Mr. Brown's science blog

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I am excited for the up coming school year. Dearborn schools has initiated an exciting new science class. It is called Mi-Star ( not to be confused with students grade portal). I will be explaining more about it as we begin school.

Monday 8/26/19 Half day Students will get their schedules for the upcoming school year.

Tuesday 8/27/19. Instruction in school procedure and expectations as well as class procedures and my expectations.

Wednesday 8/28/19. Begin lecture and lab with the tools of scientific measurements.

Thursday 8/29/19. Complete labs on scientific measurement and instruments.

Friday 8/30/19. No school labor day weekend.

Monday 9/02/19. No school, labor day.

Enjoy your long weekend.

Monday 5/20/19  Students will continue their timeline of the Cenozoic Ear.  Students will take notes on The Pliocene and Pleistocene periods then color pictures representing those periods

Tuesday 5/21/19  Students will finish their time line research with the final period of the Cenozoic period.  Take notes and color pictures representing the Holocene period.  Students will then begin assembly of their final panel for  geological time scale. (this is a summative project and students do have a rubric for expectations).

Wednesday 5/22/19  Students will complete their time line project.  Students will turn in their ISN for grading. I am checking on the notes they took for our Geological time scale unit.

Thursday 5/23/19  Ms. Nowack will be career cruising with all classes

Friday 5/24/19  Memorial day break begins.  No school.  Enjoy your long weekend.

Monday 5/13/19  Students will begin assembling their time line on the Mesozoic Era

Tuesday 5/14/19 Students will complete their Mesozoic portion of Earths geologic time project

Wednesday 5/15/19  Students will take notes and color their pictures of the Paleocene and Eocene periods of the Cenozoic Era

Thursday 5/16/19  Students will take notes and color their pictures of the Oligocene period

Friday 5/17/19  Students will take notes and color their pictures of the Miocene period

Monday 5/6/19  Students will be working on an on going project . Today they will be learning about the Ordovician period of the Paleozoic  Era.

Tuesday 5/7/19 Students will be working on an on going project . Today they will be learning about the Silurian period of the Paleozoic  Era.

Wednesday 5/8/19 Students will be working on an on going project . Today they will be learning about the Devonian period of the Paleozoic  Era.

Thursday 5/9/19

Students will be working on an on going project . Today they will be learning about the Carboniferous  period of the Paleozoic  Era.

Friday 5/10/19  Students will be working on an on going project . Today they will be learning about the Permian  period of the Paleozoic  Era.

Monday 4/29/19  Students will be introduces to our new topic “geologic time” by doing Cornell notes on Chapter 23 sections 1 and 2

Tuesday 4/30/19  8th grade field trip to Greenfield village

Wednesday 5/1/19  Begin lecture on time scales.  Eons, eras epochs and periods and what they mean to geologic time scales.

Thursday 5/2/19  Finish lecture on geologic time scales and begin lecture on the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic Era

Friday 5/3/19  Students will begin working on a group project developing a time line of the geologic time scale.  Students will get pictures of the life on Earth at that time and color them.  They will also research 2 facts that they can include in their time line about the Cambrian period.  This will be an on going project for this unit.  The timeline will be a summative grade.

Monday 4/22/19  Students will take notes on how earthquake risk assessments effect earthquake hazard.

Tuesday 4/23/19.. Students will finish their notes on Earthquake hazards and finish their triangulation lab.

Wednesday 4/24/19.  LATE START First hour at 9:10.  Students will work on their earthquake study guides.

Thursday 4/25/19.  We will review the study guide and earthquakes for the Earthquake test on Friday 4/26/19.

Friday 4/26/19.  Earthquake test

 

Wednesday 4/24/19 is a late start day.

Monday 4/17/19  First and second hours will be completed their types of earthquake faults poster.  (summative grade)  4th and 6 hours will be doing a earthquake webquest.

Tuesday 4/18/19  Students will be doing a lab in which they will compare the speed and how particles move regarding the different wave types.

Wednesday 4/19/19  Students will be using instruments and triangulation to locate where an epicenter of an Earthquake happened . (lab)

Thursday 4/20/19  First hour will be taking social studies M-step.  ( get a good nights rest and eat a healthy breakfast)  2nd hour will not meet this day.  4th and 6th hour will be watching an episode of Bill Nye with worksheet on Earthquakes.

Friday 4/21/19  No school (Good Friday)

 

Monday 4/8/19  Students will use Cornell notes and put them in their ISN on Chapter 19 sections 3 and 4

Tomorrow is the PSAT.  Students, get a good nights rest and eat a healthy breakfast.  Good luck tomorrow.

Tuesday 4/9/19. P/SAT test

Wednesday 4/10/19 We will begin lecturing and taking notes in students ISN’s on Earthquake fault boundaries.

Thursday 4/11/19  First hour will be taking the science portion of the M-step test.  My 2nd and 3rd hours will not meet with me.  4th and 6th hours will draw table 19.1 from textbook into their ISN.

Friday 4/12/19  1st  and 2nd hours will draw table 19.1 into their ISN.  4th and 6th hours will take notes on how the focus of an earthquake and epicenter are related. then draw fig 19-6 in their ISN.

Dear parents.  For parent teacher conferences please report to your child’s first hour to pick up your child’s grade card

Monday 3/25/19 Students will be reviewing their study guides in preparation for their plate tectonic test.

Tuesday 3/26/19  Students will take their plate tectonic test.

Wednesday  3/27/19  Students will work on vocabulary terms associated with our next unit   Earthquakes

Thursday.  3/26/19  Students will be introduced to a Q A R strategy to help them reduce test angst when students take the science M-step.

Friday 3/27/19  Students will continue with test taking strategies for their science M-step

 

Please note 8th grade will be testing on Tuesday April 9 2019.  please get some rest and eat breakfast before school

 

Have a restful and wonderful spring break,  April 1st thru the 7th.  See you back here on Monday April 8th

Monday 3/18/19  lecture on current plate tectonic theory and diagram sea floor spreading

Tuesday 3/19/19 Lecture and diagram the three types of plate boundaries

Wednesday 3/20/19  I will be out of the building for a PD.  Students will work on their study guide for next weeks test.

Thursday 3/21/19  Lecture and demonstration of convection currents; the driving engine of plate tectonics.

Friday 3/22/19  Mrs. Nowack will be taking the classes career cruising.

Please note plate tectonic test the week of 3/25/19

Students will be taking the science M-step test on Tuesday April 9th 2019