Mr. Lee - Science

GRADE 9 - Lesson Title: Energy

Chapter/Lessons: Chapter 15: Energy and Its Forms; Energy Conservation and Conversion; Energy Resources

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the relationship between energy and work.
2. Relate kinetic energy to mass and speed and calculate these values.
3. Analyze potential energy and give examples of potential and kinetic energy.
4. Describe conversions of energy.
5. State and apply the law of conservation of energy.
6. Analyze how energy is conserved; perform calculations on initial and final energy.
7. Describe energy and mass relationships, classify energy resources as renewable and nonrenewable.
8. Evaluate benefits and drawbacks of different energy sources; describe ways to conserve energy resources.

Learning Tasks -Vocabulary for all chapter words; key note lectures/slides

1. Section 15.1: Math Skills Activity - Calculating Kinetic Energy - Text Page 448; Kinetic and Potential Energy Practice Problems - Reproducibles Page 29; Quick Lab: Investigating Elastic Potential Energy - Text Page 450; Teacher Demonstration - Burning a Peanut - Text Page 451; Guided Reading 15.1; Section Assessment Questions - Text Page 452 - #’s 1-9.
2. Section 15.2: Math Skills Activity - Conversion of Mechanical Energy - Text Page 458; Guided Reading 15.2; Section Assessment Questions - Text Page 459 - #’s 1-10.
3. Section 15.3: Data Analysis - World Energy Use - Text Page 463; Guided Reading 15.3; Section Assessment Questions - Text Page 466 - #’s 1-6.
4. Reinforcement: Practice Kinetic and Potential Energy Calculations.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Vocabulary Test Friday

Quadrant D Activities

1. Kinetic and Potential Energy Lab

GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Cell Reproduction

Textbook and Chapter: Green Textbook Chapter 8 (Review for LEAP)

Objectives

1. Compare mitosis in plant and animal cells.
2. List two examples of asexual reproduction.
3. Describe the stages of meiosis and how sex cells are produced.
4. Explain why meiosis is needed for sexual reproduction.
5. Name the cells that are involved in fertilization.
6. Explain how fertilization occurs in sexual reproduction.
7. Identify the parts of a DNA molecule and its structure.
8. Explain how DNA copies itself.
9. Describe the structure and function of each kind of RNA.

Set, Hook, Focus

How are cargo ships and cancer cells connected?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 1: Define all vocabulary words in Chapter 8; draw and label mitosis on page 213; section assessment questions on page 216; Lab Activity Examining Models of Chromosomes - Res Page 11; Directed reading - Resource Page 17; Key Terms - Res Page 20; Reinforcement - Cell division and mitosis - res. page 25.
2. Section 2 - Draw and label meiosis I and II; Construct flow chart of Meiosis I and II; NGO - Visualizing Polyploidy in Plants - text page 222; Check assessment - chromosomes - test page 223; section assessment questions - page 223; directed reading - res page 18; reinforcement - res page 26.
3. Section 3 - Section assessment questions -text page 229; reinforcement - DNA - res page 27.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Oral Questioning
2. Section Assessment Questions

GRADE 7 - Lesson Title: Animal behavior

Textbook and Chapter: Green Textbook Chapter 7

Objectives

1. Identify the differences between innate and learned behaviors.
2. Explain how reflexes and instincts help organisms survive.
3. Identify examples of imprinting and conditioning.
4. Explain why behavioral adaptations are important.
5. Describe how courtship behavior increases reproductive success.
6. Explain the importance of social behavior and cyclic behavior.

Set, Hook, Focus

Do animals think and behave in the same way as we do?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 1: Define all vocabulary words in Chapter 13; Explore Activity: Communication without words - Text Page 179; Class activity - Puzzle Assembly - Text Page 183; Directed Reading - Types of Behavior - Res Page 18; Reinforcement - Behavior - Res Page 25; Section assessment questions - Text Page 185;
2. Section 2: National Geographic - Visualizing Bioluminescence - Text Page 191; Directed reading - Behavioral Interactions - Res Page 19; Reinforcement - Behavioral Interactions - Res Page 26; Section Assessment questions - Text page 194.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Group questioning.
2. Chapter Test - Adaptations over Time - Ch 12 - Monday
3. Complete Geological Time Projects and Presentations

GRADE 9 - Lesson Title: Work, Power, and Simple Machines

Chapter/Lessons: Chapter 14: Work, Power, and Machines; Mechanical Advantage and Efficiency; Simple Machines

Learning Objectives

1. Compare work input to work output.
2. Compare a machine’s actual mechanical advantage to its ideal MA.
3. Calculate AMA and IMA
4. Explain and calculate machine efficiency.
5. Name, describe, and give example of each the six simple machines.
6. Define and identify compound machines.

Learning Tasks -Vocabulary for all chapter words; key note lectures/slides

1. Section 14.2: Build Reading Literacy - Relate Cause and Effect - Text Page 418; Guided Reading Section 14.2; Section Assessment Questions - Page 420 - #’s 1-8.
2. Section 14.3: Quick Lab - Using Friction to Change Mechanical Advantage - Text Page 424; Math Skills - Calculating IMA - Text Page 425; Calculating Efficiency - Reproducibles - Page 32; Guided Reading Section 14.3; Section Assessment Questions - Page 426 - #’s 1-9.
3. Section 14.4: Teacher Demo - Inclined Planes - Text Page 430; Simple Machines and Levers - Reproducibles - Pages 27 & 28; Guided Reading Section 14.4; Section Assessment Questions - Page 435 - #’s 1-9.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Vocabulary Test Tuesday
2. Calculations Quiz Take Home -Wednesday
3. Chapter 14 Test Friday

Quadrant D Activities

1. None this week.

GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Cell processes/ Chemistry for Life

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 4 (Review for LEAP)

Objectives

1. Describe the function of the selectively permeable membrane.
2. Explain how the processes of diffusion and osmosis move molecules in living cells.
3. Explain how passive transport and active transport differ.
4. List the differences between producers and consumers.
5. Explain how the processes of photosynthesis and respiration store and release energy.
6. Describe how cells get energy from glucose through fermentation.

*8th grade will be on a field trip on Wednesday March 14th.

Set, Hook, Focus

How is it possible to smell perfume that has been sprayed across a room?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 2: Mini Lab - Observing Diffusion - Text Page 107; NGEO - Visualizing Cell Membrane Transport - Text Page 111; Directed Reading - Res.Page 18; Reinforcement - Moving Cellular Materials - Res Page 26.
2. Section 3: Reinforcement - Energy for Life - Res Page 27;
3. Students will use the vocabulary words from this chapter to construct a creative essay. Students will write a fairy tale like story while incorporating ALL vocabulary words on cellular processes. Students will be selected to read their original fairy tales to the class.
4. Students will be grouped and given one of the types of cellular transport: diffusion, osmosis, endocytosis, and exocytosis to research and construct a poster detailing their process.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. Chapter Test Friday

Quadrant D/ Gold Seal Lessons

1. Cellular Processes research, poster, and presentation.

GRADE 7 - Lesson Title: Adaptations over Time

Textbook and Chapter: Blue Textbook Chapter 12

Objectives

1. Identify the importance of fossils as evidence of evolution.
2. Explain how relative and radiometric dating are used to estimate the age of fossils.
3. List examples of five types of evidence for evolution.
4. Describe the difference among living primate;
5. Identify the adaptations of primates.
6. Discuss the evolutionary history of modern primates.

Set, Hook, Focus

Evolution vs. Creationism?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 2: Group Activity - Visualizing the Geologic Time Scale Poster Project; Reinforcement - Clues about Evolution - Res Page 26; Sect. Ass. questions - Text Page 361.
2. Section 3: Key Terms - Adaptations over time - Res page 20; Reinforcement - The Evolution of Primates - Res Page 27; Section Assessment questions - Text Page 365.
3. Daily Lab - Living without Thumbs - Text Page 363 - Students will tape down their thumbs in order to mimic life without the opposable thumb.
4. Students will make models depicting relative dating. Students will use clear containers and add various substance to model layers of earth filled with “fossils” of their choosing.

Evaluation/Assessment/ Quadrant D Activities

1. Group questioning.
2. Relative Dating Models Due Tuesday
3. Chapter Test Friday

GRADE 9 - Lesson Title: Work, Power, and Simple Machines

Chapter/Lessons: Chapter 14: Work, Power, and Machines; Mechanical Advantage and Efficiency; Simple Machines

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the conditions that must exist for a force to do work on an object.
2. Calculate the work done on an object; Describe and calculate power.
3. Compare watts and horsepower.
4. Describe machines and how they make work easier; compare work input to work output.
5. Compare a machine’s actual mechanical advantage to its ideal MA.
6. Calculate AMA and IMA; explain and calculate machine efficiency.
7. Name, describe, and give example of each the six simple machines.
8. Define and identify compound machines.

Learning Tasks -Vocabulary for all chapter words; key note lectures/slides

1. Section 14.1: Teacher Demo: Work: Text Page 413; Work calculation - Reproducibles Page 30; Math Skills Activity: Calculating Power - Text Page 415; Power Calculations - Reproducibles Page 33; Guided Reading Section 14.1; Section Assessment Questions - Page 416 - #’s 1-8.
2. Section 14.2: Build Reading Literacy - Relate Cause and Effect - Text Page 418; Guided Reading Section 14.2; Section Assessment Questions - Page 420 - #’s 1-8.
3. Section 14.3: Quick Lab - Using Friction to Change Mechanical Advantage - Text Page 424; Math Skills - Calculating IMA - Text Page 425; Calculating Efficiency - Reproducibles - Page 32; Guided Reading Section 14.3; Section Assessment Questions - Page 426 - #’s 1-9.
4. Section 14.4: Teacher Demo - Inclined Planes - Text Page 430; Simple Machines and Levers - Reproducibles - Pages 27 & 28; Guided Reading Section 14.4; Section Assessment Questions - Page 435 - #’s 1-9.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Chapter 12 Test Monday
2. 9th graders will be attending an electronic filed trip for English on Tuesday (3.6.12), therefore will not be in science class.

Quadrant D Activities

1. None this week.

GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Cell processes/ Chemistry for Life

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 4 (Review for LEAP)

Objectives

1. List the differences among atoms, elements, molecules, and compounds.
2. Explain the relationship between chemistry and life science.
3. Discuss how organic compounds are different from inorganic compounds.
4. Describe the function of the selectively permeable membrane.
5. Explain how the processes of diffusion and osmosis move molecules in living cells.
6. Explain how passive transport and active transport differ.
7. List the differences between producers and consumers.
8. Explain how the processes of photosynthesis and respiration store and release energy.
9. Describe how cells get energy from glucose through fermentation.

Set, Hook, Focus

How is it possible to smell perfume that has been sprayed across a room?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 1: Define all vocabulary words in chapter of textbook; Explore Activity - Why water leaves plant cells - Text Page 97; Reinforcement - Chemistry of Life - Res. Page 25.
2. Section 2: Mini Lab - Observing Diffusion - Text Page 107; NGEO - Visualizing Cell Membrane Transport - Text Page 111; Directed Reading - Res.Page 18; Reinforcement - Moving Cellular Materials - Res Page 26; Lab Activity - Observing Osmosis - Res Page 5.
3. Section 3: Reinforcement - Energy for Life - Res Page 27;

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. Vocabulary Test Thursday

Quadrant D/ Gold Seal Lessons

1. None this week.

GRADE 7 - Lesson Title: Adaptations over Time

Textbook and Chapter: Blue Textbook Chapter 12

Objectives

1. Describe Lamarck’s theory of acquired characteristics and Darwin’s theory of evo.
2. Identify why variations in organisms are important.
3. Compare and contrast gradualism and punctuated equilibrium.
4. Identify the importance of fossils as evidence of evolution.
5. Explain how relative and radiometric dating are used to estimate the age of fossils.
6. List examples of five types of evidence for evolution.
7. Describe the difference among living primate; Identify the adaptations of primates.
8. Discuss the evolutionary history of modern primates.

Set, Hook, Focus

Evolution vs. Creationism?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 1: Students will define all chapter vocabulary; Copy the Principles of Natural Selection Table - Text Page 349; Mini-Lab - Relating Evolution to Species - Text Page 351; Directed Reading - Ideas about evolution - Res Page 18; Reinforcement - Ideas - Res Page 25; Section Assessment Questions Text Page 353.
2. Section 2: Group Activity - Visualizing the Geologic Time Scale Poster Project; Reinforcement - Clues about Evolution - Res Page 26; Sect. Ass. questions - Text Page 361.
3. Section 3: Mini Lab - Living without Thumbs - Text Page 363; Key Terms - Adaptations over time - Res page 20; Reinforcement - The Evolution of Primates - Res Page 27; Section Assessment questions - Text Page 365.
4. We will read as a class The Voyage of the Beagle (Charles Darwin’s voyage to the Galapagos), the students will map out his journey.

Evaluation/Assessment/ Quadrant D Activities

1. Group questioning.
2. Vocabulary Test Thursday

GRADE 9 - Lesson Title: Forces and Motion

Chapter/Lessons: Chapter 12: Forces, Newton’s Laws of Motion, Universal Forces

Learning Objectives

1. Describe Newton’s Third law of motion.
2. Relate the mass of an object to its weight; Calculate the momentum of an object and describe what happens when momentum is conserved during a collision.
3. Identify the forms of electromagnetic force that can both attract and repel; Identify and describe the universal forces acting within the nucleus.
4. Define Newton’s law of universal gravitation and describe the factors affecting gravity; describe centripetal force.

Learning Tasks -Vocabulary for all chapter words; key note lectures/slides

1. Section 2: Teacher Demo - Force and Acceleration - Text Page 365; Math Skills Activity - Newton’s Second Law - Text Page 367; Section Assessment Questions #’s 1-7- Page 369; Guided Reading Section 12.2.
2. Section 3: Data Analysis - Momentum - Text Page 377; Students will write papers on an assigned Amusement park ride in which they must explore all physics concepts involved.; Section Assessment Questions #’s 1-7 - Text Page 377; Guided Reading Section 12.3.
3. Section 4: Building Science Skills - Centripetal Force Activity - Text Page 381; Section Assessment Questions #’s 1-7 - Text Page 382; Guided Reading Section 12.4.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, section assessment questions, math skills homework problems.
2. Complex Scientific Article Essay Due Monday.
3. Vocabulary Test Tuesday
4. Chapter Test Friday

Quadrant D Activities

1. Collision’s Lab - Momentum - Students will be observing marbles demonstrating the law of conservation of momentum.

GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Cells

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 3 (Review for LEAP)

Objectives

1. Explain how important a nucleus is in a cell; Compare tissues, organs, and organ systems.
2. Compare the differences between the compound light and electron microscope.
3. Summarize the discoveries that led to the cell theory.
4. Relate the cell theory to modern biology.
5. Explain how a virus makes copies of itself.
6. Identify the benefits of vaccines and identify uses of viruses.

Set, Hook, Focus

How are plants and medicine cabinets connected?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 2: Visualizing Microscopes (NG; Text Page 80); Mini-Lab Try at Home - Text Page 82; Res. Page 31 - Enrichment - Using the Microscope; Label Microscope Diagram; Lab 1 Activity - The Microscope - Res. 9; Section assessment questions as a class.pair.
2. Section 3: Extension Report - Text Page 86; Section assessment questions as a class/pair; Directed Reading - Viruses - Res Page 21; Section 3 - The Size of Viruses - Res. Page 32; Review Chapter Study Guide - Text Pages 92-95.
3. Review LEAP Buckle Down Review #’s 1-3: Scientific Investigation and Experimentation.

Evaluation/Assessment/ Quadrant D Activities

1. Monday: Jigsaw Activity: Students will be assigned a particular topic in regards to cells. They will read, research, and write a short paper covering all aspects of their assigned topic. Students will then teach the class of their findings.
2. Cells Vocabulary Test Tuesday
3. 8TH GRADE WILL BE ON A FIELD TRIP WEDNESDAY!
4. Incredible Cell Project: Due Thursday
5. Friday: LEAP Buckle Down Review #’s 1-3

GRADE 7 - Lesson Title: The Non-Living Environment

Textbook and Chapter: Green Textbook Chapter 13

Objectives

1. Identify common abiotic factors in most ecosystems.
2. List the components of air that are needed for life.
3. Explain how climate influences life on an ecosystem.
4. Explain the importance of Earth’s water cycle; Diagram the carbon cycle.
5. Recognize the role of nitrogen in life in Earth; Explain how organisms produce energy-rich compounds.
6. Describe how energy flows through ecosystems and understand energy in food chains.

Set, Hook, Focus

Is the rain really that important to life?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 2: Res Page 28 - Cycles in Nature; Section assessment questions Text Page 373.
2. Section 3: Section assessment questions Text Page 377; Res Page 21 - Cycles of nature and energy flow; Res Page 29 - Energy Flow.

Evaluation/Assessment/Quadrant D Activities

1. Nature Cycle Technical Reading/Essay Due Monday
2. Chapter Test Friday

Print Notes for Wednesday Feb 22nd!!!!!!!!!!

GRADE 9 - Lesson Title: Forces and Motion

Chapter/Lessons: Chapter 12: Forces, Newton’s Laws of Motion, Universal Forces

Learning Objectives

1. Describe examples of force; explain how the motion of an object is affected when balanced and unbalanced forces act on it.
2. Compare and contrast the four kinds of friction.
3. Describe how Earth’s gravity and air resistance affect falling objects; describe the path of a projectile and identify the forces that produce projectile motion.
4. Describe Newton’s First, Second, and Third law of motion.
5. Relate the mass of an object to its weight; Calculate the momentum of an object and describe what happens when momentum is conserved during a collision.
6. Identify the forms of electromagnetic force that can both attract and repel; Identify and describe the universal forces acting within the nucleus.
7. Define Newton’s law of universal gravitation and describe the factors affecting gravity; describe centripetal force.

Learning Tasks -Vocabulary for all chapter words; key note lectures/slides

1. Section 1: Build Science Skills - Measuring Force - Text Page 357; Tug of War Demonstration of unbalanced forces; Quick Lab - Observing the Effects of Friction - text Page 360; Force Diagrams Worksheet - Reproducibles Page 22; Section Assessment Questions #’s 1-8 - Page 362; Guided Reading Section 12.1.
2. Section 2: Teacher Demo - Force and Acceleration - Text Page 365; Math Skills Activity - Newton’s Second Law - Text Page 367; Section Assessment Questions #’s 1-7- Page 369; Guided Reading Section 12.2.
3. Section 3: Data Analysis - Momentum - Text Page 377; Students will write papers on an assigned Amusement park ride in which they must explore all physics concepts involved.; Section Assessment Questions #’s 1-7 - Text Page 377; Guided Reading Section 12.3.
4. Section 4: Building Science Skills - Centripetal Force Activity - Text Page 381; Section Assessment Questions #’s 1-7 - Text Page 382; Guided Reading Section 12.4.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, section assessment questions, math skills homework problems.

Quadrant D Activities

1. Newton’s Laws Lab

GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Cells

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 3 (Review for LEAP)

Objectives

1. Identify names and functions of each part of a cell.
2. Explain how important a nucleus is in a cell.
3. Compare tissues, organs, and organ systems.
4. Compare the differences between the compound light and electron microscope.
5. Summarize the discoveries that led to the cell theory.
6. Relate the cell theory to modern biology.
7. Explain how a virus makes copies of itself.
8. Identify the benefits of vaccines and identify uses of viruses.

Set, Hook, Focus

How are plants and medicine cabinets connected?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 1: Define all vocabulary words in chapter; mini-lab - modeling cytoplasm - Text Pg. 72; Overview of Cells - Res. Page 19; Key terms worksheet - Res. Page 22; Reinforcement-Cell Structure - Res. Page 27; Comparison chart (Plant vs Animal Cell) - Tate Page 63; Group Activity - Drawing of Cells.; Section assessment questions as a class/pairing.
2. Section 2: Visualizing Microscopes (NG; Text Page 80); Mini-Lab Try at Home - Text Page 82; Res. Page 31 - Enrichment - Using the Microscope; Label Microscope Diagram; Lab 1 Activity - The Microscope - Res. 9; Section assessment questions as a class.pair; Copy Table 1 Cell theory.
3. Section 3: Complete note taking worksheet; Extension Report - Text Page 86; Section assessment questions as a class/pair; Directed Reading - Viruses - Res Page 21; Section 3 - The Size of Viruses - Res. Page 32; Review Chapter Study Guide - Text Pages 92-95.

Evaluation/Assessment/ Quadrant D Activities

1. Jigsaw Activity: Students will be assigned a particular topic in regards to cells. They will read, research, and write a short paper covering all aspects of their assigned topic. Students will then teach the class of their findings.
2. Incredible Cell Project: You will be required to construct a model of a plant OR animal cell. All models must be made out of materials that will not spoil. Your project must be labeled. You may label each organelle or create a key. Use the questions in the grading section to help you develop a good project.

GRADE 7 - Lesson Title: The Non-Living Environment

Textbook and Chapter: Green Textbook Chapter 13

Objectives

1. Identify common abiotic factors in most ecosystems.
2. List the components of air that are needed for life.
3. Explain how climate influences life on an ecosystem.
4. Explain the importance of Earth’s water cycle; Diagram the carbon cycle.
5. Recognize the role of nitrogen in life in Earth.
6. Explain how organisms produce energy-rich compounds.
7. Describe how energy flows through ecosystems and understand energy in food chains.

Set, Hook, Focus

Is the rain really that important to life?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 1: Explore Activity: Compare climate differences - Text Page 359; Res Page 20 - Abiotic Factors; Res Page 27 - Abiotic Factors; Section Assessment Questions - Text Page 366. Rain shadow effect Lab - Res Pages 9-12.
2. Section 2: Res Page 28 - Cycles in Nature; Section assessment questions Text Page 373.
3. Section 3: Section assessment questions Text Page 377; Res Page 21 - Cycles of nature and energy flow; Res Page 29 - Energy Flow.

Evaluation/Assessment/Quadrant D Activities

1. Cycles of Nature Project: Students will be paired up and assigned one of the four nature cycles to include Water Cycle, Carbon Cycle, Oxygen Cycle, and Nitrogen Cycle. Students will use textbook, encyclopedias, and computers to research their cycles. Students will use posters to completely draw and label their cycles in color. Students will then make 5 questions and answers in relation to their cycles. Finally, students will be given Scientific Journal Articles pertaining to their cycle that they must read and incorporated the technical information into essays based on research gathered from all sources. Groups will meet in a Jigsaw design to discuss their cycles and teach the other classmates.
2. Vocabulary Test Friday

GRADE 9 - Lesson Title: Motion

Chapter/Lessons: Chapter 11: Distance and Displacement, Speed and Velocity, Acceleration

Learning Objectives

1. Identify changes in motion that produces acceleration.
2. Describe examples of constant acceleration
3. Calculate the acceleration of an object.
4. Classify acceleration as positive or negative
5. Describe instantaneous acceleration.

Learning Tasks -Vocabulary for all chapter words; key note lectures/slides

1. Section 3: Math Skills Activity - Calculating Acceleration - Text Page 346 and extra practice problems; Guided Reading Section 11.3; Section Assessment Questions - Text page 348 - #’s 1-1-5, 7-9.
2. Students will work problems of speed, velocity, and acceleration until proficiency.
3. Students will generate distance/time and speed/time graphs from data given in order to understand the relationships that exists.
4. Pine Car Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration Lab

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Speed and Acceleration Calculations Quiz Wednesday
2. Chapter Test - Thursday
3. Quad D Lab Friday.

Quadrant D Activities

1. Pine Car Derby - Speed, Velocity Acceleration Lab

GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Weather

Textbook and Chapter: Red Chapter 11

Objectives

1. Describe how weather is associated with fronts and high- and low-pressure areas.
2. Explain how tornadoes develop from thunderstorms.
3. Discuss the dangers of severe weather.
4. Explain how data are collected for weather maps and forecasts.
5. Identify the symbols used in a weather station model.

Set, Hook, Focus

Can you forecast the weather?

Learning Tasks

Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).

1. Section 2: Directed Reading and reinforcement worksheets for Section 2; Section Assessment Questions.
2. Section 3: Reading a Weather Map - Page 329; Directed Reading and reinforcement worksheets for Section 3; Section Assessment Questions.
3. Computer Research Assignment: Students will use the computer lab to research local and national weather, while answering a series of questions that lead them to think about weather both scientifically and in real life applications.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. Weather Vocabulary Test - Wednesday.
3. Weather Chapter Test - Friday