September
Assignments & Activities
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- First Day of School
- Team Building
9/8
- Team Building--Can you save Fred?
- Group expectations/jobs
9/9
- Set up Interactive Lab Notebooks (Cover & Table of Contents p. 1-4)
- Classroom Norm Discussion
- Team Building--cup stacking
9/12
- Classroom Norms
- Scientific Method--article & fold-able (IN p. 6-7)
9/13
- Scientific Method--finish fold-able (IN p. 6)
- Science Vocabulary--qualitative, quantitative (IN p. 5)
9/14
- Observation Posters to introduce Matter & Its Interactions (unit)
9/15
- Pictorial Input Chart--Matter & Its Interactions (IN p. 9)
- Physical & Chemical Changes--Card Sort (IN p. 8)
9/16
- Lab Activity--Mystery Matter (Table Group Investigation)
9/19
- Evidences of Chemical Reactions (IN p. 11)
- Lab Investigation (Baking Soda & Vinegar p. 10)
9/20
- Chemical Reactions--Process Grid
- Identifying 6 different types of reactions w/ definition, examples, etc.
9/21
- TED Talk--The Science of Macaroni Salad: What's in a molecule?
9/22
- Lab--Copper Penny Oxidation Experiment--Scientific question & research
9/23
- Quiz
- Lab--Copper Penny--research, introductory paragraph
9/26
- Vocabulary-conclusion, control/experimental group
- Set up Copper Penny Lab--write hypothesis
9/27
- Copper Penny Lab--observations
- Identify Experiment & Control Groups
- Identify Independent and Dependent Variables
9/28
- Copper Penny Lab--observations
- Copper Penny Lab--Conclusion
9/29
- Making Gas to Inflate Balloons (baking soda/vinegar vs. water/Alka-seltzer)
9/30
- Density Column Demonstration