Monday, May 30, 2011

EOY Study Outline for grades 5 - 7

Listed below is the outline for the EOY final exams. Please note that students will also have specifics in their notebooks from classwork, homework, and notes given in class from September to May. It is important that parents review their child's notebooks as well as the following to study for exams. Exam dates will be listed on the June calendar.

7th Science
- Chapters 1 & 2 - Using the SI units; Chapter 2 - Wavelengths; Chapter 11 - Vocabulary Words; Chapter 18 - Bones, Muscles, and Skin; Chapter 19; and The Solar System Notes given in class.


6th Science - Unit B - Organization of Living Things - Parts of a cell - WB p. 65; Unit C - Observing the Sky - Stars - WB p. 157; Unit D - The Restless Earth - Moving Plates - p. 177; Unit E - Matter and Energy p. 257.
Review Unit D on Astronomy; Weather, and Climate

Especially the vocabulary on the following pages in the workbook:

p. 127; 145; 151; 158 ; 165;

Students must study test notes given in class

6th Social Studies - Review Chapters 1 to 12. Focus on vocabulary words, places, and people.
Review: convent; crusade; feudalism; fief; lord;Middle Ages; navigable; Protestantism; Reformation; Renaissance.

Know the following: Charlemagne; Leonardo Da Vinci; Queen Elizabeth I; Martin Luther; Pope Urban II

Study: Copan; Bagdad; Muhammad; Constantine; Pompei;

Read Chapters 12 and 13 also. PLUS - DBQ

5th Science - Unit A - WB - p. 57; Unit C - Landforms - WB p. 145; Unit D - The Solar System - WB p. 202; Astronomy p. 209-210; and Unit E - p. 305.

5th Social Studies
Review: militia; rebel; repeal; liberty; boycott; American Revolution; Boston tea party; Sons of Liberty; Stamp Act; minutemen

Know the following: Thomas Paine; John Paul Jones; Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin Franklin; Nathan Hale; Philis Wheatley; Patrick Henry; James Madison; and George Washington

Study: traitor; Patriot; Loyalist; Continental Army; Declaration of Independence

Students must read chapter 11 and 12 also for exam.
Review Chapters 1 to 12. Focus on vocabulary words, places, and people

Weekly Vocabulary Words - 5/31/11

1. squander - to spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate waste.
2. ardent - expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; passionate
3. beset - to trouble persistently; harass.
4. countenance - appearance-especially the expression of the face.
5. cursory - performed with haste and scant attention to detail.

8th Science - 5/31/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_487gkfq7bf3

7th Science - 5/31/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_486hk9g26d7

6th Science - 5/31/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_485dgvjs9jw

5th Science - 5/31/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_484gg5xg2gg

5th Science - 5/31/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_483cffxvbc6

6th Social Studies - 5/31/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_483cffxvbc6

5th Social Studies - 5/31/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_482fqg8qff2

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Weekly Vocabulary Words - 5/16/11

1. coagulate - v. To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment
2. conspirator - n. One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
3. consul - n. An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
4. consumption - n. Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
5. dexterity - n. Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

8th Science - 5/16/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_475fhnxhxzn
Homework:
Two questions were given in class on 5/16/11 to be completed on 5/18 & 5/20. If you were absent, please make sure you get the questions from a classmate.

7th Science - 5/16/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_474cvzs4jdh
Homework:
5/17 - What was Johannes Kepler's contribution to the sun-centered solar model - LL
5/19 - How many years would it take to travel from Earth’s orbit to Mars? LL

6th Science - 5/16/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_473fqg8jtgc
Homework:
5/18 - How do stars evolve? 2 paragraphs - 6 sentences a para.
5/20 - Describe a black hole. LL - 1 or more pages

5th Science - 5/16/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_471c82vktdc
Homework:
5/18 - On construction paper, draw and label the solar system. Color diagram
5/20 - Name the inner and outer planets on LL

6th Social Studies - 5/16/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_470dg38g5hk

5th Social Studies - 5/16/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_469cfdjc8hp
Homework:
5/18 - Choose one of the illustration on pp. 384 or 385 in your text and write a short story based on the image.
5/20 - Make a collage that focuses on some aspect of American wildlife.

Monday, May 9, 2011

REMINDERS - 5/9/11

SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Students will be tested this week on information given in class and on homework.
Test questions will be given in class for students to review.
Specific dates are not given due to the fact that lessons must be thoroughly completed before a test can be administered.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

1. Microscope - device used to make enlarged images of minute objects.
2.
Compound microscope - A light microscope consisting of multiple lenses.
3.
Magnification - (a) The perceived increase in size of an object upon viewing through a microscope.
(b) Total
magnification obtained with a compound microscope is equal to the product of the magnification supplied by the ocular and that supplied by the objective lenses (e.g., 10X * 100X = 1000X).
4. Objective lens - (a) The first lens of a compound microscope. (b) - This is the lens closest to the specimen being observed.
5. Diaphragm - Adjusts to control the amount of light coming from the illuminator which enters the rest of the microscope through the condenser.

8th Science - 5/9/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_465ds8cdwf5
Homework:
5/11 - 2 pages -Explain that gravity is the force that maintains the orbit of the planets around the sun, as well as a moon’s orbit around a planet
5/13- 2 pages - Explain that tides occur mainly because of differences in how much the moon pulls on different parts of the earth

7th Science - 5/9/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_464ffd4qmfx
Homework:
5/11 - On LL - You are an astronaut on a mission to explore the sun. Your spacecraft must travel at a speed of 40,200 km per hour to escape the earth's gravity field. How many days it will take for you to reach the sun?
5/13 - Does a lunar eclipse of the moon occur during any particular phase of the moon? Explain. LL
Use different resources for information including the internet.

6th Science - 5/9/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_463d7p688hf
Homework:
5/10 - LL -How are Mercury and Venus alike and different?
5/11 - Textbook p. C51 - Draw and label Layers of the Earth in NB.
5/12 - LL - How can we tell the difference between a star and planet?

5th Science - 5/9/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_467hmxttzdm
Homework:
5/11 - Write a 2 page essay telling why you would like to be an astronaut.
5/12- WB p. 207 on LL 1-14 Q & A
5/13 - WB p. 209 - 210 answers only on LL

6th Social Studies - 5/9/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_468dt6hth5k
Homework:
Homework:
5/11 - Chapter 14 Vocabulary, places, and People in NB
5/12 - LL - How is life in Asia affected by the Himalayas?
5/13 - LL - Why are monsoons important to farmers in south Asia?

5th Social Studies - 5/9/11

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddw24msz_466dmq8zv55
Homework:
5/10 - Textbook on LL - p. 377 1-4
5/12 - Textbook on LL - p. 383 1-4
5/13 - Chapter 14 vocabulary words in NB