Monday - I will have a sub today while I go to Seattle to work with WA STEM teachers. I get to do a quick presentation on using social networking to learn.
Today students will respond to an assessment probe about cells to see what they know already. Then they will watch a video about cells to see if they were right.
HW - None
Tuesday - Today 8th graders are going peer assess their Unit 1 Assessment work.
Then we are going to learn a few things about using microscopes.
HW - None
Wednesday - Today we will continue our work learning about microscopes. Students are learning to use our compound microscopes that can magnify 40x, 100x and 400x's.
We will review pg 9 from the packet and then complete pgs 11 & 12.
3rd period set the fish traps today.
HW - None
Thursday - Same as yesterday.
3rd period retrieved fish traps to ID and count the fish we caught.
HW - None
Friday - Same as yesterday. By today we should be finished with page 12. Students are recording their answers in their notebooks.
HW - None