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16 Welcome Back! DUE TODAY: ENTRY TICKET: Read Creation, Maintenence, and Evaluation of your Science Notebook. Place today's handouts in their sections as labeled. LEARNING TARGET: Demonstrate use of and organizational skills for class materials, in a notebook and digitally. IN CLASS: Notes set-up, with date, topic, learning target. Living things gallery walk and claim-evidence-reasons. ASSESSMENT: Reasons - charts collected Monday. TO DO: Assemble binder and get paperwork signed. |
17 DUE TODAY: Binder - check. Paperwork and forms ENTRY TICKET: Notes set-up, with date, topic, learning target. LEARNING TARGET: Use academic vocabulary to communicate learning; Learn collaboratively in a group; discussion strategies; Use claim, evidence, reason format to explain findings IN CLASS: Discussion: Scientific communication, using living thing gallery walk to learn claim-evidence-reasoning. ASSESSMENT: Living Things chart due Tuesday TO DO:Complete reason-writing, if you did not finish in class. |
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21 DUE TODAY: ENTRY TICKET: Hierarchy quiz; then go to this sample website and look around. LEARNING TARGET: Develop an expanding portfolio of learning, both electronic and hard copy. Learn collaboratively in a group. IN CLASS: Electronic Resources - Website setup, Roles and procedures for working in an inquiry group. ASSESSMENT: TO DO: Add a page called HIERARCHY OF LIVING THINGS to your Biology page. Add a chart listing all the organizational levels and an image or explanation of each.
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23 DUE TODAY: ENTRY TICKET: Place your binder, open, and your signature form on the back table. Scan Experimental Variables handout for terms you do not remember, and underline them in pencil. LEARNING TARGET: Be able to identify, define, and plan for independent variables, dependent variables, and controlled variables in an investigation. IN CLASS: Pretest; when finished, scan Experimental Variables for any term you do not know. We will work this together in small groups. ASSESSMENT: Variable quiz Monday TO DO: |
24 DUE TODAY: Extension Questions ENTRY TICKET: Update table of contents - see see Creation and Maintenence of your Science Notebook handout LEARNING TARGET: Be able to identify, define, and plan for independent variables, dependent variables, and controlled variables in an investigation. IN CLASS: Complete Experimental Variables. ASSESSMENT: TO DO: Extension Questions; Binder table of contents - see Creation and Maintenence of your Science Notebook handout |
27 DUE TODAY: How's your website coming along? ENTRY TICKET: Variable Quiz, then Set up notes with date, title: Experimental Design. Close read: Modeling Scientific Investigation: Plant Growth Lab, underlining in pencil any unfamiliar terms. LEARNING TARGET: Use Plant Growth Lab as a model for the setup for your Pillbug Lab. Begin write-up for pillbug lab on a Google doc. Prepare for a lab investigation: Propose an appropriate, testable question; Identify or select independent variable, dependent variables, and controlled variables; Design a procedure that will provide answers to your question IN CLASS: Quiz on variables. Identify and describe format, reason for each part, and types of variables. ASSESSMENT: Quiz on variables TO DO: |
28 DUE TODAY: ENTRY TICKET: Lab doc setup and peer review - use Plant Growth Lab as a model. Do edits and start to work. LEARNING TARGET: Collect and analyze data. Communicate findings using tables, graphs, and charts IN CLASS: Pillbug Lab data collection and beginning analysis. ASSESSMENT: Completed lab, due Thursday at midnight. TO DO: |
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31 EARLY DISMISSAL DUE TODAY: ENTRY TICKET: Get out lab writeup and go to desmos.com LEARNING TARGET: Calculate mean median and mode; create a graph in desmos. IN CLASS:Data analysis and graph TO DO: Work on lab report. Try the graph. |
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