Mr. Brown's science blog

Hello wildcats. This should be an easy week for you. You have one IXL assignment. E.1 What are atoms and chemical elements. It took me seven minutes to get through lesson with an A.
You have one Phet lab simulation Build an atom. I made the worksheet. You have to run the sim. Google cut and paste answers will get you zero credit.
If I were you, I would watch the video first “Atoms/ What are they? What are protons, neutrons and elements.
I have included a brief tutorial on atom basics you may use this for reference.

Please note both assignments are due on Friday May 8th at midnight

Continued health and well being for you and your families

I want to thank many of the students who completed last weeks assignments. I do have a comment on the lab simulations. You will lose points if you use Google or Wikipedia to cut and paste an answer for the lab simulations. The lab reports are designed for the simulation

This weeks assignments are has follows

1. IXL G.G. Analyze models of the Earth-Sun-Moon system. Remember you need at least 80 % for full credit
2. Bill Nye worksheet. Download so you can write on it. You have to watch the bill Nye video on planets and moons. You will have to pause the video several times to fill out. You will need at least 12 facts from the video. This will help you with the Solar system slide presentation.
3. Solar system slide presentation. This is summative, please refer to the rubric that can be found in my Google classroom for that particular assignment.
4. I may add a spotcastify this week in luo of a virtual meeting.

As always please check my Iblog, Salina Blog spot and Dearborn schools website regarding important information and updates.

Stay safe and healthy

Greetings Salina wildcats. I hope this post finds you well and healthy. As you may know, The state of Michigan and Dearborn public schools have agreed to the new learning plan moving forward this school year. Students are expected to do work and it will be graded.

After many students told me that Ilearn was complicated to log into I have decided to use Google classroom for new and upcoming assignments. I believe the work will be easier for you to access websites and worksheets that I have completed for our assignments. It will also be easier to submit finished work through google classroom and or Google docs.

This weeks assignment is on climate change. If I were you I would do the work in this order.

1. Bill Nye Video and accompanying worksheet. You will need to pause the video several times in order to read the tables and graphs to fill out worksheet.
2. I would do the IXL I have assigned. It is E.E. the greenhouse effect
3. Phet simulation lab and lab report on the states of matter

I believe that if you do the assignments in this order the lab simulation will be easier for you to understand.

I will me having two google meets this week, first one is on Monday 4/20/2020 at 2 P.M. and the second one will be on Friday 4/24/2020 at 2 P.M.

Please make sure you have accepted my Google classroom invite so you have access to the work.

All assignments are DUE on Saturday April 25th by Midnight

If you have any questions please email me at Brownd1@dearbornschools.org

Stay safe and healthy and I miss not seeing you in our classroom

The code for today’s Monday 4/20/20 meeting at 2 P.M and Friday’s meeting 4/24/20 is Brownd1

Fridays Google meet at 2 P.M. on 4/24/2020 has been canceled

Hello, I hope all of you are doing well, are safe and healthy.

This weeks assignments: There is 2 IXL assignments. Level F science W.1 evaluate multiple design solutions to prevent flooding. Level F science W.2 Identify the best design to prevent hurricane damage.

The last assignment for this week is a phet lab simulation found in MY Ilearn. It is titled “exploring pressure underground. The enrollment code for the course is agnm6k. These assignments are due on Sunday April 19th by 11:00 P.M.

I hope all of you continue to do well and I do miss all of you in our classroom setting.

Please note, The state of Michigan dept of education (MDE) and the Dearborn school district expect you to continue distance learning. The State and the district are working together to decide a course of action moving forward regarding grades for the 4th quarter. More information will be coming forthwith. Please check the Salina school blog and the Districts website for more information.

If you have any questions please email me at Brownd1@dearbornschools.org

Hello science students, First, grades are done and submitted to district office.

This weeks assignment is found on my Ilearn. It is a webquest on severe weather. The enrollment code for the course is cpgsu6. This webquest is very familiar with last weeks assignment. This assignment is due by 11 P.M. Friday April 3rd. NOTE. I’m sorry about this guys. It was brought to my attention on Wednesday 4/1 that the second link for this weeks assignment isn’t working. When I assigned it on Sunday both links worked. Maybe you could google the answers for second portion of webquest. If you have questions or concerns please email and I will try my best to answer your questions.

New this week is I have been granted IXL access for science work. I know you are familiar with IXL because of math and english. The assignment is due by next Friday by 11 P.M.

I will not be assigning work for spring break so the sooner you are done with these assignments you are done until after spring break.

I hope you and your family are doing well and are healthy. I miss you guys and I miss being in the classroom with you.

Take care

Mr. Brown

Assignment for this week.

What I suggest is to copy and paste the url to your search bar and that will get you to the webquest. It does work and just answer the questions and draw the diagrams. This assignment is due on Sunday 3/29/2020 by 11 PM.

I have to put in grades for 3rd quarter this week. Per district directive, I can only put in work we did in class as of 3/13/2020. I have 2 assignments I can count, the plate tectonics annotated article and the the lesson 5 worksheet “where in your state is the natural hazard most likely to occur” worksheet. I have decided to make both assignments summative to augment your grades. If you were absent or did not turn in the assignment it will be dropped from your gradebook and hence will not count against your grade. Those that turned them in it is graded as summative and you will see a increase in your grade or overall percentage.

I miss you all very much and wish we could be in the classroom. I hope you and your familys are healthy and safe.

Remember to wash your hands and practice social distancing in these trying times.

Mr. Brown

Due to this unprecedented time. I have been instructed to provide opportunities for instruction. Dear students, please go to Mr. Brown’s I Learn. I have started some preliminary exercises for our next unit. Your assignment to click on the behavior of gases lesson. The directions are in my I learn.

The enrollment code for this lesson is fev98n

Thank you for your understanding as we all try to implement this way of learning remotely. Mr. Brown

For students who may be having a hard time with internet access, the school blog has added a URL address from comcast/xfinity to help students access internet. Please refer to school blog.

Monday 9/16/19 I am not feeling well today so I had amended my plans this week. Students are working on annotated and then writing a summary on a mine craft article.

Tuesday 9/17/19

For the rest of the week students will: Students​ ​explore​ ​the​ ​importance​ ​of​ ​clearly​ ​defining​ ​the​ criteria​ ​and​ constraints​ ​in​ ​order​ to​ ​ have​ a​ ​successful​ ​solution. ​ By​ ​ clearly​ ​ defining​ ​ the​ ​ criteria​ ​ and​​  constraints,​​ the​ ​ solution​ ​ you​ ​ arrive​ ​ at​ ​ is​ more​ ​likely​ ​to​ ​be​ ​successful.​ ​When​ ​these​ ​criteria​ ​and​ ​constraints ​ are​ ​ poorly​ ​ defined​ ​ it​​ ​is ​​more likely​ ​the​ ​solution​ ​will​ ​not​ ​actually​ ​address​ ​the​ ​problem,​ ​fail​ ​to​ ​meet​ ​the​ ​needs​ ​of​ ​the stakeholders,​ ​or​ ​be​ ​less​ ​successful​ ​than​ ​other​ ​potential​ ​solutions.
Today students will be making paper towers to test their criteria and constraints as a solution to a problem.

Wednesday 9/18/19 Students will look at the criteria and constraints between two bridges and we will discuss the good and the bad.

Thursday 9/19/19 Students will look at an engineering flaw and then redesign the engineering flaw using new constraints and criteria to solve the problem.

Friday 9/20/19 Half day As class, students will review this weeks lesson on defining and redifining good criteria to solve the constraints of a solution

Monday 9/9/19 Each group prepares and then presents a presentation for a town hall meeting in which they convince community members to adopt their recommended solution for addressing the problem of purple loosestrife in the nature preserve.

Presentations should include:

Who their group represents

Basic information about their group

The characteristics they think are important in a control method (criteria)

The results of their decision (which control method is best)

Reasons their group supports that control method

Tuesday 9/10/19 Students present their solution to the problem. Then class votes on which is the best method.

Wednesday 9/11/19 Students experience how using a model can make communicating about complicated phenomena much easier, by simplifying the real world into a system and describing that system through a model.  The focus is on how the model helped us communicate about the phenomena, not on identifying the boundary, inputs, outputs, parts, the relationship between parts, or flow of material within the model. We simply intend to give students an experience centered around a system model’s power to simplify and communicate complicated ideas.

Thursday 9/12/19 and Friday 9/13/19 Students are introduced to systems and subsystems by examining a Rube Goldberg machine. They observe that the parts of one system can be made up of smaller systems called subsystems. Students also observe how the output of one subsystem becomes the input for the next subsystem. Students express these observations by creating a system model of a subsystem within a Rube Goldberg Machine. 

Monday 9/2/19 No school happy labor day

Tuesday 9/3/19 and Wednesday 9/4/19

In this phase students transfer their understanding to a science related scenario. Students use a decision matrix to choose the best method to manage purple loosestrife, an invasive species that is out competing native species in Michigan wetland ecosystems. The students are given a community role, such as township trustee or preserve manager. The role that students play in the community determine how to assign Importance Values to each of  the criterion to indicate which are most important to them as they complete the decision matrix. Later the class conducts a town hall meeting. Groups prepare a presentation and share their recommendations for how to best address the purple loosestrife problem. Students vote as community members for the solution they believe is best for the nature preserve. They argue using evidence and reasoning for the solution they have chosen. 

Thursday 9/5/19

Students will present their projects to the class.

Friday 9/6/19

We will begin our lessons on models and model systems.

A system model is a tool used to visualize and understand the system. A system model should show all the parts, or components, of the system and show how these parts are related to one another. Additionally, the system model must clearly show the boundaries of the system. Finally, the model should show inputs (things that enter the system), outputs (things that leave the system), and how energy and matter flow through the system.