Physics Week 3 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. How has your thinking about Newton's Laws changed through this class?
2. What do you think the most meaningful part of this class was for your learning?
3. What do you think have been the 4 key ideas from this class?

MINILesson: CrashTest Car Check-up and Share Out

Activity: CrashTest Car Data Collection

Physics Week 3 Day 3 Part 1

Questions:

1. What was the most difficult part about your design lab yesterday?
2. Did you see a pattern in your data? Explain your thinking.
3. What do you think will be the most difficult part about our learning objective for you today?

MINILesson: CrashTest Cars Information and Important Points

Activity: Crash Test Cars Research (prelab) and Build 

Human Anatomy Unit 2 Day 1

Questions:

1. What do you know about the cardiovascular system structures and functions?
2. What do you know about heart disease?
3. What is the most difficult part of our learning objective for you today?

MINILesson: Cardiovascular System pre-test

Activity: Cardiovascular System Diagrams (Build Background Information)

• Choose 2 pages to color and label.
• On each page, research the functions of 3 structures.

Helpful Links for Diagrams

http://www.texasheart.org/HIC/Anatomy/

http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/heart.html 

http://www.newhealthadvisor.com/Circulatory-System-Diagram.html

Structures and Functions

Earth Science Unit 1 Assessment

Questions:

1. List 3 new things you learned from this unit.
2. What events from the past did we study to learn about the history of Earth?
3. During unit 1, how did we analyze data and evidence about the history of Earth?

MINILesson: Unit Assessment Instructions and Information

Activity: Early Earth Timeline Unit Assessment

Links To Use for Timeline

World Map of Impact Events

National Geographic Asteroid Impacts

World Timeline of Impacts

Physics Week 3 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. What trends or patterns have you noticed in your data so far?
2. What scientific language term best applies to your results so far? Explain your thinking.
3. Draw an action/reaction force diagram for your lab today.

MINILesson: Law of Conservation of Momentum

Activity: 3rd Law Balloon Car Data and Conclusions

Physics Week 3 Day 2 Part 1

Questions:

1. Summarize the labs you did yesterday.
2. How would you define an elastic collision in terms of momentum?
3. Rate yourself on our learning objective--how much do you feel you already know? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Action Reaction force Pairs

Activity: 3rd Law Balloon Car Build and Data

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 9

Questions:

1. What was our lab about yesterday?
2. Do you think your data is reliable? Explain your thinking.
3. Finish the following sentence starter: In order to meet today's learning objective, I need to.... by...

MINILesson: Direct Evidence of Earth's Past

Activity: Impact Crater Lab Data and Conclusions

Human Anatomy Unit 1 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.

Physics Week 3 Day 1 Part 2

Questions: 

1. Based on our learning objective, what insights or learning to you have already?
2. What was the most difficult part of your first lab today? Explain your thinking.
3. How do inelastic collisions show Newton's 3rd Law of motion?

MINILesson: Elastic Collisions Lab

Activity: Elastic Collisions Lab

Physics Week 3 Day 1 Part 1

Questions:

1. Explain an example of a place/time where newton's 3rd law applies. 
2. What are 2 differences between elastic and inelastic collisions?
3. What is the purpose of today's learning objective?

MINILesson: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

Activity: Inelastic Collisions Lab

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 8

Questions:

1. What do asteroid impacts tell us about earth's history?
2. How do you think the asteroids that have impacted Earth differ?
3. After reading our learning objective for the day, complete the following sentence starter: So....but...

MINILesson: Impact Craters Lab

Activity: Impact Craters Lab

Biology Unit 1 Wrap-up And Unit Assessment

Questions: 

1. Translate our learning objective for today into other words (In other words,...)
2. What has been the most difficult thing so far for you in the class?
3. What was the most helpful or meaningful thing so far in this class? 

MINILesson: Unit 1 Wrap-up

Activity: Wrap-up and Unit Assessment

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 7

Questions:

1. What more information do you need in order to meet our learning objective for today?
2. What did the radiometic simulation look like yesterday? (draw or describe)
3. What did you learn about radiometric dating from the simulation yesterday?

MINILEsson: Impact Events As Evidence of Old Earth

Activity: Impact Event Data Analysis

Human Anatomy Unit 1 Day 7

Questions:

1. What do you think the most difficult part of our learning objective will be? Explain your thinking by writing a "because" statement.
2. What do you think are the counter opinions about using stem cells for medical reasons? 
3. What is muscle tissue? 

MINILesson: Cells-Tissues-Organs

Activity: Tissue Types Chart Jigsaw

Links for Tissue Types Chart

Exploring Tissues

Tissues in Human Body

Four Types of Tissues

Physics Week 2 Day 4 Part 2

Questions

1. Do you think you are meeting today's learning objective? Explain your thinking.
2. What is Newton's 3rd law?
3. What does Newton's 3rd Law of motion look like? (draw or describe)

MINILesson: Collisions with Newton's 3rd Law

Activity: Collisions Simulation

Physics Week 2 Day 4 Part 1

Questions:

1. What were our labs yesterday about?
2. What was the most confusing part of the labs for you yesterday?
3. What will be the most difficult part of our learning objective for you? (write a "because" statement)

MINILesson: Newton's 3rd Law of Motion

Activity: Building Background Information (Videos)

Video Links for Part 1 Activity

Newton's 3rd Law with a Bicycle

Newton's 3rd Law of Motion - Physics in the NFL

Crash Course in Collisions

Professor Dave Explains Impulse and Momentum

Elastic and Inelastic Collisions - What are they?

Bill Nye The Science Guy - Momentum 

Newton's 3rd Law - Action and Reaction

Physics Week 2 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. What did your results tell you about forces on a falling object?
2. Draw a diagram to show the forces on a falling object.
3. What steps have you taken so far to meet our learning objective? 

MINILesson: Friction Affect Acceleration?

Activity: Friction Lab

Physics Week 2 Day 1 Part 1

Questions:

1. What were our labs about yesterday?
2. What was the most difficult part of our labs yesterday?
3. Read our learning objective for today and finish the following sentence starter: So....but....

MINILesson: Air Resistance

Activity: Air Resistance Lab

Human Anatomy Unit 1 Day 6

Questions:

1. What are stem cells?
2. What did your article from yesterday say about stem cells?
3. What more information do you think you need in order to make progress towards our learning objective?

MINILesson: Adult Stem Cells vs Embryonic Stem Cells

Activity: Stem Cell Opinion Paragraph

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 6

Questions:

1. What are bombardment events? 
2. What do bombardment events tell us about old Earth?
3. Translate the learning objective into other words (In other words, we're going to...)

MINILesson: Radiometric Dating Part 2

Activity: Radiometric Dating Simulation

Physics Week 2 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. What have you done so far to make progress toward the learning objective? Explain.
2. What was the purpose of lab 1 (during part 1)?
3. Was your data reliable? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Lab 1 vs Lab 2

Activity: Newton's 2nd Law Lab 2

Physics Week 2 Day 2 Part 1

Questions: 

1. What did the article you read yesterday tell you about force?
2. How does force have to do with acceleration or mass?
3. What do you think will be the hardest part of our learning objective today? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Acceleration Diagrams

Activity: Newton's 2nd Law Lab 1

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 5

Questions:

1. What was the purpose of our lab yesterday?
2. What did the pennies represent in our lab?
3. What will be the hardest part of our learning objective for you?

MINILesson: What happened after the Earth cooled?

Activity: Bombardment Data

Human Anatomy Unit 1 Day 5

Questions:

1. What does the learning objective say about your learning today?
2. What did you notice about white blood cells from our activity yesterday?
3. What makes white blood cells specialized?

MINILesson: What are Stem Cells?

Activity: Stem Cells Article (Text) Analysis

Physics Week 2 Day 1 Part 2

Questions:

1. How do you feel so far about your progress towards our learning objective?
2. What is the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration?
3. What forces affect acceleration? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Types of Forces

Activity: Forces that affect Acceleration Article Analysis

Physics Week 2 Day 1 Part 1

Questions:

1. What do you think about our learning objective for today?
2. What did you learn from week 1 about newton's first law?
3. What does Newtons first law look like?

MINILesson: What does Force Cause?

Activity: Newton's Second Law Phet Simulation

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 4

Questions:

1. What do you think about our learning objective for today?
2. What do zircon crystals tell us about Earth?
3. What was Earth first like (during the Hadean era)?

MINILesson: How do we know how old Earth is?

Activity: Radiometric dating Model Lab

Human Anatomy Unit 1 Day 4

Questions:

1. What do you think about our learning objective for today?
2. What makes cells specialized?
3. Explain an example of a specialized cell.

MINILesson: Leukocytes--Highly Specialized Cells with Pictures

Activity: WBC Data Study

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 3

Questions:

1. What is the article from yesterday about?
2. What does this article tell us about "old Earth"?
3. What do you think about this article?

MINILesson: How the Earth Was Made

Activity: Zircon Crystals Evidence Of Old Earth Article

Physics Week 1 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. How does inertia apply to our dominoes lab?
2. Draw a diagram to model inertia in the domino lab.
3. Are there other examples of inerita in sports or other activities? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: CTE and Inertia

Activity: NFL Concussions Article Analysis

Physics Week 1 Day 3 Part 1

Questions:

1. Summarize your results from your crash test lab yesterday.
2. How does inertia apply to car crashes?
3. How might errors have affected your data (from lab yesterday)?

MiniLesson: Newtons 1st Law of Motion

Activity: Domino Lab

Human Anatomy Unit 1 Day 3

Questions:

1. Draw and describe the structure of one of the cells you studied yesterday.
2. Based on our notes yesterday, what makes a leukocyte (white blood cell) unique?
3. If you had to explain it to a classmate, what would you tell them about cell types (structures) and functions?

MINILesson: Cell Specialization

Activity: Cell Types Microscope Observation Lab

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 2

Questions. Use your data sheet from yesterday to help you answer the following:

1. What did the data we studied yesterday show?
2. What did you notice about the events that occurred in Earth's history?
3. What did you notice about the eras in Earth's history?

MINILesson: Eras, Eons, Periods

Activity: Old Earth Literacy (Close Reading)

Physics Week 1 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. What is the purpose of the lab we started in part one?
2. What errors could have affected your data? Explain.
3. How else could you test inertia in this lab?

MINILesson: Factors that Affect Inertia

Activity: Lab Data and Conclusions

Physics Week 1 Day 2 Part 1

Questions:

1. What is inertia?
2. If a moose were chasing you through the woods, its enormous mass would be very threatening. But if you zigzagged, then its great mass would be to your advantage. Explain why.
3. What do you think inertia depends on?

MINILesson: Inertia 

Activity: Impact of Car Crashes Inertia Lab Set-up and Data Collection

Human Anatomy Unit 1 Day 2

Questions:

1. What do skin cells look like? (draw or describe)
2. Which type of cell do you think you have the most of in your body? Explain your thinking.
3. Why do you think cells look differently?

MINILesson: Cell Specialization and Leukocytes

Activity: Cell Foldable + Emoji

More Links For Cell Foldable

• https://www.thoughtco.com/types-of-cells-in-the-body-373388
• https://sciencing.com/specialized-cells-body-7245490.html

Earth Science Unit 1 Day 1

Questions:

1. How old do you think Earth is?
2. What events have happened over the history of the Earth?
3. What do you think makes Earth different than other planets?

MINILesson: Expectations and Intro to Geological Time

Activity: Geological Time Scale Data Interpretation and Annotation

Physics Week 1 Day 1 Part 2

Questions:

1. What did you learn from your simulation during part 1?
2. Explain Newton's First law of motion.
3. What does Newton's First Law of Motion look like? (draw or describe)

MINILesson: What does motion look like?

Activity: Vectors and Scalars Lab

Physics Week 1 Day 1 Part 1

Questions:

1. What is force?
2. How do you measure motion?
3. What do you think is the most important force? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Expectations and Intro to Newton's 1st Law of Motion

Activity: Motion Simulation

Human Anatomy Unit 1 Day 1

Questions:

1. What do you know about cells?
2. What do you know about the cells in the human body?
3. How do you think cells help your body?

MINILesson: Expectations and Intro to Cells and Tissues

Activity: Cell Types Foldable

Links for Foldable Information

• http://www.rajaha.com/types-cells-human-body/
• http://www.brighthubeducation.com/science-homework-help/106593-types-of-cells-in-the-human-body/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/organisms_behaviour_health/cells_systems/revision/4/
• https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/types-of-cells-in-the-human-body

Last Day of Quarter 1

Instructions:

1. Pick up a handout from the front table.
2. Complete the handout to the best of your ability.
3. Turn in the completed handout to the exit ticket basket.

Physics Week 3 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. Where do you predict your roller coaster will have the highest potential energy. Explain your thinking.
2. Where do you predict your roller coaster will have the highest kinetic energy. Explain your thinking.
3. Where on your roller coaster will riders experience the highest centrifugal force? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: What are your next steps?

Activity: Roller Coaster Build

Physics Week 3 Day 3 Part 1

Questions:

1. What conclusions can you draw about your skate park track from yesterday and kinetic energy?
2. What features of a roller coaster track would generate the most kinetic energy?
3. Scientifically speaking, what do you think makes the "funnest" roller coaster?

MINILesson: Roller coaster Design Calculations

Activity: Roller Coaster Design

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 6

Questions:

1. Where does the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere come from?
2. What evidence do we have that the climate is changing?
3. Do you think our current climate change is human caused? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Evidence for Climate Change

Activity: Greenhouse Gas Model Lab

Biology Unit 3 Day 6

Questions:

1. What was our lab that we started yesterday about?
2. What does our lab have to do with homeostasis?
3. What does our lab have to do with cell transport?

MiniLesson: Cell Transport to Maintain Homeostasis

Activity: Dialysis Tubing Lab Data and Conclusions

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 6

Questions:

1. What do greenhouse gases look like in the atmosphere? (draw or describe)
2. What are 3 examples of green house gases?
3. What effect does carbon dioxide have on the temperature of the atmosphere?

MINILesson: Climate Change Model Lab

Activity: Climate Change Model Lab

Biology Unit 3 Day 6

Questions:

1. Why do cells transport materials in/out?
2. If you had to draw a picture of a cell in homeostasis what would it look like? (draw or describe)
3. What do you think is easier for cells to transport--sugar or water? Explain your thinking.

MINILesson: Dialysis Tubing Lab Setup

Activity: Lab

Physics Week 3 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. What is the difference between centripetal and centrifugal force?
2. Draw a diagram to show the difference between the 2 types of forces.
3. How does a rollercoaster loop show centripetal and centrifugal force?

MINILesson: Phet Skatepark Design Simulation

Activity: Phet Skatepark Design Simulation

Physics Week 3 Day 2 Part 1

Questions:

1. What do you think will be the most important factors to consider when constructing a rollercoaster model?
2. If you could use any materials to build a rollercoaster model what would you use and why?
3. What is the scientific reason some rollercoasters are more fun than others?

MINILesson: Centripetal Force

Activity: Centripetal Force Lab Data Collection and Conclusions

Biology Unit 3 Day 4

Questions:

1. What does cell transport look like? (draw or describe)
2. Summarize the lab we started on Thursday.
3. What do you hypothesize will happen to your potatos' cells? (write a "because" statement)

MINILesson: Cell Transport Data Diagrams

Activity: CEll transport Simulation

Physics Week 3 Day 1 Part 2

Questions:

1. Summarize your data from the centripetal force lab.
2. What 2 things did you notice about centripetal force during data collection?
3. Draw a free body diagram of centripetal force.

MINILesson: Analyzing Centripetal Force vs Centrifugal Force

Activity: Week 2 Clean-up 

Physics Week 3 Day 1

Questions:

1. What is the purpose of the centripetal force lab we started on Thursday?
2. How were you supposed to measure "centripetal force"?
3. Draw a labeled diagram of your lab set-up.

MINILesson: Measuring Centripetal Force

Activity: Centripetal Force Lab (data collection)

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 4

Questions:

1. What do your graphs (from Thursday) look like? (describe)
2. What do your graphs tell you about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over time?
3. What do your graphs tell you about temperature and carbon dioxide?

MINILesson: Analyzing Carbon Dioxide Graphs

Activity: Greenhouse Effect Simulation

Physics Week 2 Day 4 Part 2

Questions:

1. What were the results of the egg drop? 
2. What design worked the best? Explain why you think so.
3. Draw a free body force diagram (or 2) to show the motion of the egg.

MINILesson: Centripetal Force

Activity: Centripetal Force Lab (Data, Graph, Conclusions)

Physics Week 2 Day 4 Part 1

Questions:

1. What challenges did you have in your rocket balloon testing?
2. What challenges did you have in your egg drop free fall design?
3. What does free fall look like? Draw a free body (force) diagram.

MINILesson: Law of Universal Gravitation

Activity: Egg Drop Design, Test, and Conclusions

Biology Unit 3 Day 3

Instructions:

1. Pick up a lab handout from the front.
2. Read over the lab.
3. Write 3 details about this lab for your do now today.

MiniLesson: Osmosis in Plant Cells Lab

Activity: Osmosis in Plant Cells Lab

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 3

Questions:

1. What role do you think the ocean plays in climate change?
2. What did your articles from yesterday say about the effects of climate change?
3. What did your articles from yesterday say about the causes of climate change?

MINILesson: Causes of Climate Change

Activity: Climate Change Graphing

Physics Week 2 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. What is gravitational force?
2. What does gravitational force look like? (draw or describe)
3. What does free fall mean?

MiniLesson: Free Fall

Activity: Free Fall Egg Drop Apparatus

Physics Week 2 Day 3 Part 1

Question:

1. What challenges did you face gathering data for your balloon rocket yesterday?
2. What is the purpose of doing the balloon rocket?
3. Describe the energy of a balloon rocket (potential and kinetic).

MiniLesson: Balloon Rocket Energy and Force

Activity: Balloon Rocket Data, Graph and Conclusions

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 2

Questions: 

1. What are paleoclimates (see your notes from yesterday)?
2. What do you think causes the climate over millions of years to cycle between cold and warm?
3. What does the weather have to do with climate change?

MiniLesson: Factors that Lead to Climate Change

Activity: Evidence of Climate Change Article Analysis 

Biology Unit 3 Day 2

Questions:

1. What was the simulation about yesterday?
2. What is one thing you noticed from the simulation/data you collected?
3. What is homeostasis? (see your notes from yesterday)

MiniLesson: Using the simulation to demonstrate Homeostasis

Activity: Cell Transport Simulation

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 1

Questions:

1. What is climate change?
2. Is climate change the same or different than global warming? Explain your thinking.
3. What evidence do we have that the climate might be changing?

MiniLesson: Paleoclimates

Activity: Climate Change Literacy (Article/Text analysis)

Physics Week 2 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. What did you notice about your PE and KE skater graphs? 
2. What is friction?
3. How did friction affect motion in your skater? (draw a diagram or a graph)

MiniLesson: Friction Under a Microscope

Activity: Friction Rockets

Physics Week 2 Day 2 Part 1

Questions:

1. Explain your data from the simulation yesterday. Write 2 statements that describe your data or calculations.
2. Draw a force free body diagram for the skater on the ramp.

MiniLesson: What does the simulation show us about PE and KE?

Activity: PE and KE Skater Sim

Biology Unit 3 Day 1

Questions:

1. What is the job of cells?
2. What do you think is the most important structure of a cell?
3. What are 3 things that need to move in or out of cells?

MiniLesson: Cell Homeostasis

Activity: Cell Transport Simulation

Physics Week 2 Day 1 Part 2

Questions: 

1. What is potential energy? 
2. What does potential energy look like? (draw a diagram or model)
3. What factors impact  the amount of potential energy something has?

MiniLesson: Rollercoaster Energy

Activity: Skate Park Energy Simulation

Physics Week 2 Day 1 Part 1

Questions: 

1. What role does acceleration have in roller coasters? Explain and sketch your thinking.
2. Where does acceleration look like? (draw a diagram, graph or model)
3. What other forces affect your experience on a roller coaster? 

MiniLesson: Scalars and Vectors

Activity: Free Body Diagrams Interactive

Earth Science Unit Assessment Day

Instructions:

1. Pick up a Unit Self-Assessment from the front.
2. Complete page 1.
3. For page 2, use the following activities to evaluate yourself:
1. Climate in Our Communities Data Study
2. Wind and Ocean Map Data Study
3. Climate Article Analysis (SLICE handout)

Biology Unit Assessment Day

Instructions:

1. Pick up a Unit Self-Assessment from the front.
2. Complete page 1.
3. For page 2, use the following activities to evaluate yourself:
1. Cell Literacy (Article One Pager)
2. Cell Structure Microscope Activities (WBC/RBC)
3. Cell Structure Foldable