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! Please keep in mind that assignments and due dates can change during the week, so always check the homework book. FUTURE DATES ARE IN BOLD!
 
Date Assigned
Date Due
Assignment

Materials

9/4

Monday

9/10

Success and community worksheet  
9/10

Friday

9/14

Who am I as a Learner Packet and Questions.  
9/14

Monday

9/17

Factors that Cause Climate Reading and Questions  
9/17

Friday

9/21

Read Climate Regions handout and complete pages 3-4 in THUG notebook entitled Climate regions  
9/18

Friday

9/21

Finish your temperature lab.  USE YOUR RUBRIC !!!!!!!!!!!!  
9/24-9/28

Monday

10/1

Finish your Movie Notes in your THUG notebook pp. 7-18 For an "Inconvenient Truth", if you are gone for a shadow visit you need to rent the movie and watch it at home.  Also you need to finish the Reading Notes on pp. 5-6 in your THUG notebook for the reading entitled, "Earth's natural climate changes  
10/1

thursday

10/4

Atmosphere and Energy readings plus the guided reading strategies for each of the three readings.  
10/8

Friday

10/12

Heat Transfer reading plus the guided reading and checkpoint review questions  

Monday

10/22

Tuesday

10/23

Lab Report Due by end of the period  

Monday

10/29

Tuesday

10/30

Lab report to do list due  

Monday

10/29

Monday

11/5

Connect extend wonder for your two newest readings. Mixture lab questions due.  

Monday

11/5

Monday

11/12

Connect extend wonder for your four new readings  

Monday

11/12

Monday

11/19

Connect extend wonder for your four new readings  

Friday

11/16

Monday

11/19

Finish your ice melting lab  

Monday

11/19

Tuesday

11/20

Finish your periodic table research Periodic Table Website

Tuesday

11/20

Monday

after break

Reading on Darfur and connect extend wonder.  

Monday

11/26

Friday 11/30

What's The Matter W/Global warming in Antarctica? Movie Questions Due

CEW for two new readings due to.

John, use the websites below to answer the movie questions. Don't worry about the CEW.

Movie Questions
    Specific Antarctica Websites

Websites For Antarctica Webquest

Sea Ice #1

Sea Ice #2

Phytoplankton

Krill

Guide to Plankton 1

Guide to Plankton 2

Salps

    More General Antarctica Research WebSites

National Geo

Enchanted Learning
Antarctic Connection

More info

This one ties it all together
Antarctic Ecosystems

Tuesday

11/27

Friday

11/30

Graph and Results finished for Antarctic Scientist Expert Group Data

You will have 25 minutes on Friday to finish up your discussion questions before we move on to the Jigsaw

Expert Group

Jigsaw

PDF for you to read so that you can complete your Expert Group Studies if you are John, Andrew, or Jackie

You guys will have to figure out what to do on your own. Do the expert group first, Jackie you need to graph the krill data.  John you are on the Marine Ecologist Data, Andrew you are on the Marine Ecologist Data too. Then do the what and why data table on the jigsaw.  You need to have the expert group work done by Friday and the jigsaw work done by monday.

Monday

12/3

Tuesday

12/4

Jigsaw finished, this means both flow charts are done and the what and why data table.  

Tuesday

12/4

Friday

12/7

Intended results, hypothesis, and variables planning for lab complete.  Use the lab procedures, the reading on polar changes, the websites on Antarctica Above and what you learned from the Penguin Lab to write your intended results.  It will be graded using the Introduction section of your lab rubric.  

Tuesday

12/11

Friday

12/14

Finish the Graphs, Results, and Conclusion for Glacier Lab which you worked on in class on Tuesday. Lab Report Template

Friday

12/14

Tuesday

12/18

Finish the Discussion you started in class on Friday.  If you have homework this weekend its because of your own planning.

Tuesday

12/18

Thursday

12/20

Finish your THUG reflection that you started in class on Tuesday's double period. If you have a lot of homework this week its because of your own planning.
    WHEN YOU HAND IN THIS LAB YOU WILL HAVE HAD 7 FULL PERIODS IN CLASS TO WORK ON IT OVER A WEEK AND A HALF OF SCHOOL WITH NOTHING OTHER THEN THIS LAB FOR HOMEWORK.  IF YOU HAVE COMPLAINTS ABOUT TOO MUCH WORK then YOU DID NOT USE YOUR TIME EFFECTIVELY!  

Monday

1/7/08

Monday

1/14/08

Parent Signature of Carbon Footprint Project, Environmetal Action Chosen, 1st Family Carbon Footprint Calculated , Data Table Created

Updated Carbon Footprint guidelines - includes new timelines and the art piece is extra credit.

Rubrics for the project

Resources:

Carbon Footprint Calculator

Personal Footprint Calculator

Adoption Ideas for Environmental Behaviors

GGNRA’s Big Year

Friday

1/18

Friday

1/25

What is Motion reading and pages 1-2 of Thug Notebook.  You must also be prepared with your carbon footprint data table updated and your first journal entry.  

Monday

1/21

Monday

1/28

2nd Carbon footprint journal entry and data table updated for second week of project. 

 

Friday

1/25

Tuesday

1/29

Read the rest of your what is motion reading packet on speed and velocity and finish pages 3-6 in your Thug notebook.  

Tuesday

1/29

Friday

2/1

Finish your "Lil' Rocket #1" lab.  

Friday

2/1

Tuesday

2/5

Finish the reading on acceleration and complete pages 7-8 in Thug notebook.

Carbon Footprint Check is also due on Monday.

 

Friday

2/8

Monday

2/11

Complete the Test Launch Lab Questions  

Monday

2/11

Tuesday

2/12

Finish reading on Forces and complete pages 10-12 in THUG notebook  

Tuesday

2/12

Friday

2/15

Finish reading on friction and complete pages 13 and 14 in THUG notebook.  

Tuesday

2/26

Friday

2/29

Which Falls Faster Lab Due  
 

Monday

3/3

Carbon Footprint Results and Graph due.  

Friday

2/29

Tuesday

3/4

Test Launch # 2 Due  
Tuesday 3/4

Monday

3/10

Thug Notebook pages 17-22 and reading on Newton's three laws of motion.  You should also watch the Quest program entitled the "Physics of Baseball" .  Click on the link to the right to go to the online video. Quest Video

Monday

3/10

Tuesday

3/11

Finish your physics of baseball persuasive essay.

 

Monday

3/17

Friday

3/21

Test Launch # 3 due.  You will have Tuesday's double period to work on it in class.  Bring to class: your results and graphs and anything else you have saved on a usb disk or the server that you would like to upload to your carbon footrprint web page.  

Friday

3/21

Tuesday 4/8 Read the packet on pressure and complete pp. 23-24 in Thug Notebook.  

Tuesday

4/8

Friday

4/11

Finish Work reading and Thug notebook.  

Friday

4/11

Monday

4/14

Finish mini rocket lab if unfinished.  

Friday

4/25

Monday

4/28

Finish Conservation of Energy reading and Last Thug Notebook Entry  

Tuesday

4/29

Friday

5/2

Introduction and Hypothesis to rocket lab due  

Monday

5/5

Friday

5/9

Test Launch #4 due  
       
       
  For the rest of the rocket project

Rocket Simulator

Mr. Hayhurst's Rocket Page

Emints Water Rocket Links-Ragna Rocket and Flight Simulator

Water Rocket Index-Uber Scientific

Bottle Rocket Modifications for Better Flights