Chemistry Week 3 Day 4 Part 1

Questions:

1. What is your opinion of nuclear power?
2. Has your opinion about nuclear reactions changed (or become clearer/stronger) this week in class? Explain your thinking.
3. What 2 activities or tasks did you find most helpful to your learning in this class?

Chemistry Week 3 Day 4 Part 2

1. Pick up a hand-out from the front table.
2. Complete the handout thoughtfully and reflectively.
3. When you are finished, turn in the paper to the exit ticket basket.

Human An and Phys Unit 2 Assessment Day

1. Pick up a hand-out from the front table.
2. Complete the handout thoughtfully and reflectively.
3. When you are finished, turn in the paper to the exit ticket basket.

Earth Science Unit 2 Unit Assessment Day

1. Pick up a hand-out from the front table.
2. Complete the handout thoughtfully and reflectively.
3. When you are finished, turn in the paper to the exit ticket basket.

Chemistry Week 3 Day 3 Part 1

Questions:

1. What was the article you read yesterday about?
2. What words did the author use the describe nuclear reactions? Record at least 3.
3. What could the author have added (graph, diagram, chart) to help readers understand the article better?

MINILesson: Radioactivity

Activity: Nuclear Reactions Research Pros/Cons Graphic Organizer 

• Links for Research are on page 3-4. Choose 3 sources.

Chemistry Week 3 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about nuclear reactions?
2. What questions do you still have about nuclear reactions?
3. Make a list of 4 words/terms that correlate with nuclear reactions.

MINILesson: Isotopes and Nuclear Reactions

Activity: Week 3 (or other) Make-up

Human Anatomy and Phys Unit 2 Wrap-Up

Questions:

1. What is blood pressure?
2. What do you think about high blood pressure?
3. What do you think could reverse high blood pressure?

MINILesson: The "Cure" for High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease

Activity: Blood Pressure Virtual Data Study and Unit Assessment

Earth Science Unit 2 Wrap-up/Assessment

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about the history of the Earth?
2. What questions do you still have about the early history of the Earth?
3. What activity from this unit helped you learn about the history of the Earth the best? Explain your thoughts by writing a because statement.

MINILesson: Unit Wrap-Up

Activity: History of Earth's Atmosphere Comic Strip and Unit Assessment

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 10

Questions:

1. What do you notice about the graph you made?
2. What do you think about the history of the atmospheric gases?
3. What do you think will be the most difficult part of the learning obejctive for you? (explain your thoughts using a because statement)

MINILesson: History of the Atmopshere

Activity: History of the Atmosphere Comic Strip

Human Anatomy and Phys Unit 2 Day 10

Questions:

1. What do you think about the data you studied yesterday?
2. What are mechanisms of heart disease?
3. Translate our learning objective for today using the following sentence starter: In other words,...

MINILesson: What is blood pressure?

Activity: Blood Pressure Simulation and Data Study

Chemistry Week 3 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. Summarize the simulation from part 1.
2. What did the simulation show you about nuclear reactions?
3. How do nuclear reactions occur?

MINILesson: Chemical vs nuclear reaction

Activity: Building Background Information--Article Analysis 

Chemistry Week 3 Day 2 Part 1

Questions:

1. What is a nuclear reaction? (what does it involve?)
2. Is a nuclear reaction similar or different than a chemical reaction? (explain your thinking using a because statement)
3. Translate our learning objective for today using the sentence starter In other words, ...

MINILesson: Nuclear Reactions 

Activity: Nuclear Reactions Simulation

Chemistry Week 3 Day 1 Part 2

Questions:

1. What steps will you take to obtain the most reliable data for your lab?
2. What differences or similarities did you notice about your lab compared to others in the class?
3. What does your lab tell you about matter during a chemical reaction?

MINILesson: Reliable Data 

Activity: Lab Data Collection, Analysis and Conclusions

Chemistry Week 3 Day 1 Part 1

Questions:

1. What does it mean to balance a chemical reaction?
2. How do you know if a chemical reaction is balanced?
3. What will be the most difficult part of our learning objective for today? Explain yourself using a because statement.

MINILesson: Demonstrating what happens during chemical reactions

Activity: Law of Cons of Mass Design Lab 

Human Anatomy and Physiology Unit 2 Day 9

Questions:

1. What do you think causes heart disease?
2. What is heart disease?
3. What is the most important piece of information about the heart? Write your answer as a because statement.

MiniLesson: Factors Correlated to Risk of Heart Disease

Activity: Heart Disease Data Analysis--See Links Below

Cardiovascular Death Data

Heart Attack Data

Heart Disease Data

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 9

Questions: 

1. Why did we do a lab using plants?
2. In what ways did the formation of the Earth's atmosphere depend on plants?
3. Translate our learning objective for today using the following sentence starter--In other words,...

MiniLesson: The Development of the Atmosphere--The Gaia Theory

Learning Activity: The Gaia Theory Data Analysis

Human An and Phys Unit 2 Day 9

Questions:

1. Looking at your mini-lesson notes from this week, what stands out to you most?
2. Looking at your exit tickets from this week, what stands out to you most?
3. What do you think about structural causes of heart disease?

MINILesson: Risk Factors of heart disease

Activity: Heart Disease Data Analysis - See Links below

Cardiovascular Death Data

Heart Attack Data

Heart Disease Data

Earth Science Unit 2 ACE Thanksgiving Day

PLease pick up a notecard from the front!! Use this to answer the questions below!!

Questions:

1. Looking at your do nows from this week, what stands out to you most?
2. Looking at your exit tickets from this unit, what stands out to you most?
3. What has been the biggest stumbling block for you so far this this unit and why do you think this is?

Chemistry Week 2 Day 4 Part 1

Questions:

1. Summarize the simulation from yesterday.
2. Draw or describe what a balanced chemical reaction means.
3. What do you think will be the most difficult part about learning to balance chemical reactions? Explain your thinking by writing a because statement.

MINILesson: Balancing Chemical reactions and Class Info

Activity: Balancing Chemical Reactions - You Choose

• Simulation (interactive)
• On the Table

Chemistry Week 2 Day 4 Part 2

Questions:

1. Describe one thing you've learned about balancing chemical reactions.
2. What is the hardest part about balancing chemical reactions? Easiest part?
3. Looking at your exit tickets so far this week, what stands out to you most?

MINILesson: Incorporating scientific language in your writing.

Activity: Catch up of all Week 1 and Week 2 Missing work. 

Chemistry Week 2 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. If you were to design a lab about the law of conservation of mass, what would you do?
2. What is still confusing to you about the Law of conservation of Mass?
3. What activities or tasks have been most helpful in your learning of chemical reactions? Explain your thinking by writing a because statement. 

MINILesson: Balancing chemical reactions - WHY?

Activity: Balancing Chemical Reactions - (HOW)

Chemistry Week 2 Day 3 Part 1

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part of your Law of Conservation Of mass lab from yesterday? Explain your thinking by writing a because statement.
2. Explain any mass changes you had that were greater than 0.5 grams (error range).
3. If you could do this lab again, what would you do differently?

MINILesson: Lab 2 - Design Lab Information

Activity: Law of Cons of Mass Lab 2

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 8

Questions:

1. What affect does the amount of carbon dioxide have on the oxygen plants produce?
2. What new learning have you gained from this lab?
3. What errors could have affected your data?

MINILesson: Lab--->Early Earth

Activity: Lab Analysis and Poster

Human Anatomy Unit 2 Day 7

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about heart disease?
2. What did you used to think about heart disease?
3. What is structurally wrong when you have heart disease?

MINILesson: Heart Disease Part 2

Activity: Heart Health Article 

Chemistry Week 2 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. What does the law of conservation of mass look like?
2. How does the law of conservation of mass relate to what we've been studying about reactions so far?
3. What do you need to do (more of) in order to meet our learning objective for today?

MINILesson: Law of Conservation of Mass Lab

Activity: Law of conservation of Mass Lab

Chemistry Week 2 Day 2 Part 1

Questions:

1. What did you used to think about chemical reactions?
2. What do you know now about chemical reactions?
3. What makes chemical reactions different than each other?

MINILesson: Breaking apart a chemical reaction.

Activity: Balancing Chemical Reactions Videos to Build Background Information (links below)

Videos for Today (Choose 4)

The Law of Conservation of Mass

Vacation or Conservation

What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?

The History of Chemistry Laws

Lego Block Party

How to Balance Chemical Reactions

Professor Dave Explains Balancing Chemical Reactions

Beginners Guide to Balancing Chemical Reactions

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 6

Questions: 

1. Summarize the lab we started yesterday.
2. What is the purpose of the lab we started yesterday?
3. What do you think will be the hardest part of collecting data for this lab? Explain your thinking by writing a because statement.

MINILesson: Lab Overview

Activity: Where did the oxygen come from? Lab Data Collection and Conclusions

Human An and Phys Unit 2 Day 7

Questions:

1. What errors could have affected your heart rate lab data?
2. What would you do differently next time in order to get more reliable data?
3. What do you think is the hardest part of designing your own lab and collecting reliable data?

MINILesson: Heart Disease - Mechanisms of 

Activity: Heart Reading - Building Background Knowledge

Chemistry Week 2 Day 1 Part 2

Questions:

1. What have you done so far to make progress towards our learning ojective?
2. Which of the science language terms to you think you could write the most about? Explain your thinking by writing a because statement.
3. Why is important to process (analyze) data and information in science?

MINILesson: Types of Chemical Reactions Lab - Annotations

Activity: Types of Chemical Reactions Lab

Chemistry Week 2 Day 1 Part 1

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part of week 1 in chemistry class for you?
2. What new learning did you gain about chemical reactions?
3. What things do you think have helped your learning most in this class? Explain your thoughts by writing a because statement. 

MINILesson: Types of chemical reactions - Patterns and Properties

Activity: Types of Chemical Reactions Refresher

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 6

Questions:

1. Where did the oxygen on Earth come from? 
2. What new learning have you gained about the history of the Earth's atmosphere?
3. What do you think is the most difficult part about doing labs in class? Explain your thoughts.

MINILesson: The Growth of Oxygen - Lab Set-Up

Activity: The Growth of Oxygen Lab

Human Anatomy and Phys Unit 2 Day 5

Questions:

1. Describe what you're going to do in your "Factors that Affect Heart Rate" lab.
2. What do you think is going to be the most difficult part about collecting data for your lab?
3. Where could be possible sources of error in your data collection process? 

MINILesson: Reliable Data Collection 

Activity: Heart Rate Design Lab Data Collection 

Human Anatomy Unit 2 Day 5

Questions:

1. What are mechanisms of a heart beat?
2. What do you think is the most important structure of the heart? Explain your thinking.
3. What will be the hardest part of today's learning objective for you? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Mechanisms of Heart Rate

Activity: Heart Rate Design Lab Day 1

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 4

Questions:

1. What questions do you have about the early Earth? Try to think of at least 2.
2. What new learning did you gain from studying the history of the atmosphere yesterday?
3. What do you think about the early atmosphere?

MINILesson: Early Atmosphere

Activity: Where did the oxygen come from? Interactive and Lab

Chemistry Week 1 Day 4 Part 2

Questions:

1. What questions do you have about chemical reactions? Try to think of at least 2.
2. What new learning have you gained today about chemical reactions?
3. What do we mean by mechanisms of chemical reactions?

MINILesson: Types of chemical reactions

Activity: Types of reactions cut n paste

Chemistry Week 1 Day 4 Part 1

Questions:

1. What did you think about your two chemical vs physical change labs?
2. What will be the easiest part of our learning objective for you? Explain your thinking.
3. What do you know about chemical reactions and compounds?

MINILesson: 5 Types of Chemical Reactions

Activity: 5 Types of Reactions Foldable--See Links 

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

Chemistry Week 1 Day 3 Part 1

Questions:

1. What can you say about physical changes?
2. Technically speaking, what does a chemical change look like? (draw or describe)
3. What does our learning objective mean? (In other words,....)

MINILesson: Chem vs Phys Change Lab 2 Annotations

Activty: Chem vs Phys Change Lab 2

Chemistry Week 1 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. What did you notice from your lab during part 1?
2. What new knowledge have you gained about chemical reactions?
3. What makes chemical reactions different than each other?

MINILesson: Forming and Naming chemical compounds

Activity: Chemical Compounds CutnPaste

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 3

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained so far about the early history of Earth?
2. What have you found to be most surprising about the history of Earth? Explain your thinking.
3. What does our learning objective mean? (In other words, ....)

MINILesson: Where did the oxygen come from?

Activity: The Early Atmosphere Interactive and Analysis

Human Anatomy and Phy Unit 2 Day 4

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about the heart structures?
2. What new learning have you gained about how the heart functions?
3. What does our learning objective for today mean? (In other words...)

MINILesson: Heart Beat and Video

Activity: Heart Beat Animation Study

Chemistry Week 1 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. Why is sometimes helpful to do simulations or virtual labs?
2. What do you think will be the hardest part of our learning objective for you? Explain your thinking.
3. How would you describe a physical change to matter?

MINILesson: Lab Data and Observations

Activity: Chemical vs Physical Changes Lab 1

Chemistry Week 1 Day 2 Part 1

Questions:

1. What new learning did you gain yesterday about chemical reactions from your article?
2. What part of the Close reading protocol that we did yesterday was most helpful for your learning?
3. What does a chemical reaction look like? (draw or describe)

MINILesson: Chemical Reactions Reading Reflection

Activity: Chemical vs Physical Change Simulation

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 2

Questions:

1. What did you learn from the article you read yesterday?
2. What new learning have you gained about the cambrian explosion?
3. What do you think is most confusing or most difficult about reading this article?

MINILesson: The Cambrian Explosion

Activity: Cambrian Explosion One-Pager (finish)

Human An and Physiology Unit 2 Day 3

Learning: Students will learn about the correlation between structure and function of the heart and will explain and analyze it in writing using the language of science (mechanisms, factors that affect, process, chambers, blood flow, atria, ventricles, direct link ,pressure). 

Questions:

1. What have you learned about the structures of the heart?
2. What do you think causes the heart to beat?
3. How do you think the structure/function diagrams you colored/labeled have helped you so far?

Heart Link for Class Today

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 1

Questions:

1. What do you know about early life forms on Earth?
2. How long ago do you think life started? Explain your thinking.
3. What do you think will be the most difficult part of our learning objective for you? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Unit 2 Introduction

Activity: The First Explosion of Life Reading for Background Knowledge

Human Anatomy Unit 1 Day 1-2 continued

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained so far about the cardiovascular system?
2. What do you need to do in order to meet our learning objective for today?
3. What do you notice about the structures of the heart?

MINILesson: The Heart of Your Heart

Activity: Finish Diagrams (Structures/Functions)

• Colored/labeled.
• 3 Functions
• Reflection questions 

Chemistry Week 1 Day 1 Part 2

Questions:

1. How do you feel about your progress towards meeting our learning objective so far?
2. What new learning did you gain from part 1 (videos)?
3. What is a chemical reaction? 

MINILesson: What is a chemical reaction? (Technically)

Activity: Chemical Reactions Close Reading 

Chemistry Week 1 Day 1

Questions:

1. What do you know about chemical or nuclear reactions?
2. Why do you think it's important to study chemical and nuclear reactions?
3. What do you think will be the most difficult part of our learning objective for you today?

MINILesson: Class Set-up and Expectations

Activity: Building Background Information (Videos)

LINKS For Videos

What Triggers a Chemical Reaction?

Chemical Reactions in Action

Basics of Chemical Reactions

Evidence Of Chemical Reactions

Types of Chemical Reactions

Chemical Reactions in Baking Cookies

Bozeman Science Chemical Reactions

Human Anatomy Unit 2 Day 2

Questions:

1. What did you notice from your diagrams yesterday?
2. What stands out to you most about the cardiovascular system? Explain your thinking.
3. What do you think the most important part of the heart is? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Pre-test Results

Activity: Cardiovascular System Diagrams (Structure and Function)

Physics Week 3 Day 4 Part 2

Instructions (you will not need a daily sheet for this!):

1. Pick up a handout from the front table.
2. Complete the handout to the best of your ability in order to provide thoughtful feedback for Ms Friedrich.
3. Place your completed handout in the "Exit Ticket" basket.

Physics Week 3 Day 4

Questions:

1. List 3 new things you learned from this class.
2. What did we do to study Newton's laws?
3. During this class, how did we design experiments, analyze data and collect evidence about Newtons Laws of Motion?

MINILesson: End of Class Deets

Activity: Science Lab Poster

Earth Science Unit Assessment

Instructions (you will not need a daily sheet today!):

1. Pick up a handout from the front table.
2. Complete the handout to the best of your ability in order to provide thoughtful feedback for Ms Friedrich.
3. Place your completed handout in the "Exit Ticket" basket.