Monday, January 14, 2018
Thursday, January 9, 2018
Monday, January 7, 2019
ACTIVITYOUTLINE
ACTIVITYOUTLINE
- Housekeeping - text books, workbooks, final exam, end of semester schedule
- Climate change video
- Rising sea level video
- Computer lab activity (see above)
- Your Unit 4 workbook is due on Thursday, January 10th
- Final exam is Tuesday, January 15th from 1-4pm in Room 111 (same hallway as science lab)
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Chapter 4 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
- Film - finish watching "People of a Feather"
- Film response: Using specific details from "People of a Feather" discuss 3 impacts that hydro energy has had on Belcher Islands
- If you haven't completed worksheets for 7.1 and 7.2, they are being collected tomorrow
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Continue watching "People of a Feather" and taking notes
- 7.1 and 7.2 worksheets being collected on Friday
Monday, December 3, 2018
CLASS ACTIVITY
CLASS ACTIVITY
- Pick an article from one of the following three websites to complete your current news/ events in science assignment
Monday, November 26, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Finish videos and questions from Friday/ discussion
- Complete electricity stations and submission of results/ question responses
- Work from 7 stations due Friday
Friday, November 23, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Energy videos and questions - CNBC
- Nothing explicit
Thursday, November 22, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review summative task - first example done together
- Station work
- You will have half of tomorrow's class to complete a good copy of your observations and question answers from your station work
- Monday will be your last class to complete your stations
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Station work
- Nothing explicit - station work will continue for another day
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Review calculations with series and parallel circuits
- Station work - complete observations/ questions at each station
- Nothing explicit
Monday, November 19, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Hand in summative work on Ohm's Law
- Series and parallel circuits learning and practice
- Complete Series Circuit problems by mid-week - we will review this concept again tomorrow if you don't understand everything yet
Thursday, November 15, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Ohm's law - readings, practice, summative assessment
- Finish Ohm's Law summative assessment
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Circuit diagrams - formative practice and summative task
- Finish up summative task for circuit diagrams
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Student-led conference preparation
- Nothing explicit
Friday, November 9, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Online circuit work continued - series and parallel circuits; Ohm's law
- Nothing explicit
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Chemistry unit test
- Nothing explicit
Monday, November 5, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Daylight savings time connection to electricity unit
- Electricity topics - group research and presentations
- Chemistry test tomorrow - make sure you have studied and are prepared with a good quality cheat sheet
Thursday, November 1, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Self assessment - compound naming games
- Chemistry test - study guide and cheat sheet creation
- Study for your chemistry test on Tuesday
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Electricity introduction - word search, uses brainstorm, readings (pp 242-250), definitions
- Nothing explicit
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Game day in the library
- Nothing explicit
Monday, October 29, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Game collaboration
- Finishing touches on games - we present tomorrow
Thursday, October 25, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Reading - exceptions to the covalent naming rule
- Flowchart - naming compounds ***Will upload when possible
- Quiz - 15 questions on naming compounds/ writing formulas
- Ionic compound game co-creation with peers
- Nothing explicit
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Formative quiz - how well can you name ionic compounds and write formulae?
- Covalent compounds - recognizing and naming/ writing formulae
- Continue compound practice
- Practice writing names and formulae of ionic and covalent compounds
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Ionic compounds practice
- Practice writing names and formulae of ionic compounds
Monday, October 22, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Ionic compounds practice
- Practice writing names and formulae of ionic compounds
Friday, October 19, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review - Bohr diagrams and ionic compounds
- How to write names and formulas involving multivalent metals and polyatomic ions
- Practice practice practice!
- Nothing explicit...but if you didn't finish your element cube or any other course work, get it done
Thursday, October 18, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Cut/ glue element cube (start reading pp 84-95 of the text book when you finish)
- Review compounds - collective completion of worksheet
- Naming/ writing binary ionic compounds
- Complete practice problems for naming and writing formulas of binary ionic compounds (first two pages of booklet)
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- McDade away
- Article and questions on adolescent use of marijuana
- Compounds notes - fill in table template
- Practice questions - naming binary ionic compounds
- Finish cubes if not already done
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- McDade away
- Elements project research and cube creation in the computer lab
- Complete research and cube at home if not finished in class
Friday, October 12, 2018
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OUTLINE
- Review/ teach periodic table components and trends
- Discuss/ take notes on Bohr diagrams and ion formation
- Practice - complete worksheet booklet
- Worksheet booklets are due on Tuesday - the substitute teach will collect them
Thursday, October 11, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review atomic theory contributors (Dalton, Thompson, Rutherford, Bohr)
- Elements - teaching and practice; ted ed resource
- Periodic table and chemical properties - teaching and practice
- Complete workbook pages up to and including page 31 for tomorrow
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- McDade away
- Video - The History of Atomic Chemistry
- Read text book section on atomic theory and take notes
- Work on questions #1-15 on page 37 of text book
- Nothing explicit
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review subatomic particles
- Common elements and the origin of their symbols/ names
- Periodic table overview and brief history
- Atomic diagrams for atomic numbers 1-10 using chalk, rocks and pennies; exploring ions, compounds, noble gases and periodic table trends
- Nothing explicit
- If you haven't completed and posted your reproduction project, it is considered incomplete
Friday, October 5, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review of properties of matter
- POE - zinc and hydrochloric acid
- Atoms - define and subatomic particles
- Hang up poster projects
- Poster projects for the reproduction unit are considered incomplete until they are submitted
Thursday, October 4, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Homework check - classifying matter
- States of matter - drawing, kinetic molecular theory, worksheet practice
- Chemical and physical properties of substances
- Complete your research project
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Notes on matter
- Pure substances and mixtures practice (topic 2.1 pages 45-46)
- Complete your pure substances and mixtures practice for assessment tomorrow
- REPRODUCTION PROJECTS DUE FRIDAY!!!
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Posters?
- KWL chart for chemistry
- Chemistry videos - atom bombs, chemical reactions
- Demo - sodium in water (POE chart)
- Matter - defining and classifying into pure substances (elements and compounds) and mixtures (homogeneous, heterogeneous)
- Complete your reproduction posters by Friday
Monday, October 1, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Last in-class session to work on research projects
- Projects due on Friday - complete at home as necessary
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Research projects
- One one one meetings with Ms. McDade
- If assigned quiz sections to re-do, complete them over the weekend
- Work on research projects - Due Fri Oct 5
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Reproduction research project overview and topic selection/ exploration
- Reproduction project due next Friday, October 5th - you have two more classes to work on it
Monday, September 24, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Take up homework
- Review questions - posted around classroom
- Project brainstorming
- Nothing explicit
Friday, September 21, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Why sex/ why not sex brainstorm
- Bill Bye video - The Evolution of Sex
- Meiosis interactive
- Assessment - section 1.4 worksheets
- Complete section 1.4 worksheets for Monday - they will count toward your summative evaluation on application of knowledge
Thursday, September 20, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- McDade away last two days - check-in
- Complete text book questions from yesterday
- Complete fetal development assignment
- Finishing the fetal development assignment, including two drawings
- Complete text book questions - page 203 #1, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 16
Friday, September 14, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Workbook corrections
- Quiz
- Nothing explicit
Thursday, September 13, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Methods of asexual reproduction - review
- Mitosis and cell cycle videos
- Bacteria population growth
- Open book quiz tomorrow
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Notes on types of asexual reproduction, the cell cycle and mitosis
- Cloning mimi the mouse
- 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
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Homework review - variables
- Binary fission activity
- Videos on binary fission and budding
- Mitosis simulation with class members as chromosomes
- Nothing explicit
Monday, September 10, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Debrief Friday - behaviour and worksheets
- Quiz - hand back and review
- Variables - notes and practice
- Complete variables assignment
Friday, September 7, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- McDade away
- Lab reports due
- Work on readings and questions from yesterday
- Nothing explicit
Thursday, September 6, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- KWL charts for asexual and sexual reproduction
- Videos - amoeba sisters sexual vs. asexual; types of asexual reproduction
- Text book readings and worksheets on asexual and sexual reproduction - will continue into tomorrow
- Lab reports due tomorrow
- 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
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Reproduction quiz
- Microscope activity
- "Isolating DNA" labs are due Friday - no more class time provided
- Important links for students who have missed class:
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Homework review
- Computer lab - complete "Isolating DNA" lab reports
- Quiz tomorrow on reproduction - study notes and handouts
- "Isolating DNA" labs are due Friday - no more class time provided
- Important links for students who have missed class:
Friday, August 31, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Lab report overview
- Computer lab - lab report write-ups
- Topic 1.1 Assignment due Tuesday
- Quiz Wednesday
- Lab write-up to be finished in class on Tuesday
Thursday, August 30, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Debrief isolating DNA lab
- DNA vocabulary continued
- Building DNA models - sadly not...we will do this later
- Worksheets - Section 1.1
- Complete lab questions from yesterday if not yet completed
- Complete worksheets (due Tuesday)
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Review reproduction notes from yesterday
- Reproduction notes continued (asexual vs. sexual reproduction) and DNA basics
- Lab activity - isolating DNA
- Complete lab assignment - write your observations as well as complete questions on lab handout (process and analyze, conclude and communicate) - hand in tomorrow
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Quiz review
- Science lab safety assignment
- Safety meme
- Unit - reproduction (notes)
- Science lab safety assignment
- Safety meme (develop an 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
- Notes on science safety
- We will continue this activity tomorrow and create our memes
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!
CLASS ACTIVITY
- Go to https://portal.yesnet.yk.ca
- Use the following email address as a login name: studentid#@yesnet.yk.ca
- Use the following password if you don't have one and you can create your own afterwards:
Example where birthdate is 08/31/1993: Sh199331j!
- Create a password that you will remember
- Metric system notes and practice
- Metric system activity - estimation
- Complete "Instant Practice" questions of metric system notes for tomorrow
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
OUTLINE
OUTLINE
- Welcome and attendance
- Survey - McDade and class
- Housekeeping items
- Web of life
- Course outlines