Week of:   November 16^th

A short week for students this week – looking forward to meeting with parents at conferences on Thursday and Friday!

And the trivia question for the week?  You have a great idea for a Christmas present for your mom.   But, she needs to be sized up by a Brannock Device.   What will you buy your mom for Christmas based on the information you receive from the device?  (remember – first one to email the correct answer wins!)

If you have any empty egg cartons available, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send them in for our 6^th graders – thanks!

This week, 6^th grade students will complete their work on Lesson s 3 and 4 (Vertebrates and Invertebrates) with a test on Tuesday.   We will review in class on Monday, but you can get a head start by looking at these objectives:

·         Explore differences among invertebrates

·         Compare and contrast the phyla of invertebrates

·         Explain how people interact with invertebrates

·         Explore ways of comparing vertebrates

·         Compare and contrast classes of vertebrates

·         Discuss how people can help save endangered species

What’s next for 6^th graders?   We will be dissecting Owl Pellets starting on Wednesday!   Now this is going to be fun!

7^th graders – We will continue working with magnets this week with some virtual experiments and a test on Thursday of Chapter 7.   Here are the magnetism objectives:

·         Explain how magnetism can produce electricity

·         Describe how a magnet acts

·         Explain what a magnetic field is

·         Describe the relationship between electricity and magnetism

·         Explain how electricity can produce magnetism

Grade 8:   Well, we will continue working on Chapter 2 this week as the test on Thursday indicates we need some more time on this Chapter.   There will be a re-take in Class on Thursday IF we are ready for it.   Otherwise the test will be the following week.   Here are the Chapter 2 objectives again:

o    Describe key experiments that led to the discovery of subatomic particles

o    Discuss the development of the modern atomic model

o    Compare the locations and properties of protons, neutrons and electrons

o    Describe isotopes in terms of atomic number and mass number

o    Describe the process of radioactive decay

o    Define and use the term half life in a sentence

o    Discuss the different uses of radioactive isotopes