Monday, May 24, 2010

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.

Monday, May 10, 2010

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!