Mr. González' Classes Homework/ Daily Activities Week 4, 4/23 to 4/27

6th grade Science: Monday - All field trip permission slips were due last week but I will accept tomorrow's tree planting permission slips today. Ms. Langston's class will be going on their Hood Canal field trip Wednesday. Today all classes will work on their Ch 12 textbook notes on drinking water and fresh water pollution in outline format. HW - Wear comfortable clothes that you can get dirty tomorrow and dress for the weather. Tuesday - We are on WASL testing schedule today, tomorrow and Thursday. I will only see Period 1 (Langston's) today and they will continue to work on their notes and prepare for tomorrow's field trip. All classes will be going to plant trees today after lunch. HW - Ms. Langston's class needs to bring a sack lunch tomorrow and dress for the weather. Wednesday - Ms. Langston's class will be gone all day on their Hood Canal field trip. I don't see Mr. Meacham's class so it will be Mr. Olafson's class who will be working on their notes today. HW - None Thursday - I will see Ms. Langston's and Mr. Meacham's classes today, not Mr. Olafson's, and Langston and Meacham will be working on their notes. As they finish their notes we will start to transition to using the web to learn their jobs (dissolved oxygen, pH, nitrates, etc). HW - None Friday - We may be ready to start the next phase of this project, the web notes. Students will use the following websites to learn what their jobs mean and they will a new way to take notes, the Cornell Note-taking Method. HW - None

7th grade Science: Monday - Today I will check student's notebooks to see how their Plate Tectonics notes are coming. I will be checking for summaries for all the websites and that the notes are in the Cornell Note-taking Method. Once students are done with their notes they will answer the Earth Movement questions. HW - None Tuesday - Students will continue to work on the Earth Movement project to finish up any part that they still need to finish. HW - None Wednesday - This class will not meet today due to our WASL testing schedule. HW - None Thursday - Students had time to work on their Earth Movement questions today. We also spent some time talking about the upcoming field trip, info to come home soon, and I showed kids the last bunch of Earth Movement websites made by kids a few years ago. HW - Finish any of the Earth Movement notes or questions that you did not finish in class. Friday - We talked some more about the field trip and then I finished showing students the Earth Movement websites from a few years ago. We discussed what a good website looks like and how to get a high score on this project. I explained that the websites they create is their assessment for this project! Finally, I shared some good samples of storyboards so that students could start planning their websites on Monday. HW - Finish any of the Earth Movement notes or questions that you did not finish in class.

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