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Units: Becoming a Scientist,
Chemistry, and Earth Science Notebook # 1 Notebook #2 Notebook #3 |
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Page # |
Left Side
Classroom Activities, Notes, & Labs |
Page # |
Right Side
Practice, Review, Reading, Analysis, Conclusion, or Reflection |
| Notebook #1 - Becoming A Scientist Unit | |||
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Inside Cover: Rules/Grading Info |
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4 |
Safety Rules |
5 |
Safety Symbols |
| 6 | Scavenger Hunt | 7 | Reflection: I am a Scientist |
| 8 | 9 |
Review: What’s wrong? Safety Pictures |
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| 12 | 13 |
Analysis: D&T Activity write up & draw a scene from your story |
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| 14 | Surface Tension Demo | 15 | Review: Observation Vocab List |
| 16 | Drops of Water on a Penny | 17 | Analysis: Drops of Water on a Penny |
| 18 | Metric System Notes Foldable | 19 | Practice: Metric Units |
| 20 | Practice: Measuring in cm & mm | 21 | Practice Reading a Ruler pg 1 |
| 22 |
Volume Lab: Pre-Lab, Length, Width, & Height |
23 | Practice: Measuring in mm pg. 1 |
| 24 | Practice: Volume of a regular solid pg. 1 | 25 | Practice: Volume of a regular solid pg. 2 |
| 26 | Irregular Volume Lab: Pre-Lab, Water Displacement | 27 | Practice: Reading a graduated cylinder pg 1 |
| 28 | Practice: Reading a graduated cylinder pg 2 | 29 | Practice: Reading a graduated cylinder, water displacement, volume pg 1 |
| 30 | BBC Measures - Laptop Activity Link | 31 | Practice: Metric Tic Tac Toe, Volume |
| 32 | Reading a Triple Beam Balance - Laptop Activity Link | 33 | Vocab: Triple Beam Balance |
| 34 | TBB Lab | 35 | Analysis- TBB Lab Write up |
| 36 | BrainPOP - Graphic Organizer MVD Matrix | 37 | BrainPOP - Archimedes |
| 38 | Mass, Volume, Density Notes Foldable | 39 | Practice: BrainPOP Mass, Volume, Density Table |
| 40 | Practice using the Formula: Mass, Volume, or Density? | 41 | BrainPOP: Measuring Matter Quiz |
| 42 | Float or Sink - Laptop Activity Link | 43 | Analysis: Float or Sink Lab |
| 44 | Dunkin' for Density | 45 | Analysis: Dunkin' for Density |
| 46 | Buoyancy Notes | 47 | Review: Buoyancy Cut 'n Paste Vocab |
| 48 | Cartesian Diver Observation | 49 | BrainPOP: Cartesian Diver Reading |
| 50 |
Read About it
BrainPOP - Swim Bladder Reading |
51 | BrainPOP: Buoyancy Quiz |
| 52 | Penny Boat Challenge | 53 | Penny Boat - drawings, notes, data, reflections |
| Chemistry Unit - Notebook #1 continued | |||
| 54 | BrainPOP: States of Matter Notes | 55 | BrainPOP - States of Matter Graphic Organizer |
| 56 | States of Matter Vocab | 57 | BrainPOP States of Matter Quiz |
| 58 | States & Phases Venn Diagram : SmartBoard Game | 59 | BrainPOP: Phase Changes Activity |
| 60 | Phase Change Vocab | 61 | BrainPOP: Phase Changes Quiz |
| 62 | Read About it: BrainPOP - hot water freezes faster? | 63 | Read About it: BrainPOP - What's an icebox? |
| 64 | Physical and Chemical Properties, Changes Foldable | 65 | Physical & Chemical Properties, BrainPOP Property Changes |
| 66 | Physical & Chemical Change Activity | 67 | Analysis: Physical & Chemical Change Activity |
| 68 | BrainPOP FYI: Oxidation | 69 | BrainPOP: Property Changes Quiz |
| 70 | Candle Observations | 71 | Candle Observations |
| 72 | Candle Observations | 73 | Candle Observation Analysis |
| 74 | Elements, Compounds, & Mixtures Notes, PPT Activity | 75 | Map: Elements, Compounds, & Mixtures |
| 76 | Lego Activity - Building Blocks of Matter | 77 | Categorize: Element, Compound, or Mixture? |
| 78 | Practice: Element, Compound, or Mixture? | 79 | Read About it: BrainPOP - Earth, Air, Fire, and Water |
| 80 | BrainPOP: Mixtures and Compounds Mixtures Quiz | 81 | Read About It: BrainPOP - Microwave Popcorn |
| 82 | Sugar Lab | 83 | BBC: Solute, Solvent, & Solution |
| 84 | Cut 'n Paste Matter Vocab pg 1 , ppt | 85 | Cut 'n Paste Matter Vocab pg 2 |
| 86 | Solutions - Rainbow Lab | 87 | Analysis: Rainbow Lab |
| Notebook #2 - Chemistry Unit Continued top | |||
| 88 | Chromatography Lab | 89 | Analysis: Chromatography Lab |
| 90 | BrainPOP - Atomic Model Notes | 91 |
Foldable: Atomic Model
Timeline, PDF Notes |
| 92 | Read About It: BrainPOP Gold Foil Experiment | 93 | Read About It: BrainPOP Niels Bohr |
| 94 | Einstein's letter to FDR | 95 | FDR to Einstein |
| 96 | BrainPOP FYI: Robert Oppenheimer | 97 | BrainPOP FYI: Radioactivity and Comic Books |
| 98 | Atoms Family Notes, PPT | 99 | BrainPOP Adv. Activity |
| 100 | Atoms Family Math | 101 | FYI: BrainPOP- Mendeleev |
| 102 | pg. 100 - Color the Periodic Table Notes, PPT, and Periodic Table (kept in folder) | 103 | BrainPOP FYI: Language, Periodic Table Elements |
| 104 | Shells and Valence Electrons Study Guide Notes, PPT | 105 | Practice: Periods & Groups |
| 106 | Atoms Vocab pg. 1 | 107 | Atoms Vocab pg. 2 |
| 108 | How to Draw Bohr Diagrams: Notes, PPT, | 109 | Practice: Bohr Diagrams |
| 110 | Lewis Structure Notes Booklet/Foldable Pgs 1, 4 & pgs 2, 3, PowerPoint Lesson | 111 | Practice: Lewis Structures |
| 112 | Ionic and Covalent Bonding Notes, Smart Board File | 113 | Practice - Ionic or Covalent? |
| 114 | Making Molecular Models | 115 | Making Molecular Models |
| 116 | Making Molecular Models | 117 | Making Molecular Models |
| 118 | Making Molecular Models Analysis | 119 | Practice: Counting Atoms |
| 120 | Bond with a Classmate, Tags | 121 | Practice Naming Compounds |
| 122 | Ions Vocab pg. 1 | 123 | Ions Vocab pg. 2 |
| 124 | Balancing Equations Activity | 125 | Practice- Balancing Equations pg 2 |
| 126 | Law of Conservation of Mass | 127 | Conservation of Mass Analysis |
| 128 | Acids/Bases Venn Diagram | 129 | Acid/Base BrainPOP Quiz |
| 130 | BrainPOP - FYI - Gastric Acid | 131 | BrainPOP - pH Quiz |
| 132 | BrainPOP - FYI - Gastric Acid | 133 | BrainPOP - pH Quiz |
| 134 | Cabbage Juice Lab | 135 | Analysis: Cabbage Juice Lab |
| 136 | Mystery Powder Lab | 137 | Flow Chart & Answers |
| 138 | Acids/Bases Vocab pg. 1 | 139 | Acids/Bases Vocab pg. 2 |
| Notebook #3 - Earth Science Unit top | |||
| 140 | What is a mineral? Notes & PPT | 141 | Practice: Minerals in your home, Link |
| 142 | Crystal Shapes Handout | 143 | Graphic Organizer: Crystal Forms |
| 144 | Minerals Vocab pg. 1 | 145 | Minerals Vocab pg. 2 |
| 146 | Graphic Organizer: Silicate Minerals, ppt | 147 | Graphic Organizer: Nonsilicate Minerals |
| 148 | Mineral Identification Outline | 149 | Practice: Mineral Groups |
| 150 | Mineral Identification Lab | 151 | Practice: Mohs Scale of Hardness (pg. 17) |
| 152 | What is mining? PPT, Notes | 153 | Little Miners ppt & questions, |
| 154 | Cookie Mining Lab | 155 | Mining in NJ - color code map (pg 2) |
| 156 |
BrainPOP Rocks - Fill in the
blank notes (Packet - Types of Rocks Power Point and notes) |
157 | BrainPOP Rocks - Graphic Organizer |
| 158 | Color the Rock Cycle Notes & ppt | 159 | Rocks Vocabulary Cut 'n Paste |
| 160 | Ride the Rock Cycle Activity, Comic to hand in | 161 | Igneous Rocks |
| 162 | Metamorphic Rocks | 163 | Sedimentary Rocks |
| 164 | BrainPOP FYI: Grand Canyon | 165 | BrainPOP Weathering handout |
| 166 | Law of Superposition Notes, ppt | 167 | Practice - Law of Superposition |
| 168 | - Core Samples- Candy Bar Activity | 169 | Practice: Core Samples |
| 170 | Playdoh Mountains/Topo Maps | 171 | Practice: Topo Maps |
| 172 | Plate Tectonics Notes & Plate Tectonics ppt | 173 | Earth's Layers - Color |
| 174 | Tectonic Plates - Color | 175 | Pangea - color, cut, and paste in order |
| 176 | Plate Tectonics Vocab | 177 | Plate Tectonics Vocab |
| 178 | Plate Tectonics Vocab | 179 | BrainPOP - Earthquakes handout |
| 180 | Plotting Earthquakes data | 181 | Plotting Earthquakes- map |
| 182 | Earthquake Notes & ppt | 183 | Types of Waves Puzzle |
| 184 | Earthquake Vocab | 185 | Earthquake Vocab |
| 186 | Earthquake Vocab | 187 | P & S Waves Graph |
| 188 | Calculating Time of an Earthquake (pg. 33) | 189 | Volcano notes & ppt |
| 190 | Volcano Vocab | 191 | Volcano Vocab |
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