Thursday December 18, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Tried to do Current Events....not good people.
• Reviewed how to count elements, atoms, molecules & compounds....can you figure out how many components are in a formula? Do you know how to write a formula?
• You had time in class today to complete the following: TSQ4R sia9 p150-153, omit p151, DO c&r p 153 #1-7. THEN you were to design & create a poster/title page that demonstrates your UNDERSTANDING of the similarities and DIFFERENCES between MOLECULAR & IONIC compounds. These 3 (three) tasks are due first thing the day we get back from winter break. WEEK 5, Day 2, so that is 9AM sharp.
• Do you remember what a Venn diagram is? Hint (2) TWO circles that overlap.
• Some of you used your time very well this class. GOOD WORK.
• We also watched a bit of a Body Worlds dvd. What was that about? Why would I want you to see that?
• An INDEPENDENT LEARNER would REVIEW MATTER & CHEMICAL CHANGE for at least 10 minutes EVERY day over the break. It is just a suggestion....a strong suggestion.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS 9C!

Tuesday December 16, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Current Events.
• Did Vocabulary.
• Handed in our Mentos & Diet Coke Journal Entries. Do this by THURSDAY.
• Talked about ELECTRON SHELLS. What is an electron shell?
• TSQ4R sia9 p144-147. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
• DO sia9 p149 #1-9.
• Can you NAME characteristics of an IONIC compound?
• Did an open book quiz & reviewed it. HOW DID YOU DO? WHAT SPECIFIC ACTIONS MUST YOU TAKE TO DO BETTER?
• AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: soil = heterogeneous mixture, salt solution = homogeneous if it is mixed properly.

Friday December 12, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Got vocabulary #20
• Did current events.
• Talked about ISOTOPES. What is an ISOTOPE?
• How do you tell how many neutrons are in an atom of an element?
• What is an ELECTRON SHELL? How many electrons fly around in each shell?
• Did a quiz....do you know the difference between physical & chemical changes?
• What is the difference between MELTING & COOKING?
• What happened when we put mentos candies into diet coke? Was there a difference when we used the fruit flavoured ones versus the mint flavoured ones? HOW DID YOU KNOW? WHY did that reaction occur? What do you think is happening? What did our experiment look like? What were the variables?
• Please Complete your journal entry that discusses what you saw, and why you saw this.
• Please read & UNDERSTAND sia9 p138-142. Did you read the Key Concepts & Learning Outcomes? Have you met them?
• Do the skill practice on p 142.
• Do sia9 p143 c&r #1-3
  

ANY QUESTIONS? SEE ME!

Hey, howcome you didn't stack the chairs before you left today?

Wednesday December 10, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Had Current Events. WELL DONE! Is it your turn on Friday?
• Reviewed our questions from last day.
• Do you understand the difference between Physical & Chemical Properties? Physical & Chemical Changes?
• Can you define the four (4) types of mixtures?
• DO sia9 p111 Focus on #1-3. You had time in class, this should be DONE.
• Talked about ATOMS & ELEMENTS again. How are they related?
• What is a NEUTRAL atom?
• Read p126-133, omit p 130-131
• DO Skill Practice p 129 & 133
• Do you know how to use a periodic table? What do the different numbers mean?
• DO sia9 p 136 #1-6.
• What is the difference between atomic # & atomic mass? How can we figure out the number of NEUTRONS in an element? Took notes about it. Do your NOTES make SENSE? MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS BY FRIDAY.
• Talked about predicting atomic numbers and properties of NEW elements.
• Want to work ahead??? Try sia9 p134 #1-9.

We have fallen a bit behind, so I will push us even more than usual to catch up.

YOU CAN DO IT.

Monday December 8, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Review.
• Watched Planet Earth.
• Are you up to date with your work?

Thursday December 4, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Finished our Famous Scientist Presentations.
• Did Current Events. YOU NEED TO BE READY. THAT MEANS COMING TO CLASS WITH YOUR CURRENT EVENT PRINTED.
• Did an on-line activity about the PHYSICAL properties of substances. What did the meteorite contain? How can you SUPPORT your answer?
• Handed in our "no chemical" paragraphs.
• Talked about the STRUCTURE of an ATOM. Again.
• Talked about STATES of MATTER & CHANGES in STATES of Matter. How do the atoms/molecules move? How much space is between them? Watched the changes on the smart board.
• Can you NAME & DESCRIBE all the ways that MATTER changes STATES?
• How are ATOMS & ELEMENTS related?
• How are ATOMS & Matter related?
• Can you name the 4 states of matter and describe what their atoms/molecules are doing?
• READ: sia9 p97-99 (the green boxes are IMPORTANT), p102-103.
• DO: sia9 p110 ayl #4-10 (YES you do need to write down the question). Due Monday.

FOWLER FORMS & REPORT CARD ENVELOPES....DO I HAVE THEM?

Tuesday December 2, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Talked about what you did while I was away.
• Handed in your report card envelopes and Fowler Field trip forms
• Did your famous scientist presentations & handed in your write up. You should have been READY to go.
• Why did we talk about the movie Iron Man today?
• Homework:

"This product contains no chemicals"

• Anaylse this statement: is it true or false? WHY? SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER.
• How could you re-word this statement to make it more accurate?
• CURRENT EVENTS ON THURSDAY. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, PLEASE BE READY.
• You got a new current events schedule. Highlight your name! Write your day in your agenda!
  
  

Thursday November 13, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Reviewed the assembly with Mr. Barbor. Watched two videos and wrote journal entries about them. How do they affect you? What did they make you think about?
• Talked about what you did while I was away.
• Current Events - Be ready when it is your turn people.
• Who is the Cleanest of them all?? How did we handle this multiple choice question?
• Put our vocabulary in our vocabulary duotangs
• Had a homework check on our Unit Review - you know, when I ask you to make up time after
• school or at lunch to do your work, it is for your own good & you should be there. Now I will need to make phonecalls home.
• Did a "quick lab" on Page 238 - we reviewed the questions and how to read the map - should be DONE & Handed in.
• Did a KWL chart for Environmental Chemistry - how much information does yours contain?
  There was a list on the board of those students who have not handed in their lab safety contracts and those who have not completed their safety test corrections. These issues need to be taken care of before you can participate in any lab activities.
• Environmental Chemistry UNIT FINAL NEXT WEDNESDAY.
  50 Multiple choice questions - what study strategies will you use?

Thursday October 30, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did current events. Check the schedule, is it your turn on MONDAY?
• Handed in vocabulary #14, did vocabulary #15.
• Started the ayl on p234. #1-11 are due on MONDAY. You should be AT LEAST halfway finished. Format your assignment properly. That means a proper title, your name, class, date, & writing out the questions.
• Talked about ppm & did some examples. What is ppm? Complete the worksheet you got & hand it in. We did the first question together, if you have questions, ASK.
• Started the "quick lab" on p238, it is due on MONDAY.
• TSQ4R p235-242.
• Bring your QUIZ on Monday, we will be reviewing it.
• You need to focus in class. If you are socializing or otherwise not working, I can only assume that you have finished everything and know everything and are ready for a quiz.

Tuesday October 28, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did Current Events - should be an easy 5% of your grade, you just have to be ready.
• Got vocabulary #14. Handed in vocabulary #12 & 13.
  Up to vocabulary #13 should be complete and in your vocabulary duotang, this should be left in the classroom at all times. This should have been another easy 5% of your grade.
• Reviewed lockdown procedures. There is a greater possibility of a real lockdown than a real fire.
• You need to take this seriously, if you endanger your classmates, you will be sent into the hallway - which is not a safe place to be during a lockdown.
• Handed in our Inquire on p231.
• Finished our station for the environmental recovery project. Based on your data & your report, do you think I would hire you again?
  

What do you think of your behaviour?

What about your work ethic?

• You saw your Marks today. What needs to change?
• They are printing reportcards tomorrow. Do you think I will have time to mark and enter what you handed in today? I told you two weeks ago the cut off was last THURSDAY.
• Please write a Journal Entry for Thursday. Your journal entry should be about your progress in science up to now, and what you can do to improve your marks. Two paragraphs.

Friday October 24, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Had current events. Time is running out to get these marks people.
• Did not do vocabulary. Are your duotangs up to date? Have you handed it in? Marks are done for term one.
• Got the data needed to create the graph for Inquire p231. The entire activity is due on TUESDAY.
• Watched a short video and set up our groups for our Environmental Chemistry Recovery project.
• Prepared for our part of the project by choosing our assignment and reading the requirements of it.

Wednesday October 22, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did vocabulary #13. Hang on to your vocabularies....you will need to put them in your duotangs on Friday.
• Current Events - you have a schedule. Be ready.
• Homework check: how did you do?
• Did the Skill Practice on Page 226 and HANDED IT IN!
• Looked at the INQUIRE on P 231 - oops you need the data sheet for that. I'll have it on Friday.
• AYL p 233 #1-9 is Due FRIDAY.

Monday October 20, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did vocabulary #12 - due Wednesday.
• Did current events. You have a schedule. Check for your turn!
• Got back lots of work. Were told what work is missing. Hand it in no later than THURSDAY October 23, 2008.
• How did you do on your quiz? What do you need to do to improve?
• Handed in our Intrim Reports that our PARENTS SIGNED.
• TSQ4R sia9 p 212-232. Due Wednesday. It will be checked.

Wednesday October 8, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Wrote a Quiz on Section 1.0. How do you think you did? The quizzes are marked & the grades, generally speaking, are not ones to be proud of.
• Did a journal entry about our quiz. You should have completed 5 journal entries.
• Did an Interim Self-Evaluation. You should have been honest with yourself. You have signed it & I have signed it. Take it home, talk to your parents about it & bring it back after break signed by your parents.
• Handed in Vocabulary #11.
• Watched Planet Earth Mountain Ecosystems. What type of ecosystem do we live in?
• Are you UP TO DATE? There should be no surprises come report card time. Are you doing your work? Are you doing your work WELL?
• You have a schedule for CURRENT EVENTS. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR TURN IS.

Monday October 6, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Handed in Vocabulary #10.
• Got Vocabulary #11 - Due Wednesday.
• Had a Homework check. It needs to be done WHEN I CHECK IT.
• Reviewed different methods of substance/chemical transport. What is the difference between active & passive transport? What is the difference between osmosis & diffusion?
• Do "Focus on" sia9 p211 #1-2 & sia9 p211 ayl #1-11. Due WEDNESDAY.
• Looked at the Unit Review - there is a nice summary of the concepts you should know & understand.
• QUIZ ON SECTION 1.0 WEDNESDAY.

Thursday October 2, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Handed in Vocabulary #9, got Vocabulary #10 - Due Monday.
• Do c&r sia9 p203 #1-9. Due Monday.
• READ ONLY sia9 p204-209, Omit p207.
• Focus on Figure 1.30, sia9 p 208. Do you understand it? Can you explain it in your own words?
• Read sia9 p210, Write a JOURNAL ENTRY about the two questions at the end of the description of chemists. EACH question should be ONE paragraph long. Don't forget to give your journal entry an appropriate TITLE. What else should I see on your journal entries?
• Sang the Acids & Bases song for Ms. Coole :)
• Do c&r sia9 p209 #1-8 - hmmm did you notice that we have answered some of these questions before? Due Monday.

Journal Entries should have been completed in class.

Vocabulary - are you up-to-date? Have you included everything?

Did you miss your turn for current events? Be ready on Monday.

Tuesday September 30, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did current events. Okay Ms. Wilson did current events, why was no one ready? I expect you all to be ready when it is your day to present.
• What did we learn about carbon dioxide and the ocean?
• Handed in Vocabulary #8, got Vocabulary #9. Due Thursday.
• Talked about atoms, what does an atom look like? How do the different parts of an atom compare to one another?
• Did a work sheet to help us learn how to use the periodic table, and figure out what categories the elements fall into. Due Thursday.
• TSQ4R sia9 p196-203, omit p200 & 201. Due Thursday.
• What are the important 6 (SIX) mactronutrients identified? What do they do?

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?
  

Friday August 29, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did the RiverWatch program!
  Did you enjoy it? Did you learn alot?
• Made it worth it to stay at "school" a little bit longer on Friday!
  You were AWESOME! Thanks!
  

Wednesday August 27, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Handed in our paragraphs
• Did 4 computer surveys to help us prepare for RiverWatch.
• Looked at what dissolved oxygen, phosphorous, and aquatic inverebrates are.
• What does the term biological indicator mean?
• Reviewed lab safety in our textbooks.

We have our field trip on FRIDAY.

• Be at the school for 8:15am
• bring a lunch
• wear and bring appropriate clothing
  

Please bring your BEST attitude & behaviour with you, I expect nothing less.

Monday August 25, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Handed in our course agreement & field trip forms with money
• Handed in our Science is title pages
• Handed in our duotangs
• Talked about Safety and came up with our own Rules.....how can we display these so everyone understands them?
• Watched a video about water ways
• Why are we doing Riverwatch? Why is it important to learn about our own waterways?
• Due Wednesday: paragraph about why studying our rivers is important.

REMINDER: Tuesday is the last day to hand in Field trip forms and money.

Thursday August 21, 2008

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Reviewed our course agreement. Please review the outline with your parents and bring the last page back to me signed on MONDAY.
  
• Talked about the RIVERWATCH program we will be participating in, please bring the forms back signed with the money on MONDAY.
  
• Completed the "all about me" page and had a short chat with Ms. Wilson.
  
• Worked on a "Science is" title page, due Monday.
• 
  Don't forget you need two (2) duotangs for science class by MONDAY.
  

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