February 22 - 23 Perform Adventures in Energy Skate Park Lab
Define Kinetic energy
February 26 - 27 Perform Energies of a Pendulum Lab
Take Energy Quiz 1.0 / Self Assessment on energy
Define Potential energy
February 28 - March 1 Perform Energy Practice calculations
Perform Pulley Lab
March 2 - 5 Perform Pulley Lab 2
Perform Pulley Comparison Lab
Define Total Mechanical Energy
March 6 - 7 Perform Incline Plane Lab
Take Energy Quiz/ Self Assessment 2
Define Conservation of Energy
March 8 - 9 Perform Lever Lab
Define Work and Power
Learn how Simple Machines work
Practice Unit Exam online at http://quizstar.4teachers.org/indexi.jsp
March 12 - 13 Review for Unit Exam on Energy, Work, and Power
March 14 - 16 Unit Exam on Energy, Work, and Power
Continue practicing with on line exam
Work on binder over weekend for binder check
March 19 - 20 Review Unit Exam
Turn in binder for binder check
March 21 - 22 Earth Science introduction
March 23- 26 Earthquake and volcano locations
March 27-28 Mountains and Seafloor exploration
March 29-30 Continue exploring Atlantic seafloor, quiz, and test corrections
April 2-5 Spring Break
April 9-10 Those with a jar starts Jar Project, complete seafloor exploration
April 11-12 Explore Ring of Fire
April 16-18 Explore Convergent boundaries, quiz
April 19-20 Explore crustal activity at Hawaii
April 23-24 Explore crustal activity at California
April 25-26 Unit Exam over Internal Energy and Crustal Activity
April 27-30 Unit Exam review and sources of energy powering changes on Earth
May 1-4 Discovering factors affecting insolation (intensity of sunlight)
May 7-10 Discovering factors affecting heating of Earth by sunlight
May 11-16 Discover factors affecting climate
May 15 Last day late/missing work will be accepted for B day classes.
May 16 Last day late/missing work will be accepted for A day classes.
May 17-18 Unit Exam over External Energy on Earth
May 21-24 Unit Exam review and Final Exam preview
May 25-31 Final Exam week with additional preview and enrichment activities