Varney+Science+1

Students in this class: Garret Robson, Rachel Glick, Dan Saxby, Ocean Bagley

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01/24/2012

Students had to write a letter to self about how they did for the first semester and how they would do better for the second semester. As a class, we then took guided notes on a Population Biology and then began The Lynx Hare Complex activity. Students worked in partners and began the simulation. NO HOMEWORK- Please help organize classroom binders if you are working with them in study strategies.

01/27/2012

Continued taking notes on Population Biology. Continued working on Lynx Hare Complex Activity. Shortened class due to delay. No Homework! Students absent- Danny and Rachel

01/31/2012

Continued working on the Hare Lynx Lab. Students should have finished the simulation section of the lab and they should now create a scatter plot graph using Numbers.

02/01/12

Students finished their simulation for the Hare/Lynx lab. They must finish graphing their data using Numbers. They will then copy and paste their data table and graph into Pages and answer the analysis questions. THE FINAL DATA TABLE, GRAPH AND ANALYSIS QUESTIONS ARE DUE FRIDAY.

02/07/12

Students were given a writing prompt focused on the populations problems within different countries throughout the world. (Information received through a movie and notes.) Homework: Must complete the Burger (graphic organizer on the back of the prompt) and write their introductory sentence.

02/14/2012 Students finished their group plate projects. They will present them next class. There is no homework tonight.

02/15/12

Students finished presentations and took notes on plate tectonics. no homework.

02/016/12

Students should have finished the drawing of the interior of the earth.

02/17/2012

Students took notes on plate tectonics and created a diagram of the layers on the inside of the earth. No homework for vacation.

02/28/2012

Pages 558-566 #'s 1-7 in the Science Textbook. Students should have finished graphing data from sea floor spreading lab.

03/02/21012

Students should be finished transferring their graph from the laptop onto graph paper, from the Sea Floor Spreading Lab. All analysis questions and graph are due next Friday 03/09/12- the next time the class meets.

03/08/2012

Students turned in Sea Floor Spreading Lab (graph and analysis questions) and watched a movie on Earthquakes, with a guided question sheet.

03/12/12 Students finished watching the movie on Earthquakes. Must get entire note sheet from movie filled out. Also went over quiz on plates and interior of earth. Must retake if they did poorly. No home work

03/14/2012

Students took notes on transform faults. Homework- answer pre-lab questions (3) from science lab "Find the Epicenter of an Earthquake".

03/19/2012 Students completed Epicenter of an Earthquake lab. If they did not finish, they must do so and complete all analysis questions for homework!

03/20/2012 Students took notes on volcanoes and worked on worksheet __Determining How Fast Some Crustal Plates Move__. Must finish this for homework if not finished.

03/26/2012 Test on Thursday. Quarter ends on Friday. All missing work must be in. Students finished watching a movie. Were given the "hamburger" organizer for an essay comparing volcanoes and earthquakes. This essay will be used on the test on Thursday. Hamburger is due next class.

03/27/12 Students took notes as the test review. Test is on Thursday. Must have essay finished for test on Thursday.

04/02/12 Students took notes on rocks and minerals. Homework tonight- Chapter 17.3 Reading Outline. Due next class. Students worked on a rock cycle activity that will be completed next class.

04/03/12

Students worked on rock and mineral identification lab. There is no homework tonight. Lab will be finish next class.

04/09/12 Finished notes - __How Old Are Rocks__ and Geological Dating activity. Worked on a __Brief History of the Earth Exploration__.

04/10/12 Students started lab: __Chemical and Mechanical Weathering of Rock.__ Reviewed for quiz on Thursday. Homework- study for Thursday quiz.

04/12/12 Students took a quiz. No homework tonight.

04/26/12 Worked on Chemical and mechanical weathering lab. Must finish analysis questions for homework. Quiz on Tuesday.

04/30/12 Students went over science test review for Tuesday. Took notes on Glaciers.

05/15/2012 Students took notes on Carbon and will begin The Greenhouse Effect Lab. Partners in the lab are Rachel, Ocean, Danny and Garrett.