To help you prepare for the final assessment that will start at the end of tomorrow's class period and continue into Friday see the following preparation sheet: Climate Change Summative Assessment Prep

Don't forget to work on those rough drafts for all three questions for our Atmosphere, Weather and Climate Essay Summative Assessment.  If you need more research information please refer to your text book:

1.  Read pages 240-251.  Add useful notes to your colored papers.  Insert that information into your rough drafts where appropriate.

a.  Pages 240-244 will help with Question #1

b.  Pages 244-245 will help with Question #2

c.  Pages 246-247 will help with Question #3

This Friday (and possibly a bit of Thursday) we will be sitting down in class and silently writing our final drafts for our Summative Essay Questions about climate.  You may have your rough drafts with you during the writing session.  If you're looking for more resources to help you formulate your essays check out your textbook.  There is great information on pages 240-251. 

We're plugging along on the Atmosphere, Weather and Climate Summative Assessment.  Over the weekend students should finish up their Question 1 rough draft.  If you want to jump the gun you can work on researching for question 2 (the gold paper).  What should your paragraph look like?

1.  Start with an "attention driver" or "hook".
2.  Then write a topic or thesis statement (A very general answer to the question itself).
3.  Details, Details! Now use your research on your purple paper to write the body of your paragraph.
4.  Wrap it up! with a concluding sentence.

The last Summative Assessment of the Unit (and before break!):

Atmosphere, Weather, and Climate Essay Response

Today we completed our Passage Analysis worksheet for pages 226-235.  After this we created a concept map using the information from each section in our passage analysis to describe our ideal climate. 

Today we:

• Watched weather presentations
• Corrected The 45th Parallel
• Began working on: Climate Passage Analysis

Today we began Weather Reporting! Great job to those brave souls who chose to go today! We began a climate activity in class that we'll finish on Monday. Here is the Climate Activity worksheet: The 45th Parallel  The map is not included in that link.  You'll need to come get one from me.

Weather Reporter Summative Assessment Presentations begin tomorrow!
Know your day and be prepared!
The following links show the assignment and how the assignment will be graded:
Weather Reporter Summative Assessment 
and
Weather Reporter Summative Grade Check Sheet

1.  We looked into local winds a bit more deeply today
2.  A quick introduction of the upcoming summative assessment project:  Weather Reporter Project
3.  We began (to be completed by tomorrow) the Virtual Lab:  Predicting Weather and Weather Maps (under Module F, weather and climate):  Weather Maps Virtual Lab

Today we completed the Local Winds Lab by showing the differences in heating land versus water.

Today we completed the Digital Lesson in the Think Central website.
1.  Login
2.  Go to My Library
3. Go to Module F (bottom right hand corner)
4. Go to Weather and Climate
5. Choose the play button (digital lesson) next to Lesson 3 "What influences weather?"
6. Complete the following worksheet :
What Influences Weather? Digital Lesson

Today we learned about what those darn meteorologists are talking about when they say things like "a high pressure system is moving in..." or "we're going to be seeing a warm front coming through tomorrow..."

I'm noticing a lack of effort in homework.  You tend to work hard and do a great job and live up to my expectations in class, please continue that at home as well! 

Also, if you see this tonight and I see you tomorrow morning before school starts you'll get a treat!

Today's Assignment:

Factors that Influence Weather Assignment


Please complete this assignment during the class period.  What you don't finish will be homework.

Today we completed the Dew point lab.  Many students got fairly close to the dew point posted on the NOAA website.  Kudos to 5th period for their stellar performance today they earned themselves out of tonight's homework!!!

We wrapped up the atmosphere today by finishing our lab and taking a mini "fake" test to see what information we retained.

We started a virtual lab today about what happens to the temperature as you move up in the atmosphere.  We will finish it tomorrow in class.

The tests looked great! Most people passed with flying colors! Hooray!
We started reading about the atmosphere today.

Today we took the Heat and Heat Transfer Lab.  This week, Friday, is the last day to retake the STEM vocab test!  Don't Forget!  Tomorrow we start the Atmosphere!

1. Corrected Reflections 31-40 today. 
2.  Began a STEM lab.  We are building soda cozies and testing them under heat lamps tomorrow!

3.  TEST ON TUESDAY

New information on Test Retake tab.  Students got their STEM vocab tests back today.  Check it out!

Today we wrapped up the Heat Transfer mini-lab and corrected it and turned it in.  TEST either FRIDAY OR TUESDAY

Today's video:
http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX665f407274024167077355&t=Heat-Temperature
1.  Watch once without writing anything down.
2.  Watch a second time pausing to create 6 questions for your partners to answer.  (Questions cannot just be simple questions such as "What is radiation?"  Make them a little tougher, make your partners think).
3.  Write the answers to the questions on the back side of your paper.

Today we completed a concept map about Heat Energy based off the reading we did yesterday.

1.  Turned in Online Density Lab

2.  Passage Analysis of pages 116-118 (We use highlighters to pick out the main idea, vocabulary and details of various passages.  We did one together.  Students should do the rest of the pages on their own).

3.  Tentatively there will be a test Next Friday Nov. 8th

I have a new tab (see above). It's a test schedule with dates for the next test.  You'll find the study guide for these tests there as well.  This should not be confused with Retake schedules.

Today we finished our Density Lab, if you did not finish in class this is homework.  You should be able to now explain WHY hot air rises!!

Density Lab:
https://docs.google.com/a/newberg.k12.or.us/document/d/1rQSfxVC0hbm2Rx-vAPV5TMAV-13YjgCuOpBtxXU5SUg/edit

If you received a retake form from me today for the Surface and Ground Water test, please start prepping! You have until November 8th.  Check the Test Retake information tab above.

Today we did a density lab.

You can find the worksheet here:
https://docs.google.com/a/newberg.k12.or.us/document/d/1rQSfxVC0hbm2Rx-vAPV5TMAV-13YjgCuOpBtxXU5SUg/edit

For those of you assigned the Alternative Assignment you do not have to do pages 1-4, only page 5.  You know who you are. 

Also, due to extreme business Mrs. Adkins is now adopting "Office Hours".  Please see the board under the Homework section for my hours of availability. Please plan accordingly! This week they are:

Monday (today): lunch and after school
Tuesday: None
Wednesday: Lunch
Thursday: Lunch
Friday: After school

Took the quiz today on STEM vocab. 

Began studying the atmosphere by watching Felix Baumgartner's 2012 jump from a balloon at 127,852 feet!!!!  Here's a link to the website:  redbullstratos.com   We watched a simulation of the jump and explored the mission, making connections to science and the atmosphere along the way.

Quiz tomorrow on STEM vocab.  Vocab words include: tradeoff, constraint, solution, design, criteria, problem and priorities.  Make sure you put together your packet in the proper order!

We're finishing up our STEM water filter lab.  Students did a great job of figuring out what worked and certainly what didn't!  Test re-takes for the Water Cycle test have ended today.  Anyone who has not retaken the test will be missing their elective and making up their work and test in Mr. Mallory's class.

10/18/13

Wow! Today was a whirlwind.  Students did a great job of building filters and testing them.  Too bad the Turbidity Sensor only worked for 1st period!!!! We'll figure something out.  On Monday we'll be putting together a second filter so think about what you would like to do differently!

10/16/13

Today we focused on our STEM vocab.  Some of you came in to retake the water cycle test. Great job! Unfortunately, many of you forgot to put your names on your papers.  If you come in tomorrow morning and you're one of those people I'll know you read this and you'll get a treat!  Tomorrow we'll begin our Water Filter Lab!  Hooray!

10/15/13

Today we continued our car buying activity completing our worksheet (either in class or as homework).  Hoping to start designing and building our filters for our STEM filtration lab starting Thursday and Friday.

10/14/13

Today we took a STEM vocabulary pre-test.  Then we began looking at the process of engineering by comparing it to the process of buying a car.  We looked at what constraints, criteria, and priorities mean.

10/09/13

Took the test on Surface and Ground Water.  If you were absent please see me to make it up.

Tomorrow is the test on Ground and Surface Water!!! Today you received a study guide and had the entire class period to work on it.  In addition to the study guide remember that these are the things the classes decided you needed to know:  

Vocab: surface water, channel, tributary, watershed, divide gradient, flow, stream load, precipitation, runoff, aquifer, porosity, permeability, recharge, discharge, water table, infiltration.

Skills:  Accurately label a diagram showing the vocab above,
Determine and explain how gradient can affect flow and stream load
Determine which Earth has more of:  Fresh or salt water, ground or surface water
List and/or explain uses of ground and surface water (page 38)
Explain how porosity and permeability affect infiltration
Explain how the loss of water can have an effect on societies (Think Syria, but you can also refer to page 39).  

Gearing up for a Final Assessment on Wednesday.  Format is to be determined by the individual classes.  We'll start preparing for this on Monday, but until then study pages 31-39. 

10/03/13

  Today we wrap up Groundwater in Syria by making a connection to ground water and drought in the United States. 
Here are the questions I hope you will finish in class:

https://docs.google.com/a/newberg.k12.or.us/presentation/d/1rvIP0z_CwfEKL9PIrs0yA6-D5ZD-2b_gZF0kZJAGzCk/edit#slide=id.p

I profusely apologize to everyone that sought to find the questions for their conclusion paragraphs here last night.  I promised them to you and then failed to deliver.  You will have an extra day to turn the lab in and I will post them here. 

https://docs.google.com/a/newberg.k12.or.us/presentation/d/1mhjd9MZFDCQEAdRKdJb-_2oUjCxES7VR3ZwFTMuWaWk/edit#slide=id.p

10/01/13

Today we:

1.  Finished our Porosity and Permeability Labs (writing conclusions)
2.  Read pages 36-37 and created a graphic organizer using the words:  Porosity, Permeability, Recharge, Discharge, Surface water, Aquifer, Groundwater.

Don't forget that tomorrow during your lunch is the last day for your 1st retake of the Properties of Water test!

This is what we did in class and your homework if you didn't finish it:

Finish Google Map if you didn't finish in class.

1.  Go to google maps and find your house in Newberg (doens't have to be precise).  Mark it on the paper map
2.  Identify and trace the nearest divide with a dotted line
3.  Identify and trace the nearest tributary with a colored pencil
4.  Describe in a sentence the gradient and what you think the flow and stream load are like in the tributary you traced.
5.  Trace the tributary all the way to the Willamette River.

This is what we did today.  Make sure you have your definitions on page 42-43 on the Notes page.

https://docs.google.com/a/newberg.k12.or.us/presentation/d/1-W42e2OMWjFx6o6jtG3sM1MruWWYI7JKUOaBFUbiOr8/edit#slide=id.p

If you received less than a 70% on the Properties of Water test you should be signed up to take a test either today at 2:30 or Friday during your lunch.  Failure to sign up will result in an MDF!!  Please show up with your Retake form and the work you did to prepare.