Sample narrative

Moon Phases

Resources:

Science-Class.net

Astronomy Links

Bill Nye Seasons Episode

Limerick

Earth's crust in motion

Tectonic Plate Boundaries
Aftershock Song
Witness Disaster in Japan
Earthquake Test Center
Earthquake Song
Drop, Cover, Hold Song

Vocab:
Stress
Shearing
Tension 
Compression
Deformation

Homework:

Matching

Layers of the Earth

Faults in the U.S.

Homework:
Flip Book (Layers) Use your article!
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core

Layers of the Earth

Activity:
Interactive Learner

Homework:

Today in Science 12/9

Learning Goal:
Investigate storms and what powers them in the atmosphere.

Vocabulary:
Hurricane
Trade Winds
Coriolis Effect

Activity:
Bill Nye Storms

Homework:
Weather Vocab Quiz (Use Notes)

Today in Science 12/4

Learning Goals:
Identify the major types of air masses that affect the weather in North America.
Name and describe the main types of fronts.

Vocab:
Tropical
Polar
Maritime
Continental
Cold Front
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Occluded Front

Did You Know:
Textbook pages 76-82

Activity:
Air Masses and Fronts Worksheet
Ed Heads Weather Activities

Homework:
None

Today in Science 12/1

Learning Goal:
*Describe and identify the parts of the water cycle.

Vocab:
Accumulation
Evaporation
Transpiration
Condensation
Precipitation
Surface Runoff
Subsurface Runoff

Activity:
Water Cycle Notes
Play Hot Seat Using Water Cycle Words
Water Cycle Song

Homework:
Study Water Cycle

Today in Science 11/18

Learning Goal:
Discuss the properties of wind and how its direction and speed are measured.

Vocab:
Wind Vane
Anemometer
Local Winds
Global Winds

Did You Know:
Textbook Pages 52-60

Activity:
Weather Packet

Homework:
Define Vocab

Today in Science 11/17

Learning Goals:
*State in what form energy travels from the sun to Earth.
*Explain what happens to energy from the sun when it reaches Earth.
*Describe how temperature is measured.
*Explain the three ways heat is transferred.

Vocab:
Radiation
Visible Light
Infrared Radiation
Ultraviolet Radiation
Conduction
Convection

Did You Know:
Textbook pages 42-45 & 48-51

Activities:
Go over Energy Vocab
Energy in the atmosphere packet

Homework:
Define the words conduction and convection 

Today in Science 11/13

Learning Goals:
*State in what form energy travels from the sun to Earth.
*Explain what happens to energy from the sun when it reaches Earth.

Vocab:Radiation
Visible Light
Infrared Radiation
Ultraviolet Radiation

Did You Know:Textbook pages 42-45

Activities:Energy in the Atmosphere Packet
"Light or Dark"

Homework:Answer "Explore Questions"
Which is cooler on a hot, sunny day, a lawn or a parking lot?
Why doesn't the lawn get as hot as the parking lot?

Today in Science 11/6

Learning Goals:
Identify some of the properties of air.
Name the instrument that is used to measure air pressure.
Explain how increasing altitude affects air pressure and density.

Vocab:
Pressure
Density
Altitude
Barometer

Did You Know:
Textbook Pages 25-30

Activities:
Guided Reading Notes

Homework:
None

Today in Science 11/5

Air Pressure Demo

Atmosphere Lab

Today in Science 10/30

Learning Goal: 
Name the main sources of air pollution.
Explain how photochemical smog and acid rain form.

Vocab:
Pollutants
Smog
Acid Rain

Did You Know:
Textbook Pages 20-23

Activity:
T.I.P. Vocabulary
Pollution Worksheet #s 1-6

Homework:
None

Today in Science 10/29

Learning Goal:
*Identify the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
*Discover properties of air.

Vocab:
Atmosphere
Weather
Hydrosphere
Nitrogen

Class Resources: 
Science Textbook

Activities:
Guided Reading Pages 1-2

Homework:
Earth's atmosphere makes conditions on Earth suitable for living.  Give 2 details that support this statement.  (Complete Sentences)

Today in SS 6/18

Learning Goals:
*Trace the spread of the bubonic plague through the middle ages.
*Assess the impact of the growth of trade in the later middle Ages.

Vocab:
clergy
excommunicate
guild
apprentice
chivalry
troubadour


Activity:
Measly Middle Ages- Plague
NYSTROM Worksheet 36a-b

Homework:
Extra Credit- Write a song that might have been sung by a traveling troubadour.  Be sure to describe chivalrous deeds performed by knights.  

Today in SS 6/17

Learning Goals:
~Describe the role of the Church in medieval society.
~Trace the growth of cities and the rise of a middle class and how they changed medieval life.
~Assess the impact of the growth of trade in the later middle Ages.
~Summarize the cultural achievements in learning and the arts.

Vocab:
clergy
excommunicate
guild
apprentice
chivalry
troubadour

Activity:
Window Pane Summary
Plague Video
Click Here to View the Movie
Ring around the Rosie
Snopes

Homework:
Vocab (In Notebook)

Today in SS 6/12

Learning Goals:
~Trace the origins of feudalism and understand how it worked.
~Evaluate the positive and negative aspects of feudalism as a political and an economic system.

Vocab:
Middle Ages
medieval
feudalism
vassal
manor
self-sufficient
serf

Activities:
Feudalism Vocab
Create your own Medieval Manor

Homework:
Create your own Medieval Manor