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Today was a bust in terms of learning. Whew! We watched a silly movie. No HW.
 * __Friday, October 31, 2014 __**

Today we worked on the photosynthesis crossword, and when done, we worked on the leaf model of photosynthesis we're building in groups. Nearly everyone finished the crossword in class. Yay!
 * __Thursday, October 30, 2014 __**

Sorry for the hiatus! With Outdoor School, October Break, and my extended illness, I fell behind. I will try not to let this happen again. This week, with little short periods, we're not really able to get out the microscopes. We'll pick it up with cheek cells, protists, and elodea under the microscopes next week. For now, we'll focus on photosynthesis and toss in a little mitosis. HW today is, due tomorrow.
 * __Monday, October 27, 2014 __**

__Monday, September 29, 2014 __ Today we're finishing up our cell posters. They're due tomorrow. HW tonight is to do "Organelle Song" on Quia.com.



__Monday, September 22, 2014 __ Okay, well this is outdoor school week for the sixth graders. So...here's the plan for this week: Monday: We'll watch Bill Nye: Cells in class and complete a little worksheet on this topic. No HW! Tuesday: You'll have in class time to work on your Chapter 4 Text Quest. It's all about cells. Woo hoo! Finish it for homework. If you get done early, you can begin coloring your cell picture. At each table, person A, C, and E are doing plant cells, person B and D are doing animal cells. Wednesday: You'll be watching "Cells" the video. You will have the rest of the period to work on your cell crossword. Then you can continue to work on your cell coloring. Finish your cell coloring for homework. Thursday: You may work on your cell crossword in class. Finish it for homework. Your table group can begin working on your cell poster. Directions will be given in class. Friday: Turn in your cell crossword. Then work on your group cell poster. It will be due on Monday or Tuesday after outdoor school.

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Friday, September 12, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we worked on writing a silly essay in which we tried to convince the reader that a clearly non-living thing was actually alive. No HW! We'll have time to finish the essay on Monday, and I'll post an example on Monday's wiki entry.

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Wednesday, September 10, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we worked on "Living or Not Living?" stations. HW tonight is "Chapter 2 Review" on Quia.com.

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Tuesday, September 10, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we went over some notes on alive/not alive. We did a little group activity on the same topic. [|We watched a little video about viruses]. We are reading

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Monday, September 8, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we worked on the in-class projects. HW is to finish it up and share it with me.

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Friday, September 5, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we worked on the in-class projects which are due on Monday at the end of the period (but HW on Monday is to finish your part at home if you haven't already done so). No homework.

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Thursday, September 4, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we worked on the in-class project on the characteristics of living things. You'll be making a Google Presentation with one or two other partners. Warning: The "how to do it" sheet contains two errors which I'll help you to fix tomorrow so you won't waste a lot of time. Good news: period 5 has the computer lab Friday and Monday, and the project will be due at the end of the class on Monday. Period 7 will have access to Chromebooks (only one per group, though...sorry!) on Friday and Monday. HW tonight is to read Chapter 2, Section 2 and answer the associated questions on Quia.com.

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Wednesday, September 3, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we went over "adaptations" and "organization of living things" a little more in depth. We began our in-class project, due Monday at the end of the period. HW tonight is on Quia. It's called "Organization and Adaptations."

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Tuesday, September 2, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we finished our octahedron of notes on the characteristics of living things. An example is shown below. We also began brainstorming ideas for our project which we'll start tomorrow. HW tonight is to read Chapter 2, Section 1 and complete the questions on Quia.com.



__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Friday, August 29, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we worked on our octahedron notes on living things. See the entry from Thursday for extra credit.

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Thursday, August 28, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we worked on our notes on the characteristics of living things. We took the notes on cardstock on a cool template that will become an octahedron on Friday. Woo hoo! HW is to finish the Chapter 2 vocab poster if you haven't already and to do "Characteristics of Living Things" on Quia.



<span style="color: #7810a8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Here's some information on EXTRA CREDIT, too. There are occasional extra assignments for extra credit. Additionally, each quarter, you may do a write up on a science-related article. It can be a newspaper article, an online article, or a magazine article. Heck, if you watch a documentary on something scientific, you can summarize it, too! If you simply summarize this, you can get 10 extra credit points. If you summarize it and clearly connect it to something you have learned about in a science class at PGMS, you can get 15 extra credit points. You may do this no more than twice per quarter.

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Wednesday, August 27, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we began our discussion of what makes something "living." We watched a beautiful little video (l[|ink here]). We had some time to work on our, which is the homework for tonight. We also got assigned a vocabulary word for our vocab posters for Chapter 2. Here's an example of such a poster:



__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Tuesday, August 26, 2014 __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Today we watched a silly movie by Bill Nye on measurement. (Citronella Jones?) Then we had time to work on our Quia.com assignments in class. HW tonight is to complete both Chapter 1, Section 4 AND Chapter 1, Section 5 on Quia.com.

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Monday, August 25, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">On Friday and today, we completed the measurement challenge. We used various instruments to measure all kinds of things using SI. When we finished, we had some time to work on the homework, which is Quia "Chapter 1, Section 3." In period 7, we had a little extra credit worksheet, too. Tomorrow we'll watch Bill Nye!



__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Thursday, August 20, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we worked on the SI coloring sheet. HW is to complete it. If you want to get extra credit, please do the crossword on the back side by tomorrow. If you need a replacement coloring sheet, please let me know tomorrow in class (and you can complete it over the weekend; sorry!) I can't distribute that document online.

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Tuesday, August 20, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Today we finished the scientific method task cards and turned in our lab safety posters. If you have a "zero" please double check and see if your poster is one of the no name posters already up on the wall. HW tonight is Chapter 1, Section 2 on Quia.com.

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Monday, August 19, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we discussed "control" and "variable." [|Here's the video we watched today in class.] <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We worked on our lab safety posters. Then we worked on our scientific method task cards. HW tonight is to finish the poster at home and do "Controlled Experiments" on Quia.com. <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Monday, August 18, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we worked on our psychological experiments at our table groups. Then we watched a movie on lab safety. [|Here's the link to that video.] And we worked on mini posters showing lab safety rules. HW is on Quia.com. It's called "Chapter 1, Section 1."

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Friday, August 15, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we watched "How Smart Are Animals?" with Mr. Buller. You turned in your worksheet to Mr. Buller before leaving. No homework! It's Friday!

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Thursday, August 14, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we finished the Big Ball of Science. We also had time to work on the Text Quest in period 5. <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">HW tonight is to finish the Text Quest (per. 5) and to finish the "Scientific Method Story" on Quia (per. 7).

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Wednesday, August 13, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we spent most of the period working on our Big Ball of Science Project. Below you'll see a picture of the first one finished. They look cool, huh? This is a graded project, but every team who completes it gets an A+, so it's important just to finish it, not to make it look like it belongs in a museum. Most people are doing a great job of getting homework done; only a few folks needed to hang out at homework table today. If you still can't make Quia.com work, try following the help link in yesterday's wiki entry. Homework tonight is different for periods 5 and 7. Period 5, please do the assignment called "Scientific Method Story" on Quia.com. You guys will get your texts tomorrow and will do the text quest tomorrow night. Period 7, please complete the text quest. It's easy!



__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tuesday, August 12, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we talked more about how to set up an experiment and we reviewed the scientific method. We did a quick experiment that answered the question "Does exercise improve short-term memory?" We worked on the Big Ball of Science project. Some folks had to go to homework table where they do old homework but only get 80% of the score they would have had they done their homework on time. In case you forget how to do Quia homework,. Also, today you received a, which is due on Thursday for period 7 and on Friday for period 5. Click on the link to download a new one if it has gotten lost!

<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Interested in the brain and psychology? Here's a great website with all kinds of science news, and this page is specifically about mind and brain news. Find it on [|Science Daily!]



__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Monday, August 11, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we got our textbooks (leave them at home til the end of the year, please). We discussed the marshmallow experiment and the importance of QUANTITATIVE data in science. We began thinking about our own psychological experiment design. This is something that your group will begin as soon as your big ball of science is done. We worked on the big ball of science, too. Homework tonight is to do the second part of the Welcome assignment on Quia. <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Here's a picture of the type of ball we're building in class: <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Thursday, August 7, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we worked on our paragraphs about an awesome science topic. HW tonight is to complete the paragraph and picture and to complete the assignment on Quia.com called "Welcome to 7th Grade Science."

__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Wednesday, August 6, 2014 __ <span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today we discussed first day business such as scary "don't"s found in the student handbook and how to use Quia.com and the wiki. In case you forgot, your user name for Quia is yourfirstnameyourlastname167, and your password is science. You can change your password by going to "My account" on the Quia page you see when you first sign in. Homework tonight is to read and sign the and ask your parent or guardian to also read and sign it, and please bring it back tomorrow. In class, we began our "" paragraph. I'm inserting an example below. You can click on the link to get another copy if you need it. Also, you can go on Quia to do the first assignment if you want. It's not due until next Tuesday.

<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In the "It's just like Environmental Detectives!" department, [|here's a link to an interesting article about the toxic algal blooms] in Lake Eerie. In my class, you can read and summarize a science-related article once a quarter for extra credit (10 points; 20 if you can relate it directly to something we're studying or have studied in class), so this might be one you'd like! Remember to cite the article in your summary.

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__<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Getting ready for 7th Grade Science __

<span style="color: #7317af; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">It's almost time for 7th Grade Science to begin! To see the "first day letter" (aka the FAQ sheet I'll be giving out on the first day). click on the link. . If you want to, you can print it out, sign it, and ask your parent or guardian to sign it, too. You can bring in a picture of an animal you love for our Pet Hall of Fame if you want to...here's my dog, Velma. She always makes the Hall of Fame! Here's a picture of what you'll need every day in my class, too. See you on Tuesday! If you want to say hi, just email me at kterry@pgusd.org.