Finish flipbook

Mitosis video

Agenda:

Cell cycle Webquest (library)

Agenda:

Unit 2 Review Jeopardy game

Agenda:

Unit 2 Test (Cellular Processes)

 

 

 

Homework:

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Complete webquest

Study for Friday Unit test

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Study for Unit test tomorrow!

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Week of: 11/5/12 - 11/9/12

 

Date: 11/5/12 Date: 11/6/12 Date: 11/7/12 Date: 11/8/12 Date: 11/9/12

Daily Question:

Movement of molecules from high concentration to low concentration is called ________?

 

 

Daily Question:

______ is the diffusion of water molecules.

 

Daily Question:

Diffusion and osmosis are _____ forms of trnasport.

 

Daily Question:

What is the process of cell division called?

Daily Question:

What phase of mistosis is this (picture of cell with chromosomes lined up)

Agenda:

Osmosis Lab- Gummy bear

 

 

Agenda:

Finish osmosis lab

Agenda:

Quiz- diffusion/osmosis

Cell cycle notes

BrainPop Mitosis

Agenda:

Cell cycle notes continued

Mitosis Flip book

 

Agenda:

Cell cycle flip book

 

 

 

Homework: Quiz tomorrow (Chemical compounds in cells and cell transport

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Week of: 10/29/12 - 11/2/12

 

Date: 10/29/12 Date: 10/30/12 Date: 10/31/12 Date: 11/1/12 Date: 11/2/12

Daily Question:

 

What does the mitochondria do in the cell?

Daily Question:

Not in animal cells. Provides protection and support.

Daily Question:

List one part of cell theory.

 

Daily Question:

A substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler substance is a(n)________?

 

Daily Question:

What is an organic compound?

 

Agenda:

 

Finish plant and animal cell lab

 

Cell analogy project

 

 

 

Agenda:

Finish cell analogy project

Bingo cell review

 

 

Agenda:

Quiz: Cellular organelles

Turn in cell analogy

Chemical compounds in cells

 

 

Agenda:

One pager: Chemical compounds in cells

Agenda:

 

Notes -Transport of materials into and out of the cell

 

 

Homework: Microscope & Scientific method quiz Wednesday

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Week of: 10/29/12 - 11/2/12

 

Date: 10/29/12 Date: 10/30/12 Date: 10/31/12 Date: 11/1/12 Date: 11/2/12

Daily Question:

 

What does the mitochondria do in the cell?

Daily Question:

Not in animal cells. Provides protection and support.

Daily Question:

List one part of cell theory.

 

Daily Question:

A substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler substance is a(n)________?

 

Daily Question:

What is an organic compound?

 

Agenda:

 

Finish plant and animal cell lab

 

Cell analogy project

 

 

 

Agenda:

Finish cell analogy project

Bingo cell review

 

 

Agenda:

Quiz: Cellular organelles

Turn in cell analogy

Chemical compounds in cells

 

 

Agenda:

One pager: Chemical compounds in cells

Agenda:

 

Notes -Transport of materials into and out of the cell

 

 

Homework: Microscope & Scientific method quiz Wednesday

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Week of: 10/22/12 - 10/26/12

 

Date: 10/22/12 Date: 10/23/12 Date: 10/24/12 Date: 10/25/12 Date: 10/26/12

Daily Question:

The powerhouse of the cell is the _______.

 

Daily Question:

the organelle that builds proteins is the _______.

Daily Question:

 

A network of passageways that transports materials.

Daily Question:

Genetic material in the nucleus taht provides the instructions for cell diversity.

Daily Question:

Name two parts that plant cells have that animal cells do not.

Agenda:

 

Finish Cell notes

Cell Bingo

 

 

 

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Cell Dominoes

 

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Cell Dominoes

Cell Bingo

 

Agenda:

 

Animal and plant cell lab

Cell analogy

Agenda:

 

Animal and plant cell lab

Cell analogy

Prize drawing

 

 

Homework: Microscope & Scientific method quiz Wednesday

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Week of: 10/15/12 - 10/19/12

 

Date: 10/15/12 Date: 10/16/12 Date: 10/17/12 Date: 10/18/12 Date: 10/19/12

Daily Question:

All living things are made of _______.

 

Daily Question:

I control what goes into and out of the cell.

Daily Question:

 

The nucleus _______ the activities of the cell.

Daily Question:

The organelle that is responsible for packaging materials is the _________.

Daily Question:

The _______ controls what goes in and out of the nucleus.

Agenda:

Cell pre-assessment

Cell lecture & notes

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda:

Cell lecture and notes

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Cell lecture and notes

 

 

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Library: Cell webquest

 

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Bill Nye: Cells

 

 

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Week of: 10/8/12 - 10/12/12

 

Date: 10/8/12 Date: 10/9/12 Date: 10/10/12 Date: 10/11/12 Date: 10/12/12

Daily Question:

 

On which power do we start to focus a microscope?

Daily Question:

 What is the second steip when focusing the microscope?

Daily Question:

 The invention of the microscope led to the discovery of _______.

 

Daily Question:

 how do you know if something is alive?

Daily Question:

 What does biodiversity mean?

Agenda:

 

Wheel of focus

 

 

 

Agenda:

Review the wheel of focus

Mystery tour

Microscope crossword

 

 

Agenda:

Finish and turn in the mystery tour and crossword

Microscope quiz

 

 

Agenda:

 Bill Nye: Biodiversity

Keyterms pg. 13 & questions pg. 17

 

Agenda:

 

 Check bookwork

Cell lecture and notes

 

 

Homework: Microscope quiz Wed

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Week of: 10/1/12 - 10/5/12

 

 

Date: 10/1/12 Date: 10/2/12 Date: 10/3/12 Date: 10/4/12 Date: 10/5/12

Daily Question:

This part of the microscope supports the slide being used.

 

Daily Question:

_______ is the ability to make things look larger.

Daily Question:

What is the total magnification with a 10x objective lens and a 10X occular lens?

 

Daily Question:

What is the light adjustment on the microscope called?

Daily Question:

On which power do we start to focus a microscope?

Agenda:

Observe & conclude flower lab

 

Finish microscope one-pager

 

 

 

Agenda:

Microscope notes

Microscope puzzle

Agenda:

Finish and turn in microscope puzzle

 

 

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Library: Microscope Internet assignment

 

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Wheel of focus

 

 

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Week of 9/24/12 - 9/28/12

 

Date: 9/24/12 Date: 9/25/12 Date: 9/26/12 Date: 9/27/12 Date: 9/28/12

Daily Question:

What should  you do if you're not sure what's expected in a lab?

 

Daily Question:

Failure to observe the rules increases the risk of _________.

Daily Question:

What must you have before you can study something? (Hint: Bus story)

 

Daily Question:

An if, then statement is a _________.

Daily Question:

 What process did we use in the flower lab?

Agenda:

Lab safety: Sponge Bob

Lab safety drawings

 

 

 

 

Agenda:

Bus story

Finish lab safety picture

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Flower lab set up

Ice breaker

 

Agenda:

 

Flower lab check

Technical drawings

Agenda:

Check flower lab

Microscope 1 pager pgs. 688-689

 

 

 

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Week of 9/17/12 - 9/21/12

 

Date: 9/17/12 Date: 9/18/12 Date: 9/19/12 Date: 9/20/12 Date: 9/21/12

Daily Question:

The base unit for mass is _______.

 

Daily Question:

What does each measurement in science need?

Daily Question:

The pull of gravity on an object is _______.

 

Daily Question:

We wear _____   _____ to protect our eyes.

Daily Question:

 

Agenda:

Lab: Triple Beam Balance

 

 

 

 

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Lab: Triple Beam Balance (finish)

Measure for measure: Weight

Agenda:

 

Measurement quiz

Lab Safety Contract

 

Agenda:

(Modified)

Lab Safety Review

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No School - Furlough

 

 

 

Homework: Quiz Wednesday on measurement

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Week of: 9/10/12 - 9/14/12

 

Date: 9/10/12 Date: 9/11/12 Date: 9/12/12 Date: 9/13/12 Date: 9/14/12

Daily Question:

The base unit for length is ___?

 

Daily Question:

How many lines are between each centimeter on a meter stick?

Daily Question:

Convert:

.78 Km to ____ m

 

Daily Question:

What is the base unit for liquid volume?

Daily Question:

What is the dip in a graduated cylinder called?

Agenda:

Measure for measure

Meter reader

Metric conversion notes and practice

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda:

Metric conversion practice

Classroom measurement

Agenda:

Bill Nye: Measurement

Measuring length practice

 

 

Agenda:

Lab: Metric Measurement

 

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Lab: Graduated Cylinder and Volume lab

 

 

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Week of: 9/4/12 - 9/7/12

 

Date: Date: 9/4/12 Date: 9/5/12 Date: 9/6/12 Date: 9/7/12

Daily Question:

HOLIDAY

Daily Question:

What is this? (picture shown: hint-used to measure liquids)

 

Daily Question:

Scientists use this to view tiny things.

 

Daily Question:

When we measure length in science, we use this tool.

 

Daily Question:

Most of the world uses the

____system of measurement.

 

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- Calendar introduction

- Flashcard review

- Notebook set-up

 

 

 

 

Agenda:

- Flashcard Review

- Equipment quiz

- Notebook set-up

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda:

- measurement worksheet

- Our friend the metric system

- Meter reader

 

 

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Our friend the metric system

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Flashcard Quiz tomorrow!

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