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September |
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30
No
School |
31 1st
day of school
QOTD
CW
Name Game
Student info cards
Teacher/class intro
"I like people" game
Animal in Me plate
HW
Get spiral notebook (100+ pages) |
1 Magazine
Drive
QOTD
CW
Name Game
People Bingo
Notebook Setup
Finish plates
HW
Finish Animal in Me plates |
2
QOTD
CW
Name game
Share/collect plates
Class rules & routines
Syllabus Jeopardy
HW
Parent Signatures (lab safety,
syllabus) |
3 Picture Day
QOTD
CW
Name Game
Collect parent signatures
Media Center- presentation & login
Website Search WS
HW
Finish website scavenger hunt,
Remind
parents of Life science preview |
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6 NO SCHOOL
 |
7
Life
Science Preview
QOTD
CW
Name Game
Metric Word Sort
Metric System notes
HW
Double-decker bus WS |
8/9
QOTD 1
CW
HW & Name Game
Finish Metric system notes
Metric system practice
Metric steps game
Roadmaps WS- practice
Whiteboard game
HW
Hen WS
|
10
QOTD
CW
Update NB
HW & name game
Metric Carousel
Finger & Thumb Horse racing
Raffle
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
13
QOTD
CW
Stamp NB
Finish Metric Carousel
Set-up Mini-metric Olympics
HW
Metric System review WS
|
14/15
QOTD
CW
Mini-metric Olympics
HW
Finish Mini-metric olympics
calculations, Study for
Metric Quiz |
16
QOTD 2
CW
HW & Name Game
Determine MMO winners
Metric Quiz
HW
Lab rule drawing, study for
Lab Rules Quiz |
17
Wear blue day
QOTD
CW
Update NB
HW & Name game
Lab rules & overheads
Lab Rules
Safety Quiz
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
20
QOTD
CW
Stamp NB
Nature of Science reading &
questions
Seat change
Scientific Method notes
HW
Print out What's in the box lab |
21
QOTD 3
CW
Finish Scientific Method notes
What's in the box lab
HW
Finish Lab, due tomorrow |
22/23
Late Start
QOTD
CW
Collect Lab
Create new unit & Table of Contents
Scribble Poem on Light
EM jigsaw reading & notes
EM chart
HW
Read Ch 2-1, workbook 35-37 |
24
Wear yellow day
QOTD
CW
Update NB
Finish EM chart
HW
Organize Notebook
graded MONDAY |
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27
QOTD
CW
Stamp NB
Colors WS
Grade Notebook
HW
Read Ch 2-2, Wk 39-40,
Print out
VVV lab |
28
QOTD 4
CW
Go over HW
Bill Nye: Lights and Colors
HW
Read Ch 2-3, WK 41-43
|
29/30
QOTD 5
CW
Go over HW
VVV lab
HW
- Finish VVV lab analysis
questions & conclusion (Final
draft due block day)
-
Seeing Light WS |
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October |
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1
QOTD
CW
Update NB
Go over HW
Sheep Eyeball Dissection
HW
-
Parent Review
Organize Notebook
VVV lab due
block day |
|
4
QOTD
CW
Stamp NB
Virtual Cow Eye dissection in C-7
HW
Read Ch 2-4, wk 47-48 |
5
QOTD 6
CW
Go over HW
Bill Nye: Eye or Finish eyeball
dissection
HW
Read Ch 2-5, workbook 50-52 |
6/7
Cougar Pride Party
QOTD 7
CW
Light activities: reflection,
refraction, transmission
Tools for looking at light graphic
organizer
Review Light Unit
HW
Create study sheet for
Light Test
& study |
8
1st
progress report
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Light Test
Raffle
HW
Organize Notebook
Notebook
graded block day |
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11
QOTD
CW
Stamp NB
Create new unit
Life Characteristics chart
HW
Is it alive WS
NOtebook graded block day |
12
QOTD 8
CW
Go over HW
Cell theory notes
Discovering Cells WS
HW
Read Ch 3-1, wk 54-56 |
13/14
QOTD
CW
Go over HW
Grade
Notebooks
Cell-a-bration projects
Animal cell drawing & organelles
Plant cell drawing
Cell Game
HW
Finish plant cell organelle
definitions |
15
QOTD
CW
Update NB
Bill Nye: Cells
Unicellular vs Multicellular chart
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
18 Spirit Week
QOTD
CW
Stamp NB
Microscope Parts & functions
Microscope Do's & Don'ts
How to make a wet slide
HW
Finish Microscope functions &
study for
microscope quiz tomorrow |
19 Spirit Week
QOTD 9
CW
Go over HW
Microscope Quiz
Practice making wet slides
Turn in NB for grading Light unit
HW
Print out
Cell Lab &
Parent Review |
20/21
Spirit Week
QOTD 10
CW
Collect Parent Review
Microscope Cell Lab
HW
Read Ch 3-2, wk 58-60 |
22 Spirit Week
Wear orange day
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Finish Microscope Cell lab
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
25
Red Ribbon
Week
QOTD
CW
Finish Lab
Chemical Compounds in the Cell WS
HW
Read Ch 3-3, wk 62-64 |
26 Spirit Day
Minimum Day
QOTD
CW
Stamp HW
Cell Transport Notes & perfume demo
HW
Read Ch 3-4, wk 66-67
Cell-a-bration projects due block
day |
27/28
Red Ribbon
Week
QOTD
CW
Go over HW
Cell-a-bration Presentations
HW
Vocabulary illustrations for:
diffusion, osmosis, active
transport, carbohydrates, proteins,
lipids, nucleic acids, cell
Draw picture & write definition |
29
Red Ribbon
Week
Wear red day
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Cell-a-bration presentations
HW
Organize Notebook
Cell lab due Monday
Study sheet
for the CELL
TEST on Monday |
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November |
|
1 Food
Drive
QOTD
CW
Stamp NB
Collect Cell lab
Cell Test
HW
Parent Review of NB |
2 Food
Drive
QOTD
CW
Grade NB
Create new unit
Photosynthesis video
HW
Read Ch 4-1, wk 69-71 |
3/4 Food
Drive
QOTD 11
CW
Go over HW
Cycle notes
Cell Cycle Poster
HW
Read Ch 4-3, wk 78-81 |
5 Food
Drive
QOTD
CW
Update NB
Finish Cell Cycle poster
Photosynthesis & Respiration notes
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
8 Food
Drive
QOTD
CW
Update NB
Collect Cell Cycle poster
Bill Nye: Respiration WS
HW
Read Ch 4-2, wk 73-75 |
9 Food
Drive
QOTD 12
CW
Go over HW
Cell differentiation notes
DNA strawberry extraction
HW
Read Ch 4-4, wk 83-84
Study for
Ch 4 quiz |
10 Food
Drive
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Chapter 4 Quiz
HW
Organize Notebook |
11
Veteran's Day
NO
SCHOOL |
12 No School
day for students |
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16
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Take a Class Survey
HW
Read Ch 5-1, workbook 86-88 |
17
QOTD
CW
Grade Noteboks
Genetics Notes
Genetics Vocabulary illustrations
HW
Read Ch 5-2, workbook pages |
18/19
Cougar Pride Party
QOTD 13
CW
Go over HW
Finish Genetics notes
Punnett square notes
Punnett square practice
What color is the pod Worksheet
HW
Vocabulary definitions &
illustrations for: heredity,
homozygous, heterozygous, dominant
trait, dominant allele, recessive
trait, recessive allele, gene,
phenotype, genotype |
20
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Stamp/Go over HW
codominance notes
Codominance practice
HW
Organize Notebook |
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22
(Fall Break) |
23
(Fall Break) |
24/25
(Fall Break)
 |
26
(Fall Break) |
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December |
|
29
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Mitosis vs Meiosis notes
Mitosis vs Meiosis chart
HW
Read Ch 5-3, WK 94-95 |
30
QOTD 14
CW
Stamp & go over HW
Sex-linked traits notes
Sex-linked Traits WS
HW
Read Ch 5-4, Wk 97-99 |
1/2
QOTD 15
CW
Stamp & go over HW
Finish sex-linked WS
Patient X project & research in the
Media Center
HW
Read Ch 6-1, Wk 102-104 |
3
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Research in MC
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
6 Toy
Drive
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Research & work on PPT in Media
Center
HW
Read Ch 6-2, wk 106-107 |
7 Toy
Drive
QOTD 16
CW
Go over HW
Bill Nye: Genes
HW
Read Ch 6-3, wk 109-110 |
8/9 Toy
Drive
QOTD 17
CW
Go over HW
Research genetic disorder
project
HW
Punnett square WS |
10
2nd
Progress report
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
HW
Organize Notebook
|
|
13
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Patient X presentations
HW
Punnett square II |
14
QOTD
CW
Stamp HW
Patient X presentations
Human Traits WS
HW
Study Sheet
for test |
15/16
QOTD
CW
Stamp HW
Genetics Test
HW
Parent review of Notebook |
17
Minimum Day
QOTD
CW
I am not a freak video
HW |
20
(Winter Break)
 |
21
(Winter Break)
|
22/23
(Winter Break)
|
24
(Winter Break)
|
| |
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January |
27
(Winter Break)
|
28
(Winter Break)
|
29/30
(Winter Break)
|
31
(Winter Break)
|
|
3
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Evolution video
HW
Parent Review |
4
QOTD
CW
Grade Notebook
Finish Evolution video
Evolution notes
HW
Read Ch 7-1, wk 112-114 |
5/6 D/F
notices sent home
QOTD 18
CW
Go over HW
Finish Evolution video
Evolution notes
Bird activity and 4 factors of
natural selection
Lizard Activity
Notes: Branching tree diagram
HW
Read Ch 7-2, wk 117-119 |
7
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Branching Tree activity & discussion
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
10
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Geographic evolution activity &
reading
Poster project: graphic organizer of
vocab
HW
Work on Notebook |
11
QOTD 19
CW
Finish Poster project graphic
organizer
HW
Branching tree diagram WS |
12/13
Cougar Pride Party
QOTD
CW
Evolution Open notebook Quiz
Create new unit: Earth's
History
Fossil activity & sharing
Start on rock story
HW
Write a rock cycle story talking
about how rocks change from one type
to the other 2 types of rocks |
14
Wear red day
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Share HW
Relative age of rocks Notes
Relative age of rocks activity
HW
Organize Notebook |
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17 (No School)
 |
18
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Absolute dating of rocks notes &
practice
HW
Absolute dating WS |
19/20
Drama Night
QOTD 20
CW
Go over HW
Earth's Movement activity
Geologic Time period poster project-
research in Media Center
HW |
21
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Geologic Time period poster- Media
Center
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
24
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Geologic Time period poster
HW
Work on Notebook |
25
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Geologic time period poster
presentations
HW
Study Sheet for
Earth's
History test |
26/27
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Earth's
History Test
HW
Organize Notebook for grading |
28 End of
semester
QOTD
CW
Grade Notebooks
Turn in passes for extra credit
HW
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February |
|
31/1 NO
SCHOOL - Staff in-service
 |
2
2nd
semester starts
QOTD
CW
3 Truths & a Lie
Rules & routines review
Lab Rules review
Bummer
HW
Parent signature on lab rules & rules &
routines
|
3
QOTD
CW
Create new unit page
Set-up Notebook
What is a plant? reading
HW
5 Questions & answers for plant
reading |
4 Final grades
home
QOTD 1
CW
Update Notebook
Share HW
Eyewitness: Plants
HW
Organize Notebook
Stamping on
Monday |
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7
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Popcorn read p.366-368
Create Plant evolution chart
HW
Read Ch 10-1, workbook 172-175
(2 stamps) |
8
QOTD 2
CW
Go over HW
Bill Nye: Flowers
HW
Read Ch 10-3, workbook 180-183 |
9/10
QOTD 3
CW
Update Notebook
Go over HW
Plant foldable
HW
Organize Notebook |
11
QOTD
CW
Stamp & Update Notebook
Finish Plant foldable
HW
Finish plant foldable- collected
Monday |
|
14 Wear red day
CW
Collect Plant Foldable
Flower dissection
Review for
quiz on Tuesday
HW
Parent Review,
organize Notebook,
study for quiz |
15
CW
Update Notebook
Plant
Quiz
Create new unit
Grade Notebook
Eyewitness: Human Machine Video
HW
Parent Review- 5th
Reflection #1 |
16/17
QOTD 4
CW
Finish Eyewitness: Human Machine
Human organ systems WS.
Body systems organization notes
HW
Finish Human organ systems WS,
Organize Notebook, |
18 NO SCHOOL
 |
|
21 NO
SCHOOL
|
22
CW
Stamp Notebook
Types of tissues WS
Body Systems notes & presentation
HW
Read Ch 13-1, workbook 247-249 |
23/24
Cougar Pride Party
QOTD 5
CW
Homeostasis & stress WS
Grade Worksheet
Eyewitness: Amphibians
HW
How Our Bodies are Organized WS |
25
CW
Update Notebook
Share HW
Frog Dissection systems & video
HW
Organize Notebook, |
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March |
|
Feb. 28
CW
Stamp Notebook
Finish frog dissection setup & video
Frog Dissection
HW
Read Ch 12-3, workbook 228-230
|
1
QOTD 6
CW
Go over HW
Frog Dissection
HW
Color & label your frog lab pictures |
2/3
QOTD 7
CW
Frog Dissection
Frog Dissection reflection
HW
Finish frog dissection reflection,
study for quiz on Friday |
4
CW
Update Notebook
Collect Frog Lab
Quiz: Body
systems and frogs
HW
Organize Notebook |
| 7
QOTD
CW
Create new unit
4 components of teaching
Teaching project description
HW
Pick 1 activity for each of the
4 components of teaching to use in
your Teaching project & explain why
you like that activity |
8
QOTD
CW
Stamp Notebook
Grade Notebook
Teaching project- pick body system
Discuss project in detail
HW
Write 1/2 page of notes about
your teaching topic |
9/10
QOTD 5
CW
Stamp HW
Research teaching topic in Computer
lab
HW
Draw, label & write the
functions of all the organs in your
body system |
11
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Open
Notebook Quiz on teaching topic
Discuss teaching concepts
with Mrs. Nguyen
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
14
QOTD
CW
Research in Media Center
HW
Create a handout for your
teaching project |
15
QOTD
CW
Collect HW
Research & work on group teaching
project
HW
Poster |
16/17
QOTD 7
CW
Collect Poster
Group Teaching Project
HW
Report on group's progress |
18
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Group Teaching Project
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
21
QOTD 8
CW
Stamp NB
Lever Notes
Types of Levers chart
HW
Machines in the Body WS |
22
QOTD 9
CW
Go over HW
Popcorn Read Ch 13-4
Assessment questions
HW
Workbook 259-261 |
23/24
QOTD 10
CW
Period 5: KWL, Bones Bingo,
Eyewitness: Skeleton, Diagram &
Label WS
Period 6: Video, QOTD, Word search,
Skeleton & Joints Notes, Bones WS,
Skeletal System diagram, Crossword
HW
Period 5: Workbook 252-254
Period 6: Picture Dictionary
Quiz on Skeleton & Levers on Friday
|
25
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Finish types of levers
Tic-tac-toe review game
Quiz on
Skeletal System
HW
Organize Notebook |
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28
QOTD 11
CW
Period 5: create new unit, QOTD,
word search, popcorn reading, bummer
Period 6: Create new unit,
KWL, fill in worksheet using
p.526-530, Finish KWL, bummer
HW
Period 5: Wk 256-257 skip target
reading skill
Period 6: crossword |
29
QOTD
CW
Period 5: QOTD 12, cornell
notes, crossword, bummer
Period 6: QOTD 11, correct HW,
diagram WS, jeopardy, bummer
HW
Period 5: write summary of
cornell notes, print out lab
Period 6: word search, print out lab |
30/31
QOTD
CW
Stamp & Grade Notebook
Chicken Wing Dissection
HW
Finish lab & analysis Q's, lab
due on block day next week |
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April |
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1
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Stamp & go over HW
Skin WS
Skin diagram
Bill Nye: Skin
HW
Organize Notebook |
|
4
QOTD
CW
Period 5: QOTD 14,, word search,
crossword, Bill nye: nutrition
Period 6: QOTD 13, Scribble poem,
bill nye: nutrition, video WS
HW
Period 5: Reading food labels WS
Period 6: Nutrition WS (2 pages) |
5
QOTD
CW
Period5: QOTD 15, stamp HW, Draw
food pyramid, popcorn reading,
notes, bummer
Period 6: QOTD 14, correct video WS,
correct HW, Word search, Bummer
HW
Write down everything you
eat/drink for one day |
6/7
QOTD
CW
Media Center: MyPyramid
recommendations
Eating Disorder Notes
Mary Margaret video on eating
disorders
HW
Write 1/2 page talking about
your eating habits based on
MyPyramid recommendations |
8
QOTD
CW
Update Notebook
Stamp HW
Review Game
Quiz: Muscles, skin, nutrition,
eating disorder
HW
Organize Notebook |
11 (Spring Break) |
12
(Spring Break) |
13/14
(Spring Break)
 |
15
(Spring Break) |
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19 |
20/21 |
22 |
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25 |
26 |
27/28 |
29 |
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May |
| 2 |
3 |
4/5 |
6 |
| 9 |
10 |
11/12 STAR
TEST |
13 |
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16 |
17 |
18/19 Late start
STAR TEST |
20 |
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23 |
24 Career Day |
25/26 |
27 |
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June |
30 (No School)
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31 |
1/2 |
3 |
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7 |
8/9 |
10 |
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