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EOG Review - While we will begin official review the week of May 13th, I wanted to go ahead and put this out for your use. We are in the home stretch, if you can pull a 5 on the EOG I will give you (although you definitely will earn it) an automatic 100 average for the quarter!​

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May 14th - May 17th

Geologic Webquest

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May 6th - May 10th

April 29th - May 3rd

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  • April 15- April 18 - We will not have a Weekly Content test this week.  The Deep Ocean Submersible will take it's place.  We will be exploring obstacles to exploring deep oceans and lastly will move on to water pollution after spring break. 

  • Ocean Layers (vertical Layers) Foldable - Fold a legal size piece of paper and divide into the following 5 sections "sunlight Zone" , "Twilight Zone", "midnight Zone", "The Abyss" and "The Trenches".  The Front of each section should have the zone and the depth of each zone. On the inside left should have a description of the zone and on inside right should have examples of at least 3 organisms that live in Each Zone.

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Plans: 4/5/19 - From the list below you. need to complete the NC River Basin Map and then using the textbook that is in the far right cabinets at the back of the room, complete the Wetlands Graphic Organizer. 

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April 1st - April 5th

Our primary focus this week will be the types of wetlands and how they are determined. The Upcoming Flipped video will take the place of the content test.

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Extra Credit Assignment for WCT 3/28

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March 25 - 28th

  • We will finish up the properties of water this Week.  Our weekly content test that was scheduled for last Tuesday will be this Tuesday March 26th.  Any work to be resubmitted or WCT that need to be retaken should be done by Thursday march 28th.​

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March 18 - 19 

We will work on Density problems and water distribution in the Hydrosphere. Our Content Test will be moved until after the Washington trip. Please complete the following Webquest on Water and Water Distribution.

March 11th - March 19th 

  • I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that we are almost finished with the content for this year. We will start with continuing our look into Water, a pretty unique substance.  After finishing up our "Design a Boat Challenge" We will continue looking at what makes water such a unique substance. We will take our WCT on Tuesday March 19th (Day before the Washington Trip)

March 4th - March 8th

Before moving on to the Hydrosphere we will be focusing this week on the different types of relationships in different ecosystems, particularly the different types of symbiosis; predator-prey; and cooperation. Please plan on testing material on Wed. March 6th​

February 25th- March 1

This week we will be finishing up abiotic and biotic factors as well as ecosystems & food webs. Last week's content test was moved until Tuesday 2/26. we will also be learning how nutrients, especially carbon & Nitrogen, are cycled through ecosystems and begin looking at relationships between organisms as we explore symbiosis and predator/prey.

The following website will help a tremendous amount with this weeks information:  https://ecologyproject10.weebly.com/energy-transfers.html  

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​February 18th-22nd

We are now a little over half way through the material we are to cover this year :)  This week we will be looking at abiotic and biotic factors as well as ecosystems & food webs.  Please do not forget that you have a project due by Feb 22: Biotechnology Mini-Project from last week (see below). 

  • Now, we are moving on to other diseases and how superbugs are effecting us as a race.  Is there anything we can do? If so, What? We will have a Weekly Content Test this week consisting mainly on material from the NC Coach Book Lessons 14 & 15, The world's dirtiest man and battlefield cells.  Don't wait until the last minute to study.  From there, we will look at how Biotechnology directly impacts NC.

  • Key Points from Lesson 14/15 for this week's content test

  • Disease Notes

  • Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria Questions

  • NC Coach Lesson 16 - read, annotate, Discussion Questions & Multiple Choice Questions

  • Biotechnology Individual Project - Due Friday Feb 22nd

Jan 28-Feb 8

After kicking off our intro into microbiology with the world's dirtiest man, we will do an in-depth "Fight the Flu" Initiative.This will lead us to the project which will take the place of the unit test for next week.   We will follow our influenza study with our Microbiology Unit by investigating the four main pathogens; Virus, Bacteria, Fungi, and Parasites.  Please make sure that you keep up with your work and do your part for the partner work. This project will take the place of a weekly content test next week.  You will have this week and next to complete your project with the final project being due Thursday, Feb. 7th

  • The world's Dirtiest Man!

  • NC Coach Lesson 14/15 need to be completed by Friday, however, both will provide essential background information for our project.

Diseases Notes

Flu Resources

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January 22 eLearning Day Assignment: 

E-Learning Day​

  • Please Complete the assignment on LD50​

  • Once you are done, Using the LD50 for caffeine, 192 mg per 2.2 lbs of body weight. Determine how many of your favorite caffeinated drinks it would it take for you to reach your LD50. List your name, your favorite drink, the amount of caffeine in the drink and finally how many of the drinks you would have to consume to reach your LD50 on the Discussion Board on Schoology. 

  • Help/Hint for starting the assignment:  The background graph is like what you will be creating using the data that we give you.  To find the Dealth %- Take the number of deaths, multiplied by the total # in sample, =, then divided by 100. EX.

  • 8x190=1520, x100=15.2% Do this for the whole column titled Number of Deaths and it will give you the %Deaths.  

  • Then you will plot the points on the graph (It will be labeled like the one in the background information. Do this for both substances (graphs).  Be careful as the sample size is different on the second substance. 

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January 14-18  Benchmarks are this week.  Science will be on Wednesday.  Please make sure that your iPad is charged every day and that you are present.  We will begin looking at how our body reacts to different substances at the cellular level.  We will finish up with how healthy choices effect our bodies. 

January 7 - 11th 

This week we will be concluding our Cell Analogy project and have a gallery walk to view others Thing Link projects.  We will then turn our attention to the differences and similarities in Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration.

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December 18th-December 20th​

Finally rolling into a new topic!  After a little review of cell parts and what we know about cells, we will begin looking at cell processes that are necessary to life, specifically Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis.  We will not have a Weekly Content test this week. The Cell Analogy Mini Project will take it's place.

  • NC Coach Lesson 10 & 11 Due Friday.

  • You should know the Cell Parts - Cell membrane, Cell Wall, Chloroplasts, Cytoplasm, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi Bodies (apparatus), Lysosomes, Mitochondria, Nucleus, Proteins, Ribosomes, Vacuole and Vesicles

  • Cellular Respiration/Photosynthesis Web-quest

December 13 & 14 - Hey, short week due to ice and snow!  

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December 3 - December 7th

This week we will be learning how to balance simple chemical Equations, observing chemical reactions and discovering how temperature affects the rate of a reaction.  Our next Weekly content Test will be Friday December 7th.  It will cover Conservation of mass, balancing equations and rate of reactions.

November 26th - November 30

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November 13th - 16th 

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November 5th - November 8th

This week we will be learning about chemical & physical properties as well as chemical & Physical changes.  

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Oct 29 - Nov 2 

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October 22 -Oct 26. We will be having benchmarks this week so we will be on a shortened schedule.  Science benchmarks take place on Wednesday.  Remember to do your best, you have not been taught a lot of the material yet so don't worry about a low score.  

We will be continuing our look at how and why the periodic table is arranged the way that it is and be compiling your own periodic table.  

October 15th - October 19thth

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October 8 - 12. We will continue our investigation into matter by looking at atoms, the building block of all matter, the structure of atoms and how the combination of atoms can result in chemical combinations of elements, mixtures and compounds. 
            -Periodic Table Web Quest Links
               -On the Shoulders of Giants
               -Getting The Lay of the Land: Periodically Organized
               -Getting together with the Families
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October 1- 5th. 

This week we will continue our look into the stages/phases of matter.  We will have our test this Wednesday on the four states of matter and the processes for phase changes. This is the beginning of our chemistry unit. Make sure that you are keeping up with your notes and classwork.  Red time started last week so students will be being pulled for Math and ELA as needed.  We will not be pulling students for Science until next Semester.  That means it is really important to keep up with what we are doing now.  

September 24th - 28th 

This week we will begin our month or so journey into one of my favorite topics of the year, matter! By the end of this week you will be able to define and distinguish all types of matter as well as explain where they can be found and how we can get them to change states.  You'll also be creating a collage to represent the four states, of which I'm sure you will do a great job! We will have a weekly content test this Friday!

 

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Sept 18 - Sept  21 This week we will continue to use/read graduated cylinders and students will be challenged with a lab on colors.  From there we will have the Quicker Picker upper lab and then start reviewing for our first test on this unit on Friday.  Don't wait until Friday to dstart studying!!!!!

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September 10th  - September 14th

 This week we will continue to look at independent and dependent variables, learn how to properly use a triple beam balance and use/read graduated cylinders. We will be completing several labs this week that give us some practice with both triple beam balances & graduated cylinders before culminating with a lab that incorporates all of the skills we have learned over the last two weeks.

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Sept 4 - Sept 7th We will begin working on Scientific Method and Metric System conversions!
I have attached several extra worksheets/websites for practice in addition to what we will be doing in class.
Independent & Dependent Variables Powerpoint 
Variable Practice Page 1
Variable Practice Page 2
The Simpson's Take on Ind/Dep Variables
International Systems Powerpoint
Khan Academy SI Practice
Metric Mania 
Length Lab
National Geographic Body Farm
Forensic Inferences question Sheet 
Forensic Inferences Lab sheet

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Aug 27 - Sept 1, 2018 
First Week of School - Getting to know what we are doing... We will have shortened classes this week so it may effect us a little, but we will be jumping right into content. 
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