Biology Unit 1 Day 8

Language: biomolecules, building blocks of biomolecules, monomers, polymers, enzymes, structure, function

Questions:

1. What have you learned about biomolecules?
2. What would be the most difficult for you to explain?
3. What has helped you most as a learner in this class? What would help you more?

Mini-Lesson: Essential Proteins

Activity: Protein Structure and Pre-Lab Questions

Chemistry Week 2 Day 4 Part 2

Language: 

Questions: 

1. What activities or strategies are most empowering for your learning? 
2. What parts of this class empowered your learning most? Least? Explain your thinking.
3. What would you tell other ACE students about science class with Ms Friedrich?

Mini-Lesson: NONE

Activity: Portfolio Completion and Self-Assessment or Course Assessment

Chemistry Week 2 Day 4 Part 1

Language: patterns, trends, properties, elements, electrons, protons, correlation between electrons/protons and the periodic table arrangement

Questions:

1. What is the correlation (connection) between protons and the periodic table arrangement?
2. What is the correlation (connection) between electrons and the periodic table arrangement?
3. What have you learned this week about the periodic table?

Mini-Lesson: None

Activity: Portfolio Completion and Self-Evaluation

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 8

Language: convection, weather front, air masses, temperature, factors that cause severe weather

Questions:

1. What have you learned so far about severe weather?
2. What are you still confused about?
3. What does severe weather look like? You can draw this. Try to be as technical as possible.

Mini-Lesson: Convergence

Activity: Severe Weather Data Interpretation Part 2

Chemistry Week 2 Day 3 Part 2

Language: patterns, trends in the periodic table, electrons, protons, model, properties

Questions:

1.  What do you think electrons have to do with how the periodic table is arranged?
2. What do you think has more of an impact on the properties of an element--its protons or electrons? Explain your thinking.

Mini-Lesson: What causes these patterns and trends?

Activity Title Periodic Table Model

Helpful Links for Class Today

Royal Chemistry Society Periodic Table Trends

Interactive Periodic Table of Properties

Chemistry Week 2 Day 3

Language: trends and patterns in the periodic table, electronegativity, atomic radius, properties of elements, characteristics of matter

Questions:

1. How does the size of the atom change going down the periodic table? 
2. Which element on the periodic table do you think is the biggest? Explain your thinking.
3. Which element on the periodic table do you think is the most chemically reactive? Explain your thinking.

Mini-Lesson: Trends in the periodic table

Activity: Graphing the Periodic Table

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 7

Language: factors that cause severe weather, air masses, weather fronts, correlation between location and amount of severe weather, temperature

Questions:

1. In which state do you think the most severe weather occurs? Why do you think this is?
2. In which state do you think the least severe weather occurs? Why do you think this is?

Mini-Lesson: Colorado severe weather

Activity: Severe Weather Data Study

Severe Weather Data Link for Class Today

Biology Unit 1 Day 6

Language: proteins, structure, function, enzymes, three-dimensional shape

Questions:

1. Describe the protein structure and function.
2. Do you think proteins are alike or different than other biomolecules? Explain your thinking.
3. Do you think proteins are important to living things? Explain your thinking.

Mini-Lesson: The Essential Protein

Activity: Protein Modeling 

Biology Unit 1 Catch-UP!

Language: monomer, polymer, structure, function

Questions: 

1. Describe the building blocks of carbohydrates.
2. Describe the building blocks of lipids.
3. What's the difference between proteins and nucleic acids?

Mini-Lesson: Relationship between structure and function

Activity: Catch-up! All work through day 5. 

Chemistry Week 2 Day 2 Part 2

Language: periodic table trends and patterns, properties, chemical properties, physical properties.
Questions: Use the data table below to draw conclusions about elements in the periodic table.

• What patterns or trends do you notice in the elements below? Try to describe at least 2. 

Mini-Lesson: Flame Test Lab 

Activity Title: Flame Test Lab

Chemistry Week 2 Day 2 Part 1

Language: groups, periods, patterns, families, properties 

Questions:

1. List and describe 3 ways the periodic table is arranged or organized.
2. How else could you arrange the periodic table?

Mini-Lesson: Recognizing patterns

Activity Title: Periodic Table Article One-Pager (finish)

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 6

Language: weather front, factors that cause severe weather, air density, temperature

Questions:

1. Why doesn't Colorado have more severe weather?
2. What do you think causes hurricanes?
3. What makes a stationary front stationary (still or not moving)?

Mini-Lesson: Hurricane Harvey

Activity Title: Weather Article One-Pager (Finish)

Biology Unit 1 Day 5

Language: monomers, polymers, building blocks of biomolecules, structure, function

Questions:

1.  What are monomers? Give an example.
2. What are polymers? Give an example.
3. What’s the difference between carbohydrates and lipids?

Mini-Lesson: Protein vs. Nucleic Acids (Structure and Function)

Activity: Biomolecules Modeling (Part 2) 

Chemistry Week 2 Day 1 Part 2

Language: periods, families, groups, properties, patterns in the periodic table

Questions:

1.  What’s the difference between elements on the left and elements on the right side of the periodic table?
2. What does it mean to say elements are a part of families?
3. Give an example of a family and its properties.

Mini-Lesson: Patterns on the Periodic Table

Activity Title: Periodic Table Article One-Pager

Chemistry Week 2 Day 1 Part 1

Language: chemical properties, physical properties, metals, metalloids, non-metals, families, groups

Questions:

1.       How is the periodic table arranged?
2.   What do you know about the numbers on the periodic table?
3.      What’s the difference between the elements on the top of the periodic table and the elements on the bottom of the periodic table?

Mini-Lesson: Families, Periods and Groups in the Periodic Table

Activity Title: Periodic Table Color-Code and Label

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 5

Language: factors that cause severe weather, air density, temperature

Questions:

1.       What causes lightning?
2.       Why does air density cause weather?
3.       What’s the difference between a warm front and a cold front?

Mini-Lesson: Where does severe weather happen?

Activity Title: Weather Factors One-Pager

Friday Class #2

Videos for Today

Disciples of Flight: Aerodynamics

Thrust, Drag, Weight, Lift

Forces on Aircraft

NASA: Drag, Lift, and Thrust

Learn Engineering: How do Rockets Work

National Geographic How Rockets Work

Mythbusters: Rocket in a Vacuum 

Chemistry Unit 1 Day 4 Part 2

Language: chemical properties, physical properties, accurate data, reliable data

Questions:

1. Summarize the data and results you got from your lab.
2. Do you think your data is accurate? Reliable? Explain your thinking.
3. If you were to do this lab again, what would you do differently?

• Mini-Lesson: Classifying Matter and Elements
• Activity: Data Analysis and Conclusions

Chemistry Unit 1 Day 4 Part 1

Language: chemical properties, physical properties, qualitative data, quantitative data

Questions:

1. Summarize (2 sentences) what the lab was about yesterday. 
2. What was the goal of the lab?
3. What are some possible sources of error in this lab? (try to think of at least 2)

Mini-Lesson: Materials and Procedures - Background Info

Activity Title: Mystery Powders lab

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 4

Language: cold front, warm front, occluded front, stationary front, air masses, factors that create severe weather

Questions:

1. What causes severe weather? 
2. What causes rainy weather? 
3. What does air density have to do with weather?

Mini-Lesson: What causes rainy weather?

Activity Title: Fronts Foldable

Biology Unit 1 Day 3

Language: Monomer, polymer, structure, function, building blocks of biomolecules, connection between structure and function

Questions:

1. What would be the most difficult part for you to explain about biomolecules? 
2. What are monomers? What do you think they look like?
3. What are polymers? What do you think they look like?

Mini-Lesson: Types of biomolecules

Activity Title: Biomolecule Modeling

Chemistry Unit 1 Day 3 Part 2

Language: patterns, chemical properties, physical properties, qualitative data, quantitative data, analyze and interpret data

Do Now Questions:

1. Compare and contrast 2 elements by sharing your element poster with a neighbor. Record 2 similarities and 2 differences. 
2. What property makes the element you studied unique? 

Mini-Lesson: Lab Information

Activity Title: Unknown Powders Lab

Chemistry Unit 1 Day 3 Part 1

Language: patterns, properties, physical properties, chemical properties


Questions:

• Use the following chart to answer your do now question below.

1. What do you notice about the data above? Write at least 2 details you notice.
2. Do you notice any patterns? Explain your thinking. 
3. Is melting and boiling a physical property or chemical? 

Mini-Lesson: Analyzing Patterns in Elements. 

Activity Title: Lab Safety Poster. 

Biology Unit 1 Day 2

Language: biomolecules, monomers, polymers, lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids

Do Now Questions:

1.  Why do you think the biomolecules are different?
2.  Looking at the text reading from yesterday (first page), describe one detail about carbon in living things.
3. Which of the biomolecules do you think is most important? Explain your thinking.

Mini-Lesson: Building blocks of life

Activity Title: Biomolecules Jigsaw (part 2)

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 3

Language: weather front, air mass, density, temperature, factors that affect weather, causes of severe weather.

Do Now Questions:

1. What affect does temperature have on severe weather?
2. What affect does the ocean have on weather?
3. What affect does latitude have on the weather?

Mini-Lesson: Factors that affect weather

Activity Title: Weather Fronts Foldable 

Biology Unit 1 Day 2

Language: biomolecules, lipids, carbodydrates, nucleic acids, proteins, building blocks of life

Do Now Questions:

1. What do you think is the smallest living thing?
2. What is protein? Why is it important?
3. What elements (from the periodic table) do you think are important for life?

Mini-Lesson: Elements and Molecules of Life

Activity Title: Biomolecule Jigsaw

Chemistry Unit 1 Day 2 Part 2

Language: chemical properties, physical properties, properties used to identify an element.

Do Now Questions: 

1. What does the boiling point of an element mean? 
2. What do you think is the most important property of an element?
3. What makes elements different from each other? 

Mini-Lesson Focus: Properties of Elements

Activity: Properties of Elements videos 

Links for Videos

Chemical Properties vs Physical Properties

What's My Property?

Properties of Elements

10 Strangest Elements

Properties of Metals vs Non-metals

The Nucleus of an Element

Elements and Molecules

Chemistry Unit 1 Day 2 Part 1

Learning: properties (property), density, conductivity, element symbol, boiling point, melting point. 


Do Now Questions:

1. Why do you think some elements have high or lower masses than others?
2. What do you think is the most important property to know about an element? Explain your thinking.
3. What other properties do you think would be important to know about elements?

Mini-Lesson Focus: Properties of Elements


Activity Title: Adopt an Element Poster

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 2

Language: air density, temperature, air mass, causes of severe weather

Do Now Questions:

1. What is weather? 
2. What do you think causes more severe weather?
3. What do you think makes weather different from severe weather? 

Mini-Lesson: What makes weather?

Activity Title: Weather Videos 

Links for Videos 

Severe Weather

Our World--What is Weather?

Bozeman Science Weather and Climate

The Weather Channel

National Geographic Climate and Weather

What Causes Severe Weather?
Weather Fronts

Chemistry Unit 1 Day 1 Part 2

Language: element, atom, periodic table, atomic number, atomic mass, pattern.

Do Now Questions:

1. What do you know about the periodic table?
2. Which element is most familiar to you? Why?
3. What do you know (or think you know) about the numbers on the periodic table?

Mini-Lesson Focus: What are elements?

Activity Title: Adopt an Element Project

Exit Ticket: 

What did we do for this learning activity? What did you notice? Why did we do this activity? Try to use at least 2 words from the daily language board in your writing; circle the Language words you used.  

Biology Unit 1 Day 1

Language: Expectations, empowerment/empowered, active learner, scientific thinking.

Do Now Questions:

1. What do you think empowerment means? 
2. What does it look and feel like to be empowered? 
3. What do you expect from your science class and science teacher?

Mini-Lesson Focus: Expectations and Empowerment

Activity Title: I Am Poem

Exit Ticket:

Today we discussed expectations and empowerment in science class. Based on this discussion and what you know so far, what do you think about this science class? Try to use at least 2 of the words from the language board in your writing. 

Chemistry Unit 1 Day 1

Language: Expectations, empowerment/empowered, active learner, scientific thinking.

Do Now Questions:

1. What do you think empowerment means? 
2. What does it look and feel like to be empowered? 
3. What do you expect from your science class and science teacher?

Mini-Lesson Focus: Expectations and Empowerment

Activity Title: I Am Poem

Exit Ticket:

Today we discussed expectations and empowerment in science class. Based on this discussion and what you know so far, what do you think about this science class? Try to use at least 2 of the words from the language board in your writing. 

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 1

Language: Expectations, empowerment/empowered, active learner, scientific thinking.

Do Now Questions:

1. What do you think empowerment means? 
2. What does it look and feel like to be empowered? 
3. What do you expect from your science class and science teacher?

Mini-Lesson Focus: Expectations and Empowerment

Activity Title: I Am Poem

Exit Ticket:

 Today we discussed expectations and empowerment in science class. Based on this discussion and what you know so far, what do you think about this science class? What questions do you still have? Try to use at least 2 of the words from the language board in your writing.