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Sinusitus and other adventures!

Parents, thank you  for helping your children get their projects in on time.I apologize I have not been able to grade them yet due to illness.
I lost my voice on Tuesday but knew I needed to be here for Projects. I survived Wednesday but had to give in on Thursday and Friday.
According to the sub, the  students were great and they were assigned p 232-235 to read and do the questions. The students are to follow the rubric for homework. All questions should be restated and written in complete sentences. We have had this rubric since the beginning of School.
We will be assigning presentation times and I will  take a picture of each student and their project.
I will be out again Tuesday due to a Dr's appt.  I will  be back on Wednesday.

Thank you again

Failse@duvalschools.org

Projects and other homework.

Projects were due Dec 7/8,2010.
All students know they need backboard, log book and research all according to http://www.nefrsef.org/

We have looked up and taken notes from this web-site. You can look at Student  tab to get help.
We have been discussing this project since September.
Thank you to all who turn in great projects on time.
I will take late projects with a grade penality. I have heard many rumours about how I intend grade this Project.
It is a lab grade and NOT 50% or 100% of your grade.Check and listen to the teacher and not each other.

The work this week will be as follows:
12/7-12/8- Check formative and correct answers. This will help you know were the lesson is going.
                    Also questions page 215,1-6 using rubric
 I have posted my email several timesand I will post it again. Failse@duvalschools.org

Update on work and project

 11/23-24- Read p 226-231, do questions p 231,1-8 use rubric for homework
11/29-11/30- grade Chapter 3 and 4 test.review weathering
12/1-12/2- Benchmark testing - Create lab report with Sugar lab information and lab sheet
12/3 and 12/6- benchmark testing- Grade formative test and prepare for weathering chapter

Please remember Science Fair Project due Dec 7,2010

Science Progress reports

Periods 4B and 5B were sent home with Progress Reports. Period 1A will have theirs tomorrow. Please have your child make up any work during the long week-end. I am very disappointed with some of the reports., especially 5B. I have the work posted on the board,on a poster in the class and on my blog.
I have heard very excuse you can imagine, why grades are low. If your child has a returned paper with my stamp and grade, I will gladly correct my error. This is why papers are graded with a stamp. This way I know I  have seen the paper and graded it.
However, I have many papers with no names or pages #, so I can identify the work. These are hard to grade and give credit to the right person. Many times the students have done the work and it is living in their backpack. Please have them check in the backpacks.

My papers do not leave my room, so they can not be lost. I care very much about the students work and I am always concerned about losing any papers. However,  like your students are, I am only human and may miss recording a grade.This is why the students are asked to glue all work into their Interactive Science Notebooks on the proper day. If a paper is missing a grade, we can check the notebook.

Thank you for 1A and their wonderful grades!!

Thank you for your help in this situation. We all hope you have a great Thanksgiving holiday.

Forms, Test and Science Project update 11/15

The Students should be working on forms and projects.We have reviewed the Science  Project website many times in class. I have shown the students all of the information they need to know. I have even given this group the forms they need to submit. I am trying to teach your children how to be independent learners. The students know where to find all of the information they need from how to get a topic to where items go on the back board. They should only need your supervision to do the project. We have also gone over the scientific method in class and done several experiments using this method.

The following items are on the agenda in the class for this week and next:

11/17-18-19- Test on Chapter 3 sections 1-3 Chapter 4 section1-2,4
                  Students have completed quizzes and questions on these chapters
11/22 and 23- Introduction Chapter 7 Weathering and Soil Formation p 226-231,questions p 231,1-8
                              Students need to wear closed toe shoes for experiment
11/24- have a great holiday!!

DECEMBER  benchmark TESTING

TEST, Diary and gizmos

Students need new composition books for new 9 weeks
The students should be keeping a Weather Diary from 10/26-11/10.
The students should have a paper with the following headings to track the weather in their area.
date-high temp-low temp-current temp-dew pt-wind chill or heat index-humidity-wind direction and speed-rain
There should be a column for each. topic
The science Fair topic was due 10/29 next will be the forms 11/10
10/28-10/29- review p 6-19, 42-55 for test on 11/ 3-11/4 Students have been give question and quizzes for study guides. gizmo given Conduction and convection
11/1-11/2-continue review p 6-19,42-55
11/3-11/4- test p 6-19. 42-55, gizmo Conduction and Convection due
                  questions p 149,1-30
11/5,11/8- Globel and local winds p 86-91, questions p 91.#1-8 use rubric new Gizmo due 17-18
11/8-11/10- review Chapter 3  - quiz Chapter 3,sections 1-3
11/15-16-review chapter 4 -quiz Chapter 4 sections 1-2,4

progress reports, grades,projects and homework.

Students need to have their topic for Science Fair in by October 31.
Homework this week:  October 15,18- Read p 112-119, questions p 119,1-8
                                   October 19-20-Complete lab III
                                   October 21-22-Read p 134-141, questionsp 141, 1-8
The teacher will be out October 21-22 to attend the Florida Science Teachers convention. Mrs. Hayden will be a present at this convention with Mrs. Smith.

All students have received progess reports. students withe D-F have been counseled as how to improve their grades. Late papers with a penality are due Wednesday, October 20

update

The Challenger/MOSH field trip was a great success. Monday and Tuesday were spent with Mr. Meeks, a former Science teacher at Darnell-Cookman and President of the Northeast Florida Region Science and Engineering Fair. He discussed how to find and topic for the Science Project and reviewed the website http://www.nefrsef.org/ . This website has all the information you will need to help your student with the Science Project.
The students also finished their first Labs called "sinkin' Lincoln". I am still waiting for a few Lab reports to come back from students.

HOMEWORK for the last week :
Read p 76-81,questions p 81,1-7
Draw a picture and label the atmospheres
Read p 82-85, questions p 85,

Science Labs and Weathering

 9/21 The assignment for this week are complete lab form.
Questions p 127,1-9
Moving from thinking like a Scientist to weathering

New Assignment and up coming Field Trip

The new assignment for Science is Read page 50-55 and questions p 55,1-9. The students have the rubric in their ISN.



The county has required Field Trip to the Challenger Center. It is a great Field Trip taking the students to Kirby Smith and MOSH for the Day. The Challenger Center at Kirby Smith is a simulation program. The simulations are being a member of Control Team for the Shuttle and then the simulation of the shuttle. The other half of the day will be spent at MOSH for a Special Science program designed with the Science Curriculum Dept. It is a wonderful day.

The trip will include all sixth grade students who meet the Field Trip qualifications (no referrals). Currently, all sixth graders should be able to attend.  A Group of 35+ will go each day over the  three day period, from September 29, 30 and October 1. The students will be required to bring a sack lunch and a drink. They will have lunch in the lunch room at the Kirby Smith Shuttle Center.

Keep an eye out for the Field Trip permission slip. We hope to have it to you by next week. We are waiting for final approval. Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Have a great Labor Day!!!

Table of Contents

The students this year will be keeping most of their class information in a notebook called " the Interactive Science Notebook" also reffered as the ISN. The students will all have a compostion book with the information from bellringers,experiment notes, data, assignments, handouts and other important home work and test details will be recorded.
This is to help the students have a good Study Guide to help them on the End of Course Exam given at the end of the year.

The ISN ( Interactive Science Notebook) is set up as follows:

Page 1- Title page Advanced ComprehensiveScience I- Middle of page
              Student Name-- lower right hand corner of page
Page 2- Table of Contents-(PAGE 2-5)
                            8/25-8/26- What is a Scientist?  p6-7  Complete trifold Scientist pictures
                           8/27-8/30- Scientist and Rules p 8-9

Upcoming work-   8/31-9/1-Laws and Theories  p 10-11  Read p 42-49 questions p 49,1-8

Welcome to Science with Mrs.Hayden

Welcome to the 2010-2011 School year.
My transition continues at Julia E. Landon in both name and task. Some know me as Ms Fails, Mrs. Fails-Hayden, and finally Mrs. Hayden. Hopefully, this will be the last year of changing my name. I will be Mrs. Hayden.
However, my teaching assignments continue to change. I have moved from World History to Science and this year to Science and Geography. Two subjects I really love to teach.
I am team teaching with my Lead Teacher being Mrs. Long. I will not need a blog for this class. You will find all the Information you need at Mrs. Long's website.

Science will be kepy in the style of a Table of Contents. 

EOC, final project and Field Trip sold out

Blogger and I are still having problems with each other. I can log in at home very well, but not at school.


The students have all be given copies of the PMAS, we took during the year on Science.  They can use the PMAs to study for the EOC. The Science EOC is new because the curriculum  in Science changed this year. The State and National Standards changed last year.I also went over all of the Chapters in the book we covered this year and had the students recall all of projects, demostrations, and experiments we did for each Chapter this year.


The Roller Coaster Project is the student's final exam. They must build the Roller Coaster at school with their groups. The students have all received a rubric about the grading on the project. The students will also have to do a Lab report on the Average speed of the Roller Coaster.



Needs:

6' 7/8 pipe insulation cut lengthwise ( 12')

a regular size marble

masking tape ( not duct Tape, gorilla glue ,etc)

flexible tape measure

stop watch



There are four people in most groups and the items are divided between the people in the group.



WOW!! The Field Trip sold out fast! Thank you! Today the buses were paid for the trip! EPCOT is a great place rain or shine.

Sorry it took so long!

I had trouble posting to my blog because one must have a Google account now. Therefore, Google won and I lost! I am very sorry for the inconvience.


The World of Nations trip was so good! Thank you to all of the parents who help. The students really loved it.

We are hoping for a trip to EPCOT but rules in the county have changed. We must get approval from downtown. If, and when we send out the notices there will be 100 spots for students and chaperones at $70.00. This will include Bus, Lunch and EPCOT. What a deal! We will go on June 9, if it is approved by downtown.

We are having a good time with motion, speed, acceleration, and many new terms. We have been working on Chapter 18.There will be a test on Chapter 18 by Friday (B) or Monday(A). The students have been given a pretest to help them with the terms and concepts they need to learn.



Because of long and wonderful presentations by second and third periods during the body system, those two classes got behind on Motion. Each class has spent a week during Team Time catching up. Now second and third are caught up to the others.



Here is the Table of Contents:

4/20-4/21- Motion: A new way

4/22-4/23- Domino Derby ( Lab Report)(Section Review)

4/26-27- Pinewood Derby ( Work sheets on Pinewood Derby ,Bug Race, and questions p 555,1-6)

4/28-29 Ready for the Post test on Chapter 18 section 1( read p 556-559,questions p 559,1-6)

4/30-5/3- Forces ( Gizmo: Fan cars)

5/4-5/5- Balanced and unbalanced Forces( Balloon Ball)

5/6-7- Gravity( demo gravity with pop balls, ping pong balls, finger bowling, magnets, pop rockets) Review questions p 559,1-6 Read p 560-569, questions p 569,1-10

5/10-11- Friction( Pushing books)( chapter Review work sheet, due May 12-13), (Gizmo: Tall Tower due May 18)

5/12-5/13-Review,Review, Review

5/14-17- Chapter 18 test

Prepare for EOC's





I am having trouble with students reading the material. They are going to the questions and not reading or taking notes. This is causing studying for test to be hard. The students have an easy pretest and the post test is more writing and explaining why, than choosing answers. If, you could help me with this problem it would be wonderful. Thank you!

Projects, Field trips and table of contents

I hope everyone had a great spring break. The last late papers were due March 26. The nine weeks ended on March 29.  No papers were taken after March 26.




I didn't except any work done after the 26 March. Please remember late work is late and not graded as quickly as work turned in on time. Please check your student planning books for when work, projects, and other papers are due. All of this information is posted in two places in the class everyday. Students will find the information on the Table of Contents chart and the agenda at the front of the room as it has been all year.



I have adjusted my late work policy. I will no longer accept late work, except of illness and other sound reasons. I am not helping your child learn to "Put First Things First". I have except papers more then two months late. I am not teaching them to be responsible. The students will need to turn in their work on time next year. Seventh Grade does not except late work. Please help me teach this concept of responsibility.



The projects the students are doing are wonderful! They have put a lot of work and detail into their lessons! I have bragged about these students all over school. They are remarkable. Unfortunately we are becoming behind in our presentations and will have to move a little faster. We must move into the next Chapter on Motion.



I am very excited about Motion and Newton's Laws. They were my favorite when I taught 8th grade Physical Science. We will have a project at the end of the nine weeks. It will be a simple roller coaster. Please remember the word simple. Rubric will come out in May.



The Field Trip coming up is World of Nations. I am sorry we had only a short time to collect money for this trip. The time between the city's invitation and the time the city expects the money is very short. Thank you for helping to make this Field Trip happen. I am still in need of 10 more Chaperones. I can offer you a free ticket but not a meal. Please contact me at Failse@duvalschools.org or at the school number. I would like to have this trip planned ASAP. I am very strict about the safety of the children. I like them and don't want to lose any!!



Please also remember the students all have rubrics for homework and rituals and routines for class behavior. All work is due the next class day. Please remember each class day is really two class days under the old schedule. Thank you for your help in this matter.



The Field Trip to EPCOT will be completed after I receive the contract from the bus company. The planned date is June 9. The cost is looking like $70.00 with meal ticket, bus trip ( on nice bus) and entrance ticket to the park.



Current table of Contents:



4/12-4/15- Complete Body Systems. Each group has a different lesson with work they teach in class.



4/16-4/19- Motion Pre test



4/20-4/21 Motion: a new way*





Mrs. Smith and I have been selected to work on a new style of teaching for these nine weeks. The students will take a pretest and judge what they need to learn to help the students pass the post test. All of us will evaluate the pretest information and using the data gleaned from the test to chart out a learning path.

Preparing for Test and Field trips!!

The students are working very hard on their projects. I enjoy seeing all of the resources they are using to teach their lessons. We have seen videos on youtube, brain pops, experiments, demonstrations and wonderful creative ideas. They are having a good time and learning along the way.


The end of the nine weeks is coming soon. Please remember all work is due by Friday.

The students will be going to the computer room on Monday and Tuesday of next week to take some district test in science. They need to review cells, classification and human body systems. This test is created by the district on these subjects.

There will be a new gizmo assigned later this week. It will be on Homeostasis. Please remind the children to do the assessment after Gizmo. It is the main part of their grade. I still have students who have not completed the last three assessments assignment in February and January. The students must complete any Gizmo assessments by 5:00 pm on Friday. I will pull the final computer report at that time.

Field Trip!!!

The following Field Trips are coming up!!!

World of Nations- April 29,2010-Metro Park $10.00 will include lunch ticket and drink. The money will be due by March 25. This is the date the City of Jacksonville must have the money.


 Black History Field Trip- This trip is planned for April 19. We are still making sure on the details and hope to release more information soon. It will be planned in conjunction with Alpha Kappa Alpha.


EPCOT- We are hoping to plan a Field Trip to EPCOT at the end of the year. We hope to go June 9 or 10. We are hoping to keep the price about $80.00. It will depend on the bus situation.

Criteria for project

The students have been working on a project since last week on a body system. They have to teach the system they either chose or were assigned. The only exception is the endocrine system waist down and the reproduction system. I will teach these systems in scientific manner with relation to Science not Health.

The students groups must have a Bell ringer, lesson (can use any of the following: power point, videos, brain pops, work sheets) and Assessment (quiz)
The first group 4B and 6B will start teaching Tuesday and 1A,2A and 3A will start on Wednesday

The criteria is as follows:

The Product

* Identifies the organs and the system

*Explains the function of the system

*Identifies the type of cells

*Explains how the cells in the system get nutrients. And how they get rid of waste

*How does this system work with other systems?

*What is the role of the system in maintaining homeostasis in a sixth grade child?

Body Systems and letter

Hi Everyone!

We are currently surviving the FCAT. All the homework/classwork/test/projects and everything I received by 3/5/2010 was graded and posted on the Oncourse system. I have a few more late papers to add this week. We did clean out a locker or two and found some of our missing work. Students can also get missing worksheets. The worksheets are located near the turn in bin. Late work is not given priority to post. I do check on all questions sent to me via email. I also have many, many nameless papers posted in my room.( the papers are put away during FCAT and will reappear on Thursday).

The students should currently be working on a body system to teach to the other members of their class . Each student has been assigned to a group and are producing a lesson on their system. They may use power points, questions from the Book, poster, games, activities and such to produce their lesson. They must also have an assessment to their lesson. They will be given three days to produce the project.

The students will not be teaching the endocrine system waist down, reproduction system or excretory systems. I will teach these systems in a scientific manner. The students have all received a letter to their parents about these lessons.

The book the students are using can be found at my.hrw.com  The book is listed in the top as Human Body Systems and Health.

We would like the following supplies: Tissues and paper

Thank you

test and reviews

The Table of contents:
2/23-2/24  review for PMA and Gizmo        p32-33
2/25-2/26  PMA, Gizmo and Odyessy         p34-35
3/1-3/2 test Red book Chapter 4                 p 36-37
               Assignment p 422-423,1-22 follow rubric for questions/assignment will help create a study guide

3/3-3/4   Test p 398-419, Introduce Human Body Systems p38-39

I have been double checking for logs and research papers for Science Fair.  Please remember all work checked has a stamp and it can take 2-3 days for my updates on the Oncourse to get to you.

How at access the Green and Red books online

 I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day and President's Day Holiday! we are still working on Mitosis and Osmosis and the parts of the cell. We will be having several quizzes this week on these subjects. I have provided the students with copies of the Red Book to use in class. They have also been given almost an hour each class to get the questions assigned done in class. We have gone over the assigned questions and seen several videos about cells, mitosis,and osmosis. The study skill we have been working on is: the more you see material in different ways the easier to remember it.
I have also added all of the students to http://www.my.hrs.com/ to have access to the red and green books online. The students will be getting a personal sign in and password for this site.
Please remember to allow the teacher time to grade papers and post them on line. I know you would like immediate feed back on whether or you child turned  in their work. I am grading for the proper way a paper is done and not just turn in. Please ask your child to show the rubric I  use when grading their papers. i usually update online grades once a week. When there are only a few assignments, one missing assignment can count a lot. The same with test grades.

Cell Theory and when is that test?

Well, things have been moving right along! We have now done passive transportation with potatoes and carrots. The students have not one but two lab reports due. They have potato #1 and potato #2. They should have the following form:





Question-( What are we finding out about?)

Hypothesis-( Must relate to the question)

Prediction-(What do you think will really happen?)

Experiment-

Materials-( What did we use)



Procedure-(how did we do it)



Conclusion- (conclusion should be at least a paragraph and should have a data table or graph)



The following pages in the Table of Contents:

1/25-1/26- Microscope ( Gizmo- Cells)

1/27-1/28- Doing Plate Drawings

1/29-2/1-Osmosis ( Gizmo Osmosis)

2/2-2/3-Potato (e)s and Carrots --Lab report #1 about potato(e)s

2/4-2/5-Oh No!!! Potato(e)s again! Lab Report #2

2/8-2/9- Diffusion ( Red Book p 106-109 and do questions p 109, 1-5 in class) video Cells

2/10-2/11-Mitosis



The questions and text we are using is from the seventh grade Red Science Text Book. The students have been given copies to use in class and given time in class to use the materials.

The students will in Homeroom tomorrow for a practice for FCAT Writing.

There will also be a screening February 11,2010 for scoliosis. The boys will just need regular clothes for the screening, BUT............. the girls will need halter or bathing suit tops under their regular tops.

Osmosis and leadership: can they go together?

We have begun the new nine weeks with many hands on projects. We have looked through microscopes, drawn plate drawing s of onion cells and cheek cells. We learned potatoes don't let salt and sugar disappear into the potato(e)s but sugar and salt draw water out of the potato(e)s.
The students have been given another Gizmo. This is two so far this nine weeks. They are cells and Osmosis. The students did very well on their county science test. The next test will be Cell Theory for the county and for me also. I hope to have the test next week so we can move into body systems. There will be a letter coming home about discussing the Reproductive system.

Here is the table of Contents so far for this nine weeks.

1/25-1/26-microscopes p 6-7
1/27-1/28- Doing plate Drawings p 8-9
1/29-2/1-Osmosis (two activity sheets) p 10-11
Gizmo cells due

It's been so long!!

I apologize for my blog being behind. December flew by and so did January.
The table of contents from December was as follows:
12/8-12/9- Organizing the world p 34-35
12/10-12/11-Clissification- quiz p 36-37
12/14-12/15 Atoms ,molecules and cells p38-39

Please remember Science Fair was Due Jan6, 2010
The field trip for the Challenger went very well.
Thank you to the parents who chaperoned.
The MOSH class was very good. Everyone liked Sparky and the explosion.
Many people also liked Grossology!

The last two weeks have been presentations of Science Fair projects! I was really pleased with the work put into these projects! We were able to send 12 to the school Science Fair. It was very hard to choose only 12. Mrs. Smith and I spent many hours in the hallways looked for the best of 30 possible projects! I hope our team did well at the Fair!

I am glad the grade portal is available to all students and their parents.
I appreciate all of the late work I have received. However, I would like to remind students and parents homework is due the next time the class meets. Many students have been given time in class to complete work. Not all of the students use their time as wisely in class as they should. I would also like to remind students and parents there is a homework rubric. Many students are turning in late work and not following the rubric. This is not fair to students who turn work in on time and follow the rubric.
I am hoping to get the Science Fair grades on the this report card. The reason for the delay would be so I can give the projects the best attention for grading. I do not want to quickley grade the projects and miss some great work.

New Quarter begins with a clean slate.