Weekly Update: June 17 to 21

Science Expo is this week!!!
Tuesday, June 18th - Schedule:

11:10  (Period 3)

- grade 7's set up, regular period for the grade 8's

12 NOON (Period 4)

- grade 7's display their experiments - PARENTS WELCOME

- grade 8's are the audience

12:50 (1st part of 2nd NB)

- grade 7's dismantle their science experiments and displays and put them away.

- grade 8's eat their lunch upstairs

1:10 (2nd part of 2nd NB)

- grade 7's eat their lunch upstairs

- grade 8's set up their experiments and displays

1:30 (Period 5)

- grade 8's display their experiments - PARENTS WELCOME

- grade 7's are the audience

2:20 (Period 6)

- grade 8's dismantle their science experiments and displays and put them away.

- Regular period for the grade 7's.

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

WOW!!!! I AM BLOWN AWAY!!!! THESE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS ARE PHENOMENAL!!!

STOP THE PRESSES!!! DON'T PRINT THOSE REPORT CARDS YET!!!! WE'VE GOT SOME CHANGES TO MAKE!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Ooops!!! Weekly update for June 10 - 14th

Sorry, busy doing report cards!

Get your Final Experiment in to me! Some of these experiments have been FANTASTIC~~~!!!!!

So - the document (with all the seven scientific steps filled in and done) is due, but as for the presentation - we will be having a Science Expo!!!! This is not a competition. It is a celebration of science. You will be able to wander around and see what other students have done for their final experiment! These final presentations will not be marked. It is for the love of science!!! SHOW OFF YOUR LEARNING AND HAVE FUN DOING OTHERS' EXPERIMENTS!!!

Date: June 18th  Day 1  The Science Expo!!!

Schedule:
Period 3 - grade 7's set up, regular period for the grade 8's

Period 4 - grade 7's display their experiments (grade 8's are the audience, walking around)

1st part of 2nd NB - grade 7's dismantle their science experiments and displays and put them away.
                              - grade 8's eat their lunch upstairs

2nd part of 2nd NB - grade 7's eat their lunch upstairs
                               - grade 8's set up their experiments and displays

Period 5 - grade 8's display their experiments (grade 7's are the audience, walking around)

Period 6 - grade 8's dismantle their science experiments and displays and put them away. Regular period for                              the grade 7's.

So, basically I'm wrong...

I always think of kinetic energy as 'heat' energy - the heat given off by the movement of molecules. SO, when someone in my class had a picture of two balloons - one full (potential) and one balloon releasing its air (kinetic) - I shamelessly said, "But there's no heat!!!"

Kinetic is the energy of movement - not JUST of molecules. In our Chemistry unit, you need to understand that we measure kinetic energy by heat/thermometer. However, the picture of the balloon wasn't really wrong - just in wrong in the case of Chemistry, not in the sense of say, physics.

Sorry, I can't remember who had that picture. I do remember finding the reference to that picture and it being on a grade 2 Glogster Poster. Check references... even of your teachers.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Wow!!! Some of your final experiments are amazing!!!! They are pouring in! I have given some of you extensions. Let's just review when things are due...

7/8A and 8B - June 5th - it should be in by now...

8D - June 6th  - most of you asked to hand it in   Monday...latest...

7B and 7C - June 10th

7D and 8C - June 11th

After you hand in your document to me via the Cloud, then you can start to work on your presentation. We will not be doing oral presentations in the class, instead, we will have a Science Expo!!!!

Let's fill the gym with our cool science experiments and give everyone in the intermediate division a chance to show off all of their hard work!

The Science Expo will be JUNE 18th - the last four periods. It will be a celebration of science, not a competition.

Tuesday June 4,2103

7/8 A Advisory: record the time you go to bed and the time you get up for a week.

Weekly Update for June 3 to 7, 2013

First of all, please let me congratulate all of the people who participated in our Track and Field last Monday, and in the County Track and Field event. It's incredible to see so many of you participate - and so many of you excel at what you do! A special thanks to Coop and Gunnar for helping me - well, for actually doing the event. I basically was the recorder. Thank you.

Monday, June 3 - Day 1

• Talent show rehearsal
• 8C - Science - FINALLY!!!! Work on your final projects. 

Tuesday, June 4 - Day 2

• Advisory - Cyberbullying 
• 7D - Science - Work on the final projects.
• No running club - I have a staff meeting.

Wednesday, June 5 - Day 3

• 12:30 - ME to WE Group goes to the Food Bank (I have a supply in for me. Be good.)
• 7/8A and 8B - Science 
• - Your COMPLETED SCIENCE EXPERIMENT needs to be submitted to me on the Cloud. Make sure you have alllllllll the seven steps finished, including THREE or more GOOD questions in your data analysis section. 
• You will have this period to make displays, slide presentations, videos for your Oral Presentations. 
• Questions? Email me.

Thursday, June 6 - Day 4

• 8D - Science
• - Your COMPLETED SCIENCE EXPERIMENT needs to be submitted to me on the Cloud. Make sure you have alllllllll the seven steps finished, including THREE or more GOOD questions in your data analysis section. 
• You will have this period to make displays, slide presentations, videos for your Oral Presentations. 
• Questions? Email me.

Friday, June 7 - Day 5

• PA Day - WORK ON YOUR SCIENCE!!!! Come on! You can play video games tomorrow!! This is a gift of a day - use it.
• I will be in Guelph, learning about the 3 Part Math Lesson.