Thursday, March 29, 2007

Agenda:
- Finish G.O.
- Rocks in Your Head

HW:
- None

Journal #99.5

How might you tell the difference between igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?

Why is color not the only characteristic to use when identifying rocks?

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Agenda:
- Grade Ch. 31 Qs
- Pass Back Papers
- Finish Rocks & Minerals G.O.

HW:
None

Journal #99

What are the 3 different types of rocks and how are they formed?

List as many rock names as you can think of (at least 3).

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Agenda:
- Bill Nye: Rocks & Soils
- Ch. 31 Review Questions #1-3, 13-17

HW:
- Ch. 31 RQs - DUE Tomorrow

Journal #98

What are the 6 things that characterize minerals?

What categories of Rocks do you think scientists use to classify them?

Monday, March 26, 2007

Agenda:
- Collect Mineral Baby
- Rocks & Minerals Graphic Organizer
- Mineral Formation ws

HW:
None

Journal #97

List 3 things you learned from the Mineral Baby packet.

What do you think the difference between a rock and a mineral is?

Friday, March 23, 2007

Agenda:
- Journal Quiz #7
- Finish & Present Rock Groups
- Mineral Baby

HW:
- Mineral Baby - DUE Monday

No Journal

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Agenda:
- Rock Groups

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Tomorrow

Journal #96

What are different ways you can classify/group people here at school (be respectful).

Can those groupings be used to identify an individual person? Why or why not?

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Agenda:
- Pass Back Papers
- Go Over Chem Tests

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Friday

Journal #95

The regions of Earth closest to the equator are warmer than those closest to the poles. What causes this?
A. Cloud Cover
B. The tilt of the Earth’s axis
C. Different types of soil located in different areas
D. The movement of tectonic plates

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Agenda:
- Let's Make Oobleck!

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Friday

No Journal - WASLing

Monday, March 19, 2007

Agenda:
- Lateral Thinking
- Bartholomew & the Oobleck

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Friday

No Journal - WASLing

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Agenda:
- Science Trivia

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Friday March 23rd

Journal #94

What do you think Earth Science is?

List as many different topics that you think could be included in Earth Science (at least 3).
Agenda:
- Forgotten Genius

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Friday, March 23rd

No Journal, WASLing

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Agenda:
- Forgotten Genius

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Friday March 23rd

No Journal, WASLing

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Agenda:
- Forgotten Genius

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Friday, March 23rd

No Journal - WASLing

Monday, March 12, 2007

Agenda:
- Chemistry Test

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Friday, March 23rd

No Journal

Friday, March 09, 2007

Agenda:
- Grade BB Practice Page
- Review Sheet Key
- Test Review

HW:
- Chemistry Test - Monday

Journal #93

If you wanted to replace the Oxygen atom in CaO with an element similar in bonding properties, what element would you use?

How is light created?

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Agenda:
- Check BB-Covalent Answers
- Bonding Basics Practice Sheet
- Review Sheet

HW:
- Chemistry Test - Monday
- Bonding Basics Practice Sheet - DUE Tomorrow

Journal #92

What is the difference between ionic and covalent bonds?

Show the Lewis structure, covalent circles, and chemical formula when Hydrogen bonds with Sulfur.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Agenda:
- Check BB - Ionic Answers
- Bonding Basics - Covalent

HW:
- Chemistry Test - Monday

Journal #91

Show the Lewis structure, ions that form, and chemical formula when Sodium bonds with Sulfur.

Do the same for Strontium and Fluorine.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Agenda:
- Bonding Basics - Ionic
- Bonding Basics - Covalent?

HW:
- Chemistry Test - Monday

Journal #90

What are the two ways atoms can have full valence shells?

What does H2O mean? (not what is is, but what it means).

Monday, March 05, 2007

Agenda:
- Grade Spectroscopy Lab
- Pass back papers & PRs
- Bonding Basics

HW:
- Chemistry Test - Monday

Journal #89

What is the difference between what these symbols mean: Ni and NI?

Hydrogen isn’t included with Group 1 elements. Should Helium be included with the Group 18 elements? Why or why not?

Friday, March 02, 2007

Agenda:
- Spectroscopy Lab

HW:
- Spectroscopy Lab - DUE Monday

Journal #88

Why does light look like normal white light before it enters a prism and like a rainbow when it exits the prism?
A. It absorbs certain light and only lets a rainbow of light out
B. It reflects certain light and only lets a rainbow out
C. Light bends around the prism, which bends the light waves
D. The change from the air to the prism bends the light waves

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Agenda:
- Grade Ch. 18 Qs
- Spectroscopy Lab

HW:
- Spectroscopy Lab - DUE Monday

Journal #87

Draw the Bohr Diagram for Nitrogen.

Now draw a Bohr Diagram for Nitrogen if one of its valence electrons is excited and jumps to a higher shell.