Earth Science Unit 2 Day 9

Questions:

1. How or why does the ocean influence  the climate?
2. Why does the ocean move?
3. Which locations or areas do you think are most influenced by the ocean?

MiniLesson: The Ocean's Impact on Climate

Activity: Unit Assessment

Biology Unit 2 Day 9

Questions:

1. What are stem cells? 
2. How are stem cells used in the adult body?
3. What makes stem cells different from other cells in the body?

MiniLesson: Positives and Negatives of Stem Cell Use

Activity: Stem Cell Bioethics Graphic Organizer and Essay

Physics Week 1 Day 4 Part 2

Questions:

1. What did your data from your lab tell you about acceleration?
2. If you could change one factor about your lab, what would it be? Explain your thinking.
3. How would you explain force in Newtons to a friend?

MiniLesson: Free Body Diagrams

Activity: Free Body Diagrams Interactive

Physics Week 1 Day 4 Part 1

Questions:

1. What were we doing in our lab yesterday?
2. What was the purpose of our lab?
3. Is your data reliable? Explain your thinking.

MiniLesson: Calculating acceleration and velocity.

Activity: Lab Data, Analysis and Interpretation.

Physics Week 1 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1.  What would a graph of speed look like?
2. Do graphs of increasing and decreasing speed look similar or different? Explain your thinking.
3. How can we represent position of motion? (draw or describe)

MiniLesson: Calculating acceleration and force

Activity: Motion in 1-D Lab

Physics Week 1 Day 3 Part 1

Questions:

1. How can you show when and where motion occurs?
2. What impact does friction force have on motion?
3. What did the text from yesterday say about representing motion?

MiniLesson: Representing Motion--Text Review

Activity: Motion Simulation 

Biology Unit 2 Day 8

Questions:

1. What makes red blood cells specialized?
2. What makes red blood cells different than other cells in the body?
3. What would you add to red blood cells to make them better at doing their job?

MiniLesson: Stem Cells

Activity: Stem Cells Interactive

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 8

Questions:

1. Describe 2 patterns you notice on the wind maps from yesterday.
2. What do you think causes the patterns to be this way?
3. What impact does the uneven heating of Earth (by the sun) have on the wind?

MiniLesson: The Motion of the Ocean Part 2

Activity: Ocean and Wind Data Analysis and Interpretation (continued from yesterday)

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 7

Questions: 

1. How does the ocean affect the climate in a city?
2. Give an example of a city whose climate is directly impacted by the ocean.
3. Does concrete impact the climate in a city? Explain your thinking.

Mini-Lesson: The Ocean in Motion

Activity: Global Ocean Circulation Data Analysis 

Physics Week 1 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. How do forces affect motion?
2. Draw a diagram to show how forces might affect motion.
3. What makes forces different from each other? Explain your thinking or show it with a diagram.

Mini-Lesson: Forces that affect motion

Activity: Representing Motion Text 

Physics Week 1 Day 2 Part 1

Questions:

1. How can you describe motion?
2. What factors impact motion?
3. What do you think impacts motion on Earth the most? Explain your thinking.

Mini-Lesson: Representing Motion 

Activity: Motion Simulation

Biology Unit 2 Day 6 (continued)

Questions:

1. What are red blood cells?
2. What makes red blood cells highly specialized?
3. What did you notice about your red blood cells from yesterday?

Mini-Lesson: Red blood Cells--Part 2

Activity: Red blood Cell Data Analysis

Physics Week 1 Day 1 Part 2

Questions:

1. What is a force?
2. Give 3 examples of forces.
3. What does a force look like? (draw or describe)

Mini-Lesson: How can we describe the motion of objects?

Activity: Newton's 2nd Law Videos and Notecatcher

Newton's Laws of Motion

Science of NFL Football 

Don't Memorize - Newton's Second Law of Motion

Friction - Crash Course

Bozeman Science Newtons Laws

Newton's 3 Laws with a Bicycle

Balanced and Unbalanced Forces

Khan Academy Balanced or Unbalanced Forces?

Physics Week 1 Day 1 Part 1

Questions:

1. What do you want to learn in this class?
2. List 3 things that help you learn.
3. List 3 expectations you have of your teacher and fellow classmates.

Mini-Lesson: How does physics class work?

Activity: Motion of Objects Vocabulary Chart 

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 6

Questions:

1. Describe or explain 2 factors that influence climate.
2. How does the angle of the sun influence climate (and seasons)? (draw or describe)
3. How is the climate in 2 of the cities you studied alike?

Mini-Lesson: Comparing Climate in our Communities

Activity: Climate Article Text Analysis

Biology Unit 2 Day 6

Questions:

1. What are white blood cells? 
2. What is the most important point to know about white blood cells?
3. What is cell specialization?

Mini-Lesson: Cell Specialization Part 2--Red Blood Cells

Activity: Red Blood Cell Data Analysis

Chemistry Week 2 Day 4 Part 2

Questions:

1. What does it mean to you to feel empowered?
2. Did this class make you feel empowered to learn? Explain your thinking.
3. Did this class require you to think hard about science? Explain your thoughts.

Mini-Lesson and Activity: Final grades and Work time

Chemistry Week 2 Day 4 Part 1

Questions:

1. Why does most of matter on earth exist as compounds and molecules not elements?
2. What does a Lewis Dot Structure tell us?
3. What do you think is the most important part of the Chemical Bonding and Molecules unit? Explain your thinking.

Mini-Lesson: Using models to Understand Chemistry

Activity: Molecular Model Final

Biology Unit 2 Day 5

Language: types of cells, cell specialization, cell structures, cell functions

Questions:

1. What do you know about blood cells (white blood cells or red blood cells)?
2. What are stem cells?
3. How do cells differentiate?

Mini-Lesson: White Blood Cells Specialization

Activity: White Blood Cell Data Study

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 5

Language: factors that affect climate (altitude, latitude, angle of the sun, proximity to water)

Questions:

1. What does high altitude mean? 
2. What does high altitude air look like? (draw or describe)
3. Why is the climate so crazy at higher altitudes?

Mini-Lesson: Climate in North America

Activity: Climate in Our Communities Analysis Questions