Landis's Science Classes

Announcements:

• Chapter 7 study guide puzzle due: Wed 5/31
• Lab 7A: Energy in a system: Lab report due: Thurs 6/1
• Ch 7 Test: Energy: Wed 6/7
• ALL LATE WORK FOR TERM 3 DUE: THURS 6/15 @ 3:30 PM!

Mon:

• Memorial Day – no school

Tues:

• Direct instruction: Kinetic & Potential Energy
  • ISP_Notes_KE and PE
• Kahoot! review: Kinetic & Potential energy
• Handout: Practice calculations: KE & PE & debrief
  • KE & PE practice probs
    • answers to KE & PE worksheet

Wed:

• Hand in ch 7 study guide packet
• Lab 7A: Energy in a System
  • lab-7a_energy-in-a-system

Thurs:

• Debrief lab 7A, hand in lab report
• Direct instruction: Work
  • ISP_Notes_Work
• Practice handout: Work & debrief
  • ISP_Worksheet_Work
    • work worksheet answers

Fri:

• Revise Fri notes
• Lab 7B: Work & Energy – begin
  • Lab 7B pre-lab information
  • Lab 7B Work and Energy

Announcements:

• Chapter 5 study guide packet due: Tues 5/30
• Lab quiz: Sunflower population sampling: Thurs 6/1
• Lichen population sample lab report due: Mon 6/5
• Ch 4 study guide puzzle due: Tues 6/6
• Ecology Unit Test: Mon 6/12
• ALL LATE WORK FOR TERM 3 DUE: THURS 6/15 @ 3:30 PM

Mon:

• Memorial Day – no school

Tues:

• Discuss #15 – 28 assignment, hand in Ch 5 study guide packet
  • Group inquiry_population growth
• Group Inquiry: Population Growth, hand in group paper

Wed:

• Lab: Random population sampling: Sunflowers
  • Random Sampling_Sunflower
  • Lab quiz: tomorrow

Thurs:

• Lab quiz: Sunflower population sampling
• Population survey lab: Lichen at SHS
  • Lichen pop survey lab student prompt & rubric 
  • Reports due: Mon 6/5

Fri:

• Activity: Climate Graphs
  • Climate Graph Activity
• Work on Lichen population sampling lab reports

Announcements:

• Chapter 6 test: Wed 5/24
• Final rocket launch: Fri 5/26 – weather permitting
• Final rocket project report due: Tues 5/30
• Chapter 7 study guide puzzle due: Wed 5/31

Mon:

• Direct instruction: Momentum
  • ISP_Notes_momentum
• Momentum practice handout & debrief
  • ISP_Worksheet_Momentum
  • momentum worksheet answers
• Rocket rebuild

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Chapter 6 review sheet & debrief
  • ch 6 review sheet
    • answers to ch 6 review sheet
• Rocket rebuild

Wed:

• Chapter 6 test
• Begin Chapter 7 study guide puzzle – due Wed 5/31
  • Chapter 7 Work and Energy puzzle

Thurs:

• Debrief test
• Video: Crash Course: History of Humans & Energy
• Use laptops to complete video question sheet
  • crash course vid human energy 207 questions
• Final rocket launch tomorrow – weather permitting

Fri:

• Final rocket launch
• Work on final rocket report – due Tues 5/30

Announcements:

• Quiz: Ch 3: Intro to Ecology: Wed 5/24
• Wolf article questions assignment due: Wed 5/24
• Lab quiz: Natural controls on populations: Thurs 5/25 – lab data packet due
• Ch 5 study guide packet due: Tues 5/30

Mon:

• Direct instruction: Carbon cycle and climate change
  • climate change notes
• Video: Crash course: Carbon cycle
  • Answer questions about video on handout
  • Carbon Cycle Crash Course

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Review: ch 3 quiz (quiz is tomorrow)
• Lab: Natural controls on populations (lab quiz – Thurs)
  • lab_nat controls of pop

Wed:

• Quiz: Ch 3
• Debrief Tues lab – lab quiz tomorrow – data packets due tomorrow
• Assess Wolf article questions, hand in question sheet
• Video: Wolves of Yellowstone

Thurs:

• Lab quiz: Natural controls on populations
  • hand in lab data packet
• Finish Wolves of Yellowstone vid. and discuss
• Direct instruction: ch 5-1
  • ch 5-1 notes
• For Fri: read ch 5-1, complete # 1 – 14 in ch 5 study guide packet
  • Chapter 5 packet

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Discuss # 1 – 14 assignment
• For Tues: read ch 5-2 & 5-3, complete # 15 – 28 in study guide packet – packet due Tues
• Direct instruction: ch 5-2 & 5-3
  • ch 5-2 & 5-3 notes

Announcements:

• Ch 6 study guide puzzle due: Tues 5/16
• Lab 6B report due: Wed 5/17
• Rockets to be ready for evaluation: Thurs 5/18
• First Rocket launch: Fri 5/19, weather permitting

Mon:

• Rocket build – launch Friday (weather permitting)

Tues:

• Hand in Ch 6 study guide puzzle
• Direct instruction: Newton’s 3rd Law
  • ISP_Notes_3rd Law
• Rocket build  – must be ready for evaluation by Thurs
  • Data packets for evaluation of class rockets

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Lab 6B: Newton’s 3rd Law
  • lab-6b_newtons-3rd-law 
  • Hand in report

Thurs:

• First 25 min: final rocket build, record mass, length and balance data
• Last 25 min: Evaluation of all class rockets
• Launch tomorrow – weather permitting

Fri:

• 1st Rocket launch – weather permitting
• Analyze class data, begin project reports

Announcements:

• Ch 3 study guide packet due: Thurs 5/18
• Ch 3 quiz: Wed 5/24
• Wolf article questions due: Wed 5/24

Mon:

• Direct instruction: ch 3-1/3-2
  • ch 3.1 & 3.2 notes
• Discuss # 1 – 20 study guide packet assignment
• For Thurs: read ch 3-3, complete # 21 – 31 in study guide packet – packet due Thurs
• Group Inquiry activity: Energy transfer in Ecosystems
  • Group Inquiry_Energy Transfer

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Finish Energy Group Inquiry and submit group paper

Wed:

• Video: Crash Course: Ecology: Links in the Chain
• Group Inquiry activity: Ecological Pyramids
  • Group inquiry_Ecological Pyramids

Thurs:

• Finish Pyramids group inquiry activity and submit group paper
• Direct instruction: ch 3-3
  • ch 3.3 notes
• Discuss # 21 – 31 study guide packet assignment, hand in packet
• Handout: What to Know: Ch 3 quiz (quiz is Wed 5/24)
  • WTK – ch 3 Quiz
• Assignment: Read “Lessons from the Wolf” article, complete questions – due Wed 5/24
  • Lessons from the Wolf article
  • Lesson from the Wolf questions

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Group Inquiry activity: Nutrient Cycles
  • Group inquriy_Nutrient Cycles

Announcements:

• Chapter 5 Test: Forces: Tues 5/9
• ROCKET MATERIALS DUE TO CLASSROOM BY FRI 5/12!
  • rocket materials list_2017_5_12
• Lab 6A lab report due: Thurs 5/11
• Mid-term grading day: Fri 5/12: early release
• Chapter 6 study guide puzzle due: Tues 5/16

Mon:

• Kahoot review: equilibrium and net force
• Chapter 5 review sheet and debrief
  • Chapter 5 Review Sheet
  • answers to ch 5 review sheet

Tues:

• Test: Chapter 5: Forces
• Begin Chapter 6 reading: Newton’s Laws of Motion – study guide puzzle due Tues 5/16
  • Chapter 6 puzzle
• ROCKET MATERIALS DUE TO CLASSROOM BY FRI 5/12
  • rocket materials list_2017_5_12

Wed:

• Direct instruction: Newton’s 1st Law of Motion
  • ISP_Notes_1st Law
• Demo: 1st law
• Lab 6A: Newton’s 1st & 2nd Laws
  • Lab 6A_Newton’s 1st & 2nd Law

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Debrief lab 6A, hand in report
• Practice handout: Net force & 1st Law
  • skillsheet 6.1_Net force & 1st law
  • answers to skillsheet 6.1
• Direct instruction: Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion
  • ISP_Notes_2nd Law
• ROCKET MATERIALS DUE TO CLASSROOM BY TOMORROW!
  • rocket materials list_2017_5_12

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Rocket project
  • rocket materials list_2017_5_12 
  • ISP_Rockets

Announcements:

• Animal kingdom test: Mon 5/8
• Quiz: Plant kingdom: Fri 5/12 – plants study guide packet due
• Lab quiz: survey of plants: Fri 5/12

Mon:

• Test: Animal kingdom
• Direct instruction: Ch 22-1: Intro to Plant Kingdom
  • ch 22-1 notes
• For Mon: Read ch 22-1, complete # 1 – 10 in study guide packet
  • ch 22-25 review sheet

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Discuss #1 – 10 assignment
• For Wed: complete #11 – 14, 37 – 44 in study guide packet
• Lab: Comparison of Plants
  • Lab_Comparison of Plants

Wed:

• Discuss #11- 14, 37 – 44 assignment
• For Thurs: complete # 45 – 53 in study guide packet
• Handout: What to know – plants quiz
  • Plants quiz – WTK
• Finish Comparison of Plants lab

Thurs:

• Debrief Comparison of Plants lab – lab quiz tomorrow
• Discuss # 45 – 53 assignment – packet due tomorrow
• Review for Plant kingdom quiz

Fri:

• Early release – mid-term grading day – 40 min period
• Hand in Plant study guide packet
• Quiz: Plant kingdom
• Lab quiz: Comparison of Plants
• Hand in Comparison of Plants lab data packet
• For Mon: read ch 3-1, complete # 1 – 20 in study guide packet
  • Chapter 3 packet