Wednesday November 12th, 2014 (Half day)

Today's Quote:

Announcements:

Report to the media center today.

Science Fair Schedule of deadlines:

ALL STUDENTS SHOULD BEGIN THEIR EXPERIMENTS NOW!
Week ending November 7th, 2014 EXTENDED- 1 week! (Thursday & Friday): Student should have their rough draft science mini board completed and ready to be graded. I will check over the boards and make suggestions for improvement

Week ending November 14th, 2014 (Thursday & Friday): We will go to the media center and students will create their title page, Abstract page and their Easybib works cited page.
Week ending November 21st, 2014 (Thursday & Friday): Student projects are due including the mini board, the word processed research paper in a plastic or folder cover. Students should indicate if they have a desire to go on to the county science fair at this time.
Week ending November 28th, 2014 (Thanksgiving Week) Students will take their boards home and begin working on their big boards for the county fair or finalize their mini board for the school science fair.
Week Ending December 5th, 2014 (Thursday & Friday) Students will give a 3 minute oral presentation in front of the class about their project.
December 10th, 2014 5:30pm to 6:30pm School science fair in Media center. Parents and families are welcome to attend!

Today's Lateral Thinking question:

Bad Boy Bubby was warned by his mother never to open the cellar door or he would see things that he was not meant to see. One day while his mother was out he did open the cellar door. What did he see?

Now Playing During Lunch

Bonding.

Valence and Octets rules.

Today's Class:

Students who were on the field trip will have to make up their FCA today.

Law of Conservation of Matter.

My notes for the Law of conservation of mass can be viewed here: Law of Conservation of Mass.

Period 6 Continued working in Chapter 6 sections 2 & 3

For a further simplified explanation, please check out this website that I will be referring to in class. Atoms and Compounds.

Here is a link to my Power Point so students have the notes! The Periodic Table

Today's homework:

Homework for the weekend is for all students to work on their science fair experiments and projects.
Periods 3, & 4 went over the placement of electrons worksheet at the link below.
The worksheet: Atomic Basics.Today we will go over electron configurations and I will collect the worksheet.

Class in Action

Need 2 Know

This is a new section I have added to our blog that covers the information in the Sciencesaurus resource from our classroom. It has all of the Need to know information for class. (Consider it the condensed version of Physical Science)

Free Resource!

Cool Website Alert

PM Update:

We currently are covering the materials from Chapter 6 in our text book.