Week of October 28 – November 1
October 28 – Binder Checks completed in class. Students worked on Assignment #26 Science World Magazine independently: For all articles on pages 3-7, students did hashtag summaries. For the articles starting on page 12 and 15, students wrote 5 sentence summaries.
October 29-30 and November 1 – Assignment #25 Fork and Beans: Students carried out labs to test different traits (fork beaks or spoon beaks) on their ability to pick up food (marshmallows or hard beans). Only certain “birds” can eat enough to survive and successful birds pass on their traits to their offspring. The surviving birds then influence what types of birds are in the next round (forks or spoons). Students worked on their lab independently on Friday including completing a stacked bar graph on their lab write-up which is due Wednesday, November 6. ****** 6th hour has not completed their lab write-up due to festivities planned this week. We will get caught up during the week of Nov. 4-8.
October 31 – Happy Halloween! Unfortunately, this day we had a super spooky quiz on Lesson 2 materials. Check Quarter 2 grades after November 8 to see student scores on the quiz after I have had a chance to grade them.