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                 Assignment

Homework

9/4/06

     1

Intro, Seating Binder set up, Name The Scientist WS

9/11/06

     2

Metric System notes

Making Graph( Water Drop) Activity

HW: Energy in The Atmosphere

 Read  Lesson 1, p 468-471

Tear WB pages 165-178 carefully Write your name on each page, staple the pages together, hole punch and stick them in your binder in the back.

2 per group

Chapter 15

9/18/06

     3

Does a Plastic bag Trap Heat?

Discover Act p 468

Vocab 15.1,WB p 165-167

HW: Lesson 2 Read “Heat Transfer” p 474-477

9/25/06

     4

Heating Earth’s Surface Expt. P 472-473

Act out conduction, convection, radiation game with tennis balls (2) demo in the class,/ write

DCQ’s p 477

HW: Read Lesson 3, Wind, p 478,-482

10/2/06

     5

Build a Wind Vane” Activity p 479

Build a Anemometer for next week.

Where is the Wind? Activity p 480-481 WB  p 167-172

HW: Read lesson 4,p 487-492

Water in the Atmosphere

10/9/06      

     6

Test wind speed using wind vane and anemometer. Analyze & Conclude Q’s p 481

DCQ’s lesson 4 p. 492

HW: WB p 173-175

  Read lesson 5,p 493-496 Precipitation

1016/06

     7

How does fog form? activity Cloud poster,    

HW: Read 16.1 p 502-508 Air Masses and Fronts

10/23/06

    8

Discover Act p 502

How Do Fluids of Different Density Behave?

HW:  Read 16.2 p 509--517  Vocab

10/30/06

    9

Hurricane Names Activity

Read 16.2 in class p 509-517

Vocab

11/6/06

  10

Tracking Hurricane Act p 518-519

Form groups to make posters

 Obseving Vernal Pool Samples

HW:Read16.3 p 521-524 p 525

11/13/06

11

Work on poster

HW: Read 16.4 p 525-531

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Thanksgiving Break

11/27/06

12

Hurricane Andrew’s Path

Start Vocab and Rev Q’s for 16.4

p  531#’s 1-4

12/4/06

13

Reading a Weather Map Act p 532

12/11/06

14

Ch 16 Review Q’s, #’s 1-17,  skip 16

Nature’s Fury video

12/18,19,20/06

15

Chap 16 Test

Nature’s Fury Video: Floods, Tornado,

Hurricane

Christmas Holidays

1/4, 5/07

15

Ch 16 Test

1-20

Nature’s Fury Video: Floods, Tornado,

Hurricane

HW: Tear WB p 61-70, staple it together, write your name on each page

1/8/07

16

Read 6.1 , p 172-176

TOPOGRAPHY video 7 facts.

6.1 notes

HW: WB p 61-63

1/15/07

17

Read Ch 6, lesson 2, p 177-182

How Can You Flatten The Curved Earth?

Act. p 177

HW: WB p 63-66

1/23/07

18

A Borderline Case Activity p 183

Analyze/ Con Q’s #s 1-6

HW: WB p 63-66

1/29//07

19

Read ch. 6.3 p 184-186

Can You Make a Pixel Picture? Activity

P 184,6.3 Rev Q’s p 186, # 1,2,3,4.

HW: WB p 66-67

2/5/07

20

Correct WB p 63-67, sec. Rev 6.3 p 186

Read  6.4, p 187-192 Mt. Monadnok WS

HW: WB p 67-70

2/12/07

Mon. no school

21

Topographic Map Activity

(304 only, start on Mt. St Helens)

HW: Make notes for each lesson on ch 6 to use on the test Ch 6 Rev p 194# 1-16

2/19/07

Mon. no school

22

Mt. St Helen topographic map activity

(304 Topographic maps activity)

Correct ch Rev

HW: Make notes for each lesson on ch 6 to use on the test

2/26/07

23

Ch 6 Test Open notes and WB pages

Tear WB pages 71-80

Chapter 7, complete WB pages as we complete the lessons

3/5/07

24

How Fast Can It Fizz? Activity p 198

Read p 198-203 Sec Rev Q’s p 203 1-5

HW: WB p 71-74

3/12/07

25

What is Soil? Act p 207

Read 7.2 p 207-213 Section 2 rev Q’s 1-5

HW: Section 2 rev Q’s 1-5 if not completed in class

3/19/07

26

Read 7.3 p 215-218

Sand Hills Erosion Activity

WB p 74 –77

HW: Chap. 7 Review p 220 # 1-16

3/26/07

27

Rocks and Weathering Video

Chap. 7 Review p 220 # 1-16, correct

 Correct WB pages  Ch 7 Test 305

WB p 77 - 80

4//2/07

Fri. off

28

Ch 7 TEST can use WB pages and notes

HW: Tear WB pages 81-83, write your name on each page, staple together

4/6-13/07

SPRING BREAK!

4/16-20/07

29

Chapter 8 lesson 1,Read p 224-227

How Does Gravity Affect Materials on a Slope? Activity p 224

HW: Section Rev Q’s P 227 #1-4

4/23-27/07

30

Sand Hills Experiment p 228, Analyze and Conclude Q’s1-5

Start reading Lesson 2, p 230-239 in class

Water Erosion

HW: Read lesson 2, p 230-239 if not done in class

WB p 81-85

4/30-5/4/07

31

 Short quiz on lesson 2

Read Lesson 3, p 243-246

The Force of Moving Water

HW: sec rev q’s p 246

#’s 1-5

5/7-11/07

32

Streams in Action Activity p 240-241

Analyze and conclude on p 241#’s 1-5

HW: WB p  86-90

5/14-18/07

33

Read lesson 4 p 247-251

Glaciers

Sec rev Q’s p 251,# 1-4

Read  lesson 5, p 252-255

5/21-25/07

34

Quiz lesson 5,

Read lesson 6 p 256-258

Waves

WB p 91-93

Ch Rev p 260, # 1-15 & 17

5/28-6/1/07

35

Ch 8 TEST

Open notes

6/4-8/07

36

Creek Study