Sauer's science class   updated 02/07/12 01:35:03 PM

  

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Things to Know

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This is an overview of ALL of the content that will be on your next test which is scheduled for Friday, February 3.

This page has study games and links to other websites that you may find useful when studying.  Please be sure to read the important information at the top!

Material from the previous mini-units that will be on your next test can be reviewed here.

 

(Note:  "Click here for agenda" links are not usually active until the actual date that they will be used. You do not need to inform me that they are "not working." :o>)

 

 

Class Work

Homework
2/10 - Mineral identification lab 2/10 - Have a nice weekend!
2/9 - Click here for today's agenda. 2/9 - Test practice (optional): pages 69 (all), 70 (22-25, 28-31),  and 71 (all)  I will post the answers for these questions later so that you can check your work and come see me with questions/concerns.
2/8 - Click here for today's agenda. 2/8 - Section 2.3.  Read. Notes. Questions 1 - 5.
2/7 - Earth's Natural Resources notes 2/7 -  Section 2.2. Read. Notes. Questions 1 - 5.
2/6 - Review Friday's test; Plate Boundary Map interpretation 2/6 - Section 2.1 in the textbook.  Read. Take notes.  Check your notes. Do your notes address the "Now you will learn..." bullets at the beginning of the section?  Remember, full sentences are not necessary in notes; bullets are usually best for recording the most important information.  Finally, answer the section-end questions #s 2 - 5.
2/3 - Meet in lab 113. Click here for today's agenda. 2/3 - Enjoy your weekend!
2/2 - Review day. 2/2 - Test is tomorrow.  Meet in lab 113.
2/1 - The underlying cause is....  (Were you absent today?  If so, please email me for the notes. Hope you come back tomorrow!!!) 2/1 - Study, study, study.
1/31 - Field study in California - assemble your globe (if you did not have time to assemble yesterday) 1/31 - Continue to study nightly.  If you want more study resources, have you checked out your text book?  Find the chapter on plate tectonics.  Can you easily answer all of the section-end and chapter-end questions?  If not, where are your gaps?  Plug 'em!
1/30 - Field study in Nepal - assemble your globe (if time) 1/30 - Study nightly!  Use your notes as well as the resources provided for you in the Things to Know section.
1/27 - Seafloor spreading, subduction; mapping zones on our flat-panel map. 1/27 - Study your notes.  Wednesday's class work must be finished by Saturday night!!
1/26 - Africa's Great Rift - What processes are tearing the horn off of Africa? 1/26 - Study your notes. Complete Wednesday's class work if you are still unfinished.
1/25 - What does the rock on the ocean floor tell us about earth's past?  (Meet in 208.  Click here for the agenda.) 1/25 - Complete today's class work if you did not finish in class.
1/24 - What does the evidence tell you?  What did geologists decide the evidence suggests? 1/24 - Continue to study your notes from earthquakes and volcanoes and look over the new notes we took today.
1/23 - World travel to gather evidence of changes in biology, geology, and climate throughout earth's history 1/23 - Review earthquake & volcano notes, as well as look over the global evidence you gathered today.  Be prepared to tell the class what conclusions you have reached based on the evidence.
1/20 - Volcano and topography test.  Meet in lab 113.   Click here for the agenda.   1/20 - Have a great weekend!
1/19 - Supervolcanoes!  (Pep rally during 6th period.) 1/19 - Study!  Tomorrow is your test.
1/18 - Meet in lab 208.  Benchmark test, turn in your Gizmo  1/18 - Study for your test!
1/17 - Composite/stratovolcanoes - Field study in Japan 1/17 - STUDY!  Test is Friday.  Topographic Gizmo Exploration Guide is due tomorrow!  (Click here if you need the Exploration Guide.)
January 10 - 13 - Swap Week Whatever Mr. M. assigns you!!
1/6 - Completion of field study; discussion of expectations during Swap Week with Mr. Marialke 1/6 - None.  However, on Monday, 1/16, review this week's work so that you come back on 1/17 ready to jump right back into volcanoes.  I will not be spending any time on topography with you, but it WILL BE on the unit test.  You are expected to study all of the material you learn with Mr. M.
1/5 - Field study in Hawaii  - Hot spot annimation 1/5 - Review.  Complete calculations and questions.
1/4 - Distribute shirt order forms; Notes 1/4 - Review.  Dress for MESS tomorrow!  The lab WILL STAIN if you get it on your clothing.
1/3 - Meet in lab 113.  Click here for today's agenda. 1/3 - Review the notes you took today about volcanoes.  UNFINISHED class work must be finished for homework!
   
12/16 - Meet in lab 113 - Earthquake final; pretest for next unit.  Click here for today's agenda. 12/16 - Have a safe, blessed holiday!
12/15 - Meet in lab 113 - homework quiz, turn in Epicenter Gizmo Exploration Guide, drop request opportunity, independent test review.  Click here for today's agenda. 12/15 - Study!
12/14 - Grading of 3-D fault model activity; tsunami 12/14 - Study.  Gizmo completion, if still unfinished.
12/13 - mountain building; 3-D model for fault practice 12/13 - Continue to study.  Work on Gizmo as needed.  Practice problems in the text (optional!):  p. 246-247: 1 - 10, 12, 13, 15 - 16; p.248: 17 - 22, 26, 27; p.249: 1 - 8.   Answers are available here.
12/12 - Turn in scale diagram; Notes on types of stress and faults they cause 12/12 - Study. Work on Gizmo as needed.  Text book section 7.1: read, outline, answer questions 1, 3 - 4, 6.  (HW quiz will follow for students with an average lower than 90%.)
12/9 - Lab 113 - Gizmo assigned (due 12/15). Scaled diagram due. Click here for today's agenda. 12/9 - Continue work on Gizmo as needed.  Due on or before 12/15.  Work on scale diagram as needed.  Due on Monday. Study for test.
12/8 - Safety notes and discussion time for scale diagram of earth's layers  12/8 - Scale diagram due tomorrow Monday.  Have you met all of the requirements?  Continue to study.
12/7 - HW quiz (meet in lab 210), Use layer depth research to begin a scale diagram.  Click here for today's agenda. 12/7 - Continue working on diagram and research as necessary; study notes
12/6 - EQ dangers and technology to save lives, Earthquake in Haiti 12/6 - Section 7.3:  Read, OUTLINE (not write every word!), and answer section-end questions 2 - 5

Research the DEPTHS of the following layers of the earth: crust, mantle, lithosphere, asthenosphere, outer core, inner core

12/5 - Earthquake Intro - waves tell the story 12/5 - Section 7.2:  Read, OUTLINE (not write every word!), and answer section-end questions 1 - 4, 6  [90% average = exempt]
12/2 - Test.  Meet in computer lab113.  Click here for today's agenda. 12/2: None.
12/1 - Presentations of ear function analogs; Q & A 12/1:  Study!
11/30 - Early dismissal.  Meet in computer lab 113 to turn in Gizmo.  Click here for today's agenda.

DANCERS - Please come to 113 at ANY point in the day during your dress rehearsal to turn in your work.  

 11/30:  Study for test.  Be SURE to bring in your part of the ear analogy presentation.
11/29 - Wave behaviors (practice presentation if time allows); Turn in Reflections extra credit 11/29:
  • Study for test.
  • Gizmo due tomorrow.
  • Sections 14.2, 14.3, and 14.4 are recommended but are not required.
  • Are you practicing your part of Thursday's presentation?  Don't let your group down!
11/28 - Discuss frequency worksheet and side two option, ear and hearing, presentation assigned (due Thursday) 11/28:
  • Study. Does your notebook have all of the notes? Are your standards' pages complete?  Have you worked on the practice problems suggested in the Things to Know?
  • Sections 13.3 (p.456-457 & 462 only) and 14.1.  Read. Notes. Answer questions: p.460: #1, p. 475: #1-5.  (Ninety percent average and above exempt, however, this part is highly recommended for all.)  Be prepared for a HW quiz on Tuesday.
  • Frequency worksheet side 2 (if your score on side one was less than 80%)
11/22 - Meet in computer lab. Gizmo work day.  Click here for today's agenda. 11/22 - 
  • Study over holiday.  
  • If you did not complete your Gizmo Exploration Guide in class today, please work on it over holiday. It is due on Wednesday of our return.
  • Reflections extra credit is due 11/29.  You must follow the instructions I have provided or else your submission will not be considered for extra credit.
11/21 - Completion of wave properties including speed, frequency, and amplitude. 11/21 - 
  • Review notes so far. (You should now have full notes for standards 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3. We will not be visiting these topics anymore, so it is your responsibility to review them NIGHTLY so that they stay fresh in your mind.)  Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow on properties of waves.
  • Complete practice problems for wave speed and frequency (worksheet handed out today - side one only).  
11/18 - Waves in Action 11/18 - Review notes.  Work on Gizmo for a short while.  Remember that  you will be given 11/22 as a Gizmo work day and that the new due date is 11/30.
11/17 - Wave maker; Calculating Wave Speed

(If you were absent on Wednesday, you owe me the homework quiz.)

11/17 - Read section 13.2 on pages 448-453 and page 478-479. Take notes. Answer questions 1-2 in 'Calculating Speed' and Review questions 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 on page 453. As usual, be prepared for a homework quiz. (Exempt if average is 90%+; HOWEVER, you DO have to do the parts above in red.)
11/16 - HW Quiz; Sound Mediums; notes 11/16 - Read pages 505-509 (section 15.1). Take notes and answer questions 1 - 6 on page 509.  As usual, be prepared for a homework quiz. (Exempt if average is 90%+.)
11/15 - Meet in 210 to start our new unit.  If you do not finish in class, you must finish at home!!  Click here for today's agenda.

Rocket launch analysis not turned in on Friday due to absence must be turned in today during lunch/recess! Report to my room as soon as lunch begins.  It will take less than five minutes to complete.

 11/5 - Did you copy it when you were instructed to in today's agenda?  If not, go back through today's agenda.

IMPORTANT: You should expect to have a homework quiz the day after textbook work is assigned.  Take good notes when doing your homework! Your notebook is the only tool you will have when taking these homework quizzes.

11/14 - Meet in 113. 

2nd period AND any students absent on Friday - AFTER your test, please go to Friday's agenda and complete any parts that you did not do. If you do not have time today, you can come back at lunch/recess today.

You will need the whole period, so please begin immediately.  You will need a pencil/pen, ONE sheet of scratch paper, and a calculator. You may use yours, one of mine, or the one on the computer.  As always, READ ALL of the instructions, and read each questions CAREFULLY.  

Click here to begin your test.

11/14 - None.
11/11 - Turn in launch analysis and the Gizmo extra credit assigned on 11/1.  Individualized review. (Meet in computer lab.)  Click here for today's agenda. 11/11 - Test is on Monday. Study!!!
11/10 - Test review.  (2nd period -  We will meet in computer lab 208 to turn in your launch analysis. Click here to turn it in.)

Movie date after school! - Did you turn in your permission slip?!

 11/10 - Study.
11/9 - Launch day two - force as IV - How will acceleration respond? 11/9 - Study.  Review today's launch results. Complete launch analysis.  Don't forget that you need to create a bar graph for today's modified force launches (except for 1st period).

cumulative launch results
11/8 - Launch day one - mass as IV - How will acceleration respond? 11/8 - Study.  Review today's launch results. How can you explain your observations using Newton's laws?
11/7 - Meet Werhner vonBraun, the father of modern rocketry 11/7 - Study.
11/4 - Complete "Take Off" construction phase.  (launch on Tuesday) 11/4 - Study for your final!
11/3 - Go over Thursday's test.  Begin "Take Off!" 11/3 - Study.  Fuji film container is needed for Friday's class.
11/2 -  Lab 19, Clothespin Launcher  & Lab 20, Jet Straw.   11/2 - Study!! 
11/1 - Click here for today's agenda. 11/1 - Study for your unit final.  It will cover everything we have learned since September 13.

Complete today's class work if you ran out of time.
10/31 - Be AWESOME for our parent volunteer!  Click here for today's agenda. 10/31 - Study the minimum 5 - 7 minutes.  Complete any part of today's lesson that you did not finish.
10/28 - Notes on Newton's 3rd Law - Click here for today's agenda. 10/28 - None, unless you did not finish today's notes.  

Please pick up a WHITE FUJI style film canister this weekend.  You will need it soon to use as the fuel container for your rocket.  You do NOT have to buy film. Simply go to ANY place that develops film, and ask them to let you have a white empty container.  Do not bring the black Kodak kind.  They will not work.

10/27 - Force and motion test two - Click here for the agenda. 10/27 - None, unless you did not finish the survey in class today.
10/26 - Homeroom for Explore Testing.  (Be sure you have your own #2 pencils and a standard four-function calculator. We do not have enough to provide one for all students.) 10/26 - Study.  Force and motion test two is tomorrow.
10/25 - Review and catch-up day.  

a)  See the resources provided to you on 10/20 (below).

b)  If you did not finish the practice worksheets, you can access them and the answers here.

 10/25 - Study.  Bring a calculator and #2 pencils for tomorrow's standardized test.
10/24 - Gravity, inertia and acceleration 10/24 - Continue to review.  Use the resources from 10/20.
10/21 - Continue with acceleration - 2nd acceleration formula, go over this week's homework, more practice problems, graphing 10/21 - Study for your test!  Many resources were provided for you! Use them!
10/20 - Click here for today's agenda. 10/20 - Study, study, study.  (Use the study resources given to you on today's agenda.)  Share your Explore Testing information with your parent. Get your federal card signed and returned ASAP.
10/19 - First quarter benchmark test.  Remember, you can have this as an extra credit grade if you score well, so TAKE YOUR TIME and do your best work.  Click here to get to today's agenda.

6th period - Continue with acceleration... (see below)

 10/19 - Is your Gizmo finished?  (Assigned on 10/13.)  Be sure you have your Exploration Guide with you when you come to class tomorrow (on paper, in notebook, or on your flash drive).
10/18 - Continue with acceleration - discuss Gizmo, 2nd acceleration formula

6th period - Benchmark test

10/18- 

1.  Lab 18 due (on loose-leaf paper) on Wednesday. Use your rubric from lab 13 to make sure you do not repeat the same mistakes!

2)   Gizmo due Thursday. 

10/17 -  Acceleration continued.

10/17 - 

1) Textbook:

           a)   Read pages 342 - 351 in the textbook.  Take notes as you feel is necessary.

           b)   Answer questions: #5, p343; #1-2, p348, #4, p351

 2)  Lab 18 due (on loose-leaf paper) on Wednesday. Use your rubric from lab 13 to make sure you do not repeat the same mistakes!

3)   Gizmo due Thursday.  If you are having ANY difficulty with this lab, do not work on this tonight. We will talk about it tomorrow in class.

 

Links of Interest

 

Basic Four function Calculator

Variables practice - Variables will never go away!

Scientific Method Practice - "Jeopardy" Style

Metric Basics - "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" Style

The above games and more can be found on the process skills practice page!

On-line Version of our Textbook (You will need the ISBN found in the inside front cover on the copyright page to create your own account.  Record your log-in information your agenda so that you don't forget it.)

 

 

Check out this World Clock.  It is interesting to see how each variable may affect another.

Follow this link to learn a bit more about the Nobel prize and play some games that explain the concepts and work of past winners.