Welcome Back!

Welcome Back from break everyone! I hope you had an awesome one!

We jumped right in today to our new unit: Genetics and Heredity. This will be a short 2 week unit. Here is our daily notes from the powerpoint that should be the first two pages in the notebook.




and here is the worksheet we did in class:



IF YOU MISSED TODAY: the link for the movie to complete the worksheet above is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTgU-cBr7xg. 


No homework. See you all Wednesday!! 

Mrs. Lechner

p.s. you all should have received your Solar System Unit Test grades... we will go over tests on Wednesday :) 

TEST REVIEW for WEDNESDAY!!

BELOW is a topic outline for the test on Wednesday. Study old quizzes, review sheets and notebook to do best for this test. I will give a more detailed review to students on Monday (Which we will be working on the whole hour to prepare them for the test). Please email me if you have any questions or concerns!

Mrs. Lechner

Wednesday December 9, 2015

Hello All!

Here is today's list of things:
1. Quiz on Scale of the Universe
2. Do Now (in NB)
3. Guided notes with my powerpoint. (in NB) - if you are absent, this worksheet can be done from the book in the chapter on classification of stars!!
4. Enrichment worksheet
5. Review Sheet for homework

The DO NOW:
1. How are stars classified?
2. What is an H-R Diagram and how do Astronomers use it?

Guided Notes Worksheet - Classification of Stars: (4 pages)






Enrichment worksheet: 


HOMEWORK:



*******I hope you all have a fabulous rest of the week and weekend. REMEMBER -- HUGE TEST ON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 16. You NEED to be STUDYING the rest of this week and over the weekend. Two nights next week is not going to be enough!! We will have a review day MONDAY, but you NEED to look over your notebooks throughout the rest of this week/weekend. The Test is over the WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM -- (Starting at History of Solar System in our NB). We will not be testing over the interactions of earth/sun/moon. 

See you all on Monday!

Mrs. Lechner

Happy Monday!

Good Afternoon All!

I hope you are having a wonderful Monday!

Here is today's list of what we did:

1. We passed back quizzes, and went over!
2. We checked homework and put that in grade book.
3. We made 4 notecards in which we put vocabulary word on front, and characteristics on back. (Dwarf planet, comet, asteroid, meteoroid)
4. Asteroids Lab and follow up questions 

5. Do Now - (see NB pages below)
6. Youtube video showing scale of universe:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q (3 bullet point notes)
7. Notes - chapter 4 section 2 (in NB) - i will attach notebook pages next.
8. Homework 

NOTEBOOK PAGES OF THE DAY




HOMEWORK:


SHORT QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY OVER TODAYS LESSON -- THE SCALE OF THE UNIVERSE.

So Far in the notebook check that will be due (wed dec 16) here is the checklist so far: 

November 20, 2015	November 23, 2015	November 30, 2015	December 2, 2015	December 4, 2015	December 7, 2015
Terrestrial Planets Worksheet	Sun Video Notes 3 bullet points	Inner Planets Guided Notes	Do Now: how many earth’s would fit inside of Jupiter	Do Now	Data Sheet, Follow-up questions on back.
Magic School Bus Worksheet	Sun and Planets fill in the blank pictures	Do Now: Define Jovian Planet	Outer Planet Review Sheet	Key Vocabulary of Smaller Objects in Space	Do Now
Video Notes 3 bullets per planet (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars)	Review Questions	Jovian Planets Notes Worksheet	Research Reading Talk to the Text	Comets, Asteroids, Meteors Guided Notes (front and back)	Scale of Universe Video Notes (3 bullet points)
	The Inner Planets Enrich Worksheet: Atmospheres of Earth and Venus	Video Notes 3 bullets per planet (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)	Venn Diagram	Venn Diagram - Meteor, Comets, Asteroids	Parallax
	Inner Planets Review Sheet		Outer Planets Enrichment Sheet: Pluto vs. Neptune	Meteor, Meteoroid, Meteorite Chart	How to astronomers define the universe?
			Guided Notes - Outer Planets	Words to Know worksheet, with mini lab on back.	Units - Light-year
					Scientific Notation
					Questions
					The immensity of space
					Sun/Alpha Centauri
					Assess your understanding

Hope you have a great night! See you all Wednesday!!

Mrs. Lechner

Happy Sunday!

Happy Sunday!

A lot of my students are leaving for vacations to places within the next few weeks, so I am going to be more detailed on daily blog. I will be putting worksheet pages, notes from our interactive notebook, ect. online now so that you can see exactly what was done and come back from vacations with the assignments! :) 

Friday December 4th: STEP BY STEP LIST OF WHAT WE DID:
1. Quiz
2. Do Now
3. Vocabulary (in NB)
4. Red books - guided notes (in NB)
5. Venn Diagram (in NB)
6. Meteor Chart (in NB)
7. Mini Lab (in NB)
8. Homework - Words to know wksht (in NB)

NOTEBOOK PAGES for FRIDAY DECEMBER 4th:











HOMEWORK:



LAB:




Tomorrow, Monday December 7:

We are starting with an Asteroid, Comet, and Meteor Lab:

NEXT we will be learning Chapter 4 Section 2. We have some notecards we are creating, a review worksheet, and working on scientific notation. I will post exactly what we did and homework here tomorrow!

Have a great Sunday, and I will see you all tomorrow!

Mrs. Lechner

Quiz Tomorrow!

Hello!

Tomorrow, Friday December 4, there will be a quiz on inner and outer planets. Please study your review sheets from each and the sections in the book!

Homework from Wednesday was:
1. Guided notes on the outer planets
2. Enrich article for Neptune and Pluto

Have a great rest of your day and I will see you tomorrow.

Mrs. Lechner

Glue Sticks Needed!

Hello All!

As the school year continues, I've noticed that all of our glue sticks have disappeared! These are a needed supply since we use them every day for our interactive science notebooks. If you would like to donate some glue sticks it would be MUCH appreciated! :) I will be going to the store tonight and purchasing some as well. Hope you have a wonderful evening, and I will see you in the morning!

Mrs. Lechner