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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.  
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


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.

  1. Glaciers: https://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/glaciers/

Primary source document:  Compare and Contrast climate change


  1. Groundwater: https://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/groundwater/  

will make a graphic organizer using the following words and description while watching the movie:

groundwater; soil; weather; pores; permeable, impermeable

  1. Rivers: https://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/rivers/

Flow chart:  from brainpop:  Describe river formation from rainfall to river

Activity:  Describe it:  rivers; young and mature, etc.  

  1. Water Pollution: https://www.brainpop.com/science/ourfragileenvironment/waterpollution/

Primary Source:  Document using picture:  

Cause and Effect graphic organizer

  1. Water Supply: https://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/watersupply/

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
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
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nc_river_basins_booklet.pdf
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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.
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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.
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 
10/5/15:  Review River Basin Scavenger Hunt
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
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)
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 
10/20/15:   Ocean life power point
10/22/15:  Finish up of notes ocean ecosystems
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
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.
10/28/15:  
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:
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?
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.
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