Thursday 6/1

Essential Question: How do human activities influence global climate change?

1. Warm-Up: Study the Climate Change Quizlet

2. Kahoot

Wednesday 5/17

Please be helpful and respectful to the guest teacher.

1. Study the Climate Change vocabulary with this Quizlet

2. Choose at least three of the words that you do not have memorized and write the following in your science notebook under the heading Climate Change Vocabulary:

• Write the word

• Write the definition

• Draw a picture

• Use the word in a sentence

Tuesday 5/16

Please be helpful and respectful to the guest teacher.

Go to Newsela and read the assigned article about Moose and Climate Change. Follow the directions. If you finish early, you can work on any unfinished work from science or math. If all your science and math work is complete, you can work on anything from another class.

Monday 5/15

Today and tomorrow (Tuesday) we will be working on the MAP Math Test

If you finish the MAP test early, finish any missing Google Classroom Assignments.

If all your work is complete, you can go to the math blog and click on the review link to work on the Khan Academy review tasks.

Friday 5/12

Please be polite and helpful to the guest teacher today!!

Essential Question: How do human activities influence global climate change?

1. Finish Google Classroom Assignments:

• Chasing Ice
• Human Activity and Global Climate Change Part 1

These assignments will be graded this weekend and cannot be turned in late!!

If you finish early, you can go to the math blog and click on the review link to work on the Khan Academy review tasks.

Thursday 5/11

Essential Question: How do human activities influence global climate change?

1. Warm-Up - Define the following terms in your science notebook:

• Climate Change
• Fossil Fuels
• Global Warming
• Greenhouse Gases

2. Reading: Human Activities and Global Climate Change

3. Ticket Out

Tuesday 5/9-Wednesday 5/10

Google Classroom Assignment: Videos Chasing Antarctic Ice (cameras); Caving Glacier; Time Lapse and Reading

Monday 5/8

1. Write the Focus Question in your science notebook: 

How does human activity affect climate change?

2. Pre-Assessment

3. Video: Chasing Antarctic Ice (cameras); Caving Glacier; Time Lapse

• What are glaciers?
• Why do you think it is important to know whether glaciers are growing or shrinking?

4. Ticket Out: Write at least one question and one statement about the videos.

Thursday 5/4-Friday 5/5

Weekly Bulletin

Essential Question: Where do we observe data and how do we use data in our lives?

1. Pattern Pictures

2. Presentation/Finding Patterns

3. Google Trends

• In your notebook, record at least one trend you researched and what patterns you noticed in the data

4. With your table group, make a list of types of data you could collect to describe weather conditions (on poster)

Homework: Find at least one example of data or patterns at home and bring in an example or picture and be prepared to share it with the class.

Wednesday 5/3

Weekly Bulletin

Essential Question: Where do we observe data and how do we use data in our lives?

1. Question of the Day (vocabulary)

2. Presentation/Finding Patterns

3. How are patterns related to data?

Tuesday 5/2

Essential Questions: How can you test your house to see how energy efficient it is?

1. Discussion about Well Insulated House testing

2. Google Classroom quiz

Monday 5/1

Essential Questions: How can you test your house to see how energy efficient it is?

Go to SchoolLoop and Check your Science Grade. Do any missing work! I am entering progress report grades after school today!!

Then:

Go to IXL and complete the following challenges:

• R.1 Identify steps of the scientific method (6th grade)
• U. 1 Collect and graph temperature data (5th grade)
• U.2 Weather and climate: interpret text (5th grade)
• N.1 Use weather to describe climates (6th grade)
• O.1 The carbon cycle (6th grade)

Monday-Friday 4/24-28

Weekly Bulletin

Essential Questions: How can you test your house to see how energy efficient it is?

I will be calling on groups to test their houses. While you wait to test, and while your house is being tested, you must complete the following assignments:

Go to BrainPop and do the following:

• Watch the movie: Scientific Method
• Take the REVIEW Quiz 

Go to IXL and complete the following challenges:

• R.1 Identify steps of the scientific method (6th grade)
• U. 1 Collect and graph temperature data (5th grade)
• U.2 Weather and climate: interpret text (5th grade)
• N.1 Use weather to describe climates (6th grade)
• O.1 The carbon cycle (6th grade)

Insulation Materials and Measurements List

• Figure out how much cardboard you need for your interior walls/floor/ceiling by measuring and calculating the surface area. 

• Determine what you will use for insulation between the two walls. (air? bubble wrap? egg cartons?, etc?)

• Fill out this Google Form (one per team)

Friday 4/21

Today is Day of Silence

Essential Question: Is tap water healthier to drink than bottled water?

1. Warm-Up: Discuss answers to the questions from the Newsela Opinion article about drinking water

• What are some reasons why bottled water might be bad for the environment?
• In the section: Water is Wasted, which statement best supports the idea that bottled water is bad for the environment?
• In the section: Most Tap Water is Healthy, find the statement "they seemed the same". How does this statement support the author's argument?
• After reading this article, would you drink tap water? Why or why not?

2. Quiz (Google Classroom)

3. Finish Bill Nye: Pollution

Thursday 4/20

Tomorrow is Day of Silence

Essential Question: Is tap water healthier to drink than bottled water?

1. Read the Newsela Article, then do the following:

1. Write the Title of the article in your science notebook on the next blank page
2. Carefully read the article again and answer the questions below:

• What are some reasons why bottled water might be bad for the environment?
• In the section: Water is Wasted, which statement best supports the idea that bottled water is bad for the environment?
• In the section: Most Tap Water is Healthy, find the statement "they seemed the same". How does this statement support the author's argument?
• After reading this article, would you drink tap water? Why or why not?

2. Compare your answers with a table group

3. Each table group will share at least one answer with the class (numbered heads)

Wednesday 4/19

Essential Question: Is tap water healthier to drink than bottled water?

1. Newsela Article

1. Read the article once on your own
2. Write the Title of the article in your science notebook on the next blank page
3. Carefully read the article again and answer the questions on the right in your notebook.
4. Compare your answers with a table group
5. Each table group will share at least one answer with the class (numbered heads)

Tuesday 4/18

Guest Speaker from Save Our Shores

Monday 4/17

Lakeview Bulletin

Happy Zero Waste Week / Earth Week!

1. Take the survey

2. Video: Zero Waste Week at Lakeview

3. The Life of Plastic

4. Bill Nye Pollution Solutions

Thursday 4/13

Essential Questions: How can you test your house to see how energy efficient it is?

1. Basic Home Creation

• Finish your basic house!!

• Start testing

3. Google Classroom: Discuss your progress with your team and make an entry in your House Design Planning Journal Part B

Wednesday 4/12

Essential Questions: How can you test your house to see how energy efficient it is?

1. Basic Home Creation

• Finish your basic house!!

• Start testing

3. Google Classroom: Discuss your progress with your team and make an entry in your House Design Planning Journal Part B

Tuesday 4/11

Essential Questions: How can you test your house to see how energy efficient it is?

1. Quiz

2. Basic Home Creation

• Create a test procedure 

• Finish your basic house

3. Google Classroom: Discuss your progress with your team and make an entry in your House Design Planning Journal Part B

Monday 4/10

Essential Questions: How can you test your house to see how energy efficient it is?

1. Energy Transfer (Presentation and Notes)

2. Basic Home Creation

• Create a test procedure to test your "basic" home model so you can compare it to your well-insulated home model. Write the steps for your procedure in your science notebook under the heading "House Test Procedure"

3. Google Classroom: Discuss your progress with your team and make an entry in your House Design Planning Journal Part B

Wednesday 3/28 - Friday 3/31

The following tasks are to be completed by Friday 3/31

1. Go to EdPuzzle and watch the assigned video: Bill Nye - Measurement

2. Go to BrainPop do the assignments:

• Watch the Metric Units movie
• Take the Metric Units quiz
• Watch the Measuring Matter movie
• Take the Measuring Matter quiz

3. Packet: Metric Measurements (turn in at the end of the period on Friday)

Monday 3/27

Essential Questions: How can you test your house to see how energy efficient it is?

1. Google Classroom: House Design Planning Journal Part A

2. Basic Home Creation

• The first step in your design is to create a "basic" home, with four walls, a floor, a roof, 2 doors and at least one window that can be opened and closed. 

• You will also create a test procedure to test your "basic" home model so you can compare it to your well-insulated home model.

3. Google Classroom: House Design Planning Journal Part B

Friday 3/24

Essential Questions: What is temperature? How is temperature related to energy?

1. BrainPop: Temperature and States of Matter movies

2. Google Classroom: House Design Planning Journal Part A

3. Basic Home Creation

• The first step in your design is to create a "basic" home, with four walls, a floor, a roof, 2 doors and at least one window that can be opened and closed. 

• You will also create a test procedure to test your "basic" home model so you can compare it to your well-insulated home model.

4. Google Classroom: House Design Planning Journal Part B

Thursday 3/23

Essential Questions: What is temperature? How is temperature related to energy?

1. What is Temperature? Presentation

2. Go to PhET Simulation and explore how temperature and energy depend on the type, state, and amount of matter.

3. Basic Home Creation (15 minutes) 

• The first step in your design is to create a "basic" home, with four walls, a floor, a roof, 2 doors and at least one window that can be opened and closed. 
• You will also create a test procedure to test your "basic" home model so you can compare it to your well-insulated home model.

Wednesday 3/22

Focus Question: How can insulation be used to make a home energy efficient?

1. Complete Google Classroom assignment

2. Well Insulated House Project Rubric

3. Brainstorm with your group

• Materials

• Design Plan