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FALL 2009 ARCHIVES:  The following are archived plans for past weeks during the Fall of 2009.

WEEK 1: 8/31 through 9/4/2009

Date

UNIT:  Cellular Respiration

Class Topics

Assignments

Monday 8/31

Welcome.

Discussion of pertinent class expectations.

Make bread dough and closely observe ingredients before and as they are used.

Leave bread dough to sit overnight.

 
Tuesday 9/1

Continue working with & observing dough.

Review photosynthesis.

 
Wednesday 9/2

Bake bread over campfire in Dutch oven.

Taste and record observations of baked bread.

Practice fire-building skills.

Be sure to wear clothes that can get a little dirty tomorrow.  We'll be in teh garden.
Thursday 9/3 Gardening Day  
Friday 9/4

QUIZ

The Rising Dough: What makes dough rise?

Perform food tests on ingredients to identify the major nutrients in them.

 

 

 

WEEK 2:  9/7 through 9/11/2009

Date

UNIT:  Cellular Respiration

Class Topics

Assignments

Monday 9/7

Labor Day: No classes.  
Tuesday 9/8

Design & conduct experiments to determine what combinations of ingredients cause bread to rise.

 
Wednesday 9/9

*Write up Methods for Rising Dough experiments. Sample Lab Report.

*Tiny Bubbles: design a device to collect gas.

Perform test to identify the collected gas.

Finish writing your Methods. 
Thursday 9/10

*Review & Discuss findings to date.

*Combustion of sugar: what are the products of this reaction?

Design a device to collect products of this reaction.

Perform tests to identify the products. 

 
Friday 9/11

Create systems analysis diagrams to describe what we've learned to date.

QUIZ

 

WEEK 3:  9/14 through 9/18/2009

Date

UNIT:  Cellular Respiration

Class Topics

Assignments

Monday 9/14

Perform final gas test.  Formulate conclusion about what makes bread rise.  Intro to systems analysis diagrams.  Read background info on rice  
Tuesday 9/15 Set up rice-growing containers.  Sow rice.  Edit first drafts of Yeast Methods.  
Wednesday 9/16

Discusss relationship between produccers (like rice) and consumers (like yeast) - matter & energy.

 
Thursday 9/17

Testing hypothesis that consumers release energy from sugar through respiration.

Modeling the concept of a consumer based on our systems analysis diagrams. 

 
Friday 9/18

Analyse data from yeast & heat experiment.

Write the Results portion of a lab report using yeast & heat data.

 

 

WEEK 4:  9/21 through 9/25/2009

Date

UNIT:  Cellular Respiration

Class Topics

Assignments

Monday 9/21

Create line graphs of personal and class data from Yeast & Heat lab.  You should create one line graph with four lines, two representing your personal group data and two representing your class (averaged) data.

Complete your line graph.
Tuesday 9/22

*Pre-write to create ideas for your Results.

*Write the paragraph portion of your Results using the graph you made. 
NOTE:  TEST next Tuesday!

 
Wednesday 9/23

*Describe the relationship between consumers and producers using systems analysis diagrams (poster).

*You will have approx. 20 mintues to work on writing your Results.

Proofread (& print, if necessary) your Results.
Thursday 9/24

*Turn in your Results [Results paragraph + line graph + data table + pre-write].

*Complete Producer/Consumer Posters.

Study for your test.

Study Guide

Friday 9/25 No science scheduled.   

 

WEEK 5:  9/28 through 10/2/2009

Date

UNIT:  Cellular Respiration/Physics

Class Topics

Assignments

Monday 9/28

Review unit concepts and prepare for test.

Finish posters.

Study for your test
Tuesday 9/29

You may come by the lab between 7:50 and 8:15 am (before school) to ask questions about test material. 

TEST

 
Wednesday 9/30

*Colonial food culture: writing assignment.

Old Salem Map

Old Salem Cooking

Seasonal Cooking

*Introduction to Changing Foodscapes - part of the Sense of Place project.

 
Thursday 10/1 Field Trip: Old Salem  
Friday 10/2 Wrap-up all colonial food work (from class and trip).  

 

WEEK 6:  10/5 to 10/9/2009

Date

UNIT:  Physics

Class Topics

Assignments
Monday 10/5

*Mass, weight, force & gravity.

*Design a device that measures the force of gravity on objects with small mass.

 
Tuesday 10/6

*Modify design & build device.

*Calibrate devices.

 
Wednesday 10/7

*Complete forcemeter sketches & reflect on forecemeters.

*Learn to use unit analysis to make conversions.

*Practice mass to weight conversions on earth using unit analysis.

 
Thursday 10/8

Practice mass to weight conversions on moon - interpret graphs and practice unit analysis.

Trimester One: halfway mark.

Study for QUIZ on Tuesday 10/13.

Friday 10/9 No School - teacher work day  

WEEK 7:  10/12 to 10/16/2009

Date

UNIT:   Physics of Force, Work, & Energy

Class Topics

Assignments
Monday 10/12 No school - Columbus Day  
Tuesday 10/13 QUIZ Have your Grade Record Sheet signed by a parent.
Wednesday 10/14

Conversion problem set.

 
Thursday 10/15 No science - field trip to Charlotte.  
Friday 10/16

Wrap up problem set.

Define & measure the concept of work.

Finish 5 of the class problems for Monday.  Use proper unit analysis format.  Select from problems here

 

WEEK 8:  10/19 to 10/23/2009

Date

UNIT:  Physics of Force, Work, & Energy

Class Topics

Assignments
Monday 10/19

Practice calculating work from a word problem. 

Measure force and distance needed to pull objects up different ramps & calculate the work.

 
Tuesday 10/20

Comparing work: lifting v. ramp.

Friction.

Study for your quiz.
Wednesday 10/21

Design & discuss energy conversion devices.

Study for your quiz.
Thursday 10/22 BIG QUIZ Using the guidelines, organize your science notebook in prep. for the check tomorrow.
Friday 10/23

Energy Conversion Devices: build & test.

NOTEBOOK CHECK - leave your notebook in the lab and Mrs. Fitz will grade it over the weekend.

 

WEEK 9:  10/26 to 10/30/2009

Date

UNIT:  Physics

Class Topics

Assignments
Monday 10/26 Gardening Day.  
Tuesday 10/27

Wrap up Energy Conversion Device work and concepts.

Finish your ECD Reflection, if necessary.
Wednesday 10/28 Mechanical advantage - introduction via challenge problem.  
Thursday 10/29 No science (mask making in art).  
Friday 10/30 No science (trip to see The Crucible)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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