Mr. Lee - Junior High Science

GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Motion, Forces, and Simple Machines

Textbook and Chapter: Red Chapter 19

Objectives

1. Define speed and acceleration.
2. Relate acceleration to change in speed.
3. Calculate distance, speed, and acceleration.
4. Describe how forces affect motion.
5. Calculate acceleration using Newton’s second law of motion.
6. Explain Newton’s third law of motion.
7. Define work.
8. Distinguish the different types of simple machines.
9. Explain how machines make work easier.

Set, Hook, Focus

How are the forces different when skateboarding on a half-pipe?

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; Explore Activity - Model skateboard motion - Text Page 555; Calculate Average Speed - Text Page 557; Calculating Distance - Text Page 558; Directed Reading Overview - Res.Page 17; Reinforcement Activity - Res. page 25; Section Assessment questions as class/pair Text Page 561.
2. Section 2: Mini-lab Try at Home - Determining Weight in Newtons - text Page 564; Math Skills - Calculating Acceleration Text Page 566; Visualizing Newton’s Laws (NG) Text Page 568; Reinforcement Res Page 26; Section Assessment questions as class/pair Text Page 569.
3. Section 3: Math Skills activity - Calculating Work - text Page 571; Reinforcement Worksheet Res. Page 27; Section Assessment questions as class/pair Text Page 576.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. Chapter Test on Measurement - TUESDAY.

GRADE 7 - Lesson Title: Cells

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 3

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

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. Chapter Test on Measurement TUESDAY.

GRADE 6 - Lesson Title: Tools and Measurement in Science

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 2

Objectives

1. Describe how to use pictures and tables to give information.
2. Identify and use three types of graph.
3. Distinguish the correct use of each type of graph.

Set, Hook, Focus

What is the difference between a graph and a table?

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 3: Key terms Measurement - Res. Page 18; Reinforcement Worksheet: Drawings, Tables and Graphs - Res Page 25. Section Assessment questions as Student Cooperative Teaching.
2. Complete volume lab and length lab activities.
3. Finish last section in chapter, review all material, then test.
4. Friday - Introduce next lesson - Matter.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. CHAPTER TEST THURSDAY on MEASUREMENT

A large part of the ILEAP and LEAP exams are centered around science tools and measurement. Because of this, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students will all be learning about tools and measurement this week.

Lesson Title: Tools and Measurement in Science

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 2

Objectives

1. Determine how reasonable a measurement is by estimating.
2. Identify and use the rules for rounding a number.
3. Distinguish between precision and accuracy in measurements.
4. Identify the purpose of SI.
5. Identify the SI units of length, volume, mass, temperature, time and rate.
6. Describe how to use pictures and tables to give information.
7. Identify and use three types of graph.
8. Distinguish the correct use of each type of graph.

Set, Hook, Focus

Does the expression “winning by a nose” mean anything to you?

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; Explore activity - Text Page 37; Section Focus Transparency - Maybe He’ll Go Away; Visualizing Precision and Accuracy - Text Page 42; Section Assessment questions as Student Cooperative Teaching. Overview Measurement Worksheet - Res. Page 15; Directed Reading Res. Page 16-17.
2. Section 2: Mini-Lab - Measuring Volume - Res. Page 4; Section Assessment questions as Student Cooperative Teaching. Quick Demo - Units of Metric Measurement - Text Page 48; Reinforcement Worksheet ; SI Units - Res. Page 24.
3. Section 3: Key terms Measurement - Res. Page 18; Reinforcement Worksheet: Drawings, Tables and Graphs - Res Page 25. Section Assessment questions as Student Cooperative Teaching.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. VOCABULARY TEST FRIDAY

August 23rd - 26th

GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Exploring and Classifying Life

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 1

Objectives

1. Describe experiments about spontaneous generation.
2. Explain how scientific methods led to the idea of biogenesis.
3. Examine how chemical compounds found in living things might have formed.

Set, Hook, Focus

Can something really come from nothing?

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 3: Section assessment questioning in group setting; journal entry question.
2. Section 4: Use of mnemonic device for Classifying Living things; Lab Activity - Communicating Ideas; Lab Activity - Classification; section assessment in group setting; journal entry question.
3. Review of entire chapter in preparation for exam. Use chapter review and assessment as study tool in individual, pairs, and group setting.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. Formal Exam - THURSDAY - The Nature of Science

August 23rd - 25th

GRADE 7 - Lesson Title: The Nature of Science

Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 1

Objectives

1. Determine how science and technology influence your life.
2. Analyze how modern technology allows scientific discoveries to be communicated.

Set, Hook, Focus

How are arms and centimeters 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. Chapter Review: Review of all sections of chapter in preparation of exam on Wednesday; Use Study Guide on Text Page 32; Students will complete Chapter assessment for study purposes, both individually and as pairs and groups. Review Chapter Review Pages of Res. Page 35 via ELMO.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. Formal Exam Wednesday - Chapter 1 - Nature of Science

August 23rd-25th

GRADE 6 - Lesson Title: Nature of Science

Textbook and Chapter: Blue Chapter 1

Objectives

1. Describe various types of models.
2. Discuss limitations of models.

Set, Hook, Focus

How are scientific models and supermodels different?

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 4: Reinforcement worksheet - Evaluating Scientific Explanations; section assessment questions; journal entry question.
2. Review of all prior sections within chapter. Use of cooperative learning and team teaching to navigate through chapter assessment as a group.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Class discussions, assessment questioning.
2. Formal Exam - Wednesday - Chapter 1 information - Nature of Science - Blue Textbook

August 16

GRADE 6 - Lesson Title: Nature of Science

Textbook and Chapter: Blue Chapter 1

Objectives

1. Define science and identify questions that science cannot answer.
2. Compare and contrast theories and laws.
3. Identify a system and its components.
4. Identify the three branches of science.
5. Identify some skills scientists use.
6. Define hypothesis.
7. Recognize the difference between observation and inference.
8. Describe various types of models.
9. Discuss limitations of models.

Set, Hook, Focus

How are thunderstorms and neutron stars 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: Explore activity - observe gravity; review worksheet of chapter vocabulary words using foldable; complete section assessment questions as class discussion; journal question.
2. Section 2: Listen to scientific method song; perform lab on Forming Hypotheses; perform Shoe Box assessment lab; Use Scientific Method Graphic organizer to reinforce concepts; complete section assessment in group format; journal question.
3. Section 3: Lab activity - Thinking like a scientist; section assessment questions; journal question.
4. Section 4: Reinforcement worksheet - Evaluating Scientific Explanations; section assessment questions; journal entry question.