ADM 6th Grade Science

Lesson Plans, Announcements, Updates, Celebrations, Etc.

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Empathy activities: How do people with CP deal with everyday tasks? How can we be more empathetic to them? #adognamedslugger

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#servicedog day at ADM MS. Thanks to all our guests at #pawsandeffect for coming.

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#marshmallowchallenge #winners 64cm, 66cm, and 68cm! Nice job, guys!#engineeringdesignprocess #prototyping #iterativeprocess #triangles

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Monday, May 25 - Friday, May 28

Mon, May 25

- Memorial Day

Tues, May 26

- Test Corrections

-  Marshmallow Challenge Day #1

https://docs.google.com/a/adm.k12.ia.us/presentation/d/1eBvAosp-sLPomgLKyymomY5FofxyzdyNEY6IZi-Ha9U/edit?usp=sharing

Wed, May 27

- What went well yesterday? What didn’t go so well? What changes will you make?

- MC Video - TED

- Marshmallow Challenge Day #2

https://docs.google.com/a/adm.k12.ia.us/presentation/d/1eBvAosp-sLPomgLKyymomY5FofxyzdyNEY6IZi-Ha9U/edit?usp=sharing

Thurs, May 28

- Bonus Party

Fri, May 29

- Service Dog Day (no science lessons)

- Last Day of School

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6th graders out at Kuehn Conservation Area learning about the erosive properties of different ground cover thanks to Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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#solarsystem

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Monday, May 18 - Friday, May 22

Mon, May 18

- Work on Concept Map

- Go over Kuehn Schedules

Tues, May 19

- Work on Concept Map

- Review Day for BM Exam

- Jeopardy Review

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/6th-grade-earth-science-district-benchmark-exam-2014-2015

Wed, May 20

- Concept Maps due

- Review Day for BM Exam

- Jeopardy Review

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/6th-grade-earth-science-district-benchmark-2014-2015-2

Thurs, May 21

- Kuehn

- Half Students to Take Science BM Exam

Fri, May 22

- Kuehn

- Half Students to Take Science BM Exam

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Monday, May 11 - Friday, May 15

Mon, May 11

- Schoolyard Solar System (Scale Model Lab)

Tues, May 12

- Schoolyard Solar System (Scale Model Lab)

Wed, May 13

- Part 1: Exploring Planet Sizes

- Part 2: Walking Planet Distances

Thurs, May 14

- Intro to Concept Maps - Mr. Markus will demonstrate a concept map of his own

- Non-linear

- Make sure to use connecting words

- Flip Through Binders and write down a word list individually & then with lab group

- Mr. Markus will write down a master list & get them to you tomorrow

Fri, May 15

-Put together master list of words from the entire year.

- Students work on concept maps

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Monday, May 4 - Friday, May 8

Mon, May 4

Earth’s Rotation & Revolution Lab

HW - pages 142 & 143 #5, 6, & 7

Tues, May 5

Season’s animations and question guide

http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion1/animations/seasons_ecliptic.html

http://tinyurl.com/2ddtuvn

http://esminfo.prenhall.com/science/geoanimations/animations/01_EarthSun_E2.html

http://tinyurl.com/y6gqb8

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/npls13.sci.ess.seasons/why-seasons/

http://tinyurl.com/mbotuqx

HW - pages 144 & 145 #8, 9, & 10

Wed, May 6

Early Out

Season’s Model Lab do as a 1 group demo

HW - N/A

Thurs, May 7

Mr. Markus Gone at Science Standards Review

Read pages 146 & 147 #11, 12, 13

Lesson Review page 149 #1-9

Fri, May 8

- Season’s Survey Due

https://www.youtube.com/embed/DD_8Jm5pTLk?modestbranding=1&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3&rel=0&fs=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wk4qG2mIg

Compile Season’s Survey Data

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Monday, April 27 - Friday, May 1

Mon, April 27

- Go over Weather & Climate Tests

- Extension (macBooks)

- http://climate.nasa.gov/

- Reteaching & Retesting

- HW - Test Corrections

Tues, April 28

- Intro to Space Science

- One Small Step for Man (Eagle has landed video)

- Lunar Landers (Start making today, finish Wed, & Test on Thurs)

Wed, April 29

- Square Peg in Round Hole Vid (Apollo 13)

- Work on Lunar Landers

Thurs, April 30

- Test Lunar Landers

- Have students share out their process of creating lunar lander before initial test

(1m), then go to 2m, and then go to balcony (5m)

- Show Feather vs Hammer Moon Vid (Gravity vs Air Resistance)

- Answer two questions on back

- What changes would you now make to your lander & why?

- How did you have to be creative and use your creativity in this activity?

Fri, May 1

- Hand out New Textbooks

- Space Science Journal

- Look @ the Space Science Textbook that we are going to study.

- Which unit/topic do you think you know most about?

- List three to five things you know about that topic or just tell me a little about what

you know (Bullets or paragraph).

- Which do you think you know least about? Why do you think this is, and what are

you going to do about it?

- Season’s Survey

- Students act as a reporter to survey 8 people about their answers to the

question, “ What causes Earth’s seasons?”

Use the Hypothesis Brainstorming Web

One answer can be their own

Due in one week

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Monday, April 20 - Friday, April 24

Monday, April 20

- Read pages 234 & 235 about the three major climate zones.

- Here & There (TE page 286)

- Intro to climate using MacBooks

- Using a Two-Panel Flip-Chart, choose a city in a different climate zone than Adel

(polar +66.5N/S or between 23.5N & 23.5S Latitude) and compare the two climates

- Information to find for Adel and a city of your choice: average rainfall and average

temperature

- What was the main determining factor that caused the difference in climate

between these two locations?

- Read pages 226 & 227, do #5, 6, & 7

- Read pages 228 & 229, do #9, 10, & 11

Tuesday, April 21

- Read pages 234 & 235 about the three major climate zones.

- Here & There (TE page 286)

- Intro to climate using MacBooks

- Using a Two-Panel Flip-Chart, choose a city in a different climate zone than Adel

(polar +66.5N/S or between 23.5N & 23.5S Latitude) and compare the two climates

- Information to find for Adel and a city of your choice: average rainfall and average

temperature

- What was the main determining factor that caused the difference in climate

between these two locations?

- Read pages 226 & 227, do #5, 6, & 7

- Read pages 228 & 229, do #9, 10, & 11

- Study Guide

Wednesday, April 22

- Early Out

- Bonus Party

Thursday, April 23

- Review Day

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/earths-weather-climate

Friday, April 24

- Earth’s Weather & Atmosphere Test

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Monday, April 13 - Friday, April 17

Monday, April 13

-Severe Weather & Weather Safety

- Preparing for Severe Weather Lab (seven-day lab)

- Research (Books page 194-205 & MacBooks)

- #1-6 on Lab Report

Tuesday, April 14

-  Preparing for Severe Weather Lab (seven--day lab)

- Research / Prepare the Emergency Plan (Books page 194-205 & MacBooks)

- #1-6 on Lab Report

Wednesday, April 15

- Preparing for Severe Weather Lab (seven--day lab)

- Prepare the Emergency Plan (Books page 194-205 & MacBooks)

- #6 on Lab Report

Thursday, April 16

- Preparing for Severe Weather Lab (seven--day lab)

- Prepare the Emergency Plan (Books page 194-205 & MacBooks)

- #6 on Lab Report

Friday, April 17

- Preparing for Severe Weather Lab (seven-day lab)

- Present the Safety Plan to the Class

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Monday, April 6 - Friday, April 10

Monday, April 6

-Track Clouds in the Sky Day 1 - iPads

- http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/observe_step1.htm

- Step 1: Learn the Facts

- Step 2: Observe & Record

- HW - Read page 169 #10

Tuesday, April 7

- Track Clouds in the Sky Day 2 - iPads

- Observe & record

- HW - Read pages 170-171, do # 11 & 13

Wed, April 8

Early Out @1pm

- Track Clouds in the Sky Day 3 - iPads

- Observe & record

- Take the Quiz

- HW - Read page 172 & do #14

Thurs, April 9

- Go over HW

- Meteorology

- Read page 210, do #5 & 6

-Severe Weather & Weather Safety

- Preparing for Severe Weather Lab (seven-day lab) - Mr. Markus will demo his

- Day 1 Research (Books page 194-205 & MacBooks)

- #1-5 on Lab Report

Fri, April 10

-Severe Weather & Weather Safety

- Preparing for Severe Weather Lab (seven-day lab) - Mr. Markus will demo his

- Day 1 Research (Books page 194-205 & MacBooks)

- #1-5 on Lab Report

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Monday, March 23 - Friday, March  27

Mon, March 23

- Extension

- Reteach & Retest

- Spring Break Weather Intro

- Preview Tomorrow

- Pretest Earth’s Weather & Climate Unit

Tues, March 24

Mr. Markus gone today

- Tracking Weather Activity - iPads

- Week-long tracking of eight weather elements day 1

- Preview Weather on Page 155 #1, 2, & 3

- HW - Read page 156 #5

Wed, March 25

Go over Pretest

- Tracking Weather Activity - iPads

- Week-long tracking of eight weather elements day 2

http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/frame_loader.htm

- Read page 157 #6, 7, & 8

Thurs, March 26

- Tracking Weather Activity - iPads

- Week-long tracking of eight weather elements day 3

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/weather/sim/game.htm

- Read pages 158-159 #9 & 10 (Be ready to prove your knowledge of the three types of clouds)

Fri, March 27

- Tracking Weather Activity - iPads

- Week-long tracking of eight weather elements day 4

- Read pages 160 #13

- HW - Track weather elements over the weekend

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March 9 - 12

Mon, March 9

First Half of class work on SG or work on notecards

Second Half of class go over SG

Tues, March 10

- PT Conferences (Early Out)

- Review Day

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/the-earths-atmosphere7

Wed, March 11

- Earth’s Atmosphere Test

Thurs, March 12

- PT Conferences (Early Out)

- Bonus Party

Fri, March 13 - Fri, March 20

- NO School. Spring Break, Whoo!

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Monday, February 16 - Friday, February 20

Monday, February 16

- GBBC

- Atmospheric Layers Foldables

- Use pages 108 & 109 to complete ^

- Finish in first half of class & go over second half

Tuesday, February 17

- GBBC submissions

- MacBooks

- Merlin Bird ID

- All About Birds.Org

Wednesday, February 18

Metro Waste Authority

Thursday, February 19

- Daily Demo - Greenhouse Effect Lab

- Start at beginning of class to set baseline

- Read pages 110 - 111 & complete #10, 11, 12

- Go over pages. 110 & 111

- Finish Daily Demo

Friday, February 20

- No School (PD)

Saturday, February 21

- Science Bowl!

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Monday, February 9 - Friday, February 13

Monday, February 9

- Earth’s Water Test

Tuesday, February 10

Chris Adkins

- Go over GBBC Letter to Family, Checklist, & Logistics

- GBBC Review

- GBBC2015.doc

- MacBooks - GBBC & Allaboutbirds.org

- Bird of the Day Quiz

Stump the Chump!

Wednesday, February 11

- Bird of the Day/Bird Cams

- Merlin Bird ID

- Go over Earth’s Water Test (Corrections)

- Reteach & Retest

- Extension - http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle-kids-adv.html (iPads)

- Earth’s Atmosphere

- Pre-test and Self-Reflections/Goal Setting

Thursday, February 12

- Bird Cams

- Modeling Air Pressure  Lab and Air Crushing a Can Lab (Great way to start Atmosphere Unit) Youtube video of 55 gallon drum

- Preview Pages 104 & 105 #1-3

- HW - Read pages 106 & 107 #5, 6, &7

Friday, February 13

- Bird Cams

- GBBC Starts Today

- Go over pages 106 & 107

- Atmospheric Layers Foldable

- Use pages 108 & 109 to complete ^

- HW - GBBC