Mr. González's Classes Daily Activities Week 3, 1/3 to 1/7

6th grade Science: Monday - While students continue to work on the salmon life cycle and finish their salmon life cycle blogs as well as working on learing about the water cycle and work on that blog I will begin training individual teams on how to use the water quality equipment (here's a list of the jobs students will be doing). HW - It would be great if parents and students could take the SpeakUp Tech Survey. We will be able to get results just for our school! Let us know how you use technology and how your children use technology in the 21st Century. Tuesday - Today we took time to take the SpeakUp survey. HW - None Wednesday - Same as Monday - today I started training the dissolved oxygen students. HW - None Thursday - Same as Monday, today I will continue to work with the dissolved oxygen students. Then I will start to work with the pH students. HW - None Friday - Same as yesterday. I will continue to work with the pH students, then I will start to train the turbidity students. HW - None

8th grade Science: Monday - As we nail down what things are made of cells and what things are definitely not, we will start to look at the different sizes of cells. HW - It would be great if parents and students could take the SpeakUp Tech Survey. We will be able to get results just for our school! Let us know how you use technology and how your children use technology in the 21st Century. Tuesday -Today we took time to take the SpeakUp survey. HW - None Wednesday - Today we are going finalize our ideas of what things are made of cells. Then we begin to look at cell sizes. Second period was preparing today to set fish traps tomorrow. Friday 2nd period will retrieve the traps and identify and count the fish. We are doing this as part of life science and at the same time reporting our results to the Jefferson County Conservation District. Fifth period will do this in two weeks. HW - None Thursday - Second period will be setting the fish traps today. Then they will work on learning about cell sizes. Fifth period will start with cell sizes then begin to learn the differences between animal and plant cells. They will explain in a blog what all cells have in common and how cells may differ. HW - None Friday - Today second period will retrieve the traps and we will ID and count anything we caught! Back in class we will start working on comparing animal cells to plant cells. Fifth period will continue working on animal cells vs plant cells. They are drawing cells and labeling the parts looking for how animal and plant cells differ and how they are alike. HW - None

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