Mrs.+Berry

Upcoming lessons===

Heys guys! Now that I have my sharepoint site, I will be putting class lesson plans and announcements on that. I will from time to time add things to this site. I will let you know! Mrs. Berry

Can you believe we are getting ready to start the 3rd week of school! We are still continuing with Science Process skills and I will give out books toward the end of the week. I wanted to remind you to check out my [|blog site] from time to time!. Schedule this week:

Monday 8-27-07: Review game "Price is Right" for our metric system system quiz tomorrow. Study your notes (the power point is below), and look at your practice conversion sheet. Finish our "Style Metric style" lab.

8-28-07: Metric System QUIZ, Length lab activity (to be graded)

8-29-07: Discuss Volume and how to find the volume of a liquid and a solid, measuring lab (to be graded)

8-30-07, 8-31-07: Gummi Bear Lab We will be using this lab to practice finding mass, volume, and density...What a great activity that incorporates them all.

REMEMBER: Make sure you are keepng your class notebook up to date. Always check the TABLE OF CONTENTS SHEET in class for things we have added! Also, it is your responsibility to get any work you have missed when absent. I look forward to seeing you this week.

This week we will continue with Science Process Skills!
The following is a schedule for the week: (Subject to change of course:))

8-20-07- D.S.T to be written in your class notebook, Quiz over scientific method. We will be starting to learn some new vocab. and will keep the words and definitions in our notebook that we will keep notes in! (NOT THE CLASS NOTEBOOK). INFERENCES activity

8-21-07 M&M's lab incorporating the steps of the scientific method

8-22-07 Graphing activity in the media center. We will use our results from lab to constuct a bar graph (BRING GRAPH PAPER) and complete an interactive graphing activity on line (TO BE GRADED)

8-23-07 Discuss metric system, add vocab to already compiled list, practice metric conversions

8-24-07 Measurement of length Activity (TO BE GRADED) Smile Metric Style

Tuesday 8-27-07 Metric system test

See ya!

===Be prepared for a test next Monday, August 20th over what we cover this week and remember make sure you are keeping your notebook organized. I look forward to seeing you this week This weeks plans are subject to change: Mon.-Finish going over lab safety contract, United Streaming video on scientific method, Optical Illusions Tues.-Notes from video and review sheet, discussion of scientific method Wed.-Brainstorming for operation egg drop working through identifying the steps of the scientific method using scenarios (group activity) Thu.-Working in groups of 2 on building our containers Fri.-Operation Egg drop Mon.20th- Test over scientific method Also, I have attached a grading rubric for our project ===