HW/Daily Activities

Mr. González's Classes Homework/
Daily Activities
Week 12, 3/2 to 3/6

(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 6, 2009, 4:49pm

Daily Schedule
1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am
2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am
3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am
Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am
Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am
4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm
5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm
6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science:

Monday - Today 1st period will plant trees while 6th period will continue working on their websites.
HW - None
Tuesday - Today I will show teams how to make their bibliographies using Son of Citation Machine.
HW - None
Wednesday - Teams will continue to work on their websites today.
HW - None
Thursday - Today is the deadline for 6th period because they will be planting trees tomorrow. First period will just keep working at their websites today.
HW - Progress reports were handed out today so show them to your parents (2 points for getting them signed).
Friday - Today 6th period will go plant trees while 1st period needs to complete all their work.
HW - None

8th grade Science:

Monday - Today students will calculate the densities of basalt (oceanic plate rock), granite (continental plate rock), and peridotite (mantle rock). We'll see what we can learn about the elevations of the continents and the oceans from this activity.
HW - Blogging!
Tuesday - Today we reviewed our rock densities data. Then we drew two different views of a piece of lithosphere.
HW - Same as Monday
Wednesday - Today we will answer a prompt about what we've learned about density, buoyancy and isostasy and apply it to how the crust floats on the upper mantle.
Then we watched Bill Nye the Science Guy's episode on Earth's Crust.
HW - Same as Monday
Thursday - Today we will start by reflecting on what we know about the lithosphere. Students shared their responses to a prompt.
Then we took our density post-test.
HW - Progress reports were handed out today so show them to your parents (2 points for getting them signed).
Friday - Today we corrected our density post-test.
Today we will begin the Earth Movement Project.
HW - Last chance to do anything to improve your grade and turn it in on Monday.

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