Each Day in class is different the plans listed below are subject to Change
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Green Ninja Pilot
Monday 5/20
Tuesday 5/21
Wednesday 5/22
Textbook Return
Thursday 5/23
Friday 5/24
Classwork
Green Ninja Survey
Presentations
Presentations
Minitest (Open notebook)
Notebook Check
Field Day
Homework
Test Wednesday Student Parent Notebook Review 5/23 Notebook Check 5/23 Notebook rechecks 5/30 Green Ninja Pilot
Monday 5/13
Tuesday 5/14
Wednesday 5/15
Thursday 5/16
Friday 5/17
Sub Day
Classwork
Check-in
Jigsaw Share
-17.Bad Soil Wrap up
-Presentation
-18 Soil Body of Knowledge
-Restore an Ecosystem Work day
Video
Homework
Restore and Ecosystem 5/20
Test 5/22
Notebook Check 5/23
Green Ninja Pilot
Monday 5/6
Tuesday 5/7
Wednesday 5/8
Thursday 5/9
Friday 5/10
Classwork
-8. Check in
Friday wrap up
-8. Check in
-11/12. Proving the law of conservation of matter
-8. Check in
-12. Decomposition review
-9/13. Healthy Ecosystem=Healthy soil
-8. Check in
-14. Ecosystem research
-8. Check in
-15. Poster work
-Bill Nye Rocks and Soil
Homework
Restore an ecosystem project CER
Green Ninja Pilot
Monday 4/29
Tuesday 4/30
Wednesday 5/1
Thursday 5/2
Friday 5/3
Classwork
BRO
-1. Notice Wonder for Soil Unit RoadMap with video/Questions
-1. Message from Green Ninja
-5. Phenomenon
-5. Explain Lab
-5. Testing Soil Samples and analysis
-6. Bad Soil Research
-7. Bad Soil List
-7. Design
-8. Plant Experiment
-19 Explain Culminating Activity
Homework
Pre-Assessment
Bring Soil Samples
Finish Research
Restore an Ecosystem
Monday 4/22
Tuesday 4/23
Wednesday 4/24
Thursday 4/25
Friday 4/26
Classwork
No School
Osmosis Jones
Osmosis Jones
Making Poo
Survivor Island
Homework
Monday 4/6
Tuesday 4/7
Wednesday 4/8
Thursday 4/9
Friday 4/10
Classwork
Human Trafficking Presentation in Library
Lesson 11 & 12: Goal Setting 79, 80, 81, 82-83
Viral Lab
Homework
ccc Complete Packet
Monday 4/1& 4/2
Tuesday 4/2
Wednesday 4/3 & 4/4
Thursday 4/4
Friday 4/5
Classwork
Lesson 8: STIs How Risky 60,
Lesson 4: Contraceptives
Nurse Presentation in the library
Lesson 8: STIs How Risky 60,
Lesson 4: Contraceptives
Nurse Presentation in the library
Lesson 5:
Teen Pregnancy 42,
Lesson 9: Red light Green light 67,
Lesson 5:
Teen Pregnancy
Lesson 9: Red light Green light
Lesson 10: Media 70, 72, 73,
Homework
40, 41, 63, 64
46, 68, 69
74, 75
Monday 3/25
Tuesday 3/26
Wednesday 3/27
Thursday 3/28
Friday 3/29
Classwork
Lesson 1: Sexual Development
Pages: 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22
Female Reproductive system
Pages 14, 15, 16
Male Reproductive
System
Pages 17, 18
Lesson 2: Exploring Friendships
Pages 25, 26, 27
Lesson 3:
Bullying and relationship Abuse, sexting
Pages 31-35
Lesson 7: HIV/AIDS epidemic shortened mismatch activity (teacher review important matches, complete if time another day)
Lesson 6:
Myths and Stereotypes of HIV loss activity
Homework
Pg 23
Page 16 if not completed in class, 24
Page 18 if not completed in class, 28, 29
Page 36, 47, 50
Pages 49, 58, 37, 59
Monday 3/18
Tuesday 3/19
Wednesday 3/20
Thursday 3/21
Friday 3/22
Last Day of Pilot
Classwork
Investigation 3
Rock Cycle demo
-Textbook reading and packet questions for sections 6-7 (pg. 228-231)
-Making Sense of Pheno. In packet
Summary
Lesson game
-Unit Test on Lessons 16 and 17
Family Life
Packet Pages
Homework
Study for test Monday 3/11
Tuesday 3/12
Wednesday 3/13
Thursday 3/14
Friday 3/15
Classwork
-Textbook Reading/ packet work (Textbook reading pages 206-217)
Correct TCI packet for pages 7-12
ONLINE- under the section drop down menu→ summary, reading further, then lesson games
(Starting the Rock Cycle Unit)
-Observing Phenomenon
-Textbook Reading Page 219
-Start Investigation 1
Finish Investigation 1
Packet Pages
7-12
Homework
Finish packet pages 7-12
Study vocab
-Study any questions missed from the lesson games
Finish Investigation 1
TCI Pilot
Monday 3/4
Tuesday 3/5
Wednesday 3/6
Thursday 3/7
Friday 3/8
Classwork
-Observing Phenomenon
-Textbook Reading Page 203
-Investigation 1
Investigation 1
-Map Challenge
- Color Map
Investigation 1
-Cut out Map
-Packet Page 3
-Reading page 204-205
Investigation 2
-Lecture
-Draw your own boundary
-CER
Investigation 2
-Review
-How to
-Build your models
Packet pages
1, 2, 3Q2)
3, 4
Skip 5
6,
Homework
Monday 2/25
Tuesday 2/26
Last Day of Pilot
Wednesday 2/27
Thursday 2/28
TCI Training Sub
Minimum Day
Friday 3/1
End of Trimester
Classwork
Unit Test
Intro the lab (handout)
Udemonstrate Lab: Last Remains (groups, owl pellets)
Udemonstrate Lab: Last Remains (groups, owl pellets)
Kids Survey
Video
Notebook Checks End of Trimester Grade check (Notebooks to go in T3)
Homework
Write procedure and data collection chart
Monday 2/18
Tuesday 2/19
Wednesday 2/20
Thursday 2/21
Friday 2/22
Classwork
No School
No School
Uinvestigate: follow water
Write: Recycling your energy: (Assign online)
Interactivity: Cycles of matter (Assign online)
Video: Cycles of matter
Interactivity: Earth’s recyclables (Assign online)
Quest Check-in Matter and Energy in a pond (Assign online)
Quiz (Assign online)
Pages 378-381 Chapter Review
Stamp book
Homework
Complete page 376 in book
Pearson Pilot Monday 2/11
Tuesday 2/12
Wednesday 2/13
Short day
Thursday 2/14
Valentines Day
Friday 2/15
(Sub)
Classwork
Write: Food Sources (Assign online)
Interactivity: Energy roles and flows (Assign online)
Interactivity: Living things in Ecosystems (Assign online)
Text 358-366(Individual, check page 366)
Quest Check-in interactivity Nutrients and aquatic Organisms: (Assign online)
Virtual Lab: Chesapeake bay ecosystem Crisis
(Assign online)
Video Energy Flow in Ecosystems (5)
Interactivity: A changing Ecosystem (Assign online)
Quiz (Assign online)
Text pages 368-375
Homework
Finish any work not done in class
Textbook pages 350-357 Checked tomorrow
Finish text if not done in class
Pearson Pilot
Monday 2/4
Tuesday ⅖
Computer based
Wednesday 2/6
Thursday 2/7
Friday 2/8
Classwork
-Uconnect lab
-Essential Question: pg 347
-Quest Video: pg 348
-Hands on lab: lining up in the neighborhood
-Interactivity: There’s no place like home
-Interactivity: Factors affecting growth
-If time: Enrichment: modeling population growth
-Video (living things in their environment)
-Uinvestigate: Elbow Room
-Interactivity: An ecological mystery
- Text reading pages 350-357)357 checked
-Quest: suspicious activities
-Assessment: lesson quiz
Homework
-Quest Check-in interactivity (if not completed in class)
Monday 1/28
Last Day of Pilot
Tuesday 1/29
Sub
Wednesday 1/30
Thursday 1/31
Friday 2/1
Classwork
Elaborate: -Science Day Watch it!
-Career Connections
-Scientist Spotlight
Video Day: Trials of Life
-Student Survey
-Reading/CER about Sac Bee article on Deer population decrease
-Mini Lecture on roles in ecosystems such as decomposers, producer/consumer, etc.
-Bill Nye on Food Webs
Exploratory Lab Day using microscopes
Homework
Finish CER for Sac Bee article
STEMScopes
Pilot
Monday 1/21
Tuesday 1/22
Wednesday 1/23
Thursday 1/24 Computer
Friday 1/25
Computer
Classwork
No School
Explore 3: Necessary or Nice
Notebookcheck
Explain: Review Game
Evaluate: CER
Evaluate: Open ended and Multiple choice
Homework
STEM
Scopes Pilot
Monday 1/14
Computer
Tuesday 1/15 Computer pt2
Wednesday 1/16
Computer
Thursday 1/17
Friday 1/18
Classwork
-Explore 2: Ecosystem Relationships: Research/ brainstorming Independent
-Explore 2: Ecosystem Relationships; Building foodwebs/ final product Group
-Elaborate: Reading Science B
Independent
Explain: Linking Literacy/STEMscopedia Individual -Elaborate: Math connections Independent
Elaborate: -Science Day Watch it!
-Career Connections
-Scientist Spotlight
--Start Speeches
Speech day
Homework
Work on Speech
STEM Scopes Pilot
Monday 1/7
Tuesday 1/8
Wednesday 1/9
Thursday 1/10
Friday 1/11 Computer based
Classwork
-Engage Investigative Phenomena: Whole class discussion/ video HO: Relationships in Ecosystems (15 minutes)
- Engage Accessing Prior Knowledge: Group work HO: Relationships in Ecosystems (10 minutes)
- Engage Graphic Organizer: Vocab front loading, work time, Seat Partner (30 minutes)
-Engage Hook (30 minutes)
- Explain Picture Vocabulary (25 minutes) Whole class discussion
-Explore 1: Finding my ecosystem buddy (55 minutes) Independent
-Elaborate: Math connections Independent
-Explore 2: Ecosystem Relationships: Research/ brainstorming Independent
Homework
Intervention: Guided Practice Graphic Organizer
Explore 1: CER
Explain: Communicate Science
**Winter Break**
Date
Monday 12/17
Tuesday 12/18
Wednesday 12/19
Thursday 12/20
Friday 12/21
Classwork
Bellringer
Notebook Check
Bellringer
Cell Processes test
Bellringer
Cell Processes Test If needed
Bellringer
Video Day
Bellringer
Video Day
Homework
WOW:
Date
Monday 12/10
Tuesday 12/11
Wednesday 12/12
Thursday 12/13
Friday 12/14
Classwork
Bellringer
Eggs
Balloon Experiment
Bellringer
Eggs
Webquest
Bellringer
Eggs
Textbook Notes 102-107
Bellringer
Eggs
Foldable
Bellringer
Bounce Eggs
Homework
WOW: Osmosis
Notebook Check Monday 12/17
Test 12/18-12/19
Two parts to accommodate the shortened class periods
Notebook rechecks due during advisory 1/10
Date
Monday 12/3
Tuesday 12/4
Wednesday 12/5
Thursday 12/6
Friday 12/7
Classwork
Bellringer
Textbook notes Pages 118-122
Bellringer
Photosynthesis Simulation
Bellringer
Textbook Notes Pages 123-127
Bellringer
Magic School bus Photosynthesis
Bellringer
Start Eggs
Homework
WOW: Cellular Respiration
Date
Monday 11/26
Tuesday 11/27
Wednesday 11/28 Sub
Thursday 11/29 Sub
Friday 11/30
Classwork
Bellringer
Organelle Quiz
Bellringer
Photosynthesis Simulation
Cellular Respiration Lab
Bellringer
Photosynthesis Video
Bellringer
Photosynthesis/ Cellular Respiration Notes
Bellringer
Simulation
Start Eggs
WOW: Photosynthesis
Date
Monday 11/12
Tuesday 11/13
Wednesday 11/14
Thursday 11/15 Sub
Friday 11/16 Sub
Classwork
No School
Bellringer
Notebook Check
Bellringer
Cell Review
Bellringer
Cell Organelle Quiz
Bellringer
Video Day
Homework
Notebook Rechecks Due 11/29 during Advisory
Date
Monday 11/5
Tuesday 11/6 Sub
Wednesday 11/7
Thursday 11/8 Mini-day
Friday 11/9
Classwork
Compare Cells Handout
Compare Cells Handout
Work Day
Work Day
Turn-in Passes
A Cell is Like
Homework
WOW: Organelle
EC Pass due Thursday
Notebook Due 11/13
Student Parent Notebook Review 11/13
Quiz 11/15
Date
Monday 10/29
Tuesday 10/30 Sub
Wednesday 10/31
Thursday 11/1
Friday 11/2
Classwork
Bellringer
Cell Theory Video
Work Time
Bellringer
Textbook notes pages 88-95
Bellringer
Cells under the microscope
Bellringer
Bill Nye: Cells
Bellringer
CA Healthy Kids Survey
Homework
WOW: Cell
Date
Monday 10/22
Tuesday 10/23
Wednesday 10/24
Thursday 10/25
Friday 10/26
MRS SIEVERS END OF TRIMESTER 1
Classwork
Microscope Lab
Notebook check
Test
Characteristics of living things
Alive or not Lab
Homework
WOW: Homeostasis
Date
Monday 10/15
Tuesday 10/16
Wednesday 10/17
Thursday 10/18
Friday 10/19
Classwork
Bellringer
Macromolecules Notes
Test Corrections
Bellringer
Vomit Lab
Bellringer
Microscope Packet
Bellringer
Microscope lab
Bellringer
Microscope Lab
Homework
WOW: Microscope
Date
Monday 10/8
Tuesday 10/9 (Sub)
Wednesday 10/10
Thursday 10/11
Friday 10/12
Classwork
No School
Bellringer
Periodic Table W/S
Bellringer
Molecule Builder Computer simulation
Bellringer
Bonding
Bellringer
Marshmallow Lab
Homework
WOW: Molecule
Date
Monday 10/1
Tuesday 10/2
Wednesday 10/3
Thursday 10/4
Friday 10/5
Classwork
Bellringer
Notebook check
Bellringer
Test
Bellringer
Bill Nye Atoms
Work time
Bellringer
Bellringer
Atoms Worksheet
Homework
WOW: Atom
Date
Monday 9/24
Tuesday 9/25
Wednesday 9/26
Thursday 9/27
Friday 9/28
Classwork
Bellringer
How to write a Lab report
Bellringer
Lab
Bellringer
Lab
Bellringer
Lab
Bellringer
Lab Report writing time
Homework
WOW: Hypothesis
Notebook Check Monday
Test Tuesday
Formal Lab Report Due Friday 10/5
Date
Monday 9/17
Tuesday 9/18
Wednesday 9/19
Thursday 9/20
Friday 9/21
Classwork
Bellringer
CER Statements
Bellringer
CER Statements
Bellringer
Asking Questions
Bellringer
Is it fair?
Variable ID w/s
Bellringer
Writing a hypothesis
Homework
WOW: Variable
Date
Monday 9/10
Tuesday 9/11
Wednesday 9/12
Thursday 9/13
Friday 9/14
Classwork
Bellringer
Metric Olympics
Bellringer
Metric Quiz
“What is Science Reading”
Bellringer
Concrete vs. Abstract
Bellringer
CER Statements
Bellringer
CER Statements
Homework
WOW: Evidence Due Thursday
Date
Monday 9/3
Tuesday 9/4
Wednesday 9/5
Thursday 9/7
Friday 9/8
Classwork
No school
Bellringer
Mass Challenge Lab
Bellringer
How to find volume
Bellringer
Volume Challenge Lab
Bellringer
Volume Challenge Lab
Homework
WOW: Metric System
Date
Monday 8/27
Tuesday 8/28
Wednesday 8/29
Thursday 8/30
Friday 8/31
Classwork
Bellringers
Safety Cartoon
Class Discussion
Bellringer
Zombie College
Hand out computers
Zombie College game
Bellringer
Safety Quiz
Metric Conversions notes
Bellringer
Safety Test retakes
Metric Scavenger Hunt
Metric Video
Metric Measuring Activity (MUST PASS SAFETY TEST WITH 100% TO PARTICIPATE)
Homework
Safety Contract must be printed and signed by Friday
WOW:
Safety
Date
Monday 8/20
Tuesday 8/21
Wednesday 8/22
Thursday 8/23
Friday 8/24
Classwork
Anarchy
Bossing
Bullying
Cooperation
Democracy
Homework
Date
Monday 8/13
Tuesday 8/14
Wednesday 8/15
Thursday 8/16
Friday 8/17
Classwork
Welcome
Seating Chart
Spaghetti Challenge
Syllabus Review
Classroom Scavenger Hunt
Dot Survey
Snowball fight
Notebook Set-up
Charleston Wrap
Giant Bubbles
Homework
Must have materials in class by Thursday
Syllabus must be printed and signed by Friday
Uinvestigate Lab: Follow Water
