HW/Daily Activities

(This may change from day to day depending on how much we actually get done in class so check back often to make sure something wasn't changed at the last minute.)

Last updated on Friday, March 3, 2006, 4:13pm

Progress reports were handed out on Friday, March 3. The deadline for all missing assignments, make-up work, and extra credit is Thursday, March 9 (I need the week of March 13 to finish grading current work and get grades inputted into the system for report cards!!). The trimester ends March 16 and there's no school on March 17 (it's our trimester break).

Daily Schedule
1st per - Exploratory - 7:45am to 8:37am
1st Block (Periods 2 & 3) - Science and/or Social Studies - 8:41am to 10:29am
Eagle Time: 10:33am to 11:00am
Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am
4th per - Band/Choir - 11:36am to 12:28pm
2nd Block (Periods 5 & 6) - Science and/or Social Studies - 12:32pm to 2:20pm

Social Studies:

Tuesday - Today I will give students time to finish their Famous Latino & Latina Biographies.
Hopefully, we will have time to get back to work on our Aztec, Maya, and Inca WebQuest.
HW - Show your parents the Newsletter you got in class (if you bring it back signed, you get $20 class money). And if you have missing work (many of you have yet to write a Blog Article or respond to someone's article so get started before the trimester is over!), make sure you do it at home or at lunch or after school when I'm available.
Wednesday - We will be working on our Aztec, Maya, and Inca WebQuest as students prepare their PowerPoint presentations!
3rd period - Project Alert with guest presenter, Kelly Matlock.
HW - Blog Articles and the Wikis!!

Science:

Monday - Today we will try to complete EMM Lesson 8. The formula we are working with is Fd=W, where F = force in newtons, d = distance in meters, and W=work in Newton-meters or Joules.
We will also look at EMM Lesson 9 and find out how to calculate Power! We don't have time to actually do lesson 9 but I did introduce to students that Power (Watts) = Work (N-m or Joules)/Time (s). So a 60 Watt light bulb puts out 60 Joules of energy every second!
HW - Remember that I am available everyday at lunch for all students to make up and/or finish any of the EMM Lessons (especially all the parts of Lesson 7 because a lot of students didn't turn it in when I collected it). Remember also that the EMM Student Website is pretty good for extra credit on any of our EMM Lessons.
Thursday - Today we will begin Lesson 10, which is the unit 1 assessment.
Today we got through part 1 of this 3 part test. Today's part was the fun because students were being assessed on a lab they did together.
HW - The EMM Student Website is pretty good for extra credit on any of our EMM Lessons.
Friday - Today we finished our unit assessment, EMM Lesson 10. This will conclude our work with the Energy, Machines, and Motion kit.
Students were able to complete parts 2 and 3. Part 2 assessed students on how well they graphed and analyzed data from an experiment. Part 3 was a multiple choice and short answer test. Students worked very hard on this two-day test!
HW - The EMM Student Website is pretty good for extra credit on any of our EMM Lessons.
Have a great weekend!