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

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

Chemistry Week 2 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. Make a list of at least 10 science language terms we used during this class.
2. What was the goal(s) for learning in this class?
3. What helped your learning the most in this class?

Mini-Lesson: Overview of final project

Activity: Final Project

Chemistry Week 2 Day 3 Part 1

Language: properties of chemical bonds and molecules

Questions:

1. What properties can you use to identify an ionic bond?
2. What properties can you use to identify a covalent bond?
3. Describe 2 differences between an ionic bond and a covalent bond?

Mini-Lesson: Class Review

Activity:  Week 1 and Week 2 Completion and Portfolio Self-Eval

Earth Science Unit 2 Day 4

Language: factors that affect climate (topography, latitude, altitude, ocean currents, proximity to water)

Questions:

1. What is latitude? Give an example
2. Why does latitude affect climate?
3. Draw a diagram to show how latitude affects climate. 

Mini-Lesson: Altitude--Less Air, Crazy Climate

Activity: Climate in our Communities--Graph 3 and Data Analysis

Biology Unit 2 Day 4

Language: correlation between cell structures (cell size, cell shape, cell surface area) and cell functions

Questions:

1. What makes cells different from each other?
2. What types of cells exist in the human body? Give at least 4 examples.
3. Why are some cells bigger than others? 

Mini-Lesson: Cell Differentiation

Activity: Cell Article Text Analysis

Depth of Knowledge Questions (DOK)

Chemistry Week 2 Day 2 Part 2

Questions: 

1. What do you need to know in order to make a Lewis Dot Structure for NH₃?
2. Draw a lewis dot structure for NH₃.
3. What do you notice about the lewis dot structure for NH₃?

Mini-Lesson: Predicting Molecular Shapes

Activity: Graphing Properties of Chemical Bonds