Overview 11/9-11/13

Day of week	7th	8th
Monday 11/9	Calorie Lab HW: Analysis and conclusion of lab	Rock Cycle due. Start igneous rock HW: read Ch 2.2 and take notes
Tuesday 11/10	Discuss lab HW: Calorie Inquiry report- due Tuesday 11/17	Igneous rocks activity HW: Research on how to grow a crystal and crystal growth. Write in notebook
Wednesday 11/11	Habitat and niche HW: Study	Biggest Crystal Lab protocol HW: bring in materials ?
Thursday 11/12	Review Ch1.1 &1.2 HW: Study	Biggest Crystal Lab Protocol HW: bring in materials ?
Friday 11/13	Chapter 1.1 &1.2 Test	Perform lab.

Overview 10/26-10/30

Day of week	7th	8th
Monday 10/26	Domino Causality vs. Linear causality. Start everything moves because of the sun.	Mineral detective HW: ID Test questions
Tuesday 10/27	Finish grass lab. Graph, analysis, conclusion. Report out	Mineral detective HW: Identify mineral
Wednesday 10/28	Everything moves because of the sun HW: What is food?essay	Mining HW: Chapter 1 sect.3 notes
Thursday 10/29	What is food? Discussion and start pre lab for calorie lab	Mineral review
Friday 10/30	Calorie lab. Notebook check	Mineral Test

Overview 10/19-10/23

Day of week	7th	8th
Monday 10/19	Food Chain-	Mineral detective HW: ID Test questions
Tuesday 10/20	Food Web HW: Ch. 1 Section 2 worksheet	Mineral detective HW: ID test questions
Wednesday 10/21	Domino Causality	Mineral Detective HW: ID test questions
Thursday 10/22	Niches	Constitution test
Friday 10/23	Read-A-Thon, Earth?	Constitution test

Overview 10/12-10-/16

Day of week	7th	8th
Monday 10/12	NO SCHOOL	NO SCHOOL
Tuesday 10/13	Perform Growing Grass Lab	Mineral Detective HW: test questions
Wednesday 10/14	Lab write up for growing grass lab. HW: How do Humans view the world reading and answer questions.	Mineral Detective HW: test questions
Thursday 10/15	Go over reading. Start interactions between living things (Chapter 1 section 2). HW: Read section 2 and take notes	Mineral Detective HW: test questions
Friday 10/16	Energy and interactions. Producers, consumers, decomposers.	Mineral Detective HW: test questions

Overview 9/28-10/2

Day of week	7th	8th
Monday 9/28	Group report-out on experiment. Receive books. HW: take note on Ch.1 sec.1	Group report-out on experiment. Receive books. HW: read and take notes on Ch1.sec.1
Tuesday 9/29	Video on ecology HW: Study Guide	Video on Minerals HW: Study Guide
Wednesday 9/30	Living and nonliving things HW: Study Guide	Minerals HW: Study Guide
Thursday 10/1	Review for NOS, obs. Vs. inference, experimental design test HW: Study	Review for NOS, obs. Vs. inference, experimental design test HW: Study
Friday 10/2	TEST Turn in Notebooks	TEST. Weeks’ reflection

Overview 9/21-9/25

Day of week	7th	8th
Monday 9/21	Start of Science Inquiry. Question, independent, dependent, constant variables.	Inquiry. Go over variables ppt.. Film canister rocket demo.
Tuesday 9/22	Hypothesis, Design own gummy bear investigation with lab. HW: Variable worksheet	List variables in rocket demo. Pick an investigation to test. Hypothesis. Write up own film canister experiment. HW: Simpson variable worksheet
Wednesday 9/23	Procedures and Materials. Perform lab.	Procedures and materials: Perform lab. Collect data
Thursday 9/24	Data tables and analysis of data. Collect data.	Finish collecting data. Data tables, analysis of data
Friday 9/25	Conclusions and presenting of results to class.	Conclusion and presenting of results to class.

Overview 9/14-9/18

Day of week	7th	8th
Monday 9/14	Observations vs. Inference HW: Inference Cartoon	Observations. Making observations
Tuesday 9/15	Evidence and Claims. More observations vs. Inference Types of science	Observation vs. Inference HW: making inferences based on observations in class.
Wednesday 9/16	Activity on gaining evidence and making claims. HW: Activity questions	Observation Poem HW: questions about poem
Thursday 9/17	Finish activity and discuss questions.	Evidence and claims activity.
Friday 9/18	Inquiry video HW: reflection of weeks	Evidence and claims activity Turn in science notebook