Mrs. Ramsey Blog - Where Science and Technology come ALIVE!: April 2009

Saturday, April 25, 2009

8TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF APRIL 27TH, 2009

Monday 27th, 2009
AIM: Earth’s Moon
OBJECTIVE: How the moon’s phases depend on the relative position of sun, earth, and moon.
HOMEWORK: Lesson 2 vocabulary words in NB

Tuesday 28th, 2009
AIM: Eclipses
OBJECTIVE: How eclipses occur and how solar and lunar eclipses compare.
HOMEWORK: Draw and label phases of the moon on p. 613

Wednesday 29th, 2009
AIM: The Moon
OBJECTIVE: What can the surface features of the moon tell us about its history?
HOMEWORK: What provides the force necessary to form craters on the moon? LL

Thursday 30th, 2009
AIM: Exploration of the Moon
OBJECTIVE: Facts about the moon’s poles that may be helpful to future space travel.
HOMEWORK: Why was Clementine placed in lunar orbit? LL

Friday 1st, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM IS CLOSED

7TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF APRIL 27TH, 2009

Monday 27th, 2009
AIM: The Digestive System
OBJECTIVE: To learn of the organs of the digestive system and what takes place in them.
HOMEWORK: On LL – Explain the role of enzymes in chemical digestion.

Tuesday 28th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 19 – Digestion
OBJECTIVE: Test notes on Chapter 19
HOMEWORK: Study for test on 4/29

Wednesday 29th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 19 - test
OBJECTIVE: Students will be test on Digestion and Nutrition
HOMEWORK: Chapter 20 vocabulary words

Thursday 30th, 2009
AIM: Circulation – Chapter 20
OBJECTIVE: How to compare arteries, veins, and capillaries?
HOMEWORK: Lesson 1 vocabulary words in NB

Friday 1st, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM IS CLOSED

6TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF APRIL 27TH, 2009

Monday 27th, 2009
AIM: Earthquakes
OBJECTIVE: How do Earthquakes happens?
HOMEWORK: WB p. 170 on LL

Tuesday 28th, 2009
AIM: WB p. 171 & 172 – Cause & Effect
OBJECTIVE: Students will answer questions based on Chapter 7
HOMEWORK: WB p. 175 in NB

Wednesday 29th, 2009
AIM: WB – p. 173, 174, & 176 – Moving Plates.
OBJECTIVE: Students will answer questions on the moving Continents
HOMEWORK: WB p. 177 in NB

Thursday 30th, 2009
AIM: How do earthquakes make wave?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how earthquakes start and make waves.
HOMEWORK: What is the difference between the Richter and Mercalli Scale? LL

Friday 1st, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM IS CLOSED

5TH SCIENCE-WEEK OF APRIL 27TH, 2009

Monday 27th, 2009
AIM: How do rivers change the Land?
OBJECTIVE: Students will understand the importance of rivers
HOMEWORK: WB p. 137 in NB-Draw Earth layers

Tuesday 28th, 2009
AIM: Earth’s changing Crust
OBJECTIVE: WB p. 135,136, & 139 in NB – questions for test
HOMEWORK: Study questions for test

Wednesday 29th, 2009
AIM:
OBJECTIVE: Students will have Computer classes
HOMEWORK:

Thursday 30th, 2009
AIM: Earth’s Changing Crust Quiz
OBJECTIVE: Students will be test on Lesson questions
HOMEWORK: WB p. 140 on LL

Friday 1st, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM IS CLOSED

6TH SOCIAL-STUDIES - WEEK OF APRIL 27TH, 2009

Monday 27th, 2009
AIM: The Evolution of Government.
OBJECTIVE: To identify major events in the evolution of government. HOMEWORK: Lesson 2 vocabulary words in NB

Tuesday 28th, 2009
AIM: Conquerors and Kings
OBJECTIVE: Invasions by the Vikings and how they became Normans.
HOMEWORK: What was the Magma Carta? 2 para. On LL

Wednesday 29th, 2009
AIM: The Church in the Middle Ages.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the role of monasteries, convents, and cathedrals in society.
HOMEWORK: Lesson 3 vocabulary words in NB

Thursday 30th, 2009
AIM: The Crusades
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the Crusades and their effects on Europe
HOMEWORK: What was the main purpose of the Crusades? 2 pages

Friday 1st, 2009
AIM: NO SCHOOL
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: NO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM

5TH SOCIAL STUDIES - WEEK OF APRIL 27TH, 2009

Monday 27th, 2009
AIM: Students will have GYM classes
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: Report on George Washington “s life

Tuesday 28th, 2009
AIM: Who were the Redcoats, Continentals, Patriots, & Loyalists?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn the advantage each group had over the other.
HOMEWORK: Write 2 paragraphs on George Washington’s Life as a Leader. LL

Wednesday 29th, 2009
AIM: The Continental Army
OBJECTIVE: How did George Washington help the Continental Army?
HOMEWORK: Lesson 2 vocabulary words in NB

Thursday 30th, 2009
AIM: Independence at Last.
OBJECTIVE: Who help the Patriots win the Revolution?
HOMEWORK: Text. P. 327 on LL

Friday 1st, 2009
AIM: NO SCHOOL
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: NO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

8TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF APRIL 20TH, 2009

Monday 20th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 21 – The Sun-Earth-Moon System
OBJECTIVE: The physical data on Earth
Homework: Chapter 21 vocabulary words

Tuesday 21th, 2009
AIM: Station 1
OBJECTIVE: Students will review the field view and length of specimen.
HOMEWORK: What is an ellipse? 2 paragraphs LL

Wednesday 22nd, 2009
AIM: Station 2
OBJECTIVE: Students will find volume, mass, and density of objects.
HOMEWORK: Lesson 1 vocabulary words

Thursday 23rd, 2009
AIM: Station 3
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how to measure using a ball and ramp
HOMEWORK: How does earth’s revolution and tilt cause seasons to change? LL

Friday 24th, 2009
AIM: Review of Stations 1, 2, 3
OBJECTIVE: Students will practice using the microscope and balance
HOMEWORK: Mini Lab p. 603

7TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF APRIL 20TH, 2009

Monday 20th, 2009
AIM: Review chapter 18
OBJECTIVE: Students will list functions of skin and how it helps prevent disease. HOMEWORK: Study for test.

Tuesday 21th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 18 test. Chapter 19 Nutrition and Digestion
OBJECTIVE: Oral reading and discussion on nutrition
HOMEWORK: Chapter 19 vocabulary words in NB

Wednesday 22nd, 2009
AIM: The six classes of nutrition
OBJECTIVE: Why do we eat and the importance of each type of nutrition.
HOMEWORK: Problem Solving p. 521 on LL

Thursday 23rd, 2009
AIM: The relationship between diet and health.
OBJECTIVE: Discuss the relationship between diet and health.
HOMEWORK: Explain the importance of water in your body. 2 paragraphs LL

Friday 24th, 2009
AIM: The Digestive System.
OBJECTIVE: The difference between mechanical and chemical digestion
HOMEWORK: Research anorexia and bulimia

6TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF APRIL 20TH 2009

Monday 20th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 7 – Earth’s Moving Crust
OBJECTIVE: Are the continents moving?
HOMEWORK: Lesson 1 vocabulary words in NB

Tuesday 21th, 2009
AIM: Sea-floor spreading
OBJECTIVE: How does the sea floor show Earth’s crust is moving
HOMEWORK: WB pp. 173-174 Q&A in NB

Wednesday 22nd, 2009
AIM: What is plate tectonics?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn that a plate is a piece of Earth’s crust.
HOMEWORK: Draw and label Earth’s Plate boundaries on p. D11

Thursday 23rd, 2009
AIM: Types of plate boundaries.
OBJECTIVE: What happens at divergent, convergent, and transform fault boundaries?
HOMEWORK: Report on Alfred Wegener theory of continents.

Friday 24th, 2009
AIM: Quiz
OBJECTIVE: Lesson 1 vocabulary quiz
HOMEWORK: Report on Alfred Wegener – 2 pages typed-doubled space, 12 Times Roman

5TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF APRIL 20TH, 2009

Monday 20th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 8 – Earth’s Changing Crust.
OBJECTIVE: What makes Earth’s crust move?
HOMEWORK: Draw and label layers of Earth. P. C7

Tuesday 21th, 2009
AIM: What are the forces that act on Earth’s crust?
OBJECTIVE: Students will draw and label the layers and forces of Earth’s Crust
HOMEWORK: What are the three forces that act on Earth’s crust? LL

Wednesday 22nd, 2009
AIM: Students will have computer classes
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: Review vocabulary words for quiz

Thursday 23rd, 2009
AIM: Physical and chemical weathering.
OBJECTIVE: How do weathering and erosion work together to shape Earth’s surface?
HOMEWORK: Where do eroded rocks go? LL

Friday 24th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 8 quiz
OBJECTIVE: Students will be quizzed on chapter 8 vocabulary
HOMEWORK: Report: 2 pages – How are earthquakes form? 2 pages

6TH SOCIAL STUDIES - WEEK OF APRIL 20TH, 2009

Monday 20th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 12-Cultures of Medieval Europe
OBJECTIVE: Describe Europe’s main geographic features.
HOMEWORK: Chapter 12 vocabulary words in NB

Tuesday 21th, 2009
AIM: Growth of Europe civilization
OBJECTIVE: Describe how Europe’s features contributed to the growth of civilization.
HOMEWORK: 5 questions from lesson 1 on LL

Wednesday 22nd, 2009
AIM: Europe’s natural resources.
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn of Europe’s land mass and waters.
HOMEWORK: p 319 #4 on LL

Thursday 23rd, 2009
AIM: The Middle Ages.
OBJECTIVE: What is feudalism and life under it?
HOMEWORK: Lesson 2 vocabulary words in NB

Friday 24th, 2009
AIM:
OBJECTIVE: 2:30 Dismissal
HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 12

5TH SOCIAL STUDIES - WEEK OF APRIL 20TH, 2009

Monday 20th, 2009
AIM: Students will have GYM
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 11 for test on 4/22

Tuesday 21th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 11 – Breaking Ties with Great Britain
OBJECTIVE: Students will take notes and review for test on 4/22
HOMEWORK: Study for test on 4/22

Wednesday 22nd, 2009
AIM: Breaking Ties with Great Britain
OBJECTIVE: Students will be tested on Chapter 11
HOMEWORK: Chapter 12 vocabulary words

Thursday 23rd, 2009
AIM: Chapter 12 – The American Revolution
OBJECTIVE: What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
HOMEWORK: How did Thomas Paine’s Common Sense inspired colonists to break ties with
Britain? LL paragraph

Friday 24th, 2009
AIM: 2:30 Dismissal
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: Students need to read chapter 12

Events in History - 1/9 - 1/13

January 9
Connecticut entered Union, 1788 (5^th)
Mississippi seceded from the Union, 1861
President Richard M. Nixon was born, 1913
January 10
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published, 1776
London's Metropolitan; World's first underground railway, opened to the public, 1863
The League of Nations established 1920
The Holocaust began, 1933
January 11
Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury was born, 1757
Alabama seceded from the Union, 1861
Major League Baseball (American League) adopted the designated-hitter rule, 1973
January 12
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died, 1519
The Alamo, a Franciscan Mission, was built, 1722
The first public museum in United States (South Carolina) established, 1773
January 13
Hood resigned as commander of the Army of Tennessee, 1865
Hubert H. Humphrey, former vice president, died in Waverly, Minnesota at age 66, 1978
Air Florida jet crashed in Washington, D.C., 1982
The Beatles US album Yellow Submarine was released, 1969

Scientific Method

Rules to follow in using the Scientific Method when experimenting.

Steps of the Scientific Method
Detailed Help for Each Step
Ask a Question: The scientific method starts when you ask a question about something that you observe: How, What, When, Who, Which, Why, or Where?
And, in order for the scientific method to answer the question it must be about something that you can measure, preferably with a number.
Your Question
Do Background Research: Rather than starting from scratch in putting together a plan for answering your question, you want to be a savvy scientist using library and Internet research to help you find the best way to do things and insure that you don't repeat mistakes from the past.
Background Research Plan Finding Information Bibliography Research Paper
Construct a Hypothesis: A hypothesis is an educated guess about how things work:"If _____[I do this] _____, then _____[this]_____ will happen."
You must state your hypothesis in a way that you can easily measure, and of course, your hypothesis should be constructed in a way to help you answer your original question.
Variables Variables for Beginners Hypothesis
Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment: Your experiment tests whether your hypothesis is true or false. It is important for your experiment to be a fair test. You conduct a fair test by making sure that you change only one factor at a time while keeping all other conditions the same.
You should also repeat your experiments several times to make sure that the first results weren't just an accident.
Experimental Procedure Materials List Conducting an Experiment
Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion: Once your experiment is complete, you collect your measurements and analyze them to see if your hypothesis is true or false.
Scientists often find that their hypothesis was false, and in such cases they will construct a new hypothesis starting the entire process of the scientific method over again. Even if they find that their hypothesis was true, they may want to test it again in a new way.
Data Analysis & Graphs Conclusions
Communicate Your Results: To complete your science fair project you will communicate your results to others in a final report and/or a display board. Professional scientists do almost exactly the same thing by publishing their final report in a scientific journal or by presenting their results on a poster at a scientific meeting.

Rules to follow when using the Scientific Method when experimenting.

A message from the Holy Father on Advent and Christmas

On the first Sunday of Advent, Benedict XVI reminded the faithful that Christmas is about God who "comes to be with us."The Holy Father's comment was heard by thousands who had gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray the Angelus. He highlighted the significance of Advent as a time to prepare for the celebration of Christ's birth."In Advent, the liturgy often repeats and assures us, as though seeking to defeat our mistrust, that God 'is coming,'" the Pope said."He comes to be with us, in each one of our situations; he comes to live among us, to live in and with us; he comes to fill the distances that divide and separate us; he comes to reconcile us with himself and with one another," the Pontiff said.God, Benedict XVI added, "comes in the history of humanity to knock on the door of every man and woman of good will to offer individuals, families and peoples the gift of fraternity, concord and peace.""Therefore, Advent is par excellence the time of hope, in which believers in Christ are invited to remain in vigilant and active expectation, nourished by prayer and by a concrete commitment to love," the Pope said.

Why do we eat turkey on Thanksgiving?

Although juicy and tender butterball turkeys are the main cuisine of today's Thanksgiving celebrations, these birds were NOT the most popular centerpieces on the first Thanksgiving tables.
In 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving, they were gobbling up many more foods than just turkey. Since lobster, goose, duck, seal, eel, and cod were plentiful during this time, these foods were most likely the main courses of this first feast. Deer meat and wild fowl are the only two items that historians know for sure were menu of this autumn celebration.
So how did the turkey become the main mascot of modern-day Thanksgiving if we don't know for certain that turkeys were at this first feast?
One story tells of how Queen Elizabeth of 16th century England was chowing down on roast goose during a harvest festival. When news was delivered to her that the Spanish Armada had sunk on it way to attack her beloved England, the queen was so pleased that she order a second goose to celebrate the great news. Thus, the goose became the favorite bird at harvest time in England. When the Pilgrims arrived in America from England, roasted turkey replaced roasted goose as the main cuisine because wild turkeys were more abundant and easier to find than geese.

HAVE A WONDERFUL AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Mrs. Ramsey

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