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7 CATS Science
Instructor: Frio-Hamel, N.
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Announcements
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Unit 4-5 quiz Thursday
A quiz on "Producers" (unit 4-5) is scheduled for Thursday, 5/11. Students are encouraged to review their science notebooks daily. A study guide will be completed and reviewed on Wed., 5/10.
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quiz
Students need to practice their 5 glossary flashcards which were made for HW, as well as the notes taken in notebooks of the chemical equation for photosynthesis and the 3 most important things that plants provide to us for a possible pop-quiz this week.
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producers/autotrophs
Students are currently learning about producers/autotrophs otherwise called plants.As part of the unit we are experimenting with the effect of light while growing wheat plants. Students are also still observing their milkweed bugs in their controlled habitats. We are expanding our knowledge of ecosystems with the milkweed bug study and our knowledge of the processes of photosynthesis and respiration with the wheat plants. Students are asked to learn an expanded set of scientific terms and a little chemistry. The student ebook called "Populations and Ecosystems" online using the www.fossweb.com site will help students who have been absent catch up. We have read and highlighted the reading called "Energy and Life" to date. Students who have been absent are asked to read it at home online. The username is geology7 and the password is Catamaran.
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Report Cards due
Students have received report cards for q-3 today. Please sign the envelope and have your student return it to their HR teacher by Wednesday, 4/26.
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Quiz Thursday
A quiz on food webs is scheduled for this Thursday, 4/13/17. By Tuesday students will have a corrected study guide to use to practice with and study.
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Mono Lake Ecosystem Study
We are using the Mono Lake ecosystem as a means to study food chains and webs. Please go to the www.fossweb.com site and access the student ebook to read about this topic pp 25-29, and go to the Mono Lake Story video (25min) on Youtube if you missed it in class. note: to access ebook use the following username geology7 password Catamaran
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Quiz Thursday
Quiz on ecosystems 1-2 is scheduled for Thursday. Re-read student ebook pages 3-8, practice the corrected SG and review dvd "Among the Wild Chimpanzees" on youtube as part of the preparation.
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student e-book access
If absent, please log-on to the www.fossweb.com website and log-on using username: geology7 password: Catamaran be sure to use Cap. C and no s at the end of Catamaran. scroll and click "Populations/Ecosystems text scroll and click student e-book for videos: scroll and click digital resources and then "streaming videos" We will be watching all of them so check HW assignments to see which one we are currently…
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progress reports due
Students received their mid-quarter 3 progress reports today (Thursday, 3/9), and they are due back signed by Wed., 3/13/17 to their HR teacher.
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Practice NECAP lab
Today we are using a prior NECAP lab activity to demonstrate the current curriculum topic of colliding plates that built MT Everest and the HImalayan range. Students will practice graphing skills as well once they have collected data. We will also analyze the data and answer a set of questions. Finally, by reviewing the rubrics, we will learn why former student scores were awarded the points of achievement and how their scores could have…
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Quiz 7
A quiz on unit 7 is scheduled for Friday, 1/3/17. Students will also be taking a midpoint test on the year's curriculum to look for growth.
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Test Wednesday
A test of units 5 (igneous rock) and 6 (plate tectonics) is scheduled for Wed., 2/22/17. Students are advised to practice the study guides and/or quizzes from these units in preparation for the test.
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quiz
A quiz on unit 6 - plate tectonics is scheduled for the day after we return to school and have reviewed the study guide.
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Report Cards due
Please review the report and have your student return the envelope signed to their HR teacher by Wednesday, 2/8/17. Thank you.
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Quiz Wednesday
A quiz on unit 5 igneous rocks is scheduled for Wed., 1/25/17. We will review the study guide on Tuesday iwhen it is due in preparation for it. Practicing the study guide is highly encouraged for success.
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Pompeii writing
Students have been writing and citing text from two article and a video about the volcanic eruption in 79 AD in Pompeii. This is part of a practice for writing skills as well as part of the igneous (volcanic) rock study in science.
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Test Friday
A test on geo units 3 and 4 is scheduled for Friday, 1/6/17. Students are advised to practice their study guide and both unit quizzes.
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Quiz Thursday
A science quiz on "fossils (unit 4)" is scheduled for Thursday, 12/22/16. Students will complete and correct a study guide prior to it in class, but should nonetheless review their notebook unit 4 fossil lab questions and correlation questions as well.
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Quiz Tuesday
Students have been learning about how sedimentary rocks are formed. In order to prepare for Tuesday's quiz students are advised to take home their notebooks and review unit 3 (sand analysis to present lab on limestone formation) and to complete the quick study guide for Monday.
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Test Thursday
A test is scheduled on units 1 and 2 for Thursday, Dec. 1. Use your geology quizzes #1 and 2 to prepare.
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Quiz Wed.
Students will have an open-notebook quiz this Wed., 11/23 on the two labs that involve how earth materials are sorted which includes the concept of erosion (by wind and by water). As long as all of the questions are thoroughly answered (we have gone over them in class), and there is no confusion, students should succeed. Please ask your student to see me for extra help if the concepts are not clearly…
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report card
Report cards are being distributed today. Please have your student return it signed to their HR teacher by Wed., 11/23/16.
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Quiz
A quiz on rock lab #1 is scheduled for Wednesday. Students are advised to practice their 8 vocab flash cards and their essay info summarizing rock lab #1 in order to prepare for it.
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geology unit
We are starting a Fosskit geology unit about planet Earth's surface and interior, its history, and the catastrophic events that occur such as earthquakes. The first topic explores the Grand Canyon as a site where there is much geological diversity to study. We will be using a kit text that is found on the website as an etext. Please checkout this site: www.fossweb.com Earth's…
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Quiz Wed
A study guide to the quiz on density and heat transfer will be given to students on Monday. We will review it on Tuesday, and then take a quiz on Wednesday, 10/26/16.
Files
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foss eco SG 3 food webs.docx
study guide to food webs quiz (you need to draw in the boxes and arrows with names of organisms in the web for the last question). -
foss geo SG 3 vocab fill in blank.pdf
Study guide fill in the blank to go with the word bank for unit 3 -
foss geo vocab 2016 17.docx
this sheet is for the HW -make flashcards of geology terms and definitions.
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