Wednesday, August 29, 2018. Day 2

Homeroom:

  • Collect emergency cards and tech agreements

  • any lock keys or combinations?

 

Grade 7 Agenda:

Homework:

Metric Review Worksheet due tomorrow.

Send me an email tonight at scott_wahlstrom@wrsd.net

  • Subject: Please include me in class mailings.

Do Now:

Take out your assignment notebook:

Record tonight's homework in it and leave it open on the table for me to check.

Open your science notebook and prepare a heading on the first page for science notes.

  • Date

  • Topic Title

 

Lesson:

Essential Question:

  • How do we describe the physical world?

Massachusetts Standard:

Crosscutting Concept: 

Welcome:

1.      seating - alphabetically for now - please re-seat now according to our class list.

SLANT: Class website

1.      Web address in your notebook.

2.      Contact pages

SLANT: Classroom procedures

  1. Entering

  2. During

  3. Leaving

  4. Emergencies

  5. Necessities

    1. bathroom

    2. pencil sharpene

    3. Paper, art supplies, etc.

SLANT: Metric System Review

·         metric is the universal system of measurement

·         it is the only system we will use in science

·         prefixes are used to represent numerical place value.

o    - 10's, 100's, 0.1's, etc.

·         they are combined with units to make small and large units of measure

o    - kilometer

o    - deciliter

How familiar is this all to you?

Last year?

Homework:

Research and review metric prefixes and metric units as needed.  Complete the Metric Review Worksheet for tomorrow.

Time to work in class

WIN:

Technology Policies and Rules:

Homework:

  1. Please complete this community service survey - even if you think you did it last year.  (It  has changed.)

Lesson:

Essential Question:

  • How do we describe the physical world?

Massachusetts Standard:

Crosscutting Concept: 

STUDENTS TO READ "WHAT IS MOTION?" IN MOTION, FORCES, AND ENERGY (PAGES 8 TO 13).

Handout Chapter Packet

 

TRES COMPADRES READING Format: READER, COMMENTEr, QUESTIONER

 

Taking turns:

  1. Reader reads paragraph.

  2. Commenter makes a comment about the paragraph (Annotate the reading with this comment.)

  3. Questioner asks a clarifying question about the paragraph. (Annotate the reading with this comment.)

  4. Group discusses the question and annotated the reading with their thoughts on it.

 

Rotate rolls for each new paragraph and repeat process.

 

Fill out Ah Ha's vs Hmm... worksheet

 

Class Discussion:

 

for homework, please RESPOND TO the CHAPTER QUESTION handout IN YOUR SCIENCE NOTEBOOK.

  • Formal homework format

  • skip three lines between each question

  • go neat or go home