Week Of October 13^th!

Lot of interesting things in store this week!   We will participate in a Living Rosary on Wednesday morning and have a special presentation on Thursday about being leaders.  

6^th grade Science:

We will finish the Smartboard activity on plants that we began on Friday.  Here is the link for any of you that would like to use it for your Plant Questions (Questions on BOTH pages are due on Wednesday.  These are worth a total of 30 points!!!) http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/index.html

·        Our test on Chapter 1, Lesson 2 has been changed! Although originally scheduled for Thursday, we will be having a special speaker in during that time, so the test has been changed to WEDNESDAY! It will cover the information in the chapter as well as the information from the Smartboard activity.  After completing those objectives….

·        Explore how to classify leaves

·        Compare and contrast vascular and nonvascular plants

·        Distinguish between kinds of seed plants

·        Explain various ways plants reproduce

We will continue on with these….

·        Explore differences among invertebrates

·        Compare and contrast the phyla of invertebrates

·        Explain how people interact with invertebrates

7^th grade Science will continue to work with ELECTRICITY.   Our objectives remain

·        Explain how objects can become electrically charged

·        Describe how electric charges affect other electric charges

·        Distinguish between conductors and insulators

·        Explain how electric discharges such as lightening occur

·        Explain how voltage is related to the electric energy carried by an electronic current

·        Describe how a battery produces an electric current

·        Explain why materials have electric resistance

8^th graders will complete our space unit (Apollo questions are due WEDNESDAY- this is a change! And your Space Persuasion paper is due on the 20^th).   We will now begin our study of chemistry.   We will begin looking at atoms and will have an activity on half lives on Thursday.   Our objectives are……

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

·        Discuss the development of the modern atomic model

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

·        Describe isotopes in terms of atomic number and mass number

·        Describe the process of radioactive decay

·        Define and use the term half life in a sentence

·        Discuss the different uses of radioactive isotopes