Plate Tectonics

Sea Floor Spreading

 

 

 

 

Students created an animation showing the process of Sea-Floor Spreading.

Continental Drift

Journey to the Center of Earth: Project Based Learning Part 1

This notebook was selected because of the awesome artwork on this scientific drawing.

This notebook was selected because of the awesome summary.



Graphing Motion

Velocity

Calculating Speed

The Metric System

Describing Distance

VIDEO: English Standard and Metric System Units

Students read about the origins of measuring for length, as they did this they underlined the items they thought were the most important.  From the reading student wrote Cornell notes highlighting the positive and negative aspects about the English Standard and Metric System Units.

Motion

Students participated in a hallway demonstration to create a definition of "motion" and begin to form an understanding that in order to tell if an object is in motion you  need to use a reference point.  As we brought our discussion to an end we completed a Frayer Model on the word "motion".

We finished the lesson by reading and taking Cornell notes about motion, and creating our own scientific picture of an object in motion.

Pie Chart

Students performed a class survey about a topic of their choice, then create a pie chart to share their results.

Writing a Procedure

Students were each given a picture.  They wrote a procedure for someone else to draw the same picture.  Then students switched notebooks and tried to follow the procedure to re-create the drawing.  Afterwards, students reflected on their written procedure.

Writing a Hypothesis

Students practiced identifying the independence, dependent, and control variable in an experiment and practiced writing a hypothesis.

Observations

Right Side: Input

Students made observations about the Mona Lisa.  Then color coded each observation as qualitative or quantitative.

Left Side: Output

Students made qualitative and quantitative observations about a peanut and wrote a summery about the two types of observations.

Educreation created by a student who finished early.

Observations: Qualitative and Quantitative



The Scientific Method

 

 

In the Interactive Notebook students watched The Scientific Method Paper-Slide video I created to complete a basic graphic organizer about the process of solving problems (right side).  Then I read the class a story from "How To Think Like a Scientist" and together we analyzed how a chicken farmer used the scientific method to explain an observation he made about his livestock.  We broke down the farmers situation into the basic steps we had discussed in class, and completed another graphic organizer to that mirrored the first one (left side).

AVID Interactive Notebook

Today students finished setting up their AVID Interactive Notebooks.  This notebook is different than other notebooks because of the way it is organized.  We add an element of organization to the student notebook to improve students ability to remember content recorded in it.  On the cover students were instructed to draw a picture of themselves and write four traits that describe them.