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bell time 5/13-17

5/13- explain in a paragraph what you know about the Great Lakes

5/14- explain your understanding of an invasive species.

5/15- A city government wants to build a trash incinerator(burns garbage) that will generate heat to be used
for heating homes. Some citizens are in favor of this plan, while other citizens oppose it.

Besides the fact that homes will be heated, what is one advantage of building the incinerator?

What is one disadvantage of building the incinerator?

5/16- none

5/17- weekly- turn in today.

Bell time 5/6-10

5/6- none

5/7- none

5/8- compare and contrast osmosis, diffusion and active transport.

5/9- final reflections, staple unit, and turn in

5/10- Average cells grade sheet

bell time 1/14-1/18

1/14- song

1/15   1. What do you know now relating to our learning goal classifying stars. (give details)

 2. What are you still unclear on relating to our learning goal of classifying stars? (give details)

1/16 measurement test

1/17-  none today

1/18- weekly ** bell time is turned in today

1/7-1/11

1/7- none today

1/8- You must write 4-5 sentences about what you learned from the Surf the SS activity yesterday.

1/9-  You are to explain what you felt was the most important concept leaned in the big ban activity.

1/10- none today

1/11- weekly bell time.  Bell time is turned in today.

Bell time 1/2-4

1/2- none today

1/3-  measurement test

1/4-  volume test

Bell time 12/17-21

12/17- add adapt to your ESWS- this is turned in today

12/18- unit reflection on back of grade sheet- turn unit in today

12/19- average fossil grade sheet- parents don’t sign until Mrs. Huenink has signed

12/20- none

12/21- none

Bell time 12/10-12/14

12/10  Explain why an animal species that reproduces every year would have a better chance of surviving a change in its environment than an animal species that reproduces only once or twice in ten years does. (2 or more sentences)

12/11   How is an observation different from an inference? Give an example of an inference you have made in the fossils unit.

12/12  How can fossils provide evidence of climate changes on Earth?   2-3 sentences

12/13- ESWS for events in your life and measurement test

12/14- weekly and turn in today

Bell Time 12/3-7

12/3- 

While digging in her backyard, Carmela finds the bones of a fish.   Carmela immediately
decides that the bones provide evidence that the area she lives in was once underwater.  Is
Carmela correct in her analysis or could there be some other explanation for her findings?
(Explain your answer- 2 or more sentences- think back to mfff)

12/4

Suppose you are a scientist who finds some fossils while looking at a cross section of rock in an area.  One layer of rock has fossils of the extinct woolly mammoth.  In a layer of rock below this, you discover the fossils of an extinct alligator.  What can you determine about changes over time in the climate of this area?  (2 or more sentences)

12/5- none

12/6

How is an observation different from an inference? Give an example of an inference you have made in the fossils unit.

12/7- Weekly  and turn in