Assignments

↓Science of the Mind-- Science  Week of 3/12 – 3/16

date

Topics / Activities

Assignments

Monday 3/12

Pictures from field trip

Question generation

Luminosity

Darwin

*Luminosity- 15 min. per day

 

Read Darwin section- pp. 8-14

In your notes, list highlights and questions. Due Tuesday.

Tuesday 3/13

Darwin and natural selection

Read evolution packet-

pp. 433-468

In your notes, list highlights and questions. Due Thursday.

Wednesday 3/14

No class – Wednesday schedule

 

Thursday 3/15

Class 8:25-9:25

Evolution

 

 

Friday 3/16

Brain dissection

Read Evolution of the Feather

In your notes, list highlights and questions. Due Monday.

 

 

 

↓ARCHIVED OLD ASSIGNMENTS↓

11th-12th    Electricity

Electricity Design Project          Evaluation rubric

--Due by Friday 2/17:
  • Design Journal
  • Electricity Device
  • The "What's Really Happening" diagram

 


 

--Week of 1/30-2/3  continue with Electricity Project. Show Eric your design journal this week.

--week of 1/23 - 1/27  Start Electricity Design Project

Homework in Design Journal:

Journaling for week of 1/23/12:

  • Describe in detail your ideas for your project.
  • What challenges/problems will have to be solved to be successful?
  • Make neat, detailed drawings of your ideas.
  • Make a materials list—what materials do you need?
  • Make a schedule for completing this project.
  • Assign tasks to members of your group.
  • Respond to general journal prompts.

Electricity Project  General Journal Prompts:

 Something interesting about this is…

What I did in class today….

Here are some diagrams I drew... 

Here are my re-drawn diagrams-- more neat and more completely annotated.  

The thing I learned today was…

The biggest challenge in my project right now is…

Something we tried today was… and the results were… and my conclusions are…

Here’s our data…

Something funny that happened today was…

Tomorrow we are going to…

Here’s how the science works…

Here are pictures of my/our work… here are my captions that I added into the pictures to explain what’s happening and why it is important or interesting…

A new idea I have is…

Here’s some research I did that relates to our project …

 

-- week of 1/18 - 1/20 -- prepare of exam  -- exam takes place on 1/19 and 1/20

 

Week of 1/9 – 1/13

date

Topics / Activities

Assignments

Monday 1/9

Induction, Faraday’s Law, Generators, Motors, Transformers, Fields, E-M waves

Chpt. 37

Do Review Questions 1-22

(You may do any of the “Think & Explain” for extra credit.) Due Friday

Tuesday 1/10

Wrap up of Electricity and Magnetism

 

 

Wednesday 1/11

No class – Wednesday schedule

 

Thursday 1/12

No class- Winter Sports

 

 

 

Friday 1/13

Review for exam

 

Study for exam

(exam takes place Thursday 1/19 and Friday 1/20)

 

11th-12th    Electricity  Week of 1/3 – 1/6

date

Topics / Activities

Assignments

Tuesday 1/3

Magnetism introduction

 

Magnetic field lines and magnet challenges

 

Chapter 36

Review Questions 1-20

(Extra credit: Think & Explain Questions)

Due Friday

 

Document magnet work in design journal

 

Wednesday 1/4

Finish magnetic field lines

Electromagnets

 

 

Document magnet work in design journal

 

Thursday 1/5

Class 8:25am-9:25am

Chapter 36 questions

 

 

Friday 1/6

Electric motors

 

 

Motor diagram