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8 Science Class Page ARCHIVES

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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)