Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Study Guide: T/W/Th




We are completing our study guide in class Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week.  Half of the final will be administered on Friday and the other half on Tuesday of next week.  If you are gone on Friday, you will test Monday and Tuesday!  The final is 100 questions!  Study!

Study Guide for Final

Monday, June 1, 2015

Constellation Projects

They were due today!  Any late projects will be reduced 10% per day.  This policy was shared at the beginning of the project last Monday.  Plenty of class time was given to all to complete in a timely manner in class.  Tomorrow we begin our study guide for our final!  Keep working hard guys, 9 days to go!

Constellation Projects

They were due today!  Any late projects will be reduced 10% per day.  This policy was shared at the beginning of the project last Monday.  Plenty of class time was given to all to complete in a timely manner in class.  Tomorrow we begin our study guide for our final!  Keep working hard guys, 9 days to go!

Constellation Projects

They were due today!  Any late projects will be reduced 10% per day.  This policy was shared at the beginning of the project last Monday.  Plenty of class time was given to all to complete in a timely manner in class.  Tomorrow we begin our study guide for our final!  Keep working hard guys, 9 days to go!

Constellation Projects

They were due today!  Any late projects will be reduced 10% per day.  This policy was shared at the beginning of the project last Monday.  Plenty of class time was given to all to complete in a timely manner in class.  Tomorrow we begin our study guide for our final!  Keep working hard guys, 9 days to go!

Constellation Projects

They were due today!  Any late projects will be reduced 10% per day.  This policy was shared at the beginning of the project last Monday.  Plenty of class time was given to all to complete in a timely manner in class.  Tomorrow we begin our study guide for our final!  Keep working hard guys, 9 days to go!

Constellation Projects

They were due today!  Any late projects will be reduced 10% per day.  This policy was shared at the beginning of the project last Monday.  Plenty of class time was given to all to complete in a timely manner in class.  Tomorrow we begin our study guide for our final!  Keep working hard guys, 9 days to go!

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Constellation Project!



Students are doing a project over constellations.  They have all week in class to work on it and it is due on Monday, June 1st. Any late work will be docked 10% per day.  The details of the project can be found below!  Upcoming as well will be a study guide in anticipation of their science final.  Stay tuned.......


Constellation Project

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Creative Story Time!




Above is a diagram representing the Life Cycle of a Star.  Students need to choose if they want to be a Low-Mass star or a High-Mass Star and write a creative story from the perspective of the star going through it's life.  The details are at the link below.

Life Cycle of a Star Story

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Crazy times!

So, well things have been beyond crazy around here with standardized testing taking place over the next couple weeks.  We are studying stars; characteristics, magnitude, color, and life cycles.  This will all lead into our Constellation Project that will begin probably next week.  For that project, students will need foam board.  Any color, but black usually looks amazing!  Stay tuned for more updates!

Friday, May 8, 2015

Scavenger Hunt: Astronomy


Yesterday in class we got our new textbooks for Astronomy and then completed the scavenger hunt document below!


Monday, May 4, 2015

MSP TEST TOMORROW!



Today we went over the moon phases and then had homework over them!  MSP test is tomorrow morning get lots of sleep, eat breakfast and come in ready to show what you know!


Moon Phases Worksheet

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Review!!









This whole week we are reviewing concepts from the past three school years trying to refresh our memories in order to perform well on our MSP next TUESDAY!  All review is done in class.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

MSP: Tree Frogs


Today on #TackkThursday we were having computer issues so we did a MSP practice!  This time it was over Pacific Tree Frogs.  After completing it, we graded it and turned it in.  Tomorrow is Kahut day, don't miss it!


Tuesday, April 21, 2015

How Do We See?


Today it's all about the EYE!  How do we take in light and see?  Farsightedness/nearsightedness causes and how these sight issues are remedied.  A study guide was handed out as well because there is a quiz tomorrow over 4.1, 4.3, 4.4!! Study!

Light: Rainbows and Other Cool Stuff





Yesterday we learned about rainbows, prisms, convex and concave lenses.  In a nutshell, about how light bends in different mediums.  The worksheet below went with the reading!



Light 4.3

Friday, April 17, 2015

MSP Practice!


Today we worked on a practice MSP.  It is due on Monday!  11 school days and counting until MSP for REAL! Tackks are due Monday TOO!


What's Your Angle MSP Practice

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Color







Students were to identify/color the colors of light as well as pigments and do the following worksheet as well based on their learning of 4.1 in the book.  This is a review!  Tomorrow is Tackk Thursday!! Woohoo!  MSP is on Cinco De Mayo! May 5th, we need to be prepared.

Light Venn/Worksheet

LIght Video



We watched a video about light and electromagnetism.  The students were expected to take notes over the video and were graded according to the quality of their notes.