Welcome Back Everyone! It should be a great first full week of school. Our team's syllabus should be going home this week, so I will not spend the time on that here. I can't wait to begin the exciting work with Biotechnology and Student-Led Conferences. More information will arrive about those things later. Let me get to this week's schedule.



Monday, September 8



Science

MI Content Standard: C4.8A Identify the location, relative mass, and charge for electrons, protons and neutrons.

Students will be working on an activity called, The Atoms Family that will assist them in learning the parts of an atom. We will use story, drawing and a song to help with the lesson. There will be a short video to help students connect The Atoms Family lesson with the science.



Science Connections

Students will be adding to their list of science ideas they would like to research or learn about. We will begin today with reading about Nanotechnology from the middle school magazine, Nanooze. We will be working on discussing the reading and using reading strategies to assist in reading comprehension.



Tuesday, September 9



Science

MI Content Standard: C4.8A Identify the location, relative mass, and charge for electrons, neutrons and protons.



During the first half of the period, students will be getting their pictures taken for photo IDs. During the second half, we will be setting up our Science Notebooks and creating the mind maps for the overall unit.



Wednesday, September 10

Science
MI Content Standard: C4.8B Describe the atom as mostly empty space with an extremely small, dense nucleus consisting of the protons and neutrons and an electron cloud surrounding the nucleus. C4.8C Recognize that protons repel each other and that a strong force needs to be present to keep the nucleus intact.

Students will begin gathering reading information from lesson 10.1 in the Glencoe Physical Science Book. Lancer Notes will be introduced and they will be put into their notebook. A PowerPoint will also be used to help with student understanding. Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategies will be used to allow students to demonstrate their learning throughout the lesson.

Science Connections
Students will continue to work on their list for science research. We will continue to use reading strategies to read our Nanooze magazine. During the last 15 minutes of class, we will read our assigned reading for the week from, Uglies.

Thursday, September 11

Science
MI Content Standard: C4.8B Describe the atom as mostly empty space with an extremely small, dense nucleus consisting of the protons and neutrons and an electron cloud surrounding the nucleus. C4.8C Recognize that protons repel each other and that a strong force needs to be present to keep the nucleus intact.

Students will be reading about lesson 10.2 Smaller Particles of Matter. They will use Lancer Notes and put them into their notebook. A PowerPoint will also be used to help with student understanding. Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategies will be used to allow students to demonstrate their learning throughout the lesson.


Friday, September 12

Science
MI Content Standard: C4.8B Describe the atom as mostly empty space with an extremely small, dense nucleus consisting of the protons and neutrons and an electron cloud surrounding the nucleus. C4.8C Recognize that protons repel each other and that a strong force needs to be present to keep the nucleus intact.

Students will use their Lancer Notes and use PowerPoint lesson 10.3 on Masses of Atoms. They will use the Glencoe Physical Science Book. Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategies will be used to allow students to demonstrate their learning throughout the lesson.

Science Connections
Students will continue to add to the science research list. Today, students will determine what type of science they would like to research. If there is any Nanooze to finish, that will be done today and any reading that needs to be done with Uglies, will be done also.