8/26/15: Scientific Method notes.
8/31/15: Properties of Water ppt and close notes
9/1/15: Essential Standards and vocabulary
9/2/15: Water Cycle Activity poster due 9/11/15
9/8/15: Distribution of water ppt and close notes.
9/9/15: Evaporation/Precipitation/Runoff worksheet: Worksheet on Water Cycle on Mars. See teacher for these
9/10/15: Study Guide for test 9/11/15
9/11/15: Test on 8.E.1.1
9/14/15: Introduction to new standards
Tests were given back: test corrections for students who made less than 70%
Test corrections will be completed during Smart Block along with relooping.
Below are the questions to answer from the video: Natural Phenomena: Lakes, Rivers and Underground water.
Tests were given back: test corrections for students who made less than 70%
Test corrections will be completed during Smart Block along with relooping.
Below are the questions to answer from the video: Natural Phenomena: Lakes, Rivers and Underground water.
9/14/15: Click on the link to the discovery ed video. Login is WCP(Your student ID #) Password (student ID #)
https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/4DF7436F-8A50-45B3-9781-C7F38D919DFF
https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/4DF7436F-8A50-45B3-9781-C7F38D919DFF
9/14/15: Vocabulary cards due tomorrow 9/15
9/15 & 9/16: Brainpop videos and activities. Vocabulary and essential standards.
Log on ddmsdragons Password: same
Watch the video's first; play the quiz within your group of 4. Then complete the activities that pertain to the video your are watching.
will make a graphic organizer using the following words and description while watching the movie:
groundwater; soil; weather; pores; permeable, impermeable
Flow chart: from brainpop: Describe river formation from rainfall to river
Activity: Describe it: rivers; young and mature, etc.
Primary Source: Document using picture:
Cause and Effect graphic organizer
Take notes as watch the video.
Log on ddmsdragons Password: same
Watch the video's first; play the quiz within your group of 4. Then complete the activities that pertain to the video your are watching.
- Glaciers: https://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/glaciers/
will make a graphic organizer using the following words and description while watching the movie:
groundwater; soil; weather; pores; permeable, impermeable
Flow chart: from brainpop: Describe river formation from rainfall to river
Activity: Describe it: rivers; young and mature, etc.
Primary Source: Document using picture:
Cause and Effect graphic organizer
Take notes as watch the video.
Watch video 2 times: 1st time: just watch and then as watch again, write down what you see about groundwater from brain pop videos and also from vocabulary. From notes Make a graphic organizer using cause and effect. When this happens then what.
9/17 & 9/18: Jigsaw readings: See teacher for articles.
Posters made in class for gallery walk
Posters made in class for gallery walk
9/21: Gallery Walk with notes on foldable: Please summarize your notes on page 35 in notebook.
9/22: Freshwater& Groundwater notes from ppt. See below
9/24/15: Finished power point on Groundwater: Started River Basin Scavenger Hunt
| river_basin_scavenger_hunt__1_.pdf |
| nc_river_basins_booklet.pdf |
9/25/15: NC River Basin Scavenger Hunt: See 9/24/15 for questions and booklet
9/28/15: Quiz on freshwater: Graded and gone over in class.
9/29/15: Waste water treatment plant: See ppt below to see how a waste water plant actually works.
Click on link or copy/paste to look at what happens going to a Waste water treatment plant:
http://www.metrocouncil.org/Wastewater-Water/Publications-And-Resources/ES_kids_book-pdf.aspx
Virtual tour of waste water treatment plant:
https://esa21.kennesaw.edu/activities/ww-treatment/ww-tour-dc/blue_plains.swf
{Process of designing a waste water treatment plant) Use phones, etc for research.
Click on link or copy/paste to look at what happens going to a Waste water treatment plant:
http://www.metrocouncil.org/Wastewater-Water/Publications-And-Resources/ES_kids_book-pdf.aspx
Virtual tour of waste water treatment plant:
https://esa21.kennesaw.edu/activities/ww-treatment/ww-tour-dc/blue_plains.swf
{Process of designing a waste water treatment plant) Use phones, etc for research.
10/2/15: Storm water video and questions
Storm water video link: http://www.ncsu.edu/wq/videos/stormwater%20video/SWvideo.html
Questions see below
Storm water video link: http://www.ncsu.edu/wq/videos/stormwater%20video/SWvideo.html
Questions see below
10/5/15: Review River Basin Scavenger Hunt
Vocabulary quiz
Bio-indicators foldable:
Vocabulary quiz
Bio-indicators foldable:
10/6/15: Centers on biological and physical factors for water quality. Below is the power point
10/8/15: Water Quality Power point: Due Monday 10/12/15 also closed notes
10/12/15: Water Quality Test today
10/13/15: Essential standards and vocabulary: See below
ABC Brainstorm of oceans
ABC Brainstorm of oceans
10/14/15: Power point on oceans: 1/2 completed first page only
10/15/15: Textbook work to reinforce what completed yesterday.
Pages 155-157, Picture on page 155, Section Assessment pg 157, Water column page 156 (use graph paper given in class)
Pages 155-157, Picture on page 155, Section Assessment pg 157, Water column page 156 (use graph paper given in class)
10/16/15: Early Release Day : Completion of word received 10/15
10/19/15: Finish textbook questions, etc. Will go over Tuesday 10/20/15
Received Ocean project. Will upload project under project tab
Received Ocean project. Will upload project under project tab
10/20/15: Ocean life power point
10/22/15: Finish up of notes ocean ecosystems
Current ppt: highlighted important screens
Current ppt: highlighted important screens
10/23/15: Stations in class. See below
Also finish questions on back pages from climates/currents; Ocean notes also. (look up if don't know the answers
Fill in blanks on picture from vocabulary words listed below this document. Ocean Floor: Chapter 3 Sec 2
Make foldable from the following vocabulary words
Take notes from the following Upwelling reading: Will draw picture on page 69 in notebook. Questions to be answered will be listed below.
El Nino video above
Upwelling picture below
Upwelling picture below
10/26/15: Teacher Workday
10/27/15: Vocabulary quiz #4 8.E.1.2: Went over questions from Currents/Climate reading and Ocean Life.
10/27/15: Vocabulary quiz #4 8.E.1.2: Went over questions from Currents/Climate reading and Ocean Life.
10/28/15:
Received Study Guide for Test October 30, 2015:
Deep Sea Technology
Notes taken on page 72 & 73
Took notes on videos to explain what Deep Sea Technology is:
Received Study Guide for Test October 30, 2015:
Deep Sea Technology
Notes taken on page 72 & 73
Took notes on videos to explain what Deep Sea Technology is:
Answer the questions listed below as you watch the video on SONAR technology
1) What is it?
2) How is it used?
3) Why do we use it?
1) What is it?
2) How is it used?
3) Why do we use it?
Watch Alvin ! and Alvin 2: Have 3 important or interesting facts listed for each.
10/29/15: Review for study guide:
Watch Robert Ballard video and take notes on it.
Watch Robert Ballard video and take notes on it.
