Monday, September 25th

8th Grade Science

Finish extension/enrichment activities from last week. Students will then have a study guide to help them prepare for Friday, September 29th's vocabulary quiz. Turn in completed enrichment work from class.
Vocabulary Words for this week:
interdependence
herbivore
omnivore
carnivore
prey
predator
decomposition
decomposer
food web
food chain
consumer
producer

7th Grade Science

Students will be working using relief maps to work on scale. This is lesson 2 in their journals.


Tuesday, September 26th

8th grade Science

Students will be viewing a PowerPoint presentation to learn about energy flows through simple food chains and webs. They will be identifying and categorizing organisms as producers, consumers and decomposers. They will also be predicting possible consequences of removing one component of the food web. Students will be using the MDNR posters and video to reinforce these concepts.

7th grade Science

Students will be given a paper outline of the United States and resources in order to research and locate on the outline where specific landforms are located to transfer to their three dimensional map.

Connections

Students will have reading modeled through the story, The Skin I'm In. They will then answer questions about the story that focus on the setting.

Wednesday, September 27th

8th Grade Science

Continue lesson from Tuesday, September 26th. Students will then use a web to guide them through writing a paragraph on how change in an ecosystem will affect the food chain. This is due tomorrow.

7th Grade Science

Students will take the research information that they gathered on Tuesday, September 26th and use it to build their three dimensional model and label each surface feature.

Thusday, September 28th

8th Grade Science

Students will turn in their writing assignment from Wednesday, September 27th. The class will then play "Hot Seat" to review for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz. Enrichment/extension will be given for Lesson 2 the rest of the period. There will be an Energy Scavenger Hunt, Who Am I game and a MDNR poster activity to help students locate consumers, producers and decomposer in different Michigan Ecosystems.

7th Grade Science

Students will work in their journals after a teacher led demo on the different forms of water on Earth and how much is actually available for human use.

Connections

Students will have The Skin I'm In modeled by the teacher. Students will then be put into groups to begin using the Read Naturally program and to pick out appropriate reading leveled books for their literature circles.

Friday, September 29th

8th Grade Science

Students will have a vocabulary quiz on lesson 2. Students will then continue to rotate through the Enrichment/extension activities.

7th Grade Science

Students will learn about what an oceanographer is and learn about glaciers and ice caps using their journals.