Monday, January 14, 2018
Thursday, January 9, 2018
Monday, December 7, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Housekeeping - text books, workbooks, final exam, end of semester schedule
- CES event
- Science highlights of 2018 gallery walk/ worksheet
- Workbooks
- Your Unit 3 workbook is due on Thursday, January 10th
- Final exam is Tuesday, January 15th from 1-4pm in Room 110 (science lab)
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Print pictures for tectonic plates activity
- Chapter 3 worksheet completion
- McDade away until after the break
- Complete as much work as you can during class time in the next week
- Start reviewing over the holidays for your final exam
Thursday, December 6, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Tectonic Plate research activity - library
- Nothing explicit - you have tomorrow's class to finish your research activity
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Tectonic plate research activity - library
- Nothing explicit
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Tectonic plate research activity - library
- Nothing explicit
Monday, December 3, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Notes - volcanoes and mountains
- Nothing explicit
- If you missed Friday or any day last week, catch up on your notes
Monday, November 26, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Videos and simulations - plate tectonics
- Map work - due Friday
- Tectonic plate maps due Friday
Friday, November 23, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Tectonic plate maps - complete rough copy and get feedback
- Nothing explicit
Thursday, November 22, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Complete continental drift assignment - Pangea map and questions
- Tectonic plate map - co-construct criteria, work on rough copy
- Tomorrow is a work period to continue working on your maps
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Hand in evaluations from yesterday's presentations
- Finish notes on continental drift and tectonic plates
- Continental drift activity
- Nothing explicit
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Atomic Theory Presentations
- Nothing explicit
Monday, November 19, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Review/ notes on continental drift, the layers of the Earth, ocean ridges and trenches and tectonic plates
- Work session for tomorrow's presentations
- Atomic theory presentations tomorrow - bring your model and presentation
Thursday, November 15, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Amazing Earth - video
- Notes on Wegener's continental drift hypothesis
- Video - Earth 240 million years ago to 250 million years into the future
- Activity - creating Pangea
- Atomic model presentations are going to be on TUESDAY (you'll have 1/2 of Monday's class to finish putting them together)
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Atomic theory presentation preparation
- Atomic theory presentations on Monday (complete your presentations and models)
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Student-led conference prep
- Bring required supplies for atom model projects to tomorrow's work period
Friday, November 9, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Remembrance Day assembly
- Get started on your atom model presentations
Thursday, November 8, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Atom models - part 2 (paper, rocks and pennies)
- Atom models - summative task
- Atom model presentations will be happening the week after next - start planning/ preparing with your partner(s)
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Diffusion and the KMT lab reports - good copy creation
- Complete your good copy of your Diffusion and the KMT lab report for submission tomorrow
Monday, November 5, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Peer/ teacher reviews of lab reports
- Women of the atom...and then some - research
- Nothing explicit...unless you still haven't done anything on your lab writeup
Thursday, November 1, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Subatomic theory - powerpoint, notes and videos
- Complete rough copies of your lab reports - extended to Monday
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Read pp 28-33 of science text book (grade 9) together as a class
- Complete worksheets on atomic structure
- Complete rough copies of your lab reports for tomorrow's peer evaluation session
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Diffusion lab - complete trials, write-up, peer evaluations
- Rough copy of lab write ups due on Thursday
Monday, October 29, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Hand in scent sense questions
- Lab day - diffusion and the KMT
- Nothing explicit
Friday, October 26, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Cesium in water video
- Test self evaluation/ portfolio creation
- Scent questions - debrief yesterday and complete
- Complete scent questions for Monday
Thursday, October 25, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Model check-in - Kinetic Molecular Theory (KMT)
- Cornstarch activity - properties of liquids and solids
- Notes continued - KMT, dissolving, diffusion, thermal expansion
- Library - scents reading and questions in small groups
- Nothing explicit
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Physical and chemical changes - paper airplanes, sodium in water, notes
- Sates of matter and kinetic molecular theory - notes
- Complete element cubes and lab reports if not yet done
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Elements cube project
- Complete elements cube project
Monday, October 22, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Hand in lab reports
- Quiz - matter
- Elements worksheets
- Elements worksheets
Friday, October 19, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Lab activity continued
- Lab write-up - begin putting it together following the format on the attached document (handout you received in class)
- Overview of Monday/ Tuesday plan with sub
- Complete your lab write-up for the activity done in class over the past two days - hand in to the sub on Monday
Thursday, October 18, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Hand in "Describing Mater" worksheets
- Review lab report structure and expectations
- Check in with lab partner and get procedure approved
- Carry out Properties of Matter lab
- Nothing explicit
- Quiz on Monday on our chemistry unit - more details tomorrow
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Pair up to review density worksheets
- Teaching and videos on the law of conservation of mass (teded, hogwarts example)
- Properties of matter experiment - questioning, predicting and procedure development with lab partner
- Complete "Describing Matter" booklet
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
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OUTLINE
- McDade away
- Density worksheets - practice rearranging the formula and solving
- Finish "Describing Matter" booklets
Friday, October 12, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Finish up notes - properties of matter, states of matter and phase changes, matter (pure substances and mixtures)
- Practice - work on completing "Describing Matter" worksheets
- You will continue working on your "Describing Matter" worksheets on Tuesday with the sub but will also be assigned more work on calculating density ***Everything will be due on Wednesday so complete as much as possible this weekend
Thursday, October 11, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review density
- Finding density activity - continue from yesterday
- Notes - properties of matter (physical and chemical)
- Nothing explicit
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- McDade away
- Video - Science Max (Volume, Mass Density)
- Calculating density worksheet
- Finding density activity
- Nothing explicit
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Chemistry! - Know, Want to Know brainstorm
- Properties of matter - list an object's properties (anything in the room) and guess a partner's object based on properties given
- Notes - what is matter, defining physical properties
- Nothing explicit
Friday, October 5, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Cells test
- Medicine poster projects (see Wed Sept 26) are considered incomplete until submitted
Thursday, October 4, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Review for tomorrow's test
- 4 groups rotation
- Study for your test tomorrow on our cells unit
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Graphing activity - measles incidence and vaccination rates
- Review for test - examples of characteristics of living things on the board
- Study for cells unit test - changed to Friday instead of tomorrow ***We will be reviewing further tomorrow
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Debrief presentation
- Posters?
- Questions from yesterday - go over
- Review for Thursday's test - overview, headbands term review, questions (create one and practice questions)
- Study for Thursday's test
- Some people still haven't handed in their posters
Monday, October 1, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Poster assignments - hand in
- Antibiotics
- Resistance videos - cbc and harvard
- Antibiotics apocalypse article
- New ideas radio clip
- Activity - antibacterial agents (dry lab)
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Cells test review
- Hand in disease sheets from yesterday...and straggling comic strips
- Medicines and microbes presentation and discussion (no notes) - traditional medicines, vaccines, antibiotics
- Medicines and microbes assignment
- Complete your medicines and microbes poster for Monday (link is above)
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Complete research on various outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics
- Outbreak simulation
- Nothing explicit
Monday, September 24, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Disease brainstorming
- Disease definitions - outbreak, epidemic, pandemic
- Example - Ebola
- Gathering information - computer lab
- Nothing explicit
Friday, September 21, 2018
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OUTLINE
- No class - Terry Fox Run
- Complete comic strip (use pictures and text) to demonstrate your understanding of the immune system
- Complete graphic organizer connecting your knowledge of microbes and immunity to Ms. McDade and her dog's recent battles with bacteria
Thursday, September 20, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- McDade away sick last two days - check-in
- Recap Tues/ Wed using a graphic organizer
- Notes - microbes and immunity
- Work on comic strips and graphic organizer
- Complete comic strip (use pictures and text) to demonstrate your understanding of the immune system
- Complete graphic organizer connecting your knowledge of microbes and immunity to Ms. McDade and her dog's recent battles with bacteria
Monday, September 17, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Picture day
- Quiz - continued
- Microorganisms assignment
- Nothing explicit
Friday, September 14, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Workbook corrections
- Quiz
- Nothing explicit
Thursday, September 13, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Recap similarities and differences between plant and animal cells
- Photosynthesis and cellular respiration notes
- Independent work - complete notes and worksheets from last week
- Open book quiz tomorrow on all course content
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Notes on prokaryotes vs eukaryotes, plants and animal cells
- Start of goal setting in science 8
- Nothing explicit
- Tomorrow will be a work/ practice period; Friday we will correct worksheets 1.2 and 1.3 and do an open book quiz
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Homework review - variables
- Notes, videos and simulations on cell theory, viruses and prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic cells
- Nothing explicit
Monday, September 10, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Debrief Friday - behaviour, microscope drawings and worksheets
- Quiz - hand back and review
- Variables - notes and practice
- Complete variables assignment
Friday, September 7, 2018
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OUTLINE
- McDade away
- Work on readings and questions from yesterday
- Nothing explicit
Thursday, September 6, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Question review
- Microscopy feedback
- Microscopy part 2 - cell viewing
- Readings and questions - origins of life and cell types/ parts
- Tomorrow you will continue to work on your question booklets from today and complete you microscopy assignments in class
- Booklets are NOT for homework over the weekend but will be assigned next week following explicit lessons
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Safety quizzes - hand back and discuss
- Microscope activity
- Read assignment together
- Review biological drawings
- Microscope viewing activity
- Drawings and questions
- Complete questions #1, 4 and 5 from the microscope activity for homework
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review homework questions
- Review for today's quiz
- Quiz - characteristics of life
- Microscope activity - to be continued tomorrow
- Nothing explicit
Friday, August 31, 2018
CLASS ACTIVITY
CLASS ACTIVITY
- Safety quiz
- Meme assignment
- Graphing exercize
- All done? Go to Cellsalive.com and explore cell models (eukaryotic - plant and animal and prokaryotic)
- Quiz - safety
- Questions - answer on a separate piece of lined paper (front - #2, back - #1, 3, 5, 7, 8)
- Computer lab - meme, graphs, cells alive (see above)
- Complete questions on today's handout as indicated above
- Study for quiz on Tuesday - characteristics of living things
Thursday, August 30, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review characteristics of life
- Correct homework and hand in
- Microscopes - the basics
- Computer lab tomorrow - science lab safety memes (come up with your idea)
- Safety quiz tomorrow
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Uni vs. multicellular review (Venn Diagram)
- Characteristics of life notes - continued
- "Is it Alive?" worksheet - complete independently and discuss
- Practice questions - booklet
- Finish practice questions for tomorrow - we will correct them together in class
- Make sure you have your safety assignment completed - quiz on Friday on this material and the characteristics of life
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Quiz review
- Science lab safety assignment
- Safety meme
- Unit 1 - cells (intro and notes)
- Science lab safety assignment
- Safety meme (develop and idea for Friday's computer session)
Monday, August 27, 2018
CLASS ACTIVITY
CLASS ACTIVITY
- Open the "Science safety notes" and use them to answer the "Science science safety questions." Record your responses on the computer and print them (USE DOUBLE SIDED OPTION UNDER LAYOUT) when finished. Complete the Meme activity on a safety topic (i.e. WHMIS symbol, rule) of your choice.
- Science safety notes
- Science safety questions (use control+shift+command+4 to copy WHMIS images from notes)
- Meme activity
- Quiz - metric system
- Computer lab session as described above
- We will continue this activity tomorrow
Friday, August 24, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Take up questions from yesterday
- Recap conversions
- Practice problems (4 pages) - check your answers
- Self assessment
- Metric system conversions quiz on Monday - study your notes and review practice problems you did today ***This quiz will be closed book
- Need extra help? Check out the following youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0nqd_HXHPQ&t=3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tHpDzXP-lg
- Need more practice? Go here
Thursday, August 23, 2018
CLASS ACTIVITY
Example where birthdate is 08/31/1993: Sh199331j!
OUTLINE
CLASS ACTIVITY
- Go to https://portal.yesnet.yk.ca
- Use the following email address as a login name: studentid#@yesnet.yk.ca
- Create a password as follows
Example where birthdate is 08/31/1993: Sh199331j!
OUTLINE
- Seating plan
- Course outline review
- Computer log-in
- Metric system notes and practice
- Complete questions 1 and 2 of the "Instant Practice" section of the Metric System note package
- Come prepared to work when the bell goes tomorrow
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Welcome and attendance
- Survey - McDade and class
- Housekeeping items
- Web of life
- Course outlines
- Come prepared tomorrow with a binder, paper and a pen/ pencil