Lancaster – ScienceDearborn Public Schools

Oct 10th Rubric Animal Research Paper

Rubric- Expository Paper-Science Project – Animal – Research Paper  1 page typed

Rough Draft must be done in pencil.                                                /50

Pick an animal to do research on. Collect information

Identify the living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) components of your ecosystem examples – plants, food chains, food webs, fungi, bacteria, dead organisms, light, rocks, soil, temperature, rain fall.

List ways that your animal interacts with other animals: Prey/Predator Consumer/Producer: Explain a relationship within the Ecosystem.

(Symbiosis)  How do humans alter their Environment?

5 paragraphs- Introduction, 3 supporting paragraphs and

Conclusion paragraph – Grammar, spelling, punctuation. Final paper must be typed.

3 D Project – Ecosystem, Biome

Make your project out of material from home, you do not have to buy anything from the store.  Boxes, paper, straws, anything to build a 3 D  project.                                                                            /40

Presentation –                                /10

Speak clearly and make eye contact with your audience                                                             /100

Oct 7th Research Paper- Animal Project Due 10-14-16

Ecology- Interactions of Living Things

Chapter 1  Section 1 Everything is Connected

Reading and Outlining pages 4-7 Vocabulary Words are placed on Index cards (study buddy with the flash cards)

All questions on pg. 7

Chap. 1  Section 2.  Living Things Need Energy pages 8-13

Questions on pg. 13 (all)

Chap. 1 Section 3  Types of Interactions- pages. 14-20

Reading and Outlining pages 14-20 & Vocabulary Words-flash cards

Vocabulary words- Chapter 1

Ecology, Biotic, Abiotic, Populations, Communities, Ecosystems, Biosphere, Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore, Food Chain, Food Web, Energy Pyramid, Carrying Capacity, Prey, Predator, Symbiosis, Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism, Coevolution,

Aug 31st Welcome Back!

May 6th Energy-Kinetic & Potential

Science book – Chapter 5 Energy Sources

Energy lab in class

Calculating KE & PE

Energy on the playground- KE & PE  – A.C. HELMS

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/energy/Lesson-1/Kinetic-Energy

Mar 14th Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Read and Outline pages 136-137

Flashcards-vocabulary words

Volcano Research Project

Mar 2nd The Theory of Plate Tectonics

https://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html

Homework – Read and Outline pages 108-111

Vocabulary words – flashcards-pgs 108-111

Do the questions on page 111. (all)

Convergent boundary- the collision of two lithospheric plates

Divergent boundary-the two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

Transform boundary- tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally

Jan 12th Futuristic Recycled Car Due Wednesday 1-13-16

Share futuristic recycled car with the class.

Starting a new science book- Inside the Restless Earth

Dec 16th Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection

https://www.kidwings.com/owlpellets/html5/v1/fullscreen.html

What is an Owl Pellet?

Have fun we will be doing this in class tomorrow.

Dec 10th Long-Closed Colorado Mines let go of Toxic Tidal Wave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc5IU9w9bBc

Who is really responsible?

Dec 1st Climate Change