Friday September 26, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Had current events!! GREAT JOB...remember it is an easy 5% of your grade!
• Handed in Vocabulary #7, got Vocabulary #8.
• Watched Planet Earth fresh water systems, wrote a journal entry - what is a healthy ecosystem?
• TSQ4R sia9 p 191-195, OMIT p192 & 194 - we have reviewed pH before, why is pH an important environmental characteristic?
• Complete c&r #1-7 sia9 p195

Wednesday September 24, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Had Current Events! Great Job. Is it your turn on FRIDAY? Check the schedule.
• Handed in Vocabulary #6.
• Got Vocabulary #7.
• Had a homework check on our TSQ4R. What did you give yourself out of 10? It needs to be done WHEN I CHECK it.....that is the point of a homework check!
• Did c&r on sia9 p190 #1-11. You need a proper title, to write down the questions (this way I know you've read it at least once), and to answer the questions in complete sentences. Due FRIDAY.
• We talked about why the LHC was shut down.
• We learned the acids & bases song!! We got a hand out that we completed while listening to one of the BEST most INFORMATIVE songs of all time. Hey, it is up there with the elements song!

Monday September 22, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Had current events. GREAT job to the ONE person who had their work done! Is it your turn on Wednesday? Check the schedule.
• Handed in vocabulary #5.
• Handed in our element paragraphs & squares for the periodic table.
• Got vocabulary #6, due Wednesday.
• Did the give it a try activity on p183. JUST THE PART ABOUT FINDING THE NAME OF THE ELEMENTS.
• Talked about TSQ4R - what is it? What do the letters stand for?
• Look at the key concepts and learning outcomes sections in your textbooks.
• Used the TSQ4R method to take notes on sia9 p180-190. Omit p181 & 189.
• Did you ask 5 good questions? Did you answer your questions? How many points of notes did you take?
• Are your notes properly labelled with a title (that includes page numbers), your name, class, and the date?

You had time to complete this work in class, did you use it?

Wednesday September 17, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Got vocabulary #5 - due Monday.
• Title page on Environmental Chemistry - due Monday.
• Reviewed our hypotheses, observations, & variables worksheets. Do you UNDERSTAND them?
• Had a Current Events presentation/example today. You will start doing you own presentations on MONDAY - is it your turn? BE READY.
• Chose our element, did some research about it. Can you answer the who, what, why where, when and how about your element? What does it look like? What is it used for? What are the properties and characteristics of your element?
• Did you make your "square" of our periodic table? It is due on MONDAY.

Monday September 15, 2008

Today in Science we:

• Handed in our Lab Safety Contracts (blue form)
• Talked about the periodic table of elements & listened to a song. What trends do we see on the table? What information can we get from it?
• Which element would you like to be?? Choose an element for WEDNESDAY.
• Got a rubric for our Environmental Chemistry title page. FOLLOW this rubric when making your title page. DUE ON WEDNESDAY.
• Got vocabulary list #4 - due Wednesday.
• Did you use your time to do good quality work today?

Thursday September 11, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Watched a safety video.
• Did our lab safety quiz.
• Got our lab safety contract, to be brought back SIGNED on Monday.
• Watched a video about rainbows & wrote a journal entry about "what kind of science" we saw in it. Your journal entry should be in your journal duotang.
• Got a worksheet on variables & observations - due Monday.
• Watched a "rap" video about the Hadron Particle Smasher. Then we watched a National Geographic video about the smasher & the results of today's big experiment. What are they doing & why?
• Got 7 more vocabulary words, due MONDAY. Don't forget you need to include the term, definition (in your own words), a picture, & a sentence that uses the term correctly.
  

Did you put your last vocabulary assingment in your vocabulary duotang?

Were you on time today?

How can you make sure you are on time?

Did you use your class time well today?

You will know by the amount of homework you have.

An independent learner reviews for at least 10 minutes each night.

Tuesday September 9, 2008

Today in Science we:

• Handed in our Practice Current Event.
• Put our Vocabulary in our vocabulary duotang
• Took notes on Lab Safety Rules.
• Got a handout to help us review WHMIS symbols - Due Thursday.
• Lab Safety Quiz - Thursday.
• Took notes about the format for writing a formal lab report.
• Got a handout to help us practice hypotheses - Due Thursday.
• Got 5 new vocabulary words to complete for Thursday.
  

How did you use your classtime today?

You could be done all of your work if you had used your time well.

Friday September 5, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Completed our RiverWach Journal Entry & put it in our duotangs.
• Took notes on HOW we were going to tackle our Vocabulary words.
• Your vocabulary example was: Independent Learner. You must include a definition in your own words, a picture, & use the word correctly in a sentence.
• Got 30 vocabulary words to define, due Tuesday.
• We reviewed the guidlines for current events.
• We chose a news article and worked on a practice write up. DUE Tuesday.

How did you use your class time today?

Wednesday September 3, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Reviewed our RiverWatch trip with pictures.
• What was the FIRST thing we did when we arrived at the RiverWatch site?
• Wrote everything we remembered about it into a journal entry.
• Did the "post trip" survey
• Did you bring your duotangs?
• What type of vocabulary do you need to learn?