Well, it sounds like the classes had a good week. I am so glad. Thank you for communicating with your child your expectations while a Guest Teacher is here.



It looks like students are really grasping the concepts on electromagnetic waves. Hooray! We will be working on wave behavior and color and light this week. Let's have another great week!



Science



Monday, January 14th

Mr. Musser will begin the class period with a short activity to introduce himself to the class. Then, we will complete a webquest on Wave Properties of Light. We will look at these over the next two days working with a partner or partners. Students will be graded using a rubric that is attached to the webquest. There are 11 points possible that are worth a quiz grade.

http://www.webquest.hawaii.edu/webquests/webquest6/

State Benchmarks

P4.8A Draw ray diagrams to indicate how light reflects off objects or refracts into transparent media.

P4.B Predict the path of reflected light from flat, curved, or rough surfaces.

Tuesday, January 15th

See Monday's lesson.

Wednesday, January 16th

Students will learn about the Law of Reflection and explain how diffraction and interference patterns demonstrate the wave behavior of light. Students will read 19.4 and put their notes in their journal.

Homework:
19.4%20Wave%20Prop.%20of%20light.doc

Notes:
19.2%20Wave%20Properties%20of%20Light.doc



Thursday, January 17th

Students will be introduced to Centers in the classroom. They will be responsible to complete all of the centers by the end of Friday.

Centers will give students another opportunity to review their understanding of Waves and to enrich their understanding by exploring further.

The centers will include the following state standards:
P4.4 Wave Characteristics
P4.5 Mechanical Wave Propagation
P4.6 Electromagnetic Waves
P4.8 Wave Behavior-Reflection and Refraction
P4.9 Nature of Light

Today will be critical for students to learn the routines and procedures for completing the centers, how they will be assessed, how to get help, etc. Whatever class time is left we will begin the centers.

Friday, January 18th

Thursday's centers continued.


Global Warming

Monday, January 14th

Students will act out the interaction between photons and molecules and discuss. We will then go over the rules for the Global Warming Game. Students will then begin play.


Wednesday, January 16th

Students will play round 2 and 3 of the Global Warming Game today.


Friday, January 18th

Students will discuss the results of the Global Warming Game and complete a worksheet, "Global Temperatures and Carbon Dioxide During the Past 160,000 Years".