Wednesday 3/1

1. Carbon Command Game (15 min)

2. What is happening in the game? Write the heading "Carbon Command Game" in your notebook and do the following:

• With a partner, sketch the main parts of the game from what you remember

• Label each part of the game

• Describe the science behind each part of the game

• Write at least two questions you came up with as you were playing the game. 

3. Climate Change Quizlet

Tuesday 2/28

1. Warm-Up: Climate Change Quizlet

2. Carbon Command Game (20 min)

3. What is happening in the game? Write the heading "Carbon Command Game" in your notebook and do the following:

• With a partner, sketch the main parts of the game from what you remember

• Label each part of the game

• Describe the science behind each part of the game

• Write at least two questions you came up with as you were playing the game. 

Monday 2/27

1. Climate Change Questions

 2. Introduction to Green Ninja Energy and Climate Unit

3. Unit Pre-Assessment 

4. Brain Pop: Climate Change Video and Quiz

Friday 2/24

I'm not feeling well today, so we have a guest teacher. Please be helpful and respectful! We will do prizes on Monday.

Essential Question: What is climate change?

 1. Go to Newsela and read the article Climate and Climate Change in a group of three at your table. Take the quiz.

2. Work with your group to come up with three questions you have about climate change. Record these questions in your science notebook under the heading "Questions we have about Climate Change"

3. Extra Credit: If you finish early, go to BrainPop and watch one or two science movies of your choice and take the graded quizzes.

Thursday 2/23

Attention!! We have the opportunity to go on a field trip in April to the Wastewater Plant and Beach. We need at least 8 adult chaperones to go with us who have been approved (fingerprinted, TB tested) by the district office. Please ask your parents/guardians if they can come along!

Challenge: Ask scientific questions to make discoveries.

 1. Green Ninja Pre-Survey 

 2. Introduction to Green Ninja Energy and Climate Unit

3. Questions: Talk with your table partners to come up with at least two questions about climate change.

 4. Unit Pre-Assessment 

Wednesday 2/22

Attention!! We have the opportunity to go on a field trip in April to the Wastewater Plant and Beach. We need at least 8 adult chaperones to go with us who have been approved (fingerprinted, TB tested) by the district office. Please ask your parents/guardians if they can come along!

Essential Question: How are surface ocean currents and deep ocean currents similar and how are they different?

1. BrainPop: Ocean Currents Video and Quiz

2. Venn Diagram (in your notebook): compare and contrast surface ocean currents and deep ocean currents

Tuesday 2/21

Attention!! We have the opportunity to go on a field trip in April to the Wastewater Plant and Beach. We need at least 8 adult chaperones to go with us who have been approved (fingerprinted, TB tested) by the district office. Please ask your parents/guardians if they can come along!

Essential Question: What are deep ocean currents and how to they develop?

1. Question of the Day: How are shallow and deep ocean currents related and how are they different?

2. Deep Ocean Currents: Read/Cornell Notes in Science Notebook

3. BrainPop Video: Ocean Currents

4. Make a Map assignment: compare and contrast surface ocean currents and deep ocean currents

Friday 2/17

Essential Question: What are surface ocean currents and how to they develop?

1. Question of the Day: What are surface currents? How do you think they are different from deep currents?

2. Bill Nye: Ocean Currents

• Glue the notes sheet into your science notebook.

3. Review

Wednesday 2/15

Essential Question: What are surface ocean currents and how to they develop?

1. Question of the Day: What are surface currents?

2. Read about Surface Currents in the Interactive Readers pp. 64-67

• Use Team Reading Guidelines
• Start with a Preview
• Write the Heading "Surface Currents" in your notebook
• Cornell Style Notes: record the key ideas for each section 

3. Add surface currents to the world map (see the map on p. 67)

Tuesday 2/14

Essential Question: What are surface ocean currents and how to they develop?

1. Message in a Bottle Videos

2. Read about Surface Currents in the Interactive Readers pp. 64-67

• Use Team Reading Guidelines
• Start with a Preview
• Write the Heading "Surface Currents" in your notebook
• Cornell Style Notes: record the key ideas for each section 

3. Add surface currents to the world map (see the map on p. 67)

Friday 2/10

Essential Question: How is density measured?

1. Question of the Day (write the question): Why do some objects float in water and other objects sink? (answer the question to the best of your current knowledge, then draw a line of learning under your answer).

2. Density Lab

3. Go back to today's Question of the Day and write a new answer below your line of learning.

4. Seating Survey

Thursday 2/9

Essential Question: What is density?

1. Go to EdPuzzle and watch the Density Facts video.

2. Be sure that your 7up / Diet 7up density table in your notebook is complete.

Object	Mass (grams)	Volume (mL)	Density (g/mL)
7Up
Diet 7Up

3. Go back to TUESDAY's question of the day and answer it again using the vocabulary words mass, volume, and density.

Wednesday 2/8

Essential Question: What is density?

1. Question of the Day: What's heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?

2. Write the definitions of mass, volume and density on the next blank page in your science notebook. Draw a picture for each. 

3. Draw a table in your notebook to show the mass, volume, and densities of 7up and Diet 7up

 

Object	Mass (grams)	Volume (mL)	Density (g/mL)
7Up
Diet 7Up

4. Ticket Out: Go back to YESTERDAY's question of the day and answer it again using the vocabulary words mass, volume, and density.

Tuesday 2/7

Essential Question: What is density?

1. Question of the Day: (in your science notebook) Explain in writing why one rock floats, while the other rock sinks. Do most rocks sink or float?

2. Density and Volume Lab

3. Ticket Out: Go back to your question of the day and answer it again using the vocabulary words mass, volume, and density.

Monday 2/6

Essential Question: How do hurricanes form?

1. Warm Up: Question of the Day, How do hurricanes form? What makes them grow? What makes them get smaller?

2. Bill Nye Storms

• On the next blank page in your science notebook, write the heading: Bill Nye Storms and the date
• Divide the page into six evenly sized sections by drawing a vertical line down the middle of the page and two horizontal lines across the page
• In two of the sections, write things you heard in the video that you already knew
• In two of the sections, write things you learn from the video that you didn't know
• In one section, write a question about something from the video
• In one section, draw a picture of something from the video

3. Ticket Out: Share your notes at your table and decide on one question that you will share with the class.

Friday 2/3

Essential Question: How do hurricanes form?

1. Warm Up: Brain Pop Hurricanes 

2. Go to NASA SciJinks and finish the reading about how hurricanes form with your team. Follow the guidelines on the handout. (table on p. 8)

3. Ticket Out: On page 9 of your science notebook, write a short paragraph that summarizes what you have learned about hurricanes. 

Use the heading Hurricanes and answer these questions: 

• Where do hurricanes form? 
• What drives them (causes them to form and grow). 
• How do they move? 
• What happens when they go over land?

Extension: Click on "Multimedia" on the right side of the web page, then click on the Hurricane Simulation

• What happens to the storm as the temperature rises?
• What happens when it goes over land?

Thursday 2/2

Essential Question: How do hurricanes form?

1. Warm Up: Finish Hurricanes-Heat Machines worksheet, question #6 (Venn Diagram)

2. Go to NASA SciJinks and read about how hurricanes form with your team. Follow the guidelines on the handout. (table on p. 8)

3. Ticket Out: On page 9 of your science notebook, write a short paragraph that summarizes what you have learned about hurricanes. 

Use the heading Hurricanes and answer these questions: 

• Where do hurricanes form? 
• What drives them (causes them to form and grow). 
• How do they move? 
• What happens when they go over land?

Extension: Click on "Multimedia" on the right side of the web page, then click on the Hurricane Simulation

• What happens to the storm as the temperature rises?
• What happens when it goes over land?

Wednesday 2/1

Essential Question: How are hurricanes related to the water cycle?

1. Watch the video: 27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta and answer the questions on your worksheet

2. Ticket Out: On page 8 of your science notebook, write a short paragraph that summarizes what you have learned about hurricanes. Answer these questions: Where do hurricanes form? What drives them (causes them to form and grow). How do they move? What happens when they go over land?