Ms. Harrison's 6th and 7th Grade Science

6th: Well, it seems that we are learning a lesson about divide and conquer plus adequate use of time. Though not quite done with movies today, tomorrow will be the last day you can work on them during class. Please work, if you can, during study hall to complete your project.
6th HOMEWORK: Study hall to do group work on movie.

7th: Submit movie per instructions on the board, then prepare yourself by learning about magnets (notes, questions, vocab written down, etc. required!):
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/magnet-and-compass
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/magnets-and-electromagnets
Choose the option “Electricity and Magnetism”
http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/magnetism.htm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/electromagnet.htm
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/magnets.html

6th: Most groups have come to nearly the end of creating their movies. Hopefully, tomorrow’s class time will be that last chunk of time you will need to make last minute touches (soundtrack, edits, audio clips, etc.) No homework!

7th: Students completed their electricity unit today by taking a quiz and wrapping up their energy videos.

7th HW: Please complete your video; click “share” then choose “Export to QuickTime” and save it as YOUR NAME in your movies folder.

6th GRADE: Keep working hard on your wildlife documentary.

6th HW: Complete take home, if not already. Work on movie, if possible, during study hall.

7th GRADE: After a review of Electrical Energy Section 3, we spent some time on our Energy movies. Just follow the rubric on the back of your student worksheet to keep track of your components.

7th HOMEWORK: Study for QUIZ tomorrow. Memorize three equations. Answer key below to check your answers, and re-read and try final practice problems in the text. NOTE: 8C on practice should read that D is brighter than C.
Electricity practice KEY
Electrical Energy (3)

6th Grade: Please be sure to complete your take home quiz today. It will be due in the start of class tomorrow, Monday. Here are the texts plus one HW:
Ecology text
Ecosystem Flow of Energy text
HW11 and HW12 Answers

6th HW: Please complete your take home quiz. Movies are due on Tuesday, May 16th.

7th Grade: Hopefully, your Friday was a productive day as you completed your script and began lining up your photos for the short, short video. Remember, it’s ultimately just a summary of your energy findings from your house including the alternative ways we could use an energy source for electricity.

7th HW: The quiz on the third section will be on Tuesday, May 16th. Movies due Wednesday, May 17th. Here is the reading and you received in class a practice worksheet with lots and lots and lots of practice.
Electrical Energy (3)

6th GRADE: Please continue working on your movie scripts! Hopefully, with class today, you got through most of it…..don’t forget that you will have a take home quiz on Ecology over the weekend. But also don’t worry – it’s open note.

6th HOMEWORK: Try to divide and conquer and complete your script with your partners.

7th GRADE: Today in class, we discussed the cost of electricity brought to you by GA Power. We decided that the best number, on average, to use would be 10 cents per kWh. If you cannot figure out or find your power bill, no worries! Use 10 cents. In class, most students completed their charts to determine how many kWh were used over one day’s time. They could then determine the daily cost of running all electrical items in the room. (In mathematical short, multiply power by time. Then that number by cost,or 10 cents.) Next, we used the kWh of the room compared to the kWh of the whole house for a day. That number tells you what percentage of your total house’s power is used by that room.

7th HOMEWORK: Please complete the script you began writing in class today. (Many of you are behind….please catch up!)
NOTE: Quiz next Tuesday, Energy Project due next Wednesday.

6th Grade: Please keep up with your group work during class. Remember, you should be working on finishing the script so that you can build your movie clips in order before recording.

MEANWHILE, your homework this work is to read through the text of Ecology. In this way, you can start to incorporate some concepts more easily into your movie as well as prepare for your take home quiz.

6th HW: Read in this text (Ecology text) p.651-655. Answer in complete sentences review questions (5-8) on p.656.

7th: How much electricity does your room use? Please be sure to find ALL appliances in the room you chose to calculate how much cost it incurs on your electricity bill. Yes! You will need your parents again tonight – please check with them about your GA Power electricity bill. You will need to find the rate at which your house is charged per kWh. Of course, this number changes from season to season and depends on kWh used per household. A current bill would be best to calculate the cost per kWh.

7th HOMEWORK: FIRST!!! Read the meter again and complete section I. Then, finish Section II (this is where you need your parents to let you know about the cost of electricity – see above in today’s post).

6th Grade: Still working on our research information. Be sure you are understanding all questions and their answers. Don’t forget about the take home quiz this weekend. We will continue to read the text and you may ask clarifying questions in the start of class each day (or during your group work time).
Helpful sites:
http://ibbiofoodweb.wikispaces.com/

6th HOMEWORK: Please read the next section of Ecology text (page numbers 642-649, or by PDF 6-12). Answer review questions ONLY 1, 6, 7 and 8 on text page 650 (or p.13 of PDF).

7th: Helpful information here for your research chart:
http://www.altenergy.org/
Energy Resources
http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/index.htm

7th HOMEWORK: Using the links above to jump start, please complete your research on three types of alternative energy (alternative to coal).

6th Grade: Today, folks continued on with their research for the ecology movies. Hopefully, by tomorrow, they can begin writing scripts for their movies.

6th HW: In the meantime, let’s get some content in the brain. Please read the following text – Chap 23, Section 1: Intro to Ecology (through page 642, Ecology text) and complete three column notes for the three sections.

7th: We reviewed the power equation questions from the weekend and then introduced the next big project. This will be a test grade and there will be a quiz on Friday covering the third section of Electricity.

Super helpful website for review:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/physicsclassroom/galleries/72157625472900755/
Neat Circuit Lab Online: (you may have to restart your browser in 32-bit)
http://article19.com/shockwave/oz.htm

7th HW: Please complete part 1 of your project. The steps include a parent signature, taking photos of four items (to go on your laptop), and completing questions 1,4, and 5. Helpful photos:

6th: Yay! We began working on our ecology movies by choosing topics with our group. This Monday, you will continue prepping your information (research guide) before you write a script. Likely, the movie will be due Monday, May 14th. (Only 2 minutes long!)

6th HOMEWORK: Please get progress report and 6 Kingdoms Project signed!

7th: We worked on exploring why different parts of the parallel circuit have different amps! We will review the answer on Monday – when hopefully, I can speak.

7th HOMEWORK: Please complete Electrical Energy Equation questions on p.212 (1-4) in this handout – Electrical Energy (3).

6th: Students that were here finished up (almost!) their research questions. Please do so for homework tonight if you haven’t. Hope the tall ships field trip was a blast! I look forward to hearing about it tomorrow.

6th HOMEWORK: Please complete the Ecology questions. USE THE TEXT posted on Tuesday! Google searches will bog you down.

7th: Today, folks explored more of the parallel and series circuits to find out about resistance and current. With each trial, students have been getting better with using the amp- and volt- multimeter!

7th HOMEWORK: This worksheet on Some Properties of Electric Circuits (Some Properties of Circuits ) requires the use of the pHet DC only Circuit Simulator. (Please click HERE for the link.) THURSDAY NIGHT: Please complete SECTION I and II (this will be on page 1 and 2 of your handout). Have fun!

6th: Please use the following texts to expand your knowledge of Ecology!

Ecology text

Ecosystem Flow of Energy text

6th HW: Please continue to work for 20 minutes on your Ecology questions. Please work both over the next two nights (whether you come to class tomorrow or Thursday).

7th: Today, we learned a quick and easy visual diagram to remember that V=IR. After a review of questions from the third text section (Electrical Energy), we began our exploratory lab to make circuits. More on that tomorrow in class.

7th HW: In the meantime, please complete the practice problems (1-4) on p.211 of Electrical Energy text from last night.

6th: After a quick review of all six kingdoms (phew! how did we pack that into only 20 minutes?!), we spent the remainder of class time outside and filling out a review sheet on protists. This junk category for the kingdoms has the most diverse and bizarre organisms! Here is a helpful list of sites to get through the questions:

http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_3.html#Kingdom%20Euglenozoa

http://firmitas.org/Protista.html

7th: Once the remaining folks finished their quiz from Friday, then we worked on homework and finished up the Bill Nye video on Static Electricity. Here is the homework link for class time:
Electrical Energy (3)

7th HW: Please read the final section on Electrical Energy (link just above) and complete 3-column notes.

6th: Nearly there! Whereas some students are finished, others will submit their final research chart, re-expressed research, and dichotomous key tomorrow during class. Good luck! Here below is some helpful info on dichotomous keys to review. A good way to check your key is to pick a multicellular protist like kelp, research its characteristics, and see if you key it out correctly.

http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/watercritter/key.htm

CHECK THE MIDDLE OF THE WEB PAGE: http://www.nsta.org/publications/interactive/galapagos/activities/classification.html

A NEAT ONE ON ARROWHEADS (not necessarily life science, but cool): http://www.oplin.org/point/identify/unifbifa.html

http://mrsmaineswiki.wikispaces.com/file/view/Candy_Dichotomous_Key.jpg/32318145/Candy_Dichotomous_Key.jpg

7th: Please review for your quiz tomorrow (or Monday if you are going to be gone). Including your study guide, here are other sources:

http://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/v/circuits–part-1

Static Electricity (1)
Electric Current (2)

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/circuit-construction-kit-dc

http://www.georgiapower.com/learning-power/students/watered-down-electricity.asp

6th: Students are nearly finished with their projects and have done a stellar job during the last two weeks working hard during class. Please note: many of the research charts I have seen may need a bit more detail to distinguish each eukaryotic kingdom from the next (animal, plant, fungus, and the ever-diverse protist)! Here was the website I showed at the end of class to help make more distinctions. Also below it is a really good site to explain protists. It behooves you to incorporate more detail as you come to making the dichotomous key – if you are struggling with keying out the protists, you are in the right place. It is the “nature” of the challenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote

http://www.lanesville.k12.in.us/lcsyellowpages/tickit/carl/protists.html

7th: Reviewing electricity in class, we talked more today about Ohm’s Law – with an increase in resistance (in ohms) but keeping the same voltage (in volts), the current will lower (less amperage). What’s the connection between electricity and old movies, besides the fact that it takes one to watch the other? Well, it turns out that there is a wonderful explanation of electricity made in the 1940s. Hope you enjoyed.

7th HW: Ohm’s Law worksheet Complete this Ohm’s Law handout QUESTIONS 1-11.