Mrs. Ramsey Blog - Where Science and Technology come ALIVE!: December 2017

Monday, December 18, 2017

8th Science - 12/18/17

DUE 12/19 - FRONT ROW ASSIGNMENT ON INHERITANCE OF TRAITS

6/7th Science and Social Studies - 12/1717

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Due 12/19 - FRONT ROW ASSIGNMENT: THE BILL OF RIGHTS

SCIENCE:
Due 12/19 - FRONT ROW ASSIGNMENT: THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

5th Science and Social Studies - 12/18/17

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Due 12/19 - FRONT ROW ASSIGNMENT: THE FOUND FATHERS

SCIENCE:
Due 12/19 - FRONT ROW ASSIGNMENT: ECOSYSTEM

12/21 - STUDENTS IN THE 5TH GRADE WILL HAVE A CHRISTMAS PARTY.

Lunch will not be served today (12/21). Therefore, students are asked to bring in food items, snacks, desserts, and boxed juices to share with the class. There are 20 students in the 5th grade.

Please bring in enough items to share with the class.

4th Social Studies - 12/18/17

Due 12/19 - FRONT ROW ASSIGNMENT: TYPES OF COMMUNITY

3rd Social Studies - 12/18/17

Due 12/19 - Copy the following vocabulary words in your notebook.

1. environment - the air, water, land, and all living things around us.

2. checks and balances - each branch can stop the work of another.

3. Boer - Dutch settlers in South Africa.

4. apartheid - a system in South Africa which separated the black and white people.

5. Homelands - the poorest parts of the country where blacks had to live.

2nd Grade Science - 12/18/17

Due 12/19 - Name different habitats where plants grow? Do a T chart in notebook.

Plants Habitats

Saturday, December 9, 2017

8TH SCIENCE - 12/11/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/VN3VG

On Google Classroom: Due 12/14/17

Research the subject of the genetic engineering of crops and livestock. In genetic engineering, genes from unrelated species are routinely inserted into the genomes of plants and animals. Write a report giving some of the basics involved with creating genetically engineered plants and animals and explaining why many people are opposed to it.

6/7TH SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES - 12/11/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/1LSGI

12/12/17 - NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE PRESENTATION ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM

SCIENCE

12/12 - In Notebook - Draw and label the ear from your textbook

5TH SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES - 12/11/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/PN4RH

12/12/17 - NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE PRESENTATION ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM

12/14 - Choose one type of ecosystem. Name, draw, and label the ecoystem in NB. Use colored pencil

4TH SOCIAL STUDIES - 12/11/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/VHQGY

12/12/17 - NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE PRESENTATION ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM

3RD SOCIAL STUDIES - 12/11/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/X6FGP

12/12 - NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE PRESENTATION (BOARD)

2ND SCIENCE - 12/11/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/LZRHZ

Due 12/13 in Notebook

Draw a picture of plants growing near your home or school. What kind of weather will help them grow?

Saturday, December 2, 2017

8th Science - 12/4/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/E1T8C

FRONT ROW DUE ON 12/8

6/7 Science and Social Studies - 12/4/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/L4VH1

Science and Social Studies

FRONT ROW HOMEWORK DUE 12/8

5th Science and Social Studies - 12/4/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/SNRCF

Science - LAB materials

LAB: Hot Air Rises

Equipment Method

◊ A large, wide mouthed jar (maybe a jam jar)

◊ A baby food jar

◊ String

◊ Water

◊ 2 different colors of food coloring

SOCIAL STUDIES

FRONT ROW HOMEWORK DUE 12/8

4th Social Studies - 12/4/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/FDLZE

Social Studies

FRONT ROW HOMEWORK DUE 12/8

2nd Science - 12/4/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/AVDLY

Due - 12/7 - Draw and label the Parts of a Seed in your Science notebook.

Image result for parts of a seed

3rd Social Studies - 12/4/17

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/QJJF4

DUE: 12/7 - Copy vocabulary words in notebook

velds - wide, flat areas of land, usually covered in grass and low bushes.

game reserved - land set aside for the protection of animals.

safari - trip to an African game reserve.

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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